Playing catch-up
I pretty much zombified and hermitized over the weekend, so I've a few days grats to catch up, plus some ridiculous amount of emails and phone calls. Good thing the tutoring center's quiet so far.
Grats first:
Friday: What do I even remember about Friday? LOL Mainly that it was a quiet day, I think. Oh, and I connected with a classmate who was going to hook me up with some of the handouts from last May that I lost put someplace so safe even I can't find them. Also grateful that the evacuation we had was apparently a drill. Or a malfunction of the alarm system. Not sure which, but in any case, not a real emergency.
Saturday: Very grateful for having a quiet night at work that let me make some progress in writing, even if I did proceed to let myself get all caught up in setting details. Also grateful for people answering my silly questions and for people who've made vids of Roald Dahl Plass, particularly the walking one that gives a much better sense of the scale of the place, particularly how far the walk along the bay is from the Millenium Centre and Steel Tower. Honestly, I had a very skewed mental image of the place, probably because of the way scenes end up edited and such. So yes, here's to the folks who thought to make those vids and to YouTube for being a place to share them!
Sunday: I think I'm pretty much just grateful that I didn't need to be anywhere or do anything, because I slept damn near the whole day away, which was much needed.
Other stuff:
Writing still isn't flowing, though at least some writing is happening. I'm glad that sshg316's 5_for_five challenge is going to continue into the fall. Dunno whether I'll meet goal any too often, considering I haven't been for the last few weeks and school's not even started back up yet, but it's good to have the support of fellow writers who are trying to just make sure we all keep writing regularly. Doesn't matter if it all ends up edited out, the point is to keep writing.
I have about given up on getting something original done for this year's literary mag. Again. No ideas that really grab me. So I shall stick with fic, which does. Even when I wish it was a different fic than the one doing the grabbing.
Watched Fried Green Tomatoes and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants this weekend, as they were next up on my Netflix queue. I enjoyed them both, and I've added the sequel to Pants to the queue, though I imagine it won't be as good. Next series up is Eureka. I don't even remember what it's supposed to be about, so that should be interesting.
I also listened to the TW audiobook, "In the Shadows," read by Eve Myles. It was enjoyable. What's funny is that the big thing that got me? Was Eve doing Jack's accent. She did a great job, actually, both on accent and tone. But wow. That's the first time I've really been able to hear the "flatness" of American vowels that I've heard Brits mention. Well, obviously. We can never truly hear our own accents. But the contrast, going from lilting Welsh to flat American and back again ... yeah, couldn't miss it. Knocked me right out of the story once or twice until I got used to it. She actually did all the character voices really well. Her Ianto didn't sound like her Owen didn't sound like her Tosh, and of course nobody sounded remotely like Jack except Jack. I could very easily be sold on an audiobook just because she read it.
That's about it. Quiet in the tutoring center today again. If our boss weren't on vacation, he'd probably send us home, and I probably wouldn't complain. But I won't complain about getting paid to mess around on the 'net and maybe even get some more writing done.
Grats first:
Friday: What do I even remember about Friday? LOL Mainly that it was a quiet day, I think. Oh, and I connected with a classmate who was going to hook me up with some of the handouts from last May that I lost put someplace so safe even I can't find them. Also grateful that the evacuation we had was apparently a drill. Or a malfunction of the alarm system. Not sure which, but in any case, not a real emergency.
Saturday: Very grateful for having a quiet night at work that let me make some progress in writing, even if I did proceed to let myself get all caught up in setting details. Also grateful for people answering my silly questions and for people who've made vids of Roald Dahl Plass, particularly the walking one that gives a much better sense of the scale of the place, particularly how far the walk along the bay is from the Millenium Centre and Steel Tower. Honestly, I had a very skewed mental image of the place, probably because of the way scenes end up edited and such. So yes, here's to the folks who thought to make those vids and to YouTube for being a place to share them!
Sunday: I think I'm pretty much just grateful that I didn't need to be anywhere or do anything, because I slept damn near the whole day away, which was much needed.
Other stuff:
Writing still isn't flowing, though at least some writing is happening. I'm glad that sshg316's 5_for_five challenge is going to continue into the fall. Dunno whether I'll meet goal any too often, considering I haven't been for the last few weeks and school's not even started back up yet, but it's good to have the support of fellow writers who are trying to just make sure we all keep writing regularly. Doesn't matter if it all ends up edited out, the point is to keep writing.
I have about given up on getting something original done for this year's literary mag. Again. No ideas that really grab me. So I shall stick with fic, which does. Even when I wish it was a different fic than the one doing the grabbing.
Watched Fried Green Tomatoes and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants this weekend, as they were next up on my Netflix queue. I enjoyed them both, and I've added the sequel to Pants to the queue, though I imagine it won't be as good. Next series up is Eureka. I don't even remember what it's supposed to be about, so that should be interesting.
I also listened to the TW audiobook, "In the Shadows," read by Eve Myles. It was enjoyable. What's funny is that the big thing that got me? Was Eve doing Jack's accent. She did a great job, actually, both on accent and tone. But wow. That's the first time I've really been able to hear the "flatness" of American vowels that I've heard Brits mention. Well, obviously. We can never truly hear our own accents. But the contrast, going from lilting Welsh to flat American and back again ... yeah, couldn't miss it. Knocked me right out of the story once or twice until I got used to it. She actually did all the character voices really well. Her Ianto didn't sound like her Owen didn't sound like her Tosh, and of course nobody sounded remotely like Jack except Jack. I could very easily be sold on an audiobook just because she read it.
That's about it. Quiet in the tutoring center today again. If our boss weren't on vacation, he'd probably send us home, and I probably wouldn't complain. But I won't complain about getting paid to mess around on the 'net and maybe even get some more writing done.