I got three pieces of assesment back in the last two days; a history essay, a film essay, and my film tutorial presentation marks. All three were the most half assed things I've handed in, since that one essay in year 11, where I left notes to myself such as "QUOOOOOTE GOES HERE".

The history essay was pretty average in comments, the usual 'could have done better'

But the film comments! Oh, the film comments.

I think they need immortalising in my livejournal.

( The Tutorial Presentation! )

well!

This semester I've been doing a class titled "Modern Japanese Culture", and we've finally reached the dreaded two week focus on anime. (It's just as bad as I thought it would be.)

Our usual lecture format is pretty funky, we just sit in a small group for three hours a week, discussing the readings. Personally, I actually feel I'm learning something from this class (this is unusual), the other day in my british history tute I got to shut down the orientalism argument that sparked up AND look smart (an achievement) BUT! we have a guest lecturer for the two weeks of anime, because well, she knows stuff about it?

However, I don't like the structure. We're pretty much required to sit back, and listen to the lecturer rant on and on about anime & why she loves it, for three hours a week. Oh, and watch anime-trailers, and the opening credits for Kimba the White Lion (it had nothing to do with anything, believe me.) and then watch massive chunks of the movie we were asked to watch PRIOR to the class, and then discuss it for a grand total of five minutes.

I honestly just feel like we're not being given the chance to actually you know, disagree.

And she keeps bringing up points, that seriously rub me the wrong way. I'm not impressed with then feeling the need to rant in my OWN time. (Though I could you know, write my history essay instead *smirk*)

I just felt like making my subject gandalf!swooning, don't mind me.

I'm actually gonna rant about the Ramayana, Main Hoon Na, and Uni.

( click me if you want to know more?? )

Tuesday at 4pm was the due date for this piece of crap essay. It's midnight on Wednesday. I have yet to finish it.

Honestly, I just couldn't bring myself to care. The questions were all ridiculously awful. I did have the option of coming up with my own but that reeks of being keen. I hate being keen when it comes to essays.

Also, I'm fairly sure I am required to have a fairly decent understanding of my course to come up with my own essay questions. (All I can say is thank fuck there's no exam.)

I've lost all interest in history, which is a shame, because I did kind of enjoy it. I blame the industrial revolution, but you know, that's being petty. I'm really thinking that dropping my arts degree is more and more the best decision I've made in a long time.

Also, I have a hundred words to go... I really should stop distracting myself and just write it.

Well, two nights back it was ridiculously windy in canberra; and the next day there was a bit of damage around the place, you know, branches of trees strewn about, roof tiles on some houses were ...not in roofs(rooves?) etc.

but for the life of me, I still can't figure out how a fridge ended up on my neighbours front lawn.



(they're an old couple; and they are obessed with how clean their lawn is. They sure as hell didn't put it there. Whoever did though, is totally my new hero.)

As of midnight tonight, it will be my first full week without a migraine, in the last few months; Also, it'll also be my first week without headaches at all in the last 3 years that I've been recording them.

I think that's a pretty big deal. (I'm on new meds; they're actually doing something?!)


Other things that are a pretty big deal;
I'm officially so sick of uni; I don't hate the people there (there's some rad people studying at the ANU) and I don't hate my lecturers, or the subjects I'm doing (infact, I'm totally in love with my Indian Epics class; it's genius) but I'm sick of uni. and school. and essays. and just fuck, coming home after a day at uni, to do more uni work. (Also; I never took a gap year, I'm bitter about this)

I've also been pondering for the last few days changing my degree again; Currently my uni degree will take me until mid 2010 to complete, if I don't want to overload a semester. At the end of it I'll have a double degree with four majors; Arts/Asian Studies. Except; the thing is there's really not much I can do with it than if it were just a single degree. I'm contemplating on hacking it back to a degree in Asian Studies; and finishing at the end of next semester.

And then getting a job in the real world; saving up a deposit, and buying me a house, so I can be 'in on the property market' and shit, and moving the fuck out of canberra to somewhere more visually inspiring like melbourne; with it's awesome graffiti and art galleries (and cafes, lolz.) [I love canberra, but I'm so sick of roundabouts. and buses that only come on the hour.]
(Also; I love that a week with out headaches has me thinking about my future; I never do that.)

Current Mood: <3

lol

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: lolz

I'm so sick of exams.

And I also think my skin is far too pale/absorbent. Ink stamps seem to just refuse to come off for days. (I also scrubbed my skin raw getting one off yesterday... Don't really know how I managed to do that, but it hurts now. *whine*)


oh and here's a ridiculous video clip. Make sure to wait for the last few shots, they're really something.

for the first time ever I haven't handed an essay in on time. In fact, 9 am tomorrow means my essay is an entire week overdue.

however it's only been %2 off per working day it's late, and it's only actually been 4 working days. So I'm actually not all that fussed.


I'm deciding that I'm not doing this again though. I lost the motivation of having a deadline, and without the deadline, I didn't actually start it till this morning. (And I'm only 1/4 finished. *sigh*)

Well, recently I was booking tickets to Arj Barker for my family, and discovered that the reason he didn't come to Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Festival was because he was filming a show with Flight of the Conchords in america.

Suddenly it's all very clear as to why FotC have been showing up in FSTs and the likes lately.

(oh and, "lol, it's figwit")