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The 2006 in summary meme. ( NB: contains SPN spoilers through Croatoan )

And speaking of TV, a week or two ago I met up with the very cool cocombat and like the evil, evil enabler she is, she showed me the first half of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and gave me the second half, the first disc of the first season, the last half of the second season and what's aired of the third season to take home with me and play with. After going briefly crazy scrambling around to fill the gaps (I recommend United Video on Courtenay Place, gang; how much do I miss video stores that have a good selection of genre TV when I'm in CHCH? A LOT.)

Okay, first of all, if you're on my friends list and you like SF&F, especially but not limited to Firefly, things Anne McCaffrey and things Asimov and Bradbury, Star Wars, apocalypses, smart and exciting women, smart and exciting men and intelligent writing - go watch the miniseries. Just do it. You won't be sorry, I swear. (sennical, I think you in particular would dig this one. shoeless_sarah and lordofchaos. L and T, y'all don't have choice, I'm afraid, you're setting down and watching it basically the moment you have a chance, especially since I know for a face L has quite a lot of it sitting unwatched.

( and hey, some thoughts, spoilery through Eye of Jupiter )

Anyway, guys: gimme some recs! fic, vids, and meta. :D

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Also, I'm having another stab at my enrolment, and - I have never been affected by timetabling clases before. Never. But ENGL313, the class I could study Buffy and Coraline for? Clashes with my poetry class, the ONLY class I am absolutely committed to in the first semester, the one that I actually got of my ass and sent a portfolio in for. And not clashes in a half-an-hour or one-hour a week way; oh no. Clashes in a 2-5 vs 3-5 on thursday afternoons kind of way. Siiiiigh. So I'm thinking, maybe the 20th Century Novel class instead, but. :(

And that's bad enough (and heart-breaking, because I want to leave this stupid city at the end of next year, and does VUW have anything even nearly that cool? uh. NO. So either I stick around til half way through 2008 which I just don't want to do, or... I don't take this course, and that is just NOT an option.) But then I go to see my second semester classes, and sure enough, Postcolonial Literature (which I didn't even want to take that much, only more than I wanted to take anything else; second semester English classes suck balls, frankly) clashes with Philosophical Logic, the only class I was really committed to in the second semester. I could take NZ lit - it does feature Katherine Mansfield, Denis Glover and James Baxter, who I all love, and only Frank Sargeson who bores me - but... NZ lit? Really?

To top it off, biomedical ethics, literally the ONLY second year phil class I can bring myself to take in the second semester (the other options are Greek Philosophy, Cognitive Philosophy that's all about animals, Philosophy of Art - no thank you - and Cyberspace, Cyborgs, and the Meaning of Life. Which sounds interesting but... come on. I know the Three Laws of Robotics. I read science fiction. I watch genre television. I've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I refuse to believe they can tell me anything I don't already know. Plus, it clashes with NZ lit, which I think i'm going to have to take.) anyway, Bioethics clashes with NZ lit too. I don't wanna take Greek Philosophy, guys, but I also don't wanna take Eighteenth Century Worlds. SOMEBODY SOLVE MY PROBLEMS IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE ME TO MAKE MY WHOLE FIRST SEMESTER ENGLISH AND MY WHOLE SECOND SEMESTER PHILOSOPHY, or alternatively three third year papers in one semester, because I'm pretty sure they frown on that.