I bought one. : D. It's pretty cool, tho I'm still getting used to typing on it. Will keep me artificially brief. : P

um. A week and two days til the end of teaching of my third year at university. Really scary that if I weren't doing a double degree I'd be almost ready to graduate. Not sure if I want to continue with my politics next year after doing history and english this year. But I want an English major now, so I have to keep going. And I want to do honours in history.

I sort of know what I want to do then, but there's no guarantees, and I am freaked out by a real job.

But before that, I need to get all my work done, and look in to a summe job. I'd like to work at the local council library, because it'd be easy and close.

Borderlands and Brutal Legend. Relationships and (post?) teen angst. Lovely spring weather and lingering colds. Apathy and anxiety. Most of this aren't juxtapositons, but they definitely are pairings for me. I want things to be similar to now forever. Insert Alphaville here. Poor joke, I know.

Guess I will sign off, got to get up earlyish to read for an awesome tute that I will only ever have once after tomorrow....
: ) stair.

Hey you guys, I don't have Swine Flu. No way.
It was just a bad cold. More of a cough, really, because that is the main way it manifested itself. Hacking and spluttering. It wasn't so bad I couldn't go to uni, but I only went to class, didn't talk much, and did no other work. Which sucks.

Hey you guys, I saw Moon today.
It was really good. The trailer sucks, makes it look like a 2001 rip-off. It's deeper than that, and more interesting. You think you have it pinned down a few times, but it doesn't go quite as you expect, which is refreshing. The score was excellent. If you've read 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Heinlein, you'll see where the inspiration comes from. I highly recommend it. Oh, and you like David Bowie? He isn't in it, but his son was the director.

Hey you guys, Stargate Universe started last week.
The premiere was in the form of a telemovie, and it was kinda Battlestar-esque. It doesn't seem as camp as SG-1, or as optimistic as SG-A. Looks like it will be darker, more serial and more serious. Plus they have natty new uniforms with square cut collars. You know. Like Japanese schoolboys, or Battlestar.

Hey you guys, that's all.
Feel like doing a haiku.
That's all, bye for now.

BLERGH.

But seriously, I might. My dad had the flu last week (and is getting better from it now), and he had a flu shot, so it's not really likely it's anything else.

Couldn't come at a worse time. Back to uni tomorrow (after Labour Day today), and I have to go to my tutorials because I have one quiz for American history and one presentation for Tudor/Stuart British history to do, and in English we're talking about a really good Atwood book. And I have to finish my research for my British essay this week.

It's not actually too bad right now, if it is pork plague. Just an annoying cough and a bit of aching in my shoulders which might just be because I worked a long shift yesterday. But my dad didn't have much fun at all when he had it.

So, that's pretty much all for now. I hope it doesn't work out bad, and that I can go to uni all week. I mean, I'm kinda of helping people out if it means they get immunity.

Cya

Hey there.

Decided to write mini-blogs more often. Shortened language to be expected hereon in.

Apparently I'm a swot. Hence the title.
So, i always do tutorial readings. I always like to say stuff in the teaching-time (not allowed to say c to the lass). I want to get my money's worth, teachingwise, out of my university education. not just the bit of paper at the end, P's-get-degrees style. (P is a Pass, kinda like a D).

So today, the English lecturer, because we are lucky enough to have her as a tutor, tells us to start the last book of the course. (It's been a 60s pop-culture course, mostly). I've already read it. I make a comment, it's a funny book (The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood). She agrees. No one else has started it.

Does that make me a swot? I don't think so. We have three books to read in a semester. Last semester, in fin de(19th) siecle, we had ten or eleven full novels. Case two. We got our history minors back yesterday. Who was/was not a gentle(wo)man in 16th Century England. I got 85. An HD. (A+...?). My second in two years, after first year. Apparently to begin with, that makes me swottish (though I did beat the girl who finished ahead of me in year 12 history- at least I got the history prize then, and am beating her now). But I 'accidentally' left the end of a sentence/paragraph. And in the same tutorial, I anticipated the tutor's comment on why servants wouldn't be allowed the vote... (same as recent arguments against women- one household, one vote). Apparently that's swottish too?

So... I like to know what's going on. But I don't think swot is quite right. I dunno.

Anyway. DRAMA. Pretty minor stuff, but it feels like a lot is going on atm. And it's not just my stuff that needs to be got together, there's been a seriously interesting-to-watch break up within my friends (that was shi to the znit that got censored. Apparently that is a naughty word). BUT... the girl who you almost definitely do not remember me blogging about two years ago is being real close again. It's totally going to be my turn to reject her this time. And she shall learn her lesson and it shall be good. But I have a much better rationale behind it than she did oh so long ago.

Actually, it would be close to three years.... weird.

BTW, Up was not as good as Wall-E. Close, but no cigar. Maybe a whiff of the smoke after the person smoking it has left the room....

GOODNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK!
(I'm tired. This is totally not not getting the principle that it may not be night when you read this. It just means I'm being authentic and loyal to my own current personal timeline.)

So, I haven't written a blog for so long, I decided to just write what I'm doing right now.

I blame it on Safari 4. Or whatever the new one is. See, it has this 'top sites' feature, which is sort of like bookmarks, but displays your favourite sites in a coverflow format. The pages I always visit are on there, and this is not one of them.

SO. It's nearly the end of our mangled second semester at Australian universities. I've got no work due for slightly less than a month, when major essay (finals?) start to be due. It's getting very spring-y, and this is my first friday evening/night home for three weeks.

WHAT I AM DOING RIGHT NOW. Listening to the new Muse album. But, you say it's not out yet!
Well, sure. But Triple J are streaming it off their website (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/geo/muse_resistance/). It's not that bad. A little epic in its aim, but hey, it's MUSE.



'Uprising' has got to be a pain in the butt. 'United States of Eurasia' is too try-hard, wannabe Queen-y, (although I love the Central Asia-esque strings or whatever. Makes me think of the word Tashkent). 'Undisclosed Desires' is pretty good. The better songs are the less-obvious ones, what seem to be non-single tracks. One that I can't remember now has echoes of 'Starlight'. The climax/medley/movement ('Exogenisis: Symphony' part I, II and III) at the end is quite good. Can't help but think of Radiohead. Of course, Radiohead have an authenticity or sincerity that Muse lack, and it's audible as ever. Not bad at all, still a good time, but I'm not a super big Muse fan, so it's hardly a fully informed opinion that I'm giving. But it feels like the first and second halves of two different concept albums, at least at a first listening.

So... that's about it. If you try the link, there's a chance it won't work if you are outside Australia. The ABC has this thing where they don't let you access their stuff if they think you're a non-taxpayer stealing their bandwidth.

GAMES. I want Scribblenauts. I want Overlord 2. I know pretty much nothing else about games at the mo, other than Beatles has completely sold out. I still haven't sent my Xbox off to get fixed.

PHONE. Mine is cactus. I'm going to buy an iPhone, despite horror stories I've heard, because I figure if it's that bad, then there'd be a heap more of them and you wouldn't have to look to find them. Plus other smartphones cost the same, and even non-smartphones that are pretty speccy cost tonnes, so this is the most cost effective solution, I figure.

That's all? I think so.