September 1

Had a good morning, made breakfast and chatted with Jillian while I waited for the bus. Then I lost track of time and realized that the bus departed 1 minute ago!! I rushed out of the house hoping that the bus was late (as usual), ran across the dangerous street and saw the bus in the circle. I chased it down and it started to leave, but saw me and the nice lady driver stopped to let me on. Thank goodness. Here's a photo I accidentally took of the street while I was running:

Then I met Jane in the library and we asked some EndNote questions about referencing websites using Harvard style. It's a good thing we talked to her, because she told us that we should download the updated Harvard referencing style that UQ uses. We could've been using the wrong style for our papers! Then we went to class and the guest lecturer was really boring. He kept going off on tangent stories that the regular professor was just eating up. They were all about how tough the events industry is. Thanks, already knew that it's hard work!! I checked out a couple of books from the library, got my library late fee waived by acting like a dumb blonde "Oh, I was supposed to turn it in over there??" and then decided to study at home for the evening. This was a dumb idea. I'm never as productive at home as I am in the library. But oh well.

As I was heading to bed, I DROPPED my laptop!! Jillian saw the computer chips on the floor and her eyes got big, but I knew it was just the USB drive that was broken. I spent the next 30 minutes trying to hold the chip and USB plug in the computer so that I could get files off it, but it didn't work. I even tried to make connections using tin foil! But it's dead. Luckily my papers were not on the USB drive. It was only my EndNote Library. Which is still pretty big, because I had about 70 references on there. It's gonna take a bit of time to try to replace them. =( Oh well. Could've been worse... My computer is OK and my papers are OK.

Here's the broken pieces: