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I would give my usual ‘hello readers’ line but it’s been so long since I really posted anything, I’m wondering if there is actually anyone still reading this blog… It would be presumptuous of me to presume such a thing after all. I hope that some of you subscribed to the RSS or email feed so you’ll know that I’m back writing random stuff again!
On Monday I had my one and only exam for this semester and found myself pleasantly surprised by the fact that the questions in the exam were ones that related well with what I had studied before hand. It made for a much less stressful 3 hours than I thought I was going to have. At one point before the exam I had imagined I would start reading the questions and then promptly have to set fire to my exam papers because they made absolutely no sense what so ever, and setting fire to them was preferable to admitting I just had no idea how to answer. Luckily the fire was averted and I got the exam over. It’s a very interesting feeling having no study lurking over my free time, there’s this eerie silence in the back of my mind that used to be filled by a little voice saying “Study first, play later. Study first, play later. Study first, play later. Oh come on! can you at least pretend to listen to me?” … For those of you who don’t hear their own version of it, it really was an irritating voice, trust me. The other strange feeling is that now I could in theory graduate any time I like, so the rest of the papers I am doing are simply because I want to be able to add extra majors to my BA, but even if I stop now I’ve earned the BA itself. I think the next semester will be nice and relaxed, though it will be hard studying Japanese again after so long but I’ll hopefully catch up quick enough not to fall further behind. But anyway I have a month of vacation before I have to worry about that!
What should I do with an entire month of freedom? So far I have been enjoying sleeping, a lot. Watching lots of DVDs and playing computer games. The other day I left some of the DVDs I was watching just laying around by the TV and it caused quite an amusing mixed reaction (No not porn you dirty minded people!) What I had out were a couple of TV series, on the one hand I had ‘21 Jump Street’ the old TV series that made Johny Depp a household name, and on the other ‘The Big Bang Theory’. It was fairly unanimous that 21 Jump Street was an acceptable thing to be watching despite all the terrible 80’s hair and music that crowds the screen, because it has such a high degree of ‘retro-cult-cool’ in most peoples eyes (Mostly people who are slightly too young to really remember the 80’s but who think it was a good laugh anyway – like myself). However ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is an American sitcom series about a couple of super geniuses’ who although they may be able to prove Einstein wrong, can’t have a decent conversation with the blond girl that lives across the hall from them, and just because it is a recent American sitcom show everyone seems to believe that it is automatically crap.
I would like to ask you all – Where does this prejudice come from? Why is it still cool to be so anti the mainstream in entertainment? I get quite a bit of crap for the radio I listen to, which admittedly I deserve, when it comes to music I am lazy and tend to listen to top 40 stuff. That’s not to say I don’t like listening to other stuff, I just can’t really be bothered going and finding other stuff to listen to. The good thing about a pop radio station is that if it plays something I’m not into, I can just stop listening till after that song, or ad break etc, but I can’t do that if the radio starts playing some country music or bogan rock stuff. When it comes to watching DVDs be it movies or television shows, I will watch anything except Coronation Street and The Bill and any of those gardening shows, yick. But so many people judge TV shows unfairly, especially sitcoms. If it makes you laugh people, don’t feel ashamed for laughing because it’s a sitcom, embrace the laughter and let it wash out your prejudices! Don’t be embarrassed to laugh, just because other people say “That show is crap.” They are laughing too but feel ashamed and embarrassed to admit it. Besides, how can you not laugh when a show has lines like: “Is it because I’m Jewish? because if it is I’ll have you know I’d murder my rabbi with a pork chop to sleep with your sister!” from the smart guy who still lives at home with his crazy mother. Oh well, I finished those shows, now onto the final season of Prison Break, and maybe some Japanese shows. Any recommendations on what to watch, movies or TV?
Anyway, I need to get some sleep if I want to get up while it’s still daylight tomorrow!
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