this is what's called verbal diarrhea
Handed in my assignment on the Hagia Sophia today. There goes nothing. I'm sort of feeling ambivalent towards that class (Islamic Art & Architecture) and it's mostly because the teacher rushes through names, expecting us all to know how they're written. It's frustrating. It's an intro class. I'm freaking out already about the midterm quiz. ACK.
The Baroque Art History teacher cancelled, so that was that for me today in terms of school. I arrived home pretty much at the same time I would have ended that class thanks to the sparse train schedule midday.
Recently I started an original fic. Loosely based on a video I mentioned in this post -- since I don't speak Russian I've had to interpret based on body language -- so frustrating but deliciously fun nonetheless (ahem). Anyway. I think I have something like 20 pages written longhand. Don't know if I'll have time to type but I'm dying to. It definitely needs some edits, but I like what I've got so far :)
Much to do tomorrow. I'm about to start learning how to do stuff with Max/Jitter at last. I've been fighting the push from profs to do real-time performance works because frankly the program seems very daunting and since I don't have the technical knowledge then whatever project I endeavour with it could fall flat on its face -- and I'm not looking forward to failing because of it. I know what I want to do. I know what it should look like. I don't know how to do it. There's tons of tutorials and patches, apparently, but I could drown in that sea -- I've been there, with Processing. I hated Processing with a passion. I could do the basics, but writing hardcore code was never my forte. Everyone says Max is a super user-friendly GUI, but I fail to see it from classmates' projects and caps. One could lose themselves in the intricacies! But hey, I'm going to plough forward tomorrow and see where it takes me. Wish me luck!
I finished Highland Outlaw by Monica McCarty just a few minutes ago. Great plot, actually. If you know your Scottish history, you'll know that the MacGregor clan was outlawed following the Glenfruin Conflict in 1603 with encouragement from the Campbells. They were openly persecuted (indeed Glenorchy killed his own sister who'd married into Clan Gregor), their name proscribed (some, like the male lead, took the surname Murray), and their lands ripped from under them. Anyway, good story, to be sure, but there's been something about McCarty's style that I haven't liked since the first in the series (Untamed, I think?). They're always good stories, but the writing drags, imo. And, sireesanwar, you asked me to let you know if this was also part of the MacLeods of Skye' series, and it's somewhat related -- there's mentions of the MacLeods (Flora and Rory, I believe, since Elizabeth Campbell, the female lead, is friends with Flora), but Highland Warrior, Highland Outlaw and Highland Scoundrel are part of a new Campbell series.
I also finished Wed Him Before You Bed Him by Sabrina Jeffries. Starkly different from the rest of the School for Heiresses series, namely because this is about the headmistress, Charlotte Harris, Cousin Michael, and a man she (accidentally, wrongfully, but very publicly) wronged in her youth. There are flashbacks, which are what differs from the others seeing as they're usually straightforward. The flashbacks, however, were crucial to the entire story, so don't be daunted by the mere fact that they're there. They explain a hell of a lot. I missed the letters between Mrs Harris and Cousin Michael before every chapter, that's for sure. Overall, I think it's not my favourite book of the series (Beware a Scot's Revenge and Let Sleeping Rogues Lie were perfect snark-banter-and-fun-wise and hahaha I truly enjoyed the last chapter with Major Winter wondering if he'd met Lachlan aka the former masked Scottish Scourge who had kidnapped him once, lol) but it definitely carried itself very well. Great finale to a brilliantly entertaining series. I'm only missing Never Seduce a Scoundrel. Besides that, I wish someone would finish reading and offer their copy of The Truth About Lord Stoneville, first in Jeffries's new series The Hellions of Halstead Hall :D He used to have pot parties, or something like that. Revelries, in any case. I'm also thinking about dabbing my feet into her Royal Brotherhood series.
Fuck, look at me. Crazy about Regency fiction? Who would have thought?
And man, look at the size of this entry. That's what you get when I ignore my own lj.
The Baroque Art History teacher cancelled, so that was that for me today in terms of school. I arrived home pretty much at the same time I would have ended that class thanks to the sparse train schedule midday.
Recently I started an original fic. Loosely based on a video I mentioned in this post -- since I don't speak Russian I've had to interpret based on body language -- so frustrating but deliciously fun nonetheless (ahem). Anyway. I think I have something like 20 pages written longhand. Don't know if I'll have time to type but I'm dying to. It definitely needs some edits, but I like what I've got so far :)
Much to do tomorrow. I'm about to start learning how to do stuff with Max/Jitter at last. I've been fighting the push from profs to do real-time performance works because frankly the program seems very daunting and since I don't have the technical knowledge then whatever project I endeavour with it could fall flat on its face -- and I'm not looking forward to failing because of it. I know what I want to do. I know what it should look like. I don't know how to do it. There's tons of tutorials and patches, apparently, but I could drown in that sea -- I've been there, with Processing. I hated Processing with a passion. I could do the basics, but writing hardcore code was never my forte. Everyone says Max is a super user-friendly GUI, but I fail to see it from classmates' projects and caps. One could lose themselves in the intricacies! But hey, I'm going to plough forward tomorrow and see where it takes me. Wish me luck!
I finished Highland Outlaw by Monica McCarty just a few minutes ago. Great plot, actually. If you know your Scottish history, you'll know that the MacGregor clan was outlawed following the Glenfruin Conflict in 1603 with encouragement from the Campbells. They were openly persecuted (indeed Glenorchy killed his own sister who'd married into Clan Gregor), their name proscribed (some, like the male lead, took the surname Murray), and their lands ripped from under them. Anyway, good story, to be sure, but there's been something about McCarty's style that I haven't liked since the first in the series (Untamed, I think?). They're always good stories, but the writing drags, imo. And, sireesanwar, you asked me to let you know if this was also part of the MacLeods of Skye' series, and it's somewhat related -- there's mentions of the MacLeods (Flora and Rory, I believe, since Elizabeth Campbell, the female lead, is friends with Flora), but Highland Warrior, Highland Outlaw and Highland Scoundrel are part of a new Campbell series.
I also finished Wed Him Before You Bed Him by Sabrina Jeffries. Starkly different from the rest of the School for Heiresses series, namely because this is about the headmistress, Charlotte Harris, Cousin Michael, and a man she (accidentally, wrongfully, but very publicly) wronged in her youth. There are flashbacks, which are what differs from the others seeing as they're usually straightforward. The flashbacks, however, were crucial to the entire story, so don't be daunted by the mere fact that they're there. They explain a hell of a lot. I missed the letters between Mrs Harris and Cousin Michael before every chapter, that's for sure. Overall, I think it's not my favourite book of the series (Beware a Scot's Revenge and Let Sleeping Rogues Lie were perfect snark-banter-and-fun-wise and hahaha I truly enjoyed the last chapter with Major Winter wondering if he'd met Lachlan aka the former masked Scottish Scourge who had kidnapped him once, lol) but it definitely carried itself very well. Great finale to a brilliantly entertaining series. I'm only missing Never Seduce a Scoundrel. Besides that, I wish someone would finish reading and offer their copy of The Truth About Lord Stoneville, first in Jeffries's new series The Hellions of Halstead Hall :D He used to have pot parties, or something like that. Revelries, in any case. I'm also thinking about dabbing my feet into her Royal Brotherhood series.
Fuck, look at me. Crazy about Regency fiction? Who would have thought?
And man, look at the size of this entry. That's what you get when I ignore my own lj.