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Last three months of my life - a recap [14 Nov 2009|09:25pm] Without any order at all. August/September:       1. Quit my job at the bookshop.       2. Go back and forth between parents house and P-city (my university city) trying to find a new flat to rent.       3. Meet my BA thesis profesor about the corrections he wants me to make. About a gazilion times.       4. Move all my things to the new flat.       5. Sign up for Snarry Holidays. October:      1. Start my Italian linguistics BA.      2. Meet my new flat mate - Claudia. Get on like house on fire from the firdt moment.      3. FInd out the flat owner is head deep in debt. Move back to the dormitory.      4. Meet my BA thesis profesor about the corrections he wants me to make. About a gazilion times.      5. Virus eats my SH story.      6. Weekend with Grandma Wicked.      7. Contraccting laryngitis.      8. Submit my BA thesis.      9. A tone of work on Italian BA. November:      1. All Saints at Grandma Wicked.      2. Still being ill.      3. Preparing tor English BA exam.      4. English BA exam.      5. A ton of work at Italian BA.      6. English BA exam results, English MA entry interview.      7. Writing the SH story. Again. As You can see, there was quite a lot going on for me lately. I've got into the MA, but now I feel really beat. If I could, I'd sleep all day. And now I also have a headache from hell. This sucks SO much, since my story is only half way done, and only a third is betaed, and I should be working on it, but I can't. I have to go puke now, and then to bed. PS. I'll correct my grammar and spelling tomorrow. post comment

What in the name of all that's holly is THAT? [08 Nov 2009|02:22am] [ music | Bollywood remix ] I've opened up my Photoshop today. Just to doodle a bit to get my muse out of hiding. Anyway, I open it up, click 'new', tape in all the relevant numbers, press ok, and this pops up: <centrer>Could not create a new document because scratch disks are full.</center> What is that supposed to mean? I mean... I know it means something is full and I have to empty it before I can use Photoshop again, but what is that thing? And more importantly, where do I look for it? Please help me. CV 2 comments|post comment

Help needed [20 Sep 2009|01:14am] [ mood | artistic ] So I'm slowly getting out from my funk. There's still no dialog in evidence but I did manage to get some plot. Now I need some ideas to fill in the empty spots. That's why I need Your help. What do You think a bunch of children (both sexes, ages 10 to17) can come up with to get two men to get together? Any idea will be greatly appreciated. post comment

[19 Sep 2009|10:37pm] [ mood | melancholy ] Just watched 'Cold Mountain'. Where, of course, they cite 'Wuthering Heights'... Drowning in tears now. post comment

[17 Sep 2009|04:45pm] [ mood | blank ] Ok. So I've got myself into the Snarry Holidays. I'm to write a story and I've even got a good idea or two of what should be in the story. The only problem is, for the first time in my life, I'm TOTALLY ARTBLOCKED. There's no dialogue popping up into my head. No movie-like sequence of events playing out. The ideas I have? I have absolutely no bloody idea how to connect them into a story. So... Help? Please? I've never experienced anything like that! I don't know what to do. I'll be grateful for any help. post comment

[31 Aug 2009|07:44pm] [ mood | disappointed ] So, Dorian Grey movie out in nine days (it's so widely advertised I've only just heard about it five minutes ago). Anyone who thinks it will disregard any and all subtle hints of homosexuality the book had say 'aye'. The trailer is full to bursting with women but there's only three brief interactions of Dorian and Wotton. None of them seemed even a tiny bit interesting to me. Pity. post comment

[31 Jul 2009|11:15pm] [ mood | bouncy ] Ok, so I was supposed to write an update on what's been up with my RL and about my fiction, BUT. Yesterday, after work (that's something I will cover in the RL post) I was so dead on my legs that I couldn't even concentrate on the letters (the gibberish that I've tipped... uh) and decided to surf the webcomic pages in search of something fun to look at before I fall asleep (one of the dream control techniques I've employed since... somewhere 'round the end of primary) I've found a banner for a lesbian story with an appealing style, read a few pages, and went to sleep. Today at dinner (dinner in Poland is the main meal held somewhere around 4-5 p.m.) I went back to it... And just finished reading everything there is of it up to today. It is absolutely AWESOME! It deals with dreams, and religion, and sexuality, and race, and reality, and lots, and lots of other things. The word's is SO detailed and the plot will drag You under with the force of a cracken, and the character's so... I just cannot describe them. Any synonyms to 'awesome', anyone? Go read it! There's not much I can tell You about the style since it changes constantly. And before You start moaning: it's all very enjoyable to look at. AND, there's a reason it changes (at least it seems so to me). It's in the plot itself. You want to know that it is? Just see for Yourself! There's so much I want to tell You about it, but everything I can think up will spoil You! Oh the agony! Now, go and READ YU+ME: dream, and whatever You think at first just know that You're WRONG and read on! At the very least to the end of part one. Though it's Part two that... Just read it all. post comment

Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet [03 Jun 2009|03:59pm] Does anyone have that book? And if yes, would They be willing to loan it out? I'm writting a paper on the influence of English on Polish fanfiction forums and wanted to use it for reference, but it's too expensive for me to buy. (Add shipment and tripple the sum and You'd get what I'd have to pay. And if the price's in punds than it's multiplying it by 5. It's a LOT.) Of course, since I live in central Europe, all shipment expances would be on me (that much I think I could manage). Thanks in advance. CV post comment

Ah! [25 Mar 2009|10:31am] [ mood | shocked ] Oh, my! What a scare! I certainly must post more. Even if I think it's drivel no one's interested in. Today I went in to check my e-mails and found an email with this title: Your InsaneJournal account is inactive and scheduled to be deleted. I think my heart stopped for a second. I just can't lose my link to all you people! Guh. So, there will probably be more from me. Feel free to ignore most of it. CV post comment

[25 Aug 2008|12:58pm] I'm starting to think that "My Fallen Angel" is cursed. Every time I try to sit down and write it, something happens: my Windows shuts down without any apparent reason, the keyboard stopped working, I've accidentally purged all my HP fic's from the pendrive, and NOW my brother melted down the hard drive with the only completed version of my BA. Now I have to contact my Uni to find out if there is a way to postpone my final exam by about a month, and if yes, how much will it cost me (and by me, in this case, I mean my brother). I don't think it needs saying that writing my fic will have to wait once again... Merlin! If that fic isn't cursed, I am! post comment

[22 Jun 2008|12:45am] [ mood | sleepy ] I’ve posted „Wedding Vows” and „Missing pieces”, along with bigger versions of the Vows boards, into my DeviantArt account yesterday. All in all, five pieces. Up to now they got all of three views… It’s not like I didn’t know where I was posting. Deviant’s dauntingly huge. Something like a small universe. It’s more than easy to get lost in it. But it’s still depressing. Huh… Me needs sleep now. Need my strength and wits about me. Tomorrow is time to rescue a friend from Grandma Zdzisia’s evil clutches. Night… post comment

On the issue of grammar [21 Jun 2008|01:15pm] [ mood | irritated ] [ music | My roomates "oldies" playlist. I am NOT old, damn it. ] Ok, I never grouse about other peoples grammar, seeing as my own is abysmal, but if I see one more “s/he walked passed” I’ll explode. Passed is a lexical verb that indicates an action of going by/bypassing/leaving something behind. You cannot form a sentence with two lexical verbs in it. The proper word to use is the adverb past; in the meaning of going near something or someone on your way further, or in simpler terms beyond something/someone. post comment

[09 Jun 2008|10:00pm] [ mood | sleepy ] My BA paper got stuck yet again. Heh… Does anyone here is interested in linguistics? I mean the academic type linguistics. I’m desperate for any books and/or papers on the use on archaisms in modern renditions of Middle English texts. If anyone happened to ever glimpse such a thing, no matter how small, please let me know. I know the chances are more than slim but… Can’t blame me for trying, no? On a lighter note, I was at the theatre with my mother and brother on Saturday. Polish rendition of Phantom of the Opera. Loved every last bit of it. If not for the money issue (a cost for moderately good place, train to Warsaw and back, and a night in a reasonably good hotel for one person is about…300PLN. That’s exactly what I pay a month for my room in the students house;) I’d go every weekend. The actors were chosen brilliantly. Christine is played by Kaja Mianowana, an 18-year-old girl that debuted a few years ago in Cats. She has unbelievable voice! And Luke Zagrobelny, a well established actor with a beautiful baritone voice, as Phantom proved to be a very good choice indeed. I must admit I had my doubts when I first heard of this choice. I’m glad to have been wrong. And the stage design! They got the permission to photograph Opera Garnier and its underground levels. The photos and films were then turned into a presentation. It was projected at times during the play. Most notably in the scene of Christine’s first descend into Eric’s little music nest. It was breathtaking. The next day before catching the train home we got to visit the National Gallery and the Museum of the Warsaw Insurrection. Overall, the weekend was a blast and a much needed respite from RL’s bitchiness (even if I’ve strained a tendon and my foot is killing me now =} ). post comment

[09 Apr 2008|12:59am] [ mood | busy ] [ music | Phantom of the Opera (locked on 'repeat' for the last 3 hours) ] Greetings, oh Great People o' the Journal! I have a random question. Does any of You brilliant people know of any legitimate way of earning money, when you REALLY don't have the time to get a proper job? I'm asking, because I've just realized that it's been over six months since my old tablet died and it's high time to finish mourning and buy a new one. And with my timetable at the uni, it's impossible to get even a part time job. My family and friends don't seem to be able to grasp the idea of either "disordered timetable" or a " poetry class popping up in the middle of every third Wednesday", so... Any ideas? post comment

[03 Apr 2008|01:08am] [ mood | happy ] [ music | Long Hot Summer Nights Wendy Waldman ]  I'm relatively healthy =} I've spent the day waiting on different doctors and cruising between clinics, but all they found in my heart was a small blood reflux in the right valve, which they termed "physiological" and "perfectly normal".  I still can't seem to be able to write my BA paper and I'm still unable to recover my fic's, but suddenly it's not all that bad.  On that happy note, I'm going to kill my doc for giving me the fright of my life. And not only me, but my parents as well! I'd use a stronger word to describe her, but I'm too happy to swear =}  Oh! And I'll try to cut down on rants. I've promised myself I won't do that so often any more. post comment

[01 Apr 2008|01:23am] [ mood | anxious ]  I've went to my doc today to get a prescription for my asthma drugs and I've went out with a referral to a cardiologist. Not good, but I still hope it's going to be a false alarm. The short stories for my book graciously let themselves be undeleted. My HP fic's decided they much prefer to put on the contrary brat act. I've more or less gave up on most of them but for two. If I can't get those back, I... Well, I don't know what I'll do. It won't be pretty though. My BA paper is in a stand still. It refuses to be written. I have a few more minor problems. All in all, I'm now know that somewhere around November last year I've managed to seriously offend some major deity. And it's a vengeful one. Anyone know of any exorcisms for such an occasion? Potion? Ritual? I'm really not opposed to dancing naked round the fire, right now. post comment

[12 Mar 2008|09:57pm] [ mood | crushed ]  I'm the most abjectly, undoubtedly, undeniably STUPID person on the face of this planet.  Why, You ask? I've just managed to delete 9 FUCKING YEARS of writing down ideas for stories, 3 years of assembling short stories for my first book, and ALL of my HP fics, which, being the non-brain that I'm, I've saved ONLY on my pen-drive, seeing as sheets ofpaper can be so easily misplaced or lost. Well, NOW I know better...  But I'm ranting again. What I really wanted to do, was ask, if any one of You reading this journal, know of a way to get back my data without spending an inordinate amount of money (which I don't have or hope to have in any immediate future) on a specialist firm? post comment

So, life got me off the hook for a while. [05 Mar 2008|05:32pm] [ mood | busy ]  The general situation is this:  1. After a big show down, my grandparents left for home. Which is a good thing overall, even if it looks shitty at the moment. And before You go and flay me for being disrespectful towards my elders and family: my grandma has the tongue and disposition that would make Jesus try to throttle her, should she ever meet him. 2. I've finished my teaching apprenticeship. And since it's all behind me now, I must say it's actually a very easy and relaxing job, as long as the pupils one teaches want to learn. If not, it is most rewording to flay them alive with sarcasm. I've even managed to make two in the most disobedient class work! That's my greatest achievement. 3. My BA paper is finally moving forward. Slowly, a step at a time, but still forward is forward.  4. My plans for writing more of My Fallen Angel were, of course, brutally thwarted, but hey! It's Easter in two weeks. 5. My allergy still triumphs over me. Today, I had to miss classes because of it. The total ban on going into cellars, attics, and  supermarkets (with their mould breeding grounds' also known as the air-conditioning) still stands. But that's just a minor itch in comparison to say... having to share room with my younger brother for two weeks. All in all, I give my life at the moment 4 out of 10 possible points in general shittiness. post comment

Ugh... [10 Feb 2008|07:20pm] [ mood | sick ] It's my last day of relative peace and freedom, and I can't seem to find anything to amuse myself. It's almost too much to bother anyway, what with Niagara setting up camp up my nose, my diaphragm aching from constant coughing, and my muscles generally hurting too much to even pick up the bloody remote/mouse/pencil/etc. I'm in a particularly self-pitying mood today. Don't mind me... post comment

RL sucks. [10 Feb 2008|04:22pm] [ mood | crushed ] [ music | The murmur of the PC ] ( It really does. Rant... ) 3 comments|post comment

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