To-do lists and a digression on fantasy books

[tarigwaemir]

Ad Mundo Exteriore,

I'm in a good mood because my expos preceptor liked my third essay on Poe so much that she suggested I submit it to Exposé, which is a literary magazine featuring the best of Expository Writing 20. The competition is fierce, and well, I am kind of attending a school where everyone is good at everything, so I doubt I have that much of a chance of getting accepted...but it's still pretty flattering to hear that she thinks my essay is, at the very least, worthy of being submitted. ::basks in pride::

Unfortunately, I'm now expressing this good mood by perusing AnimeOnline and MiniTokyo instead of working on my fourth essay, which in fact really does need to be worked on. >_> Am going to try to complete it tonight after the EC dinner. That reminds me, I should probably prepare for that. >_<

The weather is sunny, but there's enough of a chill in the air that it feels more like early spring than the beginning of summer--well, except for all the exuberantly green foliage outside my window. It puts me in a pleased, but lazy mood, and I fear for my study schedule. Oh well, as long as I get most of the essay done tonight, I should be in good shape.

I've been wondering whether to write Angelette's drabble in Korean. It would be good practice for me and a nice little revenge on her for giving me such a difficult series. (And for stipulating that I make it humorous.)

Let's see, what else should I do? I think I'll steal delentyevox's to-do list format:

[ ] Korean embassy and KASF scholarship applications (due by the end of the month)
[ ] acquire recommendation letters (as a corollary for the above)
[X] CGR internship employment and income tax forms (due Monday)
[ ] finish drabbles (indefinite deadline)
[X] finish Yuki wallpaper (hopefully this weekend?)
[ ] finish Cloud (FF7: AC) skin (before the movie comes out)
[ ] figure out storage/packing/move-out
[ ] read up on papers for the project this summer
[ ] fill out Lowell rooming application (due by next Thursday)

Hm. There's probably more. (You know, all I really want to do is go read the sequel to The Curse of Chalion...I tried Lois McMaster Bujold on solidark's recommendation and adored the book. Most particularly because her interpretation of being "god-touched" not only reminds me of Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" but also because it's very much the way I perceive my own religion. To submit, to lay down your free will, to place yourself at the mercy of something greater is both an ecstatic but also an absolutely terrifying experience. There's no room for self-righteousness in religious devotion, something which fundamentalists would do well to remember. >_< Anyway, I particularly appreciated the passage where Cazaril sort of perceives the world through the Daughter's eyes--another pet peeve I have about pop Christianity is the tendency to overly anthropomorphize God. Maybe it's just my pantheistic inclinations speaking, but I would like to believe in a deity that transcends my human limitations, not a patriarchal jealous tyrant made in the image of man (not vice versa) à la the Greco-Roman pantheon. It's like the whole rectangle and parallelogram relation. And before I start theologizing further, let me just shut up and say Bujold writes excellent fantasy.)

...Tari

Comments

[solidark.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked Lois McMaster Bujold! ^_^

And that's a beautiful wallpaper! *___*. Somehow I always associate Yuki with the colour purple but the red background is wonderful, especially the grid effect *_*

[troisroyaumes]

Yay, someone likes it! ^_^ And yes, I don't associate him with red either, but somehow it ended up that way. My subconscious must be a strange, strange place...

...Tari

[aetherangelette.livejournal.com]

In.. KOREAN?! MYAAAH?!