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Hello all! I suppose it's time for an update, seeing as... I don't actually remember the last time I posted. I think it was sometime in late August? Well, it is now October, and I'm sure you are all just dying to know what's going on in my life.
The short version of RL events: I started up classes again, I stopped and started work again, I went to a taping of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on Wednesday, and that's really it.
Ummm so I moved back into the dorms about two and a half weeks ago, even though I only just started classes on Monday. For the first week and a half I did a lot of baking, probably made 1500 baked goods, umm... and in the past week I've really just had classes! I'm taking four classes this quarter, and I'm really excited about most of them!
The first is Bio, just sort of general biology that I'm sure I learned as a freshman in high school but quickly and passionately forgot because I really hate biology. I am not excited about this class, but it'll be easy, and it's a requirement, so.
I am also taking an English course called Antihero and the Novel, which I am STOKED on, not only because the reading list is one that I'm really, really looking forward to (we're reading Emma, Light In August, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Notes From The Underground, and a couple of others that I've been meaning to read for a while), but also because the topic of the antihero is my FAVE in English lit. It's just super interesting I think and I took a class in high school and I'm quite excited to take another now, and the professor seems okay!
My third class is Intro to Ethics, which I'm still sort of getting a feel for, but which I think will be good! There are a lot of kids in the class that I know or have had classes with before, and the professor is....a tad strange, to say the least, but I think she's okay, and our discussion group was very interesting yesterday! We're reading Kant right now, if you're interested.
And finally I am taking Beginning Fiction Writing! I have in fact been writing fiction for like.... 9 or 10 years, but I didn't feel like compiling a portfolio and dealing with trying to get into an intermediate or advanced class, so I opted for the beginners class because I've never actually taken one and it could be really interesting! So far the professor is great and I'm liking my classmates, but it only meets once a week, on Wednesdays, from 3 to 6, so we'll see.
Work is the same as always, boring. I'm doing another transcript wherein two professors are discussing Medicaid in Illinois and while I feel infinitely more informed on the subject than I was a week ago, it is boring and I don't understand most of the terms they use. Social work, or public anything really work, is not my calling, but four for those who do it and/or like it!
Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! was FANTASTIC. The highlight of October thus far (although October will be HOPPING -- I think I'm going to go see Empires on the 14th if I can procure the funds ((they are playing the House of Blues, y'all!! I mean, they aren't headlining, and they've been the supporting act there before, but. I'm just so proud of them ;_________; That said, tickets are $35 as opposed to the $12 I paid the last few times I saw them, and ain't no one got funds for that)), and I'm seeing The xx in a couple of weeks and The Hush Sound a week after that, so it's not like October will be slow). BACK ON TOPIC NOW, it was fantastic. Paula Poundstone was a panelist, and she is my FAVORITE, along with Maz whose last name I can't spell, and Amy Dickenson, and Ben Folds was on to play Not My Job, and it was all just AMAZING. They were hilarious, Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell are my favorites, and generally everything was fantastic. If I'd had the money for it, I would have bought a pillow that you can buy shaped like Carl Kasell's face that also has his face printed on it, that you can have him sign. As it was, I just got a free mug because I ended up going to a special taping. If you're a fan of the show, definitely tune in this weekend, because it was quite entertaining! If you've never listened to the show, do so this weekend, because it's great. My friend that I went with and I definitely geeked out about the NPR stuff and took pictures with everyone and it was delightful.
I think that's it? My life is utterly boring. There are first years around the campus and they're very funny and.... yeah that's it.
The short version of fandom events: Ummm....
mockturtletale has corrupted me into reading pretty much solely Nick Grimshaw/Harry Styles fic, so there's that. I listen to the entirety of every Breakfast Show Grimmy does, because even though he's done some problematic things I'm pathetically charmed by him and I think if I weren't in love with Harold, I'd be hopelessly gone for him. That's not true, I am gone for him. I haven't felt this way about people I don't know in .... ever, really, so. I'll have you all know that I've read every single Harry/Nick fic I've come across, including those in first person, those that are actually Harry/Louis (a ship that I really don't ship), and literally every single one. So.
There is no long version, actually. I am just reading fic and harassing Clo to write me more fic and I've written like 800 words of my own fic that I might some day finish? I've also written Clo a couple of other short scenes, 600 or 700 words each, one Harry/Zayn and one where Louis calls Harry out on being in love with Nick. (IN A FRIENDLY WAY. It isn't angsty. Louis isn't upset about it. I feel it's necessary to clarify that, but I don't know why.)
The end!!
The short version of RL events: I started up classes again, I stopped and started work again, I went to a taping of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on Wednesday, and that's really it.
Ummm so I moved back into the dorms about two and a half weeks ago, even though I only just started classes on Monday. For the first week and a half I did a lot of baking, probably made 1500 baked goods, umm... and in the past week I've really just had classes! I'm taking four classes this quarter, and I'm really excited about most of them!
The first is Bio, just sort of general biology that I'm sure I learned as a freshman in high school but quickly and passionately forgot because I really hate biology. I am not excited about this class, but it'll be easy, and it's a requirement, so.
I am also taking an English course called Antihero and the Novel, which I am STOKED on, not only because the reading list is one that I'm really, really looking forward to (we're reading Emma, Light In August, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Notes From The Underground, and a couple of others that I've been meaning to read for a while), but also because the topic of the antihero is my FAVE in English lit. It's just super interesting I think and I took a class in high school and I'm quite excited to take another now, and the professor seems okay!
My third class is Intro to Ethics, which I'm still sort of getting a feel for, but which I think will be good! There are a lot of kids in the class that I know or have had classes with before, and the professor is....a tad strange, to say the least, but I think she's okay, and our discussion group was very interesting yesterday! We're reading Kant right now, if you're interested.
And finally I am taking Beginning Fiction Writing! I have in fact been writing fiction for like.... 9 or 10 years, but I didn't feel like compiling a portfolio and dealing with trying to get into an intermediate or advanced class, so I opted for the beginners class because I've never actually taken one and it could be really interesting! So far the professor is great and I'm liking my classmates, but it only meets once a week, on Wednesdays, from 3 to 6, so we'll see.
Work is the same as always, boring. I'm doing another transcript wherein two professors are discussing Medicaid in Illinois and while I feel infinitely more informed on the subject than I was a week ago, it is boring and I don't understand most of the terms they use. Social work, or public anything really work, is not my calling, but four for those who do it and/or like it!
Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! was FANTASTIC. The highlight of October thus far (although October will be HOPPING -- I think I'm going to go see Empires on the 14th if I can procure the funds ((they are playing the House of Blues, y'all!! I mean, they aren't headlining, and they've been the supporting act there before, but. I'm just so proud of them ;_________; That said, tickets are $35 as opposed to the $12 I paid the last few times I saw them, and ain't no one got funds for that)), and I'm seeing The xx in a couple of weeks and The Hush Sound a week after that, so it's not like October will be slow). BACK ON TOPIC NOW, it was fantastic. Paula Poundstone was a panelist, and she is my FAVORITE, along with Maz whose last name I can't spell, and Amy Dickenson, and Ben Folds was on to play Not My Job, and it was all just AMAZING. They were hilarious, Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell are my favorites, and generally everything was fantastic. If I'd had the money for it, I would have bought a pillow that you can buy shaped like Carl Kasell's face that also has his face printed on it, that you can have him sign. As it was, I just got a free mug because I ended up going to a special taping. If you're a fan of the show, definitely tune in this weekend, because it was quite entertaining! If you've never listened to the show, do so this weekend, because it's great. My friend that I went with and I definitely geeked out about the NPR stuff and took pictures with everyone and it was delightful.
I think that's it? My life is utterly boring. There are first years around the campus and they're very funny and.... yeah that's it.
The short version of fandom events: Ummm....
mockturtletale has corrupted me into reading pretty much solely Nick Grimshaw/Harry Styles fic, so there's that. I listen to the entirety of every Breakfast Show Grimmy does, because even though he's done some problematic things I'm pathetically charmed by him and I think if I weren't in love with Harold, I'd be hopelessly gone for him. That's not true, I am gone for him. I haven't felt this way about people I don't know in .... ever, really, so. I'll have you all know that I've read every single Harry/Nick fic I've come across, including those in first person, those that are actually Harry/Louis (a ship that I really don't ship), and literally every single one. So.There is no long version, actually. I am just reading fic and harassing Clo to write me more fic and I've written like 800 words of my own fic that I might some day finish? I've also written Clo a couple of other short scenes, 600 or 700 words each, one Harry/Zayn and one where Louis calls Harry out on being in love with Nick. (IN A FRIENDLY WAY. It isn't angsty. Louis isn't upset about it. I feel it's necessary to clarify that, but I don't know why.)
The end!!