swim through the fires to stay in this world

 At the moment, I am one essay away from being done will all the schoolwork of my undergraduate career. An essay that is currently off at the beta-reader, and thus I am unable to work on it. Doesn't that explain yesterday's posting schedule? Anyway, I feel like I'm slowly getting my mind back into fandom gear, so I went off to fannish5  to find some good questions that would hopefully get some fun Sunday conversations going in my journal (consider this my invitation to ignore all subsequence fannish5-approved Q&A and ask or answer a question of your choosing).

First, I learned that fannish5  has been going on since 2003, which kind of blew my mind. Secondly, when I started reading some of the earlier questions, I began to realize that there is quite a distinct difference between the earlier questions and the questions that will pop up currently each Friday.

Things I have noticed about the older questions:

–They skew towards a more old-school definition of fandom - more talk about zines, conventions, etc.

–The questions are much more general. Most of them are about movies or series as a whole, and less about individual characters.

–There is the assumption that you have only one fandom

–There is the assumption that you are into slash

Additionally, (and this is just a vibe I get) I have the feeling that the person or persons writing the questions were (at that point in time) totally unaware of anime fandoms.

And now, some retro fannish5  Q&Q:

( Death 5 )

( Ask Not What Fandom Can Do For You... )

( Convention 5 )
Also, a reminder: if you live in the United States, remember that today we switch our clocks one hour forward, regardless of how painful it is to do so.

[Poll #1536619]

 I ended up falling asleep at about 10:00 pm tonight (thanks alcohol! and 6:00 am wake-ups!) but now I'm awake and can't settle down to homework. Or cleaning up my desktop. Or unpacking the suitcase that I've been stubbing my toes on since monday.

I'm also getting the itch to write fanfic (and can I just say how sad and annoyed I am that remix never has a fandom I qualify for, and while there are a couple fandoms that, if they are accepted for qualifying fandoms, I wouldn't mind spitting out a couple thousand words to qualify for, I have a sneaking suspicious that I am going to be traveling when remix is running) but I have original fic that I need to epically revise, so I'm holding off on any fanfic until I have actually, honestly, started to revise.

So memes.

Meme 1: The Rant Meme

Give me a subject, and I will rant.

Meme 2: The Prognostication Meme

Give me a fandom and/or character and I'll give a random theory/speculation(maybe more than one) about it, absurd or real. 

Meme 3: The New Music Meme

Hey flist! Rec me at least one song that you're really into right now. I really need to put some new music on my iPod so I don't end up listening to the same stuff over and over again. (This is true, but I'm currently in the process of weeding through my iTunes, so it's also false. Don't let the ambiguity stop you.)

Meme 4: The Real Life Meme

Ask me one question about my real life. (Note: I reserve the right to say 'that's personal' although it's more likely that I'll just vague it up for you.)

Meme 5: The Unpopular Opinions Meme

Give me a fandom, character, or pairing and I'll tell you one unpopular opinion about them.

Because I decided to spare you flist and post five new memes in one post, if you decide to comment, please be sure to specify which meme you are referring to.

I got up at 6:00 am this morning and after making my breakfast and lunch for the day, spent an hour in the computer lab revising my essay. I finished it, printed it out, and got to the bus stop literally one minute before the bus I needed to catch to make it to my first call on time pulled up.

Back when I was a freshmen, I read a delightfully creepy short story about a puppeteer who falls in love with a beautiful doll. After one performance, he thinks she looks almost alive, gives her a kiss..... and she stabs him with her epic, plum-colored fingernails and sucks the life out of him.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

And not in the fun way. I'm just thanking the universe that my teachers keep cancelling their classes. Otherwise I have no idea how I would be getting everything done.

So... talk to me flist? I need distractions. That aren't, you know, thirty chapter fics.

 I just realized how soon my science presentation is.

 I am reading philosophy so abstract and stygian that I find myself mentally tuning out the very words I'm reading.

Normally, I can study just fine to music with vocals, but not this time. My own thoughts distract me.

So, could you spam me with some of your favorite (or at least successful) instrumental studying music?

And if I manage to sell The Writing of the Disaster back to the college (which I better), I feel so sorry for the person who is going to buy it after me. I'm marking the hell out of it in the vain attempt to make Maurice Blanchot comprehensible and writing bitchy comments in the margins when he attempts to defend anti-semitism.

 Okay, whoever commented that the Epic of Gilgamesh would make a great slash movie nailed it. It has everything! Two more-special-than-you boys, their close friendship and ambiguous descriptions thereof, the slutty, evil woman who wants Gilgamesh's ass and is subsequently destroyed.

Seriously, it was like reading a Naruto/Sasuke fanfic with bonus ooc!Sakura for English credit.

 I am done. Done.

D-O-N-E.

I took my pysch finale (cumulative, 85 questions), turned in my poetry portfolio with accompanying essay and turned in my Gothic essay (a full 48 hours early).

Fuck yeah.

Now I'm going to celebrate by taking my vitamins, drinking lots of OJ, and having a nice nap.