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43 Things to Procrastinate With

It’s exam time again, and guess what that means? Yes! You got it! Time to post to my blog! What? I should be studying? What are you, my mother? Oh… well, you’re allowed to tell me off then… the rest of you, keep quiet.

Study So, what’s this post about? Well, partly about a new site that I’ve discovered, called 43things, and how great it is to procrastinate on. On one level, 43things is a “todo” list for your life. Think about all the things you’ve always wanted to do, put them on 43things, then check them off, get reminders, talk to other people who are trying to do the same thing, … it’s great! Of course, the problem with a site like this is it gives you too many ideas of things TO do.

Have a look at my 43things list (which currently only has 8 things), for example - sure, I’ve got some great long term plans like live in a foreign country and finish my degree (hopefully not TOO long-term with the second one). Then, I also have some good short-term goals like go back to the gym and finish my exams (only 1 more to go).

Then, we have the one which sparked both the picture in this post, the post itself, and (with any luck) plenty of time spent doing non-study related things (mostly after my final exam, of course). Anyway, the picture in this post will hopefully be the first of many to come, since I’ve taken on the challenge of taking a photo every day. I can’t guarantee I’ll post a new photo on this site each day, so I might post them up in batches, but I’m definitely going to try to take at least one decent photo each day for the immediate future.

Feel free to check back to my A Photo A Day album if you want to see how well I keep up with my goal.

Oh, and feel free to check out 43 things for yourself, if you’d like there’s:

Melbourne Uni Photos

My Camera (Sony DSC-V1) Well, walking to the tram stop from the library tonight (where I was studying hard all day!!… mum), I noticed how funky Melbourne Uni looks at night. Lucky for me, I had my camera and my mini-tripod with me! So, I took a few snaps.

My mini Tripod I thought they looked cool (especially the moon one - I thought that looked better in black and white), so… I’m posting them here for you all to see (well, not HERE… but in the “Richard’s Favourites” album

In case you haven’t figured it out already, when I’m displaying pictures in my posts, like this:


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(oh yeah, and for those of you playing at home, the pics only show up on the website, so stop reading this email and visit the site, dammit!)

…it’s picking 3 random photos, but if you click on the “Visit this album”, you can see the rest!

Wow… isn’t that exciting.

My cousin in Melbourne

Two exams down, and one to go. I’ve had over a week off already since my last exams, and there’s still another week (almost) until me next and final one! Talk about a long break.

Anyway, to lighten up the days between exams (where I feel I should be studying, but… because there’s so much time between exams, I can’t justify full-on study days), I got to catch up with my cousin from Queensland, who was visiting our fine city of Melbourne (a welcome change from the blazing heat and constantly beautiful weather of Queensland, I’m sure).

Just a few photos - nothing too amazing, since all we did was go out to dinner and a movie! (by the way, Mr. and Mrs. Smith ROCKS!).

JessJess and MeJess and David
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