Why can't I initiate an AIM conversation today?

I'm feeling stupidly shy about it, My fear of initiating conversation with new people exists online as well apparently.

This is why it takes me so long to make friends.

Anyone want to chat?

On a less stupid note I have seen the final three episodes of 30 Rock and all I can say is:

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OH BE STILL MY SHIPPERY HEART!

Why am I not tired?

It is 12:30 (not at all late by my standards but still...) and I have to be up at 8am. I'm hoping that if I got to bed with some Arrested Development on that I'll fall asleep pretty quickly because I'm sick of ending up with sleep depravation headaches on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.

Also why do I read about timeslot changes and ratings in the 30_rock community, all that ever ends up happening is I end up getting anxious that yet another show I love will be canceled. This is probably irrational but I've been burnt one too many times by various US networks (and don't even get me started on Australian TV networks.) If 30 Rock got canceled I would cry. Seriously.

( 2.11 MILF Island )

My Top 10 30 Rock Episodes:
01. Ludachristmas
02. Greenzo
03. MILF Island
04. Blind Date
05. 2.10 Untitled
06. Cougars
07. The C Word
08. Cleveland
09. Up All Night
10. Seinfeldvision

Now I want to do a huge pic!spam/quote post but I probably won't have time for a few weeks:-(

Finally, Finally finished my annotated bibliography for Press & Society! It has been tormenting me for like two weeks now. I also finally came up with a title and topic for the essay. The title is Read All About It? Analyzing Press Coverage of the AFL in Sydney and well I think the topic is pretty self-explanatory. I am going to be doing a media discourse analysis comparing AFL coverage in Sydney and Melbourne and then examining why coverage is lacking in Sydney.

I am now finished 50% of my assessment for Press & Society, the other 50% is the essay itself.

Now all I have to do to finish off this round of assessment is complete my annotated bibliography for New Media and Society then I can take a break from university assessment for about 10 days before starting my final essay for sociology which will be How is the experience in Australia today of either young women or young men becoming adult today different from that of their grandmothers or grandfathers?

My aim for this semester is finish all my work without needing extensions which I am entitled to under my IEP but I feel so much more accomplished if I don't need to use them.

Tonight I plan on collapsing on my bed, watching some X-files and maybe writing a little fanfiction or making the 30 Rock quote icon set I've been thinking about all week.

Title: A Cake
Author: Jacqueline, stare_me_out
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairing: Jack Dongahy/Liz Lemon
Table: Sex
Prompt: #11 - vanilla
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: Liz asks Jack for an unusual birthday present.
Notes: This is the first of three drabbles in the same story arc. Dialogue only.

(A Cake)

Title: A hint
Author: Jacqueline, stare_me_out
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairing: Jack Dongahy/Liz Lemon
Table: Sex
Prompt: #15 - want
Rating: G
Warnings: A really, really insignificant spoiler for 2.01 - Seinfeld Vision.
Word Count: 100
Summary: Liz schemes, Jack's just baffled.
Notes: This is the second of three drabbles in the same story arc. Dialogue only.

(A Hint)

Title: A Thing
Author: Jacqueline, stare_me_out
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairing: Jack Dongahy/Liz Lemon
Table: Sex
Prompt: #14 - delicious
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Summary: A vacation.
Notes: This is the third of three drabbles in the same story arc.
Dialogue only.

(A Thing)

Which was initially because I was completely wiped after the first half of the first assignment period at uni (In which I read three 40 page journal articles and wrote a 1,500 word piece of assessment based on them for sociology and performed data synethesis and analysis of three 45 minute long interviews I designed and administered then wrote and delievered a 20 miniute presentation based on my findings for media studies) and didn't want to write or read anything, journal entries or otherwise.

I basically sat around the house, played The Sims 2 (I just got the vacation expansion pack) and watched a hell of a lot of TV (which I will discuss below.)

It turned out pretty awesomely for me because I was able to steer clear of all the drama that has been going down in livejournal over the last week (i.e. the "strike") and instead rediscover some old fandoms and discover new ones. Mainly through actually watching TV something I don't do a lot of lately.

I watched all nine episodes of Private Practice, which I have watched once before but mostly as I was going to sleep at night (I'm one of those people WHO CANNOT FALL ASLEEP without noise) so I missed a lot of things. I love this show, I think I actually prefer it to Grey's Anatomy, mainly because it is less focused on the medicine so I don't get enraged everytime they Shonda and Co. manage to make simple mistakes. I also prefer the characters on this show (the George/Izzie thing on Grey's and Izzie's character in general post Denny are driving me up the wall,) I have like three ships, Cooper/Violet, Addison/Pete and Sam/Naomi and I of course love that it is Addison focused, because Addie wins.

( Private Practice 1.01-1.09 - Random Musings )

I'm going through a X-Files renaissance at the moment, watching season one again from the very beginning really paying attention as opposed to using it as comforting background noise. The X-files was my first fandom 15 years ago (I watched it with my mum.) I wrote my first piece of fanfiction in 1993 (when I was 11 1/2,) it was a 500 (or so) word MSR that involved thier first kiss (and I'm fairly sure was horiffically bad,) I carried it around on a floppy disk (I feel old just writing the words floppy disk) and eventually posted it to alt.tv.xfiles when I finally got the internet in high school (I searched and I can't find it, it probably is still there somewhere.)

The first season is so brilliant. Some of the best episodes of the whole series are season one episodes. Beyond The Sea is still, at least to me one of the best episodes of any TV show ever.

I am so hyped for the movie now, it comes out the week after my birthday, w00t.

( House 4.11 Frozen and House 4.12 Don't Ever Change )

Ludachristmas is the best episode of 30 Rock to date, it was so good I wanted to take it out behind the middle school and get it pregnant, Secrets and lies was pretty good too.

Well that pretty much brings me up to yesterday (when I started writing this entry) and I think this is probably lone enough not so I'll leave it there but you can expect some spamming from me over the next few days as I ease back into things:-)

One last thing, new layout! stare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_out

It has the most adorable photoshoot of Tina Fey (AKA one of my many, many fantasy girlfriends.) I must icon this.

Also I think I'm going to have to photoshop an image, something akin to Tina's Hefner rant to explain all my fantasy girlfriends.

ETA: I just realized that Tina's scar isn't airbrushed out, this makes me very happy. It is not that I'm in anyway into scars (well I am to an extent, small scars are sexy) it is that they haven't tried to airbrush away every imperfection and these days that is a rare thing to find in mainstream print media.

University continues to kick my ass but I'm finally getting the upper hand and feeling like I'm in control. I have finished my radio history essay (and feel really confident about it), am working on my essay about Pakistan (which would be going a lot better if I could find a workable definition of Islamic Republic from a non-Wikipedia source and knew how to use the Harvard referencing system, Chicago I can do in my sleep now but I'm still really weak with Harvard and suck at using MLA and APA) and will complete my other four (one of which is half-done so 3.5 and one which is actually an annotated bibliography not an essay so 2.5) essays when I'm in Sydney from the 26 October-6th November.

My mum, Julie and Gab are coming down on Tuesday and will be staying until Friday, then I'm going to Sydney because I AM GOING TO SEE CROWDED HOUSE (as much as I hate the circumstances in which Nick and Neil were brought together again and as much as it just won't be the same without Paul I still can't believe that I actually get to see Crowded House)!!! TWICE!!! AND AGAIN IN MELBOURNE!!! I can't believe it is only 14 days! It has been 11 months since I have seen a Finn perform live (That was Tim at the Forum in January) and almost 18 months since I have seen Neil in any incarnation. 11 months is the longest I have gone without seeing a Finn brother since July 2005 (which is the first time I saw either one of them live due to a variety of reasons including but not limited to student poverty, the Crowdies habit of playing in over 18's venues back in the day and my parents being total assholes and not letting me go to Farewell to the World, for which they will never be fully forgiven.)

I hope my Neil staking efforts pay off again, I have been lucky in the past:

( Adventures in stalking )

Still on a fannish note, I like the two most recent episodes of House but will need to watch them again, as I was so wiped out the first time I watched them I barely remember them and 30 Rock is my new girlfriend, until such time as I get a new one and since it has been three years I'm not exactly optimistic on that front.

On a not cool and not fannish note I fell over on Thursday night running to catch a bus and have done some semi-serious damage to my already damaged left knee. I was running, which I almost never do because I have mild foot drop (which is worse in my left foot thanks to some drunken asshole on a tram who stepped on my awkwardly positioned ankle last year tore a bunch of ligaments) and running makes it much worse, combine that with the fact that I was trying to get the bus drivers attention instead of looking where I was going (I almost always look down at my feet when I walk to make sure I'm aware of what is ahead of me so I can step higher if I need too which looks odd but is better than falling) and the next thing I know I've tripped over a speed hump/divider type thing in the road and fallen left knee first into the next one along. Thankfully the damage only soft tissue bruising but the knee couldn't really take anymore damage that it already had and has started to get all clicky and locky again from me trying to position it so it doesn't hurt, blerg.

I have more to say but I need to get back to my essay so more later.

i) I stole this meme from mausygurl's journal. ( 10-1 meme )

ii) I got my period five days early, for no reason whatsoever. The worst part, aside from the agonizing pain and the nausea the pain brings with it is that I have hardly any supplies left so I had to call my mum so she could give me some money and now she is pissed at me. At least the feeling of overwhelming blahness that has been clinging to me since last Thursday should lift for a while now. Message to my body: YOU SUCK!

iii) I'm sad that I have completely caught up on 30 Rock, now I have to wait for new episodes, one week is too long to wait between episodes damnit!

iv) I've decided to start downloading Private Practice, I neeeeeed my Kate Walsh fix. I'll wait for Grey's Anatomy though.

v) I was going to have a rant about politics but I've run out of time, damn.

01. ( House 4.01 - Alone )

02. Is anyone else bothered by the fact that following House's temporarily successful ketamine treatment in 3.01 that in addition to no longer feeling pain he also regains full use of his leg? The fact that he no longer feels pain does not negate the fact that he is missing (what would appear to be, judging by his commentary at the end of Three Stories) a rather substantial portion of of his right quadriceps. I buy that he may have been able to walk short distances without a cane, but skateboarding and running, not so much.

03. I am in love with 30 Rock, I've downloaded and watched the first four episodes thus far and it now owns my soul.

04. ( Cut for a casting spoiler regarding the US version of Kath & Kim, which isn't really a spoiler since it was printed in today's Herald Sun... )

05. University is kicking my ass right now. I have three 1,500+ word essays due in it the next two weeks, an annotated bibliography to write and a 2,000 word essay due on the 5th of November (which I'm going to have to hand in on by the 23rd of October because my mum, Julie and Gab are coming down which means I'll get absolutely no work done and them I'm going back to Sydney with them on the 27th until the 8th November.) Somehow between all these assessment I'm supposed to do all my readings and go to class too.

06. This month is one of those rare months in which I get paid three times before my rent is due again which means I have an extra $400 to play with. Last time I spent the lot on DVD's and I was highly tempted to do the same again, until I remembered that my parents were no longer going to buy me the Nintendo DS I wanted for Christmas because they are buying me things for the apartment instead so I brought a Nintendo DS, got a free game with it Pixar's Cars which is a much better game than I expected it to be and brought two more games in the form of the first Brain Training game (because I am a total nerd and love games like that) and Animal Crossing: Wild World which I have promptly become obsessed with, it is like the console version of The Sims except Japanese and on CRACK! I also brought an AFL themed protector that came with inserts for all 16 teams, I had the Geelong inserts in for about three hours until I was overcome with guilt and switched them out for my Saints. Yay, no more being bored whilst traveling 4-6 hours a day to and from uni.

07. Speaking of travel, every time I pass the stop where I'll get off the tram once I move, knowing that I have another 20-40 minutes (depending on traffic) to go before I get here I get a little bit more pissed off.

08. There is no 08:-)