I feel like just making some incoherent noise here ( Read more... )

It's fascinating how many articles there are about alternative energy and about the fact that oil resources are finite and so on. It's almost like reading a current newspaper ( Read more... )

I'll try to keep writing, at a rate of about a page per day, for four more weeks. If, in four weeks, the result still does not look like it will turn into a proper thesis, I will reapply with a new topic in December (perhaps the Marcuse one that was suggested to me by another prof about a year ago; or something about utopias/dystopias, as I've - ( Read more... )

... my thesis project. I think we're allowed two attempts... I'd have to wait for the next sign-up period to start a new one, of course ( Read more... )

Insta-rec: Poor Little Greenie by amy_wolfNo, I've not succumbed to the lure of Gene/Sam. Erotically, the pairing still does nothing for me; never will, I suspect. But the above fic tickles my sense of the surreal, plus it points out the - really kinda glaringly obvious - quasi-canonicity (is that a word?) of Sam's attraction to Gene, which I do believe in ( Read more... )

Also:

"Spatial, social and other boundaries/structures in world-building small press/self-published comics by female authors, with a special focus on the works of Carla Speed McNeil and Donna Barr"

This may be the topic of my thesis. Hurrah.

It only took me four fucking weeks.

A whole bunch of very cool people had their birthdays on the 5th, 8th, 9th and 10th of August, namely:

dashan (5.8.)
non-LJ user but occasional commenter Kiki, magnifica7, (and me) (8.8.)
knorgk (9.8.)
beccatoria (10.8 ( Read more... )

... were the two seemingly antithetical results of my short but 'intense' trip to Britain. The physical exhaustion, a result of travelling 18 hours by coach, showed as a desire to sleep through all of Monday, interrupted only by two hours of work in the evening. The - unexpected! - mental relaxation showed as sudden inspiration to vid and make ( Read more... )

But a very short trip into fandom territory today proved to me that I need to stay away from it: it gets me too excited, too distracted, too fucking inspired ( Read more... )

Go here to marvel, and boggle, at the psychology of denial:

And then get angry.

And, no, I still can't tell you where to take that anger so as to use it productively, but I nevertheless think that having that anger is a Good Thing - a first step to something else ( Read more... )