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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Actually, the subject line is more like "Lack of update". I have not updated the Society site (or my own site for that matter). I have not even read all those backlogged friends entries. I did start, but I don't think my brain can handle the information overload. I have not come up with a June fanfiction challenge. I have not worked on my two ongoing skins. ::looks guilty:: Please forgive me!
As an excuse, I have to cite not only Internet time restrictions but also the retreat that I attended during the holiday weekend. (No, I wasn't forced to go.) It was about vocations, so it was much more intense than I expected, but I did enjoy myself very much, thank you. On the other hand, I now feel as if the Fourth of July hadn't come yet because I missed all the fireworks shows. ;_;
I've started buying Shaman King manga in Korean. Oh dear. But it's really cute, and I get to practice reading hangeul, and Manta's just like me when I'm being insecure and neurotic, and...heh, let's just say I'm going to blow all my spending money on manhwa. Also, Dean's just told me that episode 40 for Naruto is titled "Kakashi vs. Orochimaru", and I'm excited because I'm such a Kakashi fangirl. Well, that is, I can be. Yes, I'm growing obsessed with Naruto, but I'm trying to resist the pull. >_> I can't be absorbed in three shounen series at the same time, can I?
The Flushing library is bad. Evil. In a humourous sense, it's corrupting me because whenever I go look at the Classics section, I get the sudden urge to take out several more books. You may wonder why that's a bad thing, but I'm in the middle of The Life of Pi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Lost in a Good Book, The Tale of Genji, Letters from my Windmill, and The Dream of Scipio. I found this British author named Saki who wrote a volume of satirical short stories about the Edwardian era, and they look hilarious. (The one I read was about this complete fop of a man named Reginald, with a wicked sense of humour.) Saki's actually a pseudonym for some prosaic English name, but anyway, it looks like a good read. But no, my wiser self appealed to me and reminded me of all those half-finished books in my crate. And did I mention that they have André Gide's The Counterfeiters? Mother recommended that book to me years ago, and I could never find it before. Oh, and they have good translations of Plato and Euripides and...geez, I'm being too greedy. If I take out any more books, I won't finish anything I have.
(Abhorsen and The Merlin Conspiracy are waiting for me at the NYPL. That is, if they haven't been sent back yet. ;_;)
Anyway, the Flushing library's also bad in a very literal way because it seems to be full of annoying people who are completely unsympathetic to a poor tutor trying to explain in her lowest possible voice how to write a literary essay. Honestly! I see people tutor students in NYPL branches all the time, and no one ever comments! But I got kicked out of my seat once by a woman who claimed I was disturbing her daughter's concentration (while doing her homework), and nearly became ejected a second time by a man who came up to my chair forty-five minutes after I found it empty and told me to get out. Apparently he was at the computer. If you leave a seat for that long, it's going to be taken! How stupid can you be? I tried to be reasonable, but he was so rude (even if he was an elder), and when I tried to ignore him and continue the lesson, he just kept talking at me in order to disrupt me. I told him I was tutoring, and he kept saying, "Why don't you rent a room? The library is for quiet reading." He stood there reading the newspaper, practically leaning against my chair, and I ended up having to write in my notebook in order to communicate to my student. I was so angry that I tried to shove the chair into him when we finally left, but I was probably too feeble to have any effect. I came home absolutely furious and burst into tears while ranting to my mother. Mother was so sympathetic about the whole thing, and she rearranged the schedule so that I didn't have to tutor at the library anymore (well, except on Fridays, but that's been moved to the morning, when the private tables are actually available). Isn't she nice? Yes, I'm horribly oversensitive about these things. But I felt so insulted! I mean, they were both Chinese (you can tell by the accent) so you would think they would understand about tutoring and have a little respect for education.
I calmed down after screaming for a while, so I'm all right now. Anyway, Flushing library = evil. Quod erat demonstratum.
I was going to talk a little more, but Mother's yelling, so I can't write more. -_-
...Tari
Post-script: I just got disconnected as soon as I finished this entry. I hate my Internet connection.
Actually, the subject line is more like "Lack of update". I have not updated the Society site (or my own site for that matter). I have not even read all those backlogged friends entries. I did start, but I don't think my brain can handle the information overload. I have not come up with a June fanfiction challenge. I have not worked on my two ongoing skins. ::looks guilty:: Please forgive me!
As an excuse, I have to cite not only Internet time restrictions but also the retreat that I attended during the holiday weekend. (No, I wasn't forced to go.) It was about vocations, so it was much more intense than I expected, but I did enjoy myself very much, thank you. On the other hand, I now feel as if the Fourth of July hadn't come yet because I missed all the fireworks shows. ;_;
I've started buying Shaman King manga in Korean. Oh dear. But it's really cute, and I get to practice reading hangeul, and Manta's just like me when I'm being insecure and neurotic, and...heh, let's just say I'm going to blow all my spending money on manhwa. Also, Dean's just told me that episode 40 for Naruto is titled "Kakashi vs. Orochimaru", and I'm excited because I'm such a Kakashi fangirl. Well, that is, I can be. Yes, I'm growing obsessed with Naruto, but I'm trying to resist the pull. >_> I can't be absorbed in three shounen series at the same time, can I?
The Flushing library is bad. Evil. In a humourous sense, it's corrupting me because whenever I go look at the Classics section, I get the sudden urge to take out several more books. You may wonder why that's a bad thing, but I'm in the middle of The Life of Pi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Lost in a Good Book, The Tale of Genji, Letters from my Windmill, and The Dream of Scipio. I found this British author named Saki who wrote a volume of satirical short stories about the Edwardian era, and they look hilarious. (The one I read was about this complete fop of a man named Reginald, with a wicked sense of humour.) Saki's actually a pseudonym for some prosaic English name, but anyway, it looks like a good read. But no, my wiser self appealed to me and reminded me of all those half-finished books in my crate. And did I mention that they have André Gide's The Counterfeiters? Mother recommended that book to me years ago, and I could never find it before. Oh, and they have good translations of Plato and Euripides and...geez, I'm being too greedy. If I take out any more books, I won't finish anything I have.
(Abhorsen and The Merlin Conspiracy are waiting for me at the NYPL. That is, if they haven't been sent back yet. ;_;)
Anyway, the Flushing library's also bad in a very literal way because it seems to be full of annoying people who are completely unsympathetic to a poor tutor trying to explain in her lowest possible voice how to write a literary essay. Honestly! I see people tutor students in NYPL branches all the time, and no one ever comments! But I got kicked out of my seat once by a woman who claimed I was disturbing her daughter's concentration (while doing her homework), and nearly became ejected a second time by a man who came up to my chair forty-five minutes after I found it empty and told me to get out. Apparently he was at the computer. If you leave a seat for that long, it's going to be taken! How stupid can you be? I tried to be reasonable, but he was so rude (even if he was an elder), and when I tried to ignore him and continue the lesson, he just kept talking at me in order to disrupt me. I told him I was tutoring, and he kept saying, "Why don't you rent a room? The library is for quiet reading." He stood there reading the newspaper, practically leaning against my chair, and I ended up having to write in my notebook in order to communicate to my student. I was so angry that I tried to shove the chair into him when we finally left, but I was probably too feeble to have any effect. I came home absolutely furious and burst into tears while ranting to my mother. Mother was so sympathetic about the whole thing, and she rearranged the schedule so that I didn't have to tutor at the library anymore (well, except on Fridays, but that's been moved to the morning, when the private tables are actually available). Isn't she nice? Yes, I'm horribly oversensitive about these things. But I felt so insulted! I mean, they were both Chinese (you can tell by the accent) so you would think they would understand about tutoring and have a little respect for education.
I calmed down after screaming for a while, so I'm all right now. Anyway, Flushing library = evil. Quod erat demonstratum.
I was going to talk a little more, but Mother's yelling, so I can't write more. -_-
...Tari
Post-script: I just got disconnected as soon as I finished this entry. I hate my Internet connection.
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Date: 2003-07-10 06:07 pm (UTC)They're horrible, greedy, mean little goblins who oughta be kicked in the arse until they learn to behave.
Long story.
O.o# (the azn version of the Jewish Nazi)
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Date: 2003-07-12 04:35 pm (UTC)No comment.
...Tari