Procrastination!

[brigdh]

ARGH. I have five hours to finish a six-page paper (of which I've written two sentences) for a professor I hate. Mainly because she grades papers in this way: if I write a sentence such as "The noise of leaves, birds, and insects are important sources of such useful information as prey location for hunting and identification of place and time, and are conceptualized by the Kaluli as the ideal of beauty", she will leave a note saying "and water". Bitch, if I was going to list every single thing in the rain forest that made noise, I could have had six pages of that alone and forgotten the whole theorizing thing. Clearly I was mistaken in assuming which of the two you would rather have.

Anyway, I only have five hours to write this one (and clearly posting to livejournal is an excellent way to make progress on that) because then I have to go pick up one of new graduate students who is attending the university's Open House and staying with me for the rest of the week. Again, argh.

In the meantime I have posted some songs to audiography, whose current theme is 'your top five songs at the moment'.

Um. Are any of you doing anything interesting? Talk to me while I write this paper, people.

ETA: Hey, now I have more time! The girl's flight was delayed, thus providing the one example ever of airport troubles being to my benefit.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That's when you start appending things like "...and the sounds of other natural phenomena..." to your lists. XD It pads your word count, too!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! Endless elaborations to increase the wordcount are pretty useful, I always just start feeling like I'm babbling if I do it too often.

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

I'm currently attempting to overdose on shoujo-ai, which isn't easy, as I don't have a whole lot. I just bought Eriko Tadeno's Works, which is collection of short yuri stories, and I'm watching Maria-sama ga Miteru. Yay lesbians!

...That's about it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. I seriously need to watch/read more shoujo-ai. It's the strangest thing: nearly all of my fanfiction is about m/m pairings- to the extent that someone once accused me of having some sort of weird identity dissociative issue- and yet every time I go to write something original I default to a f/f pairing. I clearly should bring these two strands together.

Or I could just write bizarre genderswitch fanfiction, and then I wouldn't have to worry about finding new characters I love equally as the ones I'm already obsessed with.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

But, do you really want to hear me talk about my adventures with wool? (I'm trying to figure out tailoring techniques, see. It is advisable to work with wool because wool shapes with steam, while silk often does not. So I went looking for wool that I wouldn't mind ruining, and returned instead with wool of a magnificence rarely seen by people like us, because where you find it is in the shops of Hong Kong and London bespoke suitmakers. And I have rather a lot of it now, but it's all in half-yard lengths that will have to be combined in some sort of creative way to do anything at all useful with it. Besides, I'm afraid of it, because it's all Too Good For Me and I might ruin it. In fact, I'm rather likely to ruin it. But, cashmere and merino, from Italy! For less than an overpriced take-out coffee! How's a girl supposed to walk away from that??)

Oh! Or I could babble on to you about the long meta thing about Mary Sue that I'm trying to write, except that then I wouldn't be writing it . . . Are you sorry you asked yet?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I love hearing about your fashion experiments! Mainly because it is so far outside of my realm of experience that it all seems vaguely magical. I buy clothes from stores; whether those stores got the clothes by pulling them fully-formed off an exotic bush or through the work of the cobbler's elves seem equally likely to me. Also, where on earth did you find cashmere for the price of coffee? Which is entirely a rhetorical question, since I wouldn't know what to do with it even if I knew where to get it.

You know, if my-cousin-I-hate ever comes to visit me, as she threatens to do every time I see her, I suspect I will have to hit you up for exclusive fashion knowledge to impress her. As I clearly cannot let her think she's cooler than me, even if I'm only pretending.

The Mary Sue thing sounds equally interesting, by the way, but I feel that I should probably encourage finish the essay of it instead.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Hah! I feel sure I can help you with your cousin, for I happen to know where to go in Paris to have shoes made to order. By an artisan shoemaker, who will draw your feet so that he gets the shape exactly right, and show you swatches of leather, and let you draw pictures of precisely what you want. The finished shoes will cost less than your cousin's, and they will fit, and there will be no other pair of shoes exactly like them in all the world. It's the place with the ceiling I made this icon from, in fact.

And then there are all these cool little artisan clothing places downtown, which I intended to check out last time I was in town, only I got distracted. Next trip, for sure.

As for where I found the cashmere, I'm within driving distance of Osgood's (http://www.osgoodtextile.com), a strange and wonderful place. It really is at least the size of a football field, and even the people who work there don't seem to know everything they have. I don't get there often -- it's an expedition, for one thing, and for another, once you're there you can lose an entire day just by trying to sort through their remnant bins. (They're perhaps three feet high, these remnant bins, and they go all the way to the floor, and there are lots of them.) Which is how I found the stuff I have. I was looking for just-good-enough-to-ruin, really I was. And that would have been the place to find it. Is it my fault they went and tempted me with half-yards and three-quarter-yards of stuff that's too good for me?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Wow. I don't even find shoes particularly interesting, and yet the idea of designing my own is fascinating. I wouldn't know what to ask for, but I want it anyway!

Ooooh. That sounds like an excellent store, one of those ones that you can never go in without discovering something you really, truly need, even if you never knew it before just now.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I am joining you in the procrastination. I have two papers that were due yesterday. Soon I will be blogging about the clothes I bought at Kohls for 80+% off.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm pretty good about making deadlines, even if I end up without sleep to do so. And damn, that's a good deal! I wonder if there are any Kohls around here; I used to shop there.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I usually do sit down and get everything done in time put I was just having a shitty day yesterday, which made writing hard. The class is Brit Lit, but we are focusing a lot on poetry. I don't dislike poetry, in fact I really like some of the stuff we covered (Kubla Khan, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner) but poetry to me seems very very personal, and I dislike writing essays about them because I end up parroting back what the professor said about the poems instead of what I would like to talk about because he picks the most boring, god awful prompts. I really don't care about the power of the poets imagination in Frost at Midnight and how it compares to Tintern Abbey.

[lilitou.livejournal.com]

Hey! You're one of my mixees for the audiography trade. You can send me your mailing address at lilitou(AT)livejournal(DOT)com whenever you get a chance.

[morganofthefay.livejournal.com]

hey there :) it turns out that you're one of my mixees for the audiography swap, so could you send me your address to morganofthefay (at) livejournal dot com? cheers!

GAMT 3.0!

[macramedildo.livejournal.com]

Yo! you're one my my mixees! I should still have your address (I think I sent you Gormenghast?) but in case I don't I'll email you and ask again. I'm pretty sure I still have your email.

In other news, one of your mixees is none other than my very good IRL friend vongroovy! That is very exciting for all involved. Jen is super nice and has a ton of great stuff. :)