Friday, May 13, 2005

keeping tossing packing moving

Aack! Yet again, it's the end of a lease, and we're in the midst of a disaster area while trying to sort, toss, and pack all of our wonderful things. I will need to have a huge garage sale at the end of this month to get rid of everything that I can't take to Madison.

I'm also planning on moving to Denver in the interim while the SO remains here. Blech! I'm so sad. . . I've been at the same school, with the same friends, for too long. I am excited for the change (I usually love moving and starting new), but I hate the process of moving. I'm a major packrat, so it becomes incredibly difficult for me to part with the material crap that I've saved over a year's time. In this case, most of the crap has been accumulating over many, many years. Sigh.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Ewan, bring your Jedi butt over to my house!!!

Oddly enough, everything is finished

I can't believe I am done! I'm finished with grading, and I've graduated with a 4.0 for my MA! I feel good.

I also feel like I'm missing something. . .

I will try to get some articles going for publication this summer, although I am not expecting much here. I figured that it would be good practice for the future.

I will also try to watch all the films I didn't have a chance to watch yet. . .

And I will be reading all of my Thursday Next novels. I might have to go back and read the Eyre Affair again because I can't quite remember what happened.

I've also been playing Katamari Damacy like a mad fiend. I started from scratch and am working on Star 8 now. Man, if only I didn't feel like vomitting after an hour of play. . . It's sooo good!

I'm really tempted by the new cingular Star Wars Sony Ericsson phone. . . Really tempted. . . But, of course, I'm more tempted by the picture of hot, saucy Ewan against my ear. . . *shudder*

Friday, May 06, 2005

It's 2:30am, do you know where your ideas are?

Let's just say that I am one of those ultimate procrastinators. . . Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but I am in the middle of my very last paper for the term. I think I have too much I want to say about my subject. I'm currently working on the functions and images of Asians in Firefly, the Joss Whedon TV show. It's going ok. I hope it doesn't suck too bad because I would like to present it at a conference or something. I also hope that people think I am bashing Joss Whedon because I am a huge fan of Firefly (Serenity will be awesome). But, these kinds of essays always sound negative because they are cultural criticism.

One of my friends did some heavy duty research on fans within academia. It's honestly a hard thing to determine whether academics are really fans of the works that they study. I don't know. Obviously, in the case of Firefly, I am a big fan; otherwise, I wouldn't know what I was talking about. But, am I fan of other literatures and media that I have studied? I don't know. . . I guess I can't really write on the things that I hate. . . they almost have to be the things that I appreciate, at least. . .

I also wonder if my procrastination is really a sign of my fears about the future. I have attended the same undergrad and masters program (out of sheer last minute planning, mind you), and I really wonder if I have what it takes to succeed in another program. From what I have seen, which really doesn't amount to much, I think I will probably be ok. But I am a bit worried. . . And I wonder if this worry is preventing me from finishing this paper. I even see these long-ass tangents that I keep taking. I haven't even gotten to the meat of my argument, and I am at about 8 or 9 pages into it. Sigh.

My worries are very unclear. I am very unclear. I think I need to quit stallling and cut to the chase. I'm graduating tomorrow. By next Wednesday, all my grades will be turned in, and I will be finished turning them in. This will be the last summer I spend in this stinky town. . .





I miss it already.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Ahh, Ewan. . .

My god! A Ewan McGregor montage courtesy of Montage-a-Google!