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Not much to say at the moment
2011-Nov-06, Sunday 23:34
But I'm going to say it anyway!
Mostly of my time lately has been taken up with NaNoWriMo, studying Japanese, or looking for work. Looking for work continues to be dismal, but there's nothing I can do but soldier on. I have the JLPT on December 4, and I should pass even without studying, but I'm not trying to take a college class here, I'm trying to become a translator. There's no point in passing to pass if I forget everything I've learned.
I haven't logged on to WoW in nearly a week, and really don't feel much desire to. I was already on the fence, basically only showing up for raids and to keep my bank alt's cash flowing, and ever since the GLBT-fail on Blizzard's part at Blizzcon I haven't even felt the urge to do that. I probably would have cancelled my account already except I signed up for the one-year thing literally one day before the incident, much to my annoyance, so there's basically nothing I can do on that score.
On the NaNo edge, I need a better word than "knowledge" (as in "Lamplighter knowledge" or "Walker knowledge") for guild-specific bits of info. Secrets seems obvious, but doesn't have quite the right connotations. "Mysteries," in the old sense of knowledge hidden from all but a select group might work. I guess I can search-replace that when I'm done, though. One of the better pieces of advice relating to NaNo I read lately is, "Don't go back and edit until you've finished. How do you know what needs changing when you don't even know the whole story?"
Mostly of my time lately has been taken up with NaNoWriMo, studying Japanese, or looking for work. Looking for work continues to be dismal, but there's nothing I can do but soldier on. I have the JLPT on December 4, and I should pass even without studying, but I'm not trying to take a college class here, I'm trying to become a translator. There's no point in passing to pass if I forget everything I've learned.
I haven't logged on to WoW in nearly a week, and really don't feel much desire to. I was already on the fence, basically only showing up for raids and to keep my bank alt's cash flowing, and ever since the GLBT-fail on Blizzard's part at Blizzcon I haven't even felt the urge to do that. I probably would have cancelled my account already except I signed up for the one-year thing literally one day before the incident, much to my annoyance, so there's basically nothing I can do on that score.
On the NaNo edge, I need a better word than "knowledge" (as in "Lamplighter knowledge" or "Walker knowledge") for guild-specific bits of info. Secrets seems obvious, but doesn't have quite the right connotations. "Mysteries," in the old sense of knowledge hidden from all but a select group might work. I guess I can search-replace that when I'm done, though. One of the better pieces of advice relating to NaNo I read lately is, "Don't go back and edit until you've finished. How do you know what needs changing when you don't even know the whole story?"
