In cleaning out a box of old crap, I discovered a few college essays I wrote. It would have been 1995-1996, and I 17 or 18 years old. I think they were for the college I did attend, as I recall culling more of them once before (though I specifically recall my Honors essay was about the lights of Shea Stadium, and is not in this batch). I wrote ( Read more... )

I just reread Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (first read in high school). The edition I had included two afterwords, one of which discusses some letters he received from readers in this and other books of his. A number of these letters, he says, criticize his treatment (or lack thereof) of blacks and women. Bradbury harshly rebuts that this is ( Read more... )

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Working on my primary NaNoWriMo story since I finished the short story. I realized my brain was dry and I wasn't coming up with good names for my characters, so I turned to online name generators. All the names sounded too bland, so I picked Irish from the dropdown menu. Then I realized I'd only been picking white names, so I found me a nice ( Read more... )

I'm going to try it, though not aggressively (I want to write, I don't necessarily want to write a novel). I'm zandperl. I'm starting off with finishing a supposedly short story that I started this summer.

Edit: Anyone know why people can't find me in a search? I don't see a setting for this that I've blocked or something.

Edit again: This ( Read more... )

1. Organize photos. No progress.


2. Record singing - Recorded a a couple.


3. Road trip to Philly - Thinking about around 4 days taking place sometime in the range of July 24 - August 10 (Note to ayashi/kelsin: When's your wedding, again? Thanks!)


4. Visit the crater photography exhibit - FAIL, it closed June 6, not July 6


5. Learn programming - in progress, working on "The ( Read more... )

Watched the original Terminator movie all the way through for the first time. (I'd seen bits and pieces of it, but never the whole thing in a single sitting.) Because I love time travel and paradoces, a piece of fanfic came to me. Spoilers for the original Terminator movie of course, and perhaps for other random bits of movies or bits of the TV ( Read more... )

I seem to recall reading in someone's LJ, most likely datan0de's, the possibility that the Terminator and Matrix series could theoretically be the same universe / continuity. Anyone care to discuss further or have places to point me to read about others discussing it further ( Read more... )

For my next copious free time project, I will start converting a milk-crate's-worth of scrawled notes and formerly typed completed short stories into again-typed short stories posted on LJ. I was surprisingly prolific when younger, now I want to do something with it all. I found a few unfinished stories that frustrate me b/c I want to know how ( Read more... )

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