Teachers and other stuff.

[readingredhead]

Well, it’s been a busy first few weeks of school, but at the end of week three of classes, I’ve got enough time to sit back, take a deep breath, and write an actual update.

I really enjoy all of my classes.  I’m taking classes in English, history, creative writing, tae kwon do (for fun!) and a seminar on language and technology.

I think my favorite

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[incaseineedyou]

Your classes sound really cool.

I'm both a little bit disappointed and a little bit relieved to hear that the good teachers we had in high school can still serve as your standard in college- disappointed because I want all professors to be as good as them, but relieved because I feel a kind of loyalty to those teachers, and Humanities and everything, and I want to hang onto them as the ultimate (which always wants me to spell it ultamite...?) teachers... I don't know.

But it sounds like things are going well for you, and I'm really glad. Good luck with everything.

[incaseineedyou]

Also, sorry I forgot to ask, I need help-

Remember in Krucli's class when he talked about the archetypal meaning of seasons? Was winter irony/satire? I remember it wasn't death, even though everyone thinks it is... I'm remembering something about the absence of hope, and how life is a cycle that mocks us (you spend your whole life gaining independence and then lose it, etc)... but I can't remember for sure if winter was the irony or what.

Sorry. I miss that class a lot. But I needed to know this for this challenge thing I'm distracting myself by writing, and I can't find my notes anywhere.

[readingredhead]

yes, winter is satire. good memory.

[incaseineedyou]

okay, thank you- big sigh of relief, because I've written a large part of a challenge story based on it.

Thanks again.

[readingredhead]

I'm assuming it's a fic, because that's usually the context in which I hear the word "challenge" used. What fandom? Something I might want to read?

[incaseineedyou]

It is a challenge. A new community just opened up with a challenge every week (Hopefully that link works- I'm not that great with HTML).
I think you might like the beginning I have for one of them (there’s a “one of them,” because now there’s two- ideas breed like rabbits, I swear to God. Just as messily, too). I invented a lit teacher for them and I rather like her. But all I have written are the beginnings of both fics, and those are all banter- like, at least I got the idea I needed to across in the lit teacher one, but it took forever.
I just wanted so badly to be witty last night. Maybe I’ll post them when I can finish and you can tell me where the banter/wit is overdone, and I can trim them down.

[incaseineedyou]

For some reason I'm speaking in an English accent in my head right now, and using phrasing like "I rather like her." Which is phrasing I like, don't get me wrong, but it probably sounds weird coming from me. So I thought I'd explain... not that explaining that my internal monologue currently has an accent and what I imagine to be British dialect is really serving to sound less weird that my phrasing but... oh well.

[readingredhead]

Lauren -- crazy people don't have to justify themselves to other crazy people. :) And I use random odd phrasing all the time. I can't think of an example right now but I know there's one phrase I always use and I know that this particular character says it once in this one book...oh! "That's as may be." It creeps into my phrasing at odd times. I'm sure there are others, but that's the one I can think of right now.

[incaseineedyou]

I think it would be rather interesting to see two crazy people attempting to justify themselves to each other, though- talking (or raving or monologuing- yes I verbed it, and I also verbed verb) on two completely different subjects, but still believing they understand each other because everything the other person says is filtered by their own thought process and perception etc. Sometimes I think the world's actually like that- the same way colors could be different for different people? Like we're all walking around completely unaware and thinking we can communicate and connect, but we really only understand what we already know, because we filter things that way. Or something.

[readingredhead]

The link worked, and I checked it out. That's pretty cool.

Yes, stories breed *exactly* like rabbits. Good one for noticing that. I think I'll have to use that phrase at some point when writing.

I know what you mean about wanting to be witty. Every time I write remotely witty dialogue, I get so happy with myself and mistakenly suppose I'm witty, too. :) Post them and I'll help you out.

[readingredhead]

I know what you mean, whether you spell it "ultimate" or "ultamite." "Ultamite" makes me think of "Ultramite," which makes me think it could be the name for a bad energy drink.

Thanks for the well-wishes.