Orbis non sufficit
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Life goes on
So, what's been happening lately...
Well, I have exams obviously. One down, another tomorrow morn and all done by next monday. Then it's on to Albury to learn some martial arts from the grand master.
My first exam was strangely easy, but with one very random question in it. I don't think the lecturer actually taught us how to deal with it, and there was tonnes of stuff that he did go through that wasn't on the exam. So strange. I'm not expecting a repeat performance tomorrow though, it's fluid mechanics and will most probably be harder.
It's amazing how total chaos can result in absolute stillness. Just thinking about my glass of water sitting on the table. Now, there are uncountable (well, actually thats not true) billions of water molecules zapping all over the place in that glass, with fairly significant average velocities which manifest as temperature. Some even gather enough speed to escape the pull of their neighbours and tear off into the surrounding air. Yet it looks perfectly motionless to me; a timeless and unchanging glass of water. And that's not even worrying about the deeper levels of it.
Where was I? Hmm, oh well.
It's been a bit strange sitting around here at home, studying all day and not really stepping outside the house much. I guess it's because I'm the only one here. Nothing unexpected happens, everything stays exactly the way I leave it. While I was at uni I didn't notice it that much, I was never really home anyway. I was at uni or off doing the things I do after uni. There are plenty of people to talk to around there. Now there are some days I barely talk to anyone in person. I'm sure that will end after I finish exams and am once again free, but its pretty weird for now. I think I miss my uni friends, and you guys of course. Though I'm closer to you guys than uni people, even though I probably see more of them. I think I just wish I was better friends with some of them, that I knew them better than I do. It's kind of hard though with all the stuff I do together with living so far away from them all. I don't have as much time to hang out as I would like. And now that holidays are coming and I do have the time to hang out I don't feel like I can call them and see what they're up to, and not just because I haven't gotten around to getting phone numbers from all them. I might have to see what I can do about this situation. I can hardly stop doing my martial arts though, it's rather a large part of who I am. I need army for money, plus I like it and the guys there are friends too. My music I definately need since a lot of the people I'm talking about are in the orchestra and that's the only time I get to see them. Thankfully there's another music camp coming up soon so I'll get to hang with everyone then, though I can't make the summer concert because I'll be away with the army.
I really need to get myself a pocket sized diary/day planner type book, there are too many dates I need to remember and cross-check to use my phone. I'll do that tomorrow I think, when I go and pay the ridiculous fines that the council dish out for your dog roaming the streets. It's something like $250 for the roaming and another $250 for her not being registered, plus the $100 I payed to get her out of the pound and the other $100 or so to register her. Something like $700 all up, which is totally ridiculous. Thankfully my dad said he'd pay for it (grudgingly), since there's no way I can afford that, plus the registering stuff was his fault anyway. Still, you'd think the council would have slightly better priorities. What's a speeding fine these days? $120? $250? They've been having their little campaigns on TV crapping on about how people are killed all the time by speeding drivers and whatnot, yet they whack you with $120 for parking in a loading zone and $700 for your dog being on the streets. Did anyone ever die from those things? Unless you had a frickin psychotic dog that you probably shouldn't have had in the first place, I think not! Governments need to get their fracking priorities straight. Clearly I could go into much larger issues with that statement but I feel that they are obvious enough already.
So, what's been happening lately...
Well, I have exams obviously. One down, another tomorrow morn and all done by next monday. Then it's on to Albury to learn some martial arts from the grand master.
My first exam was strangely easy, but with one very random question in it. I don't think the lecturer actually taught us how to deal with it, and there was tonnes of stuff that he did go through that wasn't on the exam. So strange. I'm not expecting a repeat performance tomorrow though, it's fluid mechanics and will most probably be harder.
It's amazing how total chaos can result in absolute stillness. Just thinking about my glass of water sitting on the table. Now, there are uncountable (well, actually thats not true) billions of water molecules zapping all over the place in that glass, with fairly significant average velocities which manifest as temperature. Some even gather enough speed to escape the pull of their neighbours and tear off into the surrounding air. Yet it looks perfectly motionless to me; a timeless and unchanging glass of water. And that's not even worrying about the deeper levels of it.
Where was I? Hmm, oh well.
It's been a bit strange sitting around here at home, studying all day and not really stepping outside the house much. I guess it's because I'm the only one here. Nothing unexpected happens, everything stays exactly the way I leave it. While I was at uni I didn't notice it that much, I was never really home anyway. I was at uni or off doing the things I do after uni. There are plenty of people to talk to around there. Now there are some days I barely talk to anyone in person. I'm sure that will end after I finish exams and am once again free, but its pretty weird for now. I think I miss my uni friends, and you guys of course. Though I'm closer to you guys than uni people, even though I probably see more of them. I think I just wish I was better friends with some of them, that I knew them better than I do. It's kind of hard though with all the stuff I do together with living so far away from them all. I don't have as much time to hang out as I would like. And now that holidays are coming and I do have the time to hang out I don't feel like I can call them and see what they're up to, and not just because I haven't gotten around to getting phone numbers from all them. I might have to see what I can do about this situation. I can hardly stop doing my martial arts though, it's rather a large part of who I am. I need army for money, plus I like it and the guys there are friends too. My music I definately need since a lot of the people I'm talking about are in the orchestra and that's the only time I get to see them. Thankfully there's another music camp coming up soon so I'll get to hang with everyone then, though I can't make the summer concert because I'll be away with the army.
I really need to get myself a pocket sized diary/day planner type book, there are too many dates I need to remember and cross-check to use my phone. I'll do that tomorrow I think, when I go and pay the ridiculous fines that the council dish out for your dog roaming the streets. It's something like $250 for the roaming and another $250 for her not being registered, plus the $100 I payed to get her out of the pound and the other $100 or so to register her. Something like $700 all up, which is totally ridiculous. Thankfully my dad said he'd pay for it (grudgingly), since there's no way I can afford that, plus the registering stuff was his fault anyway. Still, you'd think the council would have slightly better priorities. What's a speeding fine these days? $120? $250? They've been having their little campaigns on TV crapping on about how people are killed all the time by speeding drivers and whatnot, yet they whack you with $120 for parking in a loading zone and $700 for your dog being on the streets. Did anyone ever die from those things? Unless you had a frickin psychotic dog that you probably shouldn't have had in the first place, I think not! Governments need to get their fracking priorities straight. Clearly I could go into much larger issues with that statement but I feel that they are obvious enough already.
Comments:
I think the main portion of the money from the dog goes to the pounds though doesn't it. To cover the running of the pounds.
What happened to the other comments? And i seriously dout it steve, thats where they say it goes but i'd rekon less than a quarter of it would.
Other comments? The pound fees i'm sure go to the running of the pounds, which is fair enough, but i doubt the fines do. You'd think the fees were enough anyway without being fined also.
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