T'ursday :)

Exams are officially over! Ahhh, it's such a relief. Walking back from campus today I felt so good. The air was crisp, there was no wind, and everything looked so lovely in the fading light. Wellington may be a big city, but even thriving metropolises have the ability to be beautiful. When I got home I copied a bunch of movies to my flash drive, then went to dinner. It was chicken again, but I'm not complaining :)
So anyway now I'm sitting here listening to Sufjan Stevens (new favourite thing ever!!) and watching The Time Traveler's Wife. Not at the same time, though. Obviously.

Um.
Yeah.
Bye :)

Wed 15th June

So, my exam yesterday went terribly. I'd kind of lulled myself into a sense of security, trying to fool my mind into thinking that I'd done enough, and coupled with 24 hours without sleep, I used more of my exam time I should have sitting with my head in my hands, wishing the two hours would go faster. I have a horrible feeling that I didn't score enough points to pass the course, but then again, I may have. I haven't done the math with my other assessments so really I have no idea.

My second and last exam is tomorrow at 2.30pm. This one is 3 hours long rather than 2. I plan on studying tonight and tomorrow, and I hope I can soak up enough last-minute information to pass. Thankfully some of it is resource based.

And when all that's done, I'm going home!! :)

Tues 14th June

My first exam of the trimester is today :( I'm still awake and it's 4.21am, because I decided to stay up all night due to the fact that I had 15 hours sleep last night. I'm rewatching Sherlock and doing some last minute revision.

On the plus side, I only have four more days in Wellington before I can go home again. Can't wait for the holidays :)

Things are starting to get closer. The Harry Potter premiere is in a month and the Book Fair is a little after that. Mostly though I can't wait to be back in Fielding with my friends.

And now here's the part when my post gets a big vague.
I have a kind of... choice to make. It's not really a difficult one, but I'm afraid if I pick yes I'll regret it. It's just that even though I haven't made up my mind, I can see the outcome and I'm not sure I don't like it.
I only put these cryptic bits in my blog posts because there's nowhere else to put them, no one really to talk to about it, and just because I can look back afterwards and see what I used to think.

Retail Therapy

Last Sunday Mum and Tori visited me. It was pretty cool. Of course, as she didn't want to go in the first place, Tori was being a snobby cow the entire time, but it was really nice to see Mum again (even though I was at home 2- or is it 3- weeks ago). Here's what we did :)

• Had lunch at a little cafe on Cuba St. It was tiny and stuffy and kinda drab, but the food was awesome. We all had breakfast, even though it was past 12pm. I ordered poached eggs and salmon on English muffins. Such a nice change from the usual grossness that we get here.
• We walked up and down Cuba St next. We went into this Japanese place, where Mum bought me a mug and a bowl for less than $10, plus a ringbinder for my notes.
• Went into Iko Iko on Cuba, this cute little place which sells all these awesome nick nacks. I persuaded Mum to buy me a music listography book on the grounds that I'll pay it off ($40) when I got home. Funnily enough, Tori got a $40 flask, and didn't have to pay up at all. Oh, the joys of being 18 and away from home.
• I wanted to go into Ferret books (secondhand) but Mum refused. Oh well. I went back on Tuesday, and you will read below.
• After that we walked around a little more, spent ages trying to find the car, and they went home at around 4pm.
  

So instead of doing all the things I should have done this Tuesday, I took a walk into the shopping centre and spent a little money. It was awesome :D
I think I was away for around 3 and half hours. During that time I visited all of the secondhand stores on Cuba St, which I'd been planning to do for quite a while. Here's what I bought:

• Went to Jay Jays. Not secondhand, but they were have a sale, so I bought a new top and a grey cardigan for $10 each.
• Recycle Boutique, a secondhand clothes store on Cuba. Most of the stuff they had was too expensive, but I found a 'vintage' Glassons jumper for $16.
• Ferret, a secondhand bookstore on Cuba. I bought the third Discworld novel (by Terry Pratchett) for $10. Now I have no.s 1, 2, 3 and the prequel, Strata. Awesome :D
  
• Arty Bees, a secondhand book store. There I bought an $18 copy of Stephen King's Under The Dome. I've been reading it on and off since Tuesday night, and I'm currently up to pg195. I was also tempted to buy The Green Mile, in its original 6 part series, but each book was $4, or $24 total, and I didn't have enough by that point. They also had a PILE of Discworld novels, but not the 4th one. I know that reading them all in order isn't terribly important, but I want to anyway :P
  
• I went into 2 or 3 other secondhand clothes store and secondhand music store, but by that point I was losing enthusiasm for shopping and running out of money, so I stopped by the supermarket, bought some pretzels and went home.
• If any of you decide to come visit me here, we are so going secondhand store shopping. It's awesome.