I'm going to throw the computer I am using out the damn window if it doesn't start playing nice.

I'm trying to finish off an essay but Microsoft Word has decided that it doesn't like OpenOffice footnoting and has totally stuffed my footnotes up.

The last time this happened I had to retype the whole essay and reinsert all the footnotes, it took me three hours.

Does anyone know how to make OO and Word play nice so I don't have to go through that again?

(Also I realize that 99% of my entries lately have been academic bitching but right now I have no life outside of academia so I apologise. I also do promise to update about the bestest thing ever, Crowded House concerts soon.)

The fact that I have caught an upper respiratory infection and/or viral laryngitis (dry cough, sore throat and hoarseness in addition to feeling even tireder than usual, fun.) is not helping.

ETA: I give up, I'm going to go home and work on it there with my nice working footnotes, coming out here would have been a complete waste of time if not for the fact that I d/led two episodes of 30 Rock and one episode of Once & Again.

1. The damn politics thing is finished, suckily and 150 words overlong but done.

2. cryptictac is evil, she made me fall in love with House/Stacy (I merely liked them before,) Now I'm capping every House/Stacy scene to make icons because they deserve A LOT more love.

3. We get season 4 of House at the same time as the US, squee!

4. My parents, my sister, mum's friend Kerry (whom I've never actually met but know a ridiculous amount about) and Kerry's daughter Amy (who is the same age as my sister) are coming down here for two days next week. Then my parents and my sister are coming down for another week in two weeks time, maybe three and then mum and Julie (an possibly Gabby) are coming down in October and then mum is coming down in November with her friends Kerrie, Joanne and Brenda. Well that's my time with the family quota filled for the year. No I'm actually looking forward to seeing them again, it is amazing what time apart can do for family relationships, I actually talk to my dad on the phone about once every 10 days, I would have been lucky to have one decent conversation with him per month when I was living at home. The only downside to this is that this is all during term time and my parents fail at realizing just how much work is required to do well in an arts degree, also I'm staying at the hotel with them so I get little breaks from my evil housemates.

5. The loan is approved, I'm getting a new apartment! DOUBLE SQUEE! I'm going to be a little more motivated to haul my ass out of bed at 7am on a Sunday to go property hunting now.

6. I wish I had been a contestant on Temptation tonight, they asked questions about The West Wing and Angels In America, Temptation FTW!

7. ( I want these t-shirts so bad right now. )

I want a) because my Asian studies lecturer James has a massive range of Chinese kitcsh and I'm totally obsessed with it and I want b) because L.O.U.D. (La Trobe Organization of University Debaters, of which I'm a proud member, does this make me a total nerd Y/Y?) can turn a debate about any given topic in to one or any combination of the following i) The Jarvis defence ie: New Zealand fails epically at everything ergo everything else is better than NZ (bouns points are given if I'm ajudicating and you manage to detach Neil Finn from his Kiwi roots) ii) a series of increasingly outrageous and hilarious analogies to pornography or iii) a series of hilarious and increasingly irrelavant to the topic being debated "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

8. That is all, I declare this post over.