...but I have been plugging away on two various stories. One is a twist on the Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince" which can be read here (I assume it's readable to the general public). The other is a story that came from writing the following "drabble"; I'm planning on having the complete first draft done by the end of the summer or Aug 31. (I've got four-six more chapters so I'm doing pretty well considering.)
In other news...I'm a bit at a loss of where I'm spending my next school/college year. I originally was planning on sharing a suite with my roomate from last year and two friends of hers who I am vaugely aquainted with. But Michelle (my old roommate) didn't have enough money to pay for the room and other two girls dropped out. So I'm stuck with 3 strangers I don't know. While I'm sure that would be an interesting life experience, I never wanted a roommate in the first place. I only got one because I was kicked out of my original single room and didn't have a enough priority to pick a single in the dorm I wanted. It ended up turning out nicely considering how awful some roommates apparently could be, but I'm not keen on having to deal with three strangers at once...
I am still out of date in discussing the wonder that is WALL*E (I love that movie- I've already seen in twice and would definately see in again).
On a loosely related note, I've been trying to watch Disney's "Cinderella" and I find (after a talk with my sister about it), that Cinderella has, from a feminist perspective, almost less control of her situation than Snow White. That is, even though Snow White is sweet, domestic, and gentle, she gets people do what she whats; she beguiles them you might say and makes the situation fit what she expects by being nice about it. (It was a deleted scene that really made me notice it, but I do feel it's in the movie.)
As for Cinderella, so far she's shown an agressive malcontent (is that a word?) toward her situation, yet all she seems to do is tell everyone to get along, put up with it, and hopefully someday her dreams will come true. At least Snow White was willing to make her situation fit to some requirements she had (making the dwarves wash for one and cleaning up a filthy house she entered without permission).
Only other thing I can think of is I'm reading a newly purchased book call Eve: The History of an Idea and it's fascinating (for me), mostly from a feminine perspective. I've always been rather interested in that aspect of Genesis (one of the points of Pullman's His Dark Materials that appealed to me).
Another excellent book I read recently was The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard, which I believe I mentioned in my last entry. It discussed three main pirates and Woodes Rogers, who had a hand in waylaying the high piracy age. It was very engaging with many parts that made me think of "One Piece" (which also made me midly suspicious), though the author used very good sources from what I could tell. Now I need to start doing more extensive research into pirates of different periods (anicent Rome) and other geographical areas (China) and the opposite sex (Irish pirate). (It also made me realize that I like the 18th century, especially the beginning and the end.)
And that is all for now.
In other news...I'm a bit at a loss of where I'm spending my next school/college year. I originally was planning on sharing a suite with my roomate from last year and two friends of hers who I am vaugely aquainted with. But Michelle (my old roommate) didn't have enough money to pay for the room and other two girls dropped out. So I'm stuck with 3 strangers I don't know. While I'm sure that would be an interesting life experience, I never wanted a roommate in the first place. I only got one because I was kicked out of my original single room and didn't have a enough priority to pick a single in the dorm I wanted. It ended up turning out nicely considering how awful some roommates apparently could be, but I'm not keen on having to deal with three strangers at once...
I am still out of date in discussing the wonder that is WALL*E (I love that movie- I've already seen in twice and would definately see in again).
On a loosely related note, I've been trying to watch Disney's "Cinderella" and I find (after a talk with my sister about it), that Cinderella has, from a feminist perspective, almost less control of her situation than Snow White. That is, even though Snow White is sweet, domestic, and gentle, she gets people do what she whats; she beguiles them you might say and makes the situation fit what she expects by being nice about it. (It was a deleted scene that really made me notice it, but I do feel it's in the movie.)
As for Cinderella, so far she's shown an agressive malcontent (is that a word?) toward her situation, yet all she seems to do is tell everyone to get along, put up with it, and hopefully someday her dreams will come true. At least Snow White was willing to make her situation fit to some requirements she had (making the dwarves wash for one and cleaning up a filthy house she entered without permission).
Only other thing I can think of is I'm reading a newly purchased book call Eve: The History of an Idea and it's fascinating (for me), mostly from a feminine perspective. I've always been rather interested in that aspect of Genesis (one of the points of Pullman's His Dark Materials that appealed to me).
Another excellent book I read recently was The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard, which I believe I mentioned in my last entry. It discussed three main pirates and Woodes Rogers, who had a hand in waylaying the high piracy age. It was very engaging with many parts that made me think of "One Piece" (which also made me midly suspicious), though the author used very good sources from what I could tell. Now I need to start doing more extensive research into pirates of different periods (anicent Rome) and other geographical areas (China) and the opposite sex (Irish pirate). (It also made me realize that I like the 18th century, especially the beginning and the end.)
And that is all for now.
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