Formal blahblahblah, more importantly, UNIVERSITY THINGIES!!11!!eleventy

[bliumchik]

There was an official Formal Meeting this lunchtime. A large number of people did not show up, but those that did were in some cases quite vehement and in all cases very selfish. Ah, the joys of democracy. If everyone looks out for themselves, whichever group of people have the most matching goals will get their way, and they biggest possible number of people iwll be happy. That's the basic theory of democracy, is it not?

Basically, we all sat down on the steps and got given the propaganda campaign for Luna Park by the irate Formal Committee. Then Yi stood up and said a few words about Dockside. Hands were raised, questions were asked in an orderly fashion, bitching happened and then we were called to a vote. Dockside people over there, Luna Park people over here. I walked up and over to Dockside, feeling mightily relieved that a vote actually occurred as I was getting exasperated. Upon seeing the huge number of people on the Dockside front, Henrietta, Madeliene and Emily began to harangue us about such various topics as "Luna Park is better" "The price is lower than we said before" "Luna Park is SO much better than Dockside" "The food is crap at dockside" "Dockside sucks" "Luna Park is better" and the crowning glory of "So'n'so has been to Dockside and it sucks". Whereupon I helpfully pointed out that they were wasting their breath because most of us had absolutely no problem with Luna Park, we knew nothing about either venue and dockside only sounded better because it was cheaper, and the main reason for the uprising was the August Issue. Now, my dress is long, although sleeveless. However I pity the poor sould wandering around in strapless minithings in the cruel winter air. And I have a low cold tolerance, which was my main reason for voting Dockside - it was in November.

BUT THEN!!! Henrietta did the whole OMGwhydidntyousaysointhefirstplace look and informed me that there actually WERE Luna Park dates for November, albeit more expensive ones, as there had been cancellations. This convinced me (Well I don't give a fuck either way, honestly, I just hate the cold with a passion) so I threw up my hands in my own OMGwhydidntyousaysointhefirstplace gesture and wandered over to the Luna Park group. However, when I got there, the first thing I heard was people talking who had chosen it BECAUSE it was in August - their group had people leaving in November. It then occurred to me that Henrietta probably did not have authority to definitely say Luna Park was going to be in November, but by then I was heartily sick of it all, so I just said "Right, you heard me, wherever it is, if it's November I'm going if it's august I'm not" and left the premises. It was probably a good idea, since I don't think they accomplished anything much after that, judging by the tone of the sghs_formal posts. Maybe if everyone listed their problems with each venue IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE someone could sort it out so the least number of people were as little pissed off as possible, but as if we'd organise that.

Someone was having assessments and forced us out of our rooms after lunch, so with the addition of histry I spent entirely too much time in the computer room today. Dee and I also bludged off Drama since we had Mr Cleaver. Annie wasn't too pleased, as he'd been given instructions to pass round ickle year seven choosing sheets and Annie had no idea - but that's okay, because neither did we. Totally terrible method of auditioning, if I'd known what it was going to be like I'd have brought a notepad and pen on Monday.

This evening was the Uni showcase wossname at SBHS. My parents arrived home around six thirty, so of course we were late. I wandered around for a while, picking up booklets and wondering what the hell I was doing there, till I bumped into Stan who pointed out that the reason all those Uni people were standing behind desks was so that we could talk to them about subjects. :Facepalm: Well gee damnit I'm a moron. So then I went and talked to some of them. Basically, Macquarie said Arts/psych gives me psychology with Arts electives, USYD said Arts majoring in Psych would give me loads of Arts subjects and enough psychology that I could then do another year of it if I'm really interested in it as a career and end up the same as doing straight psych. UNSW has crap-all in Arts without a completely insignificant amount of psych, but there's an awesome Socialwork course which sets you up for a job straight out of uni, and that job is likely to help you pay for a psych degree later on because it's upgrading your skills and such. So if I'm really serious about socialwork/psychology I should go to UNSW, if I'm still undecided by that time I should go for one of the other two. In which case USYD is much closer but I'll have to research exactly what Arts subjects they have.

However, this is all still in the psych field. I still intend to audition for NIDA, but I'm being realistic here, but... well there's an awesome sounding writing course in media/communications at UTECH and I still really want to be a writer... but will that pay my HECS fees? And you don't *technically* need a degee to write. I could always get one later if I decide I'm REALLY REALLY serious. I still have two years to choose, after all. My HSC subjects will make no difference particularly, all the requirements for everything are contained within what I've decided to do already, which is good because at least it's an indicator that I'v chosen career choices in things I really like. The problem is there's too much stuff I really like. Aw. Dammit. Maybe it will all become clear to me some time over the next two years...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/beabea_/]

"strapless minithings" are you referring to my group??

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Er... no, actually I was saying it in a more sort of general sense. Everybody's doing it ;) or so I hear. Every time I ask someone about their dress it's odds on that it's way above the knee. They're gonnas be FREEZING, poor buggers. And when i say they, i mean most of the grade.

Anyway, like I said, if it's August I'm just not going. It's not important enough to endure cold for.

[http://users.livejournal.com/beabea_/]

Haha ok. Well I don't know anyone wearing anything way above the knee!

Pfftt. s'if not come to the formal! Who cares about cold!! =P

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I'd not care about cold if I really really OMGREAAAALLY wanted to go. But I don't. I'm just kind of like whatever. So a small inconvenience is enough to tip the scale. Besides, I REALLY HATE cold.

[katelikewhoa.livejournal.com]

GOOD LORD I HATE FORMAL PLANNING PEOPLE SUCK ARSE! (sorry, still mildly angry from formal last year.)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... I hope our y12 one will be better. I mean, I forgive them for year ten, because they've never done it before, and also because it would be kind of hypocritical not to since I didn't even try to get on the committee. But... I REALLY hope year twelve will be better. Less arguments, at least.

[katelikewhoa.livejournal.com]

Don't count on it. Year 12 can be veeeery stressful