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thanateAt one point or another there have been several things I was contemplating posting about, but the heat and today's bout of not-at-all-inspired seem to have driven them out of my head. Tomorrow may yet involve exciting things (possibly artscape, for instance) but today, I am doing one of those silly questions memes, of the sort that may have some interpersonal interest, and contains no relatively randomized pseudo-analyses of writing style. The deal is as follows:
Five personal(ish) questions. Comment requesting some, if you'd like a set, then copy them into your journal, add your answers, rinse and repeat.
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jazzfish)
1) How's life with the house, all things considered?
Decent. It will be much better (in this season) in that mythical day when there's more a/c than the window unit in the bedroom, but on the whole the beautifully well-sealed windows make it livable, so long as enough attention is paid to when one opens and shuts them. There are theoretical plans to build more house, previous to which creating more family members seems like a rather bad idea, and theoretical plans to have air conditioning, and I could write up a nice long wishlist for things to change if I were inclined to, but on the whole it's not a bad place to live.
2) What are you currently working on, writing-wise?
Short stories, mostly, some new and a bit of revising some older ones, and filling up the database of sending things out to tour the void. I am become a great fan of places that allow e-subs. I have a Scrivener doc open with separate files for each ongoing short story, and export them as I finish tinkering. Also still mentally poking at the pseudo-Byzantium problem, and the other character I want to focus on for that novel, and how her viewpoint ought to work, but I haven't written any of that recently.
3) How was college for you?
Good. I despised high school so much that I went through it in three years, and college was really much more what I had in mind for education-- people who treated you like you were supposed to know how to think. I had a grand time, on the whole, although of course I wasn't the most emotionally stable teen-to-early-twenty-something which didn't usually help. But the reasons I got depressed were pretty entirely interpersonal, rather than environmental, and there are definitely times that I miss living within walking distance of so many friends, with a great pool of cheap-to-free activities to be chosen among. I also miss the library systems (both town and college, which complemented each other well, and there was always OhioLink) and the amount of good walking space.
4) What pets did you have growing up?
Cats, mainly (ex)male abyssinians, two to three at a time. My parents actually had a policy that we had family pets, and so no parade of small animals for the kids was permitted. This led to my keeping a series of cat-prey-style animals (a number of fish, mice, a rat...) as soon as I was out of the house & able to do so, although somehow they were never quite as exciting as I hoped they would be.
5) Is this where you thought your life would be, ten years ago?
I didn't have a particularly good idea of what my life would look like ten years ago (er, I'd just graduated college and was holding a rather terrible summer job on campus because I hadn't the least idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, really) but I think at this point I'm rather closer to where my vague mental image placed me than I have been in the intervening time. Possibly if I work backwards, I'll eventually get back to my idealistic 4th grade goal of becoming a best selling author.
Five personal(ish) questions. Comment requesting some, if you'd like a set, then copy them into your journal, add your answers, rinse and repeat.
(these are from
jazzfish)1) How's life with the house, all things considered?
Decent. It will be much better (in this season) in that mythical day when there's more a/c than the window unit in the bedroom, but on the whole the beautifully well-sealed windows make it livable, so long as enough attention is paid to when one opens and shuts them. There are theoretical plans to build more house, previous to which creating more family members seems like a rather bad idea, and theoretical plans to have air conditioning, and I could write up a nice long wishlist for things to change if I were inclined to, but on the whole it's not a bad place to live.
2) What are you currently working on, writing-wise?
Short stories, mostly, some new and a bit of revising some older ones, and filling up the database of sending things out to tour the void. I am become a great fan of places that allow e-subs. I have a Scrivener doc open with separate files for each ongoing short story, and export them as I finish tinkering. Also still mentally poking at the pseudo-Byzantium problem, and the other character I want to focus on for that novel, and how her viewpoint ought to work, but I haven't written any of that recently.
3) How was college for you?
Good. I despised high school so much that I went through it in three years, and college was really much more what I had in mind for education-- people who treated you like you were supposed to know how to think. I had a grand time, on the whole, although of course I wasn't the most emotionally stable teen-to-early-twenty-something which didn't usually help. But the reasons I got depressed were pretty entirely interpersonal, rather than environmental, and there are definitely times that I miss living within walking distance of so many friends, with a great pool of cheap-to-free activities to be chosen among. I also miss the library systems (both town and college, which complemented each other well, and there was always OhioLink) and the amount of good walking space.
4) What pets did you have growing up?
Cats, mainly (ex)male abyssinians, two to three at a time. My parents actually had a policy that we had family pets, and so no parade of small animals for the kids was permitted. This led to my keeping a series of cat-prey-style animals (a number of fish, mice, a rat...) as soon as I was out of the house & able to do so, although somehow they were never quite as exciting as I hoped they would be.
5) Is this where you thought your life would be, ten years ago?
I didn't have a particularly good idea of what my life would look like ten years ago (er, I'd just graduated college and was holding a rather terrible summer job on campus because I hadn't the least idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, really) but I think at this point I'm rather closer to where my vague mental image placed me than I have been in the intervening time. Possibly if I work backwards, I'll eventually get back to my idealistic 4th grade goal of becoming a best selling author.
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Date: 2010-07-19 12:37 am (UTC)Possibly if I work backwards, I'll eventually get back to my idealistic 4th grade goal of becoming a best selling author.
This sounds like a fine plan to me. I may join you in it.
And, questions would be fun.
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Date: 2010-07-19 09:02 pm (UTC)Questions:
Why gaming? (which sort is best?)
Was what was wrong with college mostly depression & environment, or was there an education-based part as well?
How did you end up in your current job?
and, How is the actual work part (as opposed to people, or being in the wrong climate)?
Why writing?