Writer's Block: Art imitating life

The Truman Show.

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So, ladies and gents, tomorrow endeth my almost four months of bored, brain-dead bliss. Back to uni to start my second year. I'm mostly looking forward to it after not having anything to do for so long, and because I like it, lol, but I'm also kind of...Urgh...about it because I have to get up at *gasp* eight ack emma for a 10am lecture. I haven't been awake at 8am in months, and I certainly haven't been out of bed before about 11:30 in just as long. It's going to be a shock to the system, but it'll be all good. What won't be good is waiting in lines to get my textbooks and stuff tomorrow...One of my subjects has three different books, lol. I'm hoping that the weather holds up...Nothing worse than standing in a queue for three hours in the rain.

Anyways, so I went to O-Week on Thursday with roguemyth  to check out the stalls and stuff. We had a look around at the different clubs and societies that were spruiking for new members and things, and I decided to give it a shot and join a couple of things that I thought wouldn't suck too badly, lol. Firstly I joined Shades, which is one of the queer societies on campus (but blessedly not involved with revues) and they do things like get meetings with prominent members of queer society for networking and suck like as well as providing a place to hang out and be in a setting that is more inclusive than some of the other queer groups at uni. For instance, Shades encourages straight, but queer-friendly, people to join because, in their words, "life is boring if everyone's the same"...But there's a group I can think of that lock themselves away in a nasty little basement room with a coded lock on the door -- if you aren't privy to the info, you don't get in, and they don't allow straight people, which offends me. I mean, our inclusion in society is not dependent on the exclusion of others. Wow.  End rant. And the other society I joined is the Linguistics Society, or "LingSoc", if you will. I know one of the dudes on the committee of said society and he's pretty cool. A little weird, but cool nonetheless. Anyway, they do cool/lame stuff like play Scrabble, hang out and make grammar jokes and puns (God, I hate puns, but still...Not enough to stay completely away from them), and, one can fairly assume, sit around and correct poor grammar ;) So, along with fencing, which starts in a couple of weeks, I have things to do that don't totally revolve around study and what not. Hurrah for being involved.

So, I think that's about it for me for today. It's only about a quarter past ten here and I'm beat...All this finishing holidays business is tiring, apparently.

Later gators ;)

P.S. Send some lovingkindness to New Zealand...They've been shattered by earthquakes of late which have caused death and incredible destruction to one of their major cities...Something like $150 bn worth of damage. Us Aussies often make fun of them, calling them sheep-shaggers (when you have more sheep than people, eyebrows are naturally raised ;)) and we tend to consider them as an extension of our own country, as far Eastern Sydney, lol, but in truth, they too are ANZACs -- our diggers -- and part of our little corner of the globe.