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tammaiyaOkay, again I fail at LJ. Um, I don't actually remember when I last updated. I mean, it wasn't that long ago, I just don't remember what I've mentioned and haven't... so whatever, here is the general overview of the life of me for the last few weeks.
* Gaming - Finally played and finished Subarashiki Kono Sekai, AKA It's a Wonderful World, AKA The World Ends With You (and no, I don't know why they came up with a whole new title when the Japanese version had an English subtitle, but whatev) and got briefly eaten by fandom. Briefly only because it's not a huge fandom; I love Joshua and his fabulous bitchface. Currently am playing Pokemon SoulSilver on DS, Trusty Bell AKA Eternal Sonata on Xbox360, and Kyou Kara Maou! Shinmakoku no Kyuujitsu on PS2. Although all fairly casually, so actually less gaming than usual for me. The KKM dating sim is hilarious and very rewarding; SoulSilver I'm still only poking at mostly, but Becky and I got a trade working the other day which was fun. It has a really fuzzy voicechat, which I think the only thing it actually caught was my ridiculous giggling. XD
* Uni work - Have been spending a fair amount of time in the law library trying to make up for being a slackarse all first term. At least I have almost caught up on Restitution and Syntax reading, which are most urgent because I have a Restitution exam next Wednesday and a Syntax assignment due next Thursday. (That's practically done. More worrying is the research paper due at the end of the month I haven't started.) I should also put some energy into Income Tax, which has a takehome exam Saturday fortnight.
* Honours thesis - a part of the stress was also needing to do research to find a topic for law honours next semester. Research was done, and a topic and adviser have been secured, so stress has dropped considerably. More on this later, when everything is all official. Although there's a workshop I'm going to on Friday afternoon for it.
* Work-work - I still don't have a regular part-time job, but last week I had a preliminary interview for a paralegal job with a law firm in Canberra (which would also function as a graduate job offer, hence the rigorous interview process). It went well and I was assured I'd go on to the second/final round interviews. I still await an email, though, about when this will happen. I wish my mother would stop asking me about it. >__< Meanwhile, graduate job applications continue in a mildly stressful and very obnoxious fashion. It is particularly frustrating how all the departments of the public service demand such different things in their apps. LEARN TO STANDARDISE, GUYS. The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has its deadline tomorrow; Australian Government Solicitors and all the law firms are on Friday. orz
* Translation work - Although I said I don't have a regular part-time job, I DO have more professional translation work. I actually picked it up at the same time as the other one, but it's a big job ranging over a schedule of months, so we haven't actually started the translation work yet. However, over the last few days there's been a volley of emails amongst the author and translators about a list of standard terms. It's a very interesting experience, particularly since the whole thing is conducted in formal Japanese.
* Reading - Basically, my lifestyle, particularly my free time, is dictated by the whims of my cyclic interests. Sometimes I want to do nothing but play games; sometimes I want to watch anime, or Western TV. Sometimes I want to read manga or books. Sometimes I even feel like working! But sometimes, what I really want to do is read Japanese light novels. Go figure, I know. Anyway, that is the mood I am currently in, so I am delighted that Mari loaned me a bunch of her books because she has a very impressive collection. Really I just want to sit around tearing through them, but sadly I am a pretty slow reader in Japanese and have really only been reading the Kyou Kara Maou books, or more accurately maruma, since that is not actually the title of the books. (The first book is "kyou kara MA no tsuku jiyuugyou!") Also, I read all of what's currently available of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, which is by the same author as Junjou Romantica but much better. I mean, I quite like the latter for all its flaws, but Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is just, well, a lot better. Plus it's interesting seeing the inner workings of manga editing from someone who presumably knows what they're talking about! ... On a random sidenote, in the cover flap I discovered the author has the same birthday and blood type as me.
* Writing - I am actually still writing. Just... slowly. And in a fandom/pairing no one cares about. XD; Well, except Becky. And me, obviously. But anyway, it is Suikoden Tierkreis fic about Meruvis/Asad which is like, oh my god, I have been reading too much doujinshi and am a terrible person. orz Meanwhile though I think I will do the sequel to last year's ST Big Bang for this year's STBB (assuming honours and the translation job and interviews don't put the nail in my coffin, that is). Also, I have not abandoned BBX! I still think about it frequently! It is just... percolating.
だめな小説家であってすみません. orz Or rather, I'M SORRY I SUCK.
And now to end the post on the note that actually prompted me to finally make this post, probably no one but other law students/lawyers will find this funny, but this paragraph in a judgment just made me stifle a giggle:
"The decision of this House in Sinclair v Brougham has loomed very large in both the judgments in the courts below and in the admirable arguments addressed to the Appellate Committee of this House. It has long been regarded as a controversial decision, and has been the subject of much consideration by scholars, especially those working in the field of restitution. I have however reached the conclusion that it is basically irrelevant to the decision of the present appeal."
ETA: Link from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
youkofujima that is hilarious, law jokes aside. I CRIED with laughing so hard.
http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/
Also, this is funny if you know Tales of the Abyss, fromlittlelinor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2mCAmH94I
And another very funny one frombeckerbell, minigames parodying oldschool RPGs:
http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html
* Gaming - Finally played and finished Subarashiki Kono Sekai, AKA It's a Wonderful World, AKA The World Ends With You (and no, I don't know why they came up with a whole new title when the Japanese version had an English subtitle, but whatev) and got briefly eaten by fandom. Briefly only because it's not a huge fandom; I love Joshua and his fabulous bitchface. Currently am playing Pokemon SoulSilver on DS, Trusty Bell AKA Eternal Sonata on Xbox360, and Kyou Kara Maou! Shinmakoku no Kyuujitsu on PS2. Although all fairly casually, so actually less gaming than usual for me. The KKM dating sim is hilarious and very rewarding; SoulSilver I'm still only poking at mostly, but Becky and I got a trade working the other day which was fun. It has a really fuzzy voicechat, which I think the only thing it actually caught was my ridiculous giggling. XD
* Uni work - Have been spending a fair amount of time in the law library trying to make up for being a slackarse all first term. At least I have almost caught up on Restitution and Syntax reading, which are most urgent because I have a Restitution exam next Wednesday and a Syntax assignment due next Thursday. (That's practically done. More worrying is the research paper due at the end of the month I haven't started.) I should also put some energy into Income Tax, which has a takehome exam Saturday fortnight.
* Honours thesis - a part of the stress was also needing to do research to find a topic for law honours next semester. Research was done, and a topic and adviser have been secured, so stress has dropped considerably. More on this later, when everything is all official. Although there's a workshop I'm going to on Friday afternoon for it.
* Work-work - I still don't have a regular part-time job, but last week I had a preliminary interview for a paralegal job with a law firm in Canberra (which would also function as a graduate job offer, hence the rigorous interview process). It went well and I was assured I'd go on to the second/final round interviews. I still await an email, though, about when this will happen. I wish my mother would stop asking me about it. >__< Meanwhile, graduate job applications continue in a mildly stressful and very obnoxious fashion. It is particularly frustrating how all the departments of the public service demand such different things in their apps. LEARN TO STANDARDISE, GUYS. The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has its deadline tomorrow; Australian Government Solicitors and all the law firms are on Friday. orz
* Translation work - Although I said I don't have a regular part-time job, I DO have more professional translation work. I actually picked it up at the same time as the other one, but it's a big job ranging over a schedule of months, so we haven't actually started the translation work yet. However, over the last few days there's been a volley of emails amongst the author and translators about a list of standard terms. It's a very interesting experience, particularly since the whole thing is conducted in formal Japanese.
* Reading - Basically, my lifestyle, particularly my free time, is dictated by the whims of my cyclic interests. Sometimes I want to do nothing but play games; sometimes I want to watch anime, or Western TV. Sometimes I want to read manga or books. Sometimes I even feel like working! But sometimes, what I really want to do is read Japanese light novels. Go figure, I know. Anyway, that is the mood I am currently in, so I am delighted that Mari loaned me a bunch of her books because she has a very impressive collection. Really I just want to sit around tearing through them, but sadly I am a pretty slow reader in Japanese and have really only been reading the Kyou Kara Maou books, or more accurately maruma, since that is not actually the title of the books. (The first book is "kyou kara MA no tsuku jiyuugyou!") Also, I read all of what's currently available of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, which is by the same author as Junjou Romantica but much better. I mean, I quite like the latter for all its flaws, but Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is just, well, a lot better. Plus it's interesting seeing the inner workings of manga editing from someone who presumably knows what they're talking about! ... On a random sidenote, in the cover flap I discovered the author has the same birthday and blood type as me.
* Writing - I am actually still writing. Just... slowly. And in a fandom/pairing no one cares about. XD; Well, except Becky. And me, obviously. But anyway, it is Suikoden Tierkreis fic about Meruvis/Asad which is like, oh my god, I have been reading too much doujinshi and am a terrible person. orz Meanwhile though I think I will do the sequel to last year's ST Big Bang for this year's STBB (assuming honours and the translation job and interviews don't put the nail in my coffin, that is). Also, I have not abandoned BBX! I still think about it frequently! It is just... percolating.
だめな小説家であってすみません. orz Or rather, I'M SORRY I SUCK.
And now to end the post on the note that actually prompted me to finally make this post, probably no one but other law students/lawyers will find this funny, but this paragraph in a judgment just made me stifle a giggle:
"The decision of this House in Sinclair v Brougham has loomed very large in both the judgments in the courts below and in the admirable arguments addressed to the Appellate Committee of this House. It has long been regarded as a controversial decision, and has been the subject of much consideration by scholars, especially those working in the field of restitution. I have however reached the conclusion that it is basically irrelevant to the decision of the present appeal."
ETA: Link from
youkofujima that is hilarious, law jokes aside. I CRIED with laughing so hard.http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/
Also, this is funny if you know Tales of the Abyss, from
littlelinor:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2mCAmH94I
And another very funny one from
beckerbell, minigames parodying oldschool RPGs:http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html
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Date: 2010-04-14 01:23 am (UTC)