Freedom, or something like it
I'm so relieved the semester is over, because I thought the final exam would kill me. Four months of foundation psych doesn't easily compress into a week of study. This would teach me to pace my study properly.... except I resolve to do that at the start of ever semester and it lasts about two weeks.
I did find a few interesting notes, fandom-wise, in the process of study: "Separation from a parent in childhood makes people more likely to develop PTSD after exposure to a traumatic event in adulthood" -- which covers, well, just about all the main characters in the GFFA. But it did make me think in particular of Anakin and of the Solo kids. (Hi, Jacen!) Also there was some interesting stuff there about how a parent's attachment styles from their own childhood can affect their child's attachment, which sparked some ideas for a Mara and Ben vig, something I've been wanting to write for a while.
.... obviously a productive study session. :p
Just finished re-reading Catherine Jinks' Pagan's Crusade et al series, my sanity-preserver over study and exam period. Have also finished Mike Ripley's latest, Angel Unaware, the new Dalziel & Pascoe novel, Midnight Fugue (which I continually want to misread as 'fudge' *facepalm*), and Dorothy L. Sayer's Unnatural Death. Angel and Dalziel & Pascoe felt a bit flat, though that could just be exam burn-out, but Peter Wimsey is as charming as ever with his rambling monologues and not-entirely-healed war trauma.
Off to catch up on... just about everything.
I did find a few interesting notes, fandom-wise, in the process of study: "Separation from a parent in childhood makes people more likely to develop PTSD after exposure to a traumatic event in adulthood" -- which covers, well, just about all the main characters in the GFFA. But it did make me think in particular of Anakin and of the Solo kids. (Hi, Jacen!) Also there was some interesting stuff there about how a parent's attachment styles from their own childhood can affect their child's attachment, which sparked some ideas for a Mara and Ben vig, something I've been wanting to write for a while.
.... obviously a productive study session. :p
Just finished re-reading Catherine Jinks' Pagan's Crusade et al series, my sanity-preserver over study and exam period. Have also finished Mike Ripley's latest, Angel Unaware, the new Dalziel & Pascoe novel, Midnight Fugue (which I continually want to misread as 'fudge' *facepalm*), and Dorothy L. Sayer's Unnatural Death. Angel and Dalziel & Pascoe felt a bit flat, though that could just be exam burn-out, but Peter Wimsey is as charming as ever with his rambling monologues and not-entirely-healed war trauma.
Off to catch up on... just about everything.