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Mar. 25th, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Okay, so it's been another long week(ish) since I've updated. Things have improved muchly, mostly because I had the chance to go home for Easter break. Going home meant:
1. Being on my territory in a way that school really never is, knowing intuitively where everything is and how everything functions.
2. Getting enough sleep and not stressing about missing any classes, because there were none.
3. Seeing my family again, getting to hug my sisters, talk with my father, and do things with my mother. (Including cleaning things, because for Mom and I, that's a very important way we interact together. Yes, we're weird. But someone has to notice that the legs of the table have gunk on them and need to be scrubbed.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nightshadow242, stop laughing.)
4. Seeing my doctor, who has known me since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and can normally diagnose me at a glance because he's seen every aspect of my health before. This also means that he laughed himself sick at the BS the ER department told me, laughed even more at the prescription they gave me, which was apparently more useful for sending me into a drugged sleep than anything else, and then promptly gave a diagnosis that makes much more sense in terms of my symptoms and my history, plus the medication for my blood pressure that I took the last time I was having dizzy spells.
5. Church! And all the loveliness of being back with my home church community and that supportive religious context that I miss so much when I'm here. I really wish I could find a Christian context to belong with here at school, because even though I love Judaism, and am interested in every other religion I've come across, I'm a Christian at heart and I really miss that sense of belonging that I get with my own faith and the faith community I grew up with.
And being back here hasn't been that bad, because my teachers are being very reasonable about me making up the lost work, which helps. Plus, I'd forgotten that there was no genetics lab today, since there's two lab sections and one of them meets on Monday, when we were still on Easter Break.
Now, to go off on another completely different tangent, I was linked to this meta: http://cluegirl.insanejournal.com/847497.html?format=light while I was checking out my flist. And it set me to thinking a bit about characterizations, and finally to this challenge for you guys to give to me. Ask me to either write or tell how I'd write various different characters as evil, without breaking their characterization. Available fandoms: NCIS, Firefly, Doctor Who, Harry Potter. Because it would be a stretch, and possibly distract me from the fact that my health problems forced me to default from the femmefic challenge. I have a feeling I'm going to try to write at least one of the prompts I was given later, as a belated gift to the person I was supposed to be writing for, but that's going to take a while.
1. Being on my territory in a way that school really never is, knowing intuitively where everything is and how everything functions.
2. Getting enough sleep and not stressing about missing any classes, because there were none.
3. Seeing my family again, getting to hug my sisters, talk with my father, and do things with my mother. (Including cleaning things, because for Mom and I, that's a very important way we interact together. Yes, we're weird. But someone has to notice that the legs of the table have gunk on them and need to be scrubbed.
nightshadow242, stop laughing.)4. Seeing my doctor, who has known me since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and can normally diagnose me at a glance because he's seen every aspect of my health before. This also means that he laughed himself sick at the BS the ER department told me, laughed even more at the prescription they gave me, which was apparently more useful for sending me into a drugged sleep than anything else, and then promptly gave a diagnosis that makes much more sense in terms of my symptoms and my history, plus the medication for my blood pressure that I took the last time I was having dizzy spells.
5. Church! And all the loveliness of being back with my home church community and that supportive religious context that I miss so much when I'm here. I really wish I could find a Christian context to belong with here at school, because even though I love Judaism, and am interested in every other religion I've come across, I'm a Christian at heart and I really miss that sense of belonging that I get with my own faith and the faith community I grew up with.
And being back here hasn't been that bad, because my teachers are being very reasonable about me making up the lost work, which helps. Plus, I'd forgotten that there was no genetics lab today, since there's two lab sections and one of them meets on Monday, when we were still on Easter Break.
Now, to go off on another completely different tangent, I was linked to this meta: http://cluegirl.insanejournal.com/847497.html?format=light while I was checking out my flist. And it set me to thinking a bit about characterizations, and finally to this challenge for you guys to give to me. Ask me to either write or tell how I'd write various different characters as evil, without breaking their characterization. Available fandoms: NCIS, Firefly, Doctor Who, Harry Potter. Because it would be a stretch, and possibly distract me from the fact that my health problems forced me to default from the femmefic challenge. I have a feeling I'm going to try to write at least one of the prompts I was given later, as a belated gift to the person I was supposed to be writing for, but that's going to take a while.