It's a bird metaphor, it's a Sub Julio guide, it's the Commedia!
Yesterday, I wore my Dante Heavenly Tour T-shirt in honor of what I’ll be doing for Lent this year. Not that I do anything for Lent, because I’m not actually Catholic. Well, really it’s more an Easter thing.
Well, and a Literature thing.
Every year for the last few years, I like to read one of the books of the Commedia leading up to Easter.
This year, I’ll be reading Inferno.
Not because my life in any way resembles, “and like one who rejoices in his gains and when the time comes that makes him a loser has all his thoughts turned to sadness and lamentation,” because really, it pretty much doesn’t. H
eck, I spent last night writing something completely frivolous, which I’d feel guilty about, in a Lent like way, except I also spent about nine hours yesterday working on a piece for my portfolio.
One of the big problems with writing a lot of internal documentation is that most of the interesting bits that demonstrate that you know the difference between say dim sum (which as a food I’m not a big fan of, what with the finickyness and all, but it works for my example) and Dim sum1 As Double.
Course, I pulled a likely bit of code to document from one of my text books and immediately fell to thinking about how to tweak it, which kinda wasn’t the point. I don’t want a job as a developer. I’m not a developer in any way shape or form. I’m a documenter. It’s just…most text book examples involve code that’s not terribly interesting to flow diagram. And trust me, I never produce a technical document that doesn’t have at least one decision tree happy flow diagram. Dude, how much do I like Visio.
I was also a little irritated that I couldn’t find my FrameMaker CD. Every time I’m looking for one of the photo CDs, it’s always there going, “How about me?” in a completely anthropomorphized sort of way. I don’t actually hear it saying things. Maybe.
Now that I want to install it and play with the program, it’s off sulking somewhere. Or you know, filed in a really logical place. Maybe I should look for some photos. Although, when I went to look at all the older than five years CDs, all my photos seemed fine (and you know there was FrameMaker in the way) so um…yeah. Microsoft Word. Whatever.
Anyway, Dante. It’s like days or something till Easter. I’m guessing forty minus one at this point. I’ll be reading Inferno in no particular manner. The year I wrote “Dante and Virgil’s Wild and Wacky and yet Efficacious Adventures in the Lands Buffaloneous, Angelic, and Britannic: A Comedy in Three Parts (three parts each, sorta),” I, of course, read lots of background material. Plus watched lots of Buffy.
This year, I’ll just read Cantos as the mood strikes me. I’d like to be out of Hell by Easter Sunday, but it’s more a guideline than a rule.
I’d like to say that I’ll say things about my journey. I felt quite jealous when everyone was expounding on Ulysses. Not enough to read it, because oddly enough, I very rarely read stream of consciousness fiction, but umm…seriously there are books on it. Umm…Dante. Rah, rah, sis, coomb, ba.
Although for some reason this time around, “O lady of virtue, through whom alone the human kind surpasses everything with the smallest circle of the heavens, so grateful to me is thy command that my obedience, were it given already, is late; there is no need for more than to declare they will to me.” Strikes me. Not sure why. Hmm…
Really, given that the theme of the last few months has been trying to break out of patterns of behavior that I just don’ t like and in some cases seeing new patterns I don’t like, Inferno is a perfect choice. I know the Romantics like it, but it’s all about people who having in a dreamlike way wandered from their true path, repeat the same errors over and over. Wallowing in the torturous results.
It’s all terribly metaphoric, therefore, I love it.
Anyway, back to the portfolio. Or possibly Justice League Unlimited exegesis. Or a really random fanfic that came to me while I was walking off nine hours of playing with Visio diagrams and made up database structures and tweaks of code.
Although, I did have tea. So, umm…yeah. That’s all now.
Note to self, lj-cut works better when it’s not jl-cut. Justice League saves the world. They don’t provide cut tags.
Well, and a Literature thing.
Every year for the last few years, I like to read one of the books of the Commedia leading up to Easter.
This year, I’ll be reading Inferno.
Not because my life in any way resembles, “and like one who rejoices in his gains and when the time comes that makes him a loser has all his thoughts turned to sadness and lamentation,” because really, it pretty much doesn’t. H
eck, I spent last night writing something completely frivolous, which I’d feel guilty about, in a Lent like way, except I also spent about nine hours yesterday working on a piece for my portfolio.
One of the big problems with writing a lot of internal documentation is that most of the interesting bits that demonstrate that you know the difference between say dim sum (which as a food I’m not a big fan of, what with the finickyness and all, but it works for my example) and Dim sum1 As Double.
Course, I pulled a likely bit of code to document from one of my text books and immediately fell to thinking about how to tweak it, which kinda wasn’t the point. I don’t want a job as a developer. I’m not a developer in any way shape or form. I’m a documenter. It’s just…most text book examples involve code that’s not terribly interesting to flow diagram. And trust me, I never produce a technical document that doesn’t have at least one decision tree happy flow diagram. Dude, how much do I like Visio.
I was also a little irritated that I couldn’t find my FrameMaker CD. Every time I’m looking for one of the photo CDs, it’s always there going, “How about me?” in a completely anthropomorphized sort of way. I don’t actually hear it saying things. Maybe.
Now that I want to install it and play with the program, it’s off sulking somewhere. Or you know, filed in a really logical place. Maybe I should look for some photos. Although, when I went to look at all the older than five years CDs, all my photos seemed fine (and you know there was FrameMaker in the way) so um…yeah. Microsoft Word. Whatever.
Anyway, Dante. It’s like days or something till Easter. I’m guessing forty minus one at this point. I’ll be reading Inferno in no particular manner. The year I wrote “Dante and Virgil’s Wild and Wacky and yet Efficacious Adventures in the Lands Buffaloneous, Angelic, and Britannic: A Comedy in Three Parts (three parts each, sorta),” I, of course, read lots of background material. Plus watched lots of Buffy.
This year, I’ll just read Cantos as the mood strikes me. I’d like to be out of Hell by Easter Sunday, but it’s more a guideline than a rule.
I’d like to say that I’ll say things about my journey. I felt quite jealous when everyone was expounding on Ulysses. Not enough to read it, because oddly enough, I very rarely read stream of consciousness fiction, but umm…seriously there are books on it. Umm…Dante. Rah, rah, sis, coomb, ba.
Although for some reason this time around, “O lady of virtue, through whom alone the human kind surpasses everything with the smallest circle of the heavens, so grateful to me is thy command that my obedience, were it given already, is late; there is no need for more than to declare they will to me.” Strikes me. Not sure why. Hmm…
Really, given that the theme of the last few months has been trying to break out of patterns of behavior that I just don’ t like and in some cases seeing new patterns I don’t like, Inferno is a perfect choice. I know the Romantics like it, but it’s all about people who having in a dreamlike way wandered from their true path, repeat the same errors over and over. Wallowing in the torturous results.
It’s all terribly metaphoric, therefore, I love it.
Anyway, back to the portfolio. Or possibly Justice League Unlimited exegesis. Or a really random fanfic that came to me while I was walking off nine hours of playing with Visio diagrams and made up database structures and tweaks of code.
Although, I did have tea. So, umm…yeah. That’s all now.
Note to self, lj-cut works better when it’s not jl-cut. Justice League saves the world. They don’t provide cut tags.