Today is so not my day.

Okay, so it was kind of good, with only one hour-long lecture, and in most weeks my dad’ll be able to pick me up soon afterwards. And my lecturer for the next month in Psych 1B is practically a comedian, so at least the excruciating 9 AM-10 AM Timeslot of Death and Sonya Not Being Totally, Completely Awake Yet will be an entertaining prospect.

But the big problem is with the Faculty of Business and Law’s online education system, WebCT. I dropped a subject (Accounting for Decision Making) that I enrolled into at the start of the year because I realised it wouldn’t fit in to this semester’s schedule.

However, I kept the other business subject I enrolled into (Human Resource Management). I can’t access either subject’s home page on the system because it alleges (and IT, useless as they are) presume I am not enrolled correctly. Rule one of the blackboard jungle of academia: it is your fault, even when it is decidedly not your fault. So, I have to deal with this pronto. There’s online assessment I have to do for Business Law which, ironically enough, is accessible only through WebCT! And I can’t access it!

EDIT: I can access it now. How amazement.

To top it off, I can’t access the home page for the University altogether. Oh wait, now I can.

And according to TNT Logistics’ package tracking service, they tried to deliver my iPod, but we aren’t home, home, home. A free cookie for anyone who can guess what song that sentence could be sung to the tune of. You all know when my birthday is. If not, it’s on that sidebar o’yonder. *points pointedly*

I treated myself to a fantastic box set of ten Doctor Who novels featuring the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. They’ll keep me going for a while. It was only $54.95, can’t say fairer than that. I estimate that that’s about $5 AUD a book, but my maths is rubbish, so don’t quote me.

Oh yes. I was going to post about the seventh and final Harry Potter book. But do you know what? I don’t think I will. I have so much to say about it that I’m just going to cop out and say nothing. Much.

It was one of the best books I’ve ever read, I couldn’t read it fast enough, and I read it in four hours without a break to eat, drink or go to the loo, so that should tell you something of how enthralled I was by the spell of “Deathly Hallows”.

… And by that, I mean ‘Tomorrow’. You know, the one that goes, “Toooooo-morrow, tooooooo-morrow, I love ya, to-morrow, you’re only a day a-way!”?

You may have gleaned that I am a massive Harry Potter fan (make that a complete fanatic), and from seven o’clock tonight (which is an hour and ten minutes from now), my computer is going to be turned off.

I will not be getting online until approximately quarter past eight tomorrow night, just after Doctor Who, and when I do, I may blog or I may not. But whatever I write, it will be password-protected. I don’t mind if people don’t read it - I honestly will probably just want to get all my thoughts down, for me, you know.

I am rather amazed at how I have successfully evaded any manner of spoiler. I don’t want to know anything. I’m so militant that here’s what I plan to do between seven o’clock and nine o’clock tomorrow morning:

• Totally avoid watching television in case there is news.
• Re-read Half-Blood Prince to ‘catch up’ … for about the thirtieth time.
• Play a lot of Zelda: Twilight Princess and finish City in the Sky (the third last dungeon).
• Go to bed.
• My alarm on my mobile phone is set for 7:30 AM, and my dad has kindly offered to take me to Dymocks, where my pre-ordered children’s edition of Deathly Hallows shall be waiting for me.
• We shall go to Dymocks.
• Dad shall laugh at the measures I will take to avoid spoilers.
• I shall wear earplugs, or else my iPod mini in my ears.
• I shall punch any stupid person who might dare to breathe a word of the plot while I wait in the queue.
• And then I shall punch them again.
• Go home, lie on bed, open book.
• Read.
• Finish book in three hours or less.
• Read it again.
• It’s over.
• Watch Doctor Who.

It’s going to be over.

Less than twenty-four hours from now, it’s going to be over.

I feel quite conflicted emotionally, actually.

You might say it’s just a book, but I grew up with Harry and his friends. I say that because I was quite young (about 12) when I started reading the books. Actually, I hated them at first. I threw Philosopher’s Stone at the wall! So as Harry was walking his life’s path through his years at Hogwarts and experiencing growing up and adolescence, I was going through the same sort of things. I think that’s why I love these books so much.

Well, see you all on the flip side - bet you I can finish it first!

… and I passed all of my subjects! Well, according to the unit results.

Actually, I better than passed my subjects, which I am very pleased about.

Key to Result Codes:

• P - Pass (50-59 per cent);
• C - Credit (60-69 per cent);
• D - Distinction (70-79 per cent);
• HD - High Distinction (80-100 per cent);

Introduction to Marketing: I got a Distinction (76). I remember whingeing about this subject so much in my blog; words cannot describe the relief I feel at getting away from that lecturer! I’m not sure how I managed to earn such a high mark, but I’ll take it!

Knowing and Knowledge A: I got an High Distinction (84). This was the easiest subject I did, and it was an elective. I’ll be doing Knowing and Knowledge B next semester.

Management and Organisation Behaviour: I got a Distinction (76). I worked my tail off, more so in this subject than any other subject, and it’s slightly upsetting to not get an HD. However, I know a D is still a very good result.

Psychology 1A: I got a Credit (65). This was obviously my worst mark. My statistics, coupled with two I-worked-really-hard-but-they-were-not-quite-right lab reports might have had something to do with it.

So. If I’ve passed everything, I can move on, and here’s what I’ve chosen to do next semester:

• Business Law;
• Human Resource Management;
• Knowing and Knowledge B;
• Psychology 1B.

I grew up in Australia, during the 90s… (nicked from a friend’s MySpace bulletin). (more…)

I can access my university results for this semester from twelve midnight tonight (or should that be tomorrow morning?). I’m kind of really nervous, and kind of really calm, both at the same time. I guess I realise that there’s not much I can do now - they’ve been calculated, and all that’s left is for me to discover what they are.

I’m going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tomorrow night with my friends. I hope there aren’t many (read: any) little children (who, in my opinion, should not be reading the latter Harry Potter novels until they are older) there to spoil the experience for me. There shouldn’t really be any there, though, considering that school starts back tomorrow.

All the same, though, I wish we were going later than six-thirty in the evening. But at least this way I won’t miss Torchwood.

I really want to go to Federation Square in the city on Saturday morning for the official Deathly Hallows book launch. I wouldn’t ordinarily go to one of these things, but because it’s the seventh and final book, I just - I want to be a part of that.

I stayed up till 4 AM on Wednesday morning to catch the live web-cast of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premiere in the UK.

This began at 2 AM AEST and the highlight, of course, was David “Tenth Doctor” Tennant arriving with that bird on his arm, what’s her name, Sophia Myles. You might remember her turns in the sheets with James Franco in Tristan + Isolde, a love story about a star-cross’d Irish princess and a dashing knight, and quite possibly another story Shakespeare plagiarised from.

It is rather good that she’s moved on from banging aging leading men of yesteryear like Charles Dance (apparently true, and frightening to boot) to the dishy Doctor. If you have to ask “Doctor Who?” I’ll flick you on the ear.

Also, I’m stealing the shoes Emma Watson wore, and if she won’t give them up quietly I’ll have to snatch Katie Leung’s.

… Wait a second, they were the same!

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I’ve been meaning to yank this off of my mobile phone and post it on here and see whether my visitors can figure out what is wrong with this picture.

So, before I show you the picture, I’m going to give you a few pieces of information.

1. This photograph was taken on the 29th of April, 2007. Be very clear about that.
2. Nintendo’s current console is the Wii, and prior to that it was the GameCube.
3. The store pictured is Target in Sunshine, which was notorious for being woefully “behind the times”.
4. The games pictured are in fact Nintendo Game Boy Advance games.
5. Game Boy Advance games come in square cases.

The photo. To wit:

Something decidedly does NOT belong on that shelf. Can you guess what it is?

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1. Doctor Who returned to Australian television with the episodes ‘The Runaway Bride’ and ‘Smith and Jones’. Both were absolutely fantastic episodes. But I already knew that, given I *cough* have seen the episodes.
2. Doctor Who finished in the UK. I have seen the last episode, and will post my thoughts later on. Maybe.
3. I am exceptionally proud that I resisted the temptation to look on Wikipedia for what happened in the finale.
4. And that concludes all Doctor Who-related announcements for this post.
5. I returned the Wii game I bought (’SSX Blur’) and didn’t buy anything else.
6. But yesterday, I bought a Nintendo DS game, Kirby Squeak Squad.
7. It’s going back on Thursday.
8. I think I should just buy the Doctor Who season one box set and have done with it.
9. Okay, I lied that there weren’t going to be any more Who-related announcements.

I am currently working on another project to do with this Web site and will post about it in a later entry. That’s a definite, because I’m rather excited about it!