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beccastareyes) wrote2013-11-25 07:42 pm
beccastareyes) wrote2013-11-25 07:42 pm
Daily (Hopefully) Diary
So, I'm going to try to keep a daily journal to convince myself I get stuff done (and to not spend the day on Facebook playing flash games)
Still at home. Mom has me doing a few daily chores -- take out the trash, clean the cat's eating area*, empty the dishwasher and run as needed, and fold laundry. I also did some of the background reading for a job application, and made travel arrangements. I'm going down to Florida for two days (well, four calendar days, but I arrive late and leave early) around mid-month for work. So free trip but I'm spending all of it on campus trying to iron out a research problem with a fellow grad student. At least I can enjoy the weather, and sleeping on something that is not a cot.
(Mom is having problems finding a cheap-yet-acceptable bed for the guest room. It does not help that I have a boat load of books and stuff. )
I've been watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood when I fold the laundry. I find the subtitle a bit ironic, considering that the 2003 series is much more tightly focused on the Elric brothers, while Brotherhood is much more of an ensemble affair. I still like both, but it requires pointedly not comparing them; I'm reminded of a treatment N K Jemisin wrote about one of her books. Basically, she was writing a trilogy that was trying to tell an overall story about the gods of her world, while having the narrators' have self-contained stories. She noted what she'd have had to do to make the trilogy about the narrator of the first book (noting complications to turn one book into three, and that she'd have to change the ending to be satisfying as a trilogy-end). It's not quite the same thing, but it's a useful analogy.
(I could also note Slayers post-NEXT, where the anime, manga, and light novels all do their own thing, but Slayers is a bit more stand-alone than FMA is in its arcs.)
* Our remaining cat is 15 years old and has a jaw that occasionally pains him. Thus, he is incapable of eating without making a mess. He also tracks litter everywhere, but that's an unrelated problem.
Still at home. Mom has me doing a few daily chores -- take out the trash, clean the cat's eating area*, empty the dishwasher and run as needed, and fold laundry. I also did some of the background reading for a job application, and made travel arrangements. I'm going down to Florida for two days (well, four calendar days, but I arrive late and leave early) around mid-month for work. So free trip but I'm spending all of it on campus trying to iron out a research problem with a fellow grad student. At least I can enjoy the weather, and sleeping on something that is not a cot.
(Mom is having problems finding a cheap-yet-acceptable bed for the guest room. It does not help that I have a boat load of books and stuff. )
I've been watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood when I fold the laundry. I find the subtitle a bit ironic, considering that the 2003 series is much more tightly focused on the Elric brothers, while Brotherhood is much more of an ensemble affair. I still like both, but it requires pointedly not comparing them; I'm reminded of a treatment N K Jemisin wrote about one of her books. Basically, she was writing a trilogy that was trying to tell an overall story about the gods of her world, while having the narrators' have self-contained stories. She noted what she'd have had to do to make the trilogy about the narrator of the first book (noting complications to turn one book into three, and that she'd have to change the ending to be satisfying as a trilogy-end). It's not quite the same thing, but it's a useful analogy.
(I could also note Slayers post-NEXT, where the anime, manga, and light novels all do their own thing, but Slayers is a bit more stand-alone than FMA is in its arcs.)
* Our remaining cat is 15 years old and has a jaw that occasionally pains him. Thus, he is incapable of eating without making a mess. He also tracks litter everywhere, but that's an unrelated problem.