The X-files: I Want to Believe trailer.

80% of it is the same WonderCon trailer but still, real, actual proper trailer!!!!!!!!!!

My body is making involuntary flaily motions and I'm suddenly not tired anymore.

You and I are a Gang of Losers - The Dears - I love this song so much and it reminds me of Mulder and Scully. My sister who has launched into full X-files fangirlishness since being here with me agrees about this song being very Mulder and Scully.

I have a sociology essay due on Monday and I have barely started but I'm not worried. Yet.

I brought two long-sleeved t-shirts, two short-sleeved t-shirts and a scarf from Cotton On today for $50.00, I win shopping, they fit really well too, I'm going to go back and get more.

My sister and I went to Chapel Street today where she got the most awesome new handbag (handbags are like a fandom for my sister, seriously, I've never seen someone devote so much time and/or money to the acquisition of handbags, she is like the Imelda Marcos of handbags.)

( Pic under here. )

(Also my sister can make any hat look good. The hat she is wearing in this picture makes me look slightly well, challenged.)

I'm going to a party tomorrow night, yay, I haven't been to a party in ages.

It is freezing cold and has been for days.

Well thats all for now. I need to go to bed.

I'm still here, just very busy right now.

My sister is staying with me at the moment and man has that lead to some nerdy scenes. Such as the two of us discussing the relative merits of the various incarnations of The Doctor (Ten pwns all.) Each of us sitting at a computer trawling wikipedia whilst a third computer is being used as a video player/jukebox, both of us reading fandom!secrets and discussing them and the list goes on an on. My sister has been fairly easygoing thus far (she has a tendency to get very highstrung and stressed when out of her home environment) and generally fun to be around.

I also have a sociology essay due next Monday and I've started to seriously research/write it which is also taking up time.

Also my sister being here using the internet and some asshole in my building stealing my internet means that I'm currently suffering though 12 days of 64kb hell so flisting is taking forever.

That said I've been kind of glad to miss the House/Wilson fans acting like total fuckwits, God I hate House fandom, I've been in fandom for 15 years now and I have ever seen a group of people behave as consistently ridiculously as the various House shipper groups do.

Also ( this (X-files spoiler pic) ) caused my sister and I to squee for about three hours straight when we saw it and speaking of The X-files does anyone know if the trailer for XF:IWTB is going to be attached to Ironman in Australia as well? My sister and I are considering seeing it and if the trailer was attached then we would 99% go.

My first attempt at a motivator poster.

From an MSR fic that has to read to be believed:

I look down at his chest and notice that his black, hairy treasure trail
leads directly down to a mass of curls surrounding a large set of engorged
balls. He has a grand, tumescent hard-on topped with a deep reddish-purple
head that sits on the end of it like a huge silky mushroom. A pearl of pre-cum
is perched on its very tip.

I'm trying to decide which is worse, the mushroom metaphor, the hairy treasure trail or the pearl of pre-cum.

01. I have a bruise on the back of my hand that is a) very painful and b) completely mysterious in its origins, LAME.

02. I'm hating public transport even more than usual right now. There is tram work on Flinders Street in the city which means that the buses that go to and from La Trobe are being diveted. They are supposed to be running on Lonsdale Street which is actually more convienient for me as my bus runs along Lonsdale, too bad that in reality they are running to no predefined route whatsoever and it is pretty much up to random chance as to whether the bus will show or not. I've pretty much given up on the bus service for the time being and have started catching the tram instead which is a total pain in the ass as the tram takes about 70 minutes on a good run and up to 90 minutes in peak hour (the bus takes 40 minutes if it is an express service and 50-60 minutes if it is a Clifton Hill service.) The fact that everyone else who travels to La Trobe from the city also seems to be catching the tram isn't helping, I had to stand for the whole trip on Monday which for me is a total nightmare, my disabilitiy makes it difficult to balance at the best of time and makes standing on a moving object that repeatedly stops and starts a near impossibility. I was so exhausted by the time I got to university, I felt like I had run a marathon from the effort it took to remain upright and not fall. I've also had to stand on the bus on the way home a fair bit though I don't find it as difficult as the tram it is still pretty tiring.

03. Never Again is such an awesome episode of The X-files with all the discontent, rebellious, tattoo-getting, sextastic Scully and Mulder at Graceland, so much win there.

04. NEW EPISODE OF 30 ROCK TODAY! YAYS!!! I can barely wait.

05. I am finished all of my mid-semester assessment, I have written 33 pages of text in just under three weeks and for a change I'm actually feeing pretty confident with my work which probably means it sucks. Now all I have to do is complete two major research projects, one a qualitative study of Sports Night fandom and one a media discourse analysis of AFL coverage in Sydney and Melbourne, write papers with the data gathered from those research projects, complete two presentations, wirte an essay and complete an exam. God that seems like A LOT OF WORK.

06. This House/Wilson vid by cryptictac is all kinds of brilliant, go watch!

Do you guys think that having three citations by one author is too many in an eight citation annotated bibliography?

All three citations are from or are of three different books, if that makes any difference.

(And it is hardly my fault that Henry Jenkins is pretty much the be all and end all when it comes to academic writing on media fandom.)

ETA: Speaking of Henry Jenkins, I love this quote from his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide: Fans are the most active segment of the media audience, one that refuses to simply accept what they are given, but rather insists on the right to become full participants.

And on a completely unrelated note I'm making myself an The X-files LJ layout when I get home tonight.

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.

24TH JULY 2008!!!!!!!!

XF2 International Release Dates!!!!!





Originally posted by done_one @ xfiles

FLAILS SOME MORE!!!

Will post coherent thoughts about the trailer as soon as I have coherent thoughts about the trailer.

*goes to find more X-files icons*

ETA: Also, this.

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