On Old Notebooks.
Apr. 10th, 2008 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogI grabbed a notepad tonight to write a shopping list (my finances are completely balanced again and I could do shopping for whatever I wanted to eat - so, no struggling to piece together meals out of what I have in my slight food storage, AKA mostly dry foods that usually need something added to them for a full meal. I'M HAVING FISH TACOS!) and didn't look in the front.
I grabbed it again to plot out some Signal Loss updates in a bath tonight (Signal Loss's "Series" sections have been updated, BTW, minus the character page which will be done tomorrow) and discovered that this notebook is dated September 5, 2001 in the first page.
It appears to have been my notebook for Writer's Craft class in my 2001-2002 high school year. That was OAC, Ontario's grade 13 at the time. I would have been 17 when most of this was written.
Yeah, the thing is full of old fanfic notes. And odd notes about things I saw in my daily life.
Some of them are kinda funny.
"It's the semi-quasi-tropical-nuclear-wasteland"
- This may have been something Lisa said, because I think she started the "semi-quasi" thing.
"Amanda: Is Rick a fighter or does he avoid the situation?
Me: He'd probably wet his pants"
- Notes and comments on the original TTPCTS Round Robin. Amanda was my friend in fandom at the time.
"What do supercomputers do in their spare time?"
- I have no idea.
"I'm an idiot. Card carrying. Really. Look at the puppy face. Worship the puppy face!!"
- I drew a dog beside this.
"From assignment - be careful to use exaggeration as a style, but as an effect. BEHOLD THE POWER OF PATHOS".
- I think this was from my writing teacher's note on a story of mine.
"It takes more grace that I can tell, to play the second fiddle well!"
- Apparently a quote from C.H. Spurgeon. I don't know where I heard it.
That's the last writing class note I have.
What follows is a collection of random silly, tongue-in-cheek thoughts from my father, such as "Dating is fun if someone likes you!" and "I know perfection starts with one step. I'm just looking for the right staircase".
And odd comments from my mother about b-movies and how they're not healthy.
I grabbed it again to plot out some Signal Loss updates in a bath tonight (Signal Loss's "Series" sections have been updated, BTW, minus the character page which will be done tomorrow) and discovered that this notebook is dated September 5, 2001 in the first page.
It appears to have been my notebook for Writer's Craft class in my 2001-2002 high school year. That was OAC, Ontario's grade 13 at the time. I would have been 17 when most of this was written.
Yeah, the thing is full of old fanfic notes. And odd notes about things I saw in my daily life.
Some of them are kinda funny.
"It's the semi-quasi-tropical-nuclear-wasteland"
- This may have been something Lisa said, because I think she started the "semi-quasi" thing.
"Amanda: Is Rick a fighter or does he avoid the situation?
Me: He'd probably wet his pants"
- Notes and comments on the original TTPCTS Round Robin. Amanda was my friend in fandom at the time.
"What do supercomputers do in their spare time?"
- I have no idea.
"I'm an idiot. Card carrying. Really. Look at the puppy face. Worship the puppy face!!"
- I drew a dog beside this.
"From assignment - be careful to use exaggeration as a style, but as an effect. BEHOLD THE POWER OF PATHOS".
- I think this was from my writing teacher's note on a story of mine.
"It takes more grace that I can tell, to play the second fiddle well!"
- Apparently a quote from C.H. Spurgeon. I don't know where I heard it.
That's the last writing class note I have.
What follows is a collection of random silly, tongue-in-cheek thoughts from my father, such as "Dating is fun if someone likes you!" and "I know perfection starts with one step. I'm just looking for the right staircase".
And odd comments from my mother about b-movies and how they're not healthy.
