Comments | she_opened: On your Own

she_opened

On your Own

Oct 04, 2005 17:56

I’m far too lazy to have all the simultaneous projects I’ve committed myself to going on at this moment. If someone were to ask me what I did in my spare time, I would half-convince myself that I was actually busy. This is absurd of course: I’m about as busy as a boiled turnip ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 4 2005, 10:21:16 UTC

You should smoke pot.

she_opened October 4 2005, 10:47:12 UTC

I hope you didn't read 881 words just to say that.

glimmerkirk October 4 2005, 17:20:26 UTC

i've found i don't have the attention span for writing fic any more. oh i'm more than willing to bet i could write some poem that topped 8K words, but the idea of characters and plot points and etcetc just feels so heavy. like chains or wrenches left in my pockets. which beckett plays are you reading? 'ohio impromptu' is tasty.

(&games? maybe you aren't cut out for world domination, but how about the indescriminate slaughter of aliens ala doom?)

she_opened October 5 2005, 02:36:20 UTC

Gah, yeah, writing fiction is so difficult although I don't proclaim it to be more difficult than poetry. Now *that* is something that's something that seems very heavy to me. ;-)

I'm reading Endgame and Catastrophe (which is only three pages) by Beckett. Although they don't take very long to read, they're quite exhausting and not a very pleasant atmosphere to find oneself in. Nothing happens, it makes no sense, there isn't any character development or setting or context and it's all rather grim, surreal, disturbing.. and while I know this is the *point* of it all (ha ha what point?) it doesn't make me want to spend anytime longer in atmosphere than need be. *whimper* What's, 'Ohio Impromptu,' like?

I've never slaughtered aliens admittedly.

flaxendandelion October 4 2005, 19:08:53 UTC

Personal reading. I have a couple of meaty books I’ve started but always too impatient to sink into when I settle down with them.

Titles please!

Did you read the Heaney translation of Beowulf?

flaxendandelion October 4 2005, 19:09:29 UTC

I was also going to say: I wonder how rigorous British English classes are compared to American ones...I bet they're a lot better. :)

she_opened October 5 2005, 03:00:57 UTC

It depends how you define, 'better.' At GCSE (14-16) English isn't particularly thorough since you have to share the time you have to study with seven other subjects. It gets better at A-Level (17-18) when you get to concentrate on 3/4 subjects and therefore there's more time dedicated to English alone.

Yet nowadays subjects are about, 'getting the marks,' and meeting, 'government targets,' and it applies to creative subjects such as English. Therefore teachers are restricted to, "a marking by numbers," system, obsessed with getting marks. So it's rigorous in that sense.

What are American English classes like? How many subjects do you have to study?

University is of course going to be very rigorous. I haven't started university yet so I don't know what it will be like but it will no doubt be chronicled in my journal.

flaxendandelion October 5 2005, 17:01:40 UTC

An AP (advanced placement) English class is going to be college level. It prepares you for the AP exam, and if you score good on the exam, you get lower level college credit, which saves you tuition costs. Literature and poetry is studied with consideration given to aesthetics, truth, language. A little literary theory, with all the usual suspects (Freud, Marx etc ( ... )

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sonton October 5 2005, 05:45:50 UTC

"I’m far too lazy to have all the simultaneous projects I’ve committed myself to going on at this moment. If someone were to ask me what I did in my spare time, I would half-convince myself that I was actually busy."

wow. you have no idea how much that applies to me.

I like PC games, but they don't like me. I got a few Spider-Man games and only one works well...sort of. I need to invest in a video/grpahics card or something.

she_opened October 5 2005, 10:04:08 UTC

Hee hee, I suppose psuedo-busy-sloth students are more common than first thought... ^^

Meh, it sucks that your PC games don't work. Maybe you need a new PC? ;-p

"dell? you can't get them from shops. Just call them or go online." sonton October 5 2005, 10:13:15 UTC

haha i got a dell computer, which is almost a year old i think.
i couldn't resist the dell commercials :P

"psuedo-busy-sloth students"-haha i like that.

samericatrip October 8 2005, 13:34:33 UTC

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
-Oscar Wilde

BTW, I would recommend against getting sucked into video games, especially AOE.

The real way to win in that type of game is to have it down to a science, constantly moving, building more and more, non-stop clicking. If you watch an expert AOE player, they look like a machine, an extension of the computer.