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Tried to write a little. Was kind of a bust. But luckily there is one day left of the weekend - not that I'll be able to properly use it, mind you....
It doesn't help that my mother had claimed my netbook (which I do most of my writing on) as her own. I lent it to her so that she'd be able to watch movies in bed, and now she flips out whenever I want to use it... even if she isn't using it at the time. It's pisses me off a huge amount, ugh. Well. I'm going to get her a netbook for her birthday, so she can use that one. No more forgetting who my property actually belongs to, thanks, and no more getting pissy with me when I want to use my computer. The computer that belongs to me. Yes indeedy.
Vacation can't come fast enough.
Birthday on Wednesday. Not looking forward to it. I can not trust that my mother will be pleasant on that day. Fortunately I'm doing long days this week, getting home at 7 or so, so I will only have to deal with her for three hours before doing to bed.
... Reading over that, it says some really unfortunate things about the state of my family life right now. I can't do anything about that at the moment, but I'm working on arranging things so that they will be better. It's something that will take time.
Uhhh anyway. On a more interesting note, I've been reading the Battle Royale manga in preparation for the upcoming BR roleplay event at the APH anon meme. Last year's event was awesome and I had so much fun playing in it, seriously. Ahhh. Hopefully this year will be good too. My CR has changed kind of dramatically from what it was last year; I predict Norway's going to get into a non-fatal fight with America, have some kind of emotional moment with Spain, probably kill Denmark or Iceland or both (because family takes care of family, y'know), and ultimately get killed by Prussia, or maybe suicide depending on how things pan out.
Er... where was I... oh yeah, the BR manga. Man, it's a lot more explicit than the film. Kind of closer to the novel, I think - in fact I'd say it's even worse than the novel in that regard, both in terms of sex and violence. Interesting. Also, the art style is really weird... can't say I'm a fan of it. Anyway, of the three versions, I still prefer the film and novel over the manga, though I can't say if I like either of those best... they're both good for different reasons. (I prefer the way the film deals with the violence and minimizes the sex, whereas the novel is better for getting into the heads of each character - we don't really get to know them that well in the film)
I've been reading The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham and oh, it's lovely. Well, I'm not even halfway through yet, but I'm really enjoying it. I saw the film ages ago, so I have a vague idea of what goes on, but only that - I don't really remember it too well, except that it was quite an old film and very pretty... Though I think I was a little too young to understand it very well; I was just overwhelmed by the visuals, I guess. Anyway, this exchange in the novel stuck out for me -
"What can be the possible use of Larry's learning dead languages?"
"Some people have a disinterested desire for knowledge. It's not an ignoble desire."
"What's the good of knowledge if you're not going to do anything with it?"
Argh. "What's the good of it". I come across far too many people with that attitude... And you know, the annoying thing is, it often comes from people who simply can't be bothered to take even a second to do things like learn anything at all, or do simple problem-solving, or even sit and think about anything. They turn to me to do their thinking and their problem-solving for them, and then they tell me that it's useless to learn things. Well, a lot of the things that I learn and pursue aren't much use in every day life, this is true. But for fuck's sake, at least my brain hasn't atrophied, unlike the people who say these things to me....
Uh. Looks like I've gotten wildly off-topic here. Whoops. Anyway, it's a good novel, and I'll have to find the film again and watch it, maybe I'll like it even better this time around.
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It doesn't help that my mother had claimed my netbook (which I do most of my writing on) as her own. I lent it to her so that she'd be able to watch movies in bed, and now she flips out whenever I want to use it... even if she isn't using it at the time. It's pisses me off a huge amount, ugh. Well. I'm going to get her a netbook for her birthday, so she can use that one. No more forgetting who my property actually belongs to, thanks, and no more getting pissy with me when I want to use my computer. The computer that belongs to me. Yes indeedy.
Vacation can't come fast enough.
Birthday on Wednesday. Not looking forward to it. I can not trust that my mother will be pleasant on that day. Fortunately I'm doing long days this week, getting home at 7 or so, so I will only have to deal with her for three hours before doing to bed.
... Reading over that, it says some really unfortunate things about the state of my family life right now. I can't do anything about that at the moment, but I'm working on arranging things so that they will be better. It's something that will take time.
Uhhh anyway. On a more interesting note, I've been reading the Battle Royale manga in preparation for the upcoming BR roleplay event at the APH anon meme. Last year's event was awesome and I had so much fun playing in it, seriously. Ahhh. Hopefully this year will be good too. My CR has changed kind of dramatically from what it was last year; I predict Norway's going to get into a non-fatal fight with America, have some kind of emotional moment with Spain, probably kill Denmark or Iceland or both (because family takes care of family, y'know), and ultimately get killed by Prussia, or maybe suicide depending on how things pan out.
Er... where was I... oh yeah, the BR manga. Man, it's a lot more explicit than the film. Kind of closer to the novel, I think - in fact I'd say it's even worse than the novel in that regard, both in terms of sex and violence. Interesting. Also, the art style is really weird... can't say I'm a fan of it. Anyway, of the three versions, I still prefer the film and novel over the manga, though I can't say if I like either of those best... they're both good for different reasons. (I prefer the way the film deals with the violence and minimizes the sex, whereas the novel is better for getting into the heads of each character - we don't really get to know them that well in the film)
I've been reading The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham and oh, it's lovely. Well, I'm not even halfway through yet, but I'm really enjoying it. I saw the film ages ago, so I have a vague idea of what goes on, but only that - I don't really remember it too well, except that it was quite an old film and very pretty... Though I think I was a little too young to understand it very well; I was just overwhelmed by the visuals, I guess. Anyway, this exchange in the novel stuck out for me -
"What can be the possible use of Larry's learning dead languages?"
"Some people have a disinterested desire for knowledge. It's not an ignoble desire."
"What's the good of knowledge if you're not going to do anything with it?"
Argh. "What's the good of it". I come across far too many people with that attitude... And you know, the annoying thing is, it often comes from people who simply can't be bothered to take even a second to do things like learn anything at all, or do simple problem-solving, or even sit and think about anything. They turn to me to do their thinking and their problem-solving for them, and then they tell me that it's useless to learn things. Well, a lot of the things that I learn and pursue aren't much use in every day life, this is true. But for fuck's sake, at least my brain hasn't atrophied, unlike the people who say these things to me....
Uh. Looks like I've gotten wildly off-topic here. Whoops. Anyway, it's a good novel, and I'll have to find the film again and watch it, maybe I'll like it even better this time around.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3310591.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.