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Jan. 19th, 2007 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenToday was utterly fantastic. I wouldn't have thought it'd end up this way, but I'm not complaining. (No sir!)
I've started going in to work at 8:30 Fridays because of the way the publishing cycle for the handbooks has been arranged. For the first hour or so I poked around on lj, grabbed some cake and sweets from the break room (there was another excuse-for-a-party) and then got to the business of printing and copying copies of last years' handbooks to deliver around campus come Monday. This meant I got to fight with the printers and photocopiers for a good two hours, which was actually kind of fun. All three photocopiers on my floor were busted, so I got to commit pretty severe printer abuse. Plus, there's something novel and fun about printing on 11x17 paper. The variety makes it interesting. I don't know... I was in a paper mood. (Darn you, The Office!) Everything got copied fine, I finished one of the stories done for next month's newsletter *and* had chocolate cheesecake.
Then I found![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aoshi and had to confess that I'd completely forgotten to bring the stuff I'd promised to hand over to her.
Lecture was pretty dull, but The Sweet Hereafter is quite pretty. So that was good. Alex and I kept ourselves entertained by making mocking faces at each other whenever someone said something silly and talking about Brick. After class we found the Atkinson cafeteria-thing that serves all day breakfasts. Nothing like a toasted western at 3 in the afternoon. We mostly talked about his screenplay and the issues he's been having with it. It was a good talk, intellectually satisfying, because I was actually able to contribute something and maybe actually help a little. Yay productive! And he wants to borrow my Supernatural DVDs. How much to I love that all of my friends are into sf, good movies and comic books? It makes life good, I think. I was in a really shitty mood yesterday, but I'm riding this incredible high today that I'm going to enjoy for as long as it lasts.
Tutorial was pretty damn good, too. Most of the class has defected to the earlier tutorial, leaving about eight or nine students in the later one. We get some really decent discussions going, which is *such* a nice way to spend a Friday afternoon in class. Engaged and stimulated rather than bored and depressed, I mean. We didn't actually do much, or go over much (I don't think...) but the hour just flew by. Again. A good thing. And for some reason my energy level was insanely high. I'd gone the entire day uncaffinated, too. Even if it wasn't normal, it was (...somehow) natural. So instead of heading straight to the bus, I bounced and floated and bopped along behind Shauna (if you've met me in person, you know *exactly* how I was moving) and followed her part of the way to the library. Only part way, because I foundaoshi again (this time with The Boy). After a quick little visit we parted and I wandered up to the freakishly-deserted stop for the 196 about 4 seconds before the empty bus pulled up. Win!
I settled in, hoping to get at least the intro of this one textbook read because I haven't done much reading done for that class yet. I get maybe a page and a half read before Prof. McCullough sits down beside me. This was entirely awesome because a) he taught two of my favourite courses from last year (Science Fiction Film and TV Theory) and b) I'd been meaning to email him because I didn't ever get my papers back from TV Theory. On a scale of one to awesome, this is the guy that gave us a lecture on Kirk/Spock and slash fandom. He actually remembered who I was (I haven't seen him since last March, so I wasn't expecting him to recall) and knew exactly which paper I'd written for his classes AND congratulated me on my awards. I told him he should take some credit on that last one because I did spectacularly well in his classes, so my GPA is thanks in part to him. I also determined that he's the one I should talk to about doing an honours thesis next year, and that he might be interested in supervising me for that, too. That all took about ten minutes of conversation, and we spent the next half hour just talking about geeky stuff. Like Heroes (no, he hadn't seen any, but Adrian Pasdar's in it... *interest*) and T2 (they can send the robots back in time because they're machines, which don't degenerate in the way that human bodies do) and Children of Men and Tideland and Ghosts... of the Civil Dead. He's interested, in both the geeky and academic way, about plausibility in sf and popular film and television, and I want to write my thesis on what happens when cop/military shows incorporate supernatural or science fictiony elements. Hells yes I want him to supervise my thesis next year! :D
Man, sometimes I love school so much.
AND what's probably the BEST part of today... when I got home, my copy of My Best Friend is a Vampire was nestled in the mailbox! I bought it at about 10am *last Friday* which means it took exactly *one week* to get it. I wasn't expecting to see it until Valentines at the very earliest, but seldom have I been happier to be wrong! And the video box is in great condition, too. MADE. OF. AWESOME. Now to find out how to get it transferred to DVD...
ETA: cut for length. Whoops!
I've started going in to work at 8:30 Fridays because of the way the publishing cycle for the handbooks has been arranged. For the first hour or so I poked around on lj, grabbed some cake and sweets from the break room (there was another excuse-for-a-party) and then got to the business of printing and copying copies of last years' handbooks to deliver around campus come Monday. This meant I got to fight with the printers and photocopiers for a good two hours, which was actually kind of fun. All three photocopiers on my floor were busted, so I got to commit pretty severe printer abuse. Plus, there's something novel and fun about printing on 11x17 paper. The variety makes it interesting. I don't know... I was in a paper mood. (Darn you, The Office!) Everything got copied fine, I finished one of the stories done for next month's newsletter *and* had chocolate cheesecake.
Then I found
aoshi and had to confess that I'd completely forgotten to bring the stuff I'd promised to hand over to her.Lecture was pretty dull, but The Sweet Hereafter is quite pretty. So that was good. Alex and I kept ourselves entertained by making mocking faces at each other whenever someone said something silly and talking about Brick. After class we found the Atkinson cafeteria-thing that serves all day breakfasts. Nothing like a toasted western at 3 in the afternoon. We mostly talked about his screenplay and the issues he's been having with it. It was a good talk, intellectually satisfying, because I was actually able to contribute something and maybe actually help a little. Yay productive! And he wants to borrow my Supernatural DVDs. How much to I love that all of my friends are into sf, good movies and comic books? It makes life good, I think. I was in a really shitty mood yesterday, but I'm riding this incredible high today that I'm going to enjoy for as long as it lasts.
Tutorial was pretty damn good, too. Most of the class has defected to the earlier tutorial, leaving about eight or nine students in the later one. We get some really decent discussions going, which is *such* a nice way to spend a Friday afternoon in class. Engaged and stimulated rather than bored and depressed, I mean. We didn't actually do much, or go over much (I don't think...) but the hour just flew by. Again. A good thing. And for some reason my energy level was insanely high. I'd gone the entire day uncaffinated, too. Even if it wasn't normal, it was (...somehow) natural. So instead of heading straight to the bus, I bounced and floated and bopped along behind Shauna (if you've met me in person, you know *exactly* how I was moving) and followed her part of the way to the library. Only part way, because I found
aoshi again (this time with The Boy). After a quick little visit we parted and I wandered up to the freakishly-deserted stop for the 196 about 4 seconds before the empty bus pulled up. Win! I settled in, hoping to get at least the intro of this one textbook read because I haven't done much reading done for that class yet. I get maybe a page and a half read before Prof. McCullough sits down beside me. This was entirely awesome because a) he taught two of my favourite courses from last year (Science Fiction Film and TV Theory) and b) I'd been meaning to email him because I didn't ever get my papers back from TV Theory. On a scale of one to awesome, this is the guy that gave us a lecture on Kirk/Spock and slash fandom. He actually remembered who I was (I haven't seen him since last March, so I wasn't expecting him to recall) and knew exactly which paper I'd written for his classes AND congratulated me on my awards. I told him he should take some credit on that last one because I did spectacularly well in his classes, so my GPA is thanks in part to him. I also determined that he's the one I should talk to about doing an honours thesis next year, and that he might be interested in supervising me for that, too. That all took about ten minutes of conversation, and we spent the next half hour just talking about geeky stuff. Like Heroes (no, he hadn't seen any, but Adrian Pasdar's in it... *interest*) and T2 (they can send the robots back in time because they're machines, which don't degenerate in the way that human bodies do) and Children of Men and Tideland and Ghosts... of the Civil Dead. He's interested, in both the geeky and academic way, about plausibility in sf and popular film and television, and I want to write my thesis on what happens when cop/military shows incorporate supernatural or science fictiony elements. Hells yes I want him to supervise my thesis next year! :D
Man, sometimes I love school so much.
AND what's probably the BEST part of today... when I got home, my copy of My Best Friend is a Vampire was nestled in the mailbox! I bought it at about 10am *last Friday* which means it took exactly *one week* to get it. I wasn't expecting to see it until Valentines at the very earliest, but seldom have I been happier to be wrong! And the video box is in great condition, too. MADE. OF. AWESOME. Now to find out how to get it transferred to DVD...
ETA: cut for length. Whoops!
