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[30 Jun 2009|10:37pm] |
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Love this summer camp job, but it leaves me tired as heck when I get home and too tired to write.
For that reason I'm glad I only have two more days of it.
(flops into bed)
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| AMA, gone! |
[19 Jun 2009|12:29am] |
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Hokay, dudes and dudettes, the Pico is off to Anime Mid-Atlantic! I may see some Avatards there, but even if I don't, it'll be a rockin' time, since ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) boosette will be coming, too!
HELLS YEAH
okay, youse, I'll see you guys when I get back! LATER YO
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| lalalaupdate |
[16 Jun 2009|11:10am] |
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Summer has this weird pace, where things are eventful and noneventful at the same time. I manage to fill my time up, but it's not with producing things - it's with room-cleaning, and hanging out with people, and events, and all the volunteer things and job things I actually am doing.
I know that if I didn't have volunteer/job things to do I'd go nuts of boredom. Not boredom so much, but an energy to do something.
Went to DC Pride festival on Snday with friends, which sunburned the shit out of my shoulders; then had a party in which much alcohol was consumed and many lulz were had, culminating in an evening in which I was the only one in the room with my shirt on.
Lulz.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm - hm.
Guess I should head off an do room-cleaning and job-forms-filling-out.
Here! Have a music.
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| A bird jsut flew into my window |
[10 Jun 2009|12:46pm] |
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Oh come on birds,
Oh come on birds,
Flying into windows hurts!
Don't fly into the window blind
You'll only bonk your bird-behind.
Yes if you try to fly through glass
You'll only smack your birdy ass!
So stay away from windows, hon,
Because you'd hit your birdy bun.
And if you don't want to be dead,
Don't you dare hit your birdy head!
It'll rearrange you brainbox, dear,
When you fly into windows clear.
So please stay out in nature green,
Don't try to fly into my screen.
Avoid the window - don't fly through,
Otherwise, the last thing you do
Will be to squish your head apart
And to attack your birdy heart.
So fly around in woods - away
From windows and screen-doors, okay?
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| Fantasy Writer Quiz |
[09 Jun 2009|01:58pm] |
Hmm, the Pico likes this...
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Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...
Philip Pullman (b.1946)25 High-Brow, -15 Violent, 1 Experimental and 21 Cynical! 
( more about my result here... )
Take Which fantasy writer are you? at HelloQuizzy
~:~ I would, in fact, like the comparison to Pullman - his thing with worlds like-ours-but-not, and his writing bing fantasy without being Generic Fantasy -- I like this comparison :D I also like Tove Jansson! :D! RE: the four indicators at hte bottom - I like 'em too. I prefer stories that are involved and interesting and not just generic; I like writing violent scenes but just as much I like writing nonviolent scenes (and I figure violence as a means to an end being a silly idea); I don't go out of my way to experiment or be traditional, but rather jsut write what it occurs to me to write; and I like happy endings but realistic ways to get there. So yeah!
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| Rob, Arnie, and Dawn, pt2 |
[09 Jun 2009|01:05pm] |
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I have calmed down, now. But this still pisses me off, and why?
Probably because ever since I've gotten involved in Pride, I've become more in-tuned to the problems faced by the trans part of community. I was always sympathetic, in a distant way, but now that I'm active in the queer community, I see firsthand how people think, what people face, and what they think about it, and I become more aware.
I think it's important for people to know what other people face, so that they don't just - like these two assholes - dismiss it as "a psychological problem". This is why it's good to show a story - not necessarily a fuzzy sympathetically viewed one, but just show people the facts and feelings involved and make them understand that empathy is important - not jsut in these situations, but in life in general.
I also think these guys need a lesson in emapthy, and another lesson in "stage personalities don't make you look funny and witty, they make you look like ignorant shitbags."
This problem of Stage Personalities also hurt Dawn's argument - she was saying the right things, things that parents needed to hear, but her voice sounded whiny and complaining next these two confident, mocking ones, and that detracted from her argument. When people are listening to the radio, they are going to listen to the voice that's clearest and most sympathetic to their thoughts; they will listen to the voice that Knows What It's Saying Is Right, not the voice that keeps saying, "you guys, you guuuyyysss!"
Mostly I was appalled that people could tote their ignorance and rudeness so proudly, like it was this sure fact they weren't just going to share with the world, but shove in front of it. "That never happens in real life, Dawn. That situation you described never, ever happens. I'll tell you what really happens."
Excuse me? Have you heard no stories, listened to no people?
Or maybe, when they do, if they do, their "that's bullshit" mechanism kicks in and stops their ears, so they don't get the other person's story. Maybe, if they watch "Boys Don't Cry," all they think is 'freak'. Maybe, if they look at Kim Petras, they try to see what she would look like with short hair and boy's clothes. Maybe, when they read this article about an Omaha couple, they click the back button halfway through, muttering, "I don't need to read this crap."
And when people are that closed, I don't know what you can do to help them.
Maybe just talk to other people, and not them at all?
I don't know. I'm not sure how you would fix that mentality.
I'm sure pulling advertisement support from the station helps, though.
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| lolwriting |
[17 May 2009|01:15pm] |
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kellerin and landri are in my heeeeeeaaaaaddddd
Brain, you know you gotta finish one story before you start another! Besides, Ikkari jsut started behaving, and this book is a YA, it's not going to be that long! COME ON GET IT TOGETHER.
(I do not even know what I will do for nano. Maybe nothing? Maybe Olinscarr? Maybe finish this book! GOD WHO KNOWS.)
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| entitlement issues and gaiman in general |
[14 May 2009|03:07pm] |
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You know, I was going to write up my thoughts on Handmaiden's Tale, but I followed a link instead, to a response on Neil Gaiman's blog that states, quite simply:
George R. R. Martin is not your bitch.
There's a lot of good stuff in there - Gaiman deals with entitlement and deadlines and authors having lives, and explains it all to the people that don't quite get that writers are not obligated to the readers to pump out books continuously. This is a nonsense thing I have observed in fandom - people complaining about Avatar coming out late, when you know what? It does take longer to prroduce a high-quality something than a low-quality something. And then having GRRM's LJ on my flist, I see this kind of stuff on his comments: he writes an LJ about his daily life, and then fans come on and start whinging about when the next book is(n't) coming out.
There's an xkcd about this topic somewhere.
There's a paragraph in there I especially like:
Some writers need a while to charge their batteries, and then write their books very rapidly. Some writers write a page or so every day, rain or shine. Some writers run out of steam, and need to do whatever it is they happen to do until they're ready to write again. Sometimes writers haven't quite got the next book in a series ready in their heads, but they have something else all ready instead, so they write the thing that's ready to go, prompting cries of outrage from people who want to know why the author could possibly write Book X while the fans were waiting for Book Y.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Yes, there are writers of those types - writing isn't something that comes perfectly all the time (which can be quite hard to explain to some). And yes, sometimes people need to write things in the order that things work, rather than any prescribed, need-to-get-done orer. Shit, this paragraph is coming at a good time for me: I have things I should and want to write, but what's important is to write what comes out now, not to force something.
(A tangential aside: Gaiman is one of these writers who writes well and is a good guy, but of whose writing I'm not a fan; there's stuff in his writing that I like and an elusive something I dislike - I can't quite explain why I don't wholeheartedly like Gaiman's stuff (like I do DWJ's or Tpierce's (despite any design flaws :P)), but something in it's the same thing that stops me from liking Terry Pratchett or Joss Whedon: all these men are popular, all are good guys, and all write things that should hit everything I like to read/watch on the button ... but somehow don't? Or maybe leave me with an enh feeling about something? I don't know.)
But that aside, Gaiman's thoughts on things I like, because they're pragmatic and sensical, and this answer here is very awesomely phrased. So I rec it.
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[14 May 2009|12:16am] |
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Done since my last final, and some notes on each:
- checked grades
---- WOO YEAH. Dean's List again! (air-high-fives everyone in the world)
- first exec board meeting
---- got elected to the position of Historian in Pride Alliance. Had our first exec board meeting on Tuesday. A summary of my thoughts is as follows:
For the first half hour or hour I was freakin out. I kept switching between "wtf am I doing here, I'm not a leader-type" and "shit shit this is going to take so much of my time I shouldn't have joined up" and "okay how can I get out of this?" Yes. Eventually, though, it clicked somewhere in my brain that positions are differentiated for a reason. And that my job, as I see it, will have to do mainly with reference and organization and feedback, which I can do. And: I'll be working on a small scale with the Secretary (a friend of mine otehrwise) and on a large scale with the rest of these nine people in Exec Board, all people I'm friends or friendly with in the Office.
I never figured myself for a leader type. I'm still a little leery about doing this. I signed up last minute, kind of from being talked into it. But I do think I should go through with this, partly because I like these people, partly because I already said I woudl, and partly because it's important.
- there is a mouse in my room.
---- No seriously. There is a stupid mouse in my room; it moved in under my bed in the last two weeks. I heard it scratchign away the other day under my pillow, making it blasted hard for me to SLEEP. Subsequently I have pulled up my blankets, sheets, pillows, and mattress, and all the boxes of old papers under my bed; vaccuumed or washed most of the above, and hte floor; and intend to go through paper stuff tomorrow and so.
And I still keep on finding its little shitballs all over my floor. I seriously need a trap for this thing so I can take it out into the woods, where it can be happy and I can be happy.*
*I am pissed off enough to want it dead, but I don't know why. I jsut find it incredibly disgusting to have mouse crap all over the floor, in the corners and under places, and it nibbling on random things in my room, and the danger of it deciding a nest would be a cool idea in my room. MY ROOM IS FULL OF BOOKS. Books are not places for mice.
At the same time, though, I feel bad for thinking this because you know it's jsut trying to live and all.
But at hte same time, I don't care how cute it is, I want the little fucker out of my ROOM.
- writing
---- Um. I haven't even written much since school ended. I tried today and it was incredibly frustrating and I wrote almost nothing. Like 200 words. I am pissed, because I don't want it to be that I can only write when I have a deadline after me. I want to be able to write on my own time, too. And it's a good story for spring. Dammit, I jsut need to find the words.
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read:
- BLAME! vol 1-7
---- I have 8 volumes of 10 written. This is one of two series I actually buyin substatial numbers; the other is called Qwan. And holy shit, cyberpunk and dark awesomeness. I am tired now and can't respond in full, but - oh man. Awesome series.
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
---- More on this tomorrow. Tired, can't brain. Summary: good but creepy but good.
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| thinky thoughts on change |
[06 May 2009|12:17pm] |
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This semester has been a semester of change.
In the big scale: Obama's election. The economy. Springtime.
On the scale of my own life: Bagel, and everything associated. Writing, and discovering what I could and could not do, and when. Getting a constant social life. Being elected Historian of Pride's Exec Board. The great discovery I made: how to write papers for Dr. Rutledge. Springtime.
I realized a while ago that my life goes in periods of less and more change; when I go throguh a period of larger change, I don't often realize it until I can look back and realize, "holy shit. different."
But it's good. I like this learning process. I like being able to grow. The worst thing in the world would be to be in stasis - sure you might live forever, but what the hell is that good for?
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[04 May 2009|05:13pm] |
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Szeretőm e Táncba - Palya Bea |
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WoooOOOooOOOOooOOOooo! (waves arms)
Jsut submitted a job application for Borders (this place!). lol@being new to work - I had to restart the application twice, and ask everybody questions about how to fill it out.
On the plus side, when I went to the store they said summer hiring would start soon, and were pretty positive overall, so I'll take that as a goodsign!
Hmmmm... Yesterday and today I have spent studying and stuff. It's finals week, and I have five finals in three days, which fact I need to rectify tomorrow by finding my Geology professor and rescheduling that particular final. Otherwise, though, finals should go okay!
YEAH.
I also got to spend a lot of time with my Bagel yesterday, which was :D We're watching Avatar, he for the first time, and it's awesome for me partly because I'm reseeing the show from an older perspective, and partly because I remember all the wank that went on in-between episodes, and partly because it's good to see a newcomer to the show enjoying it this much. :DDD I will have to give him a background into the fandom - he's not fannish, but I think he'd find it funny.
OH YEAH and I went to the store today for other things and also bought plantains and will experiment with them, because they are pretty damn tasty.
So yah. Off to go find plantain recipes! Also to study. Yes.
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| LOTS OF EVERYTHING |
[30 Apr 2009|11:27am] |
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Whoa Nelly, lookit that! Another one-month absence! By George, Pico, how do you manage such regular LJ entries?
Well hm. In lieu of answering my own question, I'll just skip straight to the goods: wth has been going on in the Pico's life.
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OH MAN I have been busy. Most of the time I'm either studying, and when I'm not studying, I'm socializing. Me! Social! WHODATHUNK. (Yes, I am kind of wtfing about it, too.)
Ummmmm classes. I am taking 16 credits, but I forgot to add in my Swedish class, and so basically, I was taking 6 classes and a lab this semester. :\ They were good, though! Therre is only one class that I didn't care for, and surprisingly it was not the math class. (no, hte math class was jsut boring and necessary for Gen Eds.) Naw, the one that frustrated me is Taiwanese Literature class.
I signed up for it think it would be a Chinese Literature class; it turned out to be exclusively Taiwanese. Not that that's a problem; the problem is that it was massively uninspiring, and the kind of class where you can write either a bullshit paper or a stellar paper, and both will get an A. Really? Yes. There is no thinky discussion - the only things we talk about are National Identity and The Subjugation of Minorities. But do we ever beat those to death! Yessirree.
(You know, this kind of teaching is why people think feminists are cray-cray. Because the teacher cannot let go the subject of subjegation, and isn't focusing on positives or changes at all.)
((Actually, this is what frustrated me about my term paper for this class. I proposed to write it about women's agency: you know, what a person is and isn't able to do. and seriously, I bring this proposal to my teacher and she's like, "oh! so you're going to write about the subjegation of women!" bleggggggggggh.))
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ENOUH COMPLANING. Let's talk about hte class I enjoyed most: the class on the Fantastic Mode.
omg, it was omgamazing. The only thing that frustrated me was the difficulty of the teacher's grading - she holds high, high, high standards for her papers: is a big fan of specificity and precision and also doesn't like informal language - but aside from that, I was delighted with this class. Oh man.
Because it gave me a background in exactly the things that I am doing. Not only the current story, but also in fantasy and its development in general; also in the kinds of things that make writing good. The professor is not a writing-type, more a scholar-type, but her field of knowledge are so wide that she can pull in all kinds of amazing things from everywhere, and make her classes fascinating by that.
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Finals week is NEXT WEEK omg. I do not even know how it crept up like this. But I've got all five of my finals stretched over three days, which seems to me to be a little bit jampacked together.
One final is a joke (and guess which! Hint: it starts with T- and ends with -aiwanese literature), but the other ones are all of decent to hard levels. Geology the teacher is amazing but her tests are precise and detailed; math I'll need to study the hell out of; chinese poetry I've got a lot of memorization to do; and then of course there is the fantastic class. Which I already know the final will killmeded for, so yeah.
Ummmmmm. Um?
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Gosh, so much to talk about. I love that spring has come. This is probably an obvious fact to those of you who live in temperate areas - "yes, Pico, youre very clever, Spring comes after winter, good Pico" - but I'm serious! I'm thinking of the kind of weather I enjoyed had in china, and good lord. Spring there was basically where it got warmer. I mean, yes some leaves came out, but being in the middle of a smoggy city I managed to miss the fact until all the green stuff was covered in a healthy layer of smoke-dust.
Haha! Ew.
But so yes. Spring! Spring and I can wear short sleeves and skirts and all sorts of lovely things! Spring, and the flowers and leaves are coming out, and it smells fresh and green and polleny and flowerish! Spring, and I look out the classroom window and see green things instead of grey and brown!
And spring, and I have a story that is springy~! It starts around the equinox, then goes on from there; it's set in a this-looks-rather-like-virginia-eh setting (but with +50 folktale power), and so I get to put in what I see of what things green when, and all sorts of lovely nature things. I'm writing it outside, and so when it's nice weather I go out by the school pond and just type til my battery runs out, then go find an outlet and plug in and keep writing.
(And let me diverge to add a fact: there need to be more outdoors outlets and plugs in the sides of buildings, COME ON PEOPLE. It is very nice to type outside! It is not nice to have your happy fun time curtailed by hte fact that you're down to 5 minutes of power! :x )
Ssssssssssssssssssso. Story! Story is going happily and well, :) . Also, I spent an hour today fitting together a good big part of the worldsystem, and it's nice to know more about how this place operates.
I think it will end up a very different story than it started. More complicated; more explained and involved.
But that's okay. I like complicated.
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Social life? YES I HAS. And it is kind of amazing, to be having people you really enjoy hanging out with right there around you, instead of far away over the internet machine. So consequently, I've been doing a great deal of that - if nothing else on a busy week, I go to a Pride meeting (LGBTQAetc) and hang out with people afterwards when they have dinner. Generally we have at least one movie night or Ike's run (going to the late-night diner on campus) per week, and jsut chill.
I swear, it'll be so weird, after I leave school, to hang out with mostly straight people again. I mean, holy shit. Within my school circle? Um - there's my Bagel, and ... and ... I think a couple others? I can think of one and a half. Haha! oh man.
Speaking of, the elections for Exec Board for Pride Alliance have jsut happened, and I've signed up for Historian; the votes get announced next week, but since there's only one person running for each office ... yeah, I'm likely that. Which will be fun! It's basically keeping records (papers, photos, flyers, etcs) for all kinds of events and what has happened, and also some creative stuff (helping in the office, etc.) I'm there often anyway, and go to the meetings, so I see no reason I shouldn't help out while I'm there.
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Lalala. Can't think of anything else to say. This is kind of a long entry already, so I'll hang it up here, I think. Maybe talk more later. Now that I've got finals coming up, afterward I'll be more around!
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| another list? PICO WHAT HAVE YOU GOTTEN YOURSELF INTO |
[27 Mar 2009|04:52pm] |
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The Things That Are Happening Next Week (and couple days):
- Saturday (Swedish 9-12, workout 1-5, possible evening plans?)
- Pride Week 3/30-4/7 (many events: open mic; meeting; pancakes; drag show; parties; movies; talks)
- Writing (MWF 3-7)
- Period (TMI, maybe, but it's another big thing to have on the brain)
The Things I Need to Do For School For Next Week:
- ENG302 portfolio (so I don't have to take the dipheaded class)
---- Due Fri, want to finish before.
- Paper for Fantastic class
---- Due Thurs
---- draft of due Mon (so I don't get another 70)
---- want to finish by Sun night
- Geology Test
---- Due/Happening Thurs
---- holy shit studying
- Chinese Poetry HW and Paper
---- Due Monday (both)
---- translate poems
---- write paper/do presentation in class
- Good lord
So yes, Ye Who Frequent LJ, that is my upcoming week. Good lord! I love the idea of having breathing time, and I need to figure out when I'll be able to. Um ... I had a nice week up til now, though! Math test, true, but otherwise nice. A cooking day yesterday! And oh god the writing has been going well, yay yay yay :D
Here, have some mushi-music:
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