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My thesis is done and handed in as of a week ago. I think I may actually have done my best, or at least close to it, despite all the procrastinating. This is a double-edged sword; it means if I do crap now, that's all I'm apparently capable of. orz I waver between terrible anxiety and tentative self-assurance. I have very little ability to judge my own academic writing.
On a related note, I had my Evidence exam this afternoon. It was my last undergraduate law exam ever, assuming I didn't fail. I rather hope I didn't fail. In fact, I rather hope I can at least scrape a credit for the course overall, because it would really truly suck if I made it all the way through my degree only to get a pass NOW. I only got a pass on the midterm paper - a high pass, but still a pass - and I am seeing if I can appeal it, but I don'teven know if it's too late, let alone whether they'd improve my mark. The 15% tutorial participation mark should pull my final mark up, but I haven't got a pass on my transcript in an entire 6 years at university and I really don't want to start in my last semester. Or a fail. That would be even worse. Especially for what it would do to my Honours grade.
Anyway, if all goes according to plan, I should be graduating with Bachelor of Laws (with Honours)/Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist) on 9 December. o/
Next year
Still no employment lined up for next year. At the moment my mind is predominated by thoughts of "FREEEE" but that has the potential to change to "WHY SO UNEMPLOYED ;__;" by January. *shifty* I had a job just recently managing a research project for UNSW and ACT Health which was good money and good experience, but it was time-limited. I know I shouldn't go out splurging on things like PS3s until I have a regular source of income. It is a lot harder to remember not to splurge on things like books, despite that they very quickly add up to cost just as much...
Gaming
I am the QUEEN of gaming as a procrastinatory art form. I have played a prodigious amount of games since starting my thesis in the middle of the year. To whit:
* Got to the end of Eternal Sonata
* Finished Golden Sun 1, made headway into Golden Sun 2
* Completed Birth by Sleep
* Completed Tales of Graces
* Completed Tales of Legendia
* Halfway through Tales of Innocence
* Cleared all the songs in Diva Project 2nd
* Halfway (?) through Okamiden
* Finished Pokemon White (at least in terms of having seen the credits)
* Got a fair bit into Professor Layton 3
... it's possible that I'm forgetting things. This is also give or take in terms of time period, a bit. I think GrimGrimoire was before... and Eternal Sonata was after... hmmm.
Look, I cope with stress by pretending it's not there and only squinting at it from the corner of my eye so it doesn't notice I've made progress until it's all too late, okay? It works for me. Sort of. Somehow. I managed to work a fairly full-on job and finish my thesis, anyway, so it wasn't TOTAL fail.
Meanwhile, my DS has broken. It was rather disconcerting; the corner with the batter lights actually FELL OFF. I'm holding it together with sticky tape. This is very incovenient. Need to do something about this, somehow.
Also, if anyone wants to discuss any of the above games or ask an opinion, I am more than willing, especially now I have no pressing engagements.
Reading
Another outlet for my procrastination has been reading, which is an interesting turn for this whole thing. You see, when I was in primary school and high school, I would not stop reading. I was constantly staying up past my bedtime, and running out of books, and searching for more. And yet, since I hit university - or perhaps a few years before then; year 11 or 12, maybe - I have barely read in English at all except, for example, when a new Terry Pratchett book comes out. Bizarre. I've read more Japanese books over these past six years than I've willingly read English books, I suspect, thanks to Mirage of Blaze. Nevertheless, with uni coming to a close, I've started reading again. Strange coincidence. So in about the three weeks, I have read:
* Temeraire (book 1)
* Sabriel
* Eragon
* The Farseer Trilogy
* Enchanted Glass
I have also picked up The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which I discovered in my old bedroom, along with my old copies of The Secret Garden, Dear Daddy Long Legs and Master and Commander.
I also read I Shall Wear Midnight when it came out.
In Japanese, although not in the same timeframe - perhaps since about starting the thesis? actually no, probably more like April - I have read the first two books of Kyou Kara Maou (on the third one now, I took a break), the first two books of the XXX daro! series (on the third one, again, I stalled), books 2 and 3 of Sekai-ichi hatsukoi ~yoshino chiaki no baai~, and all 4 volumes of the SO REAL series.
There has also been some manga. I know it doesn't really count in this category, but what the hell. Shoujo Shounen, mainly. Did I read Pokemon Special before or after starting the thesis? It may actually be after. In any case, I read volumes 33-36 fairly recently. Also been keeping up to date with One Piece and Skip Beat.
Watching
This is to say nothing of the tv-watching. Especially since my parents went to Europe for 6 weeks... did I even mention that? It was supposed to be 5, but my father ended up in hospital in a small medieval German town called Wertheim for a week, it was all very stressful... and I had the TV to myself. Plus the dog wouldn't settle if I didn't turn it on at night. So I watched about ep 236-470 or something of One Piece (I was going into withdrawal during the 5 week break!), the Tales of Vesperia movie, the second Nodame Cantabile movie, Hotaru no Hikari 2, The Princess & The Frog, the Tales of Symphonia OAVs. I rewatched Coffee Prince some months ago. Also, on TV I have been keeping up with NCIS and The Good Wife, as well as finally watching Sherlock bbc. The very large rock I live under - at times, it is a veritable continental drift - has dwindled ever so slightly.
Writing
Somehow, towards the end of my thesis, my writing mojo has come back. I've written two One Piece fics that require editing and almost finished a third. Aiming for Zoro's birthday this Thursday. Still very much in the writing mindset, although I expect it to desert me at any moment now that I actually have time, or more accurately breathing room. There are a bunch of things clawing for my attention - unwritten meme fic requests, particularly meaty WiPs (I am particularly eyeing off a Suikoden Tierkreis fic, a Kamen Rider Kabuto fic, and a Kingdom Hearts fic, although there are others), fandoms where I am overflowing with bunnies (One Piece, Suikoden Tierkreis, Pokemon Special, Tales of various).
And, most importantly: Boyband!X.
I want to finish it by Christmas.
This may be unrealistic, even mostly plotted out. Nevertheless, I at least want it UPDATED by Christmas, dammit. I will prevail! ... or something. orz If only I did not have such a fickle firefly brain, flitting from idea to idea with a brightly burning but short-lived delight.
Miscellaneous life-things
* I am having my wisdom teeth out later this month. In the short-term, this will be rather hideous. In the long-term, I'm almost looking forward to it; it will be nice not to have a sore jaw from unconsciously clenching it all the time, or the increasingly frequent discomfort of my teeth not fitting together because my lower jaw has come out of place again. (The bottom wisdom teeth are impacted and there's no room for them. There's no room for the top ones, either. It's all very uncomfortable.)
* Why do people keep organising parties and so forth when I can't go? I had to miss my cousin's wedding this weekend because it fell right between the thesis and the exam, and there are TWO parties (two!) I can't go to on the 20th because another cousin (I have 16) is having his 21st interstate the same night. Interstate puts a bit of a crimp in any potential party-hopping, sadly. Though I look forward to seeing the extended family; I missed last Christmas, being in Japan and all, so it's been a while.
* My sleep pattern is utterly sodded. Dammit.
* I was going to start that video game meme with this post, but really, I think it's more than long enough already... also it's 5.20am and I know my former boss is going to be round at like, 9.30 to pick up my tax etc documents. hmmm. see also, the preceding point.
My thesis is done and handed in as of a week ago. I think I may actually have done my best, or at least close to it, despite all the procrastinating. This is a double-edged sword; it means if I do crap now, that's all I'm apparently capable of. orz I waver between terrible anxiety and tentative self-assurance. I have very little ability to judge my own academic writing.
On a related note, I had my Evidence exam this afternoon. It was my last undergraduate law exam ever, assuming I didn't fail. I rather hope I didn't fail. In fact, I rather hope I can at least scrape a credit for the course overall, because it would really truly suck if I made it all the way through my degree only to get a pass NOW. I only got a pass on the midterm paper - a high pass, but still a pass - and I am seeing if I can appeal it, but I don'teven know if it's too late, let alone whether they'd improve my mark. The 15% tutorial participation mark should pull my final mark up, but I haven't got a pass on my transcript in an entire 6 years at university and I really don't want to start in my last semester. Or a fail. That would be even worse. Especially for what it would do to my Honours grade.
Anyway, if all goes according to plan, I should be graduating with Bachelor of Laws (with Honours)/Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist) on 9 December. o/
Next year
Still no employment lined up for next year. At the moment my mind is predominated by thoughts of "FREEEE" but that has the potential to change to "WHY SO UNEMPLOYED ;__;" by January. *shifty* I had a job just recently managing a research project for UNSW and ACT Health which was good money and good experience, but it was time-limited. I know I shouldn't go out splurging on things like PS3s until I have a regular source of income. It is a lot harder to remember not to splurge on things like books, despite that they very quickly add up to cost just as much...
Gaming
I am the QUEEN of gaming as a procrastinatory art form. I have played a prodigious amount of games since starting my thesis in the middle of the year. To whit:
* Got to the end of Eternal Sonata
* Finished Golden Sun 1, made headway into Golden Sun 2
* Completed Birth by Sleep
* Completed Tales of Graces
* Completed Tales of Legendia
* Halfway through Tales of Innocence
* Cleared all the songs in Diva Project 2nd
* Halfway (?) through Okamiden
* Finished Pokemon White (at least in terms of having seen the credits)
* Got a fair bit into Professor Layton 3
... it's possible that I'm forgetting things. This is also give or take in terms of time period, a bit. I think GrimGrimoire was before... and Eternal Sonata was after... hmmm.
Look, I cope with stress by pretending it's not there and only squinting at it from the corner of my eye so it doesn't notice I've made progress until it's all too late, okay? It works for me. Sort of. Somehow. I managed to work a fairly full-on job and finish my thesis, anyway, so it wasn't TOTAL fail.
Meanwhile, my DS has broken. It was rather disconcerting; the corner with the batter lights actually FELL OFF. I'm holding it together with sticky tape. This is very incovenient. Need to do something about this, somehow.
Also, if anyone wants to discuss any of the above games or ask an opinion, I am more than willing, especially now I have no pressing engagements.
Reading
Another outlet for my procrastination has been reading, which is an interesting turn for this whole thing. You see, when I was in primary school and high school, I would not stop reading. I was constantly staying up past my bedtime, and running out of books, and searching for more. And yet, since I hit university - or perhaps a few years before then; year 11 or 12, maybe - I have barely read in English at all except, for example, when a new Terry Pratchett book comes out. Bizarre. I've read more Japanese books over these past six years than I've willingly read English books, I suspect, thanks to Mirage of Blaze. Nevertheless, with uni coming to a close, I've started reading again. Strange coincidence. So in about the three weeks, I have read:
* Temeraire (book 1)
* Sabriel
* Eragon
* The Farseer Trilogy
* Enchanted Glass
I have also picked up The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which I discovered in my old bedroom, along with my old copies of The Secret Garden, Dear Daddy Long Legs and Master and Commander.
I also read I Shall Wear Midnight when it came out.
In Japanese, although not in the same timeframe - perhaps since about starting the thesis? actually no, probably more like April - I have read the first two books of Kyou Kara Maou (on the third one now, I took a break), the first two books of the XXX daro! series (on the third one, again, I stalled), books 2 and 3 of Sekai-ichi hatsukoi ~yoshino chiaki no baai~, and all 4 volumes of the SO REAL series.
There has also been some manga. I know it doesn't really count in this category, but what the hell. Shoujo Shounen, mainly. Did I read Pokemon Special before or after starting the thesis? It may actually be after. In any case, I read volumes 33-36 fairly recently. Also been keeping up to date with One Piece and Skip Beat.
Watching
This is to say nothing of the tv-watching. Especially since my parents went to Europe for 6 weeks... did I even mention that? It was supposed to be 5, but my father ended up in hospital in a small medieval German town called Wertheim for a week, it was all very stressful... and I had the TV to myself. Plus the dog wouldn't settle if I didn't turn it on at night. So I watched about ep 236-470 or something of One Piece (I was going into withdrawal during the 5 week break!), the Tales of Vesperia movie, the second Nodame Cantabile movie, Hotaru no Hikari 2, The Princess & The Frog, the Tales of Symphonia OAVs. I rewatched Coffee Prince some months ago. Also, on TV I have been keeping up with NCIS and The Good Wife, as well as finally watching Sherlock bbc. The very large rock I live under - at times, it is a veritable continental drift - has dwindled ever so slightly.
Writing
Somehow, towards the end of my thesis, my writing mojo has come back. I've written two One Piece fics that require editing and almost finished a third. Aiming for Zoro's birthday this Thursday. Still very much in the writing mindset, although I expect it to desert me at any moment now that I actually have time, or more accurately breathing room. There are a bunch of things clawing for my attention - unwritten meme fic requests, particularly meaty WiPs (I am particularly eyeing off a Suikoden Tierkreis fic, a Kamen Rider Kabuto fic, and a Kingdom Hearts fic, although there are others), fandoms where I am overflowing with bunnies (One Piece, Suikoden Tierkreis, Pokemon Special, Tales of various).
And, most importantly: Boyband!X.
I want to finish it by Christmas.
This may be unrealistic, even mostly plotted out. Nevertheless, I at least want it UPDATED by Christmas, dammit. I will prevail! ... or something. orz If only I did not have such a fickle firefly brain, flitting from idea to idea with a brightly burning but short-lived delight.
Miscellaneous life-things
* I am having my wisdom teeth out later this month. In the short-term, this will be rather hideous. In the long-term, I'm almost looking forward to it; it will be nice not to have a sore jaw from unconsciously clenching it all the time, or the increasingly frequent discomfort of my teeth not fitting together because my lower jaw has come out of place again. (The bottom wisdom teeth are impacted and there's no room for them. There's no room for the top ones, either. It's all very uncomfortable.)
* Why do people keep organising parties and so forth when I can't go? I had to miss my cousin's wedding this weekend because it fell right between the thesis and the exam, and there are TWO parties (two!) I can't go to on the 20th because another cousin (I have 16) is having his 21st interstate the same night. Interstate puts a bit of a crimp in any potential party-hopping, sadly. Though I look forward to seeing the extended family; I missed last Christmas, being in Japan and all, so it's been a while.
* My sleep pattern is utterly sodded. Dammit.
* I was going to start that video game meme with this post, but really, I think it's more than long enough already... also it's 5.20am and I know my former boss is going to be round at like, 9.30 to pick up my tax etc documents. hmmm. see also, the preceding point.
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Date: 2010-11-08 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-09 01:13 am (UTC)How was Eternal Sonata? Story critique? I played the demo and found it nice, but haven't quite been pushed towards "buy" yet. "Rent" or "borrow" is the closest I've gotten.
I am going to have to get the rest of the Layton games some time...
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Date: 2010-11-09 02:38 pm (UTC)Haha, if you want a real challenge, try playing the Layton games in a second language. XD but yeah, you should totally give 2 and 3 a go.
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Date: 2010-11-10 04:45 pm (UTC)XDDDD I briefly considered playing Phoenix Wright in Japanese. Very very VERY briefly. I do play Tokimeki Memorial Girls' Side in Japanese, though!