cornwall and stuffs like that

[frith_in_thorns]

Just got back from Cornwall, where I've been staying with Roz-who-doesn't-go-on-LJ-enough-for-me-to-link-to-her.  Second time I've visited her now, and again I really enjoyed myself.  Proof that you can indeed make 'real' friends online, whatever the disapprovement my grandparents expressed when my mum mentioned this to them!  She also bribed me to write a CSI NY fic again, for the first time in a year.  I'm not sure I'm going back to it, though, since I really am far too fed up with that fandom.  Anyway, we went on as many walks as we could despite the rain, and went round lots of little Cornish villages, where we visited lots of charity and second-hand-book shops, from which both I came away with far more books than I'd intended buying - but books are the one thing I can always justify!

Certain books, anyway.  My sister's just been trying to tell me that Twilight is a really good book, and if I vehmently disagree, that's 'only my opinion', and 'it's just a story'.  Not quite sure how to verbalise my burning disagreement properly, I withdrew.

Much to my surprise, while in Cornwall I actually managed to get my sgahcchallenges  story in on time, and also to reply to most comments (about to reply to the rest), although I haven't really used the internet for much else -- I haven't been ignoring everyone who's posted things, honest!  Oh, I also signed up for the atlantisbigbang as a writer -- although I have the feeling that I may live to regret this!!  (On this note, baby_werewolf , you said you'd sign up as an artist.  You aren't going to disappoint me, are you? ;P)  There're also the sticksandsnark  stories for me to read -- this is great!  :D

Oh, there's revision too.  Tomorrow I'll have passed the halfway point through my incredibly long and boring textbook, and then I can feel proud :)

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Sounds like you had a great time - and I agree, books are always justifiable!! Our bookshelves overfloweth with books! We need more room - not for us, you understand, just for our books!!!! LOL!

And the atlantis big bang? You're far braver than me!! I couldn't imagine myself writing 40,000 or more - and certainly not for a deadline!! Go you!

I hear you on the boring textbook. I might have majored in English Lit and Drama in the end, but I started out on a teaching degree (before it became apparent I wasn't really suited to teaching!) - and yeah, some of those books were hard work!

That said, some of the books about literature weren't entirely fun either - nor some of the actual books on the various courses either. The Kafka one nearly did me in, it was so bizarre and boooorrrinnng! Though I did get to read Wuthering Heights, The Color Purple and To Kill A Mockingbird as part of the course and I loved them! Oh, and got to reread Catcher in the Rye, another book I love, so not too bad overall! And the Shakespeare course was interesting. It was more about his impact on society - in film, TV shows, general language and such like - than analysing the plays themselves! We got to watch various adaptions of certain plays and compare the differences in them, rather than the more tedious 'what does this line mean/what is he getting at here' type of thing!

Hmm, seem to have wandered off-topic, sorry!

[frith_in_thorns]

Love your book icon - I must get one for myself sometime!

Not a fan of Wuthering Heights myself. I just couldn't like any of the characters apart from what's-his-face - Linton? Lindon? - I know that's sort of the point of it, but because of it I really didn't care about the story. Love the others, though (except Kafka, which I haven't read). To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my very favourite books.

*Eyes the amount of big bang words still to write* Too many people gave me encouragement! I blame you guys xD

[leesa_perrie]

*Eyes the amount of big bang words still to write* Too many people gave me encouragement! I blame you guys xD

We were sent here by the plot bunnies... beware!!! *bg*