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Muahaha.
I have too much time on my hands, but this seems to be a good use of it. I'll be done early, easily, and I'll finish Elysion before the end as well. That means Builders is going to get some attention this month too. I'm to a fabulous point in the story where something exciting happens in nearly every writing session I have. I've already written two and a half chapters of Elysion so far. Super fun. I love writing flashbacks in the Silver Millennium era.
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| It's that time again! |
[06 Nov 2009|02:51pm] |
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Only this year, I can do NaNoWriMo with some sanity. That comes with having only a 20 hour work week. I like this. I'm hoping to cross over 50,000 early this year. It's sort of cheating, but I'm using NaNo to finish up my Sailor Moon: Elysion fanfiction. In prepration, I have been watching lots of Sailor Moon, a couple of myu, and reading the manga. I feel pretty compitent now. Though, I realized that my concepts of many of the characters are most heavily based on their portrayal in the musicals more than from anywhere else.
I was watching Kakyuu Ouhi Densetsu the other day and realized how not a good musical it is. Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu was decent, but in the kaiteban, they added Kayuu and had a huge nostalgia fit. There was more singing and dancing than acting in order to get in as many old first stage songs as they could. The first time I saw it, I was excited to see things like Galaxia no Dokusai, See Me Boku Tachi no Jidai, and such, but I think, in the end, it was too much. Alas. Eien Densetsu will forever be my favorite interpretation of the Stars Season.
Exciting news: we have wifi in the Knowledge Center. This means I can now surf the internet from the comfort of my own computer with ease and not worry about getting in anyone's way. It did mean that I had to idiot-proof all of the computers so the students can't get on the internet without us knowing it. We also finally got a gass cylinder in our kitchen too. I have just recieved my second cup of chai for the day from one of my co-workers. Num num.
I also just launched the Jagori Grameen web site, in time for the full moon. It still needs more work though.
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I am so jealous of the people at the Nov 5 Daily Show taping I don't even oh my God that impression no one is allowed to say Jon Stewart can't act ever again.
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So if my last post isn't enough of an indication... it would seem that free writing "Stream of consciousness" style can get me in quite a pickle or two. Haven't really noticed this as being a trend till now.
I remember a while back Fish told me that he always looks over his posts... and that it can take him some time to write one. Up to hours or even a day. I always thought that was interesting.
I ought to probably do the same, because very often I'm finding my posts to not be a total collection of my thoughts, but more of a compartmentalized piece... which subsequently I have to further expound and explain more fully in later posts because if I don't I sound like a total jerk. I think a number of people can attest that I'm more personable in real life or IM or something.
Because of that, I'm starting to like communicating online less and less. The more indepth I talk about something, the more... I unnaturally have to appropriately and eclectically flesh things out. Such things tend to happen more naturally and easily in real life. Online... hmm... it could be because there isn't the whole "ball being tossed" type of communication, rather it's "thesis" that counters another "thesis", so to speak. Sometimes that just gets to feeling awkward. I suppose it's a deficiency in me. The question is whether or not I care enough to really develop that trait. I don't know. I could just post random youtube videos or funny pictures and not have to deal with serious stuff. Interestingly enough, I no longer really post about life events on my LJ any more. I suppose I don't really see much of a desire to any longer.
Interestingly enough, this does tend to be a trait of ENFPs... perhaps Ps in general. =) Good ol' cognitive functioning. XD
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| Because UGH REGISTRATION. |
[04 Nov 2009|06:55am] |
Here I am, up at 6:55. Why? So I can register for my thesis for J-Term, and Massage class.
UGH WHY?!
-Ryo
EDIT: LOL need faculty permission to register for thesis. WASTE OF TIME. Got into Massage class though.
EDIT: BLAZBLUE PSP.
And wow Marly, that sucks balls. =/
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[03 Nov 2009|11:53pm] |
I think Nette is probably the wisest of the bunch in that real girl thread...
"This thread is incredibly frigging depressing."
Trufax, gurl. Trufax.
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[03 Nov 2009|10:17pm] |
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So, I just now finished reading a book I had been assigned for the American Tv culture class I'm taking this semester. It's a book called "Where the Girls are" and it tracks representations of women in TV since its initial conception.
( More after the cut )
-Ryo
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Hey all.
Haven't really posted anything of any real substance in a while, but that's because I've been busy with school and various other odds and ends.
Like applying for jobs, finishing my JET application, etc.
Geezus, is it already time for this?
I haven't really been feeling like myself these past few days, and I think I know why at this point.
( More after the break. )
Well, if you stuck with it this far, my hat is off to you good ladies and gentlemen. I just needed to get that out of me.
All right, reading to do and lots of other shit as well.
Peace,
-Ryo
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| OH MY GOD STEWART'S GIVING THE RARELY-HEARD VIEWPOINT ON A COMEDY SHOW! HOW DARE HE DO THIS! |
[31 Oct 2009|04:41pm] |
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Jon Stewart's comedy news show The Daily Show is reportedly under fire from pro-Israeli groups for giving airtime to two pro-Palestinian figures on Wednesday night...
According to a letter reportedly written by Baltzer and circulated by blogger Eric Johnson, the show "was overwhelmed with angry emails and phone calls prior to the appearance, and up until the last minute it seemed like they might cancel..."
At one point during the interview, Barghouti asserted: "We [Palestinians] are struggling for liberty, we are struggling for justice. It's Palestinians who have been subjected to the longest occupation in history and a system of segregation that is totally unjust."
At that point, a voice in the audience could be heard shouting: "Liar!"
"Apparently we have Joe Wilson with us tonight," Stewart quipped, referring the US House representative who yelled "You lie!" during President Obama's address to Congress last month....
"Jon Stewart [had] a couple of disgraceful guests on his show on Wednesday night for a night of Israel bashing," wrote blogger Israel Matzav. "No, there's no pro-Israel counterpoint (perhaps he will try to convince us that ISM activist Baltzer - who is Jewish - is meant to provide balance)...."
TalkingPointsMemo blogger M.J. Rosenberg credits Stewart with starting a "sea change" in American media's coverage of the Middle Eastern conflict... "Not long ago, no mainstream media personality would ever allow himself to be associated with anyone who suggests that diplomacy, not war, is the way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Being thought of as not 100% down with the government of Israel was a career killer. And, if it wasn't, media and show business figures believed it was and that was the same thing. That era ended with the rise of Jon Stewart, the most trusted television personality in America (and the only one the kids pay attention to). Stewart is the antithesis of the scared Jew.
Hey, hey guys. Guys.
This is why Jon Stewart is the most trusted name in news. I mean seriously.
First off. They were advocating peace and diplomacy. Peace and diplomacy = good the end.
Second. Bad journalism is indeed not giving both sides of the story EXCEPT OH HAY COMEDY SHOW NOT ACTUAL NEWS but since people insist on considering him an actual journalist then sure, he should give both sides. I'd also be angry if he were leaving out a rarely-heard viewpoint - oh wait, his guests were giving a rarely-heard viewpoint that night. Like the guy from TPM, seriously since when do you hear the Palestinian side except on Al-Jazeera?
I mean, yes, Hamas is fighting dirty, and yes, they have rejected proposed peace deals, but Hamas is also against a much, much stronger army and of course aren't going to fight in the open because then they'd get killed and then who'd protect their families, and of course they rejected those peace deals because why would someone accept a deal that wouldn't actually help them?
The problem is Palestine but the problem is also Israel. Because, y'know, it was Israel that forced the Palestinians out of their homes without even trying to negotiate some sort of shared deal even though the Palestinians also have a legitimate historical and cultural claim to the land. And it's Israel that refuses to do things like allow supplies over the border that could clean up the crazy "sewage tsunamis" that literally drown villages in trash because of all the rockets some of which are by the way constructed from the broken sewage pipes that caused the inundation in the first place.
Israel has a valid claim to the land. So does Palestine. Palestine is doing horrible stuff. So is Israel. An alliance with the United States is not a free pass to do whatever you want. If anything, an alliance with the United States should stop you from doing terrible things because seriously we talk so much about being morally superior and the leader in human rights and promotion of freedom and democracy, but you know what? If we let our allies do whatever they want regardless of the moral implications because it benefits us, who is going to listen us when we tell them to stop doing whatever they want because it benefits them?
Seriously, America. This isn't very hard. You want to be a moral leader? Start acting like one and make tough decisions. If an ally is doing something bad, stop them. Because if you can't get an ally to stop doing something bad, you're sure not going to be able to get an enemy to.
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This last week, I was in Kashmir with the whole Jagori team. There were moments I loved it, and moments I wished I was somewhere else. While I didn't much like being out of the loop, just teaching English alone in the Knowledge Center, now knowing how Jagori works (or doesn't) is a bit depressing. Though, by the last day, our team agreed to make some big changes. I really hope all of the changes work out.
I also had my first real bout of homesickness. Surrounded by so many people but really close to none of them, I felt overwhelmingly lonely. Despite myself, I wound up crying quietly in a corner, but Vandana caught me and made me talk it out. It made me feel a little bit better. By the end of the week, I had befriended most of the team, but I still don't feel like I have any close friends here that I can really confide in.
But I've been here before. A year ago, in fact. What's gotten me through the rough times when I'm feeling lonely is contact through the internet to other close friends I can't see face to face, Lisa and Sakky especially. However, now I'm in another time zone with rare access to internet. Only the people up at insane hours of the night have a chance of catching me. I can't rely on friends so far away as much as I do. It's hard. I'll admit I fell into a mild depression when I got back home to Rakkar but that seems to have faded away.
In other news, my students haven't been coming to class since a week before we left for Kashmir. I think there was a lot of confusion around holidays and then all of us being gone, but I had hoped they'd start coming again once we got back. No one came in the morning yesterday, and only 3 of my 6 came in the afternoon. I still have about 6 students who haven't taken the midterm test and 3 that haven't written their penpal letters. I sent all of them text messages yesterday, so hopefully they will start coming again on Saturday. I'm already a week behind in my classes. I need to revise their schedule again.
Anya is off traveling this week and going to bring Kelly back with her next week. Kelly has a huge break, so I was thinking of doing some traveling with her once my class is over. I'll need to talk that over with her once she gets here.
NaNoWriMo starts this weekend and I'm psyched to get started. I'll do sort of a cheater NaNo, but I'm going to finish up Elysion. There's only 9 chapters left, so it's really doable. If I run out of story before I run out of words, I'll work on Builders at the end of the month. I've been keeping myself from writing this week, only planning, and it's just making me more excited to start. The fingers are itching.
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