Thursday, October 20, 2005

Blargh, or - why one shouldn't publish at 1.30am 

Strange thing, education. Yesterday I learnt how to tell if someone's lying. Today I learnt about the possible end of the world, through nuclear warfare. In Crim, the guy mentioned that he had been accused of soapboxing (yup my anonymous but probably identifiable feedback form). He keeps mentioning that a couple of assignments were crap and I just know mine's among them. Knot of worry. I'm also worried about my horrendous Security essay (truly, it's possibly the worst thing I've ever handed in, and that's saying something) and psychology assignment (love the subject, but bloody hated this topic).

Maybe it's just pre-exam depression, but I'm starting to hate everything. Well not everything, mostly Crim. I'm getting more and more sure that I do not want to wake up every day of the rest of my life and have to read cases and legislation and deal with other lawyers. Nosireebob. Hopefully by next year I'll hate it enough to take a flying leap out of law and into...what? Anything else that can give me a little kick of intellectual curiosity. Law aint it.

In a creative spurt yesterday, I came up with a sentence I thought was great but is probably stolen from a Tim Winton novel, damn him. Here it is: "Fat clouds sat in the sky like winter-pale paunchy old men dangling their legs off the side of a pool. Summer." A couple of story ideas were sparked off by lectures, meanwhile. My notes read "invitee crime" and "hesitant 2nd-striker". I also have a few other ideas, some slice-o'-lifers, one or two plot/concept-driven. Of the latter I'm especially proud of this: A Bug's Life meets James Bond. An insect division of the CIA specialising in surveillance. Bugs, gettit? It's the Harry Potter formula: melding a couple of genres (boarding school/spy movie plus magic/bugs). Brilliant if I do say so myself. Now, the only thing left is to execute the script and send it off to Dreamworks. Can't you just see it as a family entertainment movie? Yup. By the way, no stealing. I shall hunt you down and force you to read the ENTIRE CRIMES ACT...then EAT IT.

(Yes, this post has no structure)

(I'm online to have a break from reading Government. Ten weeks' worth of reading to catch up on before Wednesday)

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