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I haven't had a "real" job during university, so I'm not really sure how difficult it will be. Last year I had two jobs, but they were at the school. One was at the writing centre, and I taught there in a three-hour block every Friday. That didn't take up a lot of time, and sometimes it was very slow so I was able to read my textbooks or write stories. My other job was a bit more difficult; I was a TA for a professor who taught first-year English. So I had to go to the lectures for those first-year courses (so I would know what he was teaching). Then I had to teach 20 of the students for an hour every Friday. These sessions were mostly discussion, and it was difficult because it was at 8:30 AM and a lot of the time the students didn't want to talk because they were sleepy, or they didn't want to talk because they hated the book. Sigh. I also had to mark and grade their essays (except for the final exams, which the professor marked). The actual time in the classroom wasn't much, but preparing for teaching (and reading all the novels they were studying) as well as marking the stuff took quite a while.

...Anyway. Moving on. If you could enlighten me as to why people on the meme might find me intimidating, I'd really appreciate it. This goes double if it's anything that I might be able to change. I want to be approachable, both online and offline. I don't want people to think I'm scary. So if it's something about my behaviour that can be adjusted, then I'm fully willing to work on that. As for me being a Norway or a Sweden offline, I still say I'm closer to Sweden - but with an enormous dose of derp. I want to speak, but I have to think it over 2093483 times before I can say it - not because I'm concerned about getting it right, like Sweden is, but because it takes me ages to think of a response beyond "hurr durr derp". So like, I'm civil and stuff, but I don't talk much because I can't... think of anything to say, at all. This is a real pain in the ass in class situations, let me tell you. By the time I manage to think of something to contribute to the discussion, someone else has already said it.

Now, as for television, yeah... you basically hit it right on the head. I mean, with the old stuff, it's more about solving the mystery through logic + evidence, then the courtroom drama that followed. Now it's all just SHINY SHINY SHINY. And it has become more about the personal lives of the detectives/CSI people/whatever than about the crime. Ah, well. I don't really find myself interested in anything on television except crime stuff, news, and the occasional documentary, so... as you can probably guess, I hardly ever watch televisionm, though I own one. (Mum keeps saying I should upgrade my cable package. Pfft, can't be bothered...)

Now, back to writing stuff - yeah, I guess I might be able to transplant the personalities into something else. Right now I'm kind of burnt out on original fiction I guess (which is why I'm writing fanfiction), but when I get back in the groove I might try. When I was trying to salvage things before I gave up, I figured that maybe what I could do is start over, strip it of all the mystical stuff, and make it some sort of story about a kid who aspires to be a star and the music teacher who's trying to help him make it big.

Julian (the Jesus kid) was one of the ones with a fully fleshed-out personality. This is partly because I had been fiddling with him for longer than most of the others. Same thing goes for Francois, the vampire. Man, do I ever miss writing him. He was so much fun. The kind of person I would really want to know, you kow? (And now I realize that I'm starting to talk about them as if they're real people, but... In a way, they really are like old friends)