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Jun. 22nd, 2010 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoRecently it's been hot during the day but rainy at night. I rather like it. It's nice to go out walking when it starts to rain just a little bit.
Nearly finished reading Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Normally I have trouble reading old literature when I'm in a braindead mood, especially 18th-century stuff, but Defoe doesn't give me too many problems. Or maybe part of the reason I'm actually able to concentrate on it is because I've always been kind of fascinated by contagion. Regardless, I do like it, and I'll probably read some of his other stuff at some point. I have a copy of Robinson Crusoe kicking around that I tried to read when I was around 12 and gave up on 'cause I found it boring. And I've been intending to read Moll Flanders for a while now...
My mood has been less than stellar lately, so again, I've been kind of retreating into books to try to get rid of it. Books, exercise, and house cleaning. So far it has been working a little bit - or, well, actually it's hard to tell. But on the upside, my house is clean, I've been getting lots of sunshine, and reading never hurt anybody, so what does it matter? ... Though I've kind of been neglecting my flist. And other bros too. Damn.
In other news, I've been trying (and failing) to draw lately. Haa.
One of the people who work at the cafe across the street. Was supposed to be a warm-up sketch but I got carried away. How the fuck does one draw people wearing hats, I don't know.
Going to be an icon for a roleplay journal... I got sick of drawing her in uniform so I stuck her in regular clothes. And I can never draw her hair the same way twice. And now that I look at it again there are some issues I really should fix in it. But I won't right now because I'm lazy.
I never even play her actually, but making icons gives me an excuse to practise doing expressions. It's not something I have a lot of ease doing - most of my stuff ends up very :| most of the time.
Yeahhh I dunno'. On the one hand, scribbling hasn't been making me frustrated, which is good. On the other hand, the reason it hasn't been making me frustrated is because I haven't been trying to draw any of the stuff I can't draw. Like, er, anything other than faces.
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I try not to be serious about it, but I just get so frustrated. Oh well.
Nearly finished reading Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Normally I have trouble reading old literature when I'm in a braindead mood, especially 18th-century stuff, but Defoe doesn't give me too many problems. Or maybe part of the reason I'm actually able to concentrate on it is because I've always been kind of fascinated by contagion. Regardless, I do like it, and I'll probably read some of his other stuff at some point. I have a copy of Robinson Crusoe kicking around that I tried to read when I was around 12 and gave up on 'cause I found it boring. And I've been intending to read Moll Flanders for a while now...
My mood has been less than stellar lately, so again, I've been kind of retreating into books to try to get rid of it. Books, exercise, and house cleaning. So far it has been working a little bit - or, well, actually it's hard to tell. But on the upside, my house is clean, I've been getting lots of sunshine, and reading never hurt anybody, so what does it matter? ... Though I've kind of been neglecting my flist. And other bros too. Damn.
In other news, I've been trying (and failing) to draw lately. Haa.
One of the people who work at the cafe across the street. Was supposed to be a warm-up sketch but I got carried away. How the fuck does one draw people wearing hats, I don't know.
Going to be an icon for a roleplay journal... I got sick of drawing her in uniform so I stuck her in regular clothes. And I can never draw her hair the same way twice. And now that I look at it again there are some issues I really should fix in it. But I won't right now because I'm lazy.
I never even play her actually, but making icons gives me an excuse to practise doing expressions. It's not something I have a lot of ease doing - most of my stuff ends up very :| most of the time.
Yeahhh I dunno'. On the one hand, scribbling hasn't been making me frustrated, which is good. On the other hand, the reason it hasn't been making me frustrated is because I haven't been trying to draw any of the stuff I can't draw. Like, er, anything other than faces.
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I try not to be serious about it, but I just get so frustrated. Oh well.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:29 am (UTC)READ POST-COLONIAL DECONSTRUCTIONS OF DEFOE INSTEAD
I'D REC COETZEE
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-23 06:32 am (UTC)Just sayin.
Though now that I think of it, I guess you're probably right for most of his stuff (though I haven't read yet, but well, subject matter...) Though I still say, firmly, that Plague Year is good, or at least interesting. o3o But then again it isn't exactly a regular novel.
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:35 am (UTC)Plague year is sometimes passable.
Crusoe is eugh.
Crusoe with non-updated volcab? Eugh.
(Clearly my Lit Prof was a sadist.)
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:37 am (UTC)(Just my immediate reaction to deconstruction is "NOOOOO I'M NOT READING THIS FOR SCHOOL, SOB". I'm sick of school. ;3; )
I don't know if my copy of Crusoe is updated or not... :Va it's from like the 70s or something, so... probably not.
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-23 03:55 pm (UTC)GO AWAYYYY
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:59 pm (UTC);3;
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:00 pm (UTC)fff buhyoo
but NOON. I DON'T WANT TO MAKE CAKE
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:01 pm (UTC)OK FIIIIIINE
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/vuvuzelas on you
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:14 pm (UTC)i replaced the vuvuzela with a penis
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:16 pm (UTC)gb2b noon
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:17 pm (UTC)WORK
9 HOURS
TIL 1AM
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:18 pm (UTC)Enjoy. ;p
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-23 06:20 pm (UTC)I was always freakin' there goddamn.
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-23 11:34 am (UTC)It's nice to hear that you're at least up to something!
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Date: 2010-06-23 03:57 pm (UTC)I used to do it all the time back in high school but I got sick of nothing ever turning out the way I wanted it to look. щ(◉Д◉щ)
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Date: 2010-06-25 03:08 am (UTC)