A new fantastic point of view
I am sitting here with a glass of beer and celebrating a week well done. Better overall grades than I have ever had (straight A minuses) and a research supervisor who, despite everything I have done (or not done, in this case), does not want to throw me off a cliff. My introduction apparently "shows promise" so I no longer have to read every single YA or children's novel with my Underworld Goggles on. Which I enjoy. It was something of a stretch reading The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Demon's Lexicon with the caveat, "I am reading this for my research essay".
Have had some lovely coffee dates this week, farewelled my baby sister to the mean streets of Otago again (I will quite possibly not see her until November now sob sob) and discovered that I write about characters in novels as though they are not only real people but that they are still alive today and we hang out regularly. In my head, all characters from literature live at my grandparent's house.
Our flat decided to institute a Dick of the Week system, wherein the person who did or said the stupidest thing would have to wear Hannah's scottish beret to the supermarket. I, of course, kicked off this week by melting the toaster cord. I feel this system is not working to plan: Hannah is supposed to do the stupid things. The girl who serves us at the supermarket thinks we are completely idiotic already.
Currently, I am reading Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock. Kirsten lent it to me, calling Finnikin the anti-Edward. This is a concept I approve of. Actually, it's quite funny. He tries so hard to be all protective of Envanjalin, and she goes and stabs people and steals shit from slave-owners. I kind of adore her.
So to finish, I told Liz and Lee I would write a list of my Top Five Least Favourite Pieces of Punctuation Ever:
5. The Semi-colon (;)
My dislike of the semi-colon is based around my lack of understanding of how to use it. I am a postgraduate English student, it has started to become embarrassing. Also, it is the bastard cousin of the comma.
4. The Hyphen (-)
This is a tricksy piece of punctuation that will only lead to my doom when I try to hyphenate the entire universe.
3. The Ellipses (...)
Spawned from reading too much bad writing, the ellipses is over-used and unnecessary. Also, it makes me incredibly angry when people use more than three dots.
2. The Comma (,)
When I was at high school, I went through a stage where I refused outright to use commas in my (bad) poetry. And at times, my prose. Which makes for really amusing reading where I tried, through any means necessary, to avoid using commas. I love my seventeen-year-old self. She was such a dickhead.
1. The Exclamation Point (!)
I believe my hatred of said piece of punctuation has been spoken of in this blog before and everytime that I do, people respond with multiple exclamation points. When you do that, a fairy dies. This is the lesser known way of killing fairies, the one Peter Pan never told us about. Part of my dislike of the exclamation point lies in my inexplicable desire to make a noise and hand gesture whenever there is one at the end of a sentence. It is embarrassing, people stare and annemjw refuses to do crosswords with me anymore.
On the other hand, I am fond of the fullstop and the question mark.
Have had some lovely coffee dates this week, farewelled my baby sister to the mean streets of Otago again (I will quite possibly not see her until November now sob sob) and discovered that I write about characters in novels as though they are not only real people but that they are still alive today and we hang out regularly. In my head, all characters from literature live at my grandparent's house.
Our flat decided to institute a Dick of the Week system, wherein the person who did or said the stupidest thing would have to wear Hannah's scottish beret to the supermarket. I, of course, kicked off this week by melting the toaster cord. I feel this system is not working to plan: Hannah is supposed to do the stupid things. The girl who serves us at the supermarket thinks we are completely idiotic already.
Currently, I am reading Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock. Kirsten lent it to me, calling Finnikin the anti-Edward. This is a concept I approve of. Actually, it's quite funny. He tries so hard to be all protective of Envanjalin, and she goes and stabs people and steals shit from slave-owners. I kind of adore her.
So to finish, I told Liz and Lee I would write a list of my Top Five Least Favourite Pieces of Punctuation Ever:
5. The Semi-colon (;)
My dislike of the semi-colon is based around my lack of understanding of how to use it. I am a postgraduate English student, it has started to become embarrassing. Also, it is the bastard cousin of the comma.
4. The Hyphen (-)
This is a tricksy piece of punctuation that will only lead to my doom when I try to hyphenate the entire universe.
3. The Ellipses (...)
Spawned from reading too much bad writing, the ellipses is over-used and unnecessary. Also, it makes me incredibly angry when people use more than three dots.
2. The Comma (,)
When I was at high school, I went through a stage where I refused outright to use commas in my (bad) poetry. And at times, my prose. Which makes for really amusing reading where I tried, through any means necessary, to avoid using commas. I love my seventeen-year-old self. She was such a dickhead.
1. The Exclamation Point (!)
I believe my hatred of said piece of punctuation has been spoken of in this blog before and everytime that I do, people respond with multiple exclamation points. When you do that, a fairy dies. This is the lesser known way of killing fairies, the one Peter Pan never told us about. Part of my dislike of the exclamation point lies in my inexplicable desire to make a noise and hand gesture whenever there is one at the end of a sentence. It is embarrassing, people stare and annemjw refuses to do crosswords with me anymore.
On the other hand, I am fond of the fullstop and the question mark.