Actually, I'm not quite dead yet...

[sunnyskywalker]

Personal reasons many and manifold have prevented me from frequenting the internet often in recent times. (Why am I slipping into "this blog has been translated from ancient Greek by a nineteenth-century windbag" style? It's all plasticinecupid's fault. Also, Freud and Aristotle should do more movie reviews together.)

I'm quite upset with myself for missing International Blog Against Racism Week, so I've decided to do it anyway even if I am late. I'm working on a couple of things. Until I get mine posted, if anyone hasn't seen it, imadra_blue has a great entry on why Mace Windu and Lando Calrissian are awesome.

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[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

If it's any comfort you are not the only one with a.) a low frequency of blogging lately and b.) slipping into "translated from ancient language" style writing.

Maybe it's those late summer winds that keeps us from the blog?
At any rate - I hope life is good?

And thanks for the links - I'll be sure to check them out.

[sunnyskywalker]

That is a bit comforting, thanks :D

I wish we had a bit more wind around here - Delta breezes, where are you when the air is still and hot? But at least the house keeps cool naturally, being in a bit of a hollow and having thick tile floors. Mostly, I've just been having a post-graduation meltdown, going OMG WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE AND HOW DO I GET A REAL JOB AND WHAT KIND OF JOB DO I EVEN WANT ANYWAY AND HOW LONG AM I GOING TO WORK BEFORE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AND WHAT KIND OF PROGRAM DO I WANT TO APPLY FOR AND AM I REALLY CUT OUT FOR IT AND... well, you get the idea.

Oops, I didn't link very well, though, did I? The Lando-and-Mace one is here. plasticinecupid also posted a very nifty picture found on the internet here, and the coolest-ever knitted hat here.

Oh, but I did do something productive this summer! I have finally finished S2 of Rome!

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

well, you get the idea.

Oh absolutely! I know that feeling too well. If its any consolation the feeling passes after a while. As for deciding on schools and programs that too sorts itself out. It sounds trite, I know, but these things takes time.
Do you have any idea what type of subjects you would like to study?

For me things calmed down after I had flailed my way to a job as an assistant at the most eccentric museum in town. (and thanks to that btw I will spend this Sunday talking about birds. Huh? I know NOTHING about birds. I know a song about magpies - so if the terror grips me I'll hum that)

What did you think of Rome? Aka - 'the not so much historically correct as a huge emotional rollercoaster'show. I love with a passion the scene where they rescue the kids from the slave camp. I think encompasses all the things I love: big emotional climax, music swelling and in sync with the pacing. Ahh...it's so great.

And thank you for all the detailed links. I'll scurry right over.

[sunnyskywalker]

Birds? Now I'm curious.

I loved the craziness of Rome. I was giggling for about five minutes after Octavian matter-of-factly told Livia he was going to beat her because it gave him sexual pleasure, and I giggled even more when they turned out to be one of the most successful couples in the show. (And they lived sociopathically ever after...) Brutus had a wonderful death scene - I loved the parallel to Caesar's death, and the way Cassius died in that one moment while Brutus wasn't looking. And Servilia really knows how to make a curse stick! That was so awesomely creepy. I think Antony needs lessons from Captain Jack Sparrow on how to work the eyeliner look properly, though. Cleopatra was fantastic. And little Caesarion is so hilarious - he's so serious about his dramatic vows for vengeance in the way that only a kid who's been taking notes from popular entertainment can. And yes, the rescue from the slave camp is one of the most perfect scenes ever.

I've got some idea of what to study, but it keeps branching out in all directions instead of getting focused. I like early print culture in Europe - but then, early print culture in China seems pretty cool too. And I really like the development of the novel as a form, and the various questions of gender that come with it. But also the development of the various speculative fiction genres, which sort of ties in, and there are all sorts of interesting gender issues there too, along with the really fascinating links between the supernatural Other and the racial and sexual Other (especially once you get started talking about colonialism - you can bring in everything from Wuthering Heights to The Princess and the Goblin and The Lord of the Rings here). So... well, that's the sort of thing that will probably be easier to sort out once I get into a program. Except possibly not. And it's all in that collision of the English and History departments, and it's probably best to take the English track but I have to do more research on specific programs.

I'm sure I'll feel better once I've found a proper job, though.