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Hard To Say I Love You
Nov. 16th, 2010 09:59 pmI got workshopped today in my Creative Non-Fiction class! Doing a workshop in non-fiction seems a lot different to me than a fiction or poetry workshop - the basics are still the same, it's still mostly about craft and technique and themes, mechanical stuff, but because I'm writing about myself, it's a lot scarier. I have to sit there with my mouth shut while the rest of the class speculates about my motives and my personality and facts about my life. Which is weird, especially since, even though the story was mostly about the World Cup, I also talked about some really personal stuff, like my dad's drug addiction and coming out to my mom this summer. Lots of potential for things to get awkward! But no, it went really well. I got some nice ego-stroking compliments about my writing style, and some good criticism on the weak parts that will help with my revisions a lot. I'm getting kind of excited to start working on this story again now.
There was going to be something here about what else is going on right now, but all that is going on right now is research. I have two research projects do right after I get back from Thanksgiving break, so I am in obsessive reading mode and not likely to come out any time soon. And of course with that comes procrastination. So here's a few TV shows I'm watching right now!
Red Dwarf: I DON'T EVEN KNOW OKAY. One of the novelizations was playing on BBC7 this weekend and I thought it was funny enough that I wanted to check out the show, and now I cannot stop watching. Only up to season 2 so far, but OMG why do I love Rimmer so much? He's an objectively awful person and I would probably loathe him in real life, but oh, he's just so self-hating and lonely and pathetic, I want to give him a hug. I am so predictable. I also really love The Cat, for reasons not entirely clear to me.
Sunao ni Narenakute: a group of 5 twenty-to-thirty somethings become best friends on Twitter and decide to meet up in real life. Drama and romantic entanglements ensue! I started watching this show because I thought the premise was cute and the romantic leads (a young probationary high school teacher who keeps failing her exams and a would-be pro photographer with crazy hair) were reasonably charming, and then I kept watching in the middle after it kind of jumped the shark because I wanted to see where it was going, and then the last couple of episodes killed off the one character I really loved in a completely stupid way and now I'm just annoyed with it. I'm offering it as a Yuletide fandom, though, because I'm hoping to get to write a fix-it for the stupid.
Tumbling: OMG THIS SHOW IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT. I feel like I have to explain the premise, because it is too absurd not to: Azuma Wataru is a yanki punk who smokes on school grounds, dyes his hair red, and solves all his problems by punching a lot of people. He doesn't do well with authority or not punching people, so when he's told that, in order to graduate, he needs to join a group activity, all does not go smoothly, and he gets kicked off (or storms off from) every club he tries to join. But then, during a school assembly, he sees the boys' rhythmic gymnastics team perform, and immediately falls in love with tumbling. He storms onto the gym floor and demands that the team captain let him on the team and teach him how to do it too. And thus begins the sports drama. Things that this show does not have: sense, logic, competent gangsters. Things that it does have: bouffant hairdos, a canon gay character, gymnastics, the Power of Friendship, punching, sparkly leotards, boys crying and hugging, enough hoyay to sink a ship. CHAIN-SMOKING, FIST-FIGHTING HIGH SCHOOL THUGS IN SPARKLY PINK LEOTARDS. WHY ARE YOU NOT WATCHING THIS RIGHT NOW?
There was going to be something here about what else is going on right now, but all that is going on right now is research. I have two research projects do right after I get back from Thanksgiving break, so I am in obsessive reading mode and not likely to come out any time soon. And of course with that comes procrastination. So here's a few TV shows I'm watching right now!
Red Dwarf: I DON'T EVEN KNOW OKAY. One of the novelizations was playing on BBC7 this weekend and I thought it was funny enough that I wanted to check out the show, and now I cannot stop watching. Only up to season 2 so far, but OMG why do I love Rimmer so much? He's an objectively awful person and I would probably loathe him in real life, but oh, he's just so self-hating and lonely and pathetic, I want to give him a hug. I am so predictable. I also really love The Cat, for reasons not entirely clear to me.
Sunao ni Narenakute: a group of 5 twenty-to-thirty somethings become best friends on Twitter and decide to meet up in real life. Drama and romantic entanglements ensue! I started watching this show because I thought the premise was cute and the romantic leads (a young probationary high school teacher who keeps failing her exams and a would-be pro photographer with crazy hair) were reasonably charming, and then I kept watching in the middle after it kind of jumped the shark because I wanted to see where it was going, and then the last couple of episodes killed off the one character I really loved in a completely stupid way and now I'm just annoyed with it. I'm offering it as a Yuletide fandom, though, because I'm hoping to get to write a fix-it for the stupid.
Tumbling: OMG THIS SHOW IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT. I feel like I have to explain the premise, because it is too absurd not to: Azuma Wataru is a yanki punk who smokes on school grounds, dyes his hair red, and solves all his problems by punching a lot of people. He doesn't do well with authority or not punching people, so when he's told that, in order to graduate, he needs to join a group activity, all does not go smoothly, and he gets kicked off (or storms off from) every club he tries to join. But then, during a school assembly, he sees the boys' rhythmic gymnastics team perform, and immediately falls in love with tumbling. He storms onto the gym floor and demands that the team captain let him on the team and teach him how to do it too. And thus begins the sports drama. Things that this show does not have: sense, logic, competent gangsters. Things that it does have: bouffant hairdos, a canon gay character, gymnastics, the Power of Friendship, punching, sparkly leotards, boys crying and hugging, enough hoyay to sink a ship. CHAIN-SMOKING, FIST-FIGHTING HIGH SCHOOL THUGS IN SPARKLY PINK LEOTARDS. WHY ARE YOU NOT WATCHING THIS RIGHT NOW?