Psapphirical

Oh god staying home today was a mistake.  HALPS THE PROCRASTINATION MONSTER IS EATING ME.

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Who am I kidding?  It's already eaten me and I am now stewing helplessly in its digestive juices.

I'm procrastinating hardcore, so I will talk about WoW.

Today I ran heroic Halls of Lightening and heroic Violet Hold.  I managed to get myself two more epics.  A staff which dropped from heroic VH, and then I bought myself a belt with my saved up emblems.  I also finally reached Champion status in the Argent Tournament.  Getting really sick of the dailies though.

I finally got the Explorer title, after months of flying/riding around Azeroth hitting up all the places I didn't explore during my questing days, which were usually the most far away, annoying, hard to find places.  I think the next title I'll aim for is Chef.  I really want "Salty" but some of the fishing achievements are nigh impossible.

On the productivity front... I've done half a report.  Yes, half.  I still need to do another 33.5 reports, and mark about 20 exam papers.

/fail

You know what's hard?  Writing a literature review when one of the key sources you're basing your review on is an article your lecturer/tutor wrote earlier this year.  -.-  Even worse?  He's on my CV as a referee.  And I happen to really like him.  Makes it really hard to bullshit.  It really does.

This is almost worse than the time I had to bullshit my way through a Beowulf essay when I knew the guy marking my essay was one of the pre-eminent scholars of Old English/Beowulf in the world.  And the tutorial had only six people in it, so it wasn't like I could just hand the crap essay in and hide my feelings of mediocrity in the comforting blankets of anonymity.

Gah.

4000 words are all that's keeping me from the end of the MTeach. 

I attempted to pull an all-nighter last night but failed.  There was a big storm, and one of my favorite things is to go to sleep with thunder rumbling in my ears and rain pounding on my windows.  So around 3am I gave up the fight and blissfully passed out on my bed.  Set my alarm for 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30.  I eventually got up 4 hours later than intended from my nap-turned-coma.

This morning my flist is bursting with excited screencaps of WotLK, and I am cursing the world.  I cannot convey to you how much I want to go pick up my pre-ordered Collector's Edition and install it and just... play.  But I can't.  *twitch*

I am drinking tea.

I just read the funniest article on AfterEllen - 11 Unintentionally Scary Lesbian TV Moments.  Number 8 is so very true, lol.  And number 1 made me want to watch Bad Girls again really badly.  Mmm Helen Stewart... *dreamy look*

In other news, I've been keeping abreast of the US election while at the same time getting my daily dose of lesbian-in-a-powersuit through The Rachel Maddow Show.  Fun fun.

Yesterday I finished reading Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden.  For those of you who don't know, it's a 1980s teen romance book depicting a lesbian relationship with a happy ending (shock horror!).  I thought it was okay.  Sweet, but a little out-dated.  The characters were a little bland, too.  They could have been anyone (which is probably what Nancy Garden was aiming for, I guess).  But whatev.  Alix and Valerie is way better.  :D

And finally, I've developed a minor crush on Bridget McManus after watching several episodes of Brunch with Bridget.  I just watched Episode 23 (Brunch with Spashley) and zomg I'd forgotten how cute Spencer/Ashley is.  I really need to download Season 2 of South of Nowhere.

I'm looking forward to life after the MTeach.  Here is my list of things to do so far:
- Play badminton with junet_
- Go to a gay club with junet_ where I will proceed to not drink alcohol, refuse to dance, and be too shy to go up to women for the entire evening
- Pick up Wrath of the Lich King and overdose on WoW
- Buy an Xbox 360 and Rock Band
- Watch South of Nowhere, Bad Girls, Chuck, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and anything else I've been too busy to follow
- Sleep, eat, etc.

OMG GUYS, I NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING OR I AM GOING TO FAIL.

O.O

*twitch*

I should be doing my Semantics essay but in my procrastination I somehow ended up on a Chinese poetry site. So I'm reading poems with fascinating titles such as "Many People Come to Visit and Bring Wine After I Fell Off My Horse, Drunk."

I found this Chinese/English dictionary online, which is really cool, because it lets you look up Chinese characters by drawing them. How freaking awesome is that? I wish I had something like that back in my Chinese school/VCE days.

So, I've been listening to Damien Rice - 9 Crimes way too much. Last night in my nightmare about having a party in which all my high school classmates came to my house and I had no idea how to entertain them all, someone handed me a microphone and made me sing "9 Crimes" in front of everyone. It was quite traumatizing. Like srsly.

I wish my essays would magically write themselves. This semester has been so full of fail. I don't think I've handed a single essay in on time. It's all very odd for me, because usually I'm like the most conscientious student evah. Well, I used to be.

Zomg Julia is pwning me in Scrabulous! -.-
Good to know that some things never change though. :-)

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Must. Get. Essays. Done. OMG.