LJ was the first online platform I ever gave myself. I did it mostly so I could read the fanfic of people who had f-locked their fiction. I was a master lurker. Occasionally I posted but it was always with the knowledge that it probably wouldn't attract much attention. It was slightly more public than the handwritten journals that I've kept for ( Read more... )

I have had an entire semester to work on a 7-10 page research paper and so far I have 2 paragraphs. Fortunately, I have most of my sources figured out and a bajillion quotations from them but I still have at least 6 and 1/2 pages to get through by 9:45 tomorrow morning. Stupid procrastination. I was taking Dextroamphetamine for ADD (I was initially ( Read more... )

And getting really nervous about it. Fear of rejection. I has it big time.  Turns out the writing sample is optional and it's up to five pages, not exactly five pages.  Still hard to choose since I don't have the hard copies of most of them.  And my old professors have very busy schedules and don't have time to cater to my anxious needs. I still ( Read more... )

Well, I've got four pages of my Huaorani paper written. So far I've read a journalist's account of their experiences fight oil companies, watched a Christian film with just about the most naive and optimistic take on Western contact that could be contrived, as well as a documentary about their experiences with missionaries and fight oil companies. ( Read more... )

and lamenting the lack of fic. I'm backtracking farscape-weekly but there's just not much to be had. Oh well, guess I'll just have to focus on the extra-credit project I'm working on about the Huaorani indians, the bravest people in the Amazon.