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[LupusYondergirl]

Seriously, I am OBSESSED with Star Wars. I was as a kid, and now in my 30s I'm no better. I think my next tattoos will be the symbol of the Rebel Alliance on the top of one foot and the jedi order on top of the other.

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Seriously, I am OBSESSED with Star Wars. I was as a kid, and now in my 30s I'm no better. I think my next tattoos will be the symbol of the Rebel Alliance on the top of one foot and the jedi order on top of the other.

Will knowing that my 37 yo boyfriend bought and wore a Yoda backpack the entire time we were on vacation last year make you feel any better? Granted, we were at Disney World where decorum flies out the window. but still...Yoda backpack.

My characters have been very vocal this week, one in particular. It's incredibly weird when what you intend to write becomes something completely different without you even realizing it.

[jackkel dragon]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I update a LOT. But... I'm a full time student and don't have a job. So, since I don't start classes until the 30th I don't have much to do while all my friends are at work.
I admit, I have no life most weekdays.

(Although lately I've been busy turning Atton Rand into a dark jedi since I'm playing KOTOR 2 with the restored content mod for the first time. I want that happy-Atton ending! And now... I want to write star wars fic, too. I think I'll resist that urge, though. I like characters that are too screwed up to be decent jedi, and too nice to be proper sith.)

Did someone say KOTOR 2? I love that game, especially when I found mods that added the ending. I'm gonna get killed here, I've recently been brought to playing the Witcher, Morrowind, DAO, and now KOTOR 2 just because so many people are talking about those games. I'm not going to have time for school work unless I cut back somewhere...

...And my FF story is also suffering. My DAO replay was supposed to help with that.

I used to update twice a week (for my old story), and for 10 days I posted a new chapter every day. That... no longer happens...

[jackkel dragon]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Seriously, I am OBSESSED with Star Wars. I was as a kid, and now in my 30s I'm no better. I think my next tattoos will be the symbol of the Rebel Alliance on the top of one foot and the jedi order on top of the other.

...Even thinking of the Extended Universe origin of the Rebel symbol (Galen Marek from the Force Unleashed,) that is... disturbing. And I'm a Star Wars fan.

...Anyone else waiting for the Old Republic?

[LupusYondergirl]

jackkel dragon wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I update a LOT. But... I'm a full time student and don't have a job. So, since I don't start classes until the 30th I don't have much to do while all my friends are at work.
I admit, I have no life most weekdays.

(Although lately I've been busy turning Atton Rand into a dark jedi since I'm playing KOTOR 2 with the restored content mod for the first time. I want that happy-Atton ending! And now... I want to write star wars fic, too. I think I'll resist that urge, though. I like characters that are too screwed up to be decent jedi, and too nice to be proper sith.)

Did someone say KOTOR 2? I love that game, especially when I found mods that added the ending. I'm gonna get killed here, I've recently been brought to playing the Witcher, Morrowind, DAO, and now KOTOR 2 just because so many people are talking about those games. I'm not going to have time for school work unless I cut back somewhere...

...And my FF story is also suffering. My DAO replay was supposed to help with that.

I used to update twice a week (for my old story), and for 10 days I posted a new chapter every day. That... no longer happens...

I have all those games.  I love Morrowind.  I really hope the next elder scrolls is more like that than Oblivion.  Oblivion was nice and all but kinda generic-fantasy in comparison.

I just got Assassins Creed 2 as well.  But it was super-cheap at Target.  And I'm replaying DAO. 

I don't start classes until the 30th and I write my thesis this semester.  I want to get all the gaming I can in before then!

[LupusYondergirl]

SurelyForth wrote...

Will knowing that my 37 yo boyfriend bought and wore a Yoda backpack the entire time we were on vacation last year make you feel any better? Granted, we were at Disney World where decorum flies out the window. but still...Yoda backpack.

My characters have been very vocal this week, one in particular. It's incredibly weird when what you intend to write becomes something completely different without you even realizing it.

... I have that backpack.  My lego star wars action figures are in it. 

And my prequil story is being very demanding for my attention lately.  I want to write Anders, but Duncan is all "oh, no, we're going to Ostagar.  Now."

[DreGregoire]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Duncan is all "oh, no, we're going to Ostagar.  Now."

That Duncan can be so pushy. pfffft!

[Sandtigress]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I don't start classes until the 30th and I write my thesis this semester.  I want to get all the gaming I can in before then!

Oh nice, what level of thesis (undergrad/masters/PhD)? I just wrote and defended my Masters thesis this year, and ugh, it ate my life up!  So glad it's over with!

[LupusYondergirl]

Undergrad honors. I'm writing it on... the witch, wizard, and magician figure in Shakespeare.

I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that.



I'm starting a joint masters/PhD program next year (fingers crossed) and I'll focus on Shakespeare, though, so doing something on what is actually a fairly untapped subject seemed like a good idea. I can reuse it as my admission essay.



There's like a grand total of two books about Shakespeare that even touch anywhere near the subject (and I read both this summer), so I'm fairly excited and nervous. I might expand it for my PhD since any subject that hasn't been done to death in Shakespeare is rare.

[Sandtigress]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Undergrad honors. I'm writing it on... the witch, wizard, and magician figure in Shakespeare.
I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that.
.

So as in that motif across various works of Shakespeare?  That sounds like something even I might be interested in, and I am a hardcore science geek.   Best of luck to you!

lol Actually, it sounds way more appealing than my Masters thesis, was 70 (yes, seven zero) pages on one set of sensory organs' role in male mating behavior in a tiny soil nematode worm. 

[LupusYondergirl]

Yeah, across all the works, but focusing primarily on Macbeth and The Tempest. It's just an undergrad, so I think I only have to have 40 pages or so. Not too bad.

[Sarah1281]

That's the useful thing about writing so many fanfics, I've found. While other people lament having to do so many words or pages, you're well used to getting a lot out there and so it's easier to hit your goal.

[LupusYondergirl]

That is SO true. People in my creative writing class were complaining about a ten page short story we had to write last semester. All I could think was "I call that a chapter, and I write more than one a week. For fun!"



(I actually do target about ten pages for each chapter, give or take. That usually works out to be between 5 and 6000 words on fanfic.net's bizarre wordcount system. Which bears no resemblance to actual counting of words.)

[Sarah1281]

When I was going through my huge Harry Potter story and copying and pasting every chapter into the ff.net document X so I could add proper page breaks, I discovered that it actually was counting how many words were ACTUALLY in it instead of adding roughly ten percent. I really don't mind the inflated word count so it was actually kind of disappointing that it did that. And a bit weird.

[Miri1984]

Sandtigress wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Undergrad honors. I'm writing it on... the witch, wizard, and magician figure in Shakespeare.
I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that.
.

So as in that motif across various works of Shakespeare?  That sounds like something even I might be interested in, and I am a hardcore science geek.   Best of luck to you!

lol Actually, it sounds way more appealing than my Masters thesis, was 70 (yes, seven zero) pages on one set of sensory organs' role in male mating behavior in a tiny soil nematode worm. 

See, I find THAT idea a bit fascinating, and I'm an English nerd!

[sabreene]

All this talk is making me miss school. I want to write papers and go to class. Each thesis sounds so interesting... it makes me think of all the subjects I've yet to study.

[Sarah1281]

sabreene wrote...

All this talk is making me miss school. I want to write papers and go to class. Each thesis sounds so interesting... it makes me think of all the subjects I've yet to study.

I have class start in six days so I can say that, without a doubt, I'm the exact opposite...

[sabreene]

Sarah1281 wrote...

sabreene wrote...

All this talk is making me miss school. I want to write papers and go to class. Each thesis sounds so interesting... it makes me think of all the subjects I've yet to study.

I have class start in six days so I can say that, without a doubt, I'm the exact opposite...

I'll trade with you!  Only it would probably turn out to be way too much like that old Freaky Friday movie. The one with Jodie Foster. I refuse to believe there was another one.

[LupusYondergirl]

Hey, it's never too late! I dropped out years ago and went back when I was 30. I'll be at least 36 or so by the time I'm done.

It's actually so much easier now than it was when I was younger. Less distractions without the call of so many youthful indiscretions. I'm finally mature enough to say "Nah, no barhopping for me tonight, I've got a 9 am class."

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Hey, it's never too late! I dropped out years ago and went back when I was 30. I'll be at least 36 or so by the time I'm done.
It's actually so much easier now than it was when I was younger. Less distractions without the call of so many youthful indiscretions. I'm finally mature enough to say "Nah, no barhopping for me tonight, I've got a 9 am class."

And I'm mature enough to refuse to take a class that starts that early.

[LupusYondergirl]

I definitely avoid them, but sometimes there's no choice. Or the class is so awesome it's worth suffering through. I took a class on authors of the lost generation that was at 8:30. Agonizing, but SO worth it.

[Miri1984]

I ended up being one of the oldest in my undergrad course simply because I took so long to do it - a bout of sickness meant I absent failed a lot of subjects and had to show cause to get them to take me back. By my final year all my friends had left and I was the mature age student at the front of the class desperate to get out.

My post-grad was much more fun because we were ALL mature age students and tended to have "lunchtime beers" before afternoon class and go to bed early.

[sabreene]

I would go back to school, but I think I've used up all my school days already. I also have too many obligations and bills now. But I have been known to study for fun, in my free time.

In my undergrad days my friends and I were all older, since we were  transfer students (also since we had a habit of changing majors). I don't think any one of us graduated under the age of 26. I was still one of the oldest when I went back after that. It does give you a different perspective -- but I was never one for morning classes, if I could help it!

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[Corker]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Undergrad honors. I'm writing it on... the witch, wizard, and magician figure in Shakespeare.
I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that.

You are in good company. Dame Frances Yates was knighted for her research into Renaissance occultism, and you might find her "The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age" a good source.  It's been a few years since I read that, but I believe she goes into some length discussing Prospero.  It *is* rough reading if you're new to the history of the occult, though.  This was my introduction to the subject - it's rather short and quite readable, and I think I got ahold of it sometime near the end of my undergrad years.  Definitely recommended to anyone interested in medieval and Ren magic.

(And totally unrelated, I'll pimp Ginzburg's "Night Battles" because it's  just... so... totally this perfect minature study of an isolated and unique community, and how it changes into the mainstrain.  If you've ever read Guy Gavriel Kay's "Tigana," this is where all the stuff about the benandanti comes from.  I am possibly the only person who read "Night Battles" first and then had someone say, "Benandanti? Are you reading Kay?  If not, then you should!")

[mousestalker]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Hey, it's never too late! I dropped out years ago and went back when I was 30. I'll be at least 36 or so by the time I'm done.
It's actually so much easier now than it was when I was younger. Less distractions without the call of so many youthful indiscretions. I'm finally mature enough to say "Nah, no barhopping for me tonight, I've got a 9 am class."

When I went for my LLM there were two sorts of students in the program: The majority, who were older and were taking classes while working and the minority who came straight from law school. A teacher cancelled a class, once. The minority were delighted (Yay! time off! Party!). The majority were outraged (I'm paying for this. You had better make up for dodging out on a night).

When I did some teaching later on, I loved having adult students. They were so much more focussed and self directed than your typical undergrad.