30 Days Meme [23-28/30]

The 30-Day Meme

( Previous days... )

Day 23 | A YouTube video

As if I haven't posted enough already.......

Pretty amazing, huh?  It's a fairly unique art form, used to make something powerful.  Thanks to edge_chan for the link.  ;-)

Day 24 | Whatever tickles your fancy

Ugh, this is a tough one.....

I've probably mentioned before how much I love The Soup.  I forgot mentioning it when I did the "favorite TV show" part of this meme, which is a shame because Joel McHale is absolutely hilarious, and I don't get to watch it enough:

( Day 25 | Your day, in great detail )

Day 26 | Your week, in great detail
Day 27 | This month, in great detail
Day 28 | This year, in great detail

I'm not doing these.  I'll be picking this meme back up on the 21st.

Day 29 | Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 | Whatever tickles your fancy

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I've been sort of falling behind on replying to comments and keeping up with LJ lately, as well as, y'know, reading for classes and not being such a procrastinating lazybones all the time.  :P  I'll try to keep up with stuff within the next few days, though.  meaisin_caoin and twilit_wanderer, I'll get to the memes I owe you either later today or Saturday.

Thursdays are my big GIS days: class in the morning, lab in the afternoon.  As you can guess, it was fairly boring and tedious, since it's basically something like a research methods class (at least at this point).  We're focusing a lot on database management right now, and while I didn't know much about it going in and it seems pretty easy to understand, it's still excruciatingly uninteresting, and the prof doesn't help matters much.  >_>  And the program we use involves so much pre-processing just so you can get all the data lined up and just make it work that it's frustrating.  It's not hard to understand (yet), just really tedious.  -_-

Tonight I went to a lecture by Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist who runs the blog South Jerusalem and writes about Israel and the history of conflicts there, and is also a big advocate of a two-state solution.  His lecture was basically a condensed version of his book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, which is a history of Zionism and Israel and an argument for the two-state solution; I felt like I started to get a better grasp of the historical context of the conflict and the arguments for a peace solution I agree with, but he wasn't a great public speaker and I really wasn't all that engaged.  :(

There was also another big event that happened today (yesterday?) that I want to talk about at length, but it'll have to wait, because I'm too tired to write anything more, plus I have an appointment at 10 AM, so I need to go to bed soon.  And by "soon" I mean "in another two hours or so."  XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Writer's Block: My secret self

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Since I'm very introverted and reserved IRL, most of the things I share about my life and my thoughts are pretty exclusive to LJ.  There are some things, though, that I will rarely mention to friends or people I know IRL, if at all.  Fandom is probably the big thing I keep exclusive to LJ, for very, very obvious reasons.  O_o;  I only admitted to one IRL friend that I read Transformers smut; she was OK with it, even though she thought it was pretty weird ('cuz, well, it kinda is) and made fun of me for it in that harmless, joking way friends make fun of each other, and probably thinks I've abandoned fandom completely (LOL XD).  I'm slightly more public about my anime love, because I go to anime club each week (or try to) and I've taken a class on anime, but I don't communicate much with people in either, and one time I brought it up in conversation someone else thought I was a weeaboo.  -_-;  I also don't talk about politics and social justice a lot IRL, mostly because there are people here who are way more knowledgeable about that stuff than I am, and because I don't like confrontation and getting into debates.  Plus, I have a horribly hard time expressing my thoughts clearly when I have to "think on my feet" in conversations; I prefer to write what I think instead.  Not to mention I find most people's political opinions not to be all that nuanced, which frustrates me.

I guess my LJ friends are different from my IRL ones because a.) I have more of them XDDDDDDDDDDDDD, and b.) I can be honest with them more and not feel so intimidated and like I need to change myself to fit in.  Meeting people online has a lot of advantages because you can't make first impressions and judgments based on what they look like, what they wear, how they come across, how they carry themselves, etc.; all you have to go by is what they say, what they like and dislike, and what they believe in, and I find it easier to connect with people based on that.  (Obviously people can completely make up identities on the Internet, but it's rarer than you think.)