#this was a straight rant and I didn't reread so enjoy the grammarless mess

[literarystorm]

time for my random life rant of the month

SO first of all, how is everyone? feel free to send me some life rants of your own because I want to get to know some people and I know everyone likes to just get things off their chest sometimes!

I’m in the middle of Week 10 of the semester which means I have two more weeks of classes and then we hit exam season! I’m doing 4 subjects this semester instead of the regular 3 and am feeling very overwhelmed. I received two marks back over the last two days, one 34/40 and then 28/40 (-2.5 for being late) so really it’s impacting a bit on my marks because I’ve definitely put more weight on some subjects than others... I have a report due on Friday worth 60% of my grade which I’ve done 0 work on and I’m STRESSED.

Also, we had the Federal election this week. That was a shit show. My country doesn’t care about climate change and lets their greed take over and I’m so disappointed. I’m also annoyed at a lot of my friends and people I follow on social media from Australia. I see a lot of outrage over the abortion laws in the US (rightly so) but then I see no one commenting on the state of our own country?? For example, I’ve never seen a single person who commented on the American abortion laws talk at all about the fact that abortion is still in the Crimes Act in NSW and is the last state/territory in Australia to not regulate it under medical practices legislation. I think this has a bit to do with young peoples consumption of media. So there’s a lot of alternative media (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube etc) which is very US-centric and I think that takes a lot of focus away from things in our own political space. 

In terms of work, I’ve picked up an extra lunch cover shift at the bookstore which is fabulous! I’ve struggled to find time to do work for my university role, particularly transcripts, it feels too much like uni study itself that I find it hard to separate my time. AND I got a call to go back to State Parliament for two days to cover the Staffer (only took 6 months of silence from them) but all I did was sit and stare at the wall for 8 hours x 2 because the MLC was away and there was a total of only 2 phone calls. Bleh. BUT the money is incredible which I need to save up for my trip!

As of today, there are only 39 days until I leave for my solo Europe trip!!!(does ‘solo’ within a Contiki count?) I’m very nervous and I have no idea who is on my trip and I need to work out how much money to take and what to pack ugh. Luckily my exam timetable worked out well so that I have a week between my last exam and my departure day so I can stress pack then. BUT SO MUCH EXCITEMENT TOO.