13. All These Things That I've Done - The Killers
The average day for the average person is inherently boring and non-eventful. Put a few of them together and you end up with a boring week, and sometimes you can just wake up and realised that you've wasted a month, a year, a life.
And when this is the case, it’s the small things that make the difference. The small sparks of life that make you realise that things are going to be alright. Or at the very least, it’s the small things that provide me with things to actually write about.
Take today for instance.
If I were to big picture it for you, it'll be something like this; wake up, uni, work, home, sleep. Now unless you live in a small white room without any visual or audio stimuli and had no sense of time, my day isn't that exciting. But then I think about the small stuff.
Now I woke up this morning feeling not nearly as refreshed as I'd like, but as the good soldier that I am (or at least inspire to be) I managed to get out of bed and into university on time. Its strange but I think that I can get up easier before 9am then after it, regardless of what time I went to bed; it must be because I'm one fifth canadian or something. But anyway, got to university on time, managed to find me a park.
At this juncture, I could do a spiel about the sheer greed and stupidity of the Monash Uni council vis a vis carparks on the Clayton campus. I could, for instance, point to the fact that just this week they released more parking permits, while at the same time reducing the parking areas for parking permits. While I admit I somewhat respect their all-consuming greed and ability to put the almighty dollar before of you know, the students at their essentially education (i.e. student-first) centre, when I have to park on gravel instead of a paved car spot, I'm not happy.
But I digress.
At the best of times, a two hour lecture on taxation law is not fun, you don't have to be a law student to appreciate that. But when its a continuous two hour lecture without a short break after the first hour, well it hurts more than being kicked in the balls by a tall chick with pointy leather boots. At least in my three hour international law lecture we have a break every hour, but that still doesn't help the fact that it’s a THREE HOUR lecture.
Found some time today to head up to the John Medley library in the campus centre. I'd heard from a source that they had comics in this library, and me being the quasi-geek that I am, had to see it for myself. Originally the plan was to have a quick peek, then find a nice sofa and grab a quick nap before my int. law lecture. Obviously this plan went out the window when I realised that they had entire Batman: Hush series by Jeph Loeb. Comics yes, sleep no.
Loeb is one of my favourite comic book writers, he can write a good batman tale, from 'The Long Halloween, 'Dark Victory' or even the 'Superman/Batman' series. Daredevil: Yellow and Spiderman: Blue both by Loeb and Tim Sale are great pieces as well. And while I'm on the topic, who else do I like? Mark Millar (Ultimates etc), Bendis (Ult Spiderman), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), Frank Miller (DKR, Sin City), Dan Slott (She-Hulk), Brian K. Vaughan (Runaways)...
Yes, I know I sound like a geek, I'm well aware of that.
Anyway, here I was about to embark on the excitement that is a three hour lecture on the sources of international law (which is basically; treaties and conventions, customary law, general principles of law and judicial decisions and legal writings...haha so I did learn something in class) and I was about to fall asleep before it begun, it didn't bode well. Enter a can of V.
V is a flip of a coin for me, sometimes it works, other times it does nothing. I prefer to think of it as placebo caffeine; as long as I start thinking that it'll keep me awake, its done its job. However, I've found that it does actually work when I have 2 in the space of 5 hours.
Oh yeah, before work I had another can of V (2 in the space of 5 hours).
Needless to say, even though my body is bloody tired and needs sleep, I'm awake writing a blog of all things.
Yeah I need sleep.
Work was as uneventful as work gets, a bit of this, a bit of that and then I go home. At least I've got some cool friends at work; sometimes it feels like they're the only reason I'm still at that place. But then I remember that I'm doing a 10 hour shift on Sunday at double pay rates...so that’s 340 + 1 reasons why I'm still at that place.
As you've probably figured out, I'm not even going to try to link this one to the song. But I will say that I heard it on the radio on the long drive home and, possibly due to the stupid levels of caffeine in me, sung along at full pelt. And I have been listening to their 'Hot Fuss' album while typing this baby out. The Killers, they're good, trust me. Or not. Trust in the powers of the Arturians.
Haha the Arturians...stick around folks, I promise that I'll have a very interesting entry this time next week...
Sadly I don't think the V's are wearing off at all. Oh well.
And when this is the case, it’s the small things that make the difference. The small sparks of life that make you realise that things are going to be alright. Or at the very least, it’s the small things that provide me with things to actually write about.
Take today for instance.
If I were to big picture it for you, it'll be something like this; wake up, uni, work, home, sleep. Now unless you live in a small white room without any visual or audio stimuli and had no sense of time, my day isn't that exciting. But then I think about the small stuff.
Now I woke up this morning feeling not nearly as refreshed as I'd like, but as the good soldier that I am (or at least inspire to be) I managed to get out of bed and into university on time. Its strange but I think that I can get up easier before 9am then after it, regardless of what time I went to bed; it must be because I'm one fifth canadian or something. But anyway, got to university on time, managed to find me a park.
At this juncture, I could do a spiel about the sheer greed and stupidity of the Monash Uni council vis a vis carparks on the Clayton campus. I could, for instance, point to the fact that just this week they released more parking permits, while at the same time reducing the parking areas for parking permits. While I admit I somewhat respect their all-consuming greed and ability to put the almighty dollar before of you know, the students at their essentially education (i.e. student-first) centre, when I have to park on gravel instead of a paved car spot, I'm not happy.
But I digress.
At the best of times, a two hour lecture on taxation law is not fun, you don't have to be a law student to appreciate that. But when its a continuous two hour lecture without a short break after the first hour, well it hurts more than being kicked in the balls by a tall chick with pointy leather boots. At least in my three hour international law lecture we have a break every hour, but that still doesn't help the fact that it’s a THREE HOUR lecture.
Found some time today to head up to the John Medley library in the campus centre. I'd heard from a source that they had comics in this library, and me being the quasi-geek that I am, had to see it for myself. Originally the plan was to have a quick peek, then find a nice sofa and grab a quick nap before my int. law lecture. Obviously this plan went out the window when I realised that they had entire Batman: Hush series by Jeph Loeb. Comics yes, sleep no.
Loeb is one of my favourite comic book writers, he can write a good batman tale, from 'The Long Halloween, 'Dark Victory' or even the 'Superman/Batman' series. Daredevil: Yellow and Spiderman: Blue both by Loeb and Tim Sale are great pieces as well. And while I'm on the topic, who else do I like? Mark Millar (Ultimates etc), Bendis (Ult Spiderman), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), Frank Miller (DKR, Sin City), Dan Slott (She-Hulk), Brian K. Vaughan (Runaways)...
Yes, I know I sound like a geek, I'm well aware of that.
Anyway, here I was about to embark on the excitement that is a three hour lecture on the sources of international law (which is basically; treaties and conventions, customary law, general principles of law and judicial decisions and legal writings...haha so I did learn something in class) and I was about to fall asleep before it begun, it didn't bode well. Enter a can of V.
V is a flip of a coin for me, sometimes it works, other times it does nothing. I prefer to think of it as placebo caffeine; as long as I start thinking that it'll keep me awake, its done its job. However, I've found that it does actually work when I have 2 in the space of 5 hours.
Oh yeah, before work I had another can of V (2 in the space of 5 hours).
Needless to say, even though my body is bloody tired and needs sleep, I'm awake writing a blog of all things.
Yeah I need sleep.
Work was as uneventful as work gets, a bit of this, a bit of that and then I go home. At least I've got some cool friends at work; sometimes it feels like they're the only reason I'm still at that place. But then I remember that I'm doing a 10 hour shift on Sunday at double pay rates...so that’s 340 + 1 reasons why I'm still at that place.
As you've probably figured out, I'm not even going to try to link this one to the song. But I will say that I heard it on the radio on the long drive home and, possibly due to the stupid levels of caffeine in me, sung along at full pelt. And I have been listening to their 'Hot Fuss' album while typing this baby out. The Killers, they're good, trust me. Or not. Trust in the powers of the Arturians.
Haha the Arturians...stick around folks, I promise that I'll have a very interesting entry this time next week...
Sadly I don't think the V's are wearing off at all. Oh well.
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