Author Topic: The What Are You Doing Thread #7 (Read 55315 times)

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1900 on:** April 25, 2012, 08:47:01 AM »

Quote from: writerlove on April 25, 2012, 08:13:35 AM

Quote from: Delling on April 24, 2012, 01:31:19 PM
-doing my "Oh God no--put it back, put it down, put it away!! Are you serious, Stephanie Meyer!?" rounds on the internet apparently
-being able to laugh at horrible things
-but no, seriously, it's bad ... like bad
I could write a novel on how much I hate the Twilight series. The writing and what it advocates. BLECH!

Love/hate relationship with Twilight. Read 'em. Enjoyed 'em. Been to Forks. LOVE to make fun of them! They're sooooooo not the greatest pieces of American literature ever written, but they're fun to read. It's nice to lose yourself in them, then gag later and psychoanalyze with fellow love/haters. I think Katie can agree with me on this one.

-About to do some Photoshop exercises
-Discussing programming nightmares with my classmates (one of them said he dreamed that he shot the instructor, and then a miniature version of the instrucor came out of the bullet hole and said, "IT NEVER ENDS."

Symbolic AND weird!)
-Alternating between taking sips of coffee and water

darthkiwi · « **Reply #1901 on:** April 25, 2012, 09:37:05 AM »

But the characters are so terrible. Bella is a whining girl with first-world problems who needs to get over herself, and is so psychotically unstable she welcomes the attentions of a stalker who breaks into her house and watches her sleep, and then asserts herself for the first time in the series by defending her foetus *which will probably kill her*.

My problem is not so much that she's a hateful character with no redeeming features who should be pitied and lampooned in equal measure - though to me she is - but rather that she is presented with the assumption that *every girl should be like this*. It's deeply disturbing.

What I want to see is a Twilight parody written in the Free Indirect Style, so that we get to see into the protagonists's warped, selfish worldview but we also get the disapproving gaze of a responsible narrator. This book would not have to parody or exaggerate the events of Twilight *in the slightest* to be totally hilarious and scathing.

Deloria · « **Reply #1902 on:** April 25, 2012, 02:47:11 PM »

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 25, 2012, 09:37:05 AM

watches her sleep,

I watch you sleep AND I find your REM phases fascinating.

I totally win!

Oh wait...

I think I dislike Kristen Stewart almost as much as the character she plays.

And I hate what Twilight advocates and the not-so-subtle Mormon influences and the mass-indoctrination of stupid girls everywhere and the completely-accurate-for-a-teenage-relationship-but-certainly-not-ideal-and-definitely-not-something-desirable power dynamics.

Delling · « **Reply #1903 on:** April 30, 2012, 11:32:32 AM »

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 25, 2012, 09:37:05 AM

...and then asserts herself for the first time in the series by defending her foetus *which will probably kill her*.

ugh... I didn't know that was how she first asserted herself.

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 25, 2012, 09:37:05 AM

My problem is not so much that she's a hateful character with no redeeming features who should be pitied and lampooned in equal measure - though to me she is - but rather that she is presented with the assumption that *every girl should be like this*. It's deeply disturbing.

I totally agree... don't think I could have said it better myself.

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 25, 2012, 09:37:05 AM

What I want to see is a Twilight parody written in the Free Indirect Style, so that we get to see into the protagonists's warped, selfish worldview but we also get the disapproving gaze of a responsible narrator. This book would not have to parody or exaggerate the events of Twilight *in the slightest* to be totally hilarious and scathing.

True... but we'd probably also want to get Meyer's work on rewriting the first book from Edward's perspective and incorporate that.

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1904 on:** April 30, 2012, 11:45:59 AM »

-Wanting to drop-kick Adobe Photoshop's "Classroom in a Book" out of a moving vehicle on the wet highway. SPEECH PATH WORKS JUST FINE, MY ASS!

-Sneezing, sniffling, and itching my eyeballs. Spring is here.

-Thinking about leaving class in ten minutes. I reallyReallyREALLY don't feel like sticking around listening to someone talk about databases, which I do not find interesting in the slightest.

Deloria · « **Reply #1905 on:** April 30, 2012, 03:43:21 PM »

-Talking to Brandonchan
-Cleaning my room.

-Sorting through Antigone vocab.

writerlove · « **Reply #1906 on:** April 30, 2012, 04:28:31 PM »

Quote from: Deloria on April 25, 2012, 02:47:11 PM

I think I dislike Kristen Stewart almost as much as the character she plays. And I hate what Twilight advocates and the not-so-subtle Mormon influences and the mass-indoctrination of stupid girls everywhere and the completely-accurate-for-a-teenage-relationship-but-certainly-not-ideal-and-definitely-not-something-desirable power dynamics.

Truth that! Just not my cup of tea

-Chilling in my hotel room

koko_99_2001 · « **Reply #1907 on:** April 30, 2012, 07:46:24 PM »

Quote from: Haids1987 on April 30, 2012, 11:45:59 AM

-Wanting to drop-kick Adobe Photoshop's "Classroom in a Book" out of a moving vehicle on the wet highway. SPEECH PATH WORKS JUST FINE, MY ASS!

I see "Speech Path" and immediately think "Speech pathology"...it's all in the job

-playing Castleville
-telling myself I need to go shower now instead of waiting until bedtime to make the time

waltzdancing · « **Reply #1908 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:00:55 PM »

-Getting ready for bed.
-Marking things off on my To Do List (Still so much to do)
-Making my weekend to do list. Most notably, clean up any TSL work around my room so my grandmother isn't swamped in it.
-Planning Graduation and scheduling my grandmother's pickup from the airport.

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1909 on:** May 01, 2012, 08:41:51 AM »

Quote from: koko_99_2001 on April 30, 2012, 07:46:24 PM

Quote from: Haids1987 on April 30, 2012, 11:45:59 AM
-Wanting to drop-kick Adobe Photoshop's "Classroom in a Book" out of a moving vehicle on the wet highway. SPEECH PATH WORKS JUST FINE, MY ASS!
I see "Speech Path" and immediately think "Speech pathology"...it's all in the job

-Waiting for class to start
-Drinking coffee and water (not mixed, one tank of each sitting on my desk)
-Amazed at the multitude of terrible songs on the radio right now and unfortunately humming one right now

Delling · « **Reply #1910 on:** May 02, 2012, 05:27:09 PM »

-not sleeping... $:-\$

(Posted on: May 02, 2012, 12:18:41 AM)

tonight,
-trying to decide between normal-ish night or staying up all night for a lit review or setting an alarm for like 4am to get up and work on the lit review

-apparently watching stuff with the roommates instead

writerlove · « **Reply #1911 on:** May 03, 2012, 10:23:44 AM »

-Listening to Katherine Jenkins's song,"Break It To My Heart". I'm so glad I got back into Dancing With The Starts this season. She has a lovely voice.
-Chilling after a hectic few weeks from trips galore

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1912 on:** May 03, 2012, 02:40:35 PM »

-Installing updates to Windows
-Having text conversations with 3 different people
-Contemplating: coffee again before work? Do I need another mocha?

(probably)

GrahamRocks! · « **Reply #1913 on:** May 03, 2012, 04:28:41 PM »

-Watching/listening to hercrabbiness' Lets Play of Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra.

-Trying to work on chapter 3 of KQ5:AMTHGY! in Microsoft Word.

Rosella · « **Reply #1914 on:** May 03, 2012, 06:28:26 PM »

I remember her LP of The Colonel's Bequest, but I don't think I knew about her Dagger of Amon Ra playthrough. I'll need to look that one up.

-Watching Big Bang Theory with my mom
-Being worried about a blog I'm working on. A contributor doesn't appear to be contributing. $:-\$

GrahamRocks! · « **Reply #1915 on:** May 03, 2012, 07:06:39 PM »

-Also wondering where exactly my dogs collar is. He apparently must have slipped it off somehow. This has happened once before, but luckily I was able to find in the backyard. Now, I can't seem to find it anywhere!

-Cleaning upstairs occasionally for the cleaning ladies possibly coming tomorrow.

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1916 on:** May 04, 2012, 08:52:05 AM »

Quote from: GrahamRocks! on May 03, 2012, 07:06:39 PM

-Cleaning upstairs occasionally for the cleaning ladies possibly coming tomorrow.

But wouldn't the cleaning ladies clean the upstairs for you?

-Suddenly remembering a weird ass dream I had last night. Something about a huge house with all these kids having a party, and someone was hiding on the roof waiting to murder them all...? (Hunger Games undertones there. I still have nightmares about the Hunger Games books. They were spectacular, but deeply frightening to me.)

-Waiting for more people to get here so they can explain to me what I missed yesterday in class. (From what I hear it was very exciting--we're learning how to make our very own objects!

)

-Excited: since it's Star Wars Day I have an excuse to watch Return of the Jedi!

Deloria · « **Reply #1917 on:** May 04, 2012, 10:29:01 AM »

You put most of the things away. You can't expect them to be able to clean if there are clothes and books and things everywhere.

They usually only do vacuuming/dusting/mopping etc.

Delling · « **Reply #1918 on:** May 10, 2012, 07:30:38 AM »

-working on litreview (5 pages + references: woo!!)

-thinking I might have had a slight breakthrough in the SGR B2 modelling... also known as "why isn't this done yet?"

-listening to string renditions of Rise Against

(it's pretty fantastic

)
-waiting to hear back from my violin instructor about the possibility of a lesson this week
-being annoyed with Bus Eireann for being fail...

Haids1987 · « **Reply #1919 on:** May 10, 2012, 08:59:17 AM »

Quote from: Deloria on May 04, 2012, 10:29:01 AM

You put most of the things away. You can't expect them to be able to clean if there are clothes and books and things everywhere. They usually only do vacuuming/dusting/mopping etc.

Ah. I've never had a cleaning lady.

-Sneezing
-Chatting
-Drinking