The beast has been tamed. My bibliography is LARGE, but mostly because I had to reference every episode that I wrote about (which was... a lot) but the main thing to take away from this post is that I HAVE FINISHED MY EXTENDED STUDY. Also, single spacing looks really, really wrong on this screen now. Must... meet... academic... guidelines!

IN OTHER  ( Read more... )

If I write 1,000 more words today, I'm over the minimum word limit. COME ON, BRAIN. Interestingly, unlike other essays when I've wanted to throttle Virginia Woolf or never read another word of Barret-Browning poetry, I am still deeply in love with Battlestar Galactica. This gives me hope that if I do write my dissertation on Apocalypse Fiction (I ( Read more... )

I went and got my Extended Study sorted out today, by visiting the woman who would have led the Cyberpunk module if she hadn't had a baby. Turns out she's awesome. When I said I wanted to write on Battlestar Galactica she lit right up, and we spent a good ten minutes talking about the latest series and then testing out some ideas about gender and ( Read more... )

I got my Semester one results yesterday, and I didn't fail! In fact, I got 2:1s across the board (miraculous, considering I hated Bob and Liz by the end and I actually had very little idea of the marking criteria for Conventional Theatre, so was basically flying blind) and I'm very happy. And having not failed Cyberpunk I feel much more confident ( Read more... )

Again I'm going to apologise for a long absence. I went home last weekend and ended up staying till this afternoon. In all of that time I managed to re-read Regeneration and hash out something of a plan for my Extended Study. Which will hopefull be something to do with Battlestar Galactica, because OMG THE CYBORGIC GOODNESS. I also planned an ( Read more... )

Look! I'm not dead! :D

The past few weeks have been filled up with Christmas (during which I got my INCREDIBLY SEXY LAPPY MK.3! *is still drooling over it*), New Years, the Return of the Chest Infection and most recently epic essay writing.

I'm sorry I haven't been around much, the internet at home is sporadic and I've been trying to be good about ( Read more... )

This morning I had a scarily specific dream... I saw the new opening credits to Robin Hood S3. It was all red/orange washed out shots of the forest with the actors faces next to their names (awesome, I know) and it was all going well, I could read the names and everything, until it got to Sam Troughton. He wasn't wearing the Hat, and his name was ( Read more... )

I want Christmas. I want an advent calendar, I want carols and baking and possibly also glitter, cotton wool and some brightly coloured card. I would also quite like to be five again.

Probably this is all a reaction against my current and enduring state of vague misery and distress. Five was a really good age. School was still awesome, with stories ( Read more... )

Today I finished my presentation for Cyberpunk. I get to talk about the Terminators, Cylons and the Borg. There's a picture of Summer Glau on my PowerPoint. And it all counts to my degree! \o ( Read more... )

Still no sign of my student loan. I must have ballsed something up somewhere... I also tried to get an appointment for an asthma checkup today, but the next available was in two weeks. Since both my inhalers are currently empty, this isn't really going to work. I have to phone them up super-early tomorrow to try and wrangle a better time ( Read more... )