Diary of a Girl Geek

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Friday, 14 November 2008

Woohoo!

I got my first mark of the year back today. 65, get in! That's a solid 2:1, or an H2A for all you Aussie fact fans out there.

Now to just keep the standard up all year. Which probably means making a proper start on my dissertation, and not just typing up the bibliography... Though I tried re-reading The Last Battle the other day and nearly vomited.

"In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world."

Bleuuuuurgh. He'd really lost any sense of subtlety by book 7, hadn't he? And I'm only just starting to comprehend what a somewhat twisted ending it is to a series to kill off all your characters and send them to heaven. Except Susan of course, because she's too interested in boys, and therefore going to burn in hell for all eternity. Or something. Because it's not like losing her entire family in a train crash is going to make her lose any of her remaining faith in humanity.

Off to Newcastle tomorrow for a weekend of much drinking and geekery. Can't bloody wait!

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Top 10 places I want to visit:


Croatia:


Czech Republic:


Egypt:


Fiji:


France:


Iceland:


Indonesia:


New Zealand:


South Africa:


Slovenia:


Hoping to hit most (if not all) of the European ones next summer. In the early stages of planning my very own Grand Tour.

Saturday, 8 November 2008

ENFP

On the whole, disconcertingly accurate. The bits in bold are my favourite:


General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on bo th an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.

Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As SOs/mates they are warm, affectionate (lots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature ENFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.

ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; his sometimes results in their negle cting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world. [aka, bossy as fuck - Erykah]

Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Followthrough tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group w ith a J or two to take up the slack.


ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.


Taken from here.
Test here.

"Zany charm" - I like it. And according to Wikipedia (the fountain of all knowledge, my personality type is "The Champion", excellent!

wonder if "But I'm an ENFP, I can't help procrastinating!" would work on my lecturers at all...?

How about you guys?

Friday, 7 November 2008

Love's Labour's Lost

I just booked a ticket to Love's Labour's Lost! Sadly not the RSC version up in Stratford, but instead one in Kingston that looks to be an interesting experience - I'll be sitting on a cushion in the pit!

Hoping to get round to phoning the RSC soon and trying to grab some of their wonderful £5 tickets for 16-25 year olds. With any luck will be seeing A Midsummer Night's Dream (again, but I loved the direction for Hamlet and want to see how Doran handles Midsummer), The Taming of the Shrew and hopefully The Tempest when it comes on tour to Richmond. Add to that Othello (a course requirement!) in Hammersmith next week, and plans to see Twelfth Night (yes, another I've already seen, but with Derek Jacobi as Malvolio I can't say no), and it's a happily Shakespearean few months ahead.

In other theatre news, I've also booked to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan take on Waiting for Godot next year. Can't wait!

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Meme

Stolen from Anita:

Answer the questions below, do a Google Image Search with your answer, take a picture from the first page of results, do it with minimal words of explanation.

1. The age you’ll be on your next birthday:


2. A place you’d like to travel to:


3. Your favourite place:


4. Your favourite food:


5. Your favourite animal:


6. Your favourite color:


7. Your favourite piece of clothing:

Nothing beats a duvet day



8. Your favourite song:


9. Your favourite tv show:


10. First name of your significant other / crush:


11. The town in which you live in:


12. Your first job:


13. Your dream job:


14. A bad habit you have:


15. Your worst fear:

Even googling that pic made my eyes well up. Aargh.



16. The one thing you’d like to do before you die:


17. The first thing you’ll buy if you get $1,000,000:

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Woodstock

I want:

Monday, 29 September 2008

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Very post-modern. I love it. I know I haven't been around for ages. But I've been doing important things like going on holiday and moving back to London. Will inevitably start updating this daily once essays are due in.