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Hot for teacher!

Lecturers who teach the subjects in engineering are a strange breed. Highly intelligent, with twisted ideas on what is funny. They are passionate about all the stuff other men are interested in but in a whole different way. Sure be obsessed about music, but understand how to best design your audio system to provide the quality sound possible. Fast cars are cool, but make sure you know why they are fast and how to make them faster. Sure sport is good, but are they seeing an athlete proficient with a ball or do they see a whole lot of forces acting on a sphere? They are so rapt up in these things that it would hardly even occur to them that other people wouldn't be, or if they do notice that others go glaze eyed when they start talking particle acceration, they don't care. Confident that it is way more interesting than knowing how to wear pink with confidence. Men should not wear pink, ever!! Anyway I really like these lecturers, especially when they are male. When they are female they either fall into two categories, women I want to be like and women I don't want to be like. As I am studying engineering I don't have many female lecturers, which leave the male lecturers. I have little mini crushes on them. All of them. I wonder what they are like as people. I enjoy their company, as a person in a room with a hundred other people. My tutors are different they are more like pimplely teenagers who are just doing the tutoring for the money and have absolutely no real interest in your learning. I have a soft spot for complex, intelligent, mature, goofy men. Willett has noticed this, not the crush on lecturers part, but the bit where I find mature men attractive. He has decided this is a good thing, because in all likelyhood he will be a goofy old man, who I will have a soft spot for.

Memorial Javaira scholarship and other nonsense.

learnt stuff, head full. Wonder why almost all scholarships are for young people? Do older people have less to offer? I will have the memorial Javaira scholarship for mature age students, who know what they want and plan to do it for a career, rather than because their Mum said they should. Had fun being a nerd. Willett at another gig, he has a gig once a week at the moment. He has told the band that he will be leaving. Busy, comfortable. Life is very good, and just a tad exciting. Shall do some further Physics tonight as I like it.

Physics

Apparently to be an engineer, it is expected that you understand physics. At least a bit of high school physics. I remember Physics in year 11 and 12. I remember the most interesting people in the room were all 17 - 18 year old, good looking boys. I wish it had been the teacher, I do, but it wasn't. I remember the teacher, he was the kind old gentle man who told me I could be good at this if I wanted to be and I shouldn't let the boys distract me. So now I am learning stuff I should already know. I blame hormones, because before them I was a very rational person. Stupid adults why do they all end up being right in the end? Blah, I still got the guy and I will get the degree as well. Cake and eat it!!!

Random

I just want to say.......................... I thought the sunglasses looked good on Ozbhoy. Of course SH thought they didn't, which is why they ended up smashed under Ozbhoy's foot, with SH and Willett laughing, while I stood there stunned. Truly the moment was very random. It is good to have Ozbhoy back. I didn't go the university today, I am very naughty and will be punished with much regret at some point.

Stuff has been happening

I have new shoes, which I bought online without leaving my house. They arrived 2 days later and are not only great value for money but exactly what I wanted. I am working at keeping up to date with my assignments, but I did get %100 on my first physics thing, so I am feeling good about it all. I have new shoes, specially chosen for getting around university. Willett did not get the dream location. He is philosophical about it. I had a feeling they were tagging us along. Oh well not to bother. I got new shoes were from Rivers. We had a meeting about the business's image, with the image people. It was fun. I have a feeling once we get the logo and stuff together everything will fall into place properly. I should put a picture of my shoes up, but I am wearing them and I am lazy. I got some jeans aswell. Probably other stuff has happened, but I haven't really noticed. In other news it looks like recycled water is going to happen one way or another.

I had a chance to go out tonight. I kind of wish I had now, as I am quite in the mood for dancing around and laughing. I am proud of Tomas. I can see a hint of who he is going to be as a man and I like it. Now, I never got those people who wore college jumpers, like the Americans do. Except I wouldn't mind getting one of my own. I am just so pleased with myself being a uni student and all. I strongly suspect that it really isn't cool to wear one, what do you reckon? University might be my current challenge but it aint that special. Lots of people go to university and finish, lots of people never go and become great people. For me this is what I am good at, you know the academic stuff, there isn't much else. I think I will get one of those jumpers and be embarrassing proud when I where it. I could wear it to footy games and I could get a footy jumper and wear it to uni. Now I must finish making house clean, and feeding children so I can get on with a very basic C program, I think I have to make it say "hi there". WOW!!!! I like this subject it is revision of stuff I did years ago. It is like watching a film you saw as a child. You can't recollect how it went, but as soon as you sit down to watch it again, it all comes back. I am not feeling quite so smug about physics though. I mentioned my two new friends, the nerds, the lovely smart bright nerds. Who should be doing a lot better than they are at university. Two things going against them, addicted to magic the gathering and private school education. The first is pretty self explanatory, the second means they have no idea how to be active learners. They are used to being spoon fed stuff. It just doesn't happen that way at university. There a great chunks of your course material that you get told about, but not taught. It is up to you to learn it. They know this is a problem, but they still think private schooling is better than public, although couldn't actually explain why, so my opinion is unchanged. I am waiting for a logic reason, before I spend a stupid amount of money on private education for my children.

This is me, I am a middle aged woman.

When did I get so old? Oh well at least I look like a nice old woman.

Another survey.

Queenslanders only http://whatthepeoplewant.net/questionnaire-021-water-recycling.asp I would like to see everyone say that they thought recycled water was good, but I think it is important people answer honestly so a true feel for how people are thinking about this issue is shown. Lets hope I am not a minority.

Decisions.

Another Sunday already, a rather productive one though. Although more time than I wanted was spent trying to find my ring. My ring almost fits and I have these fingers that taper evenly from the base to the tip, no bulging knuckles to hold the thing on. So it wasn't surprising that it fell off during an unexpected tidy of the garden. Willett was not happy with me. He has been nagging me to get it refitted for ages and it was a special ring, aren't they all? The best bit was that we found it. Every so often I get a request for a sister, which I always find very cute. Today Pug was letting me know how he would really like a sister. Of course I very gently explain that a) I cannot control what sex any baby I may have will be and b) I do not want to have any more babies as I have other plans now and babies are work. Good work, but I have done that, now I am trying something different. About a year ago I had a an unexpected pregnancy. I was horrified. Firstly that I let it happen and secondly because there was no way in hell I was going to have it. I never thought I would feel that way and I did feel selfish in the decision. Every pregnancy has enormous potential. Every child is extremely precious, but I felt I had more potential in me to be something other than a mother. I feel my contribution can help lots of people, lots of children. So I put aside the child inside me, quite possibly the sister my boys both want, to pursue a career. Is a career any better than being a mother? No way on earth. To live up to this decision my ambition has to have more meaning than just make money and be secure. I cannot be complacent or change my mind. I made someone else a sacrafice for my own ambition. While I sometimes I explain my driven behaviour to others in terms of what it costs to my family, I very rarely mention this. My children are missing out on new clothes and fun things, because our budget has taken a serious hit when I stopped work. My husband is doing more around the house and has to work at keeping me sane, because of the extra stress, none of them complain though. They are all very proud of me. It does mean that I take this whole thing to be at university and to do well beyond that very seriously. I am sorry, I could have tried to do both, but I didn't want to and in the end that would have been poison. You have to want a child with every ounce of your being, you cannot be wondering what if. My apology is to the unborn child, not to anyone else and I hope that it was in the end the right decision for both of us.

I am going to pimp a website.

Not something I normally do, but this is probably my most favourite haunt on the internet and they have been doing us an enormous favour of late. http://www.zgeek.com/ is a very fun website, set up by Pirate, who has been very kind by letting us use his vast network. You may remember that we have a survey up for our business and Pirate was more than happy to let us spread the word via his website and for free no less. I know it doesn't sound like much, but part of our plan is to treat the cafe as a proper commercial business venture. Pirate does not have any advertising on his site, but is happy to help promote the things that zgeekers do. Which makes me wonder at what point he will decide that our involvement becomes to much like free advertising. Already we have plans to get some editorial done of the opening, of course only with Pirates express permission, which I think a paid trip to brisbane might be able to get. :) Anyways thanks Pirate and the other zgeekers for helping us get this little(or not so little) project up and running.

WATER.

Today, I planned what I was going to blog about. WATER. It is a big political issue here at the moment and I was going to write a well reasoned argument as to why recycled water is the best solution to this problem. Except that means I have to go through all the illogical reason why people don't want it. So I will say. We need water. Recycling water gives us water. It is good for a lot of reasons. It is not an expensive option compared to building a damm. It doesn't cause infertility. Yes I can explain why. It is cleaner than the water we drink currently. It can also be used to generate greenhouse gas nuetral energy, which can run the plant and have surplus energy left. (Yes less global warming and reduced water use) It has been thoroughly tested. The other options have huge impacts on our environment, or don't come anywhere near to addressing the problem properly. So please if you are given the option to have a say about recycled water, learn the facts, before you form your opinion and I don't mean take my word for it. If you hear something, find out if it really does apply in this situation, how relevant is it. There I did it. My rant on recycled water.

Lovely.

So today I got to know some newish friends quite well. My time being monopolised by two young men at university, who enjoyed relating to me everything about their lives including the fun they have playing Warhammer the RPG. They were lovely. They were funny as they are pretty inseparable and like the fact that they aren't like everyone else. I was reminded of Willett and our male friends when we were the same age, except with out the monty python, or perhaps more accurately with less monty python. I had fun. I did not get much study done. SH came over tonight and it was lovely as well. Today has been lovely, perhaps not as productive as it could have been, but it was lovely.

My Personality part 2

I don't normally do this, but as this is a version of the test I did at university I thought I should. In march I wrote a post about my personality type, but I didn't go much into the detail about what it all meant. So I thought I would do this one, as it is based on the original. Interestingly enough I scored very similar, but I wonder how much that is because I now know what I think I am. Anyway without any further a do, my personality.

Choleric 14 Sanguine, 35 Melancholy, 64 Choleric, 21 Phlegmatic

Hail to you who is Choleric! The firm control when others ar losing theirs. The cut of decision for foggy minds. The grip of leadership to head us to the good. The willingness to take a chance in a doubtful situation. The confidence to hold true in the face of ridicule. The independence to stand alone and be counted. The road map to life when we've gone astray. The urge to "take arms against a sea of troubles by opposing them." Here is how you rock: You are a born leader, strong willed, active, dynamic, decisive, not easily discouraged, unemotional, independent, self-sufficent, confident, with a compulsive need for change & to correct wrongs, and you can run anything. At work you are goal oriented, you see the whole picture, seek practical solutions, quickly move into action, delegate, organize well, insist on production, stimulate activity and thrive on opposition. As a friend, you have less need for friends than other temperments. You'll work for group activity, lead, organize, and you excell in emergencies. You are usually right. Here is how you suck: First of all you don't think there is anything wrong with you. You think you are always right, so you can't be wrong. You'll probably think the following aren't even weaknesses. You are impatient, impetuous, inflexible, unsympathetic, bossy, quick tempered, dominating, and too busy. You can't relax, you won't let others relax, you like to argue, you won't give up when you are losing, you won't admit you are wrong, and basically you come on too strong. In the workplace, you have little tolerance for mistakes, you don't compliment others instead you are rude and tactless, you make rash decisions by glossing over details (unless you have a melancholly edge to you), you are manipulative & demanding. As a friend you tend to use people, dominate, decide for others, know everything, think you can do everything better than everyone else, be unapologetic, and be too independent. But seriously, you are freaking awesome. The rest of us are just irritated that you make us wrong and don't realize that you are annoying us. We love you, we need you. You make EVERYTHING happen and without you we just sit around doing nothing, or planning, or leaping into things and not finishing. All we ask is that you try to understand our personality types and let us be right too. Once you learn and accept how others are different than you, you can more easily get them to do what you want ;-) Curious about the 4 temperment types? here are links to the 4 basic results you can get. Phlegmatic Choleric Melancholy Sanguine

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Sanguine You scored higher than 99% on Melancholy You scored higher than 99% on Choleric You scored higher than 99% on Phlegmatic

Link: The Personality Plus Profiler Test written by mahdroo on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I am sure you are all extremely surprised.

So much to do, so many new things, but this time is easier. I have found out that several (most) of my friends have gotten similar marks to me. Which leaves us wondering if we are just a smart bunch or more people get High Distinctions than we first thought. Hopefully we are just a smart bunch attracted to each other because of our dedication to learning. (cough, choke) Perhaps not. Anyway I have done a pile of things today, but mostly to boring to blog about. Physics is more geeky than my other Engineering subjects. Text books are bloody heavy. I have sorted my Wednesday problem, by putting in a special request. I am most impressed that not only did it work, but I got my preferred option. I have things to learn already, but my head hurts, so I will start that tomorrow night. I have been thinking about an old flame lately. A guy at university reminds me of him a lot. Similar perspective on life, similar looks, similar interests, so when I am around him I am strangely attracted to him and at the same time slightly replused. Poor guy, I am sure he must get the most confusing message from me. Of course he is a good friend and should not be tainted by old memories, but some things are hard to control. Flame is such an apt turn, flames tend to fade faster the hotter they burn. It is true for this case particularly. Bugger it, I should admit it was true for most of my previous affairs. I am hopeless.