One Disaster After Another...

In my last blog I promised to explain how my uni was screwing me over, and I know that you have been waiting intently to hear about it. No? Oh, well, you're going to hear about it anyway!

This semester, as part of my media degree, I have to do one prac and one theory media course. For the prac I could choose from Beginner Video, Advanced Video, Web Design or Sound. I had already done Beginner Video last year, and I don't think I'm good enough for advanced, and I loathe web design. So that really left me no choice; Sound. Not that it bothered me, I'm really interested to do it and I've really enjoyed working on sound designs for the videos I have made in the course. However, there was one little problem. I went to the class in the first week to discover that only one other student was doing it. Neither of us knew much about sound and thus on that basis I would have a fairly good chance of getting the top score in the subject. What's wrong with that? The uni won't allow a subject to continue with only two people.

That weekend I received an email from my teacher stating words to the effect that it will continue if we still want to do it (and there was a third member in the class too!). Relieved, I began to work on my project due for week two, only to then receive an email on the Monday night that the sound class had been cancelled, and I had to do either Beginner Video or Web Design as Advanced Video was full. And I had already done Beginner Video and couldn't pick it again. The thing that annoyed me the most was that on that Monday I had a lecture in that subject with the teacher who sent me the email (and she sent it only two hours after the lecture ended). It would have been so much better if she had informed us in the lecture as there was no way it was cancelled in those two hours and we could have spoken to her in person to discuss our options after the lecture (and if it was she would have known there was a high possibility and still could have asked us to the front at the end to discuss our options).

As you can imagine I was upset and angry by this and so wrote a rather scathing email to the lecturer (on reflection probably not the best thing to do as she teaches the Web Design component, the only one I'm able to do, and thus she will be marking my assignments...). Strangely, after reading my email suddenly she informed me that she had misread the information, and there was one place left in Advanced Video. Some coincidence, huh?! And I was also given the option of redoing Beginner Video. I chose to do the latter.

This just continues my run of luck that I haven't once ended up taken all the subjects I initially enrolled in in all five semesters at uni due to a stuff-up on the university's part.

On a TV.com note, I have gained four more editorships, the TV shows The Pinky And The Brain and its spinoff Pinky, Elmyra And The Brain as well as the Australian actress Yael Stone (All Saints) and the British actress Emilia Fox (Coupling, Silent Witness, Fallen Angel, Keeping Mum and Gunpowder, Treason & Plot).

And finally a shout out to all Australian users. After picking up today's The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) and reading the Seven Days segment I discovered that one of the girl's in my year in highschool is set to star in the new series of Blue Water High. The girl, I suppose you'd call her actress now, is Amy Beckwith and she is playing the role of Lauren Grove. So I ask all of you, if you can, to support her and watch the show (even though I've never seen it before, but I will watch it now). The show begins Thursday (yes, this Thursday) evening on the ABC at 5.30pm and runs for 30mins. I have included a picture of her below taken from the newspaper to help identify her in the show if you do watch it.