I poured my aching heart into a pop song

I have completely finished my dissertation! I just need to stop by the LRC tomorrow to hand everything in, woo! I can't believe that it's FINISHED.

I almost got knocked unconscious by a flying bottle of orange squash last night. Yep. I was walking back from Uni, and suddenly this almost full 2 litre bottle of squash came FLYING towards me. It had been on the road and a car drove over it.

I got some random post today. It was cool. Some of you might remember a month or two ago I got a handwritten card from Jonathan Woodward. I bought a CD from him on eBay - him, James Leary, Camden Toy and George Hertzberg reading Buffy/Spike smut, raising money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (and my Dad has Crohn's). It arrived in like, October/November time, and yet he sent this card saying sorry that he hadn't sent it, and he would send me extra goodies to make up for it. Now, I know it's for charity so I should probably have TOLD him, but... GOODIES!

Anyway, today it came. And hee! I got all the little random bits of paper like last time, where's he's written things - "On this Day: (Spike Lee's Birthday) In the Year of: (Shame)".. and a dirty limerick! A different one to last time! But then there were three extra little envelopes with "Ms Toaduff" handwritten on the front of them.

One of them is a little feedback form thing to say what I think of my purchase, with options like "My product arrived late", "I'm totally irritated", "I'd like Jonny Wallet to be my frankfurter condiment and/or dry rub seasoning" and "I'd leave my pet/child/grannie with Jonny Wallet while I went on vacation." and tick boxes for whether I agree or disagree with each one, hee.

Then there's another envelope with a photo of him as Knox in it, which he has drawn on (big bushy eyebrows, mustache, evil beard) and written LOSER on his forehead. And a tiny magnet, which is a photo of him from when he was on stage at Serenity Squared.

The third little envelope says "I'm sorry. In apology I would like you offer you a free lifetime jonnywallet.com email address. Email me at <*address here*>." How very cool! *pets him and will take him up on that later*

Also, he really loves printing things onto round orange labels.

And as for the belated, I've finally gotten round to making a post about my adventures with jossno1fan on Sunday, but in order for you to get the full idea of ... everything? I'm starting at Saturday morning.

8am Saturday - I get up for work. It's not a particularly busy day, but I'm working with Alice and we always get chatty, so despite being told that we should finish by 2 (the normal working day runs til 3), we're still going at 3.20. Hee. So we catch the bus home, and I do various things, come online, take a nap (for a whole 55 minutes, lmao), watch Doctor Who, watch Doctor Who Confidential, dye my hair, have a shower, pack my suitcase for Monday so I don't have to do it when I get in on Sunday (this turned out to be an excellent idea, btw), and then I turned my laptop off and went to wait for my taxi, which was booked for half past midnight but came at 25 past. The man ZOOMED into York, so I was there mega early, and my bus was on time (though I'd been hoping it would be early so I didn't have to sit in the cold).

So at 1.15am Sunday morning, I am on a coach bound for Milton Keynes to meet Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass, and Tony Head. Again. Oh, and jossno1fan...

( Yeah, I don't like to let my 'fro grow that long. )

( Me with Alan, Ron and Tony. )

And now, I'm going to go and write an essay about music videos.

How come my dissertation is 11,000 words already and it isn't even finished? I usually struggle reaching word counts, I never go over! I'm going to have to cut so much out. Which is good, because I ramble. I know I do.

Sometime in the next few days I'm going to have to print it and give it to mother to proof read for me and tell me where to cut things :D

Sooo, I'm bored, and I'm procrastinating because I should be doing my script because I need to send my draft to my tutor on Tuesday night, so I want to sent my first draft to everysingleway tomorrow night so she can read over it and tell me where I've clearly missed major plot points from the book that make her go HUH?? and I can fix them :D

But because I'm procrastinating, I want to do that song meme. You know the one. Where you give me a number between 1 and 302 (I had a music clear out recently...) and I upload the relevant song from my playlist. :D

I warn you now, though. I just ripped a LOT of cheesy 90s British pop to my laptop because I was feeling so nostalgic.

Don't say I didn't warn you when you get something atrocious.

Okay so I'm bored. And everysingleway and _fullofgrace were in chat with me and were RUBBISH at coming up with things to do. And Shirley said hey, go update your journal! We'll give you a topic! The topic is ... Mal and Simon!

So here I am. Man, Mal and Simon are the bestest. They're such a pretty couple, and they would have pretty, pretty kids, if that were, you know. Possible. I totally typed pissable there, which is a much funnier word. They're totally sleeping with each other through the whole series and DEFINITELY the movie, which is something that I talked about here, in this fic. I am also half way through writing a Simon/Kaylee fic with a Mal/Simon interlude, or I would be, if I could be bothered to write it. Which sucks, because I have it all planned out, I just can't find the motivation to WRITE anything.

I'm having an Angel season 1 marathon lately. I started about a week ago and I'm up to season three tonight. I'm already onto That Vision Thing.

I have half a toad in the hole downstairs that I cooked earlier and was going to eat tomorrow, but I might go down and get the rest now despite it being 6.30 in the morning.

I have to go and see my dissertation supervisor at 11 so I think I'll just stay up, go see her, then come back in and go to bed. And then wake up in time for ER.

I love Wesley. He's hot. And I love Fred. I can't wait til the bar scene. "Angel wants you to get out." Poor Fred, that's not what Cordy means!

Every episode I've watched, I've been like "HI LILAH! HI LINDSEY! HI HARMONY! HI GUNN! HI EVERYONE!" because it was just so long since - FRED'S SINGING! YAY! *cough* - so long since I'd watched these early episodes. I kept spotting guest stars and people that I recognise from other things that I didn't know at the time. Like Josh Holloway! And Tracy Middendorf has been in like EVERYTHING since. And Christina Hendricks, and oh, the pregnant lady from Judgement was a pregnant lady in Final Destination 2 which was on tonight!

YES WESLEY, GO RESCUE FRED!

*scampers away*

So I'm doing my dissertation on Firefly & Serenity, and I'm doing a chapter on the fans. So my supervisor said I should email this other lecturer who is more into fandomy stuff. I get this email back and it makes me squee, hee!

Hi Rachael

I'm not sure how much I can help you. My research has primarily focused on fandom in relation to Farscape and Doctor Who.

I am aware of 'Browncoat' activity on the web, though - and yes, if it wasn't for the fans (well, the DVD sales) then the film would never have happened. It's easily the best sci-fi film for 25 years, by the way.

Heee, like I don't already know that! ;)

PS Have you read the Dark Horse comics mini-series which links the TV show to the movie? I have electronic copies if you are interested.

Have I read the comics. Have I read. The comics. Do I have four copies of each issue, I think is more the question...

So I'm stealing this from a few people, kataclysmic, everysingleway and tuveuxmoi_ if I recall correctly. I've gained a bunch of new friends recently and if you were just judging me from my entries at the moment, all you'd learn about me is ... well, I'm not really sure what you'd learn. Other than that I'm very random!

( All about me! )
I really can't keep anything short.

What is it with University Admin that make them all idiots? Everyone I talk to who's been to Uni has admin/organisational horror stories. Mine don't screw up anything major, they just do enough little things wrong to REALLY piss me off!

Yesterday, I went to the module choice fair to pick modules for next year. At the end?

Guy: And you also need to get a dissertation proposal form and hand that in.
Half of us: We've already done one in our Academic Research portfolio.
Guy: You need to do another one separate.
Us: Oh.

Today? I go to get one. "They're not ready yet. Go see Rob." So I go to see Rob.
Rob: Have you done Academic Research?
Me: Yes.
Rob: Then why's it not in there?
Me: It is.
Rob: Then why do you need another one?
Me: THEY SAID WE NEEDED ONE!
Rob: Nah.

Argh. If I get a letter saying I've not done one, Rob DIES.