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| I am drained. I am exhausted. 3 days of Buddha's Birthday and all day study was nothing compared to this.
Why does it feel like I've been crying for days and days and days???
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| I was really excited about my business idea, so I told Mum and Dad about it. Dad proceeded to tell me all the reasons why it wouldn't work and that if I wanted to get into business, I should have studied it in the first place and not wasted my time studying journalism.
Maybe if I'd thought of the business idea before I started uni, I would have studied business at uni. But I didn't.
I told him that I could always do a postgrad degree in business but he maintained that I still would have wasted my time studying journalism.
Even if I did end up doing business (which is a remote possibility seeing as I do enjoy certain aspects of journalism), I wouldn't consider my journalism studies to be a waste. Journalism has taught me communication skills, confidence, teamwork skills, critical judgment, leadership skills. All the experiences I have had because I studied Journalism has made me into the person that I am today. I have grown in so many ways because of the path that I took when I started studying journalism.
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| As a woman, I'm indignant about the proposition. Of course women
want to be loved. Who wouldn't want to be loved?
But then I thought about it. Why else would plastic surgeons be
raking in the millions? Love is (usually) about what's on the
inside. Being desirable is (usually) about what's on the
outside.
Women do not want to be loved; they want to be wanted, to be
desirable.
That's what French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan argued.
Do you believe that's true?
Author of 'Women and Desire' Polly Young-Eisendrath thinks it is.
But she also thinks it's a damaging affliction because there's a
kind of hypnotic trance of false power connected with being
desirable.
I tend to agree that being desirable can lead to a false sense of
power. It may boost self-confidence in the short-term (because you
tend to get whatever you want) but looks will fade. So what will
happen when you're no longer able to have another facelift for fear
that you will end up worse off than Michael Jackson?
I shudder to think. I'd rather pursue other things that will make
me feel more confident. I.e the best journalist the world has seen.
Or something.
And what about me? Do I want to be wanted more than loved?
Can I have both? 
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| During our group meeting, a friend asked me if there was any exciting or big news while I was doing work experience. So I told her all about the Sunnybank stabbing story. Just as I was wrapping up, I got a call - it was the Channel Ten police reporter! She asked me if I could come to the interview tomorrow morning with James Kuo so that I could help translate!
I had uni so I told her I'd shuffle it around so that I could make it. And anyway, she said we'd be done before I had my first class.
What are the chances that she calls just as I'm telling my friends about it?? Freaky...
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