I vanished off again.

I've been busy, which is strange for me. I don't know how to cope with it. :P

So, to make up for it, I'm going to post a batch of photos of my bookshelf, desk and latest drawing project.

Lo and behold, my desk.



Note the schoolboy!Renji figurine. That makes people want to do bad, bad things to him I managed to buy him too, after waiting a good deal of time. God. Some of the people in Shin Tokyo suck. The stupid moron should have let me have the one out of the cupboard. Like the other guy did. I'm going to refuse going in there depending on who's working.

( Open your mouth, open it wide )

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♥ Never fear, I have not dropped off the face of the Earth. (Apologies if you where hoping I had.) I have been overly preoccupied with Bleach of late. :P

Mostly because I don't have much else to do.

♥ But now, I do have a few billion things in order to get this radio show off the ground. It's rather... stressful, but I'm doing my best not to get totally stressed and overwhelmed by it all, so I have some work to do tonight for tomorrow. The training is all week, and I'll probably be in the studios practicing my fingers off over the next few weeks.

Secretly though, lj, I am freaking out.

But my general policy has become to try and plan as much as I can so I won't freak out. Only real downer is I'm tired and I don't want to think about it. I'd much rather watch the Bleach Crew at the Beach killing giant watermellon monsters. Just for the lolz.

So yes, short entry.

I keep meaning to post up photos, particularly of the new and amazing PANIC button the radio has, but I keep getting too tired. :S

So forgive me. There will be a proper entry soon.

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Here it is. The serious I said I would write. It's time for those New Year reflections.

( I must become a Lion-Hearted Girl )

And there you have it. 2009 reflections for 2010.

I think I'll do a 'best of' book, cd, fandom etc post soon.

Cookies if you stuck that one out.

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Watched the Bleach OVAs today. With my BFF before she leaves for Korea. Sealed Sword Frenzy was quite lolzy. The ending in particular. So get ready for blatant fanservice and CAPSLOCK.

And prepare yourselves for the serious entry I am going to write eventually.

And so, click on the cut with the perfect quote I found on an icon just before to begin the fandom fuckery.

( Trufact of the Universe #21: Urahara invented Google to Fuck with Mayuri's head. )

Do you know what the most terrible thing is? A lot of these were my original thoughts watching this. Goddamn I'm sick.

Better leave that serious entry for tomorrow. :P

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
♥

Be glad I didn't post any Bleach fandom fuckery.

♥ Today was trying. Uni was unhelpful. Mum was unreasonable. Christmas Gifts I did not expect or reciprocate where guilt-inducing (Seriously, where do random guy friends that aren't even that good of a friend get off? DD: Paranoia? Never.). So, I don't want to talk about that.

♥ What I will talk about is Avatar. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I liked the blue cat people. They were pretty. I liked the glowing plants. They were pretty too. It reminded me a lot of Advent Children (Fork, what doesn't remind me of Advent Children?), thematically and visually. James Cameron is a Final Fantasy Fanboy. Particularly the creatures and the glowy plants which looked a lot like the Lifestream. Yeah, a lot of people may not like the whole "tree hugger" messages about our spiritual connection to each other, the environment and animals, but hey, I believe that wholeheartedly. Not just spiritually, but it's a biological fact. I did not do all those goddamn foodwebs for no reason. There's only so much energy in an ecosystem. We all share it. It was also a little bit tragic. I'm very hard-hearted in movies, and too busy being distracted by aforementioned AC similarities and feeling vindicated that my crazy beliefs are not limited just to me to cry. So I just want to apologise to miss_d_meanour again for putting her through that. <33

♥ And finally, a meme. From ms_legerdemain.

Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.


Words:
♥ Handcuffs
♥ Cerulean
♥ Literature
♥ Bass
♥ Magic

( Get your Filthy Fingers out of my Pie )

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♥ As some of you may have already seen on miss_d_meanour's lj, we got our radio show. A half-hour from 11-11:30pm on Tuesday.
So, I would like to take this opportunity to say, as stolen from Miss D:
WE R IN UR RADIOZ, PLAYIN UR METALZ.

There are a lot of things we need to figure out, particularly how we are going to cram all our mad ideas into half an hour, fit %30 Australian music in and make a good enough show to get it extended until November. It would be so embarrassing to not get it extended. miss_d_meanour and I consider it a challenge.

♥ Because this would be a short post otherwise, I am going to include the next set of Italy pictures. These are from our next stop in Loreto, the town our dear, dear school was named for. We only stayed a night, so there aren't many. There isn't much to see there apart from the Cathedral.



This is the view of the Cathedral from the window of our room (when I say "our" I mean the room I shared with my two other friends who came on the trip. They did not cram 22 girls in a room.) in the Monestary. It was pretty nice, but we didn't have a TV and it was a little cold. Oh, and the water ran yellow in the shower. It lead to some complete hillarity, as the more mild one out of us three did storm out the bathroom screaming "THE WATER IS FUCKING YELLOW. I AM NOT SHOWERING IN THAT. THE. WATER. IS. FUCKING. YELLOW." So then, I went in instead, let the water run out until it was less yellow (pipes weren't used much obviously) and showered first.



This, is the same view at night. Bit blurry because my camera didn't focus well with low battery. That became a problem later on.



This is the Piazza (Square) infront of the Cathedral. You can see the big blue dome in the back.



And this, was one of the really really cool chalk drawings someone had done in the square during the day. I like this one the best, because it looks like you're looking down into the room were Saint George (you can see the word "Giorgio" at the bottom) is fighting the Dragon. It reminds me of the picture of Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole in my Alice in Wonderland book. The others were a bit more traditionally religious, being the Annunciation and Mary holding Jesus' body after it's taken down from the Cross.



And this is the reason that everyone comes to Loreto. This, very ornate cube houses the remaining walls of the house of the Virgin Mary. I don't have any photos of the inside because they weren't allowed. But I can say it was a set of very very very very old looking brick walls. This, was unsurprisingly, met with a lot of bitching from the younger girls, saying how stupid it was. I would like to say right now I'm not a super religious person, despite being raised catholic and attending catholic schools. But, it's just not necessary to stand around in a fucking church and whine about how goddamn stupid it is to be there, or how unlikely it is that the walls are Mary's house or that they're even from anywhere near Jerusalem. That's just not the point. I couldn't tell you what the real point is, but it was a cultural trip and this is a huge part of the culture because this is Italy. The churches are very important, socially and historically even moreso than religiously. Have the manners to at least wait politely. I don't know, it's hypocritcal, but that really pissed me off. I was epically embarrassed by them that day. We year 12s even went to the effort to wear our 12 Jumpers with "Loreto" on the front just for the occasion.
/rant.



Another part of the Cathedral that I thought was very beautiful.

Loreto was also pretty special because my family came to visit me there as they don't live too far away from there. It's pretty close family, my uncles and aunties on my dad's side and my first cousins, not just some randoms. So, I got to spend a little while with them. We went to look at the big Nativity scene that moved that was set up in like, a basement. My favourite part was how the lighting in the background changed colour to show the morning afternoon and evening. It was pretty. Then we walked around, had my terrible accent remarked upon and I got some souvenirs for my Nonna. Then we all had icecream because I had to be back for dinner. I got out of going to mass too. Clearly I was rewarded for my deep respect of the Cathedral.:P Then we totally got lost trying to walk back to the monestary in the dark. It was my fault, because I didn't remember the way and thought we just had to walk down one road till it appeared. Not so. But, we got there in the end and said our goodbyes. I also, stupidly, opened up the watch meant for my sister, not mine. So I walked around Italy with a pink and purple plastic Fila watch instead of the Red, leather Guess watch I was supposed to have. Faaaaaail. :P

So, that concludes my epic ranting on Loreto. I owe you if you read it all.

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♥ I don't really want to talk about the fuckery my family put my through again. Suffice to say I tried to deal with it as best I could. Apparently, not well enough as per usual. But don't really know what else I could have done.

♥ All results are in from Uni now. So I can finally say I have in fact, passed my first year. Not really with flying colours. I'm also really annoyed my classics mark was better than my European Studies mark. I made stuff up and didn't answer lots of things properly in that exam. I don't even want to continue with it, but I do want to continue European Studies. Well, my mark for that wasn't bad, not by a long shot, I'm just offended. :P

♥ I'm not happy. That is all really. Doing my best to just get on with it, not really working, but I'm gonna try anyway.

♥ I want to say a big thank you to amai_kaminari for sending me a virtual gift, I feel like a proper Lj veteran now. (If only I could get more than 15 icon spaces. Not a day goes by that I don't think about that. Or a rename token. Foolish of me to think up what I'd rename this journal.) HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU TOO! And to everyone else on my f-list.

♥ Yesterday was the epic radio intervew. Unsurprisingly, miss_d_meanour and I were nearly late, because of me. Well, ok, it wasn't really because of me, more everyone else. I wanted to buy my sister's Christmas present while I was in town and I had the time. Of course, fuckery just follows me around, so we had to wait for quite some time just to buy the new Kingdom Hearts DS game. I did get a free gift of a pack of Kingdom Hearts playing cards. Which I took for myself. Not that I don’t fully intend to play the game as well. So then, we, well,miss_d_meanour power walked while I trailed behind scrabbling with the cards to find the Axel one for a good luck charm, to the station. The interview was very short. Probably too short if you ask me, but I guess that’s all they needed to know. So now, we wait, until the end of the week or early next to find out if we get our show or not. We will deal with any problems then. (Like, how I’m going to get there and back at midnight, the unfairness of not being paid for it though I still hold out hope etc etc etc. :P)

♥ I did have two strange and overwhelming desires yesterday though, one was to just kneel down on the pavement and just scream out “WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY” like they do in the movies, because I am surrounded by fuckery, failure and complete stupidty, and the other was to kick/destroy/jump on the stacks of Twilight books all over the floor in Boarders. It is just getting too much, and NO. The line “At least they’re reading” DOES NOT MAKE TWILIGHT OK. TWILIGHT IS NEVER OK. It was really odd. I even had my foot poised and everything.

♥ Trying to move an iTunes library is a horror. Never do it. It did work fairly well though. I think a few extra songs got transferred back in. But, everything seems to be in working order as it should be now. Even if all m playcounts were reset. *sadface*

♥And finally, some fandom joy, in the form of a one-song tribute to Bleach and ByaRen.

( Cosmic Love )

Well, I think that concludes my epic post.

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This time last year, I would have been in Rome. A little sick, very tired but happy. I've been feeling very nostalgic and a little sad, so I decided to post up some of my favourite pictures (out of the 309 I have just of Rome) to mark the occasion.

I know I've been promising this since I got back, and I'll do other cities in upcomming entries. I promise for real.

Enjoy.



This is what happens when you try and take a photo from a moving bus. I was just getting used to my camera. I was all set to delete it too, but then I couldn't bring myself to do it. I really like it. It's a bit silly and obviously not a good photo, but the colours and the blur...look really pretty. It always reminds me of Rome now. I was trying to take a photo of one of the Roman walls/gates. That in itself is Rome to a T. All the history along the roadside. That's probably why I love it so much.



The Colosseum. Quintessentiallly Roman. I could go on a rant about the different architechtual styles used to top the collumns on each of the three levels, but that would probably be unecessarry nerdgasaming. And, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.




This is one of my favourite pictures from the trip. It's just so... Italian. Looks like home you know? All the traffic, the flag, clear skys... see what I mean about me being nostalgic and maudlin today? :P Taken from the top of L'Atare Della Patria, the monument to well, Italy I guess.



I took this inside the Vatican Museum. I don't care if the Vatican is a corrupt, backwards institution, I will protect it with my life, and even with my reanimated corpse if possible. It is absolutely priceless in terms of value to Art and Culture. (Note the capitals there). The museum is much more interesting than the actual Basilica. The plaster reliefs on the ceilings blew my mind, particularly because they were painted not actually plaster reliefs. I also think this photo is just really cool. :P



This is one of the Angels guarding the Bridge outside Castel Sant'Angelo. (Yes, that should sound familiar if you read Cantarella. :P) I really like how his back is to the sun.



This is his twin on the other corner. Facing the sun. (Ohohoho. Cantarella analogies. They are rife.)



And this is the Castle herself.



Threw my three coins in. For luck, love and one to come back. Pretty sure I threw in 50 Euro cents to come back. Don't let me down Fontana.



And finally, just because 'tis the season. Looking down from the top floor balcony. Looks really pretty and festive doesn't it? A proper white christmas. Funny thing about that department store, it was spread over two buildings separated by a road. We, a group of 20+ highschool girls, managed to pick the building that the Youth Apparel Department was not in. What luck. :P

So there you have it. The briefest taste of Rome. I could have gone on, believe me, I could have gone on. But I'd be here all night if I did, and Lj did not take kindly to this post at all. Feel free to take any if you particularly liked them.

Hope you enjoyed it.

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miss_d_meanour and I put it an application for Student Radio through Uni, and with Fortuna's blessing, we got through to the interview round. I haven't actually had anything to do with it yet, apart from comming up with the name, "CTRL ALT Musique" which came to me when I had my head curled up on my desk looking at my keyboard trying to think of a name.

So what kind of radio show are we proposing? One with alternative music of course. Lots of symph metal, Emilie Autumn, Amanda Palmer, Dark Wave, Any local bands we can find, basically, all the good shit. So, notes to self:
♥ Think of impressive things to say in this interview.
♥ Stop listening to Lady Gaga and get back into Metal Fandom Hardcore. (This would be so much easier if bands were releasing albums right now. I've listened to Delain's April Rain 50+ times, and if Lady Gaga wasn't so fresh.)
♥ Stop listening to so much K-pop. And don't justify that J-Rock is basically metal anyway and crank Alice 9, Gackt and UVERWorld instead.

Wish me luck with that. :P

♥ No, seriously, epically girl crushing on Lady Gaga right now. She's just so awesome. And I love all her lyrics. So much so that I'm so conflicted, because I usually lyrics for my entry titles and my personal message thingy on MSN, but now there are too many to choose from. :P Just had to change mine from "Don't forget my lipstick, I left it in your ashtray." This new one fit better with the radio theme.

So yes, wish us luck for this. It would be an amazing opportunity, and I don't want to screw it up for Miss D. M.

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♥ So finally, exams are over. Hopefully, I managed to pass them all, as I would be absolutely loathe to have to redo any exams/subjects. Law exams are always a stressfull experience, European Studies wasn't too bad (I hope I got away with being absolutely lax about refering to spesific paintings and artists properly) and Classics just cheated. Ah well, that will teach me to read over the rediculously incestuous Ptolemaic family tree instead of the Scipio clan's achievements.

There were some moments of mental breakdown... but, I got through it (sort of). I just need a week or two to myself to heal. Because I don't get to carry any Vital Stars like Dante can.

♥ And speaking of which, today, I finished playing Devil May Cry. I love that game to infinity. I don't know, it's kinda weirding me out that I finished it though, it just seemed too easy. There were only two missions that I had to redo, so I feel like I've... I dunno cheated or something. *shrugs* Well, I finished it, so that's something right? :P It got a tinsy little bit lame at the end though, with all the Dante/Trish shippyness, which just made me think "I'd actually care if this was Lady" but alas, it wasn't to be. (I love Lady. She's freeeesh. :D)

I have to get DMC 3 somehow. xDD

♥ I've also overcome my laziness and started watching Bleach (because there's so much of it ya know?) and it's kind of awesome. I love it. Ichigo's a honey. He makes me smile with all his youthful "I am angry and I'm going to change the world" energy. It's refreshing. I like Rukia a lot too, which makes a nice change. Usually I just want to stab the female characters. And Kuchiki-Taichou and his boyfriend Renji are just about to make their enterance. So I am very happy indeed.

♥ Sadly, I also discovered that Ninja Assassin, is sadly not due out here until March 2010. I was under the impression it was out this Thursday. So I am a little crushed. I'm also slightly annoyed because I had tomorrow all planned out and this has been disrupted. So I have an early waxing appointment for nothing. Ah well, I guess I'll just make cookies and watch Advent Children for like, the seventh time now.

And this, I think, concludes my update.
Oh and f-list, why so quiet hmm?

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♥ Two exams down. Law (unless I fail, please god don't let me fail...) over for the year. I feel as though I should be filled with some sense of achievement or pride at this, because it's the first step of my adult education, career, future blah blah blah. But, amazingly enough, I don't. This year just feels like a big continuation of school. Like I've always been there and nothing much has changed. But, I'm tired, and suddenly totally over it. Come back again in a few weeks. :P

♥ I love the heat, I really really do, but seriously, did the hottest November week on record have to fall during exams? I feel that the weather has decided that I'll be both furiously rained on and boiled in the course of persuing my further education.

♥ I've been sleeping terribly. A sure sign of this is me remembering every wacked dream I have and I'm getting really sick of them. Can I please go back to how it usually is and wake up not remembering a thing about them? Because they aren't prophetic, they're just lame and wacked and I generally know exactly what they mean. And believe me when I say, my mind is a swamp of depravity. :P

♥ Folowing this realisation, if I fail my law exams, and two upcomming arts exams, I'm just going to write B-grade smut and make millions. No one will notice its mediocre turn of phrase because the kink will blow their minds. Dante/Nero anyone? ;)

♥ I'm hoping to work up the energy to watch Iris soon, when APOPA is finished.

/random update

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Sorry, lots of angsting going on lately, I thought you know, it would be alright, one minor lj update and that would be the end of it.

Sadly, this is not the case. A cheerly little email changed that.
And I lost one of my spider earrings down the bathroom sink this morning. I knew that wasn't a good omen.

Anyway, back on topic, you know you hear of those emails that are sent to people that should have been sent to them? Innocent me thought "Oh of course not, how could you be that stupid and not check were it's going?" but of course, people are that stupid.

Nice way to find out you aren't getting that lame-ass part-time job you wanted to scrounge up some money and independence.

It really upset me. There were tears and everything, but I'm not so upset anymore. More just pissed off, and tempted to reply with something bitchy like "I really appreciate the frank and prompt response you offer potential staff that would like in your cupboard of textbook shop".

I'm putting the text here. Please feel free to tell me I'm being unreasonable. (I don't know, maybe this is how the subtly tell everyone they don't want them *shrugs*)

( It's the FORWARD BUTTON fucktard, NOT REPLY )

Well, sorry about that lj. Needed to get that off my chest. Now I can go back to doing all those notes I got up early to do.
*sighs*

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Have I mentioned that I hate studying for exams?

One of the few things that makes me a nervous wreck every time. Dreams, stress, fear, you name a negative emotion, I've got it.

It's really not a good time now.

Please let me not fail... at the very least, stop dreaming I passed then waking up and discovering it was just a dream and I still have to take the whoreson exam.

Also, please, Gods of the Weather, be kind and let it not be hot next Tuesday? the last thing I need is heatstroke during a law exam.

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Now, sadly, in my last post of the combined awesome the past few weeks, I forgot to mention something.

Animania.
Yes. My first ever con. (F-list, think of me when you're at all the big cons won't you?)It was quite fun. A few stalls, a little cosplay and a lot of dedication. I didn't actuall buy anything, because there wasn't anything I explicitly wanted. However, I did sift through the doujin piles in the hope of finding 58 because I never thought I'd see the day doujins were being sold in my own dear city. I was, however, sort of scared to see some... unscrouplous Ceil/Sebas-chan. There was also lots of Geas and Reborn (the Hitman kind). There was an amazing VK Day Class Uniform on display and some cute little Domo-Kun and Raito-kun plushies. Then, there were the awesome keyrings of Rebellion (Dante's sword) and Cloud's (or Kurado) sword (does that one have a name...?) Ms L bought Rebellion, I just looked. :P There was even a genius stall of steampunk jewelery. I quite liked the bracelet of pennies with all the English Monarchs from Victoria to now actually. The artists' displays didn't really impress me. The epic Hetalia cosplay was pretty cool, and it was sorta my fault we didn't get there in time for the cosplay comp. Ms L dug up a copy of Salty Dog II an we had a chat with the stall lady about how awesome and undervalued and unknown Saiyuki is. I chipped in with saying how much I love Gaiden (which I would pronounce Gay-den not Guy-den, which is apparently wrong..?)Also, props to the guys valliantly singing anime themes kareoke. Particularly for choosing Gravi songs. xDD

Then Ms L and I wandered down and sat on the river bank (or the algae infested cesspool that we call a river) and watched the Swans. Now, I love swans, they are beautiful, but they DO NOT have a place on the battlefield. That is all. :P

Well, I think that was a pretty good summary.

RL is sucking atm, but hopefully that will improve.

Excuse my rambles, I'm over-tired and listening to waaay too much APOPA.

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Well lj-ers, this is going to be an epic rollercoster voyage through time and space, so keep your eyes on that post at all times for your own safety.

( Are you in? )

Goodness, I haven't written an entry that long in a long long time(I also wrote it out in HTML. Yes, it has taken me that long to master). Thank you for sticking it out, please do come by again.

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Well, seems I failed my torts assignment.

I don't really see how I could have really done anything else given the fucked up parameters of it. The questions were spesifically broad, so we could you know, apparently condence some very very very very large and complex legal issues, like say, defamation legislation reform, into a thousand words.

Yes. That's right. A thousand words. Why, I had to kill myself in school learning to write 2000 word papers I will never know.

So it pushes my button when I get the paper back with comments like 'your focus was too narrow' and 'you didn't use enough sources', 'your points were undeveloped'.

No.

FUCKING.

SHIT.

Serves me right for focusing on something I personally found interesting.

I take responsibility for cutting out a lot of words and warping the grammar. But you know, if I didn't have a fucking 5% penalty for being 100 words over freaking me out, I might have left them and not been so hell bent on being under 1000 words. So now, all I have managed to convey is that I am an idiot with a slender grasp on English grammar who dared be interested in a small area of defamation law and can't write essays.

I'm so angry. Just... urgh.

I don't even want to watch Glee even though I'm now two episodes behind. I also don't think I'm going to play DMC when I come home tomorrow, I had better seriously start exam study.

Thankfully, Classics tute was ok. We got mint slices and read about the Res Gestae and a little excerpt of The Aeneid. I'd really like to buy it and read all of it, but quelle surprise I have no money to spare for things like that and the two other books I want. I really need some more clothes and shoes. So that takes priority over my very modest funds.

And finally,

Dear Torts Law Department,
THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH FOR RUINING MY WEEKEND.

Eternally in hate,

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Sometimes, I want to go live under a rock. I really do.

I'm just going to take my ipod and do that one day. I am. And use my hermitage to because a Physicis master and build a time machince and travel back to a more fitting time.

For now, I think sleeping with my head under the pillow will do.

I've also decided I can't stomach dance/pop music right now. A shame, because I have some really good stuff.

That is all.

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Short update while I waste time:

♥ Today is the birthday ofms_legerdemain

Which obviously means we celebrated it in the usual style. With japanese food (even if I epic failed and couldn't eat Ajisen's Volcano Ramen), donut ice cream (I'd spell that 'doughnut' but that's just me) wandering and window shopping for the usual. PS3 Games. And books and manga and other fun things like that. You know, the usual.

♥ Sadly, it was also the first day back to Uni after the 3/4 semester break. Could have been worse though, we did have a 'game show' Principles of Public Law seminar, so that was fun. But I also directly attribute our team losing because no one wanted to call out our team name of "Principled Public Lawyers" which I cam up with to answer the questions. Oops. I maintain it was miles better than "Juventus" and "Wildcats".

♥ I have also started describing things as 'genius'. I blame The Mighty Boosh and more spesifically, Vince Noir|Noel Fielding.
Here, have an example before I go:

Well, back to trying to find the 30 page article I need to read. *sigh*
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Here is my offering of the current in vogue lj meme (no credit, because at least two different people on my f-list have done it. Lazy I know.)

Basic Gist: Pick 5 fandoms and answer the questions under the cut AFTER you've picked them.

1) The Mighty Boosh
2) Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
3) Godchild
4) Kingdom Hearts
5) Glee

( Jesus didn't die for you, What are you on? )