been a while, eh?
It's midsem break now and I had this 40% film assignment due today which in typical fashion I left till this week and was finishing at the last minute. And I really do mean last minute, to the extent that I called a cab to get to uni because I know I can't walk down the hill fast enough and the cab was still late (double the ETA; twenty-two minutes of insipid music, guys). So I was only about thirteen minutes late in the end, but I'm not sure when they'll be picking it up and thus how much I'll be penalized. At least the taxi driver was really nice. He's Somalian; we discussed family being all over the world and how important it is to hold onto your culture's language but how kids growing up in other cultures often just aren't learning it.
Said film assignment was about how exhibition spaces and types affect film content and I totally stretched the question (well, ignored half the course content) and wrote about films made for online release. So I ended up watching the Mega Man fan film. For a film of a canon I don't actually know, it was pretty good. Well, if it had come from a professional it would have been a 'meh'.
Marks came back for the first THEA 201 assignment, which was three short essays, each marked out of 100, for a total of 300 points. My total mark was 228/300, and as silly as it is, I keep feeling like that one essay was shit and 28 points and the other two were perfect or something. :P
More silliness from the 201 lecturer (he of the Rickrolling quiz):
[holding up a pair of glasses] "Someone just handed these in and said they found them in the bathroom... Not that you can see these, because they're your glasses."
[on a course evaluation] "One of you said I have a 'domineering Canadian accent'... Guess I'll have to work on my South African one."
"[Female lecturer] and I were discussing the evaluations we've been getting from you guys, and people respond differently to lecturers depending on their gender. [Female lecturer] gets comments on her appearance, her wardrobe, her haircut. I never do. I guess it's because it's clear I've let myself go." (Naturally, I was sure to leave him a comment on his appearance in my evaluation.)
"I was told that if I use the word cilantro, no one will understand what I'm talking about, so... CORIANDER!"
[on how our decisions on what to wear today is a performance of our genders] "All my good womens clothes are still on a boat from Canada...and there's no way I'm shopping for size 11 heels in this country."
There are a lot of things about the new Internet law I'm not impressed by but I think one of the most staggering things is the ignorance on all sides. From New Plymouth MP Johnathan Young who helped push it through saying that the Internet was like Skynet (does this reveal a worse misunderstanding of the Internet or the Terminator films?) to people on the Stuff Facebook commenting that "if a video, movie or song has been played on free to air TV it should not be copyrighted as it is already in the public domain" (public domain does not work like that can you not spend five seconds on Wikipedia I actually said this to her; she is making our side look bad) or that NZ has third world Internet speeds (have they been to the third world), I don't think many people know what they're talking about. I don't think I know much about it either so I'm staying quiet beyond this.
I'm up to the fifth badge in Pokemon White, and still mildly annoyed how marked the difference in encounter rates between walking, running, and biking is. That said, I really enjoyed the design of both the Castelia and Nimbasa gyms, even if I didn't exactly enjoy the battles of the latter. Whose idea was it to make a flying Pachirisu clone? There went my ground type strategy. Also, Elesa looks like a Vocaloid. It's those giant headphones.
Little bits:
I may have found a dance class for next term: Apparently Pump Dance in town will have adult jazz and contemporary classes next term as well as hiphop. I'm thinking I'll go for contemporary seeing as I've already done a bit of jazz.
In that theater lecture where the lecturer talked about gender performance, he also discussed how Japan views blood type as a signifier of personality type. I felt well prepared for it because of anime fandom.
I'm not actualy that big a Digimon Adventure fan, so I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm excited about the dub DVD release down under in August is because for once in my life, New Zealand and Australia are getting something first!
Said film assignment was about how exhibition spaces and types affect film content and I totally stretched the question (well, ignored half the course content) and wrote about films made for online release. So I ended up watching the Mega Man fan film. For a film of a canon I don't actually know, it was pretty good. Well, if it had come from a professional it would have been a 'meh'.
Marks came back for the first THEA 201 assignment, which was three short essays, each marked out of 100, for a total of 300 points. My total mark was 228/300, and as silly as it is, I keep feeling like that one essay was shit and 28 points and the other two were perfect or something. :P
More silliness from the 201 lecturer (he of the Rickrolling quiz):
There are a lot of things about the new Internet law I'm not impressed by but I think one of the most staggering things is the ignorance on all sides. From New Plymouth MP Johnathan Young who helped push it through saying that the Internet was like Skynet (does this reveal a worse misunderstanding of the Internet or the Terminator films?) to people on the Stuff Facebook commenting that "if a video, movie or song has been played on free to air TV it should not be copyrighted as it is already in the public domain" (public domain does not work like that can you not spend five seconds on Wikipedia I actually said this to her; she is making our side look bad) or that NZ has third world Internet speeds (have they been to the third world), I don't think many people know what they're talking about. I don't think I know much about it either so I'm staying quiet beyond this.
I'm up to the fifth badge in Pokemon White, and still mildly annoyed how marked the difference in encounter rates between walking, running, and biking is. That said, I really enjoyed the design of both the Castelia and Nimbasa gyms, even if I didn't exactly enjoy the battles of the latter. Whose idea was it to make a flying Pachirisu clone? There went my ground type strategy. Also, Elesa looks like a Vocaloid. It's those giant headphones.
Little bits: