Productive Yet... Not?

Today has been a bit of a mixed bag.  I'm not sure if I've been productive or not. 

I was hoping to do lots of uni work, but instead I helped vacuum and rearrange the lounge. Then I went to the supermarket to do the groceries for my family.  Fluffed around there waiting for the car to get a warrant of fitness (Dad was doing that while I was getting groceries).  We killed time in the library.  I got a book out.  A fun book, instead of a uni one, which made a nice change.

Then we came home, I unpacked the groceries, baked double fudge brownie muffins, and banana oatmeal cranberry chocolate chip muffins (both recipes on my other blog www.hannasedibleescapades.blogspot.co.nz - follow me!  Strangely I have 7 followers on my personal blog, but only 2 on my public?  Weird haha.) and then cooked tuna pasta bake (the latest post on my food blog).  I feel like I haven't really sat down since then.

Now it's almost time for bed... well... drawing close to 9pm.  Which in an ideal world, I'd be in bed by 9.30 pm and asleep by 10, so when I get up at 5.45am, I feel refreshed, which I never do.

AND I HAVEN'T TOUCHED MY STUDY.

Now you may think I'm going all "Hermione" about my study, but really, I need to do some - I have an assignment due next week, then two weeks after that a major essay, plus I've fallen behind on my notes (which I have to give to people in one of my classes with disabilities - it's volunteering thingymabob) and ahhhhhhh so much to do.  So many readings.  So many notes.

Yet as I say all this, I realise how stupid it is that I'm sitting online writing this blog when I *could* be doing what I just mentioned.  Duh.  I do love to procrastinate.  It's a real problem.  :(

I'm A Nerd & Proud of It!

What comes to mind when I say "nerd" or "geek"?  Bad fashion sense?  Glasses?  Acne?  Obsessions with role playing computer games perhaps (no offense to my friends who enjoy this pastime)?  Or someone being put up a few years in school because they were too smart for their own age group?  Someone who lacks social skills, has few friends, reads too much, is very quiet, spends lunch breaks in a library, works at a university... help me out here... I'm leaning towards stereotypes and characters off The Big Bang Theory (which, by the way, ROCKS).

Well anyway, there are many types of nerd out there, and I'm not talking the sweet crunchy kind, because whilst those are delightfully tangy and tasty, they are not relevant to this subject.  What I'm really talking about is the latest trend, that it's becoming fashionable to be considered nerdy.  

And while that isn't what I'm going for, I find my self releasing my inner nerd, and reverting back to the people-pleasing-note-taking-dictionary-reading geek of my youth (I know I'm still young, but I'm talking even younger!).  

I got very excited when I received a book in the post today, which I ordered online (of course, how else do you do it?!  Ha.)  It is "Anthropology for Dummies".  Now that may sound brilliantly boring to the average Joe Blogs (pardon the pun), it is so cool for me!!

Yes, that is my duvet cover, and no, I couldn't decide what colour nail polish I wanted. :)

  

In case you didn't know, next year, I'm starting my first year of university.  I'm going to be doing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in (you guessed it!) Cultural Anthropology & Religious Studies, minoring in French.  So I figured I should do a bit of background reading on the subject, so I know what I'm getting myself in for when I start class next year.

Everything is coming together in terms of university for me now.  I have a rough timetable.  I'm essentially fully enrolled now, and have almost finished applying for a loan to pay for it all.  I know when I will be able to fit in work, I've looked at transport costs, and I've even got some stationery ready to go.

I'm READY.  And waiting.  So thinking I would use this time wisely, I bought this book.  I can't wait to begin reading, to see if it really is my cup of tea.  If not, uni is flexi, I can just change classes. :)

I'm kind of enjoying being nerdy again.