Sooooooooooooo I was just at Bellevue Square with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adelagia and slitherhither and guess who we met?
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adelagia and slitherhither and guess who we met?( SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE )
the thick plottens
May. 10th, 2014 09:23 pm
♠ I should be working on my original novel right now, but I am procrastinating instead (obviously). In awesome but somewhat flabbergasting news, I have reached 109,416 words. The bad news is that I don't know how far along I am in the story. Maybe two-thirds of the way through? The even more bad news is that it is missing a lot of components that I'm going to have to add in once the initial draft is done -- such as tension. I don't feel like there's a lot of tension in the story right now. Like, what in the world is keeping the two protagonists apart other than stupidity and lack of communication? :/ (It's a YA romance.) So. A lot of work to do in the future. But still, 109k words, the most I have written of anything original, ever. So yay.
♠ NFL draft: The Seahawks did their usual baffling style of drafting. I love it though, because the pundits are now leery of criticizing them, for fear of looking like idiots. So whenever the Hawks drafted a player that no one was expecting, the analysts/commentators just kind of paused, talked a bit about the player's stats, made some vague allusion to how it might fit in with our scheme, then changed the subject. LOLOL.
Part of this is because, two years ago, the Seahawks 2012 draft class was universally panned. Draft analysts gave it grades between a D+ and an F (Bleacher Report). That class included players like Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, JR Sweezy, Jermaine Kearse, Bruce Irvin, Robert Turbin, Derrick Coleman... all players who make regular contributions to the squad and had playing time in the Super Bowl. So yeah. Pundits just sort of sidestep John Schneider's head-scratching choices. :)))
( Russell tweeted this after the SB smackdown: )
♠ I read The Maze Runner and its sequel, The Scorch Trials, and skimmed the third book The Death Cure. The first couple of books were entertaining reads, even if there was some awkwardness with the writing and I had my doubts about where it was all leading -- it was way convoluted -- but I enjoyed them. However, about three-fourths of the way through the second book, I started to get suspicious about something. I therefore did something very bad and skipped to the end of the third book to see if my suspicions would be confirmed -- AND THEY WERE. I was really, really upset about it. :/ That's why I ended up skimming the third book instead of reading it... the protagonist, who always had his moments of being irritating, suddenly became totally intolerable to me. I didn't agree with his choices, I thought he was hypocritical and inconsistent -- being overly hard on one character while too lenient on another, and there was just too much "action," like it was Michael Bay movie put into words.
This is one instance in which I hope the movie series DOES change the book, and "fix" the problems I had with it. :P I'm pretty stoked that Dylan O'Brien is playing Thomas, which is how I got turned to the series in the first place.
♠ Speaking of having problems with book-to-screen adaptations, I have decided to stop watching Game of Thrones. I no longer find it enjoyable, and in fact, it enrages me on a regular basis.
( Click for my reasons. )
♠ NFL draft: The Seahawks did their usual baffling style of drafting. I love it though, because the pundits are now leery of criticizing them, for fear of looking like idiots. So whenever the Hawks drafted a player that no one was expecting, the analysts/commentators just kind of paused, talked a bit about the player's stats, made some vague allusion to how it might fit in with our scheme, then changed the subject. LOLOL.
Part of this is because, two years ago, the Seahawks 2012 draft class was universally panned. Draft analysts gave it grades between a D+ and an F (Bleacher Report). That class included players like Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, JR Sweezy, Jermaine Kearse, Bruce Irvin, Robert Turbin, Derrick Coleman... all players who make regular contributions to the squad and had playing time in the Super Bowl. So yeah. Pundits just sort of sidestep John Schneider's head-scratching choices. :)))
( Russell tweeted this after the SB smackdown: )
♠ I read The Maze Runner and its sequel, The Scorch Trials, and skimmed the third book The Death Cure. The first couple of books were entertaining reads, even if there was some awkwardness with the writing and I had my doubts about where it was all leading -- it was way convoluted -- but I enjoyed them. However, about three-fourths of the way through the second book, I started to get suspicious about something. I therefore did something very bad and skipped to the end of the third book to see if my suspicions would be confirmed -- AND THEY WERE. I was really, really upset about it. :/ That's why I ended up skimming the third book instead of reading it... the protagonist, who always had his moments of being irritating, suddenly became totally intolerable to me. I didn't agree with his choices, I thought he was hypocritical and inconsistent -- being overly hard on one character while too lenient on another, and there was just too much "action," like it was Michael Bay movie put into words.
This is one instance in which I hope the movie series DOES change the book, and "fix" the problems I had with it. :P I'm pretty stoked that Dylan O'Brien is playing Thomas, which is how I got turned to the series in the first place.
♠ Speaking of having problems with book-to-screen adaptations, I have decided to stop watching Game of Thrones. I no longer find it enjoyable, and in fact, it enrages me on a regular basis.
( Click for my reasons. )
2014 NFL draft, round 1 commentary
May. 9th, 2014 12:52 pm
For the first-time ever I watched the NFL draft. I liked it! It helped that I could multitask during it, since waiting for each team to make its pick (10 minutes per team for the first round) was quite boring. Even with the sports commentary to fill in the time, it all got very repetitive very quickly.
I don't know why everyone and everything has to be about Johnny Manziel though. He seems like a really annoying punkass. I did feel a little bad for him when Blake Bortles was picked at #3 and JM just kept sliding down and down until the Browns (how appropriate was that) took him, but honestly I really want him to fail in the NFL so I don't have to hear about him for ONE SECOND LONGER. My coworker tells me that he's a similar quarterback to Tim Tebow rather than Russell Wilson, thank goodness. Though from this experience I can kind of see why other people might be sick of hearing about Russell.
The Seahawks trading out of #32 should have surprised no one. In fact, when there was 4 minutes left on the clock and they still hadn't traded, I was shocked. Of course, they traded seconds later. I'm not sure it was that great a deal... it wasn't terrible, but given what Minnesota got out of it (the QB they wanted in Teddy Bridgewater, who could legitimately become their franchise QB), sliding down 8 spots to the #40 pick in the second round plus an extra fourth-round pick didn't seem good enough. Then again, we only went into this thing with six picks, and there's just no effing way John Schneider is not going to get more. In fact, I fully expect us to trade the #40 spot for more picks as well.
I don't know why everyone and everything has to be about Johnny Manziel though. He seems like a really annoying punkass. I did feel a little bad for him when Blake Bortles was picked at #3 and JM just kept sliding down and down until the Browns (how appropriate was that) took him, but honestly I really want him to fail in the NFL so I don't have to hear about him for ONE SECOND LONGER. My coworker tells me that he's a similar quarterback to Tim Tebow rather than Russell Wilson, thank goodness. Though from this experience I can kind of see why other people might be sick of hearing about Russell.
The Seahawks trading out of #32 should have surprised no one. In fact, when there was 4 minutes left on the clock and they still hadn't traded, I was shocked. Of course, they traded seconds later. I'm not sure it was that great a deal... it wasn't terrible, but given what Minnesota got out of it (the QB they wanted in Teddy Bridgewater, who could legitimately become their franchise QB), sliding down 8 spots to the #40 pick in the second round plus an extra fourth-round pick didn't seem good enough. Then again, we only went into this thing with six picks, and there's just no effing way John Schneider is not going to get more. In fact, I fully expect us to trade the #40 spot for more picks as well.
A special Super Bowl edition post!
Feb. 9th, 2014 08:18 pmWell, it's the one-week anniversary, but... YAY!!!!!!!!
It's been really great to see the Seattle community come together. And given how lopsided the game was, social media was almost more fun. *Almost*, for Seahawks fans, of course. If I hadn't been rooting for them I *definitely* would have found social media more entertaining.
( My favorites. Graphics intensive! )
It's been really great to see the Seattle community come together. And given how lopsided the game was, social media was almost more fun. *Almost*, for Seahawks fans, of course. If I hadn't been rooting for them I *definitely* would have found social media more entertaining.
( My favorites. Graphics intensive! )
