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.

Comments

[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.

[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:).

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 !