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And so endeth my Internship. Last day and all today.

At least it ended on a good note. If by "good note" one means "had very little work to do, so spent most of the day messing around on the Internet and chatting with people who came up to ask how I liked my time there. And to compliment my haircut."

(Yeah, I got my hair cut the other day. It is now... much shorter than it used to be. Possibly the shortest I have ever had it. I was going to take a picture to show you guys, but I couldn't get a decent one - as always, I Do Not Photograph Well - so no camwhoring for you.)

Anyway, back to Interning. My supervisor gave me what sounded like a decent enough write-up. And we had an ice-cream party for my last day. No, really - at afternoon tea, someone brought in ice-cream and mini cones, and we ate that. Which was very nice of them.

So now I just need to do the reflective essay, which will be easy. Huzzah!

Also: Have a meme.

Leave me a comment saying "UNICORNSICE-CREAM!"
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

I grabbed this from robotlove, and she asked me the following questions:

( Check out my ~*~amazing~*~ answers behind the cut )

I reserve the right to ask people exceedingly stupid and/or random questions if they respond to this meme.

And that'd be the end of classes for the year! Huzzah! Which just leaves me with my Interning (and reports for that), finishing off my Creative Writing and studying for my one exam.

Which is not too bad at all, really.

It rather helped that my last two pracs consisted of, well, today we presented our poster on Hurricane Ivan. (I spoke for a minute. Oh, the hard work...)

And yesterday, instead of getting the normal Wednesday Weirdness, we basically turned up, got marked off the roll, got asked by Charlie if we wanted to talk about our pieces, said no, and were told to leave. So instead we went to the pub. Again, ~hard work~.

Of course, instead I had deal with freaking Melbourne Weather. I swear, it was freezing just the other week, and now we have 30 degree days forecast? What the shit.

...And I have a very limited supply of hot weather clothes to wear to Interning. Ack.

In more exciting news, apparently khallandra is drawing me a picture of BATZAKU! Just as planned! ILU, BB! ♥

She is obviously a goddess in human form, and should be worshipped by all and sundry.

Good thing about today: I found a decent, affordable curry place near Interning that didn't serve ridiculously bland food.

Bad thing about today: Instead it went the other way. Curry was hot. I swear, I drunk like a litre of water. Note to self: Be careful about the curries next time I have lunch there.

Anyway, over to fannishness.

FMA:B Dub cast announced! Which is... mostly the same as the first dub cast (With one or two notable changes). 'Course this is only the earliest main characters, so we don't yet know about Ling or Ran Fan or Mei, or any of the characters that haven't yet shown up in the Japanese airing. So I'll have to wait and see who gets Ling.

Anyone know when dub's going to come out?

On the Japanese airing, have seen the newest episode (LOL BOOT! EW ENVY!) and we are rapidly closing in on the bit where [spoiler] becomes [spoiler], which I greatly looking forward to. Partially because, you know, awesome, and partially because the reactions from the non-manga fans are going to be so worth a look.

Anyone know when the opening and endings are due to change? 'Cos it's closing in on that time, and I want to join the stream for the new ones.

The other bit of fannish activity has been with my newest fandom, AKA Code Geass (Yes, once more I am late to jump on the Internets Bandwagon). I will actually get round to talking about it properly, once my next anime reviews post goes up. Which may be a while. Sorry. But hi to the n00bs on my flist, since you're mostly Geass fans!

Anyhow, as of yesterday it was one year to date since the final episode aired, so cue upturn of activity. Not that it was busy busy, but a couple of long fics I followed got new chapters added, and Pixiv had an explosion of pretty, pretty fanart. Which I need an online translator to navigate, but hey! Shiny things!

And to tie this post up into a nice fannish bow, I bring you these two bits of Geass fanart, in which someone has drawn Lelouch and Nunnally... in the style of the current FMA:B ED (That'd be "Let It Out" for the folks playing at home).

Oh fannish synchronicity.

So today during interning there was a SURPRISE DEPARTMENT MEETING in which I had to do a SURPRISE PRESENTATION of just what it is I am doing. Joy and wonderment.

Though I am now trying to decide which sort of public speaking I dislike more. The impromptu kind, which results in flailing and panic at not having anything prepared, and so screwing up when you get asked questions. Or the prepared kind, in which you have an extended period of time to get nervous about. And yet when we are doing group discussions on something I have an interest in, I am entirely capable of taking over the entire conversation, no problems. Weird.

Oh, and the fire alarm went off. But it was a false alarm, so we didn't have to evacuate. Whatever were those people on the 20th floor doing?

Afterwards, I went and met up with Allan on account of some random texting, and witnessed his hilarious failure at dumplings.

Seriously, there were epic amounts of fail. It was glorious.

Oh, and we had some exceedingly random conversations about using Hobos to teleport to Coburg (Don't ask), and Allan made this oh so charming quote: "It's like one of those army sticks, but with a woman attached."

...Yeah, this just reminds me that I need to spend more time with friends having conversations about this sort of random insanity.

And the winner of today's LOL WOT moment has to go to when I was reading through an OECD report whilst interning... and it started talking about Harry Potter fanfic. On Fanfiction.net.

I just... what. What.

I think I spent the next five minutes just staring at the computer screen, trying to not to start cackling uncontrollably.

Interning: Crackier than thou.

Incidentally, apparently The Sister's 21st (Which is in, like, two weekends) is actually a costume party. Theme: Holidays (You know, Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc).

What to wear, what to wear...

Well that was a busy-ish type week thing. (Shush, I'm tired, it's spazzifying my use of language).

Firstly, since it's most important: Yesterday my interning started! I have my own desk and swipey card and everything! Okay, so not everything, since by the end of the day my computer log-in still wasn't working, but hey, it's a start.

Of course, this did mean that all I did in the morning was read lots of statistics reports on Internet usage, and all I did in the afternoon was look for research papers about Internet usage.

But hey, it's a start. And I got cake since it was someone's birthday.

...And then I got utterly drenched because the weather was shocking on the way home.

Other things what I have done lately included going to Manifest on Sunday. Which was fun, but I think I need to know more people - or maybe do what I did last time, and latch onto some friendly cosplayers. I had a nice chat with a Suzaku, but he wandered off to take pictures of people

But I bought some stuff - lots of keyrings, so I basically have a collection now. And a couple of DVDs, but I really need to find a new series or two to look out for (that actually has box-sets out, argh). And some jewellery. Oh, and a plushy syphilis.

Cosplay was awesome to look at, and made me wish I could sew, woe. That said, I did get a bunch of people ask to get a picture of what I was wearing - which was kinda odd, since it wasn't that much different from what I'd wear to a party. Except with fishnets instead of coloured tights. Incidentally, all the people who took pictures of me were guys, and I am not taking that thought any further. I haven't seen me in any Manifest galleries...

Oh, and in Radical Fiction today we somehow ended up talking about fanfiction. And it got to the point where we were asked to come up with suggestions for radical Harry Potter fanfic (and I was asked to judge).

I think someone's suggest of having Harry be a "rapey midget" sorta won.

...It's not quite Wednesday Weirdness, but Creative Writing does seem to be keeping up it's tradition of having exceptional weird conversations.

So the people I applied for an internship with have gotten back to me. Finally.

But hey, I meet up with them on Tuesday. And, yeah, things are looking rather positive.

Which is pleasing, what with the whole course credit riding on it and all. And I was just about to get all panicky at my subject co-ordinator.

...Yeah, I just posted because this icon makes me laugh.