No… not literally… so if tat’s why ur reading this then buzz off and watch ur porn vids…
Anyway… as I was planning on saying… I’m fucked royally with work! and that 2… work 4 academics! Damn… i thought the Brisbane trip was supposed 2 be… well… a trip!… But no… 4 the 1st time ever in my life i’m actually workin my balls off, thinking whatever brain cells are left in my head off and actually doin all this 4 my studies!!!… the damn frustration i feel after copy-pasting assignments is not there… the damn indifference i feel after receiving the marks for those assignments is also not there!… i’m working… and i’m liking it!
this is what i’ve been doing…
from 2 to 8 in the afternoon yesterday i was up at the fryer library poring over four months of The Hindu in microfilm from late 1956! this is after i’d spent 4 hours last saturday on the same thing! i might still have to go back to print a picture out that i missed! damn!
today… after gettin up at 4 30 am 2 watch the champions league final which unfortunately (but deservingly on the performance of the day) man united lost, i went off to keep an appointment with dr. jobling (my oly movement & society prof) at 10 15… that led to an impromptu phone interview with well known sports academic and writer richard cashman… then after a 1 hr lecture i spent an hour poring over the official report of the 1956 melbourne olympics down at the olympic center here at uq again!… then i came off to the library internet zone 2 chill… saw the reply to a mail i sent from the editor of indianfootball.com… good site check it out… neway there was a link to their old site that had quite a few details i’d requested and hoped for… that got me started and i ended up checking out a lot of journals, books and related material that jobling and cashman had suggested… end result… i spent another 1 and a half hours working online when i’d planned to take a break!… now i’ve got around 8 documents downloaded in pdf… got 2 go read them!!!… plus check out 3 books that i found interesting and might help in my project… and go through the 1956 copies of the melbourne age…
finally i forced myself to go to the wordpress tab that i’d opened close 2 2 hours previously and write this post jst to take my mind off things… but heh… look wat i’m blogging on again!
oh and btw… tats just 1 project i’m workin on right now!!!… that’s due on june 4th but i’ve got an oral presentation and a group sponsorship proposal due on june 5!!!… and as i was just going thru my calendar on my mobile i realised that there’s a ‘bonus question’ philosophy assignment that i’ve to hand in tomorrow!!!… just gr8… philosophy… a bit more thinking on abstract things conjured up by people with no other job over the centuries that make no hell of a difference to any1 is just wat i need right now!… it is 4 just 5 extra marks but the tough marking here means tat i need every mark i can get to muster at least a ‘d’ or ‘c’ even after struggling hard!…
after june 5 come 2 LONG essays for political ideas due on june 12 and philosophy due on june 15… i really loved doing my last pol ideas essay even with all the books i had 2 refer 2 and everything… wanna do a better job this time… and watever i might have sed in the last para philosophy is still fun as well… only prob is time!… 4 once i’m hopin 4 more than 24 hours in a day in order 2 b able 2 study!… god wat an irony!…
and just 2 add the icing to the ‘work-hard’ cake there’s the international journalism exam on the 16th!… but at least then it’ll be over though…
till that glorious 16th of june!!!… may the devil help me!…
P.S – the project i’m working on for my olympic movement course is on the 1956 indian football team that came in 4th at the melbourne olympics… i’m tryin 2 figure out whether that achievement was a fluke or not and the general findings so far indicate that it was not a fluke and that football was the common-man’s game at that time!!!… now if anyone knows of any article, news report, blog post…yadda yadda yadda that’ll help me figure out what happened after that then please do… also any news u think that i might not have about the 1956 team would also be greatly appreciated… if nothing else pls answer this poll for me: http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=o2×4hz893agn8er602459