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CANDICE BERGEN WAS SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME IN LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE OF BOSTON LEGAL (5.08 - ROE) SHE SHOULD WIN AN EMMY FOR THAT PERFORMANCE.

THAT IS ALL.

Hey guys!

Sorry it has been such a long time but I have been insanely busy with work and university. Things are now settling into something resembling a routine so I can finally get back to spending a little time on LJ, I've missed you guys.

I'm working (at university in the SRC or at the Union Services Centre) or doing university classes or university coursework Monday-Friday 10am-6pm in addition I have Media and Journalism Student's Association Excuitive meetings every Monday bfrom 6pm-7pm, SRC Clubs & Societies meetings from 6pm-8pm 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, ALP brach meetings 2nd Wednesday of the month from 7:30pm-9pm and Young Labor Left or La Trobe ALP Clubv events most Thursdays. So I hope you can forgive me for my absence in both commenting and posting.

I'm really enjoying my life right now, for a lot of last year especially the second half I felt bored, restless and socially disconnected (and more than likely looking back on it I was mildly depressed.) Now I'm feeling really happy, engaged and have been making much more effort to get socially involved which is paying off. I went to a friend of mine Mick's 20th Birthday drinks two Saturdays ago and out clubbing with the Queer Collective from university on Friday night. I also atteneded NOWSA (Network of Women Students of Australia) training camp last weekend which was an excellent experience (I'll write up a seperate post about it a little later as I'm sure several of you will find it of interest.)

I have a lot more to say but I have to go to a meeting in 15 minutes so I'll leave this post here.

P.S. I'm not even going to try to catch up on my f-list (I haven't properly read it in over three weeks) so if anything important has happened in your life in the past month tell me, I want to know.

• 15:58 I am sitting in a history lecture w/ my nose literally running like a tap and my throat very raw. 11 days into Autumn and I have a cold. #

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• 21:46 I have water trapped behind my eardrums, this is highly irritating. #
• 21:48 @wizard79 Very nice:-) I need new blinds, mine are falling to pieces. #
• 23:37 @wizard79 I'm in the same position, my place was pretty run down when I moved in but it is getting there. #
• 23:38 I think I might actually learn something from my philosophy course, I took it because it was the only thing I could jam into my timetable. #

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So,as you may or may not remember in September last year I met a guy named Bernard who is now a good friend who got me involved in campus politics or should I say involved in a particular facet of student politics, (I've always been involved in general capmus politics) the SRC.

Anyway in the last couple of weeks my job has begun and for various reasons I'm actually the only disability officer who is working in any day to day capacity, there are two of us but Claire is unable to work on the day to day things and because there hasn't been a disability officer since 2004 there is a lot of work to do. My goals for this semester are as follows:

• To set up a space on campus for students with disabilities, this space will hopefully have tea/coffee making facilities and at least two computers with accessibility programs such as Naturally Speaking and JAWS.



• To set up free printing for students with physical disabilities that require them to use a word processor to write and those whose disabilities mean that they need alternative formatting or documents.



• Set up a mailing list for students with disabilities on campus to inform them of relevant events etc.

I've been slowly but steadily working on these goals, setting up meetings with the equality and diversity unit to discuss the space on campus for disabled students and contacting other universities to discuss how they handle the provision of photocopying and printing for disabled students.

In addition to my larger, longer-term goals I'm also in the process of creating a university survival guide for students with disabilities that I want to have ready for O-week that is requiring the collaboration of about 10 different university departments and am working with the rest of the SRC and the ALP club on O-week events.

In addition to my SRC job I'm also working at Contact (the student services centre) this year (I don't start until semester begins) as well so you will have to forgive me if I don't update as much as I used to, that said I will be spending a lot of time in my office procrastinating so I'll probably be updating more if anything.

• 11:09 I changed my LJ layout last night when I couldn't sleep, old school House/Stacy FTW! #

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Taken from lauriestein

Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up: My university-issue diary, my day planner, one sliver ballet shoe, my laptop bag and a half empty bottle of sparkling mineral water.
how do you style your hair? Jaw-length bob with a few layers around my face, I have a fringe (bangs) that I either blow-dry straight or push back with a headband, I typically wear my hair curly but I do occasionally straighten it, basically I have the most versatile hairstyle ever.
what are you wearing now? White pajamas with a pink floral pattern, the shirt is button-down and short-sleeved, the pants are long.
who was the last person you said 'I Love You' to? My mother, when I spoke to her on the phone this afternoon.
do you nap a lot? Never, I'm lucky if I can sleep at night.
who was the last person you hugged? My friend Kat by way of greeting on Friday.
what's your current fandom/obsession/addiction? Murphy Brown and all things Candice Bergen and Faith Ford. I have 9000 other fandoms but Murphy is my newest.
what would you most love to be doing right now?Hanging out somewhere far cooler than my living room with some friends.
what was the last text message you received? "Hey all. We're trying to get a new club email system going, so if everyone could email me with their preferred email address that would be tops. Thanks in advance" - from Batch, re: ALP club mailing list.
what websites do you always visit when you go online? LJ, Facebook, latrobe.edu.au, failblog, Pundit Kitcken, fmylife.com
what was the last thing you bought? A 50c ice cream cone and a small Coke Zero from Hungry Jacks.
what would you like to be listening to right now? Neil Finn serenading me in my living room.
what's the last song that got stuck in your head? Get Shaky by The Ian Carey Project
if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Invisibility.
what is your favorite weather, and why? Cool, crisp early spring days.
if you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play? Cello or violin, I love string music.
how are you? Busy, busy, busy and loving it.
what's something you'd like to say to someone right now? I want to thank you for dragging me kicking and screaming out of my shell.
your dream career? Journalist or diplomat.

I have finally, finally, finally gotten my degree structure sorted out and this is filling me with joy as I have been stressing about it since November.

( What follows is highly confusing, I had the poor guy whose job it was to work this all out so confused that he was near tears. )

So long story short I can double major in media studies and international relations which makes me very happy as that is what I wanted to do but wasn't sure if I could do it.

Now that my degree structure is sorted out I have finally been able to sort out which units I am taking in the last 18 months of my degree, my unit structure for this year is finalized and two out of three of my units for next year are as well.

( A list of what I am studying this year + timetable and assessment requirements. )

Rules:
It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own LJ, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag ten people you know how we feel about tagging.

Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real...nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name: Jacqueline

2. A four letter word: Jinx

3. A boy's name: James (I now know so many guys named James that I need to define them by multiple characteristics to differentiate between them, eg: James from my Sex and the Media class with red hair.)

4. A girl's name: Julia (What I will call my firstborn daughter, if I ever have one to name.)

5. An occupation: Journalist (What I will hopefully be when I grow up.)

6. A colour: Jacaranda (My sister had to help with this one.)

7. Something you'll wear: Jumper (AKA a sweater.)

8. ...Apparently doesn't exist.

9. An example of food: Jawbreakers

10. Something found in the bathroom: Junk

11. A place: Johannesburg

12. A reason for being late: Job commitments

13. Something you'd shout: Jerk!

14. A movie title: JFK

15. Something you drink: Juice

16. A musical group: Jefferson Airplane

17. An animal: Jellyfish

18. A street name: Jolimont Road

19. A type of car: Jeep

20. The title of a song: Jump

• 22:14 Woohoo, finally found the time to do a proper LJ update. #

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I'd consider myself to to be an optimistic realist.

Sorry, sorry, sorry for not updating but I've been super ridiculously busy.

I got back to Melbourne on the 26th January at 8:30pm after a 12 hour train ride, then had to go straight out and do the grocery shopping.

I got up at 6am on 27th of January to start work (for those who weren't on my f-list last year I work as a casual at my university during enrollments and O-week, it doesn't pay much but it covers my textbooks for first semester, my sister came with me this year so she can get a little work experience.) This was repeated for the rest of the week.

Saturday 31st of January was my sister's birthday, we went shopping, and to the movies, saw Slumdog Millionaire, it was excellent, I highly recommend it.

I honestly can't remember what happened last Sunday.

Monday and Tuesday were orientation days for my other job, working at the La Trobe University SRC as Disability Officer, it was basically two days of meeting lots of new people and was pretty exhausting.

Wednesday we didn't do much and on Thursday we went to the NGV International, it was awesome, however by Thursday afternoon my mouth was beginning to get sore.

Woke up Friday with a raging salivary gland infection and had to go to the doctor, got put on Keflex which makes me sick and generally felt like curling up and dying for the next 36 hours.

Saturday we went to Chadstone despite the fact that I was still feeling pretty crappy because at least it was cool there, saw Role Models at the movies and it was pretty good, unfortunately at some point during the movie someone stole my wallet out of my handbag, lost my rent money and am now having to go through the epic pain in the ass that is getting all my ID replaced etc. replace but that really doesn't bother me all that much when100+ people in my state have died and 750+ families have lost their homes in bushfires. I'm just glad to be alive and that at this stage, as far as I know everyone I know is safe and well.

Sunday I didn't do anything and today I went spent the morning running around doing ID related things and getting access to my money again after having to cancel all my bank cards. In the afternoon I went back to Chadstone and brought some cute shoes and a diary to cheer myself up after getting sick and having my wallet stolen.

Tomorrow I'm back at work.

• 19:11 @typicalhigh THAT ANDREW BOLT SAID SOMETHING FUCKING RIDICULOUS IN ANY WAY SURPRISES YOU? #
• 19:12 My sister and I are going to see Slum Dog Millionaire tonight, it is her birthday today. #
• 19:13 @cenori I'm going to see Frost/Nixon sometime in the next few days, good to know that REAL non-critic people are liking it. #
• 19:24 @wizard79 Will do. #

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• 07:41 I want to know if connex is going to give me a free daily because i've already paid for my travel today. #
• 07:48 Holy shit, i'm on a connex service that is running slightly (about 90 seconds) early! #
• 18:34 THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! #

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• 19:27 I'm glad that my house is still cool because outside certainly isn't. #
• 20:24 @cryptictac It really was, BTW are you free to meet up Wednesday, Thursday or Friday next week? I'm busy Monday and Tuesday. #
• 06:55 I don't care about OH&S I'm wearing thongs (flip-flops) to work today. #

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• 21:50 @typicalhigh Waking up in the middle of the afternoon is the time-honoured of university students everywhere. You are becoming one of us. #
• 21:51 I think I am the only person of earth who can cut their hand open with a plastic knife. #
• 22:20 @cryptictac Yesterday on the train back to Melbourne, I was trying to open one of those packs that has a serviette and cutlery and slipped. #
• 22:28 @cryptictac I have faith that you will BB. #
• 22:40 I'm currently trying to decide whether to have a shower now or get up 15 minutes earlier tomorrow morning. #
• 23:16 Having the shower in the morning. Wish it wasn't going to be 40 degrees, also wish it was cooler now so I could sleep. Have to be up at 6am. #
• 23:23 ELMO INTERVIEWING CANDICE BERGEN IS SRSLY TOO CUTE! tinyurl.com/CANDYELMO #
• 11:19 At work. Air-conditioned room, yay! #

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• 00:24 Alarm is set for 6:15am, must sleep nao. #

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• 23:17 Last night in Sydney, out to dinner with friends, had great canneloni, pizza and gelato at a local cafe. #

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