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[11 Dec 2009|12:13pm] |
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Erthe Upon Erthe - Mediaeval Baebes |
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background: What I thought would be a short story for Workshop has morphed, in my head, into a novel. I jsut wrote a bit of the second chapter of it yesterday.
What I really liked was the description.
The novel I'm workong on right now is - interesting, but it doesn't grip me in the same way the bookpeople one did, nor Olinscarr, nor any of the others. I don't know. I want to finish it, but there's probably only a couple characters I feel investment in. Which is odd.
And a little frustrating.
Because now, here, comes along a story-into-novel that begs to be written, and researched, and figured out, and all the characters are bright and shiny and interesting and the places and the situations are fascinating and it's all alien and interesting. And it's got description. I'm not usually a descriptiony person, but this one - the very first few paragraphs of that new chapter are description. The character looks aroudn a lot, he notices a lot, he observes and describes. And he's in environments that are enjoyable to describe. Not jsut a dorm room and the streets of a midwestern town - this is a city of buildings that get more lavish the higher floors you get up to; depending where you sit in the society your surroundings vary drastically.
(here, again, with Pico and her cities.)
And there's proper fight scenes! Fists-and-feet fight scenes! There's huge differences between social classes! There's crazy futuretech that's not so crazy the more you look at it! There's politics between countries and empires! There's weird and terrible that all caused by people, not metaphysicality or existential critters!
So I'm not going to drop my current novel and go haring off after another idea, obvs. But! It's kind of frustrating how one thing is a great deal more shiny right now.
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| Pico is pretending this is a facebook update. |
[10 Dec 2009|12:31pm] |
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Pico may yet punch her computer. It's shut down twice on me now from the battery charger being a piece of shit (because if it isn't Perfectly Connected and jiggles a little it disconnects), and once from "overheating", which is silly because it wasn't even warm. Come on, machine, I'm trying to write, here!
>:|
ETA: Shut down three times! Thank you, computer.
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| Meme via Historicula |
[09 Dec 2009|11:33am] |
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Personent Hodie - traditional carols |
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If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with!
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| Pico's last few days |
[06 Dec 2009|07:50pm] |
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Romanian Christmas Carols - Madrigal Chamber Choir |
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So, how are you doing, Pico? How have your last few days been?
Oh, I'm so glad you ask, Rhetorical Question Voice! Let me tell you!
So on Saturday - a day that was supposed to be full of Swedish classes, working out, maybe going into town, and a foodparty - my mom woke me up at 7.30 with, "hey Pico! we're going to the emergency room! I jsut wanted to tell you so you don't wake up and wonder where we are :D"
...so of course I dont worry at all.
After much complication and driving around, we (my dad and I) finally get her to a 24-hour clinic, where she's diagnosed with kidney stones. We wait there for four hours while they X-ray, CAT scan, diagnose, medicate, inculcate, abdicate, expurgate, and every kind of 'ate there is, and finally drive her home with meds and much nausea.
Spent the day inside studying after that, with occasional glances at the amazingly pretty snow that jsut didn't stop falling and gave us about 3 good inches.
Still went to the foodparty (it was late evening) and that was fun (except for a couple of jerks with whom I dind't bother much), and then much bussing back and forth, home and campus, today.
Now, much studying for my finals next week.
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| whew. |
[04 Dec 2009|12:01pm] |
This week I wrote two major essays - a linguistics project comparing Mandarin and Cantonese, and a history project talking about race relations between Japan and American in the second World War - and a four-page linguistics assignment.
Now I am tired to staring at computer screens. So I shall go and read paper books.
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| the crazy sequence of events that led me to be this awake this early |
[01 Dec 2009|08:27am] |
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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes |
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Two nights ago (Sun-Mon) I pulled an all-nighter, staying up the entire night to research and procrastinate on and finish a Linguistics Final Project that I had not started til 12 hours before the time it was due.
I went to Denny's with lots of friends at midnight, then at 1am settled in at Starbucks with two friends and basically talked, wrote essay, played cards, watched youtube, played bubble shooter, wrote more essay, talked more, and hung out. Had very good time.
Got the essay in three hours before it was due, written quite well and extensively, and then walked around the entire day in a haze of sleepiness; nearly fell asleep in Linguistics class, and was saved from doing so by the teacher saying, "hey Pico, did you see the Hungarian that I wrote on there? Coudl read it for the class and tell us what it means?"
Went to class. Hung out with friends, because I knew if I didn't I would fall asleep. Had dinner. Went to Chinese club.
Fell asleep between 9.30 and 10, and slept til 8am.
I feel more awake at 8am than I have for ... ages. Years. I used to wake up this early as a kid.
And on my facebook, from a person I don't even know that well, a post: I think you are one amazing crazy beautiful blindingly intelligent person and the world is better with you in it. That is random, and that is all. ♥
:)
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| blather about old characters in a giant parenthetica remark |
[27 Nov 2009|02:23pm] |
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Desperation Song - Carbon Leaf |
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(you may ignore this post if you are
1) pregnant
2) have heart conditions
or 3) not interested in Olinscarr
Want to write some Landri goodness.
^ maybe because I'm listening to Carbon Leaf music.
...Landri needs to make more escape attempts on the path between the Locus and Dovaris. Also, needs to be less boingy and more like, "dude DUDE this is an AWESOME IDEA let me put it into effect and then RUN LIKE HELL".
(quietly returns to work on an essay about fantasy-as/vs-escapism) )
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| this is how i feel |
[24 Nov 2009|03:43pm] |
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Josó neviben Christinának - Palya Bea |
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I used to draw these a lot when I was younger and we had Windows '95 on our one computer. So, a very long time ago. I used to fill up a black background with yellow lines, then turn some of them red, so they looked like a city.
Drawing these is relaxing. You jsut go with drawing whatever looks good in the space it's in. This one's not a city - it's a balance of colors and whatever I felt like.
I should do more of these.
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| shoop da pico! |
[23 Nov 2009|11:54pm] |
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You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - Offspring |
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Soz, dudes, of not being the Internet LJ Machine too much lately - Bacefook is my new LJ, it looks like, re: status updates and links and stuff.
The con was pretty awesome. I was a kick-ass EDUARDO ERURIKU and I met two or three others cosplaying as the same dude. (hilariously, including me, there were two girls and two guys - so 4 of us cosplaying one kid. All of us ranging from 4 to 8 years older than him. Lllllllllllllulz.)
Dunno what else there is to say. SHOOP DA WOOP!
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| AUSA for the weekend! |
[20 Nov 2009|01:18pm] |
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Tsuisou - FMA OST |
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Why hallo there, denizens of this land of LiveJournal! I would like to announce that:
I will be at Anime USA this weekend! Cosplaying as Edward Elric, no less! (A friend from Pride made the coat from herself a long while ago, but she is cosplaying someone else this time, and so I'mma be Mr. Ed.)
SO. I may see some of you there! If you see an Edward, just ask if she is a Pico. If she looks at you funny, just walk away, because really, there is no other good answer than "yes" to that question.
:D!
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| a list like a letter! |
[05 Nov 2009|12:28am] |
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Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire OST |
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Dear Self:
Do things tomorrow. No, seriously. Get your shit done, okay? Today you were lucky. Tomorrow you gotta get shit done.
1) Job App stuff
---- personal statement half-done, needs clean-up!
---- write to teachers asking for...
---- ...letters of reference both letters sent! gotta send app and stuff tonight!
---- transcript to place
---- resume
---- application
---- anythign else? thank you letter to lady.
2) pick up schoolreading from library bus leaves at 3.24!
3) look into classes - talk to parents about 'em, then sign all the way up.
4) writing work
---- check out Laura's blog
---- & the ones she suggested
5) go to class.
Okay, that's about all I ... you ... I can think of. Suject change? Whatevs, it's late. Internet cruising, then sleepytime.
-PTG
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| A Play Exemplifying Pico's Day Today |
[04 Nov 2009|01:29pm] |
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Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire OST |
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[9.00 AM]
Pico: wow! 9am still feels like 10am, so it's like i'm sleeping in everyday while still having so much time! :D
[9.15 AM]
Pico: Wow! I am getting so much done with school and readings and all!
[11.00 AM]
Pico: Wow! And I still have time to relax and read fun things! Yay!
[12.00 PM]
Pico: Wow! Making weekend plans and having awesome happen sure is fun! :D
[12.30 PM]
Summer Job Application Deadline: I WAS ACTUALLY ON OCTOBER 30th!
Pico: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
[12.45 PM]
Pico: (frantic frantic worry worry searchwebsite search website sad sad cry cry)
[1.00 PM]
Pico: (gets self together, damage control email, worry worry)
[1.30 PM]
Website: DEADLINE EXTENDED :D
Pico: OMG YAY
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| music-layering |
[04 Nov 2009|12:50am] |
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Pico's Creepy-Cheery Musical Mix-n-Match! |
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Pico learned a new trick! Play two musics at once. It can be quite creepy-awesome if you've got the right two.
For example, these two:
Just press play on them both, as quickly as you can, put to equal volume-levels Fable a little lower-volume than She, and listen.
As I noted on Facebook to a friend:
it come out like kind of an upbeat children's video about ... I don't know, floating hot air balloons into space and then the people in them dying but the hot air balloons keep flying, through space, and finally into the center of suns or so.
Other people note:
HOLY CRAP I LOVE IT.
WHOA! That sounds like it would be backround music to a film scene of people on drugs.
Wow...the two together kind reminds me of the music from Mirrormask. Aka awesome, btw, if I wasn't clear.
Pico done good today :D
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| Pico sometimes has unpopular opinions! :D |
[01 Nov 2009|05:51pm] |
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Starbucks remix |
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Got 1776 of NaNo words done today, and you know what I've come to terms with?
I don't care.
I'll do NaNo, since I like to be able to say "I've done it every year since 2005". I also like ot be able to say "I won it every year since 2005," but I don't care about that now, or anymore, I don't think.
If you're going to write 50,000 words of shit in a month, that's still 50,000 words of shit.
I'd rather write 25,000 words on my novel that I care deeply about and am fascinated as to the outcome of, and very invested in. NaNo? Notsomuch.
I care about quantity about as much as I care about .... well, I can't find anyhting that I care that little about, athte moment.
But i started a NaNoDocument, and I think what I'll be doing is writing whatever comes to my head of thigns i want to remember. Dreams. Things from China. Things from school. Things from Hugnary.
I can do 50,000 words of writing I don't particularly care about without a problem.
It's jsut that I'm not going to sacrifice Actual Novel for NaNovel.
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