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I have an odd impulse to make this first entry up out of lines from songs I know, but given my Tori Amos leanings I'm not sure how much sense I could make. I hear that Powerpuff Girls have an episode done entirely in Beatles lines, so it must be possible, if you know enough Beatles lyrics, which I don't.
Seven days until I teach my first class (less than, actually) and I still don't have a syllabus together, though I do have a week-by-week breakdown of the topics we'll theoretically cover. I am so terrified I can barely move. In many ways this would have been much easier as a lecture class. I know some things we can debate about false advertising in a seminar, but I know many many more things about caselaw, which is somewhat less debatable.
Speaking of debate, we just spent five days in Maine with my college debate coaches, who've opened a restaurant on Mt. Desert Island. We've gone to Maine to hang out with them several times now. This visit brought back memories of starting my first long fic, Acadia (the park on Mt. Desert Island, naturally). That was, what, 1997? Gosh, I'm a bitter old fic queen, and I haven't even gotten into any flame wars and have only the vaguest idea of what a sock puppet is and how one manipulates its little cotton mouth.
At least progress has been made on the Buffy fic and my first SV story is about ready for posting. Not finished, but ready to be abandoned. Naturally, right after I started writing it a huge debate about the prevalence of present-tense fics in SV erupted on the SV slash discussion list I'm on, causing me to freak out because I've decided to play with present tense this time. Clearly, like many, I've been influenced by other SV authors to do so.
Seven days until I teach my first class (less than, actually) and I still don't have a syllabus together, though I do have a week-by-week breakdown of the topics we'll theoretically cover. I am so terrified I can barely move. In many ways this would have been much easier as a lecture class. I know some things we can debate about false advertising in a seminar, but I know many many more things about caselaw, which is somewhat less debatable.
Speaking of debate, we just spent five days in Maine with my college debate coaches, who've opened a restaurant on Mt. Desert Island. We've gone to Maine to hang out with them several times now. This visit brought back memories of starting my first long fic, Acadia (the park on Mt. Desert Island, naturally). That was, what, 1997? Gosh, I'm a bitter old fic queen, and I haven't even gotten into any flame wars and have only the vaguest idea of what a sock puppet is and how one manipulates its little cotton mouth.
At least progress has been made on the Buffy fic and my first SV story is about ready for posting. Not finished, but ready to be abandoned. Naturally, right after I started writing it a huge debate about the prevalence of present-tense fics in SV erupted on the SV slash discussion list I'm on, causing me to freak out because I've decided to play with present tense this time. Clearly, like many, I've been influenced by other SV authors to do so.
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