University Mutterings

I'm struggling to study at the moment. I'm finding, despite my (ha ha) adult brain telling me to stagger and do a little bit each day, I can't work unless I have the stress of an assessment coming up.

But my recent plan to only buy unecessary items for myself as rewards for finishing assessments seems to be working. I bought myself a nice ring the other week, and I have another 1 and a half weeks to go till my next assessment (50%) is due. So that's what I'm slowly working on. And it's a little it boring. Information seeking and stuff.

And then, the other day, I found myself obsessed with a trailer for a movie called 'Amazing Grace', about William Wiberforce and his battle for the abolition of slavery. Mybe it was the hormonal inbalance, but I was overwhelmed. So I used my research skills and found some excellent articles on him (W.W.) Interesting stuff. Also interesting is hoow the english managed to abolish slavery early in the 1800's, but it took the Americans to go to war and kill more Americans than ever before (or after for now) in 1860. And according to the program I clickviewed today, the Americans justified 'Every man is created equal' by trying to prove that Africans and Indian were not fully human, that they were under-evolved sub-humans, so therefore they could be enslaved. White people are very arrogant. I wonder why that is? But then, looking at my ancestral history, the english were not good with their neighbours either. They treated the Irish and the Scots (and the Welslh!) pretty badly too.

Hmm, thinking about other exciting stuff, the Chaser is back on , next Wednesday, 9pm ABC! yeah! I hope they do the video podcast as well. I love having them on my 'pod. Though people think you're mental when you start laughing hysterically in public places.