Before I launch into a largely non-Australian Idol filled blog (!!) can I just say, HOW THE HECK IS SHANNON STILL IN THIS COMP?? Stupid over-30 year old women who have lots of money to spend on their sms's and think he's hot! Argh! O well, at least I did my bit for Paulini while she lasted. Ai.

Ok, it's out of my system!

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I have about 15 minutes before class this morning...trekked up from my car, which I parked down campus to save me walking aages after I finish, but that meant I had to do the up-hill climb to get to the Law building. Thankfully, I've sufficiently recovered now!

Yesterday was a baaaad night. For a variety of reasons, Mum, Dad and I were all pretty depressed at one stage or another at the hospital last night. For me, it was because it was about 8:50pm, and I was sitting in the public area (which is in the middle of all the wards) eating my dinner by myself (which was fairly pitiful in itself I suppose) and all the old men and women in the Palliative Care ward where my sister is were already all asleep with their lights off, no visitors, no TVs, no nothing. For some reason, it struck me as being really really sad and dismal. Technically, these are all people just waiting to slip away from their lives...I dunno. Does no one care about them? Does no one want to spend a few minutes with them? For their sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews and friends...they'll never get those precious minutes at 8:50pm 27/10/03 back again. They'll never have that opportunity again...I felt really lonely on their behalf.

Mum and Dad on the other hand, were depressed because my sister has got some kind of bacteria which isn't good so everyone was hanging on tenterhooks (what exactly is a tenterhook??). Then mum got mad at me for "not helping" (arrrrrrrrrrrrgh) and I walked out and left them to their tenterhookishness. Pffft.

How did this become normal for me!!??!??! I have this (bad, I suppose) habit of looking at the world in this skewed way, where things fall into boxes of profits/losses and rights/obligations (how fitting that I'm doing commerce/law. Perhaps that's why I think that way!). Hrmph. Sometimes I look at people getting cut up about whatever and think to myself "Why are you getting so upset over that. THAT is nothing compared to what some people are going through at the moment!"- kind of like they haven't been through enough for their right to negative sentiment to have accrued. Sigh. I know you can't ever really standardise emotion like that. But I persist in doing it! hrmph.

Anyway, mum got home about 15mins after me and apologised. We're making progress...

Ok, off to Admin. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

Bye bye xxoo