I'm still alive...
Nov. 17th, 2004 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fairyrunebarely. In the past two months, we've had five people quit at my store. That means more hours and money for me, but less life. I'm hardly ever at my house, and when I am there, I'm glued to the computer doing schoolwork. Family? Who are they?
I'm actually taking a brief break from one of the stupidest writing assignments I've ever had to do. It's for a course called "Accidental Realities: Writing Experimental Fiction." Sounds cool, no? No! It is neither accidental, nor experimental. It's all very forced and contrived, and the teacher is a pain in my ass.
Our final assignment it to write a cut-up story. We are to do this by photocopying one page from three of our favorite books, cutting the lines apart and in half, and pulling them out of a hat (or in my case, a pot) at random, and writing a story around them. It's due by the end of the week.
You may say that this is both accidental and experimental, but it isn't. We have to end up with a story that makes sense, beginning, middle and end, the whole deal, in less than a week. For me, this sort of thing would take time. I could probably do it very well had I the appropriate amount of time, but I don't, so I'm going to half ass it.
So here I sit, with a pot full of bits of paper in front of me, expecting not to do wonderfully in this course, but not to fail.
My other courses are going quite well, so I'm not going to rant about them.
I miss TV, and I love my boyfriend.
That is all.
Possible Tales from the Hallmark to come at a later date. Boy, do I have some good ones!
I'm actually taking a brief break from one of the stupidest writing assignments I've ever had to do. It's for a course called "Accidental Realities: Writing Experimental Fiction." Sounds cool, no? No! It is neither accidental, nor experimental. It's all very forced and contrived, and the teacher is a pain in my ass.
Our final assignment it to write a cut-up story. We are to do this by photocopying one page from three of our favorite books, cutting the lines apart and in half, and pulling them out of a hat (or in my case, a pot) at random, and writing a story around them. It's due by the end of the week.
You may say that this is both accidental and experimental, but it isn't. We have to end up with a story that makes sense, beginning, middle and end, the whole deal, in less than a week. For me, this sort of thing would take time. I could probably do it very well had I the appropriate amount of time, but I don't, so I'm going to half ass it.
So here I sit, with a pot full of bits of paper in front of me, expecting not to do wonderfully in this course, but not to fail.
My other courses are going quite well, so I'm not going to rant about them.
I miss TV, and I love my boyfriend.
That is all.
Possible Tales from the Hallmark to come at a later date. Boy, do I have some good ones!
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Date: 2004-11-18 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-18 02:25 pm (UTC)When things quiet down we'll catch up!