Prepare for Procrastination!
Argh, I really should be working on my assignment tonight, but so far I've managed to do everything BUT start it. I always get distracted and find so many things that I really would rather be doing (but then, who wouldn't!?).
I have a very busy week ahead of me. Work, zoo teaching, assignment; work after zoo teaching and then more homework; find alternate things to do instead of homework... Urgh, why am I really the worlds best procrastinator? When will I learn! Ha, unlikely. One and a half degrees, one Certificate and halfway through a Graduate Diploma and I haven't yet :/
So, I had a most awesome weekend. I am completely exhausted, but it was well worth it. I got to meet my favourite author in the whole wide world AND I got a photo with her. As Isobelle Carmody was at Supanova to launch her new book, The Wilful Eye - Tales from the tower Volume one I of course bought her new book and got it signed too. I also bought a set of Robin Hobb's trilogies - Assassin's Apprentice - got it autographed, and as a bonus Dymocks (the sponsor) had a sale; buy two get one free. Score! I also got a free book! It's called Wolfborn by Sue Burztynski. Not heard of it before, but it's fantasy genre, and well, it's free! I do love books, though I'm running out of room for them all and don't really have room for more bookshelves eek!
It's so lovely to get to meet the authors face to face, and tell them, admittedly rather ineloquently because I was a little star-struck, how much I love their work and how brilliantly and beautifully it is written. I love Isobelle's Obernewtyn series, and I am still amazed at how fantastic the first book of the same name is written, considering she was only fourteen! If you haven't read her work, then I urge you to. She has such a lovely style, and she's Australian! I was first introduced to her work in Literature at school, when we had to read The Gathering.
Much fun was had at Supanova. Lots of cosplay goodness - and a few not-so-goodness. I dressed up too, as did Matthew. I was Linka from Captain Planet on Saturday, and Red Riding Hood, complete with her basket carrying the wolf's head, on Sunday. Matt dressed as the Joker and was stopped every couple of seconds to have his photo taken. I spent much of the day as pack horse/bag-bitch :/ I was given a lot of free hugs, moreso on the Sunday, which is probably a result of my costume haha. Though, I had to laugh because on Saturday (when I was dressed as Linka) and I was at the Wacom stand chatting to some guys and learning new tricks, some guy came up and asked for a hug. Matt - or one of my friends, I'm not sure cause I wasn't really paying attention - offered to hug and the guy replied, "No, not you! Her!" I felt loved. I've started another digital drawing, thanks to the Wacom stand. Thankfully the laptops there have an SD reader so I could save my drawing! Yay for smart-thinking Wacom staff :D
Alas, we did not get to meet Simon Pegg or Nick Frost, or get their signature :( We got to go to the Q&A seminar though and I snapped quite a few pics. Luckily I was channelling some intelligence that day and had the foresight to take my telephoto lens. We got to meet the English and Japanese voice actors of Asuka from Evangelion. We also got to see a preview screening of English dubbed Evangelion 2.22 You Can [Not] Advance, due to be released June (I think!). Matt was pretty stoked about that. They also held a charity auction for the Queensland Flood Appeal and for the Japanese Tsunami Appeal. We won an Asuka suit bottle Yuko Miyamura brought over from Japan. It now stands on our display shelf in the living room alongside the terracotta warrior statues :/ hmm...
Oh, and I bought two new hats to add to my cool hat collection yay! One is a sheepy hat and one is a panda hat and they're so cute! I think I'm going to have to buy a hanger for the hallway or something to put up all my cool hats. I do love hats.
Right, well I think I've successfully procrastinated for a decent amount of time. Not to go do the other half a dozen things I want to do before I get back into my uber boring readings. Seriously, if they want more teachers in society maybe they shouldn't give us so many booorringg readings. Even better, I would prefer it if they didn't give us 310 pages of readings. For one unit. Not including the additional readings. Ugh, seriously. Load of bollocksy balls. If I wish real hard do you think the Homework Fairy will come? I do believe, I do believe!
I have a very busy week ahead of me. Work, zoo teaching, assignment; work after zoo teaching and then more homework; find alternate things to do instead of homework... Urgh, why am I really the worlds best procrastinator? When will I learn! Ha, unlikely. One and a half degrees, one Certificate and halfway through a Graduate Diploma and I haven't yet :/
So, I had a most awesome weekend. I am completely exhausted, but it was well worth it. I got to meet my favourite author in the whole wide world AND I got a photo with her. As Isobelle Carmody was at Supanova to launch her new book, The Wilful Eye - Tales from the tower Volume one I of course bought her new book and got it signed too. I also bought a set of Robin Hobb's trilogies - Assassin's Apprentice - got it autographed, and as a bonus Dymocks (the sponsor) had a sale; buy two get one free. Score! I also got a free book! It's called Wolfborn by Sue Burztynski. Not heard of it before, but it's fantasy genre, and well, it's free! I do love books, though I'm running out of room for them all and don't really have room for more bookshelves eek!
It's so lovely to get to meet the authors face to face, and tell them, admittedly rather ineloquently because I was a little star-struck, how much I love their work and how brilliantly and beautifully it is written. I love Isobelle's Obernewtyn series, and I am still amazed at how fantastic the first book of the same name is written, considering she was only fourteen! If you haven't read her work, then I urge you to. She has such a lovely style, and she's Australian! I was first introduced to her work in Literature at school, when we had to read The Gathering.
Much fun was had at Supanova. Lots of cosplay goodness - and a few not-so-goodness. I dressed up too, as did Matthew. I was Linka from Captain Planet on Saturday, and Red Riding Hood, complete with her basket carrying the wolf's head, on Sunday. Matt dressed as the Joker and was stopped every couple of seconds to have his photo taken. I spent much of the day as pack horse/bag-bitch :/ I was given a lot of free hugs, moreso on the Sunday, which is probably a result of my costume haha. Though, I had to laugh because on Saturday (when I was dressed as Linka) and I was at the Wacom stand chatting to some guys and learning new tricks, some guy came up and asked for a hug. Matt - or one of my friends, I'm not sure cause I wasn't really paying attention - offered to hug and the guy replied, "No, not you! Her!" I felt loved. I've started another digital drawing, thanks to the Wacom stand. Thankfully the laptops there have an SD reader so I could save my drawing! Yay for smart-thinking Wacom staff :D
Alas, we did not get to meet Simon Pegg or Nick Frost, or get their signature :( We got to go to the Q&A seminar though and I snapped quite a few pics. Luckily I was channelling some intelligence that day and had the foresight to take my telephoto lens. We got to meet the English and Japanese voice actors of Asuka from Evangelion. We also got to see a preview screening of English dubbed Evangelion 2.22 You Can [Not] Advance, due to be released June (I think!). Matt was pretty stoked about that. They also held a charity auction for the Queensland Flood Appeal and for the Japanese Tsunami Appeal. We won an Asuka suit bottle Yuko Miyamura brought over from Japan. It now stands on our display shelf in the living room alongside the terracotta warrior statues :/ hmm...
Oh, and I bought two new hats to add to my cool hat collection yay! One is a sheepy hat and one is a panda hat and they're so cute! I think I'm going to have to buy a hanger for the hallway or something to put up all my cool hats. I do love hats.
Right, well I think I've successfully procrastinated for a decent amount of time. Not to go do the other half a dozen things I want to do before I get back into my uber boring readings. Seriously, if they want more teachers in society maybe they shouldn't give us so many booorringg readings. Even better, I would prefer it if they didn't give us 310 pages of readings. For one unit. Not including the additional readings. Ugh, seriously. Load of bollocksy balls. If I wish real hard do you think the Homework Fairy will come? I do believe, I do believe!