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Nov. 21st, 2006 10:21 pmSpent the morning reading and writing, and then went up to the school (through huge amounts of rain, thunder, lightning and wind!) to say hi to my old boss and help ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miss_arel with researching her term paper. And while I was at it, I attacked the UW libraries and came out with a little pile of hobby-research books - it got into my head a few days ago that I really needed to do some research on gypsy cultures and practices, particularly relating to death, religion, taboos, etc. I get like this sometimes - I run into a culture in something, and become hell-bent on reading every damned thing I can find about it. *g* Incidentally, it always fascinates me to read anthropology texts written before about 1980 - they tend to use phrases like "In the primitive mind..." which have the tendency to me go "bwuh?" Modern anthropology frowns on the use of that word... Ah well, still a very useful and interesting book. I ♥ going on random ethnography-binges.
And, with many thanks to those who put up with my whining about NaNo last night, I am once again feeling mostly okay on that subject. ...Which I suppose means I should actually work on it, rather than ignoring the thing in favor of totally random and very very long-term fic projects.
Mostly I felt like today was Saturday. It still feels like I'll be going back to work in a few days, sort of, though I'm starting to slowly get used to the idea of that not being the case. And next week is the seminar, so that'll keep me quite busy for a few days. Fun stuff.
Update: A full week late, but I've passed the 25,000 mark on NaNoWriMo. If I double-time my wordcounts for the rest of the month, I can still make it. And, lo and be-fecking-hold, I'm starting to feel like I'm finally hitting a stride of knowing what I'm doing/where I'm going with this dratted thing, too. It'll still need a lot of revision and work later, but... I'm feeling pretty okay about it at the moment. *Knocks on wood* And now to bed, with hopes of an early-ish start and a high word count tomorrow!
miss_arel with researching her term paper. And while I was at it, I attacked the UW libraries and came out with a little pile of hobby-research books - it got into my head a few days ago that I really needed to do some research on gypsy cultures and practices, particularly relating to death, religion, taboos, etc. I get like this sometimes - I run into a culture in something, and become hell-bent on reading every damned thing I can find about it. *g* Incidentally, it always fascinates me to read anthropology texts written before about 1980 - they tend to use phrases like "In the primitive mind..." which have the tendency to me go "bwuh?" Modern anthropology frowns on the use of that word... Ah well, still a very useful and interesting book. I ♥ going on random ethnography-binges. And, with many thanks to those who put up with my whining about NaNo last night, I am once again feeling mostly okay on that subject. ...Which I suppose means I should actually work on it, rather than ignoring the thing in favor of totally random and very very long-term fic projects.
Mostly I felt like today was Saturday. It still feels like I'll be going back to work in a few days, sort of, though I'm starting to slowly get used to the idea of that not being the case. And next week is the seminar, so that'll keep me quite busy for a few days. Fun stuff.
Update: A full week late, but I've passed the 25,000 mark on NaNoWriMo. If I double-time my wordcounts for the rest of the month, I can still make it. And, lo and be-fecking-hold, I'm starting to feel like I'm finally hitting a stride of knowing what I'm doing/where I'm going with this dratted thing, too. It'll still need a lot of revision and work later, but... I'm feeling pretty okay about it at the moment. *Knocks on wood* And now to bed, with hopes of an early-ish start and a high word count tomorrow!
