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farlaThe update I mentioned yesterday but didn't, for various reasons, actually do.
Right now I'm taking three college-like courses (Depending on who you ask at what point in the day and the alignment of the stars the night before, they are either college-level, preparing-us-for-college-level, college-level-but-easier, college-level-but-with-more-homework-and-fewer-tests, or advanced courses that are not related to college.). Psychology is already annoying me. My teacher says it's a science, but she believes in multiple personality disorder and recovered memory therapy and she mentions two conflicting theories as being equally valid. It's somewhat like what I imagine Catholic monks thought back in the middle ages – religious conjecture mixed with philosophy that everyone is taking far too seriously. I don't even claim to know that much about psychology, but I at least have working knowledge of recent developments. Plus the number of theories that could be resolved just by thinking about it for thirty seconds or so…but no theory will ever be allowed to die. Which is why we will learn about Freud first, although at least the teacher doesn't expect us to take him seriously. And then to make matters worse my teacher's terminology sucks. Subliminal messaging, for example, is not limited to the 'hearing sounds backward' and 'flashes of images on the screen'. Those don't work, but other forms do, therefore don't tell me I'm wrong for saying subliminal messages can work. (I hate trick-trick questions. My teacher asked stuff that's general knowledge but not true, but if you know enough about the subject you know that ultimately it is true.) English looks somewhat but not very interesting. History, like psychology, places me in the position of knowing more about the subject than my teacher in some areas, and thus having to figure out what the teacher thinks is the correct answer rather than the correct answer.
Overly long paragraph, but no matter.
I also baked a chocolate cake, the kind with pudding mixed into the batter if it means anything to you. My dad wanted one. Anyway, I'm not really big on cake. It came out nice and moist, but (compared to the brownies) drier than I'd like.
And my kitties are very upset. The fosters are going wild, the kittens don't like the litterbox, and my two cats are on edge.
The pokemon category is pretty dismal. Allow me to direct my dear readers to Pokemon: Lento Legends by pokemaster. A review for the story (which is written in script format) says it's great, so much so that the reviewer asks the author if they work for the 'pokemon company'. Much as the poor writing in the category upsets me, the reviews are truly enough to destroy my faith in humanity. Luckily I lost that a while back, but still.
Which is a passable segue considering my caffeine-fried, tired brain, to Keleri, who asked me to review her story, Gods and Demons, which does not suck. Actually, she asked me to review it quite a while ago (ironically, I got her email just as I received the whiny 'how dare your review not praise me' email from someone already thoroughly mocked.) but I've been too busy to do it, or else too tired to focus on a story that is written above a second-grade reading level.
So anyway. The story doesn't suck. It's an OT story that involves a protagonist with dead parents and weird-colored eyes, a new region, new pokemon, and it still doesn't suck. Let us all applaud Keleri for…not sucking.
Yes, I am very, very tired right now.
Keleri's story manages to deal with things with quite a good deal of realism. Weird eyes = no friends because people don't like them, not OMG so PRETTTTY!!! as is so often the case. She has some sort of plot setting up, although beyond the introductory chapter and a few later hints, there's no clear sign of what it is. I'm sure it'll be interesting when she gets to it. My only real problem with it is some of the characterization, as I dislike it when there are antagonists that harass characters without real reason. The story also has many very nice metaphors and similes in the description, which is a real rarity. Go check it out.
And if anyone else wants to 'submit' a story for me to read (I won't review unless it's yours and you ask, I'm just curious what people think of other stuff), comment here, email me, annoy me by putting it in an anonymous review on my stories, risk my eternal wrath by putting it in a signed review on my stories, or try to send me a psychic message through your computer. Or anything else you can think up.
Right now I'm taking three college-like courses (Depending on who you ask at what point in the day and the alignment of the stars the night before, they are either college-level, preparing-us-for-college-level, college-level-but-easier, college-level-but-with-more-homework-and-fewer-tests, or advanced courses that are not related to college.). Psychology is already annoying me. My teacher says it's a science, but she believes in multiple personality disorder and recovered memory therapy and she mentions two conflicting theories as being equally valid. It's somewhat like what I imagine Catholic monks thought back in the middle ages – religious conjecture mixed with philosophy that everyone is taking far too seriously. I don't even claim to know that much about psychology, but I at least have working knowledge of recent developments. Plus the number of theories that could be resolved just by thinking about it for thirty seconds or so…but no theory will ever be allowed to die. Which is why we will learn about Freud first, although at least the teacher doesn't expect us to take him seriously. And then to make matters worse my teacher's terminology sucks. Subliminal messaging, for example, is not limited to the 'hearing sounds backward' and 'flashes of images on the screen'. Those don't work, but other forms do, therefore don't tell me I'm wrong for saying subliminal messages can work. (I hate trick-trick questions. My teacher asked stuff that's general knowledge but not true, but if you know enough about the subject you know that ultimately it is true.) English looks somewhat but not very interesting. History, like psychology, places me in the position of knowing more about the subject than my teacher in some areas, and thus having to figure out what the teacher thinks is the correct answer rather than the correct answer.
Overly long paragraph, but no matter.
I also baked a chocolate cake, the kind with pudding mixed into the batter if it means anything to you. My dad wanted one. Anyway, I'm not really big on cake. It came out nice and moist, but (compared to the brownies) drier than I'd like.
And my kitties are very upset. The fosters are going wild, the kittens don't like the litterbox, and my two cats are on edge.
The pokemon category is pretty dismal. Allow me to direct my dear readers to Pokemon: Lento Legends by pokemaster. A review for the story (which is written in script format) says it's great, so much so that the reviewer asks the author if they work for the 'pokemon company'. Much as the poor writing in the category upsets me, the reviews are truly enough to destroy my faith in humanity. Luckily I lost that a while back, but still.
Which is a passable segue considering my caffeine-fried, tired brain, to Keleri, who asked me to review her story, Gods and Demons, which does not suck. Actually, she asked me to review it quite a while ago (ironically, I got her email just as I received the whiny 'how dare your review not praise me' email from someone already thoroughly mocked.) but I've been too busy to do it, or else too tired to focus on a story that is written above a second-grade reading level.
So anyway. The story doesn't suck. It's an OT story that involves a protagonist with dead parents and weird-colored eyes, a new region, new pokemon, and it still doesn't suck. Let us all applaud Keleri for…not sucking.
Yes, I am very, very tired right now.
Keleri's story manages to deal with things with quite a good deal of realism. Weird eyes = no friends because people don't like them, not OMG so PRETTTTY!!! as is so often the case. She has some sort of plot setting up, although beyond the introductory chapter and a few later hints, there's no clear sign of what it is. I'm sure it'll be interesting when she gets to it. My only real problem with it is some of the characterization, as I dislike it when there are antagonists that harass characters without real reason. The story also has many very nice metaphors and similes in the description, which is a real rarity. Go check it out.
And if anyone else wants to 'submit' a story for me to read (I won't review unless it's yours and you ask, I'm just curious what people think of other stuff), comment here, email me, annoy me by putting it in an anonymous review on my stories, risk my eternal wrath by putting it in a signed review on my stories, or try to send me a psychic message through your computer. Or anything else you can think up.
