The World Of Jadeey

I went into school today and picked up my diploma. Dad's going to arrange to get it framed, just like he did with my degrees. He, actually both my parents, have always believed in me 100% and still believe in me. The fact that dad is has made sure my degrees and now my diploma are framed so that I can one day hang them in the office of the company I am CEO of just shows the level of belief they have in me.

Sometimes I didn't believe I could do it, it's nice to know that they always knew I would.


Each Sunday I read Postsecret and every day I read LJ Secret. I like reading these websites. Some of the secrets make me cry, some make me relieved that I'm not living that pain, some I totally relate to and some just hit me in some unexpected way. Often I find myself needing to save a secret, sometimes to remind myself I'm not alone in my secrets and other times because something about the secret makes me sit up and take notice. As a result of this I have 320 secrets currently saved on my computer.

I have decided that every Thursday, for as long as I feel like it, I will post one of these secrets. Some might reflect my own secrets, others will have had a deep impact on me for one reason or another and still others will have been chosen because something small about them was enough to make me want to save it. I'm not going to tell you my reasons.

Don't read into them, don't think i'm trying to confess something. Because I'm not. I just want to share some of them.

And, if I have posted a secret that you made and you don't want it up there then please send me a message and I'll take it straight down.

Labels: school, secrets

Graduation was tonight. It was awesome. There were nice speeches, good food and lots of drink.

I got a prize for being the person in the class who "always remembered the importance of cute baby animals in the publishing world." That made me laugh - I'm a total sucker for baby animals!

Each week me and a couple of classmates would pick new desktop pictures. Mine were always baby animals - such little cuties that whenever I looked at my computer screen I just wanted to cuddle it.

Here was the one I had this week.



So cute! Look at his little paws! And his happy smile!

Labels: animals, school

Tomorrow is my last day of class. It's not even a proper day of class because it's going to be spent organising our graduand event, which is tomorrow evening.

It's a weird feeling, knowing it's all over. I can still remember the first day so clearly. I'm really sad about it - I'm going to miss it a lot.

I guess now it's time to get back out into the big, bad world. But first I might sleep for a few days!

Labels: school

I am now finished my final assignment for my course. My final assignment ever, unless I go crazy and decide to do more study at a later date.

It's a pretty good feeling. Now I've just got to head into school early in the morning so I can print it out and hand it in on time. I hope my alarm doesn't suddenly decide to fail on me and not go off!

Labels: school

I got so excited last night when I arrived at the bar I was meeting my friends at. Why? Because we were sitting near a guy who looked very much like Stephen Fleming from the side. And, luckily, because of where our seats were positioned I pretty much saw him from the side the whole time. I knew it wasn't him, but it still made me happy. From the front, not so much like Stephen.

Today has been an assignment day and tomorrow will be as well. It's not so bad though, the assignment I'm doing is actually kind of fun. We have to invent a publishing house and then produce a whole lot of documents as if we were going to print a book. Stuff like project timelines, costings etc. I'm really enjoying it. Interestingly, it's a project management assignment and I recently got it into my head that I'd like to be a project manager. I then got rejected for a project management job I wanted and decided I didn't want to do it afterall. Now, doing this assignment, I'm back to thinking maybe I would like to do it. It's confusing being Holly. :P

Ingrid told me today that she actually told me about the Medieval Store a few weeks ago and commented that she wonders how it stays in business. I have no recollection of the conversation, but I have been thinking about it for weeks so it was obviously because of the conversation with her. The funny thing is I have this memory of the first time I noticed the store. Yet, either that memory or Ingrid's one is false. I'm going with probably mine since I'm sure you are more likely to create a false memory of thoughts than one of talking to someone.

Labels: friends, school, Stephen Fleming

I have discovered something interesting this year. I'm going to call it the middle-of-the-bus phenomenon.

First, a bit of background. I hate sitting with strangers on the bus. I don't like that they get in my space and I particularly hate it when they smell or take up more than their fair share of the seat. Actually, I hate it most when they do both of those things at once. Let's face it, sitting that close to a stranger isn't exactly comfortable. Because of my distaste for sitting with strangers, I always take note of the bus rides when people don't sit with me. This is how I discovered the middle-of-the-bus phenomenon.

You see, if you are sitting in the exact middle of the bus then people are less likely to sit with you. I kid you not. It only works with the seats exactly halfway down. These seats seem to be the last ones people choose to sit in. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think it's because most people have a preference to sit either at the front or at the back. The middle is left for those of us who don't have a preference - and it seems we are the minority.

So, that's my interesting thing for today. Well, I found it interesting anyway.

Tomorrow I need to take some text to school that has an interesting or contrasting rhythm. I'm very stuck on what to take right now. I better stop writing this and go look for something.

Labels: discoveries, school

I'm off to the stadium soon to start work. I possibly won't be home until after midnight so i'm blogging now.

It just hit me this morning that i've only got 3 weeks left of class. I mean, I knew it already, but I realised exactly how short 3 weeks actually is. I can still remember the first day of class so clearly. And now it's almost all over. Wow.

Labels: school, work

Okay everyone, go and visit the website I worked my butt off for. Just click on the link and it'll take you straight to it.

Feel free to come straight back here and praise me!

Labels: I'm great, school

Kat reminded me today that I still haven't put up my posts from when I was in Hamilton. So I'll do that in the next couple of days.

We bought a new phone for the flat yesterday and today I got confused when it started ringing. It's got polyphonic ring tones so I thought it was someones cellphone. I spent the whole time it was ringing wandering past the phone and instead looking for a cellphone. By the time I realised it was our home phone the person had hung up. I felt silly.

It's Wednesday night. I'm sure i've mentioned multiple times that I feel like it's always Wednesday night. The night before my crappiest day of the week. Bugger.

In happy cricket news, we did not lose to Bangladesh. Dan Vettori saved the day, like he so often does. Phew! Losing would have been awful. In even happier news, Australia lost to India by 320 runs! Slaughtered! Woo! It made my day hearing that.

Labels: Australia sux, cricket, I'm silly, school, work

YAY!

My website launch was today. Amazingly my book also turned up from the printer. So both my projects ended on the same day.

Oh it was so cool. The website and book both look so good! It made me very, very happy.

:D

(Oh and don't go and look at Kat's blog unless you want to have to stab out your eyes afterwards.)

Labels: school

Ugh.

Trying to fit job-hunting around school and assignments is proving to be quite difficult. It doesn't help that I really have no clue exactly what I want to do. I know there's a job out there that is perfect for me, I just can't figure out what it is.

And so I apply for jobs and hope that I serendipitously get the one that is made for me.

Happily, tomorrow is the launch of the website I've been working on all year. It's very close to being completely ready. All the authors with stories and poems on there are having one last look over it tonight so I can make minor changes tomorrow. I'm confident there won't be too many.

Tomorrow is really all about preparing for the launch itself. Food and wine have been bought. Sandwiches will be made tomorrow (that's one of my jobs - but I've got help). The laptop has been checked with the data projector and everything seems to work as it should.

I'm sure there will be many stresses tomorrow. But as of right now I'm feeling pretty confident about it.

Labels: school, work

I hate webdesign. Every time I think it's done, suddenly the client throws up more problems. I'm tired of it. So damn tired of it.

Bring on Wednesday when this crap is all over!

Labels: school

I'm watching old episodes of Friends. Man, I love that show. I think I have seen every single one of these episodes maybe 20 times. And yet they don't get old. That's the mark of a good show!

It's Wednesday night. That means tomorrow is my long day. Ugh.

Ingrid is off to a test-screening tonight. I'm jealous. I want to go, but because tomorrow is my long day I can't. Instead I have to stay here and sleep. Boring.

Oh well, for now I'll enjoy watching Friends. Because it is awesome.

Labels: school, tv

I'm very sleepy. I have to stay awake for a bit longer though and finish up some school work. It's a hideously busy school work week this week, which is particularly sucky because I thought it was going to be a fairly easy week.

Here is a song:

TROGDOR!!! TROGDOR!!
Trogdor was a man...
I mean, he was a dragon man!
uh, actually he was just a dragon
...um, but he was still
TROGDOR!!! TROGDOR!!!
Burninating the countryside
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the people
and the thatched ROOF COTTAGES!!!
THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES!!!
and then Trogdor comes in the NIGHT!!!

And don't forget the consummate Vs!

I fell in love with Trogdor many, many years ago. It is one of those things where I still remember the exact moment I first saw him. It was a good moment.

TROGDOR!!!!!

Labels: cartoons, random, school

Assignment got handed in. One assignment and finishing up my group projects to go and then i'm done. This means it is time to start job hunting. Ugh I hate job hunting. It's so stressful and often so frought with disappointment. Grrr.

Job hunting also means updating CV and cover letter time. This is one of my least favourite things to do. It's not hard, it's just boring. I hate boring things. And CVs are very, very boring.

My cat, Felix, is looking very cute right now. He's peeping through the curtain. It makes me laugh.

Labels: school, work

I had a eureka type moment this morning and came up with an angle for my essay that actually worked. I spent all of today re-working the essay and have finally finished. I think it's pretty good. I'm just hoping that I don't think that because I'm tired of it.

In other news, my cold appears to finally be gone. On the last day of the holidays. (This is the cold I got on the first day of the holidays.) Typical.

Labels: school

Still assignmenting. I'm now less sure I'll get there with something actually worth handing in. It's just not clicking. And that's making me frustrated

I REALLY don't want to have to re-do this assignment. Yet I suspect that I will have to. Apparently it's the most common one for students to have to re-do. (Instead of outright failing we get to correct our mistakes. It's nice.)

Okay, another hour and then i'm giving up for tonight and going to sleep.

Labels: lame blogs, school

I hate essays. I just thought I'd put that out there.

My research essay is due on Monday. It's not done. I'm sure it will be by Monday, but right now it isn't. Tomorrow is pretty much a write-off unfortunately. I'm taking Linc to Te Papa in the middle of the day and then to The Sound of Music in the evening. I will hopefully get some essay time around those things, but not a substantial amount.

Don't get me wrong, hanging out with Linc is very important to me. But I do worry for my essay. I really do.

Ah well. Luckily I still have Saturday and Sunday!

Labels: family, school

I find it fascinating whenever a memory of something suddenly comes to be out of nowhere. The brain is truly amazing.

I went for a walk this evening because it was nice weather and I felt like it. As I turned to wander down a street I didn't remember walking down before I was suddenly hit with a memory of a time I was in that street. I must have only been about 14, I was staying with a friend and she had netball in the morning so I went along and watched. Her mum parked in that street while we watched the game. It is quite possible I have never been in that street apart from that one time. It just amazes me that I would suddenly remember something so completely insignificant.

In other, extremely exciting news - my book went to print today!!! WOO!!!!!! This time next week I should be able to hold the proof copy in my hands. (For one final check.) I, along with the rest of my group, thought this day would never come. It's awesome.

Labels: school, the past

There's going to be a telethon next year! How cool is that?? There hasn't been a telethon in New Zealand in 15 years. I'm sure it's something that is only really cool when you're a kid. But i'm excited anyway. I hope it doesn't disappoint me.

Our book is so close to being done now! We finished up the index and final changes today. We'll hopefully be pre-flighting it on Thursday and sending it to the printer Friday. So cool.

Labels: lame blogs, school, tv