Relieved sigh
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wiseheartI've written the mid-term certificated. All of them, within an hour. Only made one mistake, and even that is fairly insignificant.
I've made the stupid statistics, though I don't know how many mistakes I made in those ones. Not that it counts, but I do have a certain professional pride.
I've finished all the paperwork that goes with closing up things at mid-term (or is that first term?), and my classbook looks presentable. Save from the entries of one moron colleague who at the age of fifty-something still hasn't acquired the high art of proper handwriting. But since he litter the classbook of all other classes, too, I'm not particularly worried.
I've typed up the first chapter of the new story. I wonder how Ro would like it. :))
Innocence is still coming very slowly, but I'm making some headway.
Little luck with finding some good descriptions and/or pics about the enterieurs of medieval noblehouses - the only thing that hinders me in finishing Chapter 2 of The Exercise of Vital Powers. One lousy paragraph or two, and I can't do it. Drat!
I'd like to write some fun stuff for a change. Like, some more of The Joys of a Beard, so that Finch can get in touch with her inner fangirl again. *g* But funny stuff doesn't seem to come to me nowadays. As if school would kill my sense of humour.
Ah, well, it was still a productive day. Though the new curriculum is even worse than the former one was. My teaching hours are even more scattered, meaning that I have even less time for other things.
I've made the stupid statistics, though I don't know how many mistakes I made in those ones. Not that it counts, but I do have a certain professional pride.
I've finished all the paperwork that goes with closing up things at mid-term (or is that first term?), and my classbook looks presentable. Save from the entries of one moron colleague who at the age of fifty-something still hasn't acquired the high art of proper handwriting. But since he litter the classbook of all other classes, too, I'm not particularly worried.
I've typed up the first chapter of the new story. I wonder how Ro would like it. :))
Innocence is still coming very slowly, but I'm making some headway.
Little luck with finding some good descriptions and/or pics about the enterieurs of medieval noblehouses - the only thing that hinders me in finishing Chapter 2 of The Exercise of Vital Powers. One lousy paragraph or two, and I can't do it. Drat!
I'd like to write some fun stuff for a change. Like, some more of The Joys of a Beard, so that Finch can get in touch with her inner fangirl again. *g* But funny stuff doesn't seem to come to me nowadays. As if school would kill my sense of humour.
Ah, well, it was still a productive day. Though the new curriculum is even worse than the former one was. My teaching hours are even more scattered, meaning that I have even less time for other things.
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Date: 2004-01-27 02:29 pm (UTC)*squeals* Find inspiration! Find inspiration! I hope SO to see Her (you know who) again. She Rox.
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Date: 2004-01-27 03:32 pm (UTC)At least I can use the older scripts in HoME for some truly hilarious things. Like Legolas being knocked down and crawling on his hands and feet. That poor Elf! But I'll let Gimli save him! And I think I'll put that movie!Troll into it. It was so stupid that it literally hurt me to watch.
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Date: 2004-01-28 02:46 am (UTC)As for the Beard, I'll tell my inner fangirl to excercise some patience.
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Date: 2004-01-27 03:07 pm (UTC)Have you been researching medieval houses on the Net, or in the library? I was never very impressed by medieval history resources on the Net. What do you need to know in particular?
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Date: 2004-01-27 03:29 pm (UTC)As for medieval houses: I simply want to get an idea what the house of a noble family might have looked from the inside. Particularly, I'm trying to develop a mental image of the House of the Stewards in Minas Tirith, for The Exercise of Vital Powers. I'll need Finduilas walking through that dratted house all along, having important conversations both in Ecthelion's chambers and her own, so I need at least some ideas about the architecture, the furniture, etc.
I've got a few books here at home about the Middle Ages (no time to go to a *really* good library right now), but they are little help. And you are right about the 'Net, too.
Actually, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe was the best description I found so far, but what he has, doesn't really match my vague ideas. Of course, it'd be nice if I could make up my mind about which part of the Middle Ages would best suit to base Minas Tirith on it. I just hope someone on Edhellond would offer their ideas about this particular question.
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Date: 2004-01-29 05:21 pm (UTC)As for more of "Beard," sigh... I SOOOOOO want to, like, read it, but I CAN'T cuz I might, like, steal something by mistake and put in MY Sue. sigh..... I'll just haf to listen 4 Finch's squealing Inner Fangirl, I guess.
Re: medieval stuff
Date: 2004-01-30 05:23 am (UTC)