Hello, friends.
I suppose I should update, now that it's 2012 and all. The new year has kicked off rather well. I'm writing every day, working on my hilariously out-of-shape body, eating decently, reading lots, and basically doing all those things I usually kick ass at in early January and then slack off with later in the year.
BUT I AM DETERMINED THIS TIME. HEAR ME, 2012?
One of the shared goals Luke and I have is to dedicate at least an hour every day to creative pursuits. He's taking up drawing and art again, I'm taking up... that manuscript I've been staring at for a century now. First draft is due at the end of the year OR. ELSE. This has gotta happen; I need to move on with my writing life!
I've also decided to dedicate the year to reading all the classics I own and have been putting off: stuff like Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, etc ad nauseum. Of course, plenty of sci-fi, YA and nonfic will be interspersed throughout, because that's just how I roll. But I'm excited to catch up on my existing bookshelf. Way too many tomes sitting there that I haven't ever touched.
In other news! I might as well confess (since I don't believe I have, yet - at least not here) that I have fallen for the devious, deadly mind-trap that is The Vampire Diaries. I KNOW, OKAY. I know. But once I slogged through the first half of S1, my viewing experience stopped being dominated by questions like "um, why are you watching this?" / "what is wrong with you, Ali?" to things like "MY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME" and "WOW, THAT WAS PRETTY BADASS."
Most hilarious part? Luke has fallen for the show just as hard. The secret truth is that he's always loved the vamp/wolf genre when it's a bit more brutal (he's an Underworld guy) and I decided to exploit this. He kept frowning "but it's a teenybopper show" so I told him "dude, a thousand-year-old vampire decapitates someone onscreen and they don't cut away!" Eventually, he was convinced to sit down, suffer through the beginning, and see what he thought of the rest. He is now fully obsessed and caught up. We're both wondering when Elijah is gonna wake up and WHAT IS IN THE FOURTH COFFIN and things of that nature.
Elijah, Stefan, Alaric, and Bonnie are my faves. Damon is Luke's. (He's so predictable.) However, unpopular fandom opinion: I hate Klaus with every fiber of my being and hope he dies ASAP. I won't miss him when he's gone.
Guess that's it for now! I'm drinking some cider and enjoying the snowfall outside, and I suppose I should get back to the new BBC Great Expectations - starring Gillian Anderson in her CREEPIEST role yet. I love this woman so much.
BUT I AM DETERMINED THIS TIME. HEAR ME, 2012?
One of the shared goals Luke and I have is to dedicate at least an hour every day to creative pursuits. He's taking up drawing and art again, I'm taking up... that manuscript I've been staring at for a century now. First draft is due at the end of the year OR. ELSE. This has gotta happen; I need to move on with my writing life!
I've also decided to dedicate the year to reading all the classics I own and have been putting off: stuff like Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, etc ad nauseum. Of course, plenty of sci-fi, YA and nonfic will be interspersed throughout, because that's just how I roll. But I'm excited to catch up on my existing bookshelf. Way too many tomes sitting there that I haven't ever touched.
In other news! I might as well confess (since I don't believe I have, yet - at least not here) that I have fallen for the devious, deadly mind-trap that is The Vampire Diaries. I KNOW, OKAY. I know. But once I slogged through the first half of S1, my viewing experience stopped being dominated by questions like "um, why are you watching this?" / "what is wrong with you, Ali?" to things like "MY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME" and "WOW, THAT WAS PRETTY BADASS."
Most hilarious part? Luke has fallen for the show just as hard. The secret truth is that he's always loved the vamp/wolf genre when it's a bit more brutal (he's an Underworld guy) and I decided to exploit this. He kept frowning "but it's a teenybopper show" so I told him "dude, a thousand-year-old vampire decapitates someone onscreen and they don't cut away!" Eventually, he was convinced to sit down, suffer through the beginning, and see what he thought of the rest. He is now fully obsessed and caught up. We're both wondering when Elijah is gonna wake up and WHAT IS IN THE FOURTH COFFIN and things of that nature.
Elijah, Stefan, Alaric, and Bonnie are my faves. Damon is Luke's. (He's so predictable.) However, unpopular fandom opinion: I hate Klaus with every fiber of my being and hope he dies ASAP. I won't miss him when he's gone.
Guess that's it for now! I'm drinking some cider and enjoying the snowfall outside, and I suppose I should get back to the new BBC Great Expectations - starring Gillian Anderson in her CREEPIEST role yet. I love this woman so much.