Pod-girl & 659.26

It all started off with much difficulty. The time of the morning. The warmth of my bed. The having to raise eye-lids. And then there was the BIP-BIP-BIP-BIIIIP of the alarm. Two snooze sessions later I knew I had to get up. After all, what kind of nerd would I be if I wasn't at university at least 3 and 1/2 hours early?

So off I went. The bus stopped at the Park-And-Ride. Many betties got on. Hate that, it just makes me miss my gf. I watched the guy sitting across from me scraping dead skin from his hands. Once he'd decided that his hands were Olay soft, he less-than-subtly wiped the excess off his clothes and onto the seat. By this point I was about to puke. I've seen many things that I think are gross but this tapped right into my obsessive compulsive disorder. After all, maybe I was sitting on someone's giant, super-size serving of dirty skin cells. Oh God. What if his brazen flicking of skin resulted in some of it actually landing on me?!?! 5 more minutes. We're almost in the city. Fresh air will cleanse you.

I arrived at university and went straight to the library. Where else do nerds go? I went and researched a couple of media textbooks for my assignment. I found one and felt that I would be able to compile a sophisticated and comprehensive bibliography, ignoring the fact that I hadn't actually used any of these books in my assignment. Often times I find writing a pretentious and fraudulent bibliography to be far more satisfying than doing the assignment itself. Did anyone else know that the entire 659 section of the Education Resource Centre at Melbourne Uni is completely missing?!?! This is the kind of realisation that gives you chills. An entire section of the library is missing! Besides knowing that there is definitely story-mining potential in this, I also felt a bit Angela Lansbury. Sans the wool cardigans.

The point of this is that after not actually adding anything at all to my assignment I went and handed it in. The nerdy part? I handed it in a day early. :)
Sure, I've cannibalised parts of it from two another assignments but I think that's legitimate when I have 5 major assignments due in the space of two weeks. And before you get all concerned, I was cannibalising from my own work, so I think it's ok.

No animals were hurt in the production of this assignment. In fact, one could argue that the animal kingdom is better for me having completed this media assignment as not only did the cat get played with, but the fish had its bowl cleaned.