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Date: 2009-10-14 08:11 am (UTC)The class I taught was indeed composed of first-year undergrads. They paid a ridiculous amount of money for it - rather, their parents did. To be honest, I have never understood students, even first-years, who don't take their classes seriously. Fortunately, usually those people flunk out in their first year, so we don't have to put up with them much more after that. As far as showing appreciation goes, I do think that just talking with teachers does a lot. And participating in class, if you do have something to say. Other than that, it's hard to say, really.
As for what I mean by being a douche - well, sometimes when I'm talking to people, and I'm in a bad mood, I come off as... well. Visibly grumpy. It tends to make people upset, I guess. So, I try to avoid doing that. Sigh. Anyway. YES I DID FIGURE YOU OUT. THIS IS HOW AWESOME I AM. <3 And don't worry about me not wanting to talk to you. I do want to talk to you! I love talking to you! So, there we are.
Yes, yes, I fall asleep while waiting for replies. NOT FUNNY. Sob. Sometimes it happens when I'm talking to one of my close friends, and it's a pain in the ass. And once it happened when I was RPing with Kongeriketnorge, ahhhhshit I forgot about that, I should apologize - though she'll understand, surely. But anyway. Nah, I can't blame it on slow typing - but all things considered, those who speak to me regularly know that I'm constantly tired, and they should be used to me falling asleep by now. Anyway, yeah, sometimes talking about yourself helps. I do that too. But it really depends on the situation. Usually I can't think of anything at all, so I don't message people. Usually I wait for other people to message me. Thankfully, it seems they realize this is the condition, and they do message me when they want to talk to me. I appreciate that.
If I got my writing mojo back, I wouldn't quit fandom in general. I would probably stop writing fic, but I'd still read the writers I follow, and I would still spazz out over the Nordics and so on. I just wouldn't be writing! Or if I did still write, I wouldn't write much. I love having something to talk with people about and squee over, so I really have no intention of ending this any time soon.
When I say that my original&failed novel was really fucking long, what I mean is that it is 94 pages in Word, and just over 60,000 words. This doesn't count all the short little one-shots relating to the novel that dealt with ideas I liked but wouldn't be able to fit them in there because they related to the backstory of minor characters. Anyway, I most certainly am not playful :| get that thought out of your head, you :| Because struth, I am not. :| :| :| :| :| So there.
Yes, I was in Edmonton, or rather the Edmonton area, which is entirely unlike Edmonton proper and WHY ARE YOU LOL'ING AT ME, YOU. :| THIS IS NOT FUNNY. And yes there was snow, more than we have in Saskatoon at the moment. And it was very cold.
Re: Medieval lit. Many universities teach it, but frequently it will just be a couple undergrad courses, nothing in-depth. At Saskatoon, however, there are three specialists; one in Arthurian romance, another in Old English, and another in Icelandic literature. The Arthurian scholar is quite reputable, and that's the reason I decided to go here (aside from cheap tuition and good location). As for libraries - well... the Fort McMurray one was okay, I suppose, considering it's not a town with a very literary atmosphere. The Wolfville had a public library, but it was tiny; the university's library was decent-sized, however, considering the size of the university itself (which was tiny). But ahhh, one thing I was so happy to have when I moved to Saskatoon was a big university library.
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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?
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:41 pm (UTC)I don't think I've ever used ;w;. honestly. That one looks almost sinister to me, but then again, I'm terribly old fashioned when it comes to emoticons. I'm going to start putting noses in mine, even. :-P (back when I was ten years old or so, and everyone started dropping the "noses" from emoticons, I kept them in because I thought it made me ~unique~ Really, kids feel unique and nonconformist for the dumbest things).
So in summary, the anons who really talk to me while staying anon aren't that many; just two.
Well. Due to recent developments I do believe that number has. er. dropped. In a sad little way I feel almost bitter (I say almost bitter because bitter is not the word that I want to use at all, but my lack of proper functioning tonight is preventing me from finding a more appropriate word) that you found out my user name. In a really petty sort of gasp how dare you go and search dA and happen to stumble upon my user by TOTAL ACCIDENT. Not cause I don't like that you know my user, it's more because I was just really embarrassed ahahah. But that's over and done with now. You haven't by any chance found out Binary anon, have you?
This whole identifying yourself bit would be easier if I was a very obvious anon, other than "aioejaioefjioajf" and ". . ." (and maybe the fact that my replies tend to get really long?? idk) I have no clue how obvious I am, really. You, on the other hand. But you already know all about that all too well so lets not touch on that.
I realized that after not going on the meme for so long, I've found it a lot easier to get off when I need to. Maybe it's because I ended up missing like, five parts but as it turned out, I didn't really miss anything at all. It doesn't balance out as well though, because then I find that other sites become even more tempting. But god, I wish I had a lot of essay writing coming up. Granted, your essay-writing certainly entails a lot more than mine would but I've just got a lot of math to do. ojeatoaet I've always been good at math but all of a sudden, right when my marks actually mattered, it decided to get real hard and arghh. The most annoying thing about math is that half the time you have to wait for it to ~click~ in your head. Which reminds me that I should be doing math right now but I'm not exactly awake enough to do math. The problem with staying home is that it takes me an hour longer to actually feel awake, usually because I'm just sitting and not moving around.
Yeahh, most of those comments do come from family members. What are families for, after all? Most people I don't know too well probably wouldn't find it appropriate to comment and my friends are already too used to my other eccentricities to even bother. I don't understand people who go around wearing summer clothes either. I'm still seeing girls walking around in skirts and dresses and all. Admittedly, I'd wear skirts in the winter, but at the very least I'd put on some tights as well and I wouldn't wear them when I have to stand outside for god knows how long every day while waiting for the bus to come. These girls aren't even trying, they're wearing minis without tights and flats. You won't be able to catch any boys when your legs fall off from frostbite, ladies :|
AND CALGARY DOES NOT HAVE WARM WINTERS. WE ARE NOT VANCOUVER. The fact that you grew up in THE GREAT WHITE NORTH does not make Calgary warm iaojtoatoi The only time it's warm in our winters is when we have chinooks, which are actually a lovely thing despite the fact that they give everyone headaches (myself included). I might be getting defensive about this, yes, but dare I say you're making me sound like a pansy and I won't stand for such a thing! I can't be a pansy, y'see, I must work hard to be rough and tough and pretty much be the son my father never had.
Oh, Canadians. I do think the "always complaining about something" could probably go for a lot of cultures though, haha.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:42 pm (UTC)Things are so nice and calm when the Euroanons are on. You notice there's never any wank when they're on, eh? I really prefer when those "Ask A ____ Anon" topics come up when the Euro/Asiananons are on, cause you usually end up learning quite a bit from them. eaojoeato I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that we had a Swiss anon ♥ I still have yet to find anyone from Austria on the internet, though.
Oh, I know that. Talking doesn't always do much, change pretty much always comes from the person, and I think most people can attest to that. Not to mention that you're right when you say that modelling what you think is the best works a lot better than blabbering on about it. Half the time when you are lectured, you're being lectured by someone who doesn't actually live by what they're saying (sup, a large amount of religious people?), and in such cases, it's hard to see why you should bother listening to them. Also, usually the folks that people look up to for inspiration aren't people who lectured them either so. . . there we have it.
I don't get being smug about it either. It's sort of petty and I just want to be all. . . really, have you got nothing else to be proud about? :| (rude as that may be) Most of the hostility towards US/UK, I do think, comes from the fact that there's just an overwhelming amount of it, and less because people think that FrUK or America/Russia is ~the truth and the way~ Oi, not sure if I've said this before or not, but you know what irritates me? When people say to stop grumbling over the popularity of one pairing, and they say that if you want more for another pairing, you just have to go and write/draw some of it yourself, and it's as simple as that. That's. . . not even the same thing. By saying that it's practically implying that the people who ship a popular pairing are the only people who are going and making fan works for their pairing. Ahh I dunno, I think the percentage of fans who actually go and contribute US/UK or FrUK is probably not all that much different from people who contribute to France/Russia or America/Lithuania.
(Sarpedon/Glaukos - I even wrote "fanfiction" about them, once, for a school assignment)
Not going to lie, I adore those "fanfiction" assignments. Was this something you did during undergrad?
Usually, I just feel less need to go and search out stuff for canon-ships, even if I like the said ship, cause chances are I already get enough of it in canon. I noticed that's probably why I also have problems shipping popular ships as well, just because there's already so much of it I don't feel the need to look for it, think about it, all that. I'm just so used to having to break my neck to find fic, I guess. (oddly enough, even the "popular" nordic ships don't even have that much fic going for them. I mean, given the size of the fandom and all. The main comm has over 20,000 members, for crying out loud. Though with the influx of crap going through there, I don't think most people are that active of watchers, cause in other big fandoms I've been in with not as many members, posts tended to get a lot more comments)
To ask someone to continue writing fic, especially when the last update came a few years ago, it's just silly. I mean, it's logical to assume that they've moved on. I've come across wonderful fics that stopped being updated years ago a few too many times, but I don't see why I should bother the writer about something they're not interested in anymore. It's a bummer, yeah, but life moves on. I'm always sort of worried when I comment to someone's fic, cause I'm not exactly sure where the line between putting pressure on the writer to continue, and encouraging the writer to continue actually is.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:44 pm (UTC)Oi, man, that seems like a lot of work. I'm not even interested in the My Little Ponies whatsoever, but yet for some reason I kind of. . . get it. It's that universal understanding nerds have, for when it comes to spazzing over something most people aren't interested in, or like in this case, putting a lot of effort into something most people wouldn't be interested in, you know? I don't know if MLP is nerdy or not, I'm just defining "nerdy" here as liking non-mainstream stuff (actually, I've heard that nerd relates to intelligence and geek refers to being overly interested in stuff, but I figure there's no harm in using these terms interchangeably and besides, I like the word "nerd" more than I like "geek" but I digress). Or maybe this universal ways of nerds is just totally a figment of my imagination ;___;
I do really love it when people have a collection of something. It doesn't even matter what it is, whether it's ordinary like rocks or something a bit more quirky. Especially when they have their collection out, it gives you something to look at. I think it makes the person more interesting too, haha. Then again I can usually find something interesting about anyone (though it might take awhile, especially if you're talking to someone who doesn't want to admit to liking something uncommon).
I'm a pretty fast reader myself, but it sometimes takes me awhile to read books just because I get distracted easily. I'll read half a page and then my mind will wander off thinking of something else. This of course, isn't so bad when I finally get my reading mojo on, but it's still annoying. Ich, I have a feeling that reading too much fic might have skewed what my brain expects to see when I'm reading. If you know what I mean coughcough I hardly got any reading done over the summer. I finished one and managed to get half-way down a tl;dr one, but that's about it sob. Speaking of long novels, there's one I've been all notsureifiwant.gif about, Infinite Jest or something. I picked that sucker up and realized that you could probably use two of them and start weight lifting with them. Though, I'm probably not ready for that so I'll just stick to. . . Lincoln's Briefs or something which is a very silly book I found in Chapters the other day. Something about Lincoln staging his own assassination and then running off to Canada to live a life of high fashion. Somewhere along the line, he adopts an albino moose. The back also reads, "Honest Abe? More like HONEST BABE!' and you're probably thinking "that sounds stupid and you have terrible taste in books" but it's not my fault if I enjoy reading silly things every so often ;___; The bastardization of history is something I hold dear to my heart.
Too late, I have already resisted the tempting ways of English! I mean, I was thinking about going into English once, back in the day~! When I was like, in grade nine or something. Not that it matters much because you're speaking to someone who has probably wanted to go into every goddamn field at some point. The English thing wouldn't work out anyways, I hardly pay attention to grammar. Most of what I write probably sounds terrible because I don't fret too much how I'm writing unless it's being marked. I write how I talk, more or less. Minus those silly/dorky mannerisms/voices/expressions you can't translate into text.
I remember in art, some people were talking about what they use to colour their digital art. It really is hard convincing people that Photoshop is not the end all be all for colouring digital art. I think I may have convinced them though, especially when I told them about the prices for the others. And when it became sort of obvious that I knew more about these programs than they did hoho
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:46 pm (UTC)I scribble every day. Multiple times. When I'm trying to wake up at school and when my brain is melting from schoolwork and in my bed when I'm trying to sleep so I can just draw instead of being left alone with my thoughts.
But, err, you scribble at parties, you say? Aaah I couldn't imagine drawing at parties D: D: D: I don't know what it is, I have public drawing anxiety or something. No one can see what I draw in real life ever You should've seen me at this one crowded art class, my hands were shaking real bad and I was so nervous and I ended up just acting like a total idiot and orz orz orz I don't even get that nervous before exams arghh BUT ANYWAYS. If your at a party, doesn't that mean that you get a lot of people coming up to you and asking you about what you're drawing? Maybe you could try sketching at a cafe or something! And draw whatever feels right for you, buddy. I totally hear you on not liking to draw buildings though. Especially pictures of cities, that stuff is just death. You've got to put in all those perspective lines too. Buildings just require too much ruler-action, which sucks, because half the time I can't even draw straight lines with rulers anyways. They always end up diagonal :(
I'm still not convinced on how not-deathly-hard pretty poetry (or prose poetry) can be. It is an area that will forever be a mystery to me.
New source material is always a beautiful thing, since it comes so scarcely. I'm of the mind that I don't really care about getting new characters as much as I do getting strips about character that haven't been featured yet. Despite this, I will admit that Australia's character design was pretty over-due. I mean, it's Australia! No place quite like Australia. Well, maybe New Zealand, but I'm sure some of them would resent me saying that. Also, this never really occurred to me before, but I have met a surprising amount of people who went to live in Australia for a little while. It's almost as if it's the number one study-abroad spot here (I don't think I could handre it, though. Too hot. Also: deadly animals).
Yeah. There's always the chance you might be vague about what's going on and we'd have no idea as to how bad it is with you, though :(
I don't get not taking university classes seriously either. I mean, even if someone else was paying for you, whether it's parents or scholarships, it's still worth thousands of dollars. I couldn't even imagine flunking out of university either. Maybe it's because I always sort of knew I'd be going to university? Truth be told, I pretty much spent my childhood assuming that most people went to university. As for showing appreciation towards teachers, ah, well, the whole speaking up in class bit might be hard cause we don't really have classes in the traditional sense, but at least I bother them fairly often? I enjoy asking them things unrelated to the course more than I do looking them up, at least. They tend to get very. . . excited. One of them, depending on what you ask, sometimes has to end up standing and just practically jumping everywhere when he explains stuff, it's so precious :')
Please tell me that at the very least, you aren't falling asleep at four in the afternoon? One in the morning I can understand, but otherwise I think that's maybe a sign that you should get more of a little something-something, yeah? /motherly tone.
Ah, so you wouldn't leave fandom then? Listen, as the Hetalia fandom lets out a relieved sigh.
Jesus, 60,000 words? That's more than NaNo requires you do! Then you say you have more than that. Would you be bummed if you happened to all of it?
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:51 pm (UTC)Hohoho, you've got an expert in Icelandic literature? Have you got anything with them? At the very least, have you been bothering them? I don't recall you bringing that up, though that could be my fault.
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.
. . . I take it that they didn't like it? Way to leave me hanging there, bro.
Well, nowadays I think lots of modern buildings get torn down once they're out of style and deemed ugly, or when someone else wants to move there. The only stuff that isn't torn down is the stuff that has already been there for god knows how long, and it's for the sake of preserving history and culture. So while they might be safer, they probably aren't being built to last thousands of years because they know it'll get torn down. And, well, it goes without saying that they didn't have such means of building like that whenever they liked back in the day. Or that philosophy. Ohh, which makes me wonder, how did people back in the day see the future? Did they just imagine things being exactly the same for as long as humanity lived? You probably wouldn't think that kind of thing if you had even just the most rudimentary understanding of how history's panned out, but, err I have no idea how much historical knowledge people a thousand years ago had (and the changes weren't as great as they are now but still). ahh, I dunno, I'm not expecting them to be imaging a Star Trek-esque world, of course not, but I just wonder how much people thought we'd change.
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT.
I think it's probably too late to get pictures of leaves and the fall now :( I wish we had a nice looking fall here, and by that I mean not so dry and not so yellow. I want some nice orange and red leaves, like they have out in the east. Then again, it's sort of yellow-ish here for most of the year anyways. Yellow-er than most, anyways. It gets green pretty late either late, and stops being green pretty early because it's so damn dry. It's hard to complain about rain when you rarely get it, or so I think. Though sometimes it does get annoying if it rains for a week straight, because while I like the rain, no one wants to get out during it, so you're stuck at home.
Ohhh, I know that feeling. You probably dislike that Can/Pol fic because you know how much you might've improved, or you know you could do better. Thing is, no one else really knows if you can "do a better job" or if it's "not your best work," for everyone else good is good. And since it was written last year, I don't think you should use it to judge how good you think your work is now. Personally, I think the greatest self-esteem booster in this whole creative business is to look at something you did a year or few ago, cringe at how bad it is, and then feel good that you've improved. Even if it's just little things. If that's making any sense.
To me it seems like you've said that you've got a lot you're planning to do during Christmas. Fic-wise, anyways. Do you guys not get lots of work over Christmas?
Pity that not everyone can regard journals as "DO NOT TOUCH" objects. I'm terribly paranoid about where I leave my stuff, cause rest be assured someone's going to end up looking through it. People say they don't snoop, but I don't know if I should trust them on that.
I'm surprised you finished yours so soon too! Two days man. And here I am, taking nearly a goddamn month to write it ;___; I said I'd have it done by the weekend but, I don't know. aieojtoaiejt. couldn't brain. . And I went off on a lot of tangets. And aren't you not supposed to start sentances with "and," cause I swear I've heard that somewhere and I usually try to avoid it.
okay well
adios amigos
I hope you got a poppy for today.
. . .HAHAH CAPTCHA IS OCTOBER CRISIS