Failure to study

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House, on the Feast of St. Canute

Studying? What studying? ::coughs:: I know not this studying of which you speak. >_> I have looked through the lectures (not all, but a lot), and nothing, absolutely nothing, is sinking into my brain. ::sighs:: I think I need to take a different approach and just start looking at problems. My roommate suggested going over solutions and rewriting them. I had considered it before, but had originally thought that I should, you know, learn the material first, but since reading the lecture isn't helping me learn the material, maybe I should just go ahead and do what she suggested. (I don't talk about my roommate much, do I? Even though I see more of her than anyone else in our blocking group (for me, blocking group essentially equals social circle). One of these days I should write a paean to my roommate...and also to the rest of my blockmates--they are such wonderful beings that I'm boggled by the idea that they exist and I had the luck to meet them. ^_^ No, this is not a cheap attempt at flattery, ladydaera, I really do think that.)

So, after dinner, in a stint of procrastination, I went ahead and created that recs journal I'd been thinking of making. issen4 and obakesan have inspired me. ^_^ It's at dragondormant (I know, I should just stop it with the San guo yan yi puns, but I really couldn't think of a name), if you're interested. I plan to post links to whatever good fanfiction and books I read (and maybe other reading material, like manga, if that counts, and blog entries). I think the real goal of this new project is to get me to realize just how much fanfiction I read, at which point the shock should certainly force me to do more productive work instead. >_>

Taken from solidark and hinotori:

The Great LiveJournal Outage of 2005 During the outage I was forced to do homework. What did you do? Brought to you by geek-foo

Taken from aishuu:

What sign of the Zodiac am I? Aquarius 73 % Capricorn 66 % Virgo 66 % Scorpio 66 % Cancer 60 % Taurus 53 % Sagittarius 46 % Pisces 40 % Gemini 33 % Libra 33 % Leo 26 % Aries 20 % Take the Zodiac test here!

Resolution: Starting from 00:00 20.01.05 to 17:15 21.01.05, I will abstain from LiveJournal. I think I'm going to post that to my monitor.

Yours &c.

Comments

[ladydaera.livejournal.com]

aw... i DO feel fuzzily flattered, although perhaps undeservingly. *hides* i must endeavor to be less hermit-like! it's difficult, though. *blush* oh, and this reminds me, i was going to post a comment on your 20 themes thing; i'm not quite sure what it is or what it's for, but it's beautifully written and i love it deliriously.

and on the thought of descriptive writing: sometimes writing about purely external things can be more poignant than describing what's going on internally. after all, that's how films work, right? and you catch the most relevant details so well, poetic imagery and action alike. i think it really works, and it certainly leaves an impression upon the reader.

at least, your vignettes stick in my head and come back to me later at odd, unexpected moments when i let my thoughts wander. *grin* so yes - conclusion: i think you're the awesomest writer i know. *nods and goes off to ponder the vignettes of hana's theme thing*

[troisroyaumes]

Aw, thanks! I'm glad you like my writing; it's very reassuring. :)

The themes...well, it's something that started in Japanese fandoms, where they would post up a set of "themes" as challenges for fanfiction and fanart--the goal would be to finish the set. The English-speaking fandoms have sort of co-opted them, and there's a community called 20themes devoted to compiling these theme sets for various series.

Weiss Kreuz is a strange, strange anime that's mostly about four (pretty) young men who work in a flower shop by day and are assassins who bring justice to criminals that the police can't arrest. They call themselves Weiss (means "white" in German; can we get any more obvious?). Their counterparts are Schwarz (you guessed it, "black"), who have various psychic powers--one can see the future, another can read minds, another has telekinesis and the last doesn't feel pain. Etc. The plot isn't much but the characters leave an impression, and since it was my second anime series, I have a lot of fondness for it. I'm trying to write the themes so that each theme is for a different character (well, now that I'm up to theme 9, I'm going to cycle through them again). And yay, you've motivated me to keep working on them--maybe I'll finish all twenty themes after all!

[faeryetale.livejournal.com]

Whee I'll join the community (dragondormant) because who doesn't like good fic recs? XD

Ahaha. Have fun abstaining from lj. Good luck! (Somehow, I always break those little resolutions I make about the inet. o____o)