This year's Can't Stop the Serenity screening. Also, Procrastination 101, Mako-chan style.

How to procrastinate while working on one's paper outline that needs to be brought to class in about 2 hours: put on the Bedlam Bards (to get 'in the mood' for writing about Firefly), then start singing along (therefore erasing any potential to actually type while listening), then start thinking about Serenity, then randomly decide to check http://cantstoptheserenity.com/ to see if a date has been posted yet for the Vancouver screening, then jump up and down wildly when it turns out that it's going to be on a Sunday instead of Saturday like last year.

Woo hoo! *bounce* I can go and I don't have to take a day off of work! :) Though granted I burnt out a bit on the movie this winter from watching it first on the cruise then about 3 weeks later with quettalinde, but hell, this'll be 6 monthes later... and it never really gets old. :) And anyway, nothing beats hanging out with a bunch of Browncoats AND raising money for charity.

So, anyone wanna come? :) It's June 22nd, btw. I think it might be at the Norm Theatre at UBC this year, but that may be wrong. Now, let's just pray that we get a BDH coming again this year, like Jewel last year. :) Wouldn't it be awesome if she came again? I was so upset that I missed her last year. :( She was signing stuff for free! Which after being on a cruise where signatures cost $30 each, well...

Okay, back to work. :) I'll post the outline later, if I get around to it, for anyone interested. And yes, I'll try to remember to post the paper, too. And last year's Farscape paper, while I'm at it.

Last class!!!

Well, I'm sitting in my last ever class at university, waiting for class to start. ^___^ Tis a kinda weird feeling, and yet it doesn't really seem to have sunk in... today's just an essay writing workshop, so really the last proper lecture was last week. I finished the essay outline I was writing earlier; I'll post it here for anyone interested... the 'topics' section is kind of a mish-mash; I still need to work out the details of how the essay will flow. And I'm still unsure about including Firefly - looking at my outline, I've got a lot more to say about Farscape. ^^; We'll see how it goes. It's only supposed to be 10-12 pages, so if I'm at page 8 and haven't even touched on Firefly yet then I may just ditch it. Anyway, I think it's coming together... will run it by the prof or TA today, and hopefully they'll think it's okay. I talked to the prof at the start of term and she okayed my topic, at least.

Okay, so I was going to post my outline but the formatting's all screwed. -_- I'll mess with it when I get home. Class has started, and I should theoretically be listening right now. ;)

Farscape/Firefly paper outline, for the bored/academically inclined

Okay, I lied. I got bored with listening to the prof drone on about different types of essays (seriously, this is third year... 5yr for me... I get it. ^^; And I was hoping for a chance to have her go over my outline, but at this rate the 'workshop' part of the class will be considerably shorter than I expected.), so I copied/pasted my outline from Word and fucked with the formatting until it looks okay. I suspect there was a considerably easier way to do what I just did, but... oh wells.

Some oblique spoilers for Farscape in the 'topics' section. The question/thesis section is safe, though.

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*sigh* Listening to her advice, though, I confess to getting a tad nervous. I never know how much of my argument I formulated, and how much I synthesized from different places. I've been thinking about this paper a ton, since like September, and developed several ideas (namely re: Farscape), but then a lot of those ideas have been backed up by stuff I read in books. So much so that pretty much everything I've thought up, I've later found in a book or paper. -__- So I'm kinda stuck, not knowing how much I need to cite, and trying to have some of my own argument in there. Hopefully it'll turn out okay... I'll just have to try to add some more of my own stuff in there.

I think she's wrapping up the "how to write a paper" segment of the class. Yays. Hope I can get a chance to talk to her; I really don't want to come all the way out here on Thursday for the optional class that day (I'll be in N Van that day, but even so...)

Anyway, any thoughts or ideas are much appreciated. :)