Inexcusable Neglection

I feel sorry for good ol' Joey Nation, haven't been writing regular blogs for quite a while! Thought it was time I checked in to give a low down on what I'm up to, and instead of making some silly comment like 'assuming you care', I'm going to genuinely assume you do care, or else it's weird you're on my blog. Surely there's something better to do. (Like studying, right Bonnie??). I've had an interesting few weeks since I've been in Wellington at Weir, and that's putting it delicately. It's honestly been  full-on, and every day I've been here would have some ridiculous story.

Today's was that I handed in my first ever university (aka. college) assignment today for my Media: Texts and Images class, it was a critical analysis of an advertisement. This is the ad I chose:

It's a laundry detergent advertisement but nowhere does it specifically state that it is a laundry detergent, and is marketed as luxurious, so that is basically what I rambled on about in a hopefully pass-able way. So stressful, and wasn't entirely sure what I was doing -- so next time I definitely need to get it finished earlier so I can show others my work. Speaking of which, I have a 'dramaturgical critique' due on Friday which is 1,500 words and I've probably got 1,000 to go so will power through that tomorrow. Shouldn't be too hard, just time consuming but, excluding a midday one hour lecture, I have nothing on tomorrow or for the rest of the week.

Excluding not wasting my year and failing, it's time for me to start hitting the gym hard. Staying up as late as this (aka. 1am) is ridiculously stupid and is going to ruin all health & beauty regimes which everyone who knows me, can agree has not been too good. Yes I've done the occasional run, but not frequent enough and today, excluding a 40 minute run this morning, I've done absolutely nothing. I feel like I need to run, do a gym class and a workout each day, every day to actually improve my fitness and muscle growth. Been relapsing a tad into my old diet (snacking on unhealthy B.S) and exercise (not daily) routines, so need to get stuck in. 

A mental-health advisor did a wee spiel at my Media (pop culture) lecture this morning about how, devoting youself to a regular activity, wards off stress-levels and depression, so with that in mind, I have no reason to get flakey about it. I need to establish a regular bed time, I'm going to bed now and sleeping in tomorrow, but from then onwards, I need to get to bed around 10-10.30am-ish and be up by 7-8am, otherwise I'll stay up (stupidly) to like, goddamn 2am and not get up 'til noon, not a productive lifestyle.