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Oct. 27th, 2006 05:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuse*twitch* Fridays between 2pm (the time SPN finishes airing on the East Coast) and midnight (the time I normally get hold of the new ep) are a very tense time for me. I have some West Wing to watch but I'm not really digging it, I've played about a million games of web tetris and keep dying at level ten, I've done my violin practise and mopped the floor, Denny Duquette just showed up on the Grey's eps I'm about to watch which I do NOT find calming, I'm constantly refreshing a particular page and in short I am in the insane, nerve-frayed mood where if I see someone way "Providence" when they mean "Provenance" one more time I may SNAP AND KILL THINGS.
Distraction is vital, gang.
I got a text yesterday that said "How come you don't write detailed stories of your daily life on your blog anymore? I WANT GOSS". I think Catherine has seriously missed a point about Livejournal, but okay,
School!
I have one exam on Tuesday and I'm done for the year. I'm not expecting to do particularly well this semester - I'm getting a B- in Logic which I'm feeling sort of uneven about: on the one hand, Logic. On the other hand, for the first term of this class I went to almost every lecture and several tutorials and got a C+ for the assignment; for the second term I went to two classes and no tutorials and got a B on the assignment. I don't know who sucks more, me or the lecturer, frankly. Fortunately he was only a temp so it doesn't matter if he hates me; he wrote a not on the back that said "you have obviously got the hang of this to do even this much without attending the classes," and I'm actually glad he noticed, because I was excited about this class and by the end of it I was pretty much... I don't know, it was clear the whole time that we weren't doing as well as he wanted us to, but it was also clear he didn't have any kind of lesson plan, the relevance of the classes to the assignments was sketchy, and well. You know how lecturers always say you should ask questions if you don't understand something? I asked a question - and may I just add here that I am a good student and I don't ask useless questions. If I don't understand something, chances are a lot of other people don't understand something - and he said "Oh, I don't want to discuss that, I already explained it in detail." I said "Well, I have all the notes, and I don't understand your explanation, could you go over it once more please?" And he flat-out refused.
Okay, yes, I'm a little bitter.
I'm getting an A- in Linguistics which would be okay except I know for certain if I'd gone to a few more classes I would be getting an A+, so I feel kind of crappy about that. But that's my own fault and I'm not in the mood to guilt myself about it.
If I don't get an A+ in English I will cry myself to sleep; we've assessed 70% so far and I have 68% of that, so I have to do pretty badly in my last assignment not to do well. It was my absolute favourite course this semester, possibly my favourite course ever (tied with first-year logic and Logic A which were both awesome classes) and I really really really want to do well. I am really kind of disappointed that the lecturer is on sabbatical next year and only teaching first year papers. :(
God knows how I'm going to do on Maths, frankly.
Home!
I have next year's flat all sorted out - Amelia, her sister Gabrielle, and her friend Fiona are moving in. I feel kind of iffy about it because although I really like Amelia I don't know the other two at all, and they're all very normal, even-keel kind of girls (although I don't know about Fiona, who's apparently really really shy. I'm meeting her tonight.) Whereas this year I've lived with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sixth_light and lady_larla, who can drop everything and talk about Buffy and Angel and Firefly and HP and how fandom is fucking funny and obsess over SPN and Torchwood and Heroes with me and listen to me talk about things which they're not even into like comics and with whom last night I played a truly awesome game of shag-cliff-marry and I have the feeling that if I asked Amelia shag-cliff-marry Faith, Willow and Cordelia she a) wouldn't know who they were b) wouldn't give me an answer for fear of looking gay. Which, bah, I don't know, I might go a little crazy next year.
So that kind of sucks, but on the other hand, I have three people lined up who can all pay rent and are happy to do shared food and are tolerant and liberal and agree with me about the Treaty of Waitangi, and people who agree with me about the Treaty of Waitangi are pretty damn rare outside of Wellington and the left wing of parliament, so.
[ETA: Actually, while I was writing this they showed up and were all really sweet and we had a good long chat so I'm feeling somewhat more optimistic about it all, I guess. :)]
I'm also heading home for summer on the eighth of November. Wellington, here I come!
Work!
Most of you know I moonlight as a petrol station attendant and I've spent the past two summers working fulltime at Starmart in Wellington. Working at Caltex kind of sucks, but while the pay is crap and the work is a bit dull and sometimes you have to deal withkeymash's music, working at Starmart has always been heaps of fun (not least because keymash could definitely shag-cliff-marry the Winchester men with me. (Cliff John, shag Sam, marry Dean, FYI. :P) :P Plus sometimes I make her deal with my aotearoa roots music, so I figure a little Westlife here and there is nothing.)
Unfortunately, this year they don't have fulltime work available for me, so instead I'm doing 20 hours there, some extra work at another starmart with my old manager and hopefully waitressing at a bar in Newtown, where my family lives. I'm actually really looking forward to it; the thing about working fulltime for minimum wage is you never have to take your work home with you. Additionally, I've never waitressed before. I'm kind of nervous - I'll probably drop stuff, like, a LOT in my first week - but hey, it's one of those things you just have to do.
I might be working christmas day this year, though. I'll just lay back and think of time and a half.
Fandom!
Really digging Heroes! Wishing I had the nerve to sign up for Yuletide this year, but I don't. Still waiting on SPN omg seriously going crazy. I am watching Lost this season but I have a feeling it'll be my last; I'm just not that excited about it the way I was in the first and even the second season. Out of Ben, Jack and Sawyer, I'd cliff Sawyer, shag Jack and marry Ben: how about you? Steadily working my way through the West Wing and already Josh/Donna is killing me. The further I get past 9/11, though, the more frustrated I become with it, which has been a problem for me on this kind of show for a very long time. I find even genre tv and fiction can't resist commenting in subtle and unsubtle ways and since I fundamentally disagree with most American thought in this area, I find it can pretty much ruin an episode for me. For example! There was a S3 episode where Toby was insisting of terrorists and the Muslim world that "they'll love us when we win." Leaving aside the basic idiocies of a statement like that:
Dear America, you already won. You are already the richest nation and while the quality of life of some of your citizens may suck, that's because you're crappy at money management (in society, not as individuals) not because you're undergoing sanctions and not because people are bombing the crap out of you, or have bombed the crap out of you, it's not because you're dealing with a public health crisis and are being led by religious fundamentalists who won't acknowledge that condoms prevent the spread of HIV - oh, wait, you are. But never mind that. You're already the most powerful nation in the world, you already can and do invade at will and irregardless of international law. You already won. Funnily enough, everyone doesn't love you.
No love, Toby you're supposed to be smarter than this, me.
Health
VV briefly: platelet count currently holding steady between 40 and 45, and I'm slowly but steadily dropping the prednisone - on 8mg at the moment, which is really huge for me. I mighr be able to come off it and have it remain steady: who knows? I'm also considering rituximab/mabthera treatment in wellington over the summer, which isn't guaranteed to help but which I'm kind of excited about anyway, because hey: it doesn't involve the removal of an organ.
And that is that. *flees dlwards*
Distraction is vital, gang.
I got a text yesterday that said "How come you don't write detailed stories of your daily life on your blog anymore? I WANT GOSS". I think Catherine has seriously missed a point about Livejournal, but okay,
School!
I have one exam on Tuesday and I'm done for the year. I'm not expecting to do particularly well this semester - I'm getting a B- in Logic which I'm feeling sort of uneven about: on the one hand, Logic. On the other hand, for the first term of this class I went to almost every lecture and several tutorials and got a C+ for the assignment; for the second term I went to two classes and no tutorials and got a B on the assignment. I don't know who sucks more, me or the lecturer, frankly. Fortunately he was only a temp so it doesn't matter if he hates me; he wrote a not on the back that said "you have obviously got the hang of this to do even this much without attending the classes," and I'm actually glad he noticed, because I was excited about this class and by the end of it I was pretty much... I don't know, it was clear the whole time that we weren't doing as well as he wanted us to, but it was also clear he didn't have any kind of lesson plan, the relevance of the classes to the assignments was sketchy, and well. You know how lecturers always say you should ask questions if you don't understand something? I asked a question - and may I just add here that I am a good student and I don't ask useless questions. If I don't understand something, chances are a lot of other people don't understand something - and he said "Oh, I don't want to discuss that, I already explained it in detail." I said "Well, I have all the notes, and I don't understand your explanation, could you go over it once more please?" And he flat-out refused.
Okay, yes, I'm a little bitter.
I'm getting an A- in Linguistics which would be okay except I know for certain if I'd gone to a few more classes I would be getting an A+, so I feel kind of crappy about that. But that's my own fault and I'm not in the mood to guilt myself about it.
If I don't get an A+ in English I will cry myself to sleep; we've assessed 70% so far and I have 68% of that, so I have to do pretty badly in my last assignment not to do well. It was my absolute favourite course this semester, possibly my favourite course ever (tied with first-year logic and Logic A which were both awesome classes) and I really really really want to do well. I am really kind of disappointed that the lecturer is on sabbatical next year and only teaching first year papers. :(
God knows how I'm going to do on Maths, frankly.
Home!
I have next year's flat all sorted out - Amelia, her sister Gabrielle, and her friend Fiona are moving in. I feel kind of iffy about it because although I really like Amelia I don't know the other two at all, and they're all very normal, even-keel kind of girls (although I don't know about Fiona, who's apparently really really shy. I'm meeting her tonight.) Whereas this year I've lived with
sixth_light and lady_larla, who can drop everything and talk about Buffy and Angel and Firefly and HP and how fandom is fucking funny and obsess over SPN and Torchwood and Heroes with me and listen to me talk about things which they're not even into like comics and with whom last night I played a truly awesome game of shag-cliff-marry and I have the feeling that if I asked Amelia shag-cliff-marry Faith, Willow and Cordelia she a) wouldn't know who they were b) wouldn't give me an answer for fear of looking gay. Which, bah, I don't know, I might go a little crazy next year. So that kind of sucks, but on the other hand, I have three people lined up who can all pay rent and are happy to do shared food and are tolerant and liberal and agree with me about the Treaty of Waitangi, and people who agree with me about the Treaty of Waitangi are pretty damn rare outside of Wellington and the left wing of parliament, so.
[ETA: Actually, while I was writing this they showed up and were all really sweet and we had a good long chat so I'm feeling somewhat more optimistic about it all, I guess. :)]
I'm also heading home for summer on the eighth of November. Wellington, here I come!
Work!
Most of you know I moonlight as a petrol station attendant and I've spent the past two summers working fulltime at Starmart in Wellington. Working at Caltex kind of sucks, but while the pay is crap and the work is a bit dull and sometimes you have to deal with
keymash's music, working at Starmart has always been heaps of fun (not least because keymash could definitely shag-cliff-marry the Winchester men with me. (Cliff John, shag Sam, marry Dean, FYI. :P) :P Plus sometimes I make her deal with my aotearoa roots music, so I figure a little Westlife here and there is nothing.)Unfortunately, this year they don't have fulltime work available for me, so instead I'm doing 20 hours there, some extra work at another starmart with my old manager and hopefully waitressing at a bar in Newtown, where my family lives. I'm actually really looking forward to it; the thing about working fulltime for minimum wage is you never have to take your work home with you. Additionally, I've never waitressed before. I'm kind of nervous - I'll probably drop stuff, like, a LOT in my first week - but hey, it's one of those things you just have to do.
I might be working christmas day this year, though. I'll just lay back and think of time and a half.
Fandom!
Really digging Heroes! Wishing I had the nerve to sign up for Yuletide this year, but I don't. Still waiting on SPN omg seriously going crazy. I am watching Lost this season but I have a feeling it'll be my last; I'm just not that excited about it the way I was in the first and even the second season. Out of Ben, Jack and Sawyer, I'd cliff Sawyer, shag Jack and marry Ben: how about you? Steadily working my way through the West Wing and already Josh/Donna is killing me. The further I get past 9/11, though, the more frustrated I become with it, which has been a problem for me on this kind of show for a very long time. I find even genre tv and fiction can't resist commenting in subtle and unsubtle ways and since I fundamentally disagree with most American thought in this area, I find it can pretty much ruin an episode for me. For example! There was a S3 episode where Toby was insisting of terrorists and the Muslim world that "they'll love us when we win." Leaving aside the basic idiocies of a statement like that:
Dear America, you already won. You are already the richest nation and while the quality of life of some of your citizens may suck, that's because you're crappy at money management (in society, not as individuals) not because you're undergoing sanctions and not because people are bombing the crap out of you, or have bombed the crap out of you, it's not because you're dealing with a public health crisis and are being led by religious fundamentalists who won't acknowledge that condoms prevent the spread of HIV - oh, wait, you are. But never mind that. You're already the most powerful nation in the world, you already can and do invade at will and irregardless of international law. You already won. Funnily enough, everyone doesn't love you.
No love, Toby you're supposed to be smarter than this, me.
Health
VV briefly: platelet count currently holding steady between 40 and 45, and I'm slowly but steadily dropping the prednisone - on 8mg at the moment, which is really huge for me. I mighr be able to come off it and have it remain steady: who knows? I'm also considering rituximab/mabthera treatment in wellington over the summer, which isn't guaranteed to help but which I'm kind of excited about anyway, because hey: it doesn't involve the removal of an organ.
And that is that. *flees dlwards*
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:41 am (UTC)Also, your Starmart work sound fun. Pity they can't hire you fulltime this year, but waitressing will be good experience, yeah?
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Date: 2006-10-27 09:44 am (UTC)WHY
Tui, I read this entire entry, but that sentence has thrown me COMPLETELY OUT OF WHACK
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Date: 2006-10-27 09:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 09:58 am (UTC)Desmond, Locke, Ben: shag, cliff, marry? >:D
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:01 am (UTC)Dean, Jess, Logan: shag, cliff, marry? :D
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:32 am (UTC)Logan, um, Logan from Dark Angel? Cliff Logan, shag Jess, marry Dean. :D
Sam, Angel and... hm. Wesley!
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Date: 2006-10-27 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 05:31 pm (UTC)Also; CLIFF DEAN?! I'd totally cliff Logan, shag Jess, marry Dean.
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:34 pm (UTC)Cliff Angel (not that it'd do any good, but, y'know), shag Wesley, marry Sam.
Do you watch Grey's? - Izzy, George, McDreamy.
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Date: 2006-10-27 06:04 pm (UTC)Yes, cliff dean. He gets on my nerves. Duhno why. Mabye I'd shag Logan and marry author!Jess...that occurs to me to be much more appealing. :D
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Date: 2006-10-27 06:09 pm (UTC)House anyone? House, Wilson, Chase.
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Date: 2006-10-27 06:54 pm (UTC)Josh and Donna are simultaneously adorable and insanely frustrating in their complete cluelessness about each other. That's generally the way they work.
Good luck with work and health and all that!
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:03 pm (UTC)Cliff McDreamy, um.... oh man. I guess I'd shag Izzy and marry George, although he might get on my nerves in time.
Faith, Fred, Lilah!
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:06 pm (UTC)Cliff Chase, shag Wilson, marry House (and these guys are all DREADFUL marriage prospects, srsly.) Ah... Cameron, Cuddy and Foreman!
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:09 pm (UTC)I just want them to MAKE OUT ALREADY. Four more seasons... .
Thank you! Have a good time in Dallas :)
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:23 pm (UTC)Wilson is not a dreadful marriage prospect! ...unless, of course, you're goignn for House/Wilson. In which case, yeah. No marriage propect.
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 10:19 pm (UTC)I used to really love Wilson, but. Season 3 Wilson has been annoying me SO MUCH.
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:21 pm (UTC)Cliff Faith, shag Lilah, marry Fred!
Buffy, Willow, Dawn?
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:22 pm (UTC)Ugh. Foreman makes my skin crawl fer srs.
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Date: 2006-10-27 11:31 pm (UTC)I'm feeling a bit headachy at the moment, so can't really put into words what I want to say, but I'm glad you're doing okay, I hope you continue to do okay and all the best with your exam on Tuesday. And your platelet counts :)
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Date: 2006-10-28 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:23 am (UTC)Um... cliff Buffy, shag Willow, marry Dawn (I had this whole long conversation about marrying dawn the other night. On the whole I think of the Scoobies, only Xander every actually grew up, and Dawn still has a chance to do so.)
Xander, Oz, Tara.
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:59 am (UTC)GEORGE IS SO ANNOYING.
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Date: 2006-10-28 06:17 am (UTC)I ALSO LOVE GEORGE. SRSLY TARZ I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN WORK WITH YOU ANY MORE YOU SHOCK ME SO GREATLY. PS, who's starting at 6? Are they cool? Are they going to hate me because I couldn't open (I said I would but it would have involved walking every morning = hard from Newtown)?
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Date: 2006-10-28 07:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 08:06 am (UTC)IN MY DEFENSE. I DID SAY I WOULD DO IT ANYWAY. *hides*
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Date: 2006-10-29 02:11 am (UTC)you have brightened up my day no end!!! All this fandom stuff goes right over my head so more about your daily life please :)
as you can see, everyone gets excited, reads it AND comments
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Date: 2006-10-29 03:05 am (UTC)...<3333333333
Anyway, thrilled to have brightened up your day! How goes the cosmic joke?