I don’t actually update this place anymore, because my blog/site is now at Unisyc.org. There’s more of my crap there, and it’s better quality!

They’re not hard.

I’ve been a uni student of some form or another since 2003, and completed my BA in 2007. Since the middle of the year, I’ve been doing Legal Studies at La Trobe University and I am thoroughly enjoying it. It started off as a grad cert, but I’m planning on doing another semester to make it a grad dip.

Oh, and I’m not doing Law. This seems to be a somewhat popular misconception. Legal Studies deals more with the issues surrounding and effects of law. This semester, for instance, I’ve been doing three criminology units and one human rights unit.

The thing about essays is that they take time. Not because it takes me a long time to write them. It’s more because I write in bursts. As my mother once noted, I’m a sprinter rather than a marathon runner. If I get a flash of inspiration, I write. I write, and I write, and I write.

Otherwise, I’m sitting around doing not very much at all.

And I kind of feel bad.

I would feel worse if anyone actually frequented this blog.

Which no one actually does. I mean, not even I do.

But the main reason I haven’t really posted anything is because there’s not too much new. I have a new phone and some new gadgets and a ladynerd, but as if any of that is exciting.

Nah.

This is something that is boring. I’m going to go back to e-readers and vidja games.

I went to the Socceroos vs. NZ match last night. It started off promisingly - there were four grown men three rows behind us in Iron Men masks. It got better when a dude behind us yelled, “Give him a tissue!” when one of the Kiwi players was down.

My favourite part, though, was when the guy behind us (who had his two young boys with him) screamed at a Kiwi player, “Offside, you fuckwit!”

The trailers made it look like it would be pretty good. The reviews were calling it ”the scariest movie of the decade”.

It wasn’t too bad. I’m usually a jumpy person who doesn’t like such movies. The night and the dark used to terrify me. I used to have night terrors where I’d awake screaming.

But the thing is that, in the whole movie, I had one small jump and one mild jump.

And the other thing is that the two dozen people in the cinema (including me and my friends) burst out laughing at the end.

A few review sites did mention that it did have a bit of generic studio-pushed ending, and I wouldn’t disagree. Obviously, in my professional opinion as a student whose closest encounter with film reviewing was a year 12 essay on Cabaret.

I got this laptop in April 2007. It’s been a soldier. It’s been a soldier who’s needed prosthetics. New HDD, new optical drive, new battery. Good thing my brother made me get the three year warranty.

It’s a Dell Inspiron 1501 and I love it to bits. It’s my laptop. The little AMD and Vista stickers are now more silver than logo, there are fades in the garish silver paint where the bases of my palms have rested, and part of the Vista license key certificate on the underside of my laptop has apparently evaporated/burnt off.

In the past six months, I have been hit on by three gay guys, one bisexual guy and one girl (who turned out not to like books or art… what?). Those last two happened at the same party, too.

Why do precisely the wrong type of people consistently take an interest in me?

I’ve had a second h2g2 entry go through to the front page!

And I didn’t realise it was quite so soon. Melbourne’s train and tram networks will be taken over by new operators, just in time for Christmas and hopefully, the roll-out of myki.

Apart from the obvious, something I won’t miss about Connex will be the branding on the trains (which will obviously take some time to get rid of considering the size of the fleet). Call me picky and this trivial, but the particular shades of blue and yellow they chose don’t look great.