mithrel

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I started taking German in high school, and ended up minoring in it in college, but since about 2006 I haven't used it at all and forgot a lot.  I got rid of all my textbooks, since I figured I knew the language and didn't need them.  I kept all my other textbooks, or most of them, but not the German ones.  And, of course, whenever I got rid of a book I find something I want to look up in it.  I've been thinking about trying to review it for awhile, but today I finally ordered a textbook from Amazon, since all I have are some novels, and no one around here speaks it, so I'm going to need to review on my own.

I put eight new stories in my fic journal. Check it out here.

I was tagged by cytherea999 . I tag blackletter , beres_ford , kateandromeda , morganscorpion and settiai .



( Meme )

I spent most of the weekend on my fic journal, and it was aggravating beyong belief.  When I finished, I counted stories, and I had 69 fics in seven fandoms (I had no idea I'd been so prolific; I used to start a story and never finish it).  Some of those were multi-parters, so I had to upload all the stories, link them together, then put them on the Masterlist.  Then I had to go through them again, because in the beginning I was lazy and didn't put in headers.  Then I had to go through them again because the headers didn't include the fandom.  Plus I had to use the HTML editor, and even though I started putting the HTML tags in the Word document, it was still annoying as f&ck.  We can has Rich Text Editor fix nao plz?  Anyway, it's done, except for my really early fics, which are crap, and I'm not uploading them.

Linky link.

New Star Trek movie seen: 3 times.
Fanfic written: 6
Fanfic in progress: 1
Icons/Wallpapers, Misc Art Downloaded: 10+ MB
LJ Communities Joined: 3
Fanfic Read: GOK

I think it's safe to say that I'm officially obsessed, since I first saw the movie Friday.

Note to people writing fanfic. Chekhov was a Russian dramatist born in 1860. Chekov is the navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise.  Get it right.

Seriously, the amount of fic mis-spelling his name is unbelievable. Yes, I'm being nitpicky, but I read one fic, from someone supposedly raised on Trek, that used "Chekhov" and "Scottie." I pointed out the fact to her.

I saw the new Star Trek movie today, and ( No real spoilers, just squee )

I made a journal for my fanfiction, and I've posted a few of my stories. It'll take forever to post all of them, especially since LJ hasn't fixed the problem with the Rich Text Editor and lj-cuts.  Can we get a fix for that, please?  You've been "aware of these problems and working to resolve them" for months and months and months. You can find my fic journal here.

Around here, schools as well as most businesses close for Good Friday. I always wondered why, since they don't have any other religious holidays off, and Islam and Judaism have about as many adherents as Christianity. Granted, if a student stays home on Rosh Hashanah or whatever, they don't stop him, but they don't close the whole school down for it. And given the whole "separation of church and state" (which in itself has been misused for all kinds of purposes, but that's another story) it seems weird. Any thoughts?

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Pull out your MP3 player and use the first line from each song (first 20) as a line of a poem. The first line of song 21 is your title:

Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny 

That’s great it starts with an earthquake
One two three o’clock, four o’clock rock
I thought of you the other day
Forever may not be long enough for my love
When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain
Baby’s good to me, you know
I got a new life
Where is the moment when needed the most?
Wir kommen mit Tanz und Gesang (don’t ask)
I saw three ships a’sailin’ in from across the sea
My heart is beating from me
If you are wond'rin' what I'm gonna do
It was twenty years ago today
When the outside temperature rises
Time came around, and I was in need
His eyes they closed and his last breath spoke
Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you
Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Who’s to know if your soul will fade at all


And that was completely random, even minus the German lyric. Ended up sounding sort of stalker-ish,

I'm supposed to be student teaching in Spring 2009.  I turned in all the required paperwork, and on October 31st (the day before my birthday, no less) I received a letter.  "Not cleared.  Requires English approval."  OK, so I call the number to find out what I need. "You need to talk to Susan, but she's not in today.  You can talk to her on Monday, or email her."  OK, so I email her.  Turns out, I need an English advisor's signature on the paperwork.  I don't remember being told this, but it's possible I was.  Still, English is one of the only areas that require it.  So I make an appointment on the seventh, get the approval, ("They shouldn't have let you turn in the sheet without the signature,")  and on the eleventh I find out I'm cleared.  

I need a class for an endorsement that all teachers are required to have by next August.  They offered the more advanced class in summer, I took it, but they weren't offering the prereq until Fall, and it wasn't even listed on the sheet they gave us of the classes we need, so I forgot about it.  So I figure I have to take a class in the summer through another college.  Great.  A few days ago, i hear I can take the class during my student teaching, and don't require an override.  That's great!  So I go to register, since seats will only be held through the sixteenth, after that it's not guaranteed I'll get in.  I can't register because "You do not have a valid enrollment appointment at this time."  Say what?  So I email some people, and ask them.  My enrollment appointment is on the second.  I can't register until then. I emailed Susan and told her I was hoping to register by the sixteenth, but I don't even know if she checks her email on weekends, and the seats will only be held for two more days. ARGHARGHARGH!

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ.


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Ganked fromblackletter

List 10 books you have on your bookshelf that you think nobody else on your friends list has on theirs

( 10 books )
I was going to use Discworld, then I remembered where I got this meme.  I only used two textbooks, but I've used five of these in classes (I'll let you guess which).

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

I got the letter "M" from blackletter 

( Character meme... )

OK., so of these characters there are two that other people might have heard of. So I like small fandoms. So sue me.

For one of my classes (Technology Applications in the Classroom) we had to view this video.  I'd heard of the concept of using video games in the classroom of course, but when he mentioned fanfiction (starting about -5:12) I almost fell out of my chair.  Part of the assignment was "List any experiences you have had with this technology."  I mentioned online games, but none by name, mentioned being involved in "communities" (although I didn't mention LJ specifically) and said absolutely nothing about fanfiction, because that would just be weird.

Concrit and feedback appreciated.
          

I took the Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessment in English in July. I needed to pass it before I student teach in the spring.  I just got the email with my unofficial scores, and I passed!