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rusty_haloI have no internet access at home. It's so depressing. Stupid Time Warner Cable. Someone is coming to fix it on Tuesday, but until then I can only get online from work. (During which time I should really be, y'know, working.) So no fic reading and no website updates until next week. (It's sort of like being in solitary confinement, cut off from the world...) I'm very pissed off, but there's nothing I can do about it.
I handed in my last midterm yesterday. Six pages on the construction of gender in Dr. No (the first James Bond movie).
I realized that this could very well be the last midterm that I take in my life, ever. This is my last semester as an undergraduate, so if I don't continue school, this is it. Woo hoo!
It's also spring break. I have to work all week, but it's still nice to have a break from school. :)
With no internet I found myself re-reading George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Actually, I just re-read the Jaime Lannister chapters of A Storm of Swords a couple of times. I love, love, love Jaime Lannister. (And without fic, I need *something* to fill up my brain.) So for the two people who might care, look for a long post about that later. (Probably much later, since I'll have to write it at home and don't know when I'm getting the internet back.)
If you need to get in touch about anything, write to me before 6PM ET today--after that I'll be cut off for at least the weekend. :(
I handed in my last midterm yesterday. Six pages on the construction of gender in Dr. No (the first James Bond movie).
I realized that this could very well be the last midterm that I take in my life, ever. This is my last semester as an undergraduate, so if I don't continue school, this is it. Woo hoo!
It's also spring break. I have to work all week, but it's still nice to have a break from school. :)
With no internet I found myself re-reading George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Actually, I just re-read the Jaime Lannister chapters of A Storm of Swords a couple of times. I love, love, love Jaime Lannister. (And without fic, I need *something* to fill up my brain.) So for the two people who might care, look for a long post about that later. (Probably much later, since I'll have to write it at home and don't know when I'm getting the internet back.)
If you need to get in touch about anything, write to me before 6PM ET today--after that I'll be cut off for at least the weekend. :(
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Date: 2004-03-12 01:47 pm (UTC)I love those books. There's so much pain and passion. I tried to get my daughter to start reading them and found myself describing them as "fascinating, like passing a car crash and wanting to look away, but being unable to."
Jaime Lannister is your favorite character? I should have known. :)
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Date: 2004-03-12 02:07 pm (UTC)Totally. There are moments when it's so unrelentingly dark that I start to lose interest, to be honest (sort of like with Spike--what unimaginably horrible thing is going to happen to the characters next?) That's tempered by the fact that the only characters I really care deeply about are Jaime and Tyrion, and Jaime's story has been one of the most positive. Yes, horrible things happened to him, but unlike most of the other characters, his experiences made him a better person.
Jaime Lannister is your favorite character? I should have known.
Of course! Jaime is the Spike of that series. Except that his story is much more coherent and well-written than Spike's, and it's genuinely about free will and the power of human choice instead of about some mystical deus ex machina.
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Date: 2004-03-12 03:28 pm (UTC)Yes, Jaime does become a better person. Of course, he was so terrible at the beginning, he couldn't possibly have become worse. Tyrion, I'm afraid, is heading in the opposite direction.