Jambo, Habari, we're goin' on safari!

lunik @ 2006-07-03T21:23:00

2006-07-03T20:34:42Z

So, having started my new job in the fabulous world of retail, I've been forced to come to a conclusion. I am face-blind. See, I read about this thing, and other people do it too. I just don't recognise people. at all.

It's just happened so many times - You walk into the shop, ask me to fetch something from the back room. I nod, enthusiastically, and trot off to get you stuff. Five minutes later, I walk back in, look confused for a second, then wander over to some random person wearing the same hat. I sell them your merchandise. They are happy with their purchase.

This may become problematic. There's only so many times I can call myself a ditz before I feel like going postal.

lunik @ 2006-06-10T14:19:00

2006-06-10T13:19:43Z

...I think.

lunik @ 2006-05-05T10:50:00

2006-05-05T09:51:24Z

You scored as Lord Havelock Vetinari. You are Lord Vetinari! Supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork! Cool, calculated, and always in control. You graduated from the assassins guild, but failed a course on stealth and camouflage, because the professor never saw you there (even though you attended every class). You always seem to know what everyone is thinking, and after a conversation with you, people feel that they have just escaped certain death.

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Lord Havelock Vetinari

63%

Death

56%

Commander Samuel Vimes

38%

Carrot Ironfounderson

38%

Gytha (Nanny) Ogg

38%

Rincewind

38%

Greebo

31%

Cohen The Barbarian

31%

The Librarian

31%

Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax

31%

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Seriously, what?

lunik @ 2006-05-03T09:35:00

2006-05-03T09:11:21Z

Well. Most people on my friends list will have already heard that I've recently started a message board RP. And I love this RP, even though it hasn't started for real yet. It is my baby. So I have to get the recruiting stage right to avoid problems down the line.

So, I posted a 'Hey, itz a new RP, come join!' thread on a Roleplay board and waited for response. Before long, the administrator of the whole board came along and submitted a character. The character's name was 'Mysti'. And the administrator, Otritzi, asked me to tell him if Mysti was appropriate.

I feel I should take a moment her to point out that Otritzi's signature reads 'Everything has a price, to be good at one thing you must lose something.' Classic anti-godmoding sentiment, right? So, even if her character seems a little too powerful now, he'll surely realise that she needs to be toned down, right?

So, I post a reply to his character, and I remind him that I already vetoed the possibility of anyone having access to more than they could carry - no 'foldspace' to store things in. And mentioned that one ability he wanted Mysti to have was far too powerful. Hold on, I'll quote: 'Lightning Dragon's Strike - speed based attack, fires off 250 blows in a second, can only be kept up for about two and a half seconds at most and only from one or two limbs, bad for crowd fighting.' (Fun fact - this is the very first example of godmoding I ever saw.)

So I expect that'll clear up the issue - He asks if a character is acceptable, I say no, but explain what would be acceptable, he... Clings tooth and nail to both original godmodes. It takes a few posts of wheedling to change Mysti's foldspace into a pack, but then Otritzi fills that pack with 'three swords, four collapsable spears, six metal gauntlets, an assortment of martial arts books, Ki and Chi control information scrolls, and a lot of food and waterskins inside, slots on her belt for throwing knifes (Only six of the slots will have knives in them at the beginning of the RP), one sheathed sword on her waist and one non-collapsable, six foot spear strapped to her back.'

Oh, and he refuses to believe that 250 hits a second is godmoding. This damn character's more powerful than my 'ultimate power' NPCs! With this technique, she could end the game in the first five minutes!

I've accepted two characters so far, and one of them was exchanging posts with him all night - he simply will not give up this technique.

He's the administrator of an RP forum! He should know that godmoding leeches all the fun out of it! But every time I say 'this is too much, change it', he reads it as 'explain this again and I'll let you have it.'

This. Is not. Good.

lunik @ 2006-04-26T21:05:00

2006-04-26T20:05:56Z

...My flatmates are outside in the corridor shooting each other with BB guns. o.O;

lunik @ 2006-04-24T15:51:00

2006-04-24T15:26:58Z

Huh. Something happened today, one of those 'renew your faith in humanity' things that you get in after-school specials and suchlike.

See, a few days ago, someone started a thread on the Dominic Deegan forums, discussing the love life of one of the comic's characters. See, there had been a moment in the comic, all fraught with symbolism, that had suggested this character had been jilted by the formation of a particular relationship, so the forumites started discussing who he might have been in love with - the man or the woman. I was quite enjoying the discussion, and hadn't made up my mind who to side with yet when one forumite dramatically derailed the thread. By posting that he disliked homosexuals 'in general'. He didn't give a reason, and no one was particularly surprised when he was flamed for it.

From this point, the flamewar grew along rather predictable lines - Person A jumps in to eat the homophobe's (Jenx's) face, person B defends Jenx's free speech, Person C agrees with him because the Bible says so, Person A attacks the Bible, Person B attacks person A, Person D arrives late on the scene and tries to reply to every point made so far in five or six pages of argument, then WheelsOfConfusion lays smackdown. Everyone ignores Wheels because he made too much sense, and appeared to have actually read the Bible! The cycle begins again. And I was caught in this as the first person to reply to Jenx.

I didn't actually flame him, but since I was the first person to take the 'Your opinion is offensive to me' stance, I got a lot of flames thrown at me (Not as much as Jenx, but still). It was one of those arguments, everyone's hackles up, if you're not with us, you're a JesusNazi/RightwingBastard/Fag-lovingLiberal! It got to the point where I was defending Jenx, since he'd stepped back from the forum until people calmed down, and people were still after his blood.

So, today marked the return of Jenx after he was chased off the forum. It also brought a private message to me -

I just tought I`d say it via PM. I`m sorry if I offended you in any way. Hm...I don`t think there is anything more specific actually. Just really wanted to say sorry for all the flaming going on, since it is my fault up to one point, coz if I haven`t said if I liked or dislike homosexual people, this wouldn`t have started. I also thank you for defending me, though i`ve heard that "i`m gonna beat the crap out of you" so many times, and when you actually MEET the person face to face he doesn`t even have the courage to watch you in the eyes. (Eye-rolling smilie) Well, I guess that`s about it.

He still says he doesn't like homosexuals, but according to him, he has no problem with homosexual people... And he's less steadfast in his opinions after reading the more reasonable posts, so that's good. I don't know if he's been sending these to everyone, but it's nice. Even if he hasn't changed his mind, he's apologising personally to me... It's a nice feeling to be able to forgive someone and know you were completely in the right... *Joy*

In other news, I just googled myself! Who knew there was a place in the antarctic called 'Lunik's point'?

lunik @ 2006-04-24T08:38:00

2006-04-24T08:14:40Z

So. Back at Southampton. That means I have to start updating again. Hi, Livejournal!

This is a link. Follow it. Open a new window if you have to, but do follow the link before reading the rest of this post.

Followed the link? Good.

...I have a fan! I never met this person, but apparently she knows me! A lurker decided I was the cool forumite! *Floats on a cloud of happy*

Oh, but... She posted that in the not-true-facts thread... Which was also her introduction, poke-me-I'm-new thread... Oh, I don't know what to believe!

In other news, what is it about my internet persona that makes my male friends want to masquerade as women and wrestle me to the ground? Really, it's getting weird now.

lunik @ 2006-04-19T18:20:00

2006-04-19T17:21:49Z

This is the best thing since ever. Yes, it is.

lunik @ 2006-04-15T13:20:00

2006-04-15T12:25:17Z

( Welcome to Zombo.com! )</b)

lunik @ 2006-04-07T11:17:00

2006-04-07T10:17:44Z

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The meaning of life........................................1
The answer to the ultimate question................42
The question to the ultimate answer................43
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lunik @ 2006-04-05T21:51:00

2006-04-05T20:56:39Z

So, Fiona suggested this new and exciting meme. It's a poetry meme! Isn't that exciting?

So basically, what I've done is to pick out one of my favourite poems of all time and cutpaste it into BabelFish. From engilsh to french, french to greek, then home to english to see if it's still recognisable. Is it still recognisable? You tell me! Guess what the poem is, then post one of your own - that's how memes are supposed to work, right?

The light of the sun on the garden hardens and is developed cold, cannot put in river steamer the minute in its gold nets, when all it is said that we cannot request for the pardon.

Our freedom as free spears advancing for its extremity; The land forced, on it of the Sonnets and the birds goes down; E early, my friend, we will not have no time for dances.

The sky was good for voo that it defies the bells of church and each bad buzzer of iron and that indicates: The forced land, we die, the Egipto, dying

and that it does not expect to the pardon, hard to the new, but happy heart of having itself rested under the thunder and rain with vocês, and recognizing too much for the light of the sun on the garden.

lunik @ 2006-04-01T22:05:00

2006-04-01T21:11:35Z

So, doom!

I'm sitting here, half watching TV (Some program on the 100 greatest film stars), and all of a sudden I glance up, and the man on the screen is Remus Lupin! Inescapably so, he is Remus. Every time I thought about Lupin in the books, this was the man I imagined. But... He looks familiar, I thought...

It was Ralph Fiennes.

This is my prediction for the seventh book. Lupin is secretly Voldemort.

lunik @ 2006-03-31T10:22:00

2006-03-31T09:36:07Z

Well, livejournal entries. Aren't they fun?

I don't really have much of anything to put in a livejournal entry. I mean, I was hoping for an epiphany, you know? A unicorn, as Tom Stoppard would put it - 'I was prepared!' But then nothing very interesting happened, and here I am, writing a livejournal entry about how I have nothing to write a livejournal entry about. Is that existential? Probably.

I just don't want to go on about this bloody RP again. People seem to be getting tired of it. It's just that I have a million and one stories in my head, but there's always been this kind of implicit understanding that, when they finally came out, they were going to shine bright enough that everyone would see, and everyone would know they were mine - See? I'm not nothing, after all! I've done this! ...But if I use them in a forum RP in some insignificant corner of the intertron...

So I've been reinventing the wheel for this thing - everything I've got, I've started from scratch. I want it to shine just as bright as my long standing work ever will, but this is made special for the RP. Intended to be read only by roleplayers. And I'm proud of what I have so far. It may be a little cliche, but I like it.

The trouble is, not matter how brilliant and innovative my take on this particular cliche is, no one's going to give it a second glance - it's cliche! And great writers can get away with it, because great critics will go on record and call it 'subverting the form', because that's how it works. As you start out, nothing is right unless you cite someone else's work; as you find your voice, nothing is right unless it's never been seen before; but once you've made your name... *Sigh* All of a sudden I'm talking about philosophy and essay writing. I'll stop now.

Except that I have nothing new to write. Maybe I should cite Derrida? Or... My god! Is that a demonic duck of some sort? *Flees*

lunik @ 2006-03-28T17:33:00

2006-03-28T16:37:49Z

So. I'm a forum troll. I 'delight in sowing discord on the forums.'

Ah well. I hear it's more fun in hell anyway. The clientele are a better class.

lunik @ 2006-03-25T18:13:00

2006-03-25T18:32:09Z

So I've already mentioned my intention to begin an online RP with myself as GM. Well, I've been doing some work on that idea, and I'm just going to post what I have as I come up with it. Just so's I can get to it anywhere, without necessarily havong access to my own computer. that said, here's my notes on the species I'll accept for playable characters.

Humans – dominant species, occupy most of the mainland and a few islands. If you don’t know what a human is, look in the mirror. Human society will differ depending on where they’ve come from.

Fae – xenophobes, mostly stay within the borders of Tir Na n’Og. Smaller than humans, and physically weak. Fae outside Tir Na n’Og are wizards, fae within Tir Na n’Og are inherently distrustful of wizards. Immune to poison. Their society is feudal, but not monarchical (the new ‘king’ is chosen by the other lords etc.). Those fae found outside Tir Na n’Og will have escaped persecution, possibly violence – they’ll have chosen magic over safety, and will be defensive of their choices. In terms of appearance, male fae don’t grow facial hair. What hair they do have will range from indigo to white in shades of blue and purple. Eye colours range from deep orange to gold, and sometimes green.

Elves – more widespread than the fae, and less violent than their ancestors – but a very few elves will still hunt sentient creatures, even though it’s illegal by their law. Unable to use magic, and immune to its direct effects. Slightly taller than humans, and strong, their society is governed by a monarchy. Elvish society has a sense of entitlement about it, and elves will often be disdainful of other races. Elves’ hair comes in shades of green, and their eyes are any colour from red, to yellow, to blue, to black.

Sylphs – healthy relations with most other races, but few in number. They are approximately fae-sized, with insect style wings that can lay flat enough for them to lie on their backs. They live in small communes in mountainous areas where the ability to fly is vital, and have no unified government beyond ‘respect and obey your elders’. The average sylph will be impulsive and irrepressible – they are taught to question everything around them. Sylphs are usually coloured the same way as albino humans, with white or pale blonde hair and red or pale blue eyes.

Huldra – forest-dwellers, their distinguishing features are their dark skin, retractable claws, fur down the backs of their necks and between their shoulders, and prehensile tails. They’re hunter-gatherers, and strongly believe in forest spirits that come in the form of animals. The spirits are unnamed, but can come at any time, so the huldra never actively pursue their quarry, relying mostly on traps. They have a somewhat strained relationship with the elves and the human societies that still hunt for their food, since they rarely observe huldra hunting rituals. Their society is shamanic – they worship the forest spirits, and will ask for blessing before making any important decision. Tranquillity of spirit and skill in battle are highly prized in their society. Their hair is usually dark red to brown in colour, and their eyes are brown.

Keeatin (KEY-at-in) – yes, they’re reptilian, yes they lay eggs, and yes, they have navels and the women have breasts. A wizard did it, shut up. At first look, they could pass for a mammalian race, but though they have skin on their face, arms (below the elbow) and legs, they have blue-green, red or gold iridescent scales covering most of their backs, their stomachs, the sides of their necks and their shoulders. They have very fine, always white hair on their heads and down their necks, something like the huldra, and green or yellow eyes. They’re cold-blooded, so they populate warm areas of the world – in extreme cold they will freeze to death very quickly. They are however, very strong and dextrous, and make for highly skilled warriors. Their society is arguably the most advanced among the six races – they are governed by a senate, elected by the people. Keeatin children are raised for tolerance, as well as nobility of spirit.

lunik @ 2006-03-24T19:43:00

2006-03-24T20:06:16Z

So, more stories from the DD forums! ...Yeah, I killed Edwardius. I mean, that has to be the weirdest thing ever, right? Now I have to get used to a new screenname and a new avatar, and he looks like a newbie, but I'm not allowed to poke him! Seriously, people on the internet are crazy.

Also, someone told me recently that I rock hard. I'm on a compliment high. So happy. It's weird, cuz I still don't feel like the topic is 'my' topic... I feel like I have more obligation to it than anything else, but Gan Xingba saying all these nice things made it all so much better. I love also that my thread is a kind of haven for newbies - so many people's first posts have been in there (Including the Feng Shui Ninja...). I'm feeling all authoritative. It's great. King of the thread!

See, if I ever get around to starting that RP (I almost have a campaign!), I'll be the irrevocable king of that thread. King? I'll be GOD of the thread! GM, Lunik! But of course I won't let the power go to my head...

The RP itself is slowly becoming less cliche, and hopefully some time in the future it'll be actually bearable. Hopefully. I just have to keep reminding myself that I have no control over the characters' responses - I like writing character-led stuff, and to have to remind myself that they won't always do what I want them to... Doom! Ah, well. I'll learn. If all else fails, I'll make it up as I go along. I'm sure that will work out just great. *Knucklebite*

lunik @ 2006-03-22T15:37:00

2006-03-22T15:38:51Z

( It's a very, very mad world... )

lunik @ 2006-03-21T19:33:00

2006-03-21T19:47:03Z

So, all of a sudden, it's March 21st, and I haven't updated for ten days. Woah. But! At least this time I kept my phone on for a few days!

Well. This is, technically, an update. I just don't have very much to say.

Um. I joined a roleplay forum recently. Yup. It's all very new, so there aren't any good RPs going yet. Maybe I'll start one. That'd be cool. I have a million and one ideas for cool stuff, maybe I could actually do this! ...Or maybe it'll suck so bad that they'll chase me out of their forum with pitchforks...

So, word list... okay, I'll try this:

Aggregate
Belinda
Corinth
Derrida
Elk
Facetious
Gigantism (It is a word, no matter what the spell check says...)
Horrendous
Ignominious
Jocular
Krakatoa
Lima
Morrisons (Yes, like the supermarket... it's a fun word!)
Nocturnal
Oratorio
Pegasi
Quixotic
Regulus
Stint
Terraformed
Unctuous
Variety
Winkelmesser! (What? No one said they had to be english words...)
X... uh, X... oh, I can't think of one!
Yarrow
Zygote

Huh... Should I be worried that so many of my 'fun words' turned out to be names? Nah...

lunik @ 2006-03-11T12:08:00

2006-03-11T12:10:48Z

This absolutely had to be shared. Or I'd probably die. Asphyxiated from laughing too much, you know the type of thing.

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>.>

Yeeup, that was pretty much all I had to say...

...

Go click the link already!

lunik @ 2006-03-10T19:24:00

2006-03-10T19:26:00Z

Oh my god, the last episode of the first season of Due South is the slashiest thing EVAR! Fraser has two axes! TWO AXES!!

lunik @ 2006-03-05T16:49:00

2006-03-05T16:56:29Z

I never saw most of 'Enterprise', but for no real reason I found myself watching the final episode with family and Ellie. I liked the very last scene - a montage thing of the 'Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages...' speech from all the series...es. And we happened to have the subtitles on the tv, which told us who was speaking.

So all of a sudden, Rosie pipes up with 'What the... Who the hell is 'Kirk'?' We all laugh at her expense, and say things like 'Captain Kirk?', 'James T Kirk' etc.

She still doesn't get it. 'William Shatner?'

Nothing. 'The first Star Trek? The captain in that? James Kirk?'

She went to google the name.

lunik @ 2006-03-01T13:24:00

2006-03-01T13:52:52Z

I feel a strong urge to counterbalance the whining I did in my last post (...'whining' is such a weird word to type...), so here is a list of all the things that made me happy over the past few days. For a given definition of 'all'.

I have achieved legitimacy on the DD forums. And I'll tell you how I know this - Mookie (The artist of Dominic Deegan) posted in the newsbox at the bottom of the page, all about his webcomic drama!!1!, snarking several webcomic artists with delicious sarcasm. And then a poster in the forum, Sevenworlds, mimiced him by snarking forumgoers, and guess what? I was the second person snarked! Right after Synkr0nized! Who, next point...

I had something approaching a civilised conversation with the Sykr0nized! Synk who is wonderfully snarky and a much older oldbie than I am! Synk who is just better than me in every way! [/fangirl]

And, keeping with the DD forum theme for now, My thread is still popular! People like me! And look to me as king of the thread! And still think I'm a man! I have no idea why that last one makes me so happy, but it does. Maybe it's an 'I know something you don't know' thing. But someone even suggested that my contest had an effect on the actual comic! *swoon* [/fangirl, for real this time]

So, off the internets (RL? What's that?), I am so very weak. But so very happy. And I now own the first season of Due South on DVD. And the first series of Jonathan Creek. And less money. But more happiness.

lunik @ 2006-02-23T20:08:00

2006-02-23T20:53:51Z

For the few people on my Flist who may not know, a few months ago I moved from the relatively small town in which I've lived my whole life to a fairly big city. Not that I've never been in a big city before, just that now I spend all of every day in a big city, and a lot of my time is spent interacting with Southampton people in that 'never even speak to them' way - seeing people on the bus, passing them in the street, eavesdropping etc.

And I hated people-watching in Chippenham, because I hated people in Chippenham (With a few obvious exceptions, most of whom will be reading this). But people-watching in Southampton is much more interesting - people look like they have a story to tell, something more interesting than 'I hang out in front of shops and terrorise people during the day, and vandalise things at night.' Of course, there are always stupid people. So I'm going to rant on LJ about the kind of people who aren't actually bad people, but who make me sad just by existing.

The first type of people that come to mind are people I see on the bus every so often, about once or twice a day. I have a horrible schedule this semester, which has me taking buses at the most crowded times of day - I rarely get a seat. So it always annoys me when, sitting in an almost-empty bus, approaching a very crowded bus stop, I pick up my bag and sit it in my lap to make more space... and someone further up the bus slides across to sit in the aisle seat. So no one can sit next to them. And spread what bags they might have out to take up extra space. On purpose. I can't see why they would do that - the bus is going to get crowded, no matter how much space you take up! More crowded if you take up more space!

Another type is someone I encounter at the most annoying moment possible. All over campus, there are doors which require a code to open, not least the door to the building I live in. And these doors invariably have windows in them. So it always irritates me when I approach such a door carrying two or more bags or books which might just hinder my ability to punch in a code. And there's someone behind the door. Staring. At. Me. And I'm juggling whatever I'm holding, and getting more flustered at my inability to reach the keypad with any vestige of grace. And they're Staring. At. Me. Note that it's as easy as pushing on the door to open it from the inside. But no. They find it more rewarding to watch me. Haethaethaet them!!

Of course, these people overlap with the third group... my flatmates. Whom I haet. Because they just don't seem to realise that I can hear everything they do. When you're talking amongst yourselves in the kitchen? I share a wall with the kitchen. When you're running screaming up and down the corridor at one in the morning? I'm not deaf. When one of you comes home to find the others aren't there and a dull rhythmic thudding comes from your room? And the music in my room gets louder? God I hate those boys. Oh, and midnight will never be a good time to play your guitars. No, not even if you can play for thirty minutes without a tune.

Also, anecdote regarding stupid people. I was in HMV today (*snuggles new Nightwish albums*), and I found myself perusing their selection of 'manga' DVDs. Huh. Anyway, a group of boys come over, and one of them states that he has something so cool to show the others. I'm next to the anime section, looking (laughing) at the 'martial arts' section, so I eavesdrop. The DVDs are arranged in alphabetical order by title, and the manga expert directs his friends to look for cartoon porn. Under 'H' for 'Hentai'. (He mispronounced 'hentai', but I can't be bothered to try to spell it.) When they don't find a DVD entitled Hentai, they decided it was stupid anyway, and wandered off, leaving me sniggering into my live-action copy of 'Monkey!' (Which I didn't end up buying.) What made it even funnier was that, when I went back to the anime section, I found several copies of a DVD called 'La Blue Girl Returns' (or something similar - obviously a sequel to 'La Blue Girl'). Well, okay, if you didn't know the territory you wouldn't instantly pick it out as hentai. Except that the picture on the front was of a young woman in her underwear and a tentacle monster. I'm sure they were just playing 'Boggle'.

Guh. People are just dumb sometimes.

lunik @ 2006-02-15T15:50:00

2006-02-15T16:07:11Z

So. Imagine, if you will, I'm sitting at my computer minding my own business. Actually, I'm sitting on my bed, three feet away from my computer, but I can still see the screen, so it doesn't matter. Stop nitpicking.

All of a sudden, an alert pops up on the screen telling me I've just recieved an email from a site called 'chase internet banking'. A vitally important email! Turns out that someone may have hacked my account there! And they're stealing all my money! And ruining my credit rating! So chase has temporarily suspended access to my account!

Well, we can't have that, I think, so I scroll down to find out what I can do about it. The first step... is to log in to my account. I can't do that, I don't have an account there! So... Ah, I see, I can also use my social security number in place of my password! Isn't that convenient!

Yeah... There's now only one thing stopping me from typing my social security number into a page from an unsolicited email... I never had an account at Chase Internet Banking! I've never even heard of Chase internet banking! I certainly never gave them my email.

So, I click on 'oops, I forgot my password', just to see what's there. These people don't give up - I got a page saying 'no problem, just give us your PIN number instead!' Yes, they wrote 'PIN number'

I just have to wonder how many social security numbers they expect to get from this. I typed 'You people' in the username field and 'suck' in the password. I wonder if they got the message?

lunik @ 2006-02-14T12:21:00

2006-02-14T12:45:33Z

Hey, look! Valentine's day! An update on Valentine's day! A Valentine's day update!

So. Ages since my last update, apparently I forgot how to communicate with living, breathing people. My excuse is mostly to do with starting all my brand-spanking-new modules! And brand-spanking-new reading lists! I've decided I haet Foucault. There's a picture of him in one of the books and he stares at me while I'm trying to read.

Overall I've been lucky in my assignment of lecturers and seminar tutors - in the critical theory seminars I've started speculation on possible dissertation subjects and the middle english lecturer tells crazy anecdotes in middle english. So cool. Except for this one woman, the lecturer for Literature in history. She seems to have some intrinsic aversion to telling us what we're supposed to be learning. She constantly refers to websites without telling us how to get to them, and her course documents (stored online) are as impossible to get to as they are vital to understanding her lectures. And while I'm certain her lecture notes are fascinating, there's really no need for her to be scrutinising them while she's talking to the room. Makes me angry. But! The lectures for this module are almost made up for by the seminars - My seminar tutor is Doctor Who. Seriously, it's just like David Tennant decided it would be a good idea to get into character by randomly teaching a Literature in history seminar every week. craziness.

Anyway. Other interesting stuff. I ~~spent way too much money on~~ bought the first season of Stargate SG-1 last week. Oh my god. I never realised how awful it is! I swear it must have been better when I was watching it on TV, because the first season is... I have no idea how it became a cult success. Maybe it was riding on the coat-tails of the movie, which was actually good. I'm serious, the plots are shaky, the writing is sub-par, and it feels as if the actors were shoved onto a set and told to read some lines. They have that bewildered 'What, am I supposed to act now?' look. I used to love this series! But I've learned my lesson. No fandom will ever control me again! *Makes turkey sandwich and too much coffee and goes to read SGA fic*

Oh, and I really am incapable of updating without an amusing link.