Regarding your assignment, I've read The Wars, but I have not read The Stone Carvers. I cannot recall much about Findley's novel, except that I found that it wasn't bad - but many of the people in my class (I studied it in first-year university). Aaaand that's pretty much all I have to say about that.
Ehhhh, I don't know. Maybe modern architecture is meant to last, but then I take a look at stuff like the buildings at Mycenae or whatever, which were built so many squillion years ago but are still in such good state, and I find myself thinking... will the new stuff hold up like that? I don't know, man.
I plan to go out and take photos, but I want to wait until it's a sunny day. Gods know when we'll get one of those. But it's better for taking pictures, though shooping can help with a lot. I just wish that all the trees weren't covered with snow. Yes, I'm going to keep grumbling about this. Forever. Sigh. WELL AT LEAST THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH ME. I can curl up with my Finnish friends and we can complain about it and share in each other's sulking about snow. Yes.
I would post more than once per month at the main comm, but I just plain don't often have something that I'm pleased enough with to share that widely. I'd rather keep a reputation as someone who posts there infrequently, but always with quality work. I was working on editing a fic, a rather old Can/Pol that I wrote for the kink meme back in the late spring. Wanted to post it at the main comm. But now, I can hardly stand to look at it, as I no longer like it any more. I had considered it one of my best fics, but now... I'm not sure, something about the style, I just can't stand it. It's possible that I'm just going through an "I hate everything I write!" phase, but man, feeling this way is such a downer and I can't bring myself to post anything.
And DON'T STARE AT ME WITH :| because that is my job. Well, the idea for the Nordic and Baltic story doesn't have a deadline - though it would be set in winter, so I would have to write it sometime before the snow melts - so maybe I'll be able to get to it sometime over Christmas. It wouldn't be overly plotty, but it would have a story/progression of events, and that kind of thing takes time.
To be honest, I don't journal-lurk. I don't really see any need to. Sometimes I check out a person's icons, but that's mostly so I can steal them for my collection, nothing else. I figure, if I was really interested in what they'd had to say, I would friend them. Anyway, real life journals creep me out, a bit. If I see one that a person has been keeping, I have such strong "do not touch" feelings, it's ridiculous. As if it was laced with plague. Definitely a privacy issue, I think. I don't want to snoop.
And I exaggerate with the whole "I don't remember what I had for breakfast thing". I eat the same thing every day, so it's hard to forget. ;p But I really am rather flighty and scatterbrained and while I remember useless details, I can never seem to remember anything important.
School is an absolute pain in the ass when it comes to art of any kind. I enjoy it sometimes, and it is a necessary thing, but it prevents me from writing, and this is annoying. You saw my to-do list today, so you certainly know the current state of affairs. Fortunately, most things on that list are low priority. Right now I want to concentrate on the Union fic, as well as a short Swe/Fin intended to be a gift for someone, which will be sent to them in manuscript format first. I'm actually kind of considering folding the pages in either folio or quarto format, laying out everything properly, and then binding it in cloth when I'm finished - but it will depend on how long the thing is, for one thing, and how much time I will have. But, I digress.
You were surprised that you finished your reply, and here I am, being surprised that I finished it. But I figure, it's good to get things through before school slams me against the wall and assrapes me, so to speak. Things are going to get pretty hectic soon, and I'm not looking forward to it.
In any case, I'm really glad that you no longer worry that I won't respond at all. <3 That does mean a lot.
Think that's all for now. Yes.
PS: AND YES I TAG MY POSTS NOW. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:13 am (UTC)Ehhhh, I don't know. Maybe modern architecture is meant to last, but then I take a look at stuff like the buildings at Mycenae or whatever, which were built so many squillion years ago but are still in such good state, and I find myself thinking... will the new stuff hold up like that? I don't know, man.
I plan to go out and take photos, but I want to wait until it's a sunny day. Gods know when we'll get one of those. But it's better for taking pictures, though shooping can help with a lot. I just wish that all the trees weren't covered with snow. Yes, I'm going to keep grumbling about this. Forever. Sigh. WELL AT LEAST THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH ME. I can curl up with my Finnish friends and we can complain about it and share in each other's sulking about snow. Yes.
I would post more than once per month at the main comm, but I just plain don't often have something that I'm pleased enough with to share that widely. I'd rather keep a reputation as someone who posts there infrequently, but always with quality work. I was working on editing a fic, a rather old Can/Pol that I wrote for the kink meme back in the late spring. Wanted to post it at the main comm. But now, I can hardly stand to look at it, as I no longer like it any more. I had considered it one of my best fics, but now... I'm not sure, something about the style, I just can't stand it. It's possible that I'm just going through an "I hate everything I write!" phase, but man, feeling this way is such a downer and I can't bring myself to post anything.
And DON'T STARE AT ME WITH :| because that is my job. Well, the idea for the Nordic and Baltic story doesn't have a deadline - though it would be set in winter, so I would have to write it sometime before the snow melts - so maybe I'll be able to get to it sometime over Christmas. It wouldn't be overly plotty, but it would have a story/progression of events, and that kind of thing takes time.
To be honest, I don't journal-lurk. I don't really see any need to. Sometimes I check out a person's icons, but that's mostly so I can steal them for my collection, nothing else. I figure, if I was really interested in what they'd had to say, I would friend them. Anyway, real life journals creep me out, a bit. If I see one that a person has been keeping, I have such strong "do not touch" feelings, it's ridiculous. As if it was laced with plague. Definitely a privacy issue, I think. I don't want to snoop.
And I exaggerate with the whole "I don't remember what I had for breakfast thing". I eat the same thing every day, so it's hard to forget. ;p But I really am rather flighty and scatterbrained and while I remember useless details, I can never seem to remember anything important.
School is an absolute pain in the ass when it comes to art of any kind. I enjoy it sometimes, and it is a necessary thing, but it prevents me from writing, and this is annoying. You saw my to-do list today, so you certainly know the current state of affairs. Fortunately, most things on that list are low priority. Right now I want to concentrate on the Union fic, as well as a short Swe/Fin intended to be a gift for someone, which will be sent to them in manuscript format first. I'm actually kind of considering folding the pages in either folio or quarto format, laying out everything properly, and then binding it in cloth when I'm finished - but it will depend on how long the thing is, for one thing, and how much time I will have. But, I digress.
You were surprised that you finished your reply, and here I am, being surprised that I finished it. But I figure, it's good to get things through before school slams me against the wall and assrapes me, so to speak. Things are going to get pretty hectic soon, and I'm not looking forward to it.
In any case, I'm really glad that you no longer worry that I won't respond at all. <3 That does mean a lot.
Think that's all for now. Yes.
PS: AND YES I TAG MY POSTS NOW. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?