Happy Inane Entry
Feb. 2nd, 2012 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kasihya1. I was thinking thinky thoughts on the street today, and caught myself doing Martin-Freeman-as-John-Watson impersonations on the way to class. (I checked them in the mirror when I got back to my room - not bad, self.) I suppose it was a matter of time; I do it a lot with my own characters when I'm writing or thinking about them. Especially in public, it seems.
2. I haven't been this excited about writing in a while. Specifically, I'm always excited by writing, but right now I'm specifically excited about the actual process of setting pen to paper and making loops in ink that form words, and those words form sentences, and those sentences shape characters, and I can do this! and then this can happen! and then ooooh, if I pursue this tangent here, then look what comes up! So this is good. I'm happy with this.
3. Yesterday evening I got so excited by the idea of Luna inheriting the One Ring from Xenophilius (who thought it was a possession of Humphrey the Wiley, which granted access into the spirit world) that I had to curl up in a ball making squeaking noises for a not-insignificant amount of time. This is the sort of thing that I love, when my own brain delights me so much that I lose my powers of speech.
4. My geoscience professor is a fan of Sherlock Holmes and the original Star Trek. Second day of class, he related the methodology Holmes uses in A Study in Scarlet to trace the murderer, to the way that geoscientists reconstruct the history of the earth. It was pretty entertaining, and I was secretly pleased with myself because he never mentioned the name of the story, but as soon as he started in on the garden path with two sets of footsteps, I was like 'I have read this one!' Later that same lesson, when talking about the law of actualism, he described how water should have the same properties on 'every Class M planet like this one'.
5. My problem is that I think everything is really interesting. So I'm an English major taking a geoscience class, eating up everything about how limestone rocks are formed and where and what it tells us about the Earth in the Silurian period, and it's so cool! I'm kind of shit at the labs, but I still look forwards to going to class. (Plus, he goes slowly enough that I can usually get in a page or so of writing during the hour.)
6. I bought a package of extremely salty Ritz crackers today. Cannot stop eating them.
2. I haven't been this excited about writing in a while. Specifically, I'm always excited by writing, but right now I'm specifically excited about the actual process of setting pen to paper and making loops in ink that form words, and those words form sentences, and those sentences shape characters, and I can do this! and then this can happen! and then ooooh, if I pursue this tangent here, then look what comes up! So this is good. I'm happy with this.
3. Yesterday evening I got so excited by the idea of Luna inheriting the One Ring from Xenophilius (who thought it was a possession of Humphrey the Wiley, which granted access into the spirit world) that I had to curl up in a ball making squeaking noises for a not-insignificant amount of time. This is the sort of thing that I love, when my own brain delights me so much that I lose my powers of speech.
4. My geoscience professor is a fan of Sherlock Holmes and the original Star Trek. Second day of class, he related the methodology Holmes uses in A Study in Scarlet to trace the murderer, to the way that geoscientists reconstruct the history of the earth. It was pretty entertaining, and I was secretly pleased with myself because he never mentioned the name of the story, but as soon as he started in on the garden path with two sets of footsteps, I was like 'I have read this one!' Later that same lesson, when talking about the law of actualism, he described how water should have the same properties on 'every Class M planet like this one'.
5. My problem is that I think everything is really interesting. So I'm an English major taking a geoscience class, eating up everything about how limestone rocks are formed and where and what it tells us about the Earth in the Silurian period, and it's so cool! I'm kind of shit at the labs, but I still look forwards to going to class. (Plus, he goes slowly enough that I can usually get in a page or so of writing during the hour.)
6. I bought a package of extremely salty Ritz crackers today. Cannot stop eating them.
