Job

[bagheera_san]

Second day of my new job is done, and I'm loving it so far. The professor is a very nice guy, so are the rest of of his staff and my fellow student colleague. The job I'm doing like passing test tubes, only in English Lit. Which means making photocopies, looking for books in the library (today, both the photocopies and the books were graphic novels :D. Any job that consists of me looking through Sandman for Shakespeare references is a good one!), sorting stuff alphabetically, labelling stuff, and buying minor stuff (it's not quite easy to get floppy disks in 2008! One computer store guy made big eyes at me and mumbled, "I think we've got one in storage somewhere..." but I managed.)

Fall/Winter semester starts next week! I've written three of my four term papers. The fourth in the one I could write on Doctor Who, but I'm not quite sure I've got a proper topic/thesis statement yet. "There are many representations of the post-human in Doctor Who, some are positive and some are negative" doesn't quite cut it. And I completely failed to write any original fiction for Creative Writing.

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[x-los.livejournal.com]

That is the best possible thesis statement, b/c it's so secondary school: back to basics. It's the classic who of theses.

Also am apparently accidentally writing a novel. Bah.

Also watched Always Crashing in the Same car thanks to you, and was very impressed.

Also learning Hebrew is hard, and I think the language-nerd in you will appreciate my pain upon learning that it's going to be much, much worse than my educated guess had predicted.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

That thesis statement lacks French philosophers, or something. It's very "Hi I just did my Essay Writing 101 course!" (I really did.)

Always Crashing in the Same Car is intellectual porn. And *fine* acting.

A friend of mine tried to show me the Hebrew alphabet in highschool and it was so... square. And same looking. Languages with different letters tend to defeat me, it was the same with Japanese. I suspect this is why maths doesn't work for me, either.

What kind of novel will it be?

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Yes, needs 10x moar Derrida. I think you should append that to the v. end: 'in concurrence with DERRIDA!!1' And see what they think THEN.

It is. I was really taken aback by what a pallel text it was to yours, so I came at it backwards and enjoyed it via that.

I was having the most horrible time with it thinking 'oh my god it's just all squares,' and then I had a break-through eureka moment and I could tell them apart, thank god. Er, g-d. Something.

I actually did Middle Egyptian, aka heiroglyphics, at University of Chicago in high school, so I was /prepped/ for a diff. alphabet, I just didn't suspect the tiny vowel demarcations and the two scripts and the AUGH factor...

This is fucking tragic. You are going to laugh at me. /I/ am laughing at me, when I'm not really really annoyed with me. And it's going to end up a short NaNo length novel, but... remember how I said I'd do a sequel to that marriage crack?

...

I'm so sorry.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

remember how I said I'd do a sequel to that marriage crack
WTF, how is that tragic? There would be great squeeing if my throat wasn't so sore ;)

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Oh, are you ill? I'm sorry! And it's tragic when you realize that to write something properly, you're enslaved to it for Many Moons/more thousands of words.

Btw, this kibbutz has four German girls, all of who make me really really appreciate your English. I sort of assumed your school system must produce people of your level of English competence? ...no. not at all.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

It's just a cold, but sucky nonetheless. Man, now I wish I had your fic already. It's the right kind of day to curl up in bed with something long and good.

Ha. When Germans fail at English, they do it properly. And very confidently.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Eh, I could send you the draft to alleviate your cold!boredom, but it's only 18,000 words so far, and it's not finished/aralias hasn't beta'd yet, so the mileage might be low. *shrug* Five Doctors is the best watching-material for illness, I think. That or the Lord of the Rings movies...

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Ah, there's an idea. Hot bath, I think, and then some epic fantasy...

Send me the fic, if you want! I miss your stuff.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

In your gmail there lies a doc. It may be fic. Who knows?

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds so cool. I'll keep my fingers crossed for your Who-related one... What else were you thinking of investigating re: Who through post-human(ism)?

Hmm. Creative writing. You are really great at writing short stories, and you have all these imaginative settings and everything in your fanfic... so maybe make it a gen fanfic, set in the present day, with the names changed? This suggestion may sound stupid, but I just thought I'd throw that in 'cos it might get the creative juices flowing:).

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd like to emphasize that Who is an unusual show in so far as it has a main character who's human-like but challenges the boundaries of what is generally accepted as human (and whose main foes tend to be negative examples of the posthuman - Daleks, Cybermen, the Sontarans, other Time Lords). And if it's possible at all to find any patterns, I'd look at how the show's attitude towards what it means to be "human"/towards the posthuman elements has changed over the 40+ years of its run.

I did the fanfic-->original fic conversion before, but it always feels like cheating.

floppy disks in 2008

[ender24]

omg lach mich schrott, letztes Jahr musste ich meinen uralten schlepptop wieder rausgraben, weil ich in meinen Kartons noch alte disketten gefunden hatte, und nirgendwo an den neuen laptops ein diskettenlaufwerk war, selbst an den neuen Pc towers gibts keine laufwerke mehr für die !

Re: floppy disks in 2008

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Disketten sind echt inzwischen wie Kasetten... Kassetten... mann, ich weis nicht mal mehr wie man das richtig schreibt! Und ich glaub früher oder später sattelt alles auf DVDs um.