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Today is the first day of the Orthodox Christian Holy Week, which means going to Church at least every night of this week, culminating in the Easter Resurrection service at midnight on Saturday night.

I haven't done as much study as i'd hoped to have done recently, so unfortunately that means i won't be able to have a study-free Holy Week.

One of the reasons why I didn't get as much study done was because of the great Shoe-Shopping Escapade of Friday. This was forced about mainly due to the fact that my everyday shoes were quickly giving in, with … Read more →

Lately I have been writing down the things That I would like to blog so I can remember them, but only now is the first time this week that i have actually had some time to sit and type out an entry, and thus I have stuff to blog coming out of my ears!

Warning: This will be a long post!

Popey!! (off The Family Guy (see the first comment) lol)

Of course the news has been covered with the election of the new Pope. The Cardinals ended up choosing Ratzinger, who took the name Benedict XVI. This disappointed many … Read more →

I still feel very tired, even after sleeping in till 9 this morning. I guess I've had a even busier than normal busy over the past few days.

Since my last post, on Tuesday night we went to the talk on the series about An Introduction to Orthodoxy. This week was on Baptism, Marriage, and Death, and really an explanation of all the services associated with each. I was particularly looking forward to this week, for the marriage thing is highly relevant to me and Despina at the current time.

Disappointingly, there wasn't enough time to cover marriage, and will … Read more →

Lots and lots to blog over the past few days, but where do I begin??

Okay, since my last post, on Friday i did in fact type out all of my history essay, but it took much longer than I had expected it to, in fact most of the day. I had wanted to start studying for my COMP3501 (HCI) exam that I have on Wednesday but that didn't really happen.

Friday night was the Akathist hymn, which was good because I had the book and could easily follow along.

Saturday I tried to study for the exam, but was … Read more →

I'm typing this blog entry mainly to 'warm-up' my fingers to type my 2000wd essay that i'm going to do right after I finish this entry, because otherwise, i don't really have the time to type an entry.

Funny thing happened just a few moments ago: my yiayia (grandmother) just walked into my room and saw all the clothes that are lying everywhere that I haven't been bothered to put away. After the usual chiding on the state of my room and my treatment of the clothes, she remarks something along the lines of: "When you're married Despina won't put … Read more →

Finished my war of attrition for this essay, having just finished writing it tonight. I didn't really expect to finish it today, but after i got back from soccer i was just on a roll and wrote the last 500 words relatively quickly, references and all.

Speaking of soccer today: the trials for the new season continued, with us playing a team called The Squirrels, which actually contains one of Nick's uni lecturers. It was a very tight game, which was very defensive. It was 0-0 after half time, and i broke the deadlock and scored with about 6 or … Read more →

Yesterday I got the tickets for the midnight screening of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith!!. I was going to be an uber-geek and actually scan it in and put it up on entry, but i didn't really have the time, and it would be a bit much.

I'm really getting psyched about going to see it.

I'm about 2/3ds of the way through writing the essay. Yesterday I wrote a lot: I did a lot more than I expected to get done, but a bit less than I'd hoped. I hope to have the majority of … Read more →

Returned to my stupid ways today. I had planned to go into uni, which first of all is bad karma (for lack of a better expression) on holidays, to get books from the library for the essay i'm currently doing. I had the list of the books I wanted to get and even checked it up against the uni catalogue this morning before i left just to make sure they were all still there. The problem is, is that I left that list sitting on my desk next to the computer.

Of course when I had arrived at uni i … Read more →

In the past week I stumbled upon a hilarious but also disturbing website: SaveToby.com.

This site is about a guy who is threatening to eat is adorable little pet bunny Toby, unless he receives USD$50,000 in donations or the purchase of merchandise by the 30th of June. Quite funny, and he has actually raised almost $20,000 already.

In this past Aussie Easter Holiday weekend, I have started researching my HIST2602 (Empires) essay. I have chosen the topic: How useful is the term 'imperial overreach' in Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers? Discuss in relation to … Read more →

This week was a little busy in terms of uni assessment. Had two things due: my HIST2609 short essay (which i will post in the Gallery once I get my marks back), and also a HIST2602 Tutorial Submission (I have to do three throughout the semester). Eventually got it all done, and handed them both in on time.

In this past week the third and final season of the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoons have been airing on Cartoon Network in the US. I've downloaded all but the final episode. These cartoons set up the storyline for just before Episode … Read more →