This afternoon, good shit happened.

To start, I finally handed in my ENGL 225 essay - it's not good that it's late, but it is good that I'm actually proud of it, and as usual, the relief of handing it in balances out the hideous days of stress preceding it ( Read more... )

I am posting this from my living room, while watching Star Trek. How? I GOT MY LAPTOP, BITCHES.

It's so pretty and shiny and small! It's an Eee PC, white, barely more than a kilo and with a 10-inch screen. If it was any smaller I could carry it in my pocket. And it runs on Windows 7, which is pretty good so far! I am calling it Harvey ( Read more... )

I should know better by now than to say on LJ that something awesome is going to happen tomorrow.

Yeah, no new laptop today. In fact, no call from the couriers today. No attempt to deliver today. Cue one panicked phonecall to the courier service from me when it became clear that my package was very definitely not here. Lady on the phone said she ( Read more... )

My profile page, that is. :D Thank you one and all for the seasonal cheer ( Read more... )

Ack. The application for the Scriptwriting course at Honours level next year is due on the 10th, and requires two pieces of creative writing. My main piece is a 12-page comic, but I have been working on it since the 25th or something and while I am very proud of the 4 1/2 pages I have drawn and inked so far, I still have 7 more to go and it is slow ( Read more... )

Of the bad:

- The left side of my face is all swollen and bruised-feeling. I think it might be some mysterious gland. Mysterious and painful- The 30th was the due date to apply for Summer courses, but when I tried online the server was borked, and it was too late to go up to campus and talk to real people. Bah ( Read more... )

On the downside, today I badly whacked my knee (it's all swollen and bruised), and failed to find much academic material on Guillermo Del Toro for my essay that is due in FIVE DAYS GOD WHY DO I PROCRASTINATE SO.

On the good side, though, I finally watched The Devil's Backbone (for research purposes and everything!), and I tried my hand at chicken ( Read more... )

Over the last week, I have: written a 3000 word paper summarising some really basic concepts of the horror film genre; written an overview of a comic book for a comm; seen A Nightmare On Elm Street for the first time and enjoyed it; seen Let The Right One In and LOVED it; roasted a chicken; run out of tea; spent twelve straight hours taking surveys ( Read more... )

A one-off, three-day job taking surveys in the Johnsonville Mall, but it's still a job, for which I will get paid. All thanks to morbane, who I will squish appropriately when I see her tomorrow.

Speaking of jobs, my parents are finally moving - to Nizwa, not Salalah, despite the whole contract saying university in Salalah. Whatever: there's a job waiting ( Read more... )

If yes, do I care as long as I have leftovers?

I finally figured out how to do crispy-coated stirfry pork, and I'm still making periodic om nom noises even now that it's all gone. *sadface* But here's the recipe! ( For my own reference as much as anyone else's: )