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update again!
Sydney move is going okay, although I miss all my friends terribly and often have bouts of feeling lonely. That said, we're looking at making a weekend trip to Melbourne shortly, so that should make things better in a flash =) Work is also going okay, but I will be much more happy once I am out of outpatient neuro and somewhere else (I would really like to go to outpatients, so let's see how I go).
It's been so long since I updated that I'm not really sure what else to add. What does everyone else want to know? That might be the easiest way to approach this.

I should write in this think like I used to.
maybe later.

I've been slack lately, haven't been updating this as nearly much as I'd like.
7 weeks left of uni. I applied to work in a jeweller's because the deli get sme down, so very down.
My car was fixed (!) to the tune of $1700, kind donation from my nunu, which he told me would be my wedding present (!!!)
We want to hire a kayak, I want to go to the show, my room looks like it was hit by a wardrobe bomb and needs putting the hell away!
My dad is hassling my mum in a very passive-aggressive way which is not cool, especially considering he's working and stuying at the same time, his girlfriend is studying and doesn't even have a job, yet he hassles my mum for money, even though she's got the kids to look after. From where I stand, I'm working in the deli while I'm at uni, so why the hell can't she? load of crap.
So my mum came over on Monday and I settled her down as much as I was able. She's scared she's going to end up with nowhere to live, but I'm not sure how likely that outcome would be.

My brain feels like someone squished it all the way over to one side of my head. I think it's coming from my neck, I should get it physioed.
Even though I'm whinging and carrying on I'm having a lovely time! Things are overall pretty rosy, I just come here to whinge and be all emo.

home from mackay! and I missed home, even though the weather was very nice and I got an A- they said I could work for them but I don't think that's where I want to be.
back to doing half days at the hospital. I have to check my cash flow properly to see if quitting safeway is feasible. I would love to, but only if I can afford it.
People grow up at different rates. Christy's made this (as usual) half assed attempt at an apology towards Erica and I in her open diary. At first I kind of thought about seeing how she was going, but then I thought if she's gone three and half years without me, how imoprtant must my company be? Maybe she's just apologising to make herself feel good.
In retrospect that sounds very catty. mph.
Good to be home in my bed with my ben and all the good stuff and the city!

Sometimes I think that if I just sleep through the next 20 days things will be more bearable and less lonesome. I think of Ben down in the cold in Melbourne and wish I could be there to keep him warm.
there's no aphrodisiac like lonliness. doh. it's true. that phrase is turning cliched for me though I wish it were not true.

well the pelvic ultrasound said that my uterus and ovaries were normal. That's good!
I went for a gastroscopy on Thursday- I don't remember much and the needle thinggy that I had to have in my arm wasn't as bad as I was scared it would be. The sedation knocked my around a bit though. On thursday I couldn't remeber what day it was, and on Friday I couldn't remember my phone number and got drunk extremely easily.
So I called in sick in Friday and we went to the snow. We went tobogganning and were the only plebs there who weren't wearing gloves.
no eating on the laptop! I have to go

I had a pelvic ultrasound today to try to sort out all the weird things that are going on with my guts. I don't understand how anyone can look at what's on the monitor and understand what it all means in terms of stuff inside me! Anyways I find out what they found on Friday.
Adam Spencer is on Wheel of Fortune tonight and it is being simulcast on triple j.
Erica and James and Ben and I are all going out to tea tonight and I think I will buy a few cans of red bull on the way home because I will be hella tired tomorrow morning! *yawn* at least all I have on tomorrow night is netball and I will feel personally responsible if we lose, I didn't play last week and they won 21 to something something. So yes.
Need to get up early tomorrow and get on the bike, so my fitness levels correspond roughly with those of Ben's!
Anyways it's 7 minutes till I can go home so I think I might get off the computer!

ahh sorry it's been ages since I wrote in here :/
I have half an hour left of work (AHA stuff at the Northern), I'm playing netball tonight, I'm going back to sleep (!) at the new house in Kensington and I have to go the fart doctor in two weeks because they smell so bad I could exterminate a small Eastern European nation.
Otherwise everything is shiiiiiiny!

Went and had a look at the new hosu today- I can't wait until my new clean bed is sitting next to that full length window looking out upon all those shiny city lights :)
Pam, the lady I replaced at the Northern, doesn't look like coming back for a while, which means I still have a job for the time being. Mary says they will probably ask me to come back and work as a real physio. So does James. James is funny and cool, it is good to work with him. In fact the whole atmosphere at the Northern makes for a good working environment, nobody takes themsleves too seriously, which there's a tendency for among physios, even though to get treated by a physio you may not get that impression.
Sometimes my back niggles. I know what I should do for it but I'm curious to see what a practioner of Chinese medicine would do for it.

I got work at the northern hospital! in epping. It's almost full time work, which makes things veryveryvery busy :/
ben's work is stuffing him around. it makes me mad. punch.
nurses' dispute today made for an easy day- not as many patients to see. and I found out that it WON'T be my job to clean pooh off commode chairs. thank god.
6.10 pee em and it is dark already. but I like winter in ways.
I got my clinical placements too-- advanced neuro in mackay and community health at doutta galla. That is why i took the work at the Northern, to be able to afford Mackay. So I'd better pass theory, or all this effort will have been for naught.

I finished at Epworth on Thursday \O/
It was a good day- we went for lunch altogether and I got my marks (a B: now I have to cane the assignment to get it up to an A). I was told that I'd do well going to work in head injuries. Whether I'm prepared to, though, is a different story.
THINGS I BOUGHT FROM WORK THAT WERE REDUCED
-2 crayfish for $12, usually $24
-leg of lamb for $8, usually $16
-lamb leg steaks for $3 usually $6
-diced lamb for $4, usually $8
so that was good

I need to get back in the pool, and actually do it instead of whinging about it.
It's nice being at home for four days straight :)

I got my midway last week at uni. It was not good. :( I think it is a play to make me do lots lots lots more work, and it is working, for the most part. My patient-who-doesn't-behave is being discharged on Wednesday because his parents want him home, and I think it's inappropritely early. On the upside, I only have to see him three more times, tops!

I forgot it was daylight savings today and turned up to work att 5 am instead of 6am. On the upside it meant i only had to work till one. I never want to forget how I felt when I drove past the clock on Matthews avenue to see it say '4.49 AM'.
bleaccch.

coffay is good- went and saw Monster last night and it was good also. You sit and think for a but though, how did they do the makup to give Charlize Theron such shiny skin and freckles?

I am making little shepherds' pies for tea tonight.

busy busy busy.
Last 2 weeks I've been at the Epworth. Still not sure how I'm going to go on this clinic, I'm not sure whether they want me to get into it more or wait till I'm invited to join in when doing assessment and treatment. suck. But I feel like I know my stuff a bit better here. Kind of. I'd still like to get work as an assistant at the end of this. The only hard part is working with people whose behaviours have been affected by their head injuries and don't give a shit and don't want to do any physio.
But they need physio, and they don't realise it, because they don't have any insight anymore.
ignorance isn't always bliss. Nobody get a traumatic brain injury if you can help it.
I think I had better stop making bad jokes as well, I'm not sure how people are taking them.

Work again tonight. Oh I am so tired. I wish we had a spa. I would sit in it and drink wine. Oh how I like wine.

And I GOT MY SHOES! Oh they are beautiful and comfortable and pretty and red. Love my lovely new shoes. ($180 AU shoes, but they are worth every cent!)

At least I'm not safety failing!

I went and had an xray taken of my tummy, now I just need to wait and see what they found...
I have my geri exam tomorrow afternoon, and I don't know yet how prepared I am. I spose I'll find out soon enough. This is like first year anatomy tests :/
My shoes are getting shipped tomorrow or Friday. I can't wait this long! shoesshoesshoeshoeshoeshoes

Spending a day at the Alfred with uni tomorrow, going to a lecture series. rock.
PGR exam on Friday, and I think all of Thursday will be spent studying for it. Tomorrow the podiatrist is going to take all the dead peely skin off the soles of my feet and I will have pretty virgin feet again (only my feet.) :/
I was offered a job with nachos mexican contina, which was interesting:
PROS AND CONS OF WORKING FOR NACHOS MEXICAN CANTINA
it is just across the street (pro)
you work with people, not by yourself
the uniform is less dorky (all black)
less working around steam/hot/smelly/wet
few more hours a week (so they tell me)

cons:
no contract
can't pick up extra hours while I'm on theory blocks (which is only 2 days a week at uni)
might make me pick up shifts when I don't want to
might need to work saturday night
harder to get time off when you're new

I bought shoes on the internet. shiny new doc marten mary janes. the I went to chadstone and bought a new skirt to go with. pretty shiny happy :)

I'm also trying to grow my nails, which means having to suppress the urge to bite them-- it is harder than I thought it would be.

oh and I also may have a partial blockage in my bowel! need to go get an xray.

I found out today there is a restaurant where the waiters are paid to swear at you!
I want to work THERE

valentines day...the more exciting thing is I have the *entire* day off work, and so I get to spend it all with ben, valentines' or not. we're going to the zoo for picnic tonight. loverly. I like the tiny monkeys with the big personalities. And the pygmy hippopotamus.

Uni goes back on monday, and I will have the chance to be the one and only person with a laptop, doing cool computer things that nobody else can.

It's my party on saturday, I need to start doing laundry and cleaning the goddamn house.

I'm getting more opinionated in front of the customers at work. When they tell me they're fussy and annoying I say nothing.. No more going out of my way to disagree. No siree.

wireless networking! I'm not one hunnert percent watching teevee but the fact that I *could* if I wanted to makes all the difference.

work this week
mon-
tue6-3
wed6-3
thu6-3
fri7-10pm
sat-
sun6-2

bus-AY and then uni goes back the week after. But it means I have money, so I can't complain. Oh how I would love to get that job at the Epworth, and miss all the early starts and the chicken grease and fish smells.

Two years spent with Ben tomorrow. Would not swap the time for anything, or him for anyone. Love my Ben. *heart* Stick with him like glue.

38 hours at work again next week= financial recuperation from general service fees to the tune of $357!
Sitting in the computer room with Ben and James while Ben helps James discover Belle and Sebastian (he played him 'Step Into My Office Baby' and now he thinks Belle and Sebastian are fully great. I think he's about to hear 'Dylan In The Movies' which'll cinch the deal.

I applied for work as a casual physio assistant at Epworth Rehab today. I have a clinic there before easter. Working there would fully kick ass. Oh how I would love to work in rehab. I also got my timetable today. The subject Physio in Rehab and Gerontology looks really interesting, and we have a day at the Alfred so I can go and say hi to Mel, my supervisor from last year, kick ass.

Going to have goodbye drinks for Camy tomorrow, and I'll see Angie who's back from India. She has 45 kilos of stuff she bought. One day this week we'll go to Sydney Rd and have flat pizza from A1 Bakery which is cheap and delicious and yum, and I will look at international foods. Maybe buy some.

I got a replacement laptop! Now I can play and maybe do some work again! And she gave me a free extended warranty on the thing, so now when it breaks I don't have to go through stupid HP and their Indian call centre. I'm sure they're doing the best job they can, it is just that they are all the way over THERE, while I am all the way over HERE. Not very helpful AT ALL. The chick at Dick Smith spent three hours on the phone trying to sort stuff out for me. SO she is very nice and you should all go and buy stuff from them.
And I did, I bought the Sleepy Jackson album today (rock!) I bought a cd.....what are things coming to?
Work work work
fri 19-22
sat11-17
sun6-14
mon6-16
tue6-14
wed6-14
thu6-15
fri-
sat-
sun6-14
mon6-16
tue6-14
wed6-15
thu6-14
fri-
sat-
sun6-14
holy shit
wednesdays will be the best (=payday)
I'm going to be at other work giving myself ultrasound all the time for my legs!