May 29

Sunday, I went to breakfast with Jillian and Lina at a delicious place that had a large hot cocoa menu - YUMM. Then, we went to the computer lab at Lina's campus. Apparently there is some loophole in the system that students get $50 printing credit each semester at this computer lab. I thought it was just students within her program, but Jillian verified that it is all UQ students! I don't know why we don't get this at our campus!! So, I went with them, finalized my Research Proposal and printed it out - for free! Holy shit! Too bad I still have credits on my printing card to use up. I think I'll print all of my stuff there. Although, the bus fare might not make it worth it.

Let's see, it costs $3.12 cents round trip to get to Herston campus (for a student fare). So, the break-even point is at 14 printed pages, and that's not even including time. I think most of my papers are about 10-12 pages, so it's not really worth it to get the free printing (unless Lina's driving me one way to the lab (then the break-even is 7 pages). But still, it's usually more convenient for me to just print it between classes than to have to go all the way to a different campus just to print. I guess it makes sense for Jillian who has been going there a lot lately to work on papers...

Anyway, I couldn't concentrate in the lab, because the keyboards were really stiff and loud, so everyone else typing just bugged the hell out of me. I finished up my research proposal and printed it, but then headed home to work on the group project since I needed a couple of library books that I had gotten a few days before.

I went home, but the internet was down ALL AFTERNOON. I did as much work as I could without it, but then I needed to use it for referencing and to upload my work into our group document. It's very annoying that it doesn't work when I need it! I tried to reset the router and modem, connect directly into the modem, etc, but I think the afternoon storm caused an outage with the service provider... Without internet for an unknown time, I freaked. I got soo bored - how do I rely on internet so much! What to do!! I turned on the TV, which only has 3 channels, and cleaned a little, then after a few hours, the internet was back up and running so I finished my assignment for the rest of the evening.