I AM OFFICIALLY ALLOWED TO TAKE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW!
This means that I have no reading week and ... I'm sure I had another... oh yes, that means I'm now doing five modules when I should be doing four, but YES! AT LAST! I wanted so badly to do this course, and it was crazy how complicated it was to get permission from both universities to do this - this has been in the works since March this year! Also today is important because Heika-housemate used a potato peeler as a screwdriver to put our table back together when it fell apart. I'm not sure whether this beats
giaan and I using olive oil as a substitute for WD-40 when she got locked in our house (the lock was stuck fast).
Also I saw a fox in London for the first time in three years! I've always wanted to see a fox in London, and now I have! (This was in the first week!)
In the first week we went to see
Howl's Moving Castle (yes, the UK is
this slow when it comes to anime!) and it was
so good, the best film I've watched all year (until the next one comes along). Looking at Howl is like getting the best of Maou! Yuuri and Conrad
all in one person. Also, he was dubbed by Christian Bale.
And, you know, it's a story about a boy who lives in a castle and loses his heart to a fire demon.
risax was watching Bleach yesterday and met
farfello! *waves hello!* And she told me and I went down to their university and we met! And we watched Bleach! MY BANKAI AND YOUR BANKAI TOTALLY RULE SOUL SOCIETY.
Byakuya HAD AN EXPRESSION! And we kept laughing at how it was
so, so, so wrong - "Oh, yeah, your sword is so not going to touch me" wrongness, and we were talking and looking at fanart (
fantastic Bya/Renji art) and
my heavens what was the Weiss cast doing?! *huge grin* *waves BANKAI at
homura*
risax and I went to watch Ewan McGregor in
Guys and Dolls! IT WAS SO BRILLIANT. He did a fabulous rendition of
Luck Be A Lady, and right at the end he's in uniform and it gets me the way looking at Conrad sometimes does. I'm so glad I got to see him perform onstage while he's Sky Masterton.
Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat was a fabulous, fabulous song, and all the more unexpected because its singer is a character who's timid and retiring for most of the musical, so when he gets up and belts this song,
it rules.
... okay, Yuuri and Wolfram are explaining the law of defamation inside my head. *shares it with all of you!* Basically, if you go around calling your Maou a henachoko, you'd better have these:
defences for defamation Warning: very, very oversimplified, because I did this in the last academic year 1. Truth. He really IS a henachoko.
2. Fair comment. I think he is a henachoko, therefore I am allowed to say that he is one.
3. Can't prove damage. Damage is essential to a successful defamation suit. So if
everyone in the kingdom already knew he was a henachoko, it doesn't matter if I say that he is.
4. He's a public figure. And so I can say anything I want about him, because his reputation is in the public domain!
That, and all through Jurisprudence today we were discussing the command theory of law and the concept of the sovereign, and I could
not get Maou! Yuuri out of my head when we were discussing how law can be a command backed by a threat, and a sovereign is one who is habitually obeyed but does not habitually obey anyone else. (but surely a talking wall is no basis for any system of government?) Furthermore, I am of the opinion Maou/Shinou is totally hot.
I am so tired right now, but really, really glad.
Incidentally,
this Yuuri/Wolfram checkers game
kills me, because it is so cute and destructive because it is horribly addictive (it is so hard for me to win this one. The closest I get is a draw. The computer player is SMART.)
Also, ♥
little_ribbon. So much.
Jealous, jealous, jealous. :) Glad you had a great time!
I was reading Petrarch's poems today and I thought of you when I read about his Laura. *grin* Unless you don't like Petrarchan poetry! *smiles!*
I LOVE that one! XD
*chu*
xD I wanted to write, "He's a public figure. AND MY FIANCE! So I can say anything I want about him!" But I worried it would be unprofessional. *laughter*
*hugs you and beams!* So glad to have you back! ^_^
but... looks at u and laughs. u are adorable. wait for prezzie!
I am glad I made you laugh? *hugs you* I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY. *HUGS*
*HUGS YOU* I AM SO GETTING YOU SOMETHING BACK. *HUGS YOU* um! You wouldn't be into soft toy frogs, would you? XD cause there is this one and it is so cute... and I've wanted to get it for someone for AGES...
Congrats! Friended you the other day...
I am 102% sure your post would make A LOT more sense to me if I hadn't just had Japanese classes AND then a 1-hour-ish conversation in DUTCH on MSN. The English language kind of makes my brain bleed right now, butthankyouforusingsmallwords, yay! *giggles*
It's probably because YOU are tired though ;) But I am so not complaining.
I'm so happy you can finally take the course you wanted, even though before today I didn't know there was a course you wanted to take but.. yesh. HAPPY. Mostly because people who WANT to take a course make me insanely happy. That, and it kind of means people won't slack off ;) (not that YOU would, but after going to school with a bunch of idiots I'm really squeeing about this? lol)
SO YAY. A SQUEE FOR CHRIS.
*laughs* I just used the side of a tupperwear cup to change the temperature of my dad's fridge, but using a potato peeler as a screwdriver is one of the coolest things I have ever heard. ;)
*has also fallen in the trap of the checkers game*
*glomps you* *loffs on you*
*hugs you!* Me being tired = me using small words. *hugs you!* This is the third language you've been speaking today?! *admires* Whoa... And all I was speaking was law-language and now fangirl-language! XD
I am so tired, *laughter*! I was reading for my Criminal Law course and feeling awfully sleepy! But naturally LJ wakes me up all over again! =D BETTER THAN CAFFEINE, EVEN! (Even when I'm mistyping just about every sentence I write?!)
*HUGS YOU TIGHT AND SQUEES BACK AT YOU* I really wanted to take this course, but I didn't know if was going to be able to get it, so I didn't want to say for sure until I'd got confirmation, and NOW I DO! I can go and buy my books instead of just borrowing them now! *HAPPY* (My university doesn't offer this course, so I'm actually going to another university to take this course? XD )
xD! I KNOW. My Heika rocks. XD I turned around and there she was using the potato peeler, I just couldn't stop being amused by it. She and Wolf (other housemate) went for an after-dinner walk to "The Edge of Our World". xD *(just around the neighbourhood)
*GLOMPS YOU BACK AND LOVES YOU SO MUCH*
THE CHECKERS GAME EATS MY SOUL. *DIES ON IT* AND IT IS SO CUTE TOO?
you're taking five lawunits ?!!1one O_________________O how'd you manage to do that! your grades must be whoa..
and is lse charging you for that course? we're so moneyminded it's not funnywhen are you lectures??*hides!* Idon'tthinkmygradesarethatgreat? XD It's just that LSE wasn't able to confirm whether it would let me do IP, so I had to apply for four courses at my university. For some reason my grades never came up when I applied either at UCL or at LSE to do IP, so they are hopefully irrelevant? *grin* XDDD
Don't worry, LSE isn't charging me. I think we have a reciprocal system where we allow a certain number of LSE students into UCL, and UCL students into LSE, and neither university charges the other.BUT YOUR UNIVERSITY WORKS SO MUCH HARDER THAN MINE, I wish I'd gone there instead! (Although given the choice I'd still come to UCL *grin*) I've always thought my university didn't give me enough work! (Three essays per module in an academic year is just not enough work...)*grin!* My lectures are late Monday afternoon (4-5pm), Friday 1-2pm, and my tutorial is on Thursday morning. XD Hopefully I'd get to see you around LSE! ^_^
*tackles you*
I GOT YOUR PACKAGE!!!!! You are sooooooo sweet! Thank you so much for the cute stationary paper and the mini...square picture thingie ^^; and the kawaii-est little note, and Ban&Ginji fanart...is that really fanart? *stares* It's so freaking good! *squeeeee* I am barely coherent! *glomps you*
*snuggles you* Now I feel bad I only sent you a card! Do you need anything? Any anime I have? Hentai anime or manga scans? ^_~ Oops...did I say that? *laughs* I am a very happy fangirl!!!
Seriously, let me know if I can do anything for you! *squishes you*
*faints*
XD *hearts you so much for the offer of hentai and anime scans!* *hugs* It's all right - don't feel bad! A card from you is more than enough! *grin*
*hugs you!* I will! *is happy you're happy! *hugs*
*revives!* *beams!* *just smiles!*
P.s. Your defenses for defamation of character are VERY good. ^_~
Thank you! *hides and blushes* It came from having to research defamation to make a mock pitch for legal services. *laughter* KKM goes everywhere in my mind! *hugs you!* *and beams* (I have this sudden image of Wolfram setting his lawyer's notes on fire when he doesn't get his way)
Juris is such a nightmare! *crawls into your dark corner and dies* Just reading the materials is hard enough, let alone what we're meant to do with them! *laughter*
XD We had defamation as a subsection of Contract and Tort. Oh why oh why did they kick defamation? What with all the libel cases going on in Singapore, you'd expect a lawyer to need to know how to bring/defend a defamation suit...
EEEE. *hugs* *commiserates with fellow law student*
Maou!Yuuri x Older Wolfram is friggin' hot
SO HOT. And Maou/Shinou too! WAIT TILL THEY GROW UP, THEY WILL LOOK THAT HOT.
Omg, did you know that I thought "Luck Be a Lady" was "Lets Be a Lady" FOR THE LONGEST TIME? I always thought it was a very strange song, because "lets be a lady tonight" WHAT? I suppose my slash fangirl started early. XD
You are the cutest. Hey, have you heard of mondegreens? xD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Australians all are ostriches (from the opening line of the Australian national anthem - "Australians all let us rejoice")
Spare him his life from his pork sausages (from Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen - spare him his life from this monstrosity)
There's a bathroom on the right (the payoff line at the end of each verse of the rock song Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival — "There's a bad moon on the rise")
Climb every woman (from the Whitney Houston song I'm every woman)
....Yuuri is an intellectual. He's Wolfram's property.
It is LAW.
no?
...I like playing with language :D
Did you read the book?
And BTW, the Yuuram checkers game title is called 'husband and wife othello' XD
Gah, I need to go to class *runs*
Heh, thank you for the checkers game translation! I did want to know what it meant...
my Heika can beat that game in her first go. I really am a henachoko!
I haven't read the Howl book yet - no time! But I think I will!
And I'm glad you got to see Howl's Moving Castle! The first thing I thought was, "there's an aweful lot of hair colour changing in this movie!"!
Anyway, despite the mention of law and things you've done, I know secretly this is a KKM post! Congratulations again on getting to do Property Law! Am so glad to hear you're happy.
xD
XD! I think I'm the only one from my uni doing it! xD But it's interesting getting to know some of the people in my new course! One of them is named Lev... He really should meet the Serry from my uni...
XD Yeah the hair-colour changing! The vanity of the main character! xD Guess the creators couldn't decide what colour they wanted their character's hair to be and settled for EVERYTHING! XD
*hugs you* Thank you! *smiles* (how did you find the sneaky KKM references, adorable Padawan. xD)