Starting to study

[martinemonster]

I've been fairly busy these past few weeks and haven't really checked my flist or posted anything. But I'm back now! The new year is here and I'm exited. I'm getting a new computer, I'm selling the old one (if anyone is interested in my lovely HP Pavilion just let me know, I basically just want to sell it to get rid of it so it'll be really cheap!) and I'm getting back to my studies.

To be quite honest I have to ease my way in to it because I'm not used to this student living thing. So far I've gotten a few panic attacks thinking of how broke I'm gonna be, tried to figure out what my curriculum is and worked my way up to making a plan for how I'm actually going to manage to write a book in a year. Oh, and I've contacted my tutors and asked to meet them so they can point the way for me.

In other news, I've gained weight during Christmas (damn you pinnekjøtt! damned you to heck!), but I'm not worrying. You see, I've started a new workout program which is kick-ass and which will hopefully make me so incredibly strong, fast and bouncy that people will mistake me for Rhona Mitra

Anyways, here is my meme stolen from Guri who took it from Aina:


1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Tested for a belt in a martial art (and got it, hurray).
Broke off an education half-way through
Worked in a chiropractor's clinic
Used dry-needle acupuncture on myself
Moved in with a boyfriend
Worked out consistently
Lost weight that stayed gone

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't have any

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
Netherlands.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Direction. Knowing what I want to do with my life would be good.

7. What date(s) from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 20th because I got a boyfriend and because it's aj_stalin's birthday.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I think it's getting the blue belt in KunTao actually. Oh, and losing 44lbs.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Losing all direction in my studies and having to take a break from them.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A sofa!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
3ff3ct3r

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Israels. Though I'm not surprised.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Food.

15. What did you get really excited about?
Taoism

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008?
Alphaville actually

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner (yay)
iii. richer or poorer? about the same...piss poor that is

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Traveling, going to concerts, reading.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With my family

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
yes

23. How many one-night stands?
Surprisingly few actually. I blame the boyfriend.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Dexter!

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate might be too strong a word, but yes

26. What was the best book you read?
Glasshouse. It is so good! Everyone should read it!

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I rediscovered A Particularly Vicious Rumor.

28. What did you want and get?
3ff3ct3r

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I don't actually know.

31. What did you do on your birthday?
Celebrated with my family

32. What's one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If it didn't turn out I was allergic to milk.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Sloppy

34. What kept you sane?
I think I've become less sane actually...

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jensen Ackles

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The trouble is Israel/Palestine

37. Who did you miss?
The people I didn't see enough of, my American friends

38. Who was the best new person you met?
coldbeans

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
You become what you exercise

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I don't have one.

Comments

[coldbeans.livejournal.com]

Good with writing your paper and congrats on picking it up again!

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks! it seems really hard to get started, but then again, it always is for me.

[myrsnipa.livejournal.com]

you rule, and will rule in the year to come ;)
I hope your studies will work out better this time around, even though it's hard being SO F****** POOR ALL THE F****** TIME..

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And I know. Being poor sucks!