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Apr. 11th, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatSchool: Well, I got an 81% on the Sufi test! That's up from the last test (with 44%, I think). I was well pleased. The downside, sadly, is the Professor also announced today that the final exam is cumulative. And primarily on the reading. I suppose it gives me something to do when Neil's away next week.
Live Journal: It's a whole new layout, baby! Actually, just a new banner and some new colors and new fonts. I'm too addicted to "Tranquility II" to let it go, apparantly, since I tried half a dozen other styles and always came back to this one.
...Oh, and if anyone is an LJ MASTER who knows CSS, and wants to tell me how in the heck I make my "header background color" transparent (or, perhaps, give me the code, since I have no clue about CSS programming and I'm too lazy to learn - lazy, but honest!), I would worship at your feet.
Reading: I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings. I do it every couple of years or so, just to keep my hand in, remember all the incredibly long sentences and all of the things I absolutely cherish. I think my writing style is forever influenced by J. R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert and Robyn McKinley. The three of them will forever define what it means to tell a story, and how to do it. That means I'm probably too long winded, have strange mental leaps that no one else can follow, and have terribly awkward and occasionally lyrical sentence structure. All in all, traits that aren't so bad. At least I always have something to say.
Statement Of Purpose: Dear gods, I've got to get more than three paragraphs down! I wish I could simply dictate this to someone and they could tell me what I need to do. The other frustrating thing is I keep composing these fabulous little intros in my head as I walk to and from the car, and then totally forgetting about them when I get home in front of the computer! It's terribly frustrating. And you'd think I could talk ad nauseum about what I want to do, definitely enough to fill two pages. Maybe I'll go and do a freewrite and see if I can do just that.
Happy Tuesday to you all!
Live Journal: It's a whole new layout, baby! Actually, just a new banner and some new colors and new fonts. I'm too addicted to "Tranquility II" to let it go, apparantly, since I tried half a dozen other styles and always came back to this one.
...Oh, and if anyone is an LJ MASTER who knows CSS, and wants to tell me how in the heck I make my "header background color" transparent (or, perhaps, give me the code, since I have no clue about CSS programming and I'm too lazy to learn - lazy, but honest!), I would worship at your feet.
Reading: I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings. I do it every couple of years or so, just to keep my hand in, remember all the incredibly long sentences and all of the things I absolutely cherish. I think my writing style is forever influenced by J. R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert and Robyn McKinley. The three of them will forever define what it means to tell a story, and how to do it. That means I'm probably too long winded, have strange mental leaps that no one else can follow, and have terribly awkward and occasionally lyrical sentence structure. All in all, traits that aren't so bad. At least I always have something to say.
Statement Of Purpose: Dear gods, I've got to get more than three paragraphs down! I wish I could simply dictate this to someone and they could tell me what I need to do. The other frustrating thing is I keep composing these fabulous little intros in my head as I walk to and from the car, and then totally forgetting about them when I get home in front of the computer! It's terribly frustrating. And you'd think I could talk ad nauseum about what I want to do, definitely enough to fill two pages. Maybe I'll go and do a freewrite and see if I can do just that.
Happy Tuesday to you all!
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Date: 2006-04-12 02:45 am (UTC)Rock on, dude! Kicking test butt is a terrific thing.
You know, I keep trying to read LotR . . . and I keep stalling out! I don't know what it is, but it's not crawling into my brain and living there like The Green Mile or Lions of Al-Rassan. (hangs head) I'm a bad, bad fantasy freak.
-BJ
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Date: 2006-04-12 02:53 am (UTC)And thanks - yeah, it was a huge sigh of relief.
Also, with LotR, it's really long winded and kind of boring in some places, so i can see why anyone would stall! I have these audio tapes of it done by an american radio show, and have listened to them for years, so that's how i keep interested. Then when I go back and read the books, it's like I'm getting extra margin notes or something. But yes, I'll say it again - I am weird.
You're not a bad fantasy freak!! YOU ROCK because I've never heard of Lions of Al-Rassan but it's little blurb on Amazon sounds frigging fantastic. Did you like it?
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Date: 2006-04-12 03:09 am (UTC)-BJ
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 04:11 am (UTC)Oh, and re your statement of purpose, I saw the coolest thing at Target, I want one for me too. It's a tiny little microrecorder (it was in the automotive section) so when you are in your car or walking across campus and you have a thought, you just record it and there! Bob's your uncle!
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:24 am (UTC)(ps - nothing else interesting has been happening in my life/lj, so you haven't missed anything in that arena)
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Date: 2006-04-12 04:24 am (UTC)Miranda
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-12 08:47 am (UTC)As for LOTR, ugh, I *tried* to read it a couple of years ago, but I couldn't get through the heavy non-dialogue-ness of it all.
My writing style is forever influenced by Douglas Adams, so that proves to you there are worse people to be influenced by than intellectuals ;)
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:29 am (UTC)re: LotR - truly, there is LOTS of non-dialogue. I think those books are also what made me perfect my "skim to get to the dialogue" technique.
OOO! Douglas Adams is a great influence! I will say that the only successful fics I've ever written were under the influence of Terry Pratchett.