I ... may have let some important, urgent, ASAP reading get a little overdue. So, over the next three days I need to read 1. the rest of the analysis of variance book, 2. at least two chapters of the book that I *think* is right for the first uni module of the semester, 3. at least some of ...'s book that I promised to proof/make nice comments on, 4. at least one of the books sitting on my bureau.
I'll be over here, procrastinating. These, these are my procrastinatin' feet.
thank you! One chapter, one short story down. But that chapter was tortuous, and made my head hurt. I think I need to find one of the easier options to be going on with.
Some reading page, some twitter, probably things off the fanfiction stack. My aunt is having a game night, so I imagine I will be reading some game instructions.
Also, I need to make an Introduction to Rainbow Tables sheet for this evening's "rainbow table" at the Diversity-themed beer bash, which is a terrible joke but I am pleased by it.
That was me last year. I gave myself permission to give up on any book that caused me to value housework (or various other procrastination heavy tasks) more highly than keeping reading!
Yeah, I think that most of the things on the slate are actually, objectively, rubbish, and the reason stuff like that wasn't getting voted for was not due to political correctness or whatever, it was because the kind of stuff that they like is actually, objectively, rubbish.
And this is not me coming at it from some nancy lefty pinko handwringer perspective (although, you know, chair of my local Liberal Democrats and on the exec of LGBT+ lib dems, so I AM a nancy lefty pinko handwringer) it's just that the stuff they've nominated is so BORING and badly written and unoriginal. I don't want to read the same story I've read a thousand times before, I want to read something new and different.
pretty much what I was expecting then - there was the one item on the ballot last year that I identified as having been put there in a like manner, and it was dreadfully written. I didn't even get far enough through to decide whether the plot was any good!
.. I want to read something new and different. Yes. My expectation with the Hugos is that at least I'll read something new *and* worthwhile, because I don't have enough time to read all the dross.
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Date: 2015-07-24 11:04 am (UTC)I'll be over here, procrastinating. These, these are my procrastinatin' feet.
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Date: 2015-07-24 11:15 am (UTC)*makes tea for you and your procrastinatin' feet*
Biscuit?
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Date: 2015-07-24 03:35 pm (UTC)Also, I need to make an Introduction to Rainbow Tables sheet for this evening's "rainbow table" at the Diversity-themed beer bash, which is a terrible joke but I am pleased by it.
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Date: 2015-07-25 01:49 pm (UTC)That was me last year. I gave myself permission to give up on any book that caused me to value housework (or various other procrastination heavy tasks) more highly than keeping reading!
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Date: 2015-07-25 02:54 pm (UTC)Do you have an opinion on the quality of the slate?
(I decided not to read them this year, because I'm overcommitted elsewhere, but I'm eagerly following comments and discussions)
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Date: 2015-07-25 03:23 pm (UTC)And this is not me coming at it from some nancy lefty pinko handwringer perspective (although, you know, chair of my local Liberal Democrats and on the exec of LGBT+ lib dems, so I AM a nancy lefty pinko handwringer) it's just that the stuff they've nominated is so BORING and badly written and unoriginal. I don't want to read the same story I've read a thousand times before, I want to read something new and different.
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Date: 2015-07-26 01:04 am (UTC).. I want to read something new and different.
Yes. My expectation with the Hugos is that at least I'll read something new *and* worthwhile, because I don't have enough time to read all the dross.
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