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My older sister's visiting with her three kids. It's lovely seeing them again, but the cat's terrified of them. Normally, she'll get in and out through a ventilation shaft that goes to the basement, and then just come in if we've remembered to not close the door (and meow until we open it if we've forgotten). Now, she won't come in unless I stand calling for her, and then I have to carry her straight up to my or my younger sister's room so she doesn't have to be around the kids. I hope she'll get over it; they're here for a week.
A week in which I won't get much work done. Darn. I was starting to get somewhere, too.
A week in which I won't get much work done. Darn. I was starting to get somewhere, too.
I feel sick...
Jan. 3rd, 2008 05:23 amIt's not even half past five in the morning, and I've been awake for two hours. Today I'm moving to York for half a year, and I'm really, really nervous about it.
Of course, everything's made worse by the fact that today it's exactly one month since my dad died, and I really, really miss him.
Of course, everything's made worse by the fact that today it's exactly one month since my dad died, and I really, really miss him.
Happy Birthday to Me!
Apr. 14th, 2007 11:49 pm(And my older sister.)
According to the clock on my computer, it's stillten five minutes until my birthday is over, so I'm making a birthday post.
I didn't get any actual presents, by I got money to pay for that aquarium I'm buying from a friend of mine. Once it's set, I know someone who wants to buy me a fish, so yay!
(This won't be the first time I get a fish for a present, but this one will hopefully be alive, not dead and dried and smelly.)
Since it's orchestra week-end, my day was filled with music. Since we're doing an opera project with singers from the Grieg Academy (the University's Academy for Music), someone got the sopranos to sing me the birthday song. That was a bit embarrassing, and very cool.
Tomorrow is the concert, and after that, some friends and I are going out to dinner.
There's no sense in this post, so I'm over-tagging it and ending it. Nighty-night.
According to the clock on my computer, it's still
I didn't get any actual presents, by I got money to pay for that aquarium I'm buying from a friend of mine. Once it's set, I know someone who wants to buy me a fish, so yay!
(This won't be the first time I get a fish for a present, but this one will hopefully be alive, not dead and dried and smelly.)
Since it's orchestra week-end, my day was filled with music. Since we're doing an opera project with singers from the Grieg Academy (the University's Academy for Music), someone got the sopranos to sing me the birthday song. That was a bit embarrassing, and very cool.
Tomorrow is the concert, and after that, some friends and I are going out to dinner.
There's no sense in this post, so I'm over-tagging it and ending it. Nighty-night.
Too little time
Feb. 25th, 2007 05:23 pmI wanted to write an entry about how the emotionally moving stuff hits us harder in comedy series because it's all the rarer...
...and relate this to why so many are tired of blood and gore in comic books.
I wanted to write an entry about how I, after having watched a lot of episodes of Scrubs in a row, start thinking in the structure of a TV show.
I wanted to ask why, exactly, so few white superheroes have brown eyes. (And related to that, how did Jubilee, who's Chinese-American, end up with blue eyes? Or am I just displaying my ignorance here, and that's actually not too unusual?)
Unfortunately, I have a week to finish a paper I have only just started on, and on Tuesday, my older sister comes to visit with all three kids.
This is what I get for pushing things ahead. I really should have done that paper instead of...watching Scrubs.
(I couldn't stop! It was funny!)
...and relate this to why so many are tired of blood and gore in comic books.
I wanted to write an entry about how I, after having watched a lot of episodes of Scrubs in a row, start thinking in the structure of a TV show.
I wanted to ask why, exactly, so few white superheroes have brown eyes. (And related to that, how did Jubilee, who's Chinese-American, end up with blue eyes? Or am I just displaying my ignorance here, and that's actually not too unusual?)
Unfortunately, I have a week to finish a paper I have only just started on, and on Tuesday, my older sister comes to visit with all three kids.
This is what I get for pushing things ahead. I really should have done that paper instead of...watching Scrubs.
(I couldn't stop! It was funny!)
Misunderstandings
Apr. 23rd, 2006 06:43 pmI had an interesting conversation with my sister this morning. It went something like this (most of it loosely translated from Norwegian):
Me: Have I made you read A Distant Soil yet?
Her: No.
Me: Do you have time to?
Her: Not really. What's it about?
Me: Um, er, everything? Uh, a spaceship, girl with psychic powers, an Arthurian knight, intrigue, shapeshifters...
Her: Science Fiction-Fantasy thing, then.
Me: Oh, and cop drama.
Her: Ha ha...Is that what I think it is?
Me: Well, there's a cop, and mystery...
Her: Oh, I thought you said something else.
Me: What?
Her: What do you think?
Me: Well, the only thing I can think of is 'cod drama', and that's...
Her: [Translating it] Torskedrama? Heh.
Me: What was it?
Her: Substitute 'p' for 'ck'.
Me: Oh.
Her: I thought "That's a new word for romance".
Me: Well, it's got that too.
Her: Huh.
Me: I'm totally going to start using that expression now.
In other news, my paper is limping along nicely (meaning it's a lot of work, but I think I'll manage), which is good, since the second draft is due this Tuesday. Once I'm done, I will make a mammoth post on how comic books work and don't work.
Me: Have I made you read A Distant Soil yet?
Her: No.
Me: Do you have time to?
Her: Not really. What's it about?
Me: Um, er, everything? Uh, a spaceship, girl with psychic powers, an Arthurian knight, intrigue, shapeshifters...
Her: Science Fiction-Fantasy thing, then.
Me: Oh, and cop drama.
Her: Ha ha...Is that what I think it is?
Me: Well, there's a cop, and mystery...
Her: Oh, I thought you said something else.
Me: What?
Her: What do you think?
Me: Well, the only thing I can think of is 'cod drama', and that's...
Her: [Translating it] Torskedrama? Heh.
Me: What was it?
Her: Substitute 'p' for 'ck'.
Me: Oh.
Her: I thought "That's a new word for romance".
Me: Well, it's got that too.
Her: Huh.
Me: I'm totally going to start using that expression now.
In other news, my paper is limping along nicely (meaning it's a lot of work, but I think I'll manage), which is good, since the second draft is due this Tuesday. Once I'm done, I will make a mammoth post on how comic books work and don't work.
I do believe in goodfic, I do, I do!
Mar. 10th, 2005 08:49 amIn honour of good fanfiction week, I present to you:
http://members.aol.com/MacedonPg/index.html
Macedon. He no longer writes, and I've only read the stories that involve Jake Sisko, but DAMN! I sat up until half past midnight and put off a lot of required reading for these stories. It's the sort of stories that make you think that maybe, just maybe, all Trek fanfic isn't just crapfic.
In other news: My parents are weird. Mum was talking about global languages and such, and mentioned something about German and Goethe's Faust and how that was still important as long as the people who read it decide school curriculums, and dad disagreed - at which point my mother said that "You're completely infected by the anti-intellectualism of the political left". Dad couldn't let that lie, so he stood up on his chair and started singing opera. Two lines from Faust in German.
I love my family.
http://members.aol.com/MacedonPg/index.html
Macedon. He no longer writes, and I've only read the stories that involve Jake Sisko, but DAMN! I sat up until half past midnight and put off a lot of required reading for these stories. It's the sort of stories that make you think that maybe, just maybe, all Trek fanfic isn't just crapfic.
In other news: My parents are weird. Mum was talking about global languages and such, and mentioned something about German and Goethe's Faust and how that was still important as long as the people who read it decide school curriculums, and dad disagreed - at which point my mother said that "You're completely infected by the anti-intellectualism of the political left". Dad couldn't let that lie, so he stood up on his chair and started singing opera. Two lines from Faust in German.
I love my family.
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Dec. 11th, 2004 11:41 pmIt's typical. I go to visit my sister in Wales, and my camera stops working, so I can't take any pictures.
I'm 99% percent certain I will fail one of my exams.
Geek rant of the day:
I love Star Trek: Deep Space 9. I ove the fact that what happens in one episode affects later episodes. I think the Original Series have most of the best episodes, but it feels more like a collection of unrelated stories than a series. I've only seen one season of The Next Generation, and it was boring - I hear it becomes better after a while. I haven't really seen enough Voyager to judge, and I haven't seen anything of Enterprise - but from what I've read, I'm not sure I want to.
But I read a brilliant interview in SFX #164 with Jolene Blalock, who plays T'Pol, where she rants about continuity errors. And she thinks season four will actually be good - and the last. So maybe...
Today's quote: "You can't substitute tits and ass for good storytelling!" Thank you, Jolene.
I'm 99% percent certain I will fail one of my exams.
Geek rant of the day:
I love Star Trek: Deep Space 9. I ove the fact that what happens in one episode affects later episodes. I think the Original Series have most of the best episodes, but it feels more like a collection of unrelated stories than a series. I've only seen one season of The Next Generation, and it was boring - I hear it becomes better after a while. I haven't really seen enough Voyager to judge, and I haven't seen anything of Enterprise - but from what I've read, I'm not sure I want to.
But I read a brilliant interview in SFX #164 with Jolene Blalock, who plays T'Pol, where she rants about continuity errors. And she thinks season four will actually be good - and the last. So maybe...
Today's quote: "You can't substitute tits and ass for good storytelling!" Thank you, Jolene.
