How Long Has This Been Going On?

I've been in "unemployment" since the 1st of November, and have done very little in the intervening 4 or so weeks, including publishing posts on this blog. What has happened...?

I've finished my law degree!!! My grades for my final two papers came out this week, and I have officially finished. And quite well too, my average grade was around an A this year, which beats any of my other years at university, including my first year, which I thought was pretty good at the time...

I'm graduating in just over a week! I've got relatives coming over to watch the parade and the ceremony, which is very exciting. And then when they leave in January, I'm going with them for a month or so to just really relax before I start work.

What else? Don't really know, it's all been a bit of a haze of swimming, then not swimming, swimming, then not... I decided I was going to start swimming again, after about 6 years of not stepping within 100m of a pool, and I nearly drowned because I had forgotten how to breathe lol. It took a while to regain that skill. Especially when I breathe with my nose under water instead of my mouth. Strange fish...

So at the moment it is just taking things one step at a time, deciding whether to sign up to Facebook, whether to sleep, whether to change banks (don't get me started on the banking industry), what to wear for graduation.

Decisions. What to do, what to do... and there's about 2 and a half months more of this.

Oh, Gee! Oh, Joy!

Yesterday was a day of many lasts: last day at uni (ever), last 8.30 lecture (thankfully), last tutors' lunch (which I missed because of a meeting that ran overtime), last lecturer evaluation form, last terms test, last coffee with one of my best friends, last lunch in the Law School cafe... and then I remembered there was one more 'last' to come. I have an exam in a couple of weeks. But only a couple of weeks...

It's amazing how time flies. I'm graduating with one degree in December this year, with another next year, I'm starting full-time work early next year. It didn't seem that long ago I was just at high school... but it has been 5 years. And it's been a long time. And I leave the uni phase of my life with mixed feelings.

IT'S OVER!!! I can't believe I made it...

But enough reminiscing. It's going to be a great couple of weeks leading up to the exams, and it's going to be a great almost-4 months of holiday after that. I've only got the one exam, so I'm going to study slowly and relaxingly. My study buddy is really on to it despite being really busy, so I'm going to do some harder slog in the next week so that when we meet for study I have lots to contribute. After the exam, I'm going to do some work for the university for a week or so, and then it's pure holiday until my grandparents come for my graduation, and then the Christmas season will be upon us. In mid-January the grandparents are going back, and I'm going with them to see my god-cousin (son of my mother's god-sister, who is like an aunt to me), and enjoy the first week of Chinese New Year (if my calculations are right). Then back to Welly 2 days before I start work...

Joke of the week: Three girls stood in front of a mirror which would zap you and make you disappear if you said something to it which was untrue. The first girl, a brunette, went in front of the mirror and said, "I think I am the smartest person in the world", and immediately she was zapped and disappeared. The next girl, a redhead, went in front of the mirror and said, "I think I am the most beautiful girl in the world," and she too got zapped and disappeared. The last girl, a blonde (you knew it would be, ay?), went before the mirror and said, "I think...", and she disappeared.