Comments | lithiumlaughter: Tick, tick, tick, tick on the watch, and life's too short for me to stop.

lithiumlaughter

Tick, tick, tick, tick on the watch, and life's too short for me to stop.

Jan 06, 2013 08:35

1) Normally, I like to set out my new year's resolutions on the 31st. I only managed a brief plan, the major one of which related to reading.

I ended up looking at my rather daunting 'to read' list. I ended up paring it down a significant amount, even after adding some of the recommendations you were all so kind as to give me as well as a couple ( Read more... )

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scribble_myname January 6 2013, 17:03:14 UTC

1) I really ought to have some reading goals. And here's good wishes that you get yours done!

2) So exciting! Prayers going up that God bless the writing and the reading thereof.

3) Good movies in moderation are rather a pleasant thing.

:hugs:

lithiumlaughter January 6 2013, 23:14:44 UTC

1) I always have a list of books I want to get through, but I've never sat down and say 'okay, gonna do all of these in this particular amount of time'. It'll be interesting to see what happens what with the Master's program.
You should do up some goals! You're doing it with writing, why not with reading too?

2) Much appreciated, darling. I want to do this right, and I want to be careful with it. And I most certainly want to make sure that the Man Upstairs isn't forgotten as I work through this.

3) Indeed they are. *hugs back*

xenokattz January 6 2013, 23:19:34 UTC

2) Statement of intent: GIMME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS.

3)"I have a feeling we should kiss. Is that a good feeling or an incorrect feeling?"
"Well... sometimes I have the feeling I can do crystal meth, but then I think, mmm... better not."

"I set fires to feel joy."
"That's adorable."

"I'm gonna finish him like a cheesecake."

lithiumlaughter January 6 2013, 23:24:12 UTC

2) I like it. I'm going to write that down, keep it in a little folder, and see if I can work it in to the final draft, because really, that's what this is all about.

3) "You guys are gonna get pitch-slapped so hard, your man boobs are gonna concave."

"You're one of the a cappella girls. I'm one of those a cappella boys, and we're gonna have aca-children. It's inevitable."

"I ate my twin in the womb."

(Also, HOLY SHIT THAT TEA JUST KICKED MY ASS AND ENJOYED IT. Made a cup, drank it, and I have no idea what hit me but I like it.)

xenokattz January 6 2013, 23:35:49 UTC

(If the entire world is vibrating, you've brewed it correctly.)

lithiumlaughter January 6 2013, 23:38:24 UTC

Well then. Good to know I did it right.

I was expecting a hard jolt, but WOW. How the hell can tea do that?

vikingprincess January 7 2013, 03:24:28 UTC

My resolution list is quite minimal: write more, more consistently, and get a word count for new fiction rather than relying on posting already-written pieces (Reeducation, I'm looking at you) or episode commentaries.

Also, having spent 5.5 hours on school work today (after blissfully pretending it didn't even exist for two weeks, so I probably shouldn't complain too strenuously), I am rather jealous that you were done so early today with your lesson planning. And also that you watched Pitch Perfect (though I did see it twice over break - bless the 48-hour rental available through Comcast's On Demand!

I still must see Les Mis, Skyfall, Dark Knight Rises, and probably at least one other recent flick, but TAHtm and I had many date nights during our concurrent time off. It was lovely.

Aaaand edit, since my brain has checked out for the evening and I shall head to bed within about thirty minutes: I'm excited on your behalf about the grad program - one class per quarter or summer sounds eminently feasible. I also think you're wise ( ... )

lithiumlaughter January 8 2013, 23:50:00 UTC

Admirable. Truly. I'm always in awe of people who commit to writing schedules and the like; I can't do it. I'd love to make that a resolution of mine as well, but I know I'd break it. See my absolute failure at NaNoWriMo and my refusal to share anything further from it ( ... )

vikingprincess January 9 2013, 01:11:27 UTC

Sadly, I don't have a specific writing schedule - it is still taking second place to school stuff. I need to change that. Maybe I need to reserve an hour-plus each night, regardless of how school things are going. They're not paying me for my evenings, after all....

For Reeducation, the next story arc is the only completed one. After that, there are two that are drastically incomplete, on which I need to be working if I ever want to post them. SciFiGrl47 doesn't write with me anymore, which makes me sad (though I think I saw that Katt recommended some of her Averngers work on AO3 to you before Xmas, and it's definitely worth reading), but there have been many arcs in the past where she lost interest before they were done and I completed them solo. They just weren't missing so much as the final two are! Still, leaving the epic at the end of the next arc would leave it on a tragic note, so I don't want to do that.

Small classes are awesome when it comes to grading, very very true, but you still have a large number of different ( ... )