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Today: Better
May. 9th, 2010 09:32 pmToday I slept about 12 hours, with a break of unknown length starting at 0830 sharp when someone decided this was a good time for power tools. Then I woke up at the time I usually go shopping, walked as far as the bathroom, and decided to stay home. But after that the day got better, for I have found a way of sitting on the recliner that does not hurt anything anywhere, which eluded me all yesterday.
The exam questions arrived in email last Wednesday as promised. I have looked at them very briefly and color coded them red for impossible through green for sounds good. Most things are a sort of yellowy green for things I could do but aren't enthused about. My main problem right now is that I am supposed to make up a whole exams worth of writing on only one or two of these topics. It all seems a bit simple and like I could dash off a paragraph and have covered all the useful bits. Higher education isn't only about the useful bits though. I must get the guts out of a story and poke them with close reading until it looks like Proof. Which tends to involve typing bollocks a lot. Blah.
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So, basically, I has boring. I like boring, compared with many alternatives, so that works out.
I also have a good book to read. Good so far anyway. Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels. I can't remember why I bought it or what the summary was on the back even, so I just started reading. It's urban fantasy with some very urban magic, chaos mage style, kind of Neverwhere but very much its own thing. It gets down into sense details so you really get a feel for what is going on, but it doesn't do much explaining. It's a murder mystery of a sort, but the one doing the investigating is the one that was maybe probably possibly murdered, and the mystery is more in the way of why and what the context was. And it's first person, but wanders between singular and plural in a way that's fun to track. I could bring to bear a lot of what I've been studying up on for detective fiction, the Marlowe stuff, the city as a character. It's really interesting. But I'm only a couple sections in so far, so I don't know how it will hold up or work out. Is going to be interesting finding out.
It's from a male pov, but there's a lot of interacting with female characters. And they're not the obvious stereotypes of much detective fiction. Still, male central characters aren't quite what I'm looking for no more.
I should write. Something. My summer project starts after the exam. I've got plot and characters and stuff. Maybe this time I'll make up something I'd actually like to watch.
The exam questions arrived in email last Wednesday as promised. I have looked at them very briefly and color coded them red for impossible through green for sounds good. Most things are a sort of yellowy green for things I could do but aren't enthused about. My main problem right now is that I am supposed to make up a whole exams worth of writing on only one or two of these topics. It all seems a bit simple and like I could dash off a paragraph and have covered all the useful bits. Higher education isn't only about the useful bits though. I must get the guts out of a story and poke them with close reading until it looks like Proof. Which tends to involve typing bollocks a lot. Blah.
( Read more... )
So, basically, I has boring. I like boring, compared with many alternatives, so that works out.
I also have a good book to read. Good so far anyway. Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels. I can't remember why I bought it or what the summary was on the back even, so I just started reading. It's urban fantasy with some very urban magic, chaos mage style, kind of Neverwhere but very much its own thing. It gets down into sense details so you really get a feel for what is going on, but it doesn't do much explaining. It's a murder mystery of a sort, but the one doing the investigating is the one that was maybe probably possibly murdered, and the mystery is more in the way of why and what the context was. And it's first person, but wanders between singular and plural in a way that's fun to track. I could bring to bear a lot of what I've been studying up on for detective fiction, the Marlowe stuff, the city as a character. It's really interesting. But I'm only a couple sections in so far, so I don't know how it will hold up or work out. Is going to be interesting finding out.
It's from a male pov, but there's a lot of interacting with female characters. And they're not the obvious stereotypes of much detective fiction. Still, male central characters aren't quite what I'm looking for no more.
I should write. Something. My summer project starts after the exam. I've got plot and characters and stuff. Maybe this time I'll make up something I'd actually like to watch.