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[tammaiya]

So, to take stock, it is about 9am on a Thursday morning, I'm in my Advanced Japanese class just before it starts, I've had 6 and a half hours sleep, and the NCIS themesong is stuck in my head. (Yeah, I don't know why either, don't ask.) It is now week 6 of semester, meaning there is one week left until term break (since I don't have classes on Fridays), and it is beginning to occur to me how fundamentally screwed I am. The thing is, next week, I have two exams for Japanese-- which will be fine if I study for them before 1 am the day they're on, a technique that works for the weekly quizzes but not so much for an hour long exam-- and a Constitutional law take home exam, and first week back I have a research essay due for Intellectual Property.

The thing IS, you see, that I haven't even finished my reading for week 3 of law. And I haven't started researching this research assignment. Partially because I'm an idiot and didn't realise the topics were up, but largely because I'm being a slackarse this semester and probably wouldn't have done anything even if I'd known. Er.

So anyway, ComCon will probably be fine so long as I do some in-depth reading on certain cases (such as WorkChoices), but IP is causing me more lasting concerns. As is assignment 1 for Japanese, actually, because... when is the 18th of September? Seriously, guys? ... oh my god, that's week 8. AUGH SO MUCH. *headdesk*

In other news there is post Last of the Time Lords Doctor emo fic on insaneidiot and half-finished Doctor/Martha Blink fic plus Due South/Doctor Who crossover fic on my harddrive. Apparently Doctor Who has kickstarted my inspiration. Who knew?

Also I've started playing Tales of Destiny Remake after several weeks of no gaming. It's very addictive.

On a final note, I vaguely tried to make icons and discovered that screenshots of video files? REALLY do not work. I remember now why I don't have any icons that are made from videos. Does anyone have screencapping freeware they'd like to recommend?

ETA: Also I went to the dietitian yesterday. She was horrified. It was admittedly pretty horrifying. She made me book an appointment for next week and promise to write down everything between now and then. She said, "I'm not letting you leave the country like this! You're lucky I'm letting you leave my SIGHT. I'm not even letting you go to Sydney!"

Me: Er, ABOUT that... I'm going to Sydney this weekend. Cough. <<
Her: ..........
Her: Behave. >O

I'm feeling better about it already, anyway. My BGLs have been all over the shop and I've been eating crap and way too much of it, so it's a relief to have someone who I know can help me fix it. Last time I saw Caroline was during the holidays, and basically since then I've screwed everything up and I've been having trouble UNscrewing it.

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU, now I also have the NCIS themesong stuck in my head.

I use VLC Player to play all of my video files, and it has an inbuilt screencapping function that works pretty well.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

XD Sorry. I got it stuck BACK in my head, for what it's worth.

Hm, I shall have to try this VLC Player.