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I'm a little freaked out by the fact that I won't be here next year. :( Of course, I'm far more freaked out by the fact that I won't know if I'm accepted by Manchester for. . . a little while yet. That is driving me INSANE. AGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully by tomorrow they will have the last part of my application. I'm quite annoyed with Arcadia, and myself, at the moment, for how difficult this all is.
But in other news, I just had my last shift at the bank. :( It was nice because two of my favorite co-workers work right after me, so I was able to say good-bye to them. And they were sad that they weren't going to see me for a while, and gave me good-bye hugs. I felt very liked. :) it was really nice, I got warm fuzzies.
Oops. I forgot to finish this entry and I have to shut my computer off because it's been turning off every time i put it to sleep. But it just has to survive one more week!
Actually, I guess they do the autosave drafts, but a quick update:
life is pretty good. I've been irritable lately, but I feel better now--we'll see. I'm afraid it didn't have anything to do with school stress, which makes a good excuse at the end of the year. Part of the problem is that I go crazy when I spend too much time with people, and part of the problem, I think, was that I was, due to some strange hormone thing that happens far too often, I just wasn't horny and therefore couldn't masturbate. Sad. That's all better now, so I've been feeling just generally more up. Not that I felt down before, or anything, I was just irritable. Although i did snap at someone at dinner twice, but. . . it's someone that I can't remember if she's on livejournal or not, but heck--I'm not that fond of her, and if we didn't have mutual friends, we wouldn't spend time together, see? And I dont' really like having to pretend I like people, so I guess I sort of gave up on that.
And classes--one is totally done with. I have two papers and an exam left. One of the papers shouldn't be too bad--it's only 3-4 pages and it's got a fairly well-defined scope and stuff, so I just have to be thoughtful and well-informed. And I have pretty good notes.
The other is for physics. My 100-level, for non-science majors physics. A 5-6 page paper. O_O I'm concerned. But he approved my topic which is more or less to write about how what we did this year interrelates, so I feel I should be able to get 2000-2500 words out of that.
On that note, I've discovered that 2000 words is about 5 pages. To my mom, 2000 words was 10 pages! When she was in college. Which means that when I've been telling her I have a 5 page paper, she thought I was writing 1000 words, and I was writing twice that. So throughout two years of college, my mom thought I was doing half as much work as I actually was. !!! Not that she ever called me a slacker, but maybe I would have gotten more indulgences and sympathy? lol. No big. It was interesting, though. I felt as though I'd bridged the generation gap.
And, last two days or so, I've been rediscovering the joy of slash fanfiction featuring Iceman from the X-Men. ::cuddles Bobby:: By the way, I'll admit that the DCU is complicated, and there's Crisis, and the multiverse, and lots of retconning which is difficult to explain to people. But we've got nothing on the Marvelverse!! Not only can I not keep on top of all the different X-Men, which is fairly normal, as I've only read a few of the comics and none that have been published since I got my period. But I can't even keep on top of all the different teams that are out there! At least the JLA has the decency to only have one incarnation at a time! X-Men, X-Force, and lots of others that I can't even name, and the memberships are all shifty. What is happening?
I've come up with a theory. My brother's DC Comics trading card collection would have some of the legacy heroes. So it would have, like, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West. And Jay would be labelled the Golden Age Flash, and Barry the Silver Age--those are commonly used terms, I know. And Wally would be from the Modern Age, and I'm not sure how common a term that is, but I think that comics now are in the postmodern age. Not in the same sense as postmodern literature because I don't know anything about it. But I think the modern age has passed. And I think this because comics make me sad now. :( I mean, not comics themselves, but the state of the DC Universe--and I don't think Marvel is doing much better, judging from the complicated X-timelines and stuff that I've been running into. Although actually, I think that the Steel, Vixen, Gypsy, suicide squad, JLI sort of middle years in the 80s, in between the Silver Age and when I started reading should have another name. The Bronze Age? And then the late 90s or so, when Young Justice was being put out, and Chuck Dixon and Pete Woods and Jesse Delperdang were doing Robin--and those early Birds of Prey, and the Dixon/McDaniel Nightwings. . . those can be the modern age. I also love those Mark Waid Flash tpbs--you know, Dead Heat, Return of Barry Allen, Terminal Velocity, Lots of Other Cool Speed Related Names. But I can't remember when those were. Of course, I will make any exceptions for Mark Waid. Essentially, the time after the coloring and art stopped getting really 80s (exception for Mark Waid's Flashes) and before they cancelled Young Justice and turned the entire universe over to Geoff Johns, who I simply don't like. I mean, his work. Not him as a person. And before Bill Willingham destroyed Timmy's life. . . and before I had to stop reading most mainstream comics!
Also, back when Cameron Stewart was drawing Catwoman, when Catwoman was one of the best comics out there and didn't look like I'd shat it out. Also, anyone remember that Planet DC thing? I normally hate when they do DCU-spanning events, but that was really awesome. I don't think I got all of them. But I had a lot. The Batman one sucked, though. Sucked. But GL's was awesome, and Superman's, and the JLA's, and the JSA's. . .
::coughcough:: So, essentially, I'm sure there's been a change in the comic world recently, because I loved them 3 years ago and I don't know, and its' not that I don't like the genre, because I'm reading other comics, and rereading my old ones. And I know, they did weird big storylines back then which I hated, like Our Worlds At War, and Last Laugh, and Emperor Joker. . . hmm, Joker's a recurring theme. Schmuck. Anyways, the point was that I didn't like those, but you could just wait them out. Now, they've killed Ted Kord! :( And everything's just weird. Not that I should be talking about these, because I'm not up on current events. But it seems to be a more general change into perhaps darker, and simply lower quality territory. Identity Crisis seems sinister. I'm not happy. I don't know. What is DC trying to do? Comic books are truly just. . . only in selected stores now, pretty much. They aren't going to be able to attract a wider audience by doing cheap stunts. No one these days is going to go past a newstand and be like "What?? Superman died??" because they simply won't see the comic. They should just try to put out quality work, by not driving away all the talented writers (i read that this was happening somewhere--Ed Brubaker's switched sides! augh! see above--Cameron Stewart was only part of the equation that made Catwoman great--although I wasn't crazy about all that Black Mask grossness). Anyways. :-/ Things will cycle back around. And, uh, Grant Morrison, Howard Porter, and John Dell will start doing JLA stories again. >.>
If any of my friends read comic books, this sort of thing wouldn't happen and i would be in bed now like I should be. I totally meant to go to sleep at, like, 12:30. Hahahaha. It's 2 AM now! Oh well, just one class tomorrow. My last class!
My last class at Smith for a year! ::sniffle::
Also! Recent accomplishment--i have created myself an awesome playlist, and in so doing, discovered that i really like the song "Disco Inferno"! XD Burn, baby, burn!
But in other news, I just had my last shift at the bank. :( It was nice because two of my favorite co-workers work right after me, so I was able to say good-bye to them. And they were sad that they weren't going to see me for a while, and gave me good-bye hugs. I felt very liked. :) it was really nice, I got warm fuzzies.
Oops. I forgot to finish this entry and I have to shut my computer off because it's been turning off every time i put it to sleep. But it just has to survive one more week!
Actually, I guess they do the autosave drafts, but a quick update:
life is pretty good. I've been irritable lately, but I feel better now--we'll see. I'm afraid it didn't have anything to do with school stress, which makes a good excuse at the end of the year. Part of the problem is that I go crazy when I spend too much time with people, and part of the problem, I think, was that I was, due to some strange hormone thing that happens far too often, I just wasn't horny and therefore couldn't masturbate. Sad. That's all better now, so I've been feeling just generally more up. Not that I felt down before, or anything, I was just irritable. Although i did snap at someone at dinner twice, but. . . it's someone that I can't remember if she's on livejournal or not, but heck--I'm not that fond of her, and if we didn't have mutual friends, we wouldn't spend time together, see? And I dont' really like having to pretend I like people, so I guess I sort of gave up on that.
And classes--one is totally done with. I have two papers and an exam left. One of the papers shouldn't be too bad--it's only 3-4 pages and it's got a fairly well-defined scope and stuff, so I just have to be thoughtful and well-informed. And I have pretty good notes.
The other is for physics. My 100-level, for non-science majors physics. A 5-6 page paper. O_O I'm concerned. But he approved my topic which is more or less to write about how what we did this year interrelates, so I feel I should be able to get 2000-2500 words out of that.
On that note, I've discovered that 2000 words is about 5 pages. To my mom, 2000 words was 10 pages! When she was in college. Which means that when I've been telling her I have a 5 page paper, she thought I was writing 1000 words, and I was writing twice that. So throughout two years of college, my mom thought I was doing half as much work as I actually was. !!! Not that she ever called me a slacker, but maybe I would have gotten more indulgences and sympathy? lol. No big. It was interesting, though. I felt as though I'd bridged the generation gap.
And, last two days or so, I've been rediscovering the joy of slash fanfiction featuring Iceman from the X-Men. ::cuddles Bobby:: By the way, I'll admit that the DCU is complicated, and there's Crisis, and the multiverse, and lots of retconning which is difficult to explain to people. But we've got nothing on the Marvelverse!! Not only can I not keep on top of all the different X-Men, which is fairly normal, as I've only read a few of the comics and none that have been published since I got my period. But I can't even keep on top of all the different teams that are out there! At least the JLA has the decency to only have one incarnation at a time! X-Men, X-Force, and lots of others that I can't even name, and the memberships are all shifty. What is happening?
I've come up with a theory. My brother's DC Comics trading card collection would have some of the legacy heroes. So it would have, like, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West. And Jay would be labelled the Golden Age Flash, and Barry the Silver Age--those are commonly used terms, I know. And Wally would be from the Modern Age, and I'm not sure how common a term that is, but I think that comics now are in the postmodern age. Not in the same sense as postmodern literature because I don't know anything about it. But I think the modern age has passed. And I think this because comics make me sad now. :( I mean, not comics themselves, but the state of the DC Universe--and I don't think Marvel is doing much better, judging from the complicated X-timelines and stuff that I've been running into. Although actually, I think that the Steel, Vixen, Gypsy, suicide squad, JLI sort of middle years in the 80s, in between the Silver Age and when I started reading should have another name. The Bronze Age? And then the late 90s or so, when Young Justice was being put out, and Chuck Dixon and Pete Woods and Jesse Delperdang were doing Robin--and those early Birds of Prey, and the Dixon/McDaniel Nightwings. . . those can be the modern age. I also love those Mark Waid Flash tpbs--you know, Dead Heat, Return of Barry Allen, Terminal Velocity, Lots of Other Cool Speed Related Names. But I can't remember when those were. Of course, I will make any exceptions for Mark Waid. Essentially, the time after the coloring and art stopped getting really 80s (exception for Mark Waid's Flashes) and before they cancelled Young Justice and turned the entire universe over to Geoff Johns, who I simply don't like. I mean, his work. Not him as a person. And before Bill Willingham destroyed Timmy's life. . . and before I had to stop reading most mainstream comics!
Also, back when Cameron Stewart was drawing Catwoman, when Catwoman was one of the best comics out there and didn't look like I'd shat it out. Also, anyone remember that Planet DC thing? I normally hate when they do DCU-spanning events, but that was really awesome. I don't think I got all of them. But I had a lot. The Batman one sucked, though. Sucked. But GL's was awesome, and Superman's, and the JLA's, and the JSA's. . .
::coughcough:: So, essentially, I'm sure there's been a change in the comic world recently, because I loved them 3 years ago and I don't know, and its' not that I don't like the genre, because I'm reading other comics, and rereading my old ones. And I know, they did weird big storylines back then which I hated, like Our Worlds At War, and Last Laugh, and Emperor Joker. . . hmm, Joker's a recurring theme. Schmuck. Anyways, the point was that I didn't like those, but you could just wait them out. Now, they've killed Ted Kord! :( And everything's just weird. Not that I should be talking about these, because I'm not up on current events. But it seems to be a more general change into perhaps darker, and simply lower quality territory. Identity Crisis seems sinister. I'm not happy. I don't know. What is DC trying to do? Comic books are truly just. . . only in selected stores now, pretty much. They aren't going to be able to attract a wider audience by doing cheap stunts. No one these days is going to go past a newstand and be like "What?? Superman died??" because they simply won't see the comic. They should just try to put out quality work, by not driving away all the talented writers (i read that this was happening somewhere--Ed Brubaker's switched sides! augh! see above--Cameron Stewart was only part of the equation that made Catwoman great--although I wasn't crazy about all that Black Mask grossness). Anyways. :-/ Things will cycle back around. And, uh, Grant Morrison, Howard Porter, and John Dell will start doing JLA stories again. >.>
If any of my friends read comic books, this sort of thing wouldn't happen and i would be in bed now like I should be. I totally meant to go to sleep at, like, 12:30. Hahahaha. It's 2 AM now! Oh well, just one class tomorrow. My last class!
My last class at Smith for a year! ::sniffle::
Also! Recent accomplishment--i have created myself an awesome playlist, and in so doing, discovered that i really like the song "Disco Inferno"! XD Burn, baby, burn!
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Date: 2006-05-05 06:45 am (UTC)Also, I know what you mean about comics. About 10 years back i was big into marvels, but then even with just the X-Books there were far too many, and then there were the inevitable major-crossovers that tended to interrupt the stories of individual books and make changes to the various core concepts.
I only really follow one or two monw.
Anyways, have fun.
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Date: 2006-05-05 02:38 pm (UTC)Anyways. I just like analyzing the differences between the two and the reasons for my preferences.
I have a quiz on stuff I should know about my host country before I go, I'm totally going to post it so you and the other british people on my friends list are going to have to help with that. Maybe just England. I don't remember what the quiz is about.
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Date: 2006-05-05 02:10 pm (UTC)Anyways, I'm sorry I don't read comic books, although I did read everything you had to say about them, even though I didn't know most of the names and such.
We're going to miss you next year! And I know you'll get into Manchester, don't worry.
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Date: 2006-05-05 02:31 pm (UTC)that's amazing that you read all that, though. my brilliant theory ;) I hope I got the names of the creators right, i was just doing it from memory. Although I had a moment of confusion that Ed Brubaker and Cameron Stewart didn't actually work on Catwoman together. I'm actually still slightly confused--there were some changes of creative team in the early days of Catwoman, if memory serves. . . maybe a different artist with a very similar style, so I was confused? I'm not sure. But I met Cameron Stewart at Comic Con, it was exciting! He's very young. And not unattractive.
I should totally just write my physics paper about comic books! 1500 words, wow. I feel better now!