Well am finally finished with college. ^_^. Just have my thesis (hopefully) left to do.

Finished off my assignment for Network Resource Management, have just(hopefully) my dissertation over the Summer to do and then am completely finished. So glad to be doing some work that is actually not constrained by an assignment question.

In terms of reading, have finished off ‘The Gates’ , am now reading H.P Lovecraft 'The Call of Cthulhu and other weird tales'.Have read the Mishima book, now on ‘Spring Snow’

In terms of fanfiction. I finally got some of my Jekyll fanfic posted up on fanfiction.net. Also got the prologue up for 'Subversive'. Currently working on Chapter.1 to 3. Have Chapter one nearly finished and ready to publish. Hoping to have it ready on Sunday sometime for publishing.

In terms of general fiction, am back planning it, currently getting the bones of it together for the rewrite, on the plus side, The poem I submitted didn’t get into the book. But that’s ok, it’ll give me time to rework it and post it up on Deviantart.

Sanctuary S4 is finally airing now on Watch. Really enjoying rewatching it at the moment. Also am watching Murdoch Mysteries on Alibi and Next Great Artist on Sky Arts.

Well, am finally at this point. Finished up with lectures this week. Yes, I do have assignments to submit on Moodle, but I don’t mind that so much as other than that being the factor to sort out, I am finished with travelling up to Dublin for lectures. So, let me regale you with what happened in that final week, shall I. ^_^

Well Tuesday was interesting as my lecture had been cancelled, it gave me a bit of time to whip up a presentation for Information Architecture on Thursday

Thursdays lecture went well. Had no lectures per say, we just had to present a presentation about our assignment for class.  Went out afterwards, was staying overnight. Had breakfast in Bewley's and did a small bit of shopping on Friday. Still home early enough then. Was really tired though, think the college years has finally caught up with me.

Had to go in to Dublin again on Saturday for a research methods refresher course. But didn’t mind that so much, found it very helpful for my thesis.

Submitted my assignment for Information Architecture. Now to play the waiting game for the results. Have only to complete my Managing IT Resources assignment, and then I’m done. Then I’ve only to (hopefully) to do my thesis.

Had to go up to Dublin then on Tuesday for the lecture that had been cancelled earlier. It went well thankfully, got a few questions answered that I had about my assignment. Also picked up a few things that I had ordered the previous week on the Saturday when I was up. Also got my hands on Being Human Series Four on DVD. Again, apologies. Will get to my review of series four soon.  

In terms of writing generally, am trying my hand in submitting a poem for publication in a book in aid of Undershaw. Any way I can help. Probably won’t get into the book, but it’s worth a shot. Also, have the first couple of chapters planned out for my general fiction. Also have a bit more written of my werewolf fanfic, have started writing my Mary Russell fanfic ‘Subversive’(finally) and have started writing a fanfic called ‘The Adventures of Mr Siegfried Sands’ (Sigerson). Also, thinking of posting up on Deviantart a little poem I wrote a few months back.

It’s good to be back writing again, especially after my brain stalling on me a few months back.

Well have been very busy the past couple of weeks. Only sort of getting a bit of a breather now (of sorts, still busy with academic assignments and presentations).

Tuesdays lecture went well. The journey to lectures is starting to get to me, but thankfully just one more week to go and am finished. Still have to be working on my assignment, but thankfully it's not as daunting as I had first thought.

Thursdays lecture.We had to go to a different room than we are used to(it wasn't even in the same building as where we were usually). However, other than that, everything went ok.

Dead busy with both assignments, however am working on getting both assignments done.Have one week left of lectures.

Had a seminar on Friday two weeks ago to go to. Found it very interesting.

Thankfully getting to the end of going to Dublin for lectures, it’s just about starting to get to me now. Would love to go back just going up to visit Dublin for just a day out. Kind of miss that now. Also miss getting the chance to go into Galway. Haven’t been there in a good while.

As soon as everything starts to calm down for me, I’ll be doing a review of all the series four of Being Human.

Apologies that this isn’t a long blog, will make up for it soon enough though.

Well back to college. The week had gone too fast for me. Had so much things that needed to be done. It was a bit surprising how many real life things I had to catch up with. So the week that I had planned didn’t go according to plan. Actually was really disappointed it didn’t work out as I had planned. I had planned on getting a handle on what I’m studying. I’ll have to make time this weekend to catch up. I have though, since I returned from break searched online for some tutorial videos and I think that I may have figured out one pressing thing from that lecture on Tuesday before reading week.

Tuesdays lecture went a bit better than the last one did before reading week. Didn’t get quite so flustered with what we were doing. I actually quite enjoyed it. We were looking at different types of components behind networks. Found it quite interesting as we got a bit hands on with the components.

Thursdays lecture was good. Just have to get going with the assignment this weekend. I mean, I am a little behind with it. But I should be ok, it seems to be a fairly straight forward assignment. Just have to sit down now and give it a proper amount of time.

Thrilled also to report that I have passed the assessments that I had to do for Semester One, am so happy with myself.^_^ Working as we speak on planning assignments and my thesis just a little bit for Semester Two now.

Still working on my fanfics a small bit, whenever I get time. Just finishing up one chapter of the AU fanfic before I’ll go back and edit the first chapter before I post it up. Have a couple of sections to expand on before I post it up online.

Well this week was rather less packed than the previous one. Things were back to normal pretty much.

Tuesdays lecture was tough this week. Thank goodness I have reading week to try and figure this out in full. Also got my assignment, so also will be working on that for the next while also. It just means sitting down and giving it time. I hadn’t had the chance to do that due to being busy in the last few weeks.

Thursdays lecture went well for me. Got there just in time. I think it was because the Dublin Jameson International Film Festival was starting that day that the city was so packed. But then again, Thursdays are always busy in Dublin. Again, have stuff i can be working on in the reading week. Will use it to catch up on my class reading.

Went to see the final performance in Dublin of ‘An Inspector Calls’ on Saturday. It was absolutely brilliant. It is amazing that this is the same stage that can hold pantomimes as well as comedy events. You wouldn’t think they would be able to show it in a satisfactory way as it is meant to be seen, but you would be wrong. I have never been in the balcony seats before in this theatre. Every time I had gone to a production there I was on the ground floor of the theatre. The advantage of being in these seats were twofold. One the one hand, of course you had an excellent view of the stage. One the other, you got to see more of the interior of this beautiful gem of a theatre, including the chandelier that hangs overhead. 

In terms of fanfiction,  am still working hard at trying to make the AU a bit more coherent and also I was working on the finicky dialogue and actions that take place in Baker Street that is important in terms of later on in the fanfic at the military base. It’s an AU of Hounds, so it runs a bit differently to what Mark Gatiss wrote. I had started it before the series started running with a different hypothesis on what the episode would be about. I like how it’s going, however I do have to tweak it a bit on Word before I publish (I’m using the Moleskine app on my iPhone at the moment to get the ideas down fast). Also toying with writing a modern Mary Russell fanfic within the modern Sherlock universe. I kind of talked about the ideas I had already in a Tumblr post. But I’m going to try and expand my idea for the characteristics of a modern Mary here.

The character of Mary Russell as traditionally envisioned by Laurie R. King is a modern lady who is very intelligent and very able to look after herself. She is an interesting character to try and modernise. How I’m trying to get around it is making her a little older than she is originally in the first book. Adding to this, I have decided to make her one of Molly’s co-workers and friend. I think it would be in keeping with the character of Mary to have her work in this line. She’s also a slightly reformed computer hacker and can be slightly sociopathic.

Will have stuff up about the Being Human episodes in the next blog.

Well what a busy week it was, however I knew that it would be. I headed up to Dublin early on Monday to see ‘Big Maggie’ in the Gaiety theatre. It was absolutely brilliant, stayed up that night in a nearby hotel. I did however get a bout of food poisoning from chicken I had before I left for the show, but that was the only low point thankfully.

Spent the day in Dublin then before I had to go into lectures. Went into Hodgis Figgis and got my hands on ‘The Beekeeper’s Apprentice’ by Laurie R. King and ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen. Was very pleased with getting my hands on those two books. Got my hands on ‘The Last Enemy’ in Tower Records, also ordered ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ in HMV to collect on Thursday when I had a bit extra cash.

Lectures went well that Tuesday, have to sit down with it and really concentrate on it to try and understand, but am hoping that it goes ok for me.

On Wednesday had to get ready again to go up to Dublin, thankfully I could go up a little later that night as we didn’t have something to have to go to on the Wednesday. Collected the DVD I had ordered.on Thursday along with the original Millennium Trilogy of films based on Stieg Larsson's book series, spent the time walking around town before lectures.

Thursday lectures went well for me. But I am so glad that the week is over. My reading is going well for me at the moment. Am also writing some fanfiction when I get a few minutes. It’s going well for me. Thankfully next week will be less busy and more normal for me. The week after is our reading week ^_^.

Being Human Series Four: Episode One – Reaction

Well back now for two weeks now. The thing that is definably noticeable is that there is more of a stretch in the day than there was even last week, thank goodness. Lectures went well this week. Got everything handed in that need to be handed in.

On Tuesday, just managed to get to lectures, had a few delays before I started out to come up to lectures. Thankfully made it up in time. Haven’t got into the shops yet, hoping to try and do so some time next week though. Thankfully, instead of being behind in the lecture on Tuesday and unable to follow the lecture, the exact opposite happened to me. I was actually too far ahead this time, thankfully. Still early days yet, I hope this continues to go well for me.

Thursdays lecture went well too. After everything, and even going away and looking at it a bit later on with fresh eyes, I managed to had it in successfully. I was wall falling though, but a quick detour to a cafe helped me out in that regards. The lecture went ok and am more along with the second weekly assignment that’s due than I had been with the previous one.

Things have been bonkers busy this week at home too. Had stuff to do at home before college on Tuesday and Thursday.My Reapersun Badges came in the post during the week, am very pleased with them. Also my Sherlock series one soundtrack came in the post before I had to go to college on Tuesday. My Qwertee t-shirt came in the post on Friday. Am just waiting for the t-shirt to come from OtherTees.

(Will post up my Being Human review in the next blog)

Well back at college this week. Thankfully so far it’s going well. Tuesday’s lecture went well. Thankfully on Tuesday I didn’t feel the journey up and down to Dublin. Must be because the weather is improving a bit. However I believe that a bit of a cold snap is heading our way. Just saw on Wednesday that the weather is going to get a bit worse. Have to read over my notes for next week. Have downloaded them from Moodle so I’m just giving them a bit of a look through for next week. But everything seems ok this time so far. Have just to watch two YouTube videos for class, but it should be ok. Should be ok though.

Worked away with that module on Wednesday and prepared for Thursday’s lecture. Amidst all of this, I have managed to write a little bit more of my AU fanfic. It’s a bit finicky at the moment as I’m working up to a reveal but am caught up with necessary if tedious exposition. However, it is helping my mind to relax after lectures.

Being Human is back on the 5th of February ^_^. Can’t wait to see it come back. Saw the advert after Sherlock on BBC Three and am a little bit more cautiously optimistic about the series than I had been when I saw the promotional photos. Apparently also Mark Gatiss is set to guest star in one of the episodes. Look forward to seeing how that would go.

Hoping to get a little reading done over the weekend, both academically and recreationally. Getting closer to the end of another book that I’m reading. Hoping that I get to the end of a couple more of my books soon, if not it doesn’t really matter. I am going well in my reading though, have a good bit of reading done already this year, so am pleased. I am very very busy for this semester, but will try to continue with my reading..

Lectures on Thursday went well for me.It should go ok this year, I hope that it does. Just have a weekly assignment thing to hand in and also an assignment due at the end of the semester that I was given yesterday. Hope to start full work on it over the weekend. Have downloaded my notes and am looking back over them also, the same thing that I’m doing for my Tuesday lecture.

Sunday is my day off from thinking about academic work, I think about it all week so it’s important for me to set time aside for myself to recharge for the next week otherwise I’ll just burn out. Which is what happened to be last year, I got terribly sick and was unable to continue going to lectures that year.It was definably stress related that time. That Sunday rule for myself tends to go a bit out the window though around the times that I have my end of semester assignment and when I’m trying to make the final tweaks to assignments. But I try to make up for it in the weeks after.

Well finished it. Finished off what I had to do and have the thing submitted, thank goodness. Sorted out other stuff that I had hanging over my head before I started back, such as registering for the second semester courses on Moodle. Had everything else done last week.  I’ve sorted out my files also for Semester 2. Received a revised Semester 2 timetable also during the week and make necessary amendments to my academic journals.

Last Saturday I finally got to see War Horse. I loved it, enjoyed it thoroughly. Just got in, in time to the cinema (my cinema picks lousy times to screen great films, the latest they bother putting on a film is 9pm)

Went into Galway again on Friday. Was surprised that they had already Sherlock series 2 out for sale as it was not due to be out until Monday. So pleased I got it early though . That same day, went to see ‘The Artist’. I love that film to bits, both toe tapping and tear jerking at the same time.

Watched  Sherlock ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought that it was a very interesting take on the original story ‘The Final Problem’. There were nice moments that reminded me of the original story. Looking forward to seeing what is decided to be done to conclude this series finale. But have to wait a year again for that. Not too fussed though, have a lot to preoccupy myself with until the series returns, or starts back filming again. If I had to say three stories that I would love to see tackled are ‘The Empty House’(Obviously), ‘The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton’ (Would love to see Milverton be played by Paul McGann, he was brilliant in ‘Always Crashing in the Same Car’, ‘Gypo’, ‘True Dare Kiss’ and that guest bit he did on ‘Sea of Souls’ , he could SO pull off Milverton if given the chance), and ‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ or ‘Silver Blaze’.

There is very little news at the moment concerning Being Human. There are small dribs and drabs. The season four trailer is out, fairly exciting stuff from the looks of it. Along with the the prequels and separate adverts.

Have three books already read this year, fairly proud of myself there. Working on a fourth as we speak. Finished ‘Broken by Kelley Armstrong’ and am now onto ‘Men of the Otherworld’ by the same author. Hope to finish John Connolly’s book ‘The Gates’, I am really enjoying it.

Working on my AU fanfic at the moment. It’s going well, very pleased with it. Have an idea for another, but I’ll digress a bit with writing it until I’m near the end of the one I’m writing at the moment. I have made notes of the ideas I have had though, so I don’t forget  what I wanted to write about.  Have also changes to make to the start before I start to publish it online.

Well, Christmas and New Year over. Back to work, just putting the finishing touches on the last academic essay that have to hand in. It’s boring, but I have to keep with it and finish it off for good and always.  It’s tedious and too long winded with too much parts required to do in it (either a report or those diagrams but not both, yeesh), but it HAS to be done.  Then back on the 24th to college and the commute up and down, again. Shouldn’t feel it too much, the weather will be starting to get better and the days will be getting longer.Got an e-mail with my timetable for Semester 2 during the week, have added the times to my phone and have put in the dates of breaks in for Semester 2 also. So am hoping that it goes ok for me.

Have to say, am fairly anxious about this semester.  I’m wishing that one of my essays aren’t  like the one which I’ve mentioned a bit above. But am trying not to let it get to me, like it did last year. Thankfully, I have a few days off before I have to go back, so can relax fully for a short while before I have to go back for lectures.

Looking forward to Being Human being back on next week on BBC Three. It’s Series 4 finally. (Will talk more about that after Sherlock is over)

Anyways, watched the second episode of Sherlock on Sunday. Enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed ‘Scandal in Belgravia’. It was very good. Wasn’t what I had expected at all, I thought it was going to be set around the prison. But was pleasantly surprised with it. I thought that the nods to the original stories in the episode were brilliant.

So, we’re close to The Fall.

To quote Tumblr/Twitter posts ‘Tick Tock goes the clock, he killed the Hound and mocked Her. Tick tock goes the clock, till Sherlock leaves his doctor…’