child of springtime, still green

[theladyrose]

I officially have somewhere to live next year! lilbabiangel888, Xiaolin and my friend April and I are living in a decently nice 2 bedroom 2 bath place not too far away from campus that's less than our current rent. And unofficially I'm the coordinator of the PEER mentoring/counseling program next year, so I'll be gainfully employed doing something that really matters to me with people I love as well :) Oh, and I'm officially going to Verona this summer! I'll be there from May 20-July 13 before heading out to New York for our annual family reunion.

It's been hectic getting a number of things out of the way before going home spring break next week, where I can catch up on more work/evaluating research tapes. Theoretically I'm organizing the TO academic conference (where I gave a presentation last year) coming up in April alongside everything else. Maybe laleia does have a point about my inability to say no. Thank goodness at least we have a committee to plan it all so that the work is spread out in a much more manageable fashion.

After much encouragement from a mentor/professor, I have a website with various snippets of writing up. Most of it is academic under the pretense that I have something to show grad schools/prospective employers (?), but I also have some more personal odds and ends there as well.

I should really stop procrastinating on a paper proposal due in a couple of hours, but once you start figuring out basic website stuff (and I mean really basic), it's disturbingly addictive.

Comments

[gandydancer.livejournal.com]

congratulations on your new living accommodations! and your upcoming trip.

i love the simplicity of the site. i think it's really pleasing, aesthetically. i read all of your writing and i loved it. i especially liked the piece you wrote about the girl you lived with, the girl who was narcoleptic. i had a similar experience early in my college days with a girl that i had been tripled with in a double room. she was undergoing what i think was her first psychotic episode and it was painful to watch. we were able to get her some help though, so it turned out for the best in the end.

i also love your fics. are you a slashy sort of writer when you write fic? for me the paddy is so interchangeable with most of his characters (excluding the really obviously out there ones, where he was clearly working for the paycheck, like the baddie in silver streak) that it's tough for me to see him in a slashy setting. i tend to write him as asexual or as reluctantly sexual and extremely guilt-ridden about same, if that makes any sense at all.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Many thanks, Miss G! I really appreciate that you took the time out to check it out and read and that you liked it; it means a lot to me. The piece about my narcoleptic friend is probably one of my favorite things out of all that I've written. It's so hard to deal with being a spectator when you see someone close to you suffering, especially when you see it all upfront, but I'm glad that you found her some support.

I'm really new to writing fic, so I'm still exploring what my perspective is on writing slash. When it comes to writing John Drake, I share your perspective - I view him and most of P's characters as heteroromantic asexual except for in the really obvious cases (G&G, HTAN much?). For most things I read/watch I don't personally view relationships as slash, although I can see how others might. There are a few major exceptions, including the fandom I primarily write now, but I personally have no interest in writing sex of any kind. Flirtatious insinuations are a lot of fun, but that's the farthest I'm going at this stage. For the long work-in-progress I'm writing with Drake in it, Drake doesn't become involved with anyone, but I'm honestly not sure if I'd consider the relationship between the other two guys slashy or not.

i liked reading all the things you've written;

[gandydancer.livejournal.com]

i love reading other people's work-type-stuff in general, and especially academic type-things. <-- please note amazing usage of the english language in previous sentence. the narcolepsy piece is beautiful and sad as well as being insightful and i like it very much.

i see writing as a window into a person's brain. you can look at what's going on in there. i know that with my own writing i can see clearly when i'm getting obsessy and a touch crazy, for certain.

perhaps i'm weird, but i have zero affinity for slash. i have no idea why, but i cannot write slashy stuff. i'm not interested in reading it either, even if it's Very. Good. Stuff. unless the character is canonically gay, it makes me feel odd to 'make' them slashy, just as it would feel weird for me to 'make' a gay character suddenly be all het. something i find extremely unusual and puzzling is the trend to write about real people and slash them. i was poking around adultfanfiction.whatever it is, and found a story that was about criss angel, who is this very terrible magician, and gene simmons' son, which i just thought was completely bizarre.

i couldn't write sex for the longest time, then it seemed like that was all i could write, and now it's faded into the background again. i was never able to write a pwp one-off, that's not my style, i need to have character and, you know, story in there--but there was a time where very lengthy sex scenes would sort of pop up randomly. not so much now.

there were a few decent fics at c3. i wish i had saved them or could remember who'd done what. i know pet's were always first-rate, and ingrid grew into this very elegant and sort of glorious writing style--which i hope she is still staying on top of, it was marvelous to see her grow and become more confident--but i can only remember my extremely perverted headmaster story, which really had nothing to do with anything except an image from that episode of columboas a starting point, and a piece that may or may not have been posted there about numero sesso and a mind-control experiment that goes horribly wrong for a girl he knew when he was john drake. there was a minor amount of sex in that but it was abstracted and written very oddly, i think.

well! i've just posted a horridly long ramble in your journal! enjoy!

*slinks off*

eta: forgive me for editing, but i need to excuse that entire ramble for being a poor use of the english language. blech. i think i need some coffee. like, yesterday.

[lilbabiangel888.livejournal.com]

hey future/present roomie!
When we go to IKEA and pick out furniture, we'll be sure to find a chair and put a sign on it that says "reserved for theladyrose. If not her, do not attempt to sit"

I have an urge to be especially mean and find the softest, comfiest thing and doom you to fall asleep often. *insert nefarious laugh here*

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

HAHA! I ran into Rose the other day on the way to class, and she told me that she almost didn't recognize me, that I looked different somehow. Then she said that she was so surprised to seeing me not in the living room armchair :P

Please resist that urge! The couch is awful enough as is already; surely we can reach some sort of compromise :D