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It was terribly cold today. Needless to say, I'm not pleased about that. It's too early to be wearing fingerless gloves in the workplace. But this weekend is supposed to have sun, or at least an absence of rain, and that sounds promising. I'll go out and enjoy what I have left of the summer - and hopefully take a few photos; I started that last week but didn't manage to finish. And I think I'll grab some cake when I go to get my coffee, because I've been craving cake all week for some odd reason. Not sweets in general, but just cake. Coffee cake in particular. With cinnamon.
Things to do this weekend: Norwegian! Hopefully get that letter to my penpal done, or at least started. I've been struggling with Norsk lately, probably because my mind has been on other things, but hopefully if I sit down and just work steadily for an hour or two, it should all come back. I'll take my work down to the cafe if necessary. That's the problem, really - I work best when I'm not in my bedroom, but I can't work at the kitchen table when my parents are home; they're too distracting. So... Starbucks it is, then.
This applies to fic too, of course, not just studying, but it's a frustrating situation overall. Ah, I should probably do some reading from my grammar book as well, now that this is on my mind. I feel like I keep forgetting basic things. There are some simple, standard things that I should have had solid by now, but I just... don't. But I remember having this problem with French, too, I'm not sure why. Norwegian isn't even that complicated a language compared to some others; I don't know why I struggle this much. Gods forbid I ever try to actually learn Polish....
Also to do this weekend: fic! I have two A Redtail's Dream stories that I want to work on; one is nearly done, just needs an extension of the current scene and a proper ending. Probably won't take me more than a page or two. The other one... needs more work. It was originally supposed to be NSFW, but I'm having such a difficult time with it that I'm honestly tempted to cut off where it starts to turn sketch, save that part to be written separately later (if ever), and just take what I have and write it as subtext-filled gen. Or something. I still have no idea what I'm going to do with either of them once I'm finished. On the one hand, the thought of uploading to Ao3 gives me hives (as always). On the other, the fic side of the fandom is teeny-tiny, and maybe if I upload more, then others might be tempted to write as well -- [/puts hands on face] Oh, I don't know.
Speaking of fic, I've started to go through what's up for Stand Still, Stay Silent on Ao3. I'm through about 1/3rd of it - well, only the complete stories so far, and minus the few setting-change AUs - and... honestly, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading fanfiction. This past Yuletide, probably. Sure, the quality can vary, but there are lots of bite-sized goodies, and some stories with neat worldbuilding, and some others with very cute character interaction, and I haven't even read most of the stories over 1k yet. I'm having a good time.
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Things to do this weekend: Norwegian! Hopefully get that letter to my penpal done, or at least started. I've been struggling with Norsk lately, probably because my mind has been on other things, but hopefully if I sit down and just work steadily for an hour or two, it should all come back. I'll take my work down to the cafe if necessary. That's the problem, really - I work best when I'm not in my bedroom, but I can't work at the kitchen table when my parents are home; they're too distracting. So... Starbucks it is, then.
This applies to fic too, of course, not just studying, but it's a frustrating situation overall. Ah, I should probably do some reading from my grammar book as well, now that this is on my mind. I feel like I keep forgetting basic things. There are some simple, standard things that I should have had solid by now, but I just... don't. But I remember having this problem with French, too, I'm not sure why. Norwegian isn't even that complicated a language compared to some others; I don't know why I struggle this much. Gods forbid I ever try to actually learn Polish....
Also to do this weekend: fic! I have two A Redtail's Dream stories that I want to work on; one is nearly done, just needs an extension of the current scene and a proper ending. Probably won't take me more than a page or two. The other one... needs more work. It was originally supposed to be NSFW, but I'm having such a difficult time with it that I'm honestly tempted to cut off where it starts to turn sketch, save that part to be written separately later (if ever), and just take what I have and write it as subtext-filled gen. Or something. I still have no idea what I'm going to do with either of them once I'm finished. On the one hand, the thought of uploading to Ao3 gives me hives (as always). On the other, the fic side of the fandom is teeny-tiny, and maybe if I upload more, then others might be tempted to write as well -- [/puts hands on face] Oh, I don't know.
Speaking of fic, I've started to go through what's up for Stand Still, Stay Silent on Ao3. I'm through about 1/3rd of it - well, only the complete stories so far, and minus the few setting-change AUs - and... honestly, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading fanfiction. This past Yuletide, probably. Sure, the quality can vary, but there are lots of bite-sized goodies, and some stories with neat worldbuilding, and some others with very cute character interaction, and I haven't even read most of the stories over 1k yet. I'm having a good time.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3421080.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.