The Lady In The Tower

So, I've been rather absent on LJ and Twitter lately, I do apologize. I've been drifting around the Internet but not being very sociable, that's very hermit-like of me. I should be on Twitter more, we shall see how it goes.

( In which there is news and vague brooding )

On to this meme, for once not jacked from anyone, I'm starting it though I am sure that someone else has done it.

List five ways in which fandom, specific or general, has invaded real life for you.
( Here be my answers! )

So, the past two days have essentially been about packing up to go back to school. Yesterday was the kitchen stuff and the bedding and all that jazz, today it was my clothes. Shock of shocks, I think I'm actually developing a style, when did that happen? It seems to involve printed t-shirts, solid-colored sundresses, denim, and the black fedora that my mother and grandmother hate but I adore. Feeling oddly bittersweet this year, I think it's because summer at home was less stressful than the past two have been. Still glad to be heading back, though.


Also I rearranged my CDs and DVDs in the travel cases I keep them in. All the original cases were trashed for the sake of conserving space. I'm not sure why I felt the need to rearrange, but I did, with a pattern that may or may not be discernible to anyone not me. Some of it's obvious, some of it, not so much. :D


Shh, don't scare the muses. I watched the job-prep sequence from Inception (well, actually, I watched Mombasa through job-prep, my favorite section of the film) and a section of Tudors 1.09, and I got the literal tingling in my hands that makes me think some writing will happen tonight. Please, dear gods and angels.


I have six days (well, closer to five at this time of night) until I go back to school. Third year, we'll see how this one plays out.


On another note. I keep seeing Good Omens/Supernatural crosses where the SPN Crowley is also the GO Crowley. Now, I've not finished GO (see yesterday's post) but... That... It doesn't seem to fit, especially as I think SPN Crowley's a former human who sold his soul and GO Crowley is a fallen angel (er, sorry, an angel who "sauntered vaguely downwards"). I have a different image - it basically involves GO Crowley complaining to Aziraphale about "that crossroads twat who stole my name!" And for some reason my head wants Zira and Cas to be the angel version of twins, a concept I do not understand but cannot shake.

So, did some scholarship apps tonight, so though I got no schoolwork done, I did do something  today. :) Well, technically I did get some work done, but it was in class. I don't like Design very much. It's not the profs, they're fine, I just... I don't want to know how to make a website, I want to be a reporter. Really, people. Required classes, they suck. Not always, but in this case. Also Audio/Visual from last semester sucked the same way. Only worse, because I had asshole groupmates. At least Design is solo work.

I did get some fic work done, though. The next chapter of "Architecture of Your World and Mind" is nearly complete, though unfortunately it's a lot of scene rewriting and not much new stuff. Next chapter begins a lot more scenes that are totally original, which should be fun. I'm also working on an RP scene, which is always fun. For anyone following "A Higher Law", I've not started writing the Arthur/Eames portion, which is next in the queue, but I do know where I'm going with it. I have the song quote for it, which is always a good sign for my writing. :D

On a totally unrelated topic, lots of people have been Tweeting and LJ-posting about recipes. I'm not really a cook. I can make a few basic things, but not anything that requires an actual recipe. Except one thing. Double chocolate chip cookies. Now, the recipe I follow is an online one, it's not mine and I freely admit it, but it's a good one. I made these for Thanksgiving first - with work assistance from my grandmother just to finish more quickly - and then for Christmas. I've been subsequently informed that I should make them for all the holidays. So I figure the recipe's good enough to share - especially since I have the suspicion these things are going to become my personal trademark for family gatherings or something.

I've done this with both chocolate chips and white chocolate chips, and recommend both. Also, adding walnuts - as long as no one has a nut allergy - makes them even better.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

The only thing I can honestly say I've come up with on my own in terms of food is a grilled cheese and pepperoni sandwich, which is... making a grilled cheese, only with pepperoni. I do advise using Hormel pepperoni and white American cheese, but other than that there's nothing to say about it.

So, what happens five minutes into my first class of the day - a lecture, mind you? Fire alarm goes off, and we're all sent outside into the frigid air. Lovely. Bloody February, it's too damn cold. On the brighter side, I ran into a friend from one of my classes last year who is also in the lecture and he said our former prof was asking about me. I really need to e-mail her. I keep forgetting; the shiny Internet, among other things, distracts me. She does what I want to do, though, professionally, so completely besides the fact that I loved her class, I should try to keep in touch. Her asking about me is a good sign, yes?

I am trying to do things to get myself into shape. This includes taking the seven flights of stairs to the class I'm currently in and the six flights to one of my other courses. My chest always hurts and and I am gasping at the end of it, but I keep telling myself it will fade and then I will be healthier. Assuming I don't give myself a heart attack first.

Also there is a girl sitting outside my classroom in my direct line of sight. She looks freakishly like a girl I went to grade school with, but having not seen any of those people in six years I can't be sure. We keep eyeing each other, though, and I really do think it's her. This is quite strange, it feels weird to possibly be seeing one of those kids so many years later. At least she's one of the ones I got along with, and not one of the many assholes who were among my classmates there. Maybe I'll take the alternate doorway to my classroom next week and say hello to her.

So, yeah, this is not complete yet, I'll update once I've met all of my professors. Still, going to work on a rundown of them - mostly because I feel like it and this journal should have more than my occasional research and writer's block rants in terms of non-story posts. :)

Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Upper-level sociology class, taken to get me one step closer to finishing my soc minor (yeah, broadcast journalism major plus minors in soc and political science, that might have been a crazy idea...). I wanted Sociology of Religion as I've already taken a soc course on race for one of my core requirements, but it was closed. So there's this instead. It seems like it could be interesting, and I think I like the prof well enough, though I'm reserving final judgment.

Journalism Research: This prof I like. He wore a Magna Carta tie, and when I asked if it was the tie or the history, he informed me that he wears "interesting" ties. Also, he sympathized with having a family name and needing, therefore, to be very specific about one is called to avoid feeling like you're some other family member. (Note to teachers; my aunt is Kathy, I'm Kate. Thank you. Have an nice day.) The class is mostly about research (no, really?) but what I think is going to happen is that we're going to learn about ways to search on the Web that not everyone knows. *evil smile* Is it bad that my mind immediately went to how useful this could be for fic?

American Political System: Babyface! This was my first thought, because my prof looks like he could pass for a student. Reminds me of the one priest we got in my senior year of high school who had us all confused when we first saw him. "Is he a seminary student?" He was about 30 as I recall. Don't know how old the poli sci prof is. This class does a joint fill; it's required for journalism majors and helps me with my poli sci minor. He seems nice enough, though maybe a little scatterbrained. However, he purposely didn't order in our class text to the bookstore because he knows they overcharge and wants us to save money online. I kind of like that attitude. Also, he wore a tie and a suit jacket (with an appropriate shirt) with jeans. Fandom thoughts struck again as I pictured Inception's fanon!Arthur reacting to such a combination.

Design For Journalists: We had a sub for the lab portion this week. She seems nice enough, and with any luck the actual lab instructor will be too. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about group work with this class, unlike Audio/Visual for Journalists (last semester; be glad I wasn't using this as a proper blog then or else there would have been much ranting). Will report back on the lecturer tomorrow and the actual lab instructor next week.

Human Sexuality: I can hear the commentary from over here guys, don't judge me. It was basically the only interesting looking class out of a list for one of the core sections. I have this later today, I'll report back on it tomorrow along with my impressions of the Design lecturer. Again, fandom note; I desperately want to use some things I've seen in various fandoms for this class, especially the Inception Kink Meme. It's a sociology course, it could work...