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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.

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What's the matter with Greek Philosophy? Respect for the masters, dude.

Also, life here continues to be WTF. In today's news, I hung up on Jako's father (surprisingly empowering) and Mike's bike was nicked from the Briscoes carpark (with bolt-cutters, natch.) I think I preferred my life when it was less soap opera.

yeah, but... they're so old they creak. And also, every philosophy paper ever starts with the Greeks; I mean, I'd get a more detailed and thorough overview with this paper than I would in any other class but it's not like I'm not doing any of it at all, you know?

Ouch, that sucks for Mike! :( And ooh, tell me more about hanging up.

We're organising an early birthday fund to help him get a new one - twenty or thirty bucks from six or seven people, plus probably some from his parents, adds up to most of a solid (though not as flashy as his old one) new bike.

Jako was upset about not being able to come flatting this year; his father decided to ring up and bitch out Tas, but got me. When I refused to hand over the phone, he tried to tell me that Tas was ruining Jako's dying days by upsetting him constantly, they'd never been anything but nice to her, and didn't she understand he was dying? I told him of course she fucking well understood he was dying, were they stupid (in those exact words), that she wasn't out to upset him, and that accusing her of having affairs was not being nice to her. Then I told him I couldn't listen to him slagging off my friend and hung up.

It was deeply satisfying, I will admit. Ringing up to bitch Tas out is bad enough. Trying to bully me? Whatever, bitches.

Mmm, good luck though.

Sorry, how is it Tas' fault that jako can't come flatting this year? And re: nice. what the fuck ever. WHATEVER, I say.

Not Tas's fault he can't go flatting, Tas's fault for bringing up the subject and thus making him UPSETOHNOES!1!!!1. *eyeroll*

*hugs you both* hey it was empowering for me what Lucy did! I cant stop laughing! Doing what were doing is making me feel good and that wasnt meant to sound vindictive or malicious in any way...