Today is a Good Day
I finished The Curse of Chalion and enjoyed it. I had to keep reminding myself that I was reading Bujold because the setting was so different, and her use of the word "withal" bothered me. I felt it was stuck into sentences to make the characters appear more "medival-like." But other than that, a neat book.
It almost didn't pass LeGuin's "fantasy test," which is--can you change the setting to Capitol Hill and all the names of those in the Political Intrigues and come out with essentially the same book as a regular work of non-genre ficton? But then in the end, it suddenely was.
I love Umegat.
Too bad he's gay.
Even all the good fictional characters are gay or taken. ;P Pfft.
Also had a conversation with my dad about Bujold. Trying to explain to him what she writes and why I like it. Neat. He asked me if I wanted to write like her! Well, yes. But not the same thing, I think.
Saw the movie "Camp" with Lotusblosm. It is fun, and about a bunch of highschoolers who go to theater camp. If you like musical theater, you should rent it. If you like subtext, you should rent it. If you like movies about teenagers that portray them as real people who can also screw up, you should rent it. Sondheim plays himself.
I've been talking with Raki for the past 45 minutes or so. Hi--yay! It's good to see friends feeling better. I wonder sometimes if I mediate myself too much: should I let myself be more dragony in public, do you all think? It's so strong I fear I would be dangerous to others, just playing around. And not that that's a bad thing--but just that people in general might not pick up on that, or would be intimidated by it instead of expecting it as a fact of life and dealing with it and rising to it themselves.
Have been not writing enough, not doing nearly enough martial arts, and have looked for jobs in the NY aread intstead of Boston 'cause I'm a dork and often give into my family 'cause it's the easiest way out of things. Wish I could push myself harder to look for Boston jobs. Don't know why I'm not, other than the fact that I'm a bit lazy with so many books and so much time that isn't filled with things every waking second so I must prioritize and get my tail to work.
But I walked through the woods yesterday with the dog. Up to my ankles in mud and leaf litter. Grin! And tomorrow we might go (my family and I) to a place with waterfalls and a nature trail. And I am eating better again. Less meat. And have decided some of where the Night Market story is going so it now has a plot instead of being A Connected Series of Random Cool Incidents in Second Person.
Really, I think I am just lazy and addicted to books. I will look harder, karimislan.
It almost didn't pass LeGuin's "fantasy test," which is--can you change the setting to Capitol Hill and all the names of those in the Political Intrigues and come out with essentially the same book as a regular work of non-genre ficton? But then in the end, it suddenely was.
I love Umegat.
Too bad he's gay.
Even all the good fictional characters are gay or taken. ;P Pfft.
Also had a conversation with my dad about Bujold. Trying to explain to him what she writes and why I like it. Neat. He asked me if I wanted to write like her! Well, yes. But not the same thing, I think.
Saw the movie "Camp" with Lotusblosm. It is fun, and about a bunch of highschoolers who go to theater camp. If you like musical theater, you should rent it. If you like subtext, you should rent it. If you like movies about teenagers that portray them as real people who can also screw up, you should rent it. Sondheim plays himself.
I've been talking with Raki for the past 45 minutes or so. Hi--yay! It's good to see friends feeling better. I wonder sometimes if I mediate myself too much: should I let myself be more dragony in public, do you all think? It's so strong I fear I would be dangerous to others, just playing around. And not that that's a bad thing--but just that people in general might not pick up on that, or would be intimidated by it instead of expecting it as a fact of life and dealing with it and rising to it themselves.
Have been not writing enough, not doing nearly enough martial arts, and have looked for jobs in the NY aread intstead of Boston 'cause I'm a dork and often give into my family 'cause it's the easiest way out of things. Wish I could push myself harder to look for Boston jobs. Don't know why I'm not, other than the fact that I'm a bit lazy with so many books and so much time that isn't filled with things every waking second so I must prioritize and get my tail to work.
But I walked through the woods yesterday with the dog. Up to my ankles in mud and leaf litter. Grin! And tomorrow we might go (my family and I) to a place with waterfalls and a nature trail. And I am eating better again. Less meat. And have decided some of where the Night Market story is going so it now has a plot instead of being A Connected Series of Random Cool Incidents in Second Person.
Really, I think I am just lazy and addicted to books. I will look harder, karimislan.