this year the end of the year fic roundup does not warrant its own post

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Grades signed, sealed, and delivered!!! *collapses* I may have to reevaluate the wisdom of making my major essay/assignment thingie due right at the end of term. Pros: relatively few late papers trickling in, and there's also a bit of the whole "pulling off the band-aid" effect (if one can pull off a bandaid for two weeks straight). Cons: I HAVE

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It's hard for me to pinpoint a time before I knew about computers, because my dad was a relatively early adopter and had one in his office by the mid-80s or so. But it was still at the office (and it was a treat to get to go over and play this pac-man-like game, all in green text on a black screen, which was pretty much the only thing aside from word processing that that machine would do), and I was probably in 8th or 9th grade before we had one at home.

I very distinctly remember the first time I ever heard of the "information superhighway," this crazy, new thing that was going to revolutionize the world and allow us to send messages instantly on our computers, using the phone lines. That would have been about 1991 or '92. But neither my schools nor my family were particularly early adopters of the internet, and I was definitely in high school--mid-'90s--before I had really used the internet at all, didn't have an email address until 1997, probably (my senior year in high school), and didn't really use the internet for anything other than email until college. After that, the learning curve has been pretty fast, but I definitely remember all the stages of my computer interaction quite distinctly, and the internet, in particular, has been a phenomenon of my adult life only. I've been driving longer than I've been online, for instance (though that would not necessarily be true of someone my age).

But most of my students weren't yet born the first time I heard the term "information superhighway," so that does put things into perspective!

Irina! River! To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what I want to say about River that hasn't already been said very well (by you, among other people!), but I do still want to give her a whirl. Perhaps we'll see what series 6 brings... :D As for Sydney, I think I've gotten interested in what makes her get back up again, time after time, when she gets knocked down and knocked around so often and so thoroughly. I watched the series pilot ep, and that alone has sort of made me cheer for Sydney. And the fic I want to write involves Sydney and Irina hanging out and kicking some ass together and talking about compromises and impossible choices during the second of Sydney's missing years (because Sydney-as-Julia-Thorne fascinates me, even though I've seen none of those eps at all, and I think a Sydney who remembers being Julia would see her mother in an entirely different light). But I think I've got rather a lot of episodes to watch first!