Meme Consolidation

I've found a sleeping schedule that isn't conducive to working, socializing, or losing weight, but I like it because it makes me feel like I have more time than I really do, and because it's the first one I've managed to keep three days in a row all semester. Basically I go to sleep around 7pm and wake up at 3am, when I do the homework I went to sleep to avoid doing the night before.

sesame_seed tagged me for this.

( Write 10 statements intended to 10 different people. Never tell which one is to who (but if you guess correctly, I'll tell you). )

Everyone is saying their ten are EASY to guess, and none of them have been! They're easier from the inside, maybe. Tagging: worldserpent (ha HA!), kenbu, rondaview, pally_pally, tarigwaemir, and tokyofish. Exactly half the people who were tagged are on the list, btw.

And while I'm at it one more meme:
Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2005. Post the first line or so of it in your journal, and that's your 'Year In Review'.

( Year in Review )

Pretty accurate.

Great essays that appeared on my flist, to which my only response was "Wow, I really agree with that, so much that I have absolutely nothing to say in response":
worldserpent: Contract vs Status in fiction writing
kiraseldon: Noir, homosociality and why I think the Japanese like yaoi so much
and
Part 3 of telophase's series on what makes professional shojo work. (In this case it's not so much that I feel there's no space for comments, as that I don't know enough about design to make them.)

In other essay-ish news (that is old enough to not really be news anymore), the comments thread here about plagarism in published manga has a comment linking to more interesting examples of it, like Battle Vixens vs Tengo Tenge, stock photography abuses in Slam Dunk, Nana, and Soujourn (American comic, I have that issue actually), and D.Gray-man copping from Trigun etc. I'm pointing this out mainly because I've never liked D.Gray-man. (Other series that're fairly popular, but that I just don't see the appeal of: Gintama, Wild Adapter.)

Because I haven't written anything recently, and because I've really enjoyed reading fic notes like these and the ones locked on petronia's journal, I'm going to spend the next hour before I have to leave for class writing a couple lines for each of my old fics, in order. I have a bad tendency towards retroactively assigning my own motivations, but I'll try not to do that here.

( Quick commentary )