I've been hitting the keyboard hard lately, and I must say, it's more enjoyable than anything I've done in quite a while. Like I said in the last post, I've been working on an original language; on top of that, though, I'm also doing quite a bit of world building.
Now, to be quite honest, during the last four days not a lot has gotten done. DH has been off work on his "weekend" (which is actually four days long), and between talking with him during the day and talking with GL (as normal), I do absolutely nothing. I can generally get plenty done between sporadic conversation with GL when DH isn't home, but when DH is home, he somehow naturally fills in the blanks that I normally fill with work. Man, I love 'em both, but at any given moment I'd like to strangle either one or the other of 'em. They know this, so if they read this that won't come as any surprise.
But anyway, I'm looking forward to "my weekend" - Conman's at my parents' house this weekend, DH is going back to work, and GL's at home with W/GL and GL1 and GL2 (i.e., he's not at work where we usually talk). Tomorrow (yes, I realize that it is now tomorrow, but I haven't been to sleep yet, so to me, it's still today), I'm gonna (1) sleep until I wake up; (2) eat whatever I darn well please; and (3) write history and make up words until either my fingers fall off or my hands go numb. To you, this may not sound like the ideal day, but to me, this is heaven. Nirvana. Shangri-La.
Now, about movies.
DH and I watched two of 'em this evening. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Stardust. Now, DH picked the FF movie, and I picked Stardust, and I have to tell you, I liked MY movie a lot better than his.
FF seemed to start off slow for me, even though I'm more than a bit familiar with the universe the FF comes from (old-skool comic book fangirl here, my friends). I kinda feel like there was enough representation of the history and mythos of the FF in the first movie that all the exposition was really not needed in the second. And I know the story well enough to know that there was MORE than enough material with Galactus and the Surfer to make a much more action packed movie. But, all that being said, it wasn't a bad movie.
Oh, and did I mention that they didn't actually show Galactus in the movie? Disappointment X 10.
Oh, Stardust. Where can I start? This movie was fan.tas.tic. I absolutely loved the story, the effects, the romance...it was beautiful. Not on the scale of LoTR-bring-me-to-tears-beautiful, but nonetheless, very elegant and well-done. The cast was great, the script was great...I just really, REALLY liked this movie. A lot. Go rent it. Now.
Okay, more to come soon. Until then, stay healthy everybody!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Dog Claws and Linguistics
No, one doesn't have anything to do with the other. They just happen to appear in the same post.
This morning, DH woke me up with the help of the pup. That, on the surface is cute and sweet and, you would think, and great way to wake up. It was, up until the point that the dog got overly-excited and the dog raked his paw over my face and my open eye. Yep, that's right, my eye was scratched by a dog's claw. It hurts, it itches, it's a little blurry, but I can pretty much see, so we're all good. Feels like there's something in my eye, but I can't rub it or anything.
Been doing a lot of work on the new book lately. I've got an 80+ page "world-building book", where I'm writing about the history and culture of the continent in my book. I also have a non-human race in my book, and I've been doing some linguistics studies to start developing a language for them.
Linguistics is fascinating. I've always loved words, and word-sounds, and how language changes and the seemingly arbitrary way words (which are basically a collection of letters and sounds) are assigned definitions, and how those developed. It's an amazing process, and I knew it was involved, but I had no idea that you couldn't just develop a language. I didn't count on "mother tongues" and "sound shifts" and all that jazz.
I won't be developing a mother-tongue, but I'll keep in mind the "old forms" of some of the words that I'm creating. I could see this turning into (1) an integral part of the book and (2) a completely addictive hobby.
I'll keep you updated on my progress. It's a lot of fun...if you're into that sort of thing.
This morning, DH woke me up with the help of the pup. That, on the surface is cute and sweet and, you would think, and great way to wake up. It was, up until the point that the dog got overly-excited and the dog raked his paw over my face and my open eye. Yep, that's right, my eye was scratched by a dog's claw. It hurts, it itches, it's a little blurry, but I can pretty much see, so we're all good. Feels like there's something in my eye, but I can't rub it or anything.
Been doing a lot of work on the new book lately. I've got an 80+ page "world-building book", where I'm writing about the history and culture of the continent in my book. I also have a non-human race in my book, and I've been doing some linguistics studies to start developing a language for them.
Linguistics is fascinating. I've always loved words, and word-sounds, and how language changes and the seemingly arbitrary way words (which are basically a collection of letters and sounds) are assigned definitions, and how those developed. It's an amazing process, and I knew it was involved, but I had no idea that you couldn't just develop a language. I didn't count on "mother tongues" and "sound shifts" and all that jazz.
I won't be developing a mother-tongue, but I'll keep in mind the "old forms" of some of the words that I'm creating. I could see this turning into (1) an integral part of the book and (2) a completely addictive hobby.
I'll keep you updated on my progress. It's a lot of fun...if you're into that sort of thing.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Television Commercials...Lord Help Me
Now I remember why I don't particularly mind when the tv gets shut off. Yeah, I miss the shows, but the commercials...oh, Lord, the commercials.
Let's start at the less freaky and work our way up to the completely disturbing.
First, there are all those commercials for prescription medication. Yeah, I understand that there might be people who need these drugs because they have the afflictions they're meant for. HOWEVER, understand that chances are pretty good that if they've got toe rot or a fickle heart or a floppy....well, whatever it is that you've got...you already know about it, and a sixty-second spot during Dr. Phil isn't going to make you suddenly realize that you've got insulin-resistant diabetes and you need PillX to "fix it". Now, secondly, chances are even better that (a) if you do know about your condition and (b) you've already sought medical assistance for it that you and your physician have already discussed possible medications, and he's not going to make a change because that commercial during Dr. Phil said you ought to.
The next commercial type we ought to talk about are truly disturbing. The commercials where people are way too excited about what they're doing (like, getting a pizza for $5, or selling a car, or something else suitably tedious). Commercials like this are just...ick. They make my teeth set on edge...they're just...ew. No other reason but personal preference on that one.
That's about it for now. Just was watching tv tonight and noticed the weirdness, thought I'd share it with all of you.
Let's start at the less freaky and work our way up to the completely disturbing.
First, there are all those commercials for prescription medication. Yeah, I understand that there might be people who need these drugs because they have the afflictions they're meant for. HOWEVER, understand that chances are pretty good that if they've got toe rot or a fickle heart or a floppy....well, whatever it is that you've got...you already know about it, and a sixty-second spot during Dr. Phil isn't going to make you suddenly realize that you've got insulin-resistant diabetes and you need PillX to "fix it". Now, secondly, chances are even better that (a) if you do know about your condition and (b) you've already sought medical assistance for it that you and your physician have already discussed possible medications, and he's not going to make a change because that commercial during Dr. Phil said you ought to.
The next commercial type we ought to talk about are truly disturbing. The commercials where people are way too excited about what they're doing (like, getting a pizza for $5, or selling a car, or something else suitably tedious). Commercials like this are just...ick. They make my teeth set on edge...they're just...ew. No other reason but personal preference on that one.
That's about it for now. Just was watching tv tonight and noticed the weirdness, thought I'd share it with all of you.
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