I was thinking on my drive today that I needed to email you and see what was going on, as you must obviously be buried in end-of-school hijinks!
You've resurfaced! You are alive!
It really does seem like the first couple years of school are a waste. I guess that's why they give you dumb-ass classes to take. By the time I decided I really wanted to try media production, I'd already been in four years, and just didn't have the stamina/funds to start over. I'm now thinking the same thing about cultural studies/linguistics/gender--the only thing saving me is that UMO doesn't have a program in linguistics. Yeesh.
You've resurfaced! You live! You are very nearly free! We'll celebrate (again) in a month!
It really does seem like the first couple years of school are a waste. I guess that's why they give you dumb-ass classes to take.Well, I was lucky that I had almost no requirements to fulfill. Gallatin is all about "take any class in any school of NYU"--in theory it's supposed to help people who already know what they want to do to avoid all the required boring stuff and get right to what they're interested in. (Of course it's also useful for people with no clue what they want to do who want to sample a lot of different things, which is what I did
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Oh yeah, you also asked about the little monsters. I think they're adjusting pretty well. They've been pissed at me this week because I've been ignoring them in favor of writing papers, but otherwise they've seemed fine.
I think that Angel is happier than she was--she gets more personal attention, less harrassment. Lucifer is having a harder time--he misses the big house, the dog, the excitement, the possibility to escape and play outside. But he likes that he's getting all this extra attention from me. I think he'll be okay. I'm sad that he's so bored but I'm doing my best to play with him and keep him entertained.
I won't argue the essential blindness of ME (or the wonderfulness of Methos. I adored Methos), but having been in a few fandoms where the ending didn't meet expectation, I've discovered that for myself the best way to come to terms with it is to own it. . . what I mean is make it work different for you, write a new end. If nothing else, it's cathartic. As Laurie on BAPS one said, now the show writers can stop mucking up our universe. It's ours. Spike is ours now, and we can do what we wish with him. . .and we loved him better than ME anyway.
Anyway, whenever a show royally screws up a character or story that's when I really do turn to fanfic where it can be fixed. (And I suppose that's why I floated the idea of doing a virtual AtS season 6 so that fans can find better resolution than we'd ever find with ME.
A year ago I would have agreed with you. That's why I ran a big Spike fanfic website. The problem is that ME didn't just drop the ball with the story, they ruined the character. To me (and no offense to those who still like him) Spike is an irritating, oafish buffoon. He's a parody of all the most blatant clichés of Spike's image without any of the elements that made him real and meaningful
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Hmm, okay, what email address do you prefer that I send them to?
I guess I could send the Sergio Leone one and the Margaret Atwood one. I was re-reading the Lost Boys one last night and embarrassed by how bad that one was, though, so I think that one should never see the light of day....
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You've resurfaced! You are alive!
It really does seem like the first couple years of school are a waste. I guess that's why they give you dumb-ass classes to take. By the time I decided I really wanted to try media production, I'd already been in four years, and just didn't have the stamina/funds to start over. I'm now thinking the same thing about cultural studies/linguistics/gender--the only thing saving me is that UMO doesn't have a program in linguistics. Yeesh.
You've resurfaced! You live! You are very nearly free! We'll celebrate (again) in a month!
how are your little monsters?
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It really does seem like the first couple years of school are a waste. I guess that's why they give you dumb-ass classes to take.Well, I was lucky that I had almost no requirements to fulfill. Gallatin is all about "take any class in any school of NYU"--in theory it's supposed to help people who already know what they want to do to avoid all the required boring stuff and get right to what they're interested in. (Of course it's also useful for people with no clue what they want to do who want to sample a lot of different things, which is what I did ( ... )
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I think that Angel is happier than she was--she gets more personal attention, less harrassment. Lucifer is having a harder time--he misses the big house, the dog, the excitement, the possibility to escape and play outside. But he likes that he's getting all this extra attention from me. I think he'll be okay. I'm sad that he's so bored but I'm doing my best to play with him and keep him entertained.
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Anyway, whenever a show royally screws up a character or story that's when I really do turn to fanfic where it can be fixed. (And I suppose that's why I floated the idea of doing a virtual AtS season 6 so that fans can find better resolution than we'd ever find with ME.
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I guess I could send the Sergio Leone one and the Margaret Atwood one. I was re-reading the Lost Boys one last night and embarrassed by how bad that one was, though, so I think that one should never see the light of day....
Thanks for being interested. :)
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