Grab a shovel, you're in deep shit
I seem to have a way of making easy situations difficult. At the same time, I get more satisfaction from eventually extracating myself from my perilous predicaments.
University: I have done it again. Missed another mid-semester exam. It was for my crappy ultra-boring Economics unit. I did one piece of assessment for that course, got fed up with being bored and didn't go back since. So I've also missed a heap of those little assessments and 1 little presentation. So long as the mid-sem isn't compulsory I should still be able to make a fist of the subject, beginning with completing an essay due in 2 days to turn the assessment weighting in my favour. Mean time, I also missed a class response last week but was able to have that rescheduled and have a presentation in 2 weeks. Lots of work to do, all very soon. Gl hf. Also I had a mid-sem last week, it was pretty terrible. After wasting away the 2 weeks of study time, I studied for a day and a bit, and my nose dribbled like an open tap for the hour of the exam - colds suck.
Soccer: Womens team have had a break over the last few weeks. Called off a few training sessions due to public holidays and their opposition for the first of 2 non-competetive trial games pulled out. Back to the mill last thursday night which was a fiasco. 7 teams on 2 fields makes no-sense in any universe. Plus lots of my gear had gone missing. To compound disappointment there was a fantastic turn out to training, which mean lots of unhappy players. Tomorrow is the last hit out before points go on offer with our season start next weekend. I had to just go and fetch the nets (6.30pm) because the ANU sport and rec. assoc. closes at 7pm on Saturdays and only opens again at 9am on Sundays. Too late for me to swing by inorder to grab the nets and have them up at Kaleen for our 9.30am kick-off. Oh well.
Mens has been bizzarre. First game in, after a romping preseason with lots of wins and bags of goals (our only defeat coming 3-2 with no subs against a team 3 division above us), we got SMASHED. We were poor all over the park, mainly in midfield, and couldn't deal with long, aerial balls at all. 5-2 was the score line. Today was not much better in the bottom line, but the performance was both shameful and encouraging in that order. 20 minutes of madness began 38 seconds into the game when they(RMC) scored... from halfway. A lofted free-kick, air-swing, mis-communication, and then bouncing past our keeper and in! Second half however, we bossed play and exploited our wings to good effect and very almost pulled off an unlikely result. In the end it finished 6-4 against. But the performance should spur us on to points next win to kick off our season proper.