I just stumbled upon a poem I wrote back in April of last year. The events that inspired it seem so far off now, but it still touches me. It may very well be the best poem I ever wrote, but it depresses me to think about it.
There is at the moment a 50c/90F degrees difference between inside and outside. And no drafts and no cold floors. My house is well isolated.
I think that a longer work, you can never get it right just by luck. But every now and then when writing micro fiction, you can get it just right, mostly by luck. Not saying that micro fiction is really hard.
I can't write micro fiction to save my life. I should force myself to do it. You know...as I sit here, preparing to go to work, I can't help but kick myself for not taking today off. I requested it off, but then decided I didn't actually need it off, since my brother and his wife aren't getting here until later tonight. But after yesterday, I officially have no desire to go in today...hindsight, man.
I just wanted to get this off my chest. Apparently in the ME fourms, some people say that the reason Joker shouldn't be a love interest is because of his brittle-bone disease, citing "he can't even walk". Are some people just this backward? There are plenty of people IRL who have brittle bones/can't walk at all and yet they're able to have a successful life, have a wonderful wife/husband and children. Honestly. It's like they (the posters) think love=sex these days. >___> That people with leg problems are somehow incapable of falling in love with someone. Plus, even if Shepard and Joker wanted to do the hokey-pokey, I think if Shepard could survive the Geth and Reapers, she could work around Joker's condition.
^ Joker can't have a love interest because of his brittle-bone disease, or is it just a Seth Green thing?
Who knows. At any rate, I just beat Mass Effect 2 and my Shepard survived to be transported to the third game. Yay! Now...um...since I did all the missions and assignments... Now what? :/ Play Mass Effect 1 (since I hadn't beat the game)?? It wouldn't make sense unless I made a new Shepard and carried him/her over to ME2. However, I really do like my first Shepard and don't wanna start over.
Whatever you do don't do what my house mate has done and gone through Mass Effect 1 and 2 at least six times, each time trying to sleep with different people, with both of Shepherd's Genders. And he admits he will be playing them again once 3 comes out. He has played those games so much I think it's starting to take over his personality.
Oh dear... Well, I'm playing Mass Effect now with another female Shepard. It's odd...I think I missed running around the old Normandy as part of the Alliance rather than the other guys. Hope I can complete Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 with this new Shepard in time for Mass Effect 3. Eh, well, if anything else, that's why I already beat the second game so I have a Shepard to transport. :> I am so clever.
lol. My two female Shepards: Mass Effect 2- Helen Shepard, Colonist/Lone Survivor. Paragon. Mass Effect- Gina Shepard, Earthborn/Ruthless. Going Renagade.
Ponks has gone through both games (he plays them on the PC when you can upload the earlier game's character) and she's a good girl.
I'm gonna try and see if I can complete Gina's story before the third game. I think Helen was just a "Let's introduce you to Mass Effect 2!" character.
That's fair enough. I do like the Mass Effect games, they are pretty good though I'm not much of a gamer. I love the special audio you get when you probe Uranus.
lol, yah! XD Still, it feels odd to play the first game after I beat the second one. I know, I'll enjoy this game as much as I enjoyed its sequel, but I just have a funny feeling. I'm playing an old game while everyone else is playing Mass Effect 2. Agh! I'm paranoid! I'm sure plenty of other people have replayed the first game dozens of times.
Well, I guess I'll consider this my first full run. =) Haven't beaten this game before. Stopped after a few missions for some reason and forgot about it.
I've not seen nearly as much of the first as I have of the second. I don't really know what it's like. One thing I will say is that my mate complained about the switch on controls from the first game to the second though.
Is this tavern dead or something? No responses in nearly a day. *puts some medi-gel on it* Now, to get it going again: Ever been in a fiction writing course and were required to hand in a scene to be critiqued? Well, that's what I did and tomorrow we'll be going over the scene I wrote. It's odd but...I feel nervous. I know it's no different than if I put it here, and it'll most likely be the same (except its in person), but still... I guess its because on a forum, no one can see me, but if I'm in that room with 17 other people, they will know who wrote this strange scene.
^ I would think something like that would be enjoyable. If I didn't know the other classmates that well, then I would be nervous, but other than that, it would be no different than on the forum here.
I was nervous, and I still am, about getting my writing workshopped. But it's great getting feedback, and doing it face to face with people is a bit better I think. I hope you get useful feedback.
