Real life, now in bullet-points
Mostly anyway...
Everytime I do a 'real' entry, I feel like I'm always catching you all up on the events of *weeks* ago. So...
Everytime I do a 'real' entry, I feel like I'm always catching you all up on the events of *weeks* ago. So...
- Well, I'm home from uni as you probably guessed. All plays successfully completed, all essays handed in. Committed to two plays next term and one the term after that. Under strict instructions from Dad not to do anymore in case I fail my finals :-(
- I'm kinda depressed at the moment. And there isn't anyone to talk to about my possible/pseudo depression because for someone to sit and listen patiently to you as you explain your death obsession, you really need a therapist. Friends either panic and think you're going to kill yourself, or think you don't mean it and tell you about their problems instead. Understandably, but still. And I really can't afford therapy.
- It is *TOO HOT*. I wish I could up-sticks to Boston, where the Red Sox were rained off yesterday. It did rain here in NI this morning actually, so maybe it'll cool down properly now. *is hopeful*
- My life-plans require me to act. Which, as I'm not proactive enough to get a summer job, seems unlikely. I need to apply for the GRE, decide if I want to do an MA or PhD, narrow it down to about ten places... Then get a book to study for the test, reassure myself that I can live even further away from home for years, that I won't get culture shock, or bankrupt myself, that I'll be able to get a visa afterwards. That I'll actually be able to find a job after. That I'll pass my BA! 20 feels far too young to be having panic attacks about the state of THE REST OF YOUR LIFE *ominous drumroll*
- I saw Cars today and really liked it. It's a Pixar film, so that shouldn't really be a surprise, but it got some mediocre reviews. The thing is (and this is my grand theory of explanation) it's an indie movie in disguise. Toy Story and Monsters Inc are both pretty much mainstream buddy comedies. Excellently done, and very funny, but buddy comedies. Finding Nemo is a parent-child thing, A Bug's Life is a coming of age story as well as a not subtle socialist manifesto. The Incredibles is a superhero movie, as well as a family movie. Cars, now, has buddy comedy elements, romantic elements, even sports movie elements, but at heart it's about the idiosyncratic residents of small town America. And about slowing down, and enjoying life in all its quirky wonder, and people in all their quirky wonder. It's slow-paced, not continually laugh-out-loud funny, and has a gentleness about it that doesn't come across as very 'kiddy' a lot of the time. The audience I was with liked it, as did everyone in my family, but it was my Mum and 16 year old brother who adored it. So, if you were thinking about seeing it but put off by middling reviews, go anyway. (Plus, the animation is *awesome*) I'd give it 4-4.5/5 stars. Better than Pirates (4) and X-men (3.5).
- Westward look has about 12,000 words now. Which, as I originally intended to write 10,000 should make me happy. But that's almost all of Chapter 1 (parts 1-3), half of Chapter 2, and bits and pieces of the rest. It dawns on me now that writing the story in order might have been a plan. So anyway, it has quite a few words now, and I've read all of them so often I hate them all. So if anyone else would like to read some Sam/Toby and tell me there's a story here somewhere, I'd love you forever. Em, darling, you may still end up with this, cause it can't go into the public like as it is but I would *like* to be able to give it to you in a better state than it's in now. It's your fault I'm writing it after all ;-)
- In other fic news - in my head I'm writing Stargate Atlantis (John/Rodney) and maybe Veronica Mars (V/L). Plus missing West Wing fics - a Sam one about writing and his past, a Josh/Toby Santos-Campaign one, and maybe a threesome of some kind if I can find a theme.
So anyway, that's me.