erilyn: gabe and mikey's hips (drwho - nine)
erilyn ([personal profile] erilyn) wrote2008-10-04 10:47 am

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Did anyone see Gay Conversion School Drop Out at the Melbourne Comedy Festival? Is it worth seeing? It caught my eye in the Ticketek newsletter :)

I can't remember how to make lj posts with any substance (or lacking substance, which I suspect they mostly did, at least length). So, um...

I graduated last Thursday! It was quite a nice ceremony. I'd been selected as the graduate speaker (lol still not sure why), and had stupidly agreed, so I made a somewhat-lame speech about university experience, thanking our support teams, and how this was the beginning of learning not the end blah blah blah. Graduates + family + faculty, it was probably around 500 or so people (+/- 100, I'm not good at estimating numbers of people).

[livejournal.com profile] iibnf and I went to the Art Gallery last weekend. It was fun, apart from the blisters that haven't completely healed yet. Absolutely the best thing I saw was the Doctor Who fanart in the Dobell Drawing Prize. It was done as engravings on broken shards, like the remains of something an archaeologist had found. It was writing about the Doctor and companions (old school), along with little drawings of daleks etc. Awesomely done.

I couldn't plow through much of Frank's freshman writing, but it did make me go back and read a couple of my essays from first year uni (the first time around!). I'm not sure whether that was a mistake or not - I'd certainly forgotten I had a intellectual crush on Johannes Kepler. Oooh, discuss the major anatomical features that distinguish gracile Australopithecines from Homo Sapiens - actually, I really enjoyed comparative anatomy. Especially the clash of personalities, the battles between Leakeys and co vs the discoverers of Lucy etc.

I STILL LOVE BRUCE BOXLEITNER! And "The Second Coming" being read in an episode he was in, when I associate it so strongly with Babylon 5, made me happy. I'm not sure about the rest of the show though. I'm getting so frustrated with so much of the show being dependent on people being INCREDIBLY stupid eg Mohinder (who was always prettier than he was smart, but is plumbing new depths, along with making a formula that turned him into a rampaging heterosexual) and Hiro (whose stupidity is breaking my heart - does anyone not believe that Ando was probably in the right in the future glimpse?). I'm so over Siler, he bores me.

BUT they've added Francis "Weevil" Capra to the show, and Bruce, and there are still moment of "wow cool", but I'm not sure it's gonna be enough to keep me. And where's Micah and Molly?

[identity profile] blueboxers.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Have you ever see him (Bruce) in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King"? lol. Ando probably didn't kill future Hiro anyway. Micah was there for his mom's double at his mom's viewing. Wait, did you see the last ep? They send Molly away in the first episode. I can't wait for the next one, they show Syler as a housewife.... I'm not kidding, the sneak preview had him hugging Milo/Peter! It looks like Syler is Peter's desperate housewife... Ok, that time I was kidding. *wink*

[identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't seen 3x03 yet, so skipping most of your comment sorry!

[identity profile] notyourfriend.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Did anyone see Gay Conversion School Drop Out at the Melbourne Comedy Festival? Is it worth seeing? It caught my eye in the Ticketek newsletter :)

I saw it at the comedy festival. I liked it, but it's not amazing. So I guess it depends how much it is. :)

[identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
That's a very useful rating, thanks :)