I missed you muchly!

Hey there, Blogspot! Haven't seen you round for a while!

So, E.J has much news since her last post. However, she is totally not going to have enough time to cover it all in this post. So the following few posts will follow on, until we finally meet the present. =]

I passed my block subject at uni, and have started (and am now half-way though) my first semester. I am taking four subjects. They are all special in their own ways. I'm taking Business Data Analysis, Conceptual Modeling (database design and implementation), Introduction to Programming 2 (using Java), and, wait for it... Drumroll... IT Fundamentals. Yes. That is an introduction to Information Technology. In my IT degree. This is a core subject. So I can't get out of it. lol. We spent the first two weeks learning how to use MS Word. I got 82% on the mid semester, without even laying a finger on the textbook. haha.

Other than that, uni is fun. I enjoy it. It's like school again. And I love school. lol.

And, now E.J has to go. She needs to get her hair all chopped off.
Tune in next time for our latest installment of E.J's Adventures, featuring her 18th birthday! (and no, this is not in chronological order, unfortunately. I just realised that. haha)

E.Jxx

Screencasts

I am currently in the process of listening to a screencast. Yes, I should be watching it, but I've already seen it once today. lol

Yesterday was my first day at Uni. Started up with a block subject. When one's first day at a new place happens to fall during uni holidays, there definitely is a lack of people to ask for directions. JCU is huge. I never needed a map to navigate my highschool. On the upside, the vast majority of campus has wifi coverage. =]

So I've started a block for CP1200. There are fifteen people in this subject, and only two of which are female. It's quite different, especially after attending a girls' school for five years. Haha. We're watching screencasts, instead of attending actual lectures. I don't mind. I do like being able to pause them. Especially when I feel like checking Facebook. Lol!

In other news, I shall be turning 18 in three weeks. Yes, that means I will be spending the majority of my day at uni, studying furiously for my final exam, which happens to fall three days later, on the sixteenth. Oh well. Not like I was planning on going out or anything! =P

Must get some sleep,

E.Jxx

Work vs Prison

IN PRISON... You spend the majority of your time in an 8x10 cell. AT WORK. You spend most of your time in a 6x8 cubicle. IN PRISON... You get three meals a day. AT WORK. You only get a break for 1 meal and you have to pay for it. IN PRISON... You get time off for good behavior. AT WORK. You get rewarded for good behavior with more work. IN PRISON... A guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you. AT WORK. You must carry around a security card and unlock and open all the doors yourself. IN PRISON... You can watch TV and play games. AT WORK. You get fired for watching TV and playing games. IN PRISON... You get your own toilet. AT WORK. You have to share. IN PRISON... They allow your family and friends to visit. AT WORK. You cannot even speak to your family and friends. IN PRISON... All expenses are paid by taxpayers with no work required. AT WORK. You get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners. IN PRISON... You spend most of your life looking through bars from the inside wanting to get out. AT WORK. You spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars. IN PRISON... There are wardens who are often sadistic. AT WORK. They are called supervisors. IN PRISON... You have unlimited time to read e-mail jokes. AT WORK. You get fired if you get caught.

April Fools..

Ha, very funny. My sister Holly logged onto deviantART this evening, and told me someone had changed her profile picture. On further inspection, it appeared that everyone's pictures had been changed, along with their signatures. "Do you think it's a glitch?" she asked. I asked her if she recalled what today's date was. Yes, it so happens that today is the one day of the year during which everyone attempts to trick, fool or joke with the vast majority. I generally don't, but do enjoy witnessing the large-scale pranks pulled on the wider community by Internet giants such as Google, who a few years back, claimed to have developed a technology entitled 'Google MentalPlex, which will supposedly read one's thoughts, and conduct a google search accordingly, and YouTube, who one year turned all hosted video clips upside down for the day, and this year gave users the option to view clips in 'text mode'. deviantART, on the other hand, has decided to change all users profile pictures and signature text to something either Twilight or Lady Gaga related. My profile pic is now a GIF image from New Moon, depicting Jakob transforming into a werewolf, with overlaying text that reads 'Team Jakob', and my signature reads 'Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?'. Well played, deviantART, well played.

Until next time,

E.Jxx

PS, Google MentalPlex can be acessed here: http://www.google.com/mentalplex/

What would your perfect day look like?

It would involve not being stuck in the house all day...

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What are you most excited about right now?

Potentially having a job. I need to get out of the house!

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