At least your temperatures are constant? Here it's been ranging from ~5C° to ~25C°, and believe me it's ****ing annoying going from freaking cold to freaking hot every single day.
At least your temperatures are constant? Here it's been ranging from ~5C° to ~25C°, and believe me it's ****ing annoying going from freaking cold to freaking hot every single day.
The episode of Chuck tonight. Wow. It was originally supposed to be the series finale but NBC extended the show for at least 11 more episodes. It was PERFECT. I could have been totally fine if it ended right there.
I know how you feel, I spent 14 months in the UK, and I've only been back a year. Luckily I had a lot of family and my best friend (who stayed there when I came back). I'm planning on visiting in August, which should be a lot of fun. The only thing is the flights - I feel ill after about 15 hours. I don't know about you, but all I wanted the whole time I was over there was Mountain Dew and Twisties, and all I want now is Mars Planets and Cherry Coke! Just think of all the cool places which are so close to you, whereas no cool places are close to here
Homesickness is weird for me... I currently miss some stuff from France and some from the US, because I'm in Canada. When I'm in the US I'll miss Canadian and French stuff for sure. And once I'm back in France I'll miss Canadian and American stuff.
I don't really have a home anymore, it's like I left part of me in every country I've lived, and now not matter where I am I miss everywhere else.
At least I enjoy what I do have. So while I'm in North America, you bet I'll have smoothies as much as I can! I don't care that it's freezing cold here!
At least I enjoy what I do have. So while I'm in North America, you bet I'll have smoothies as much as I can! I don't care that it's freezing cold here!
The only thing is the flights - I feel ill after about 15 hours.
Aw, poor you. Maybe next time you do it, you could plan a couple of days stopover in Thailand or Hong Kong to break up the travel?
I'm surprisingly ok with the flights now - I just kick back and do my thing, and try to remember that there are worse hardships than sitting on your arse, watching movies and getting fed every 15 minutes. I swear the worst part is always going to/from Heathrow on the Tube.
I don't know about you, but all I wanted the whole time I was over there was Mountain Dew and Twisties, and all I want now is Mars Planets and Cherry Coke!
Hahaha, you totally know how it is! Although I'm yearning for Golden Gaytimes, Arnotts Scotch Finger biscuits, and Tim Tams (anyone who claims Penguins are the same is a liar and/or has less than 5 functioning tastebuds).
Nope! We do have granitas though. And bakeries everywhere, where I used to live there were 5 in a 5 minute walking radius. Fresh bread and pastries whenever, sandwiches made just for you with fresh warm bread! That's probably what I miss the most. That and included taxes. It's a pain having to pay more than what you bought said it would cost. Plus since North America and France both get their prices to X.99 but France does it after tax, it feels cheaper.
Oh, and it's incredibly hard to find sorbet in North America. All you guys have is frozen yogurt and sherbet, both of which defeat the point of a dairy-free frozen dessert.
Plus since North America and France both get their prices to X.99 but France does it after tax, it feels cheaper.
That's always bugged the crap out of me. What's the point of leaving it one cent below the next dollar?
Oh, and it's incredibly hard to find sorbet in North America. All you guys have is frozen yogurt and sherbet, both of which defeat the point of a dairy-free frozen dessert.
Really? They sell plenty of sorbet at the supermarket I shop at.
Wait, there's Mountain Dew in Australia but not the UK?
-to Wikipedia!-
Wow, you poor bastards.
I've never had Mountain Dew. I don't have any clue what it tastes like, I just know that is has caffeine in the US and not in Canada because of some law saying you can't have caffeine in a drink if it's not brown or an energy drink.
France barely has any soda. There is Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Sprite and 7up that I can think of... but that's pretty much it. And very few fast food chains either, McDonalds and KFC are almost the only ones. We used to have Burger King in the 80s but they left France because since there was already McDonalds they weren't making profit. KFC works because they offer different things (chicken stuff instead of burgers).
Although we have Starbucks now, too.
You know what I miss from the US? Pomegranates. Coffee ice cream. And California Tortillia fast food restaurants. The minute I get back to the States I'm going to the nearest CalTort and hugging it. Yes, hugging a restaurant.
Now imagine like my family is Mountain Dew and you'll understand how I feel!
Naw, I've had periods where I've gone months without Mountain Dew for no apparent reason. Though I admit that was in the days before White Out...
No, the best frame of reference I have is my first year of college. I was 20 miles away with no driver's license, cooped up in my dorm room. My dorm was technically campus housing, but it was an old crappy motel off-campus that had been converted into a dorm. Naturally, it became the damn party dorm, and I couldn't get away from the smell of pot thanks to the poorly-sealing balcony door.
Then there was my roommate, Calvin. Oh, did I ever hate Calvin. For the most part, I didn't have to deal with him much. He spent most of his time elsewhere. When we were both in the room, we wouldn't speak to each other unless we had something to say to each other. Not even a "hey" when the other person would walk in the room. When I wasn't around, he'd eat my food, including chewing the last piece I had of this AMAZING Japanese gum they didn't (and still don't) make anymore. I loathed him.
I got to come home every weekend, but it wasn't enough of an escape from it, and my family kept pretty busy anyway. So you can imagine how much I was looking forward to getting home for winter break. Sadly, it was not to be. I think I said it most effectively back then.
I came home on Tuesday, just before it started to snow really heavily here. My sister was already feeling pretty crappy. By Wednesday morning it was snowing so heavily that they had to send my dad home because the mail trucks were getting stuck in the snow. It was hard, but he made it back before the snow hit too hard for him to get here. By then, my sister was feeling so bad that I had to stay up all night and take care of her.
By Thursday morning, the blizzard had stopped, and I slept for most of the day. When I woke up, I had to help my dad shovel for a few hours.
What I didn't mention, since most of the people who read my deviantArt journal live around here is that it was the worst snow storm in 9 years. Snow like that isn't even remotely normal here, though we do usually get our share of it.
That night, my parents took my sister to the hospital. She was feeling worse and worse, and she was getting dehydrated and threw up any new liquids she tried to drink. She had to ride in an ambulance from whatever hospital my parents had taken her to to Children's Hospital downtown. She was so dehydrated that her kidneys were having trouble functioning.
I saw her on Friday. She wasn't feeling good yet, but she was better. They've got her in the PICU, and she's not allowed to drink anything, so she's getting by on IVs, ice chips, and these little sponge swabby things. Her oxygen level dropped, and the doctors weren't sure why, so they had to do a CT scan on her lungs. That was earlier today, but I haven't heard from my dad in a while, so I'm not sure what the results were.
I've had to stay home by myself most of the time. There's no need for me to be at the hospital, and someone needs to take care of the house and the dogs. Last night my dad came home to get some things to take back to the hospital, then he brought me back home and got a good night's sleep in his own bed. My mom was supposed to do the same tonight, but first we went to the store so I'd have enough food around here to survive on my own, then she started picking up the house like crazy and didn't get to bed until 4 AM, but at least she'll have the chance to take a shower in the morning.
It's been hard, being home alone with nobody but the dogs for company, not knowing what's happening with my sister, and knowing that she'll more than likely spend this Christmas in the hospital. Oh well, I guess...
Long story short (too late!), my sister spent an entire month in the hospital. I spent an entire month snowed in with the dogs, and very early on in that month, I fell asleep with my laptop and it fell off the bed and cracked the LCD. With the part on backorder, I didn't get it back until a month later (by which time it had shipped so slowly, it arrived the day before the replacement for it arrived, the original having been declared "lost in transit", so now we have two). But that's sort of irrelevant to the story.
So by the time I got back to the dorms, I was feeling worse than ever. I'd barely gotten to see my family, I had seen one of my friends one time (because while they had their driver's licenses, they were snowed in the same as me), I'd had my worst Christmas and New Year ever, and now the only computer I had was a laptop my cousin let me borrow and a flash drive with some of my stuff on it, plus my sister was still in the hospital and I had to get phone updates on the rest of her stay. I ended up depressed and didn't go to class once after spring break, spending most of my time sleeping or staying up until 9 am doing nothing.
Wow, why the hell did I launch into that depressing story?
Edit: No new posts in the last hour...this is awkward...
Also, you didn't write "cycles", you wrote "cycli". My reaction: "why the hell did he change a perfectly valid word?" Just use the word "cycle". You can even say "sun cycle" the first time and then just cycle, to make it even clearer you mean a year, although people might still think you mean a day.
The plural of cycle is cycli, at least in Latin, where the singular is cyclus.
Also, each chapter starts with a numberless subchapter. This is intentional, as it is not told by the main narrator. It not only is the first chapter of this novel, it's the first chapter of a book written by someone. It also is in line with the title of the chapter, Awakening, where not only the main character awakens from her dream, but also where the world of Ertar is being born.
Each first subchapter should, and I say should because I'm not sure if I will be able to do that each chapter, but should sound clinical, as if somebody is giving an exposition, as if it's some report. Perhaps it would be more clear with each chapter.
Also, I don't have a blog for nothing. I don't post my novel on the blog for nothing. The blog really explains all if people really don't feel like finding the explanations in my novel. Not that they can't, from what I understand from my friends and from an IRC channel, the only questions the English IRC channel had were what cycli were, which I weren't aware that people on the internet didn't know Latin, and that the English language mostly botches foreign words (I mean, "walla"? What the hell?!). And even then they somewhat figured it out by using some bot that searches through an online dictionary.
The plural of cycle is cycli, at least in Latin, where the singular is cyclus.
The problem here is that your book is in English, not Latin. Suddenly using Latin for no reason, people are going to wonder what it's about. When I read "cycli" I immediately thought of cycle, and the idea that it was Latin crosses my mind, but because you went out of your way not to use the word "cycle" which is so close and works fine, I tried to figure out what that word meant. It couldn't mean cycle, or you'd have just said that, right?
I'm just trying to explain how it works when people are reading. Sometimes it's best just to keep things simple, especially at the beginning. Ultimately it's your call of course. I mean, it's your book.
It's good that you have a blog that explains things. Still, it's just been my experience that people don't like having to read commentary to understand a book they're reading. Getting more insights on it, sure, but to actually get it? Not really.
You know, Liefeld may not be an artist, but I like him for co-creating Deadpool
Liefeld is NOT an artist. He did co-create Deadpool, but not the actual attitude that people know and love the character for, so I don't think that Deadpool really counts as a Liefeld character. The only good character that Liefeld created by himself was X-Men's Cable, and even he's drawn in the physically improbable Liefeldian style of art, which subtracts from the character's likability. Linkara can back me up on this, too.
Nah, he's an artist. He gets paid to do art. Whether it's good or not is another matter.
Just taking a pen to paper, drawing some bulked-out guy with a gun and calling it "ART" does not make it so. If it is drawn on paper, it's just an image. Until a layer of emotional or atmospheric depth is added to it, it's not art. You can hand it to Liefeld though: The title of "Image Comics" is mostly accurate.
Plus, what the hell does he think a FACE looks like? Half of his characters suffer from Youngblood's disease!
The drifts outside of the boarding school were really bad and it looked like someone attempted to be a tough guy and drive their SUV through 'em. Big mistake.
The principal was at the entrance turning people away and my boss in the kitchen told me that it would take a few hours before everything would be clear. Then she told me "lol no, don't come in today".
Not that I'm going to complain, but... man. The one day this week I actually feel like going into work I didn't.
Hey, at least I got the day after the Super Bowl off, tho!
I've spent my afternoon pricing up getting a 3DS, and figuring out the best place to trade in my DSi and a few games. I could get £80 off the price of a 3DS if I trade-in my DSi. I decided to turn on my DS to check something and i've just realised the camera doesn't work on it anymore (it crashes the entire system), which sucks. Nintendo want up to £60 to fix it. =(
Damn, late to the comparison of snow amounts. Here's a picture.
That doesn't look like an hour's worth of work, but that's exactly how long it took to clean up after I took that. Oh, and don't let the sun fool you, it's 5 degrees F out there.
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PFFT, as if! It was freaking warm on Friday!
I totally agree! It was great!
I don't really have a home anymore, it's like I left part of me in every country I've lived, and now not matter where I am I miss everywhere else.
At least I enjoy what I do have. So while I'm in North America, you bet I'll have smoothies as much as I can! I don't care that it's freezing cold here!
...they don't have smoothies in France? Really?
Aw, poor you. Maybe next time you do it, you could plan a couple of days stopover in Thailand or Hong Kong to break up the travel?
I'm surprisingly ok with the flights now - I just kick back and do my thing, and try to remember that there are worse hardships than sitting on your arse, watching movies and getting fed every 15 minutes. I swear the worst part is always going to/from Heathrow on the Tube.
Hahaha, you totally know how it is! Although I'm yearning for Golden Gaytimes, Arnotts Scotch Finger biscuits, and Tim Tams (anyone who claims Penguins are the same is a liar and/or has less than 5 functioning tastebuds).
Nope! We do have granitas though. And bakeries everywhere, where I used to live there were 5 in a 5 minute walking radius. Fresh bread and pastries whenever, sandwiches made just for you with fresh warm bread! That's probably what I miss the most. That and included taxes. It's a pain having to pay more than what you bought said it would cost. Plus since North America and France both get their prices to X.99 but France does it after tax, it feels cheaper.
Oh, and it's incredibly hard to find sorbet in North America. All you guys have is frozen yogurt and sherbet, both of which defeat the point of a dairy-free frozen dessert.
-to Wikipedia!-
Wow, you poor bastards.
That's always bugged the crap out of me. What's the point of leaving it one cent below the next dollar?
Really? They sell plenty of sorbet at the supermarket I shop at.
Eurgh, yes. That and tipping - it's an etiquette nightmare.
Now imagine like my family is Mountain Dew and you'll understand how I feel!
I've never had Mountain Dew. I don't have any clue what it tastes like, I just know that is has caffeine in the US and not in Canada because of some law saying you can't have caffeine in a drink if it's not brown or an energy drink.
France barely has any soda. There is Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Sprite and 7up that I can think of... but that's pretty much it. And very few fast food chains either, McDonalds and KFC are almost the only ones. We used to have Burger King in the 80s but they left France because since there was already McDonalds they weren't making profit. KFC works because they offer different things (chicken stuff instead of burgers).
Although we have Starbucks now, too.
Naw, I've had periods where I've gone months without Mountain Dew for no apparent reason. Though I admit that was in the days before White Out...
No, the best frame of reference I have is my first year of college. I was 20 miles away with no driver's license, cooped up in my dorm room. My dorm was technically campus housing, but it was an old crappy motel off-campus that had been converted into a dorm. Naturally, it became the damn party dorm, and I couldn't get away from the smell of pot thanks to the poorly-sealing balcony door.
Then there was my roommate, Calvin. Oh, did I ever hate Calvin. For the most part, I didn't have to deal with him much. He spent most of his time elsewhere. When we were both in the room, we wouldn't speak to each other unless we had something to say to each other. Not even a "hey" when the other person would walk in the room. When I wasn't around, he'd eat my food, including chewing the last piece I had of this AMAZING Japanese gum they didn't (and still don't) make anymore. I loathed him.
I got to come home every weekend, but it wasn't enough of an escape from it, and my family kept pretty busy anyway. So you can imagine how much I was looking forward to getting home for winter break. Sadly, it was not to be. I think I said it most effectively back then.
What I didn't mention, since most of the people who read my deviantArt journal live around here is that it was the worst snow storm in 9 years. Snow like that isn't even remotely normal here, though we do usually get our share of it.
Long story short (too late!), my sister spent an entire month in the hospital. I spent an entire month snowed in with the dogs, and very early on in that month, I fell asleep with my laptop and it fell off the bed and cracked the LCD. With the part on backorder, I didn't get it back until a month later (by which time it had shipped so slowly, it arrived the day before the replacement for it arrived, the original having been declared "lost in transit", so now we have two). But that's sort of irrelevant to the story.
So by the time I got back to the dorms, I was feeling worse than ever. I'd barely gotten to see my family, I had seen one of my friends one time (because while they had their driver's licenses, they were snowed in the same as me), I'd had my worst Christmas and New Year ever, and now the only computer I had was a laptop my cousin let me borrow and a flash drive with some of my stuff on it, plus my sister was still in the hospital and I had to get phone updates on the rest of her stay. I ended up depressed and didn't go to class once after spring break, spending most of my time sleeping or staying up until 9 am doing nothing.
Wow, why the hell did I launch into that depressing story?
Edit: No new posts in the last hour...this is awkward...
The plural of cycle is cycli, at least in Latin, where the singular is cyclus.
Also, each chapter starts with a numberless subchapter. This is intentional, as it is not told by the main narrator. It not only is the first chapter of this novel, it's the first chapter of a book written by someone. It also is in line with the title of the chapter, Awakening, where not only the main character awakens from her dream, but also where the world of Ertar is being born.
Each first subchapter should, and I say should because I'm not sure if I will be able to do that each chapter, but should sound clinical, as if somebody is giving an exposition, as if it's some report. Perhaps it would be more clear with each chapter.
Also, I don't have a blog for nothing. I don't post my novel on the blog for nothing. The blog really explains all if people really don't feel like finding the explanations in my novel. Not that they can't, from what I understand from my friends and from an IRC channel, the only questions the English IRC channel had were what cycli were, which I weren't aware that people on the internet didn't know Latin, and that the English language mostly botches foreign words (I mean, "walla"? What the hell?!). And even then they somewhat figured it out by using some bot that searches through an online dictionary.
(I need a place where's to buy a DSi Charger and a pair of d10 Dices in Phoenix, any help?)
The problem here is that your book is in English, not Latin. Suddenly using Latin for no reason, people are going to wonder what it's about. When I read "cycli" I immediately thought of cycle, and the idea that it was Latin crosses my mind, but because you went out of your way not to use the word "cycle" which is so close and works fine, I tried to figure out what that word meant. It couldn't mean cycle, or you'd have just said that, right?
I'm just trying to explain how it works when people are reading. Sometimes it's best just to keep things simple, especially at the beginning. Ultimately it's your call of course. I mean, it's your book.
It's good that you have a blog that explains things. Still, it's just been my experience that people don't like having to read commentary to understand a book they're reading. Getting more insights on it, sure, but to actually get it? Not really.
Anyways, good luck with your book.
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you know, Liefeld may not be an artist, but I like him for co-creating Deadpool
Yeah Im hoping the worst of the blizzard is gone where I live.
Theres about four feet of snow in my driveway preventing me from going anywhere.
Liefeld is NOT an artist. He did co-create Deadpool, but not the actual attitude that people know and love the character for, so I don't think that Deadpool really counts as a Liefeld character. The only good character that Liefeld created by himself was X-Men's Cable, and even he's drawn in the physically improbable Liefeldian style of art, which subtracts from the character's likability. Linkara can back me up on this, too.
Ha ha
Nah, he's an artist. He gets paid to do art. Whether it's good or not is another matter.
Just taking a pen to paper, drawing some bulked-out guy with a gun and calling it "ART" does not make it so. If it is drawn on paper, it's just an image. Until a layer of emotional or atmospheric depth is added to it, it's not art. You can hand it to Liefeld though: The title of "Image Comics" is mostly accurate.
Plus, what the hell does he think a FACE looks like? Half of his characters suffer from Youngblood's disease!
The drifts outside of the boarding school were really bad and it looked like someone attempted to be a tough guy and drive their SUV through 'em. Big mistake.
The principal was at the entrance turning people away and my boss in the kitchen told me that it would take a few hours before everything would be clear. Then she told me "lol no, don't come in today".
Not that I'm going to complain, but... man. The one day this week I actually feel like going into work I didn't.
Hey, at least I got the day after the Super Bowl off, tho!
Why not? You may not like it, hell I may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's not art.
So i won't be getting a 3DS.
Me or Giant Tope?
That doesn't look like an hour's worth of work, but that's exactly how long it took to clean up after I took that. Oh, and don't let the sun fool you, it's 5 degrees F out there.