Timewaster's Guide Archive

Wow! Congratulations! To both you and the other lucky individual. This is a very happy day.

I just found out my school accepted my deferment, which means I won't be going back to school next month. Not that I was going to if it was declined, but at least this way I don't have to re-apply for the whole school.

Thanks, guys. Hopefully this will fix the problem.

As for my virus scanner, it's Kaspersky. About a week ago, though, it wasn't working (kept saying the blacklist was corrupted) and that's actually around the time when this thing with my e-mail started. I haven't run a full scan with it since it went down. I'm doing so now, and it should catch anything that's there. If not, I guess I'll just have to have my dad clean my computer....again.

Last night at a church activity, we played Human Foosball. You know, like the table game foosball with the soccer players that you control on the bars and such? Yeah, a life-size version, kind of. Anyway, the two people on either side of me kept taking every single ball that came my way that was even remotely possible for them to take.

Now, this was frustrating because it made me feel useless to the team, however, I can deal with uselessness. What I cannot deal with is when the ball comes up and starts coming down practically directly over my head, making for a perfect head-butting shot, and when I go to do just that, I find that the guy next to me had the same idea.

I have black eye now. Only, it's a black eye where the bruise is only on the eyelid, and a little bit above it, making my eyelid droop. And it hurts like heck. Especially when I sneeze. And what makes it worse is that the guy didn't even apologize. He just pretty much went on playing and then looked over, smiling, and said 'Is that where I hit you?' pointing to my head....

I'm happy that my years worth of contacts came in today. Contacts are so much better than glasses.

I rather enjoyed that article. Makes complete and utter sense to me. I get similar reactions, as I'm an English major, Geology minor (well, partial geology minor). One arts, one sciences. My choice makes sense to me, but when I say what my major is to the Geology people, they can't figure it out. English? But this is the sciences....

Also, oddly enough, I understand myself a little better after reading that. Understanding people's reasoning is something that interests me. I've been told I'm extremely logical and analytical, and that whole paragraph about emotional logic struck me as being right. If I don't understand why a person would do something, I think it out logically until I do understand. And you're right. Characters should be written the same way. They're people in a story. Write them as if they are people.

And lastly, this:

The method of writing isn't "logical", they'd argue. Imagination isn't logical. Ideas come from this strange place which no one can really explain.

It bugs me when people say this, because most of the time they're talking about fantasy and how the author who wrote a certain piece of work doesn't have to make sense in their writing. It's fantasy, and fiction, and the writer can write it however they want to....I disagree with that, but agree with your statement later in that paragraph. The combination of the ideas needs to be logical, even if the ideas themselves are not. The plot needs to make sense. It doesn't matter if it's fantasy or a paper for an English class--logic is crucial.

Oh, and laser-eyed sharks sound awesome...Looking forward to that. Do they have anything to do with Shiro?

Scott Westerfeld. He's sci-fi for young adults. I haven't read his Midnighter series, but I want to (same with Leviathan). His series that I have read is Uglies and it was pretty darn good...except the last book. He should've kept it as a trilogy.