child of springtime, still green
Mar. 12th, 2008 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyroseI officially have somewhere to live next year! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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. Maybelaleia 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.
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.
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i liked reading all the things you've written;
Date: 2008-03-13 06:47 pm (UTC)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.