Monday, July 30, 2007

A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Melissa Banks)

It isn't the kind of book that I usually read, but I guess I was in the mood. A lot of things happened with me in the last two months, so I was the "perfect candidate" to read this book. At first, as the title suggested, I was expecting to read about "practical" advices :) but it was much more fun to read something else. All the doubts and the questions of Jane Rosenal seemed to be mine. And in the last chapter seemed to summarize all the action ever lived by Jane. It was son intense and she was so desperate not to make a mistake, because she finally found the man she was waiting for, that she made the biggest mistakes ever. I start to wonder if everyone is making those kind of mistakes (big ones) when is in love or don't want to loose someone they consider to be the one? I had that kind of feeling Jane had at Sophie's wedding, when she met Robert once in my life: the same attraction she described. But the situation was much more complicated. Jane had the chance to "play" with Robert's feelings and to date him, but it's not so easy for me to do. I think that for me, it will remain an electrocuting feeling every time I will see him, but nothing more will happen between us :) I really curious if that kind of feeling can be if he is not feeling anything for me? Can it be?

Diploma exam & banquet


Well, it passed... I was very nervous... even with weeks before the presentation. But the worse thing was, that I couldn't face the fact that I am really stressed. Even if I had the whole work done with 4 weeks before the actual exam, I did my powerpoint presentation only at the last minute: the night before the exam. It wasn't that hard and I tried to postpone it... I even invited my friend, Angela over my place so she could rehearse her presentation and helped Roxana with her presentation too. It was really easy for me, because I had it all in my head and everything was so logical and clear. I finished really quickly.
And than the exam day came... I was scheduled to start in the evening, but I couldn't stay home, so I went to school around 11. The ones from the morning group were a little bit relaxed as they were waiting for their grades. But I was agitated until I entered the room... and then, I even forget my name :)) I did a lot of presentations before this one, but it seemed more important :D After I started the powerpoint presentation, everything went back to normal: it was only me and the presentation and I started talking about things I knew... Two of the four professors went out of the exam room and the other two started talking with each other. It seemed like they weren't paying any attention to my presentation :( And of course, in the end, they had no "real" questions, because they weren't paying attention... I was a little disappointed, but everyone tried to warn me about this... but I was ignoring them :D
So, this was the whole diploma exam... a lot of stress... for nothing :D
And after all the stress passed by, we had the banquet... Yep, it was other kind of stress: dress, shoes, hair, make-up... all kinds of things that I didn't care about before. But when I found myself going alone to the party, I suddenly started to give importance to those kinds of things.
It was really great after all... I finally had the chance to talk to friends from my first years of study... I danced... I had a great time! Ok, it was a little "telenovela" story too... I kinda got caught into it... but it was enjoyable. It's really easy when you don't put your soul into not very important things... you have to prioritize... don't be sensible for something that is not in your top position of the priority list!
ENJOY LIFE!