Firstly the meh things:

I'm coming down with a cold, I have a cough and my throat is starting to hurt a little, also I'm feeling more tired today that I should despite getting some decent sleep.

The apartment is still a mess, I'll clean it tomorrow or something, I'm too tired to think about it now.

And now the good things:

I started creating masterlists of the fanfiction I wrote over at femslashqueen and realized I wrote over 400 pieces in just over two years, I can't believe I wrote that much.

I signed up for tww_remix, I'm a little nervous, it is the first time I've remixed a story or had one of my stories remixed.

I wrote a couple of 30 Rock drabbles and I've started on my sorkin_fest fic.

I finally posted the main interview questions for my research paper into Sports Night fandom

I'm generally feeling really good, other than the cold.

I really need to start looking at my course outlines more closely, I thought I only had to do an essay presentation (a mini thesis defence, basically) tomorrow for New Media and Society but I also have to hand in an essay outline as well, that will require a little more writing than an presentation... I was this close to getting a good nights sleep.

Also my sister is sick (headache, nausea, vomiting, possible migraine but she feels like she is getting a fever too) if what she has is contagious I will not be happy.

Speaking of my sister she is going home on Wednesday, then I can get back to spending all my time on LJ, yay! Also if you are signed up for my Sports Night the questionnaire will finally (I had to get various approvals) posted tomorrow, I'll email everyone who expressed interest when it is up and post to the communities etc.

I have a massive catch-up post to write Wednesday night, I've been to half of Melbourne's major attractions in the last week. Which explains why I haven't been here.

And finally House tomorrow! YAYS!

ETA: new layout featuring Gillian Anderson!!!
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I forgot to mention it before. Because my brain is fried from a week of crappy sleep.

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.

I just used the university wireless network to download season three of Once and Again in its entirety.

Good thing it got something done because I haven't written so much as a single word of either of the annotated bibliographies I'm supposed to be writing.

Or come up with titles/theses for the two term papers I'm doing the annotated bibliographies for. At least I know what I'm writing about; the one for Press and Society is on sports journalism in Australia and wether current sports journalism practices are still relevant in Australia and the other for New Media and Society is on the way women participate in fandom with a case study on Sports Night fandom.

I do have three hours to annotate the two books (which I have read) I have to return though so time is still on my side.

Also, totally unrelated but in need of pointing out: XF2 TRAILER!!!

I'll be babbling about it as soon as I'm done here, so probably sometime early tomorrow morning by the time I get home.

I'm finally really settling into my new version of "regular" life after moving and having worked odd hours for several weeks, having worked at all was rather odd actually. The last time I had a paid job was 2003, the year I turnned 21, the magic age at which students in Australia who do not complete their highschooling can apply to university, which is pretty much where I have been ever since.

My job has finished for the year (I don't know if I actually mentioned what I was doing, I was working for the university I attend first helping out with enrolling first year students and reenrolling 2nd and 3rd year students and then staffing O Week, it is a very varied role involving everything from data entry to hospitality work and employers love to see it on resumes) but I got offered another job at the universty working for CONTACT (Student Services Centre) doing data entry, office admin, reception work and customer service. It is only four hours/week but has a lot of perks, the least of which is that I don't have to report it to Centrelink.

This is great because a) the people I'll be working with are good company and the workplace is almost entirely drama free and b) I desperately need the work experience, my jobs to date have been in childcare and I have had one job as a lab tech. Not exactly the most relavent work history for someone planning on eventually (Pretty much three years from today without honours or four years from today with honours and guess who wants to do honours?) graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Sociology (Policy Studies) and Media Studies now is it?

University has started again for the year and I only have classes two days/week this year. The university decided to make my life as difficult as possible by cancelling one of my subjects 48 hours before classes were due to begin meaning that I had to restructure my timetable, which ended up being way less difficult than it could have been and do a formal Variation of Enrollment first thing on the first Monday of semester which took three damn hours and relsuted in me missing my first lecture of the year.

However I'm actually kinda glad that that happened because I think I'm going to like Press and Society even more than I would have liked Radio Theory and History and Press and Society is a unit more geared torwards getting a job at the end of my degree as opposed to Radio Theory and History which was a subject I chose purely to indulge my personal interest in the area.

So after all is said and done my timetable looks like this: -

Monday
11am-12pm: Press and Society lecture
1pm-3pm: Introduction to Sociology: Self and Community lecture
3pm-4pm: Introduction to Sociology: Self and Community tutorial

Tuesday
9am-12pm: New Media and Society seminar
3pm-5pm: Press and Society tutorial

Which looks like not much class time and it isn't but the amount of reading and out of class work I have to do is insane, my sociology professor expects us to read four chapters of a textbook by next Monday, my Press and Society lecturer gave us seven different readings including two book chapters and my New Media and Society professor gave us a reasonable amount of reading but about 400 assessment tasks. So I am going to be busy.

Well that basically outlines why I haven't been around:-)

I have way more to say but it is going to have to wait because it is 11:30pm, I have to finish my readings before be and be up at 6am.