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Back to the Groove!
Aug. 28th, 2006 10:04 pmAnd I'm all moved in to IC now, and it's a lovely feeling. Ugh, we all spent the better part of today and yesterday dragging things upstairs and unpacking and our room looked like a disaster area for awhile, but it's clean now, woot. Kate moved in today too. Apparently Tango died, so Kate's mom took us to PetsMart for a new betta. He's pretty and blue and smaller than Tango was. I haven't named him yet. My minnows are back too, Twitch and Spike.
My dad was here yesterday, but left last night and flew home this afternoon. Last night he treated Julie and I to Thai food at this restaurant in Ithaca. Is it possible for Ithaca restaurants to fail? XOMG, the food was so good. I love Thai (curry!) but wow, this place was good. Gotta go back. Even my dad was impressed.
And I have Internet and shelves and a desk and necessities and life is relatively good. I think my final schedule has pretty much been confirmed, though I figure if the Poetry teacher hasn't responded by tomorrow I'll try to get into the other section, making it six classes total. Schedule thus far is Persausive Argument, Fiction Writing I, German 201, Queer Studies and Psych. Awesome line-up.
Classes start Wednesday. Tomorrow I have to buy whatever else I need, the last of my books, hang posters and write chapter 5 of the fic, which I haven't written yet, dang it. I'm still not sure what to do--I mean I have a general idea, but it's not the most interesting of ideas, so I dunno. I do have to introduce Castle Oblivion pretty soon. At this point in the fic I figure Sora's either preparing to go back to Hollow Bastion or already there, so time is running out for together time with Axel and Roxas. Though I need to figure out the time gap between the games. I'm pretty sure CoM takes place right after KH I, and KH2 is a year after CoM. That gives me a lot of time to work with after Castle Oblivion, though I should figure out when Roxas leaves and how long he spends in Twilight Town. I don't want this fic to be a novel.
As for other writing, well, the muse hasn't left alone the Angels idea, which I've expanded on hugely. I've got the five characters (only five!), their personalities and even names for two of them. The MC's name is Ilena something, and she's Romanian-American. The other girl in the group is a pink-haired, bouncy little thing named Isabelle, though everyone calls her Is, which makes sense in terms of her personality. Is Is. I've also got the setting and some of the details, but plot is what's evading me, like always.
Though at this point I need to shift my focus back to the fic.
It's gonna get busy soon. Persuasive Argument, German and Psych are probably gonna own my soul. Fiction and Queer Studies will probably be tough too, but they should also be really interesting.
I finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and oh my God what an amazing book. I love her as an author, she's incredible. The book is about two sisters, one who has cancer and the other who was conceived to be a genetic match so she can be a donor. The latter one, Anna, decides to take her parents to court to get medical emancipation, since she's tired of being invisible. The plot is awesome, the characters are so real (Jodi does characters well), and it made me cry. I mean cry, not tear up. I was on the plane when I finished it and I had to sit there choked up for several minutes while I waited for the lavatory to be free, then I went in and just bawled. Seriously. Not the glamorous crying, either, I mean the liquid-seeping-out-of-everywhere kind of crying. Love that book. Love Jodi Picoult.
Saw Kiki's Delivery Service, a Miyazaki film about a young witch who leaves home at thirteen as per tradition to find her own niche in the world. She comes to this city and starts a delivery service. The animation is as can be expected of a Miyazaki film (hoo-boy), the characters are really awesome, and other than an abrupt ending it was really good. I had to watch it in English since the DVD wouldn't allow Japanese for some reason. Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Also saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds compliments of Julie. So fricking awesome. It's about a young woman in a post-apocalyptic future where insects have taken over the world and a waste of toxic forests known as the Sea of Decay has spread across most of the globe. You've got these gigantic insects that look like mutated pill bugs, and when they get pissed they tend to destroy everything in their path. Another great Miyazaki film, with a really cool storyline and more really great characters and a lot of really weird, awesome details. I love the Sea of Decay, it's such a weird place. The animation needs no mention. It's up near the top of my list for the hierarchy of Miyazaki films, alongside Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky. Score: 9 out of 10.
That's about it for now. I'm gonna try to get some fic written tonight and hopefully finish and post tomorrow. Don't want my readers to get restless.
My dad was here yesterday, but left last night and flew home this afternoon. Last night he treated Julie and I to Thai food at this restaurant in Ithaca. Is it possible for Ithaca restaurants to fail? XOMG, the food was so good. I love Thai (curry!) but wow, this place was good. Gotta go back. Even my dad was impressed.
And I have Internet and shelves and a desk and necessities and life is relatively good. I think my final schedule has pretty much been confirmed, though I figure if the Poetry teacher hasn't responded by tomorrow I'll try to get into the other section, making it six classes total. Schedule thus far is Persausive Argument, Fiction Writing I, German 201, Queer Studies and Psych. Awesome line-up.
Classes start Wednesday. Tomorrow I have to buy whatever else I need, the last of my books, hang posters and write chapter 5 of the fic, which I haven't written yet, dang it. I'm still not sure what to do--I mean I have a general idea, but it's not the most interesting of ideas, so I dunno. I do have to introduce Castle Oblivion pretty soon. At this point in the fic I figure Sora's either preparing to go back to Hollow Bastion or already there, so time is running out for together time with Axel and Roxas. Though I need to figure out the time gap between the games. I'm pretty sure CoM takes place right after KH I, and KH2 is a year after CoM. That gives me a lot of time to work with after Castle Oblivion, though I should figure out when Roxas leaves and how long he spends in Twilight Town. I don't want this fic to be a novel.
As for other writing, well, the muse hasn't left alone the Angels idea, which I've expanded on hugely. I've got the five characters (only five!), their personalities and even names for two of them. The MC's name is Ilena something, and she's Romanian-American. The other girl in the group is a pink-haired, bouncy little thing named Isabelle, though everyone calls her Is, which makes sense in terms of her personality. Is Is. I've also got the setting and some of the details, but plot is what's evading me, like always.
Though at this point I need to shift my focus back to the fic.
It's gonna get busy soon. Persuasive Argument, German and Psych are probably gonna own my soul. Fiction and Queer Studies will probably be tough too, but they should also be really interesting.
I finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and oh my God what an amazing book. I love her as an author, she's incredible. The book is about two sisters, one who has cancer and the other who was conceived to be a genetic match so she can be a donor. The latter one, Anna, decides to take her parents to court to get medical emancipation, since she's tired of being invisible. The plot is awesome, the characters are so real (Jodi does characters well), and it made me cry. I mean cry, not tear up. I was on the plane when I finished it and I had to sit there choked up for several minutes while I waited for the lavatory to be free, then I went in and just bawled. Seriously. Not the glamorous crying, either, I mean the liquid-seeping-out-of-everywhere kind of crying. Love that book. Love Jodi Picoult.
Saw Kiki's Delivery Service, a Miyazaki film about a young witch who leaves home at thirteen as per tradition to find her own niche in the world. She comes to this city and starts a delivery service. The animation is as can be expected of a Miyazaki film (hoo-boy), the characters are really awesome, and other than an abrupt ending it was really good. I had to watch it in English since the DVD wouldn't allow Japanese for some reason. Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Also saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds compliments of Julie. So fricking awesome. It's about a young woman in a post-apocalyptic future where insects have taken over the world and a waste of toxic forests known as the Sea of Decay has spread across most of the globe. You've got these gigantic insects that look like mutated pill bugs, and when they get pissed they tend to destroy everything in their path. Another great Miyazaki film, with a really cool storyline and more really great characters and a lot of really weird, awesome details. I love the Sea of Decay, it's such a weird place. The animation needs no mention. It's up near the top of my list for the hierarchy of Miyazaki films, alongside Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky. Score: 9 out of 10.
That's about it for now. I'm gonna try to get some fic written tonight and hopefully finish and post tomorrow. Don't want my readers to get restless.
