Talking Soup

Busy-busy week. German is killing me. Had a 2-3 page paper for Persuasive Argument, when I've never written an argument before. I'm really glad that Fiction and Poetry are so laid back. I brought in a few poems for Poetry yesterday, but didn't get to read them since other people had to read before me. As for Fiction, the first assignment isn't until next week, I think. As in, after next week. Um. Had my first Queer Studies class and it was very awesome. Most of the start was taken up by discussing the syllabus and stuff, but then we watched this movie about gays and lesbians in the 20's-60's, "Before Stonewall" as they called it. Stonewall was I guess a bar that got raided by the police which led to rioting which led to the start of the gay rights movement.

It actually warmed up here, which is all good and fine, except that right now I just really want a thunderstorm.

Julie and I finished the first season of Honey and Clover. And in ASIC we're watching Gankutsuo or something and Yakitake Japan! Gankuotsuo (I really don't know how to spell it) is...interesting. It's very...hm...it's very colorful. The animation isn't like anything I've ever seen. It's kind of like South Park, if you can imagine anime characters in the South Park style except that instead of paper cut outs, it's all like...cutouts from pattern books. Or wallpapers. Lots of patterns, in other words. It gets kind of confusing. As for the storyline, it's pretty much the Count of Monte Cristo set in the future and the Count is like...a vampire alien or something. In any case, he's blue and has pointy ears and fangs. Lots of yaoi subtext too.

The other one, Yakitake Japan, is...it's about bread. Yes. Bread. It's about a young guy who's on a mission to make a bread that reflects the Japanese culture. Or something. Like, you have Italian bread and French bread and Indian nan, and various German and English breads, but no strictly Japanese bread. It's campy and hilarious and totally fun. And it's about bread. I mean, really.

Meanwhile the muse has gone off the deep end. I thought she might settle down once I'd worked out a little bit of the Angels idea, which I did--got all the characters and developed some stuff. But noooo. Now I've got a new idea. This of course on top of everything else.

I've decided, though, to keep all these ideas. You Are Here has lasted for years without me ever actually touching it, after all. Mot takes precedence, at least when I'm not blocked on it, and I can just pick at the other ideas. Meanwhile I'll just shelve them until I have time to work on 'em all. Jeez. Some of them will end up being short stories anyway, or at least short novels. There's also Penta to think about, of course.

I love writing, but sometimes too many ideas is a bad thing.

My mom's birthday is coming up and I have no idea what to buy her. I do have to go in town eventually to buy some necessities.

I have lots of homework this weekend. Today is a relax day, though. We're having a movie night tonight. I should also start the next chapter of the fic.

Psych today, for the very, very first time. I've wanted to take a psych class since--let's see--sophomore year of high school? I've wafted about being a psych major/minor. I love the whole area of study. And so far the class is looking good, though at this point I don't think I'll major or minor in psych. Right now sociology is looking more interesting. Writing, of course, needs no mention.

Fiction I, too. The teacher is all talk talk talkalot, but he made a lot of interesting points that I kind of smiled and nodded about. We have to write something small for next Tuesday. That should be interesting.

I've gotta get tomorrow's homework done tonight. I also registered for Poetry I--finally! someone dropped!--so I should probably check online to see if there's anything I should know.

Gotta get cable, too. Stuff starts soon!

Have I mentioned I've gotten into Project Runway? Well, I've gotten into Project Runway. Yeah, a reality show, but I like it--the people aren't all backstabby, at least most of them, and the stuff they design is really cool. My vote's on Michael. He's such a nice guy, too!

Very first ASIC meeting tonight. I'm inordinately excited. I mean, really, it sounds stupid, but it's the only place except online that I can be my crazy, anime-junkie-ish self. I mean, except around Julie of course, but it's so much fun to watch any TV show in a large group. With anime it's even more fun because--really--it's anime, and you have all these junkies shouting things out and...well. People back home just don't understand.

Julie and I finished Black Cat, btw. It's such a fun, awesome series, though the ending kind of bites because it's so gosh-darn rushed. I also broke down and am downloading PMK, Monster and One Piece because I'm insane and am trying to make Septimus (my computer) hate me.

Hmm, writing. I've been thinking mostly about Fox, the fic and the Angels project lately. I thought I had a name for my Japanese character. I was gonna name him Kyan, because excluding the fact that it's the name of a hella hot Queer Eye guy, it's also the name of a village in Okinawa. Then it occured to me that "Y" doesn't act as a vowel in Japanese, so the pronunciation would be similar to "Kyo"--as in, K-yan, instead of Kai-yan. Which doesn't work as well. I might have to break down and give him an English name. I mean, now that I think about it, I don't think I've really met anyone who's American but has a Japanese names. I've met/known plenty of people from China, Korea, Thailand or Cambodia with ethnic names, but none who hail from Japan.

As for the fic, well...this chapter is a lot of talk, compared to the last two action-centric ones, and it has a lot of Organization characters who I really hope are IC. I'm this close to finishing, but stuff keeps coming up, plus I'm a bit blocked on it in general. The Castle Oblivion stuff is about to start, kind of sooner than I would have liked. But oh well. When you think about the games, it can't really go any other way.

And of course Fox, because, well, he's Fox. It occurs to me that I need to develop Mikayla and Finch's characters more, as well as the other two characters who pop up. I haven't mentioned them before, but one of them's an African-British professional jewel thief, and a circa-college age female punk hacker, both of whom are friends of Fox's. They're not quite as weird as he is and help him when he's hunting. The guy can get into any physical location, the girl can get into any electronic location, which comes in handy not only on Mikayla's case but on others. After all, you have to know where the treasure is before you can hunt it. Maps are rarer than you might think.

I need to consider when in the series our idea for NaNo would occur. No doubt after Mikayla's case. I have a few other ideas of treasure/places Fox should search/go to, including some other place in Europe, somewhere in northern Africa (Egypt?), somewhere in the Caribbean (pirates!) or the South Pacific (pirates!) or around southern Europe/Africa (pirates!), and somewhere in South America. The South American story can feed into the NaNo project, or VV.

I also need Fox to return to Australia at some point, which is where his father was murdered.

You're probably all really sick of hearing about writing, aren't you?