So, I've been back at uni for weeks, and it's been reeeeeaaallly busy! Not so much with uni stuff, although there's a very large amount of reading involved to which I dedicate my weekends - but between extra-curricular stuff, social engagements, watching dvds that need to be returned, hehe...it's been full on.

Traditional summary of classes:

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I played some of Portal yesterday; Jaron hired it, and guided me through a little over half of it, at which point I got him to finish it so I could see the ending, and wrap my head around the later puzzles at another time, when I own it ( Read more... )

So, this visit to Auckland feels like the best holiday I've had in a while!

Partly, it'll be because I'd been working a lot (well, for me) previously, so stopping work and getting away was particularly nice. You never appreciate holidays so much as when you've been really busy. I'm glad I got to be with Mum for Christmas for Mum's sake, and I had a ( Read more... )

Because I haven't done one of these things in AGES. Stolen from Clare who stole it from Clo.

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New work of fiction to which I am now extremely atteched: The Lies of Locke Lamora, aka The Gentleman Bastards Sequence. Books, fantasy, author Scott Lynch, and awesome. As a couple of internet sources have pointed out, there is pretty much zero 'net fandom, the official site is really out of date, and the series is generally under-loved. How can ( Read more... )

As written by the illustrrious Guff of Epic Win Blog:

"Let me get this straight: you take all my money, and then you make me work in exchange for the privilege of giving you all my money? Congratulations higher academia, you’re the biggest scam since Avon."

I really like that blog but it's all hiatus-y, I eagerly await their return ^_^

So - Obama - yay! Very cool. Major points to McCain for his gracious concession, which I haven't heard much of yet actually, but form what I've seen and by all accounts it was a very good speech. I feel very informed about the system and the campaign process from fnishing The West Wing with Mum last week, the seventh season being all about the ( Read more... )

Just watched the last episode of Eureka Seven - I've watched the last disc, six episodes, over the evening since I got home from work. Omg, so awesome ( Read more... )

Greetings all. For those who don't live in Wellington and have thus not heard me keening (:P), my computer got a bad virus a few weeks back and has been out of action for a painfully long time. I ended up having to just back up data and reinstall Windows, and start again. I thought I was going to have to buy Vista for a while there - noooo! - but ( Read more... )

Having finally got around to watching more of this, I am itching to finish it - three more discs to go, and only from the more expensive video store, and uni starts again on Monday and I'm going to need to get to work. But...I wanna know what happens!

Don't you love it when a couple (an obvious from the start kind of one) gets together on a show, ( Read more... )