h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, last week was great fun. I was with someone I dearly love the entire time, my daddy came home for the weekend, and we got a new pup. This weekend, we went to a dog show and did quite well. Grumpy won breed Saturday and Kamilla won Best of Opposite Sex. Sunday, Grumpy won Best of Winners and Kamilla won Reserve Winner's Bitch. It was quite fun, as we always attend shows with the same group of people so we can get points on our dogs. The Circus (don't ask or you'll get seventeen pages of politics, animal cruelty trials, and parent-club politics that you DON'T want to know, trust me) broke the major, but we had Deb and Shirl there to at least leave us with some points. Grumpy only has two more points to finish, so maman and I are pretty tickled. Exciting, I know. Nothing planned for this week, at all. Got a new gadget that I will probably be playing with some. Right now, I'm wishing that school was harder so I'd have some purpose. Today, I took a biology test and hadn't studied at all, and the lowest grade I can make on it (we got back the short answer and multiple choice) is a 75. I don't earn my grades, everyone else is failing when they study for 30 hours, and I'm bored witless. I'm going to stop bringing my notebook to class so that I have to pay attention because I draw. Uni is supposed to be more difficult than high school, isn't it? Well, for me, it's a heck of a lot easier and about seventeen times more boring. Whine, whine, whine, I know, but I'm tired, my foot is dying, the barometric pressure is off so my head hurts, and I ate the volume of a horse. Food does make the world better.

I wish I could do as well in my stuff! Its easy but I somehow manage only to pass? I have no idea how to get beter marks...

Try not caring, having no motivation, and wondering why I want to be in school for eight more years. Apathy does miraculous things...when it has foundations in great ambition and a desire to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education for a job that will let me live in poverty...if I'm lucky.

8 years? Wow! I need to get a masters I have discoverd, know any good libarianship schools arround you that have masters by course work I can do? All of our loacl courses have closed down or are not longe availbel uder PELS

There are a lot of librarian schools in the US. I shall have to dig up my literature tomorrow when I can bear to stick my head in my closet.

Yes I know, but one has to find a decent one, offering an accredited masters at a resnoble price. Then of course there is the PHD. I think I would like writing 15000 words on somthing!

It's so easy for overseas students to get scholarships that it makes me violently ill.

Yes well I am asking as you need a masters to get a job in librarianship in an the US, UK, Europe, Canada. The list goes on. Also I would like to get a DR before my name and there is no chance I can put up with IT stuff for that long

I would kill myself if I were forced to get a doctorate in IT stuff.

I'm told that many US universities are very good (in fact you have the best) when it comes to postgraduate work, so you may have a few more years.

For myself, I've spent today wondering who's idea it was to turn my history degree into economics with statistics. Or to name the units so deceptively. If I do a unit entitled 'Revolutionary Europe' then I want blood and iron, not gender studies and the moral economy thank you very much.

On the plus side, I have 4 hours of lectures and 1-3 hours of seminars a week, and 4 seminar papers, 9 essays and 3 exams for the whole year.

I'm quite pleased that international students can get scholarships; they bring variety. That and gorgeous accents. Mexican with a German education? On paper it might not look anything special but oh my god .

Yeah, they're terrific, but you have to go to school in the meantime.

Economics with statistics? *shudder*

I have 2.5 hours of class two days a week and 5 hours the other two days. Add an hour of high school PE to that and that's the whole of my coursework. I'm lazy.

Hahahahahaha, Mexican with a German education? You are quite the odd one, you are.

Well its my belief that education is a right for all mankind so I support overseas scholarships as long as they are offered after the amount of demand for local places is been used. 99% of the time it is, but with the new chances to HECS to HECS-HELP and new DUFF places now being done I don't expect our university sector to last much longer. All of the small unis like UC, UNT, WU and so on will die out where as the rich ones like ANU, CSU, UNSW, MU will become even bigger by extending there campuses into the corpuses. At least thats what I see will happen. For some reason I realize I really enjoy this librarianship stuff and might have been better off just doing that as a degree with an IT minor. But now I am 3 years into it and I am almost 70% certain I will pass this year now I will finish and then get a job and a doctorate somewhere. CSU and I think UNSW offer the course but its dammed expensive and I may as well shop around for the best.

Just to clarify, "economics with statistics," was simply my analogy to how awful that particular unit was. Its actually social and economic history. Political history is the good bit with the blood etc.

I don't actually fancy the Mexican girl with the German education, just her accent. German in general is a horrible if slightly amusing sounding guttaral language and Mexican Spanish is nothing special, but for some reason the combination.

On the other hand I have met 2 or 3 rather gorgeous small Chinese ladies. My friends think I'm very predicatable...

I wouldn't be able to say exactly what it is I like about a girl, accent's don't have much to do with it I am afraid.

I like boys, so I suppose I can have no input on this conversation.

No I suppose not

Too bad.

You could say what you like about males I suppose.

My basic qualifications are big, dumb, insufferable, and cute. Big is necessary and easy to achieve since I'm small. Dumb is easy because I'm brilliant. Insufferable I must have. Cute is necessary but highly relative. I must have three out of the four in order to survive happily.

Ah soooo close... I mean.. er...LOOK OVER THERE! *runs*