It's snowing!!

IT WORKS AGAIN!

My ipod fell into some water. It was only submerged for like a second or two, but I think it's really messed up. For a few hours afterwards it was fine, I thought I was in the clear, but then it started clicking on and off really rapidly, the wheel wouldn't respond, it was practically frozen. Then I tried to charge it (which is apparently a big mistake!) and when I took it out it was on, but now it's totally shut off and I can't turn it back on.

Best case scenario is that after a week or so it'll dry out, but I don't know, I have a sinking feeling about this.

Sob, I do so much work with that thing, I listen to audiobooks while I do everything to get ahead and use it as my watch. It'll suck so much not being able to listen to books as I walk from place to place or wait for class to start. I got SO much reading done :( At least it happened now that school's about to end for the break soon (regardless of the stupid four exams!)

Bawwww.

disneykingdome

GUYSGUYS someone actually made a Disney RPG! Go joooooin, my friends! /so happy.

Also, thanks to anyone who replied to my last entry. I appreciate it \o/

Omfg what. I just had a dream where Takumi from Nana declared everlasting, unrequited love for Chad-chan. And then they went to a basketball game and got thrown out. WHAT.

My brain ships the most random things ever.

/watched Kobato 7

( Why do I ship everyone with Kobato except the person she's ACTUALLY paired with )

Also I really hope nobody takes my moodtheme seriously.

;agdshlkfla'jgkhs'DJFFFFFFFF So on Tuesday my professor was all "a lot of you crashed and burned on the first essay" and I was SO WORRIED all week and was frigging shaking waiting for him to pass them out and it turns I got a freaking B+!! AAAAH. And I was like one percent behind an A (I messed up with MLA, dammit, and forgot to cite my OED).

But daaaamn I've been worried all week. I need to trust myself a bit more.

Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan (Bantam) (ISBN: 0553211781)
Bellairs, John. The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Puffin) (ISBN: 0142402575)
Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret. (Yearling) (ISBN: 0440404193)
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Puffin) (ISBN: 9780142410318)
Dehaan, Linda, Stern Nijland, King and King (Tricycle) (ISBN: 1582460612)
Katz, Welwyn Wilton. False Face (Groundwood) (ISBN: 0888990820)
Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (HarperTrophy) (ISBN: 0064404994)
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass (Yearling) (ISBN: 9780440418320)
Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell, And Tango Makes Three (Simon & Schuster) (ISBN: 0689878451)
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Raincoast) (ISBN: 1551924781)
Snicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First. The Bad Beginning (HarperCollins) (ISBN: 0064407667)
White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web (HarperTrophy) (ISBN: 0064400557)

I've read the more well-known ones, but opinions if any of my flist has read any of these books?

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, guys :)

Man, it's so weird to be 20. It feels like I've graduated something. Like, I was listening to some Buddy Holly today and the comments were like "he was only 22 when he died!" and I thought, "adklghdfsj; that's me in two years D8!" You know, minus the plane crash hopefully. AUGH I feel so OLD I don't want to be an adult!

Article about the possible demise of CGI and the rise of 2D and stop-motion animation!

^ Mostly for Sam who's going to be an amazing animator one day, but also for anyone into 2D, etc. :)

I hope this article is right - story comes first for me always, but I really do hate CGI, but I love stop-motion and 2D animation so much. It`d be cool if there was at least more of a balance.

Adjectives are tricky acrobats, aren't they? (almost like bad, alliteration-heavy metaphors)

Lately I've been doing some original writing and realizing how adjective-heavy I tend to write things. I sort of just assume people can follow my crazy paths of description and it's not always the case, probably. My writing style can err on the side of excessive I suppose - I just like adjectives and like to use them! But I'm realizing more and more than nothing can bog down a paragraph quicker than too many descriptive words.

I think it depends on the genre, too - fantasy writing tends to be sort of... not flowery, but oftentimes it involves a lot of description, since you're describing things people would never SEE in real life. With something like hardboiled detective diction, you just go for the straight-forward approach.

I guess I'm trying to be more aware of the fine line between too much description and too little. I don't want my writing to be devoid of personality, but I don't want it to be dense and hard to read either.

Also, I really, really like to write long sentences. I sort of write the way I think, and that's not the easiest form of narrative to follow, so I'm trying to reign that in too and realize that periods DON'T slow things down most of the time. It's structure! Structure is good!

Anyway, tl;dr, I'm re-reading the first chapter of my story (still can't believe I've actually finished the first chapter, sans re-writing) and facepalming because I thought I was done with it but now I'm thinking of doing some adjective-trimming.

For example, here's the first paragraph of my story:

( beneath the cut )

AUGH WRITING. Why must you be so cruel? /goes works on it moar.

Today's the Transgender Day of Remembrance. York has a big and very active LGBT community so there was a memorial today at school but I couldn't go. So I'll just write a little blurb about it here.

-Print tickets for Friday
-Figure out bus route
-Ask Tyson how long it'll take to get to Union
-Children's Literature essay
-Read The Shining
-Read An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
-Read Tom Jones

For this weekend:

-Moll Flanders essay (decide which research sources to use/actually read them thoroughly)
-Life Beyond Earth lab
-Life Beyond Earth quiz
-Read The Shining
-Read Tom Jones

And that should be enough to stay strong, I think.

Something I'm really interested in are the meanings and culture of names and titles. Specifically, my name, which is Lindsay, means "From the Lake Settlement Island" or "linden trees near the water." I see the second most commonly, but basically my name comes from an island with linden trees, so it's a "nature" and "geographic" name. It's identified as both English and Scottish on various sites, but since my family's Scottish I'm going to just assume mine is a Scottish-rooted name.

What's cool, though, is that I commonly go by the shortened version, which is "Lin", which completely changes the meaning of my name. "Lin" means "pretty", which isn't as cool as "linden trees near the water", but it's a compliment I suppose! It's mostly the short form of Linda though, not Lindsay, so it's not totally relevant to me.

What's ALSO cool though is that my sister's name is Jennifer, which means "white wave." So my sister and I both have water in our names! I think that's a totally awesome coincidence.

/name ramble

Anyone else got cool name history?

Sesame Street is 40 years old today! Congrats to the first show I ever watched 8)

/dies

I love Kelly.

And Erin's version of sexy pouting being a grimace just makes me like her more xD

AND ANDY AHAHAHAHAHA.