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.

A list of things I love about today:

± I got 8 hours sleep, on a Sunday night, a feat I have not achieved since March.
± The weather is divine, it is about 24°C (75°F), sunny and slightly breezy, I ate lunch outside on the lawn for the first time since May it was so nice.
± We are finished with economics in politics! Added to that Tony Jarvis is taking our lectures this week instead of Joe Camalleri and lectures with Tony Jarvis make me a very happy politics student. Tony Jarvis is made of win! (and this is coming from pretty much the only female 1st year politics student that hasn't developed a crush on the guy although I can see why most of my friends have and I'm still a total fan!girl.) People cheered when he walked into the room and applauded at the end of the lecture, that doesn't happen all that often.
± Monday means media studies lectures, media studies always puts me in a good mood (I think I'm the only person who can be put in a good mood by attending a lecture and that actually does have something to do with the course content because I don't have Terrie Waddell (nor will I have her next semester, woe is me, I do have her 2nd semester next year and the year after though) this semester and media still makes me happy.)
± Asian studies this afternoon is about popular culture in China, that sounds like an interesting topic, also my Asian studies tutorial was made of win today, we had a debate about the One Child Policy and it got totally, hilariously chaotic, one person, playing the role of a Chinese propaganda official compared themselves to Joesph Goebbels in Nazi Germany and it just went downhill from there.
± I think I will still have enough energy when I get home to finish my critical paper on auteur theory.