lishesquex: (WoW fly away)
I hate Semantics.  If not doing this essay didn't mean that I would fail, I would not do it.  This is how much I am hating this essay right now.  >.<

Other news:

- Valkyrja hit 34 today.  I accidentally abandoned Ingbjörn, my pet.  I was rather distraught so I contact a GM... and he/she managed to restore him.  Yay!  Ingbjörn is saved.  :-)

- Bionic Woman is totally sucking right now.  Haven't seen Sarah Corvus in 2 episodes, and Jaime needs to be less ditzy.  And dump that stupid CIA guy.

- ZOMG.  Joss Whedon is making a new TV series starring ELIZA DUSHKU.  ZOMG.

- I am so tired.  -.-
lishesquex: (iconomicon knights who say ni)

So I'm skimming over this article, and my eyes fall upon the line:

"and he survives the amputation of his buttocks to die"

o.O

In other news, I totally feel like working on my NaNoWriMo again, except that I have about 3 hours to write this stupid essay so I can't.  -.-

In other other news, I have decided to pull myself together and not be emo.  I will be like Peter from Heroes.  Emo!hair one season, NO MORE EMO!HAIR the next.  No more.

How is everyone?

lishesquex: (Default)
Today... I have done nothing.

Actually, that is not true. I spent about two hours singing in German. It's actually been a rather musical day. I woke up with the Benny Lava song stuck in my head. Then I recorded myself singing "Dschingis Khan - Moskau".  And then I found some sheet music for Damien Rice's 9 Crimes and played that on the piano for a while.  But it was kinda repetitive.

So when I say I did nothing, I really mean that I didn't write anything for my NaNoWriMo which is now a couple days behind. -.-  And I haven't yet started on my next Beowulf essay.  It's due tomorrow.

It's really cold here at the moment.  I'm sitting here with a blanket on my lap and the hood of my hoodie over my head.  I didn't go on my run today either because it was pretty much rainy and windy the entire day.  Blah.

I feel unproductive.  :-/
lishesquex: (iconomicon gia fence kiss)
When I do assignments, I like to listen to one or two songs on repeat instead of having my music player on shuffle because variation in songs distract me. I amuse myself by choosing music related to whatever assignment I happen to be doing.

In first year, when I was doing my Russian Revolution research assignment, I listened to the Soviet National Anthem on repeat for 18 hours (it still has the highest play-count out of all my songs, and it's not because I'm a communist :p). Last week when I was stuck on Beowulf, I listened to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack (Tolkein wrote a book about Beowulf) and then "The Ring" from the season six Xena soundtrack. Today, I am doing my Semantics assignment, which happens to be about the preposition "under". So I'm listening to a bunch of songs with "under" in the song title.

:)

...

zomg must get off LJ and do my assignments!

*explodes from stress*

Hmm

Oct. 2nd, 2007 04:35 am
lishesquex: (xena - BtL back)
I randomly remembered just then how I used to go for 1.5 km runs in the morning every day. I have a sudden urge to start doing that again. In the mornings.

Yes, I may possibly be going insane.

I blame Beowulf.

/procrastination
lishesquex: (alias - close my eyes bw)
"Recently poetics has more frequently been combined with audience, performance, and the growth of literacy, factors which can go beyond the Germanic context in the sense given above, but contemporary exercises in the spirit of Heusler, involving comparative reconstruction of a presumably antecedent pattern and the (circular) demonstration of devolution to extant works, have also been attempted, especially for parts of Beowulf."


o.O

Jesus, this guy is worse than my Semantics readings.

......................

WHY DID I TAKE OLD ENGLISH POETRY? WHY?

*goes insane with stress and frustration*
lishesquex: (iconomicon angelina in gia)
I don't know why, but I can't seem to be able to concentrate at school work/assignments at all lately. I'm soooo easily distracted now, it's not funny anymore. I remember being the most conscientious student EVER, once upon a time. I really miss having that kind of drive and concentration and madpwningskillz. *sigh*

Anyway, here's a meme thing. :p

1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal?:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad?:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment?:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:

PLUS:
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
lishesquex: (WoW belf female)
I have an exam in about 3 hours, but I can't find the motivation to study at all. Probably because it's an open book exam.

/procrastinate

After the exam, I will be going back to WoW because WoW pwns my life. So hard.

Here is my List of Things To Do (in WoW):

- Reach Level 70
- Get a flying mount
- Locate a netherbush
- Reach 350 Blacksmithing
- Pwn the horde in some PvP
- Booterang stuff


...must... study...

*yawn*

Meh

May. 29th, 2007 01:28 am
lishesquex: (L word - always raining)
Another post because I'm procrastinating like crazy.

So, anyone else heard about what happened at the banned gay pride parade in Moscow the other day? Gah. Stuff like this just makes me so angry at humanity. It never ceases to amaze me how much energy people put into hate. It makes me wanna go march right alongside those activists in Moscow, but then I'd probably get beaten up and arrested too, so... probably a good thing I'm not in Russia right now.

Homophobia makes me so sad. *sigh* People suck.

On a side note, that incident in Moscow has actually convinced me that Tatu is not fakegay but possibly reallygay. I mean, who would voluntarily pretend to be gay and go march in a tiny protest (not even a real parade, because it was banned), with just about everyone else turning up to insult you, throw eggs at you and beat you up while the police look on? Granted, Tatu didn't get assaulted like some of the others did, but still... it was an ugly situation, and not one that people would voluntarily put themselves in, I think. And even if they're not really gay, they still get points for promoting The Gay Cause. Anyway, why should we hold it against them for being fake lesbians, when there are plenty of fake straight people out there?? (I had to bold that, because I think that may have been the most profound thing I've said all week. :p)

In other news, I've finished watching all the episodes of Voyager I've downloaded -- up till the end of Season 3. I'm trying to download Season 4 as fast as I can, but as I've gone over the 10gb limit for this month and my speed has been reduced to slower-than-a-paraplegic-snail-kbps, it isn't going very well. This also makes me sad. But not as sad as homophobia makes me.

When I become ruler of the world, there will be no homophobia and no slow internet speeds.

Quote of the day: "What happened in Moscow, leaves you speechless: to use or even tolerate violence against those who are demonstrating in a peaceful manner for the recognition of their human and civil rights is a sad sign." --Walter Veltroni
lishesquex: (alias - close my eyes bw)
After dinner today I took a nap and slept for about 4 hours because I was too tired to do any work. During this time I had a rather stressful dream about being a terrorist and needing to blow up a particular town or something by a deadline, but I kept getting distracted. Lyan was in it as my Fellow Plotter of Doom. There were also some 7 or 8 other people who joined our cause. I think it was partly inspired by Robin Hood, which I've been watching on Sundays (7:30pm ABC). We were definitely hiding out in a Robin Hood-esque cabin. It was pretty weird.

Anyway, I never got to carry out my nefarious plans because my alarm clock woke me up at 10:45 pm and I've been up doing this stupid assignment (read: procrastinating) ever since.

Grammar of English + 5:20 am = *headdesk* ... Zzzzzzzzz

God I hate this assignment.

*stabs it with a spork*
lishesquex: (gia fence kiss)
Does anyone else get the post-procrastination blues?

I hate it when this happens. While I'm procrastinating about, say, writing an essay, I want to do everything BUT write the essay. I want to read fan fiction, watch Xena reruns, play every single one of my numerous video games, play with my sister, paint, exercise, dance, sleep... anything.

But after I finish the essay...

Nothing. I don't feel like doing anything. (Except write pointless LJ entries, apparently.)

Blah.


Random fact of the day: The year that the 800 year long Spanish Reconquista ended with the defeat of the last Muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula (Granada) - 1492 - was the same year that Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world. Ahh, gotta love Expansionist-Imperial Europe - always looking for new peoples to conquer and subjugate.

guh

Apr. 4th, 2007 03:35 am
lishesquex: (Xena - coffee now)
omg.

the crusades suck. the popes suck. papal bulls suck. wikipedia sucks for having a crappy little WRONG entry about the audita tremendi.

assignments suck.

i suck. for procrastinating.

i also suck for picking sucky subjects like the crusades. should have known there would be boring religious text to analyse.

and i'm too tired to type in capitals.

>.<
lishesquex: (Xena caesar salad)
During my procrastination I've been looking at a list of all the Popes of the Catholic Church. And I've discovered that their names fall into several key categories:

The Average Pope Name (Usually Preceding A Complicated Roman Numeral)
Clement
Gregory
Benedict
John
Urban

Harry Potter Pope Names
Severinus
Lucius
Siricius

Decidedly Pagan Sounding Pope Names
Dionysius
Conon
Zephyrinus
Damasus
Callistus

Pope Names That Are Trying To Tell Us Something Through Their Resemblance To Certain Adjectives:
Innocent
Pius
Vigilius
Honorius

Downright Funny Sounding Pope Names
Simplicius
Hilarius
Sisinnius
Boniface
Pontian
Donus

And that is all I have to say about Pope Names.
lishesquex: (Alias - dead sexy)
So I've been sitting here for like 8 hours with this Word document which has nothing on it except "The Crusades 131-237 Document Analysis" at the top. In these 8 hours, I've watched 2 episodes of Heroes, 3 episodes of Angel, V for Vendetta, had dinner, and played Civ III.

Procrastination FTW. It's really, really, really bad since I'm sooooo behind in work it's not funny. But still. FTW.
lishesquex: (Default)
1600 more words to write before I'm free from assignments for the next 4 months or so.

...

I wonder if I can just not do this one.

I'd probably still pass.

...

*smacks myself upside the head*

ZOMG LILIAN JUST DO YOUR ESSAY AND STOP PROCRASTINATING.

Good news: 10 more hours before I can play WoW again. :-D
lishesquex: (WoW panda bum)
...until I keel over in exhaustion.

Which is likely what will happen if I keep writing LJ entries instead of writing this godforsaken essay from hell.

Why did duels, jousts and tournaments disappear during the 1400-1900s? HELL IF I KNOW (actually I do, but I don't want to write 10 pages about it). I'm so tempted to write that they didn't! THEY LIVE ON in the form of duelling and PVP in games like World of Warcraft, where crazy people like me can strip with my guildies and duel naked in the snow outside Ironforge. I wish I'd taken a screencap. I even had a dream the next day in which I was wearing nothing but a big red cape (like the cape I have in WoW). It was very amusing.

Anyway. In honour of naked duelling....

If you are one of the first FIVE people to comment in this posting I will create something for you. It will be something small, personal, and made or put together by me. You must be on my friends list to participate. It would help if we actually comment in each other's journals, since that makes it easier to think of something to make. But as long as you're on my friends list, you can participate.

Now here are the catches:

1. You may need to answer a few questions if I don't know you all that well
2. It may be mailed to you OR it could be posted in my journal or privately emailed depending on what I decide is most appropriate for you
3. I make no guarantees that you will like it (but I won't send out something that I myself am not satisfied with - I won't send it if *I* don't like it)
4. I get as much time as I need. I promise you'll eventually get something - but creativity comes in spurts, so I can't promise you'll get them right away.
5. And MOST important: If you decide to have me make you something then you have no obligation whatsoever to post the same offer in your own journal.

And yes, my icon does indeed depict a panda bum. It will duel you. In the snow.

*headdesk*

Nov. 6th, 2006 01:25 am
lishesquex: (Default)
You know when procrastination REALLY has gotten out of hand, when, in desperation, you begin to watch The Numa Numa Dance repeatedly in an attempt to delay writing the next paragraph in your essay.

Oh, the pain.
lishesquex: (Default)
The World of Warcraft Addiction Test )

I found this community: [livejournal.com profile] anti_wow. It's full of women complaining about how their lazy, fat-ass boyfriends and husbands play WoW all day and don't have sex with them anymore. While I do sympathise with some of them (somewhat), I feel like they should just bash their errant WoW-addicted males over the head with a keyboard or something. Hell, that's what I'd want my girlfriend to do if I ever become as much of a jerk as what some of those men sounded like.

In other news.

I'm procrastinating somethin' fierce. Ever since I got up 2 hours ago, I've been procrastinating. I have like, half a day to finish this huge ass research assignment, and ZOMG I'M STILL PROCRASTINATING.

I stopped playing WoW (for the time being) so I could study, but it hasn't stopped me from procrastinating.

*twitch*

ZOMG LILIAN GO DO YOUR ESSAY.

*bangs head on desk repeatedly*

ZOMG.
lishesquex: (Alias - close my eyes bw)
Random point of interest:

"Cedric" isn't really a name. It's a misspelling/typo in Sir Walter Scott's famous novel Ivanhoe. The actual Saxon name is "Cerdic".

I watched another episode of Hercules today with Rianna. It made me groan. Many times. Somehow I never realised how truly ridiculous this show was back when I first watched it. Today's episode featured a scary, muscular, brunette, leather-clad woman (not at all resembling Xena, lol) who moved all stiffly like a Barbie and made water-gurgling sounds whenever she moved (because she was made of water) and was all laconic like Arnold I-don't-know-how-to-spell-his-last-name in the Terminator. She was also Terminator-like in that she appeared newly formed, nude, killed someone for their clothes, and then was on a one-way mission to kill Hercules. In fact, I'm going to call her Terminator Barbie from now on. Anyway, so she's this uber Killer Indestructible Terminator Barbie who's punching (not killing, because Herc is G rated) everyone in her path and causing general mayhem... and what does Hercules say when she turns up ready to kick his ass half way to Mt Olympus?

"I won't fight a woman." *stubborn look*

...

YOU IDIOT, HERCULES!!!!!

*fumes* By the gods, chivalry pisses me off sometimes.

Really, I think all these gender studies subjects are ruining everything for me. *wry grin*

Anyway.

I had a dream this morning that I was playing a Jewel song on an electric guitar and I knew exactly what chords I was using and everything. When I woke up I immediately got out my old guitar and tried to play it, but... yeah, it didn't work. Lol. Damnit! It was so clear in the dream!

P.S. Don't see the fnord.
lishesquex: (Default)
I'm going to get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from playing the free, downloadable equivalent of Dance Dance Revolution on my keyboard for many hours at a time.

Why pay scores of dollar coins at the arcade when you can do it free, in the privacy of your own home, sitting down and moving only three fingers? (Okay, that sounded dirty, and I totally didn't mean it for it to sound dirty. I swear.) You can even connect a dance pad to the computer if you've got one, and use that... but I rather like the sitting down and moving only your fingers option. :D

...

So... I have five and a half hours before my next essay is due. I really should stop procrastinating.

...

Oh, I think I forgot to mention this amidst all my internet troubles and exam period stressing outness. I got my yellow belt in Karate the other week. *beams proudly* Here's a part of a group pic that was taken right after the grading.

Look, there's me! )

I also got a haircut on the weekend, so I no longer look quite like the long haired lass in that picture.

...

Um. Right. Essay.

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