April and why it sucks; randomness

[icepixie]

God, I hate April (academically, anyway; the weather was actually halfway decent today, and there are daffodils blooming). *hates on essays* Once I add in a header and full footnote information instead of just last names and page numbers, I'll have not quite eight pages on the P&T paper. It's not getting any better, folks. It's just not. And I have the unusual problem of feeling like I don't have enough information to make twelve pages (I probably actually do, and am just underestimating myself because that's what I do). Every other paper I've written, the problem has been exactly the opposite. Oops.

That's due Tuesday. I'm aiming to finish a draft before tomorrow's DW airing, then spend Sunday revising it into something that'll work for a first draft. Saturday is definitely going to be spent on the time travel story for Fiction. Still aiming to have that done by Tuesday as well, so I can have a week to revise it and make sure it makes exactly the amount of sense I want it to make. Then there's another mini-essay for P&T and yet another one for Mongolian due that next same week... *hates*

Of course, I'd be in better shape if I hadn't spent up until today procrastinating in the most apalling manner, but not much I can do about that now. Sigh. This is why you pick interesting essay topics, people. Otherwise, you avoid them, and nothing good comes of it.

I graduate in LESS THAN TWO MONTHS. How did this happen?

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Obligatory Who-related babble:

I found out recently that India Fisher, sister to Francesca Hunt (who played Rebecca Fogg in the late, lamented Secret Adventures of Jules Verne), does the voice of one of the Eighth Doctor's companions in the Big Finish audio dramas. This really quite amused me, and it totally wasn't because I'm a few pages into a DW/SAJV crossover that will probably never actually be finished, but totally includes a ripoff of the corset scene from "Southern Comfort" with Ten and Rose in it. *pokes around a bit about Charley Pollard* HA! Francesca guest-starred in one of India's adventures. Hmmm. *contemplates* That would be entertaining to hear. *pokes more* Oh, and there's canon-ish Eight/Charley 'ship, according to Wikipedia. Awww.

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You Are Apple Green

You are almost super-humanly upbeat. You have a very positive energy that surrounds you. And while you are happy go lucky, you're also charmingly assertive. You get what you want, even if you have to persuade those against you to see things your way. Reflective and thoughtful, you know yourself well - and you know that you want out of life.

What Color Green Are You?

"Super-humanly upbeat"? Um. Right. If you say so, then...

Comments

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh...yes, India Fisher/Charley Pollard ROCKS. I so love Charley. I've got all the 8th Doctor/Charley audios (listening to the latest right now, which just came out in the last month)...

The one with her sister? I think you'll love it. I certainly did. It's mostly a comedy, loads of fun, and Francesca Hunt plays a woman who mistakes the Doctor for her husband. And takes him into her home for a while. *g*

The ship? Also very sweet, IMO. (Like any Doctorish romance, fandom opinion is divided, of course.) And there's an audio called 'Scherzo' by Robert Shearman--the guy who wrote Dalek--which is entirely a two-hander play, just the Doctor and Charley, and very much about their ship. Very similar to the way RTD has handled the Doctor and Rose, really...more than friendship yet not a traditional romance. Brilliant stuff.

Also? You've got a sexy Nyssa/Tegan icon! WOO!

[icepixie]

Heheheheh...yes, India Fisher/Charley Pollard ROCKS. I so love Charley. I've got all the 8th Doctor/Charley audios (listening to the latest right now, which just came out in the last month)...

Do I even want to know how much you spend a month on DW merchandise? *g*

The one with her sister? I think you'll love it. I certainly did. It's mostly a comedy, loads of fun, and Francesca Hunt plays a woman who mistakes the Doctor for her husband. And takes him into her home for a while. *g*

BWAH! I was contemplating buying it, until I realized it's $30. Also, every time I've tried to listen to some kind of radio drama, I've never been able to do it. I try to multi-task because I have to be looking at something or doing something with my hands, and it just doesn't work.

Very similar to the way RTD has handled the Doctor and Rose, really...more than friendship yet not a traditional romance. Brilliant stuff.

Nice.

Also? You've got a sexy Nyssa/Tegan icon! WOO!

I was thinking it was more just a nice picture that I dressed up a bit, but hey, whatever... :)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you probably don't want to know my monthly Who outgoing. :?P But hey, I think it's healthy, keeps me moving. :?P

Audio dramas work great for me because I listen to them while doing chores around the house and the farm. In that way they keep me sane.

And by sexy Nyssa/Tegan I just meant that Nyssa and Tegan (especially Nyssa!) are sexy, rather than a slashy slash. :?P

[icepixie]

Yeah, you probably don't want to know my monthly Who outgoing. :?P But hey, I think it's healthy, keeps me moving. :?P

Hee.

Audio dramas work great for me because I listen to them while doing chores around the house and the farm. In that way they keep me sane.

Cool.

And by sexy Nyssa/Tegan I just meant that Nyssa and Tegan (especially Nyssa!) are sexy, rather than a slashy slash. :?P

I was more confused at the "sexy"...I was just thinking it was a pretty picture. But hey, it's all good... :)

[nickless.livejournal.com]

This is why you pick interesting essay topics, people. Otherwise, you avoid them, and nothing good comes of it.

Ah, the real reason I haven't touched my final paper in over a year - I can't FIND an interesting topic. I'm sticking with the one I have simply because I've already written a research paper on it and will only have to revise/skim for recent studies for the bulk of the paper. Gah.

[icepixie]

I really ought to have done the flipside of the paper I did last semester (Social changes caused by tea in Britain instead of how it got there from India.) It would have been much better. To this paper's credit, I thought it was going to be much more scandalous, with land-stealing and cheating people out of money, but the TVA was rather nice about the whole thing. Makes for a very boring paper.

[nickless.livejournal.com]

with land-stealing and cheating people out of money

I totally don't remember what your paper was about and you may already have done/discarded this idea, but any way to connect it with the current political kerfluffle regarding the relaxation of Eminent Domain laws? That might buy you at least half a page...

[icepixie]

Now there's a thought. *scurries off to Lexus-Nexus*