Hello, all! My word, is it cold here. Now if you're not a New Zealander, you probably won't know what's been going on the last two days, but you probably will (being intelligent people) know that we're in the middle of winter here.
     ( Chapter One: Snow Day )

I was asked yesterday how well I was surviving tutoring. That's a somewhat loaded question - it tends to waver wildly between 'awesome, thanks for asking' and 'oh hell don't even MENTION it'. Overall, though, it falls on the side of the former.

It's my experience that learning peoples' names is the most difficult part of the job. It's incredibly ( Read more... )

     Okay, so the more perceptive of you may be wondering why I haven't been around for some time. Some of you probably got on with your lives.

I've started tutoring at the university, which is very enjoyable, even if my faith in the general intelligence of mankind faltered a little when I learned that nobody in my second-year tutorial ( Read more... )

     And if you've ever read Strunk's Guide to Style, you'll be judging my header, what with its lack of capital and overuse of bangs. But hear me out.

Checked my course results today. The lowest mark I got this year is officially higher than any mark my father got in university, ever.

NOTHING BELOW AN A-, PEOPLE! YEAH!

Sorry if this ( Read more... )

     So, this is one of the essays that's due on Friday. I've been sitting here for over six hours typing it, and have had X-Men and X2 run all the way through in the background. I think I'm almost done with it. It needs a bit of formatting and referencing to be done, but I can get through that in an hour or so before I hand it in. What I'm ( Read more... )

     Holy crap, is it raining. I walked home in the kind of rain that comes straight down and then richochets back up, with the result that I was drenched from the knees down. My new (unwashed) jeans have now been washed, and the dye has stained my shins an angry purplish-grey. I was wearing Chuck Taylors, and am now half-considering putting them ( Read more... )

So, 20thcenturyvole wrote an essay about robots. Now, all I can imagine is the ending of a Don Hertzfeldt cartoon. What a coincidence! I have here an essay about just that!

( Drawing Sympathy )

Soooo, I just handed in an essay. And by 'handed in', I mean 'emailed as it was due in nine minutes and the postgrad computer lab inexplicably has no printer what the hell'. For those of you playing at home, this was the 3,000 word Honours essay that I started writing at 1 a.m. Sixteen hours later, I have something I'm reasonably pleased with, and ( Read more... )

So, after a lot of *gnarr* I have finished my werewolf synopsis. And it is good. I just have to avoid the temptation of immediately turning it into a shooting script and instead concentrate on the essay about photography that I have due in, oh, five days. And haven't actually started writing yet. In my defence, that's because I was watching ( Read more... )