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May. 3rd, 2009 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethso far today: woke up early, read a bunch of stuff, went to lunch/breakfast, bought donuts which were quite disappointing yet seem to have been eaten already anyway, read some more. Have been stalled on the same two pages for ages. On the plus side, have an awesome scene for the season end cliffhanger of my entirely imaginary TV series. It works as a The End but it also works as a WTF how do they get out of that. And I can backtrack from wanting that scene to some of the ways the technology works. Transit to T-space, the FTL space, taking half a space station with it. Space station would not be parked on a Transit nexus. So you can get *in* to T-space from anywhere, but without a known route you'll probably fry. What stops you frying is shields. Transit shielding stops energy/particles in T-space. Same stuff stops weapons in N-space. So it's like the Doctor standing in front of the Daleks so he can talk to the Emperor, there's a shield so they can't exterminate him. Someone could be outside the ship but inside the shielding. Okay. So why don't they use that all the time? Is shielding and transit the same process? No, I want to have a countdown to shielding burning out while Tor runs for his seat and there's tension about if they make Transit before the generators go or if they've gone with no shields. Because fun. So instead the matter of the space station is hugely more dense than the shields are designed to cope with, causing damage to generators, ship, and station. Smoke and sparks and lightning all around.
I have this image in my head that could be totally music video if it goes too far but I think looks really cool... though I say that as a Highlander fan and we're not subtle about Qs... but I can see Rosemary trapped by security guards outside the ship, turning around and looking at them... and laughing. Arms spread. Come and get me. Security line up and FIRE and... sparks! Smoke! Wooshy air flying past her! The shields save her, but cause whole new levels of problems. And she can't do anything about it, can't get in, can't run. Why? Why would the ship risk itself for her? Are they just that loyal? No, not enough fun. Bulkheads, closed on the ship, so it's jammed in to the station. She can't reach a way in. And the station is metal to metal contacting the ship, which is all you need for Transit. So Tor takes them out of there, level of shielding unknown, and at least half an enemy base going with them. They could end up anywhere! With their worst enemies! Awesome. On the minus side to get anybody to care about all that I have to write a proper story so you know who everyone is.
And before that I must do my Renaissance assignment.
If I'd done this two years ago it would be a 20% group project and my exam grade would be good enough my grade wouldn't matter as long as I turned up. As it is it's a 50% individual project and while I have more wiggle room than usual I do need to actually pay attention and have thoughts and stuff. Which is proving to be a problem.
Have done a ton of reading. Haven't a clue how to turn that into a project. I'll either figure it out by Thursday or find when I can talk to the teacher about it.
Hamlet is interesting though. And I've read a bunch about it. Actually I've now reached that point where the more I read the more it feels like re-reading, because I seem to have covered the major theories and had most of these thoughts in other books. Is good. I'm not calling myself an expert but instead of being all... me with a full box of donuts... I'm more like me with vegetables and pasta and stuff. Which is part of why I ground to a halt. Harder to pay attention once you know most of it, even if you know you don't know all of it.
Freud is nuts and Lacan is no help at all. And some English essays seem to be exercises in using the most possible words to say the least stuff and make sure none of it makes any sense anyway. And if you argue long enough you can make everything mean its opposite but you'll look really stupid.
Studying. Fun.
I have this image in my head that could be totally music video if it goes too far but I think looks really cool... though I say that as a Highlander fan and we're not subtle about Qs... but I can see Rosemary trapped by security guards outside the ship, turning around and looking at them... and laughing. Arms spread. Come and get me. Security line up and FIRE and... sparks! Smoke! Wooshy air flying past her! The shields save her, but cause whole new levels of problems. And she can't do anything about it, can't get in, can't run. Why? Why would the ship risk itself for her? Are they just that loyal? No, not enough fun. Bulkheads, closed on the ship, so it's jammed in to the station. She can't reach a way in. And the station is metal to metal contacting the ship, which is all you need for Transit. So Tor takes them out of there, level of shielding unknown, and at least half an enemy base going with them. They could end up anywhere! With their worst enemies! Awesome. On the minus side to get anybody to care about all that I have to write a proper story so you know who everyone is.
And before that I must do my Renaissance assignment.
If I'd done this two years ago it would be a 20% group project and my exam grade would be good enough my grade wouldn't matter as long as I turned up. As it is it's a 50% individual project and while I have more wiggle room than usual I do need to actually pay attention and have thoughts and stuff. Which is proving to be a problem.
Have done a ton of reading. Haven't a clue how to turn that into a project. I'll either figure it out by Thursday or find when I can talk to the teacher about it.
Hamlet is interesting though. And I've read a bunch about it. Actually I've now reached that point where the more I read the more it feels like re-reading, because I seem to have covered the major theories and had most of these thoughts in other books. Is good. I'm not calling myself an expert but instead of being all... me with a full box of donuts... I'm more like me with vegetables and pasta and stuff. Which is part of why I ground to a halt. Harder to pay attention once you know most of it, even if you know you don't know all of it.
Freud is nuts and Lacan is no help at all. And some English essays seem to be exercises in using the most possible words to say the least stuff and make sure none of it makes any sense anyway. And if you argue long enough you can make everything mean its opposite but you'll look really stupid.
Studying. Fun.