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Feb. 11th, 2004 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demeter918I checked the desk again today to see if anyone's been kind enough to find and return my disk, but apparently, my luck has gotten very, very bad. I've always found my disk before, and for the first time, when I have a near-finished fic on it, it just goes poof. Less funny things have happened to me, but this takes the cake. Especially since I liked that story so much.
On the bright side, I'm still happy that I only lost two or three sentences on my FFVII fic involving Yuffie and Vincent. Who ever created the FTP and SSF is at least a minor diety in some forgotten realm. All I have to do is load the stories to my *new* disk and commence rewriting.
Which, unfortunately, will not happen soon. The remodelling that's happening to our house has made the wiring in my room go on the fritz and currently, my room is the only room that has no power at all. I don't have electricity for lights, alarm clock, or even phone. Which also means that I can't charge my cell unless I move it to another room, which is risky, since I tend to forget things when I move them around.
I keep seeing book recs on my friends pages -> so there is a reader in me who's still mewling underneath the mass of college-related reading material. So she hasn't died after all. XD I'm feeling very frisky again; part of the reason I felt so burned out the last quarter and this may be the fact that I'm focusing too much on too few things. I haven't read a really good, entertaining book in the longest time, and I think it's right-o-age for me to sink my claws into fantasy and sci-fi novels again. I think the Dragonlance mess turned me off when they kept churning some awful stuff out. The only good things recently (and they're not even that recent) were the Raistlin Chronicles and The Doom Brigade. Selling the rights, eh? It's like fanfiction, except there's a vague level of quality-control.
I think I'll continue the Discworld series. I've read The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, and Guards! Guards!. While Same Vimes has been raved about by many (and you know who you are), I preferred Rincewind a little more. Most likely it was that I read him first, and thus, could not help but fall in love with the first characters introduced to me from the Terry Pratchett world, and I evermore will adore them (including the Luggage and Twoflower XD). I've been looking for Interesting Times and The Last Continent because they both have Rincewind as a central character. *sighs happily*
However. Vetinari? Patrician? I wuve him. I wuve him so much. And I've only really seen him in one book. But there's an innate coolness about him already, though I doubt I would want to ever meet him. Or suffer his wrath. Or actually, happiness either.
But Rincewind! Still favourite! His cowardishness appeals to the protector instincts in me. His ineptitude with magic makes me want to take him to Snape and leave him there. His sheer ability to get into bad situations makes me want to cuddle. And I don't know why, but I love his name! Two syllables! Yeah. I have it bad. It's the fault of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wikdsushi.
On the bright side, I'm still happy that I only lost two or three sentences on my FFVII fic involving Yuffie and Vincent. Who ever created the FTP and SSF is at least a minor diety in some forgotten realm. All I have to do is load the stories to my *new* disk and commence rewriting.
Which, unfortunately, will not happen soon. The remodelling that's happening to our house has made the wiring in my room go on the fritz and currently, my room is the only room that has no power at all. I don't have electricity for lights, alarm clock, or even phone. Which also means that I can't charge my cell unless I move it to another room, which is risky, since I tend to forget things when I move them around.
I keep seeing book recs on my friends pages -> so there is a reader in me who's still mewling underneath the mass of college-related reading material. So she hasn't died after all. XD I'm feeling very frisky again; part of the reason I felt so burned out the last quarter and this may be the fact that I'm focusing too much on too few things. I haven't read a really good, entertaining book in the longest time, and I think it's right-o-age for me to sink my claws into fantasy and sci-fi novels again. I think the Dragonlance mess turned me off when they kept churning some awful stuff out. The only good things recently (and they're not even that recent) were the Raistlin Chronicles and The Doom Brigade. Selling the rights, eh? It's like fanfiction, except there's a vague level of quality-control.
I think I'll continue the Discworld series. I've read The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, and Guards! Guards!. While Same Vimes has been raved about by many (and you know who you are), I preferred Rincewind a little more. Most likely it was that I read him first, and thus, could not help but fall in love with the first characters introduced to me from the Terry Pratchett world, and I evermore will adore them (including the Luggage and Twoflower XD). I've been looking for Interesting Times and The Last Continent because they both have Rincewind as a central character. *sighs happily*
However. Vetinari? Patrician? I wuve him. I wuve him so much. And I've only really seen him in one book. But there's an innate coolness about him already, though I doubt I would want to ever meet him. Or suffer his wrath. Or actually, happiness either.
But Rincewind! Still favourite! His cowardishness appeals to the protector instincts in me. His ineptitude with magic makes me want to take him to Snape and leave him there. His sheer ability to get into bad situations makes me want to cuddle. And I don't know why, but I love his name! Two syllables! Yeah. I have it bad. It's the fault of
wikdsushi.
