Tash's Journal

Well I can't believe that it is already the end of week 11. Only 2 more weeks of lectures, then we get a week off and then its exam time! I am stressing out majorly! I have my Brain and Behaviour lecture on Saturday 3rd June at 8:15am, Health Psychology on Monday 5th June at 8:15am, Learning and Behaviour on Wednesday 14th June at 8:15am and then the BIG one, Statistics on Friday 16th June at 1:15pm.

I think I should do really well for all the subjects except for Brain and Behaviour. It is so boring, and I just can't stand the lecturer, so I never go to the lectures. There is about 100 people doing the subject, and on average, only about 20 people go to the lectures each week.

I still can't believe how much assessment I still have. Have a group assignment for stats worth 15%, an evaluative conditioning report for Learning and Behaviour worth 15%, a mini stats exam worth 5% and a mini Learning and Behaviour report worth 5%.

By the way, after 30% of assessment for Statistics, I am sitting on a HD. I am very please with myself.

Working all weekend, this weekend and next weekend. Good money, but it's not the best timing with all the assessment I have to do within the next two weeks.

Well yesterday I spent two hours at the gym. I was the only person there for most of the time so it was quite good. I attempted to run on the treadmill! It was very funny. I can't really run that well without looking like a real idiot.

Well a few weeks ago I was stressing majorly about my statistics mid semester exam. Anyway, I got my results back today and I got . . . 80%. I was very excited and proud of myself!

Also, my pay rate drama has dramatically improved. Originally it was dropping to $15.00 but now it's going up slightly from $23.33 to $23.98 as of July 1st. I am very relieved about that.

I haven't really had anything else exciting happen in my life. Got to do my presentation on Anorexia tomorrow as I couldn't do it last week cause my tutor's laptop wouldn't read my USB. How annoying!

Well today I went back to work for the first time in a week since my head injury incident. I was supposed to work from 9:00 to 5:30, however I had to leave at 3:00 because my head was just pounding.

Also today at work we were discussing the changes in pay rate. Usually, it means that the hourly pay rate is going up. Instead, the management want to cut the casual pay rate form $23.33 to $17.82!! How crap is that? Even worse for me is that because I am under 21, I get an age penalty, and my pay rate will end up being about $15.00. That's a huge loss for me!!!

Originally, they were discussing only TWO months ago that we would get a slight increase from $23.33 to $24.45. But no, that's no longer the case . . . so now I am in the process of applying for Youth Allowance and hopefully that will make up the difference in what I lose. But somehow I doubt it!

Well that's about it for me I think. Back to Uni tomorrow, hopefully I can handle being back there. Missed all of last week due to head accident.

Well my friend just sent me a message and said that she can't spare one hour to exercise as she needs all the time that she has for her assignment. Damn it! I'm still going to go to the gym. I still might go to the aerobics class as it's quite a lot of fun!

I had a feeling that she would cancel on me. Oh well. I will get over it. Already am! :)

I just need to write a concluding paragraph for my Lit Review and then it is finished. Yay, go me!

Well today I am going to try and finish my Lit Review for Health Psychology. It's about adolescent risk-taking behaviours. I'm writing about binge-drinking and how it leads to drink driving, fights and sex, which can lead to unwanted pregancies and/or transmission of STD's/STI's. It can be no more than 2000 words. It was due on Friday but I got an extension because of my head injury. It's my first extension I have ever asked for. I hate asking for them, and I don't think people should be given an extension, unless there are special circumstances.

This afternoon I am going to the gym at about 3:00pm. I am going to do some weights, abs and cardio work until about 4:15pm. At 4:30pm I am doing an aerobics class with one of my friends. It's a combo class which includes warm up, step work, hand weights and lower-body (abs/thighs) work. It goes for an hour and only costs $6.50. I think that's pretty good.

I am working all day tomorrow, even though it's a public holiday! Oh well. Good money.

On Tuesday I have to give a 5 minute presentation on my Behaviour Modification assignment in my tutorial. Should be really easy. It's only worth 5 percent as well. Just talk about what I did (increase exercise), did it work, what my rewards and punishments were.

On Wednesday, at 8am I have a tutorial presentation on Parkinson's disease. It's already finished. I have even got the diagrams on OP's as well. I am very organised. I have to hand in an essay with it as well. Hopefully I do well in the essay and presentation cause I didn't do quite that well in the mid-semester . . .

On Wednesday at 3:00pm, I am doing my Health Psychology presentation on Anorexia. I think it should be a really informative presentation and I should do well at it (fingers crossed!!!)

Well I better go and finish my Lit Review. I hope my friend does end up going to the aerobics class.

Well it's Saturday night and I am sitting at home. How sad! Well, not really. I just went and saw the Cowboys play, even though they made a lot of mistakes!!! They also lost. It's not two games in a row! I was invited out into town but I don't have much money left so I decided not to go. I'm going into town next weekend. So hopefully it should be a good night.


I just put this photo in to see if it would work. I'm still getting the hang of Live Journal!

Well this week has been very eventful for me. On Tuesday morning I woke up and went to the toilet and I started to feel very faint. I then ran back to my bedroom so I would be lying down before I fainted, but I didn't quite make it.

All I remember is leaving the toilet and then waking up screaming on my bed. This is what happened in between . .
My boyfriend heard a loud bang outside the bedroom door and woke up to see what was going on. He found me lying on my back, unconscious, looking grey and my eyes rolling back in my head. I had fainted and hit the back of my head on the tiles! He panicked and then woke Mum up. They lifted me on to the bed and waited until I woke up. I was unconscious for five minutes.

Anyway, my boyfriend walked out of the room and then there was a loud noise. Mum walked out and found that he had fainted and cut his skin open on the temple. He fainted because he was shocked and worried for me.

So Mum called the Ambulance and they came and took me and my boyfriend to the hospital at about 9:00am. While I was in the hospital, I was throwing up blood and having dizzy spells. I was really scared and Mum was crying cause she didn't know if I was going to be okay. Luke got three stitches in his temple but other than that he was fine.

I was discharged from the hospital at about 4:00pm as they said I was going to be fine, but I just had to be watched at home by my family.

So I have been off Uni all week as I have been sleeping all day and been dizzy and light-headed. Not the best timing!

By the way, Ash I am so excited about coming to your birthday dinner next Friday. Just let me know the details when everything is sorted out.

I am seriously getting stressed out by all the assessment I have due for uni over the next couple of weeks! I have a stats exam next week and it is so bloody hard. I am sick of trying to figure out one-tailed and two-tailed t tests, independent and related t-tests etc! I just can't wait til June 16th when all the uni exams are finished and I get 7 weeks off, thats if I pass my subjects, but I haven't failed anything to date, so hopefully I won't be resitting exams, especially for stats.

I'm glad I've got the weekend off work to catch up with all my assignments. I am researching Parkinsons disease for a biological psychology subject. JOY! I'm so over this whole study thing at the moment. I wish I had the ability to be able to roll information off my tongue really easy. But I don't, so I guess I better go start researching Parkinsons.

BYE!

Well today is my first entry in Love Journal. It's all very exciting! Everything at Uni is really piling up. I have got so many pieces of assessment that I need to be doing. Two mid semesters next week, not looking forward to those. But hopefully I should do alright in them, fingers crossed!

Well I have to get off the computer now, cause I've been on here for hours.
Ciao