Productivity

[raven]

Hmm. I have been defriended three times in as many days. Let me know if I'm getting boring. Actually, I'm sure those "you're boring!" notifications will spring in from every direction when I go on to discuss what I did today.

I tidied my hard disc. I only ever do it in holiday time, as that's the only time I can justify spending an hour on something so utterly anal-retentive, but I did it this afternoon. Having organised everything I could, files into folders and so on, I had a look at the section Windows imaginatively titles "My Documents" where I keep every Word document I create. They're all in file folders - one for each fandom, one for original fic, one for school, one for music and one for "other" - and arranged carefully in order. Well, I ran an open search and found that in the four years I have owned my computer, I have amassed 1,505 files in 106 folders, taking up 771 megabytes of space. I gaped for a moment, then remembered to remove music from the search. This reduced the megabytes to 87, but still left me with over a thousand files. Let's take away about fifty for school, and another hundred for "other", and that still leaves me with about eight hundred files containing nothing but fanfiction on my computer's hard disc.

I am afraid.

Moving on, I had a look at the media files. There's about five hundred downloaded songs, which I'm mostly familiar with, and then there's another section for miscellaneous. As the filenames are rarely descriptive, I had to run them all to see what they were. I giggled a lot; my grandmother must have thought I'd gone crazy. For example, one of the files rejoiced in the filename of "cotg3". I'm sure there are a lot of people who could immediately tell the contents of the file off the name, but I wasn't one of them. I opened the file.

And laughed. It was none other than the infamous beer/cheap date scene from the Stargate pilot, Children of the Gods. It's only about five minutes long, but the quality was perfect, so I watched it with considerable amusement. As an afterthought, I made a note to burn it to disc and send it to gamesiplay in August. I've forgotten the exact particulars - was it never shown in America, or something? Can't remember. Anyway.

Now I come to think of it, anyone trawling through my hard disc would probably find my notes regarding stuff to send to Leigh as the most incomprehensible thing on it. I added a few things that I'd found on my hard disc - another thing that comes to mind is a fanvid shipperkitten must have sent me. It's set to the Friends theme and had me giggling away to myself in no time.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I do see people trawling my hard disc as a possibility. Accordingly, I also backed up everything and password-protected the whole lot. Yeah, I'm paranoid. I daresay I'm only really writing this for personal reference, as I didn't do anything else today beyond fight with my mother.

There was another thing: yesterday, hathy_col lent me a tape of season 7 Stargate episodes. I can't make the damn thing play. Well, I can, but it jumps so much it's unwatchable - I've no idea what's going on there. I watched Grace and Fallout instead. I will now proceed to amaze shipperkitten and say I really enjoyed Grace, which is the Stargate take on a familiar "monumental bash on the head" plotline. It was sweet.

And now I've spent a good deal of time being fannish, I ought to go to bed, but I can't be bothered. This half term is going way too quickly; I can't believe tomorrow's Thursday. Can't cope. Waah, etc. I'm not looking forward to going back to school. Next week is... what? February the twenty-third? Yeah, so it's next week, then the next four weeks of March, then Easter, which will involve fairly intensive revision for AS modules in May and June. I have less exams than some people, but nine is enough. Especially as the first one is the infamous Chemistry practical that I'm going to fuck up. That's the twentieth of May, and at fairly regular intervals from then to June the tenth, I've got two Chemistry modules (Inorganic and Organic), two Biology modules (Genetics and Physiology), two Politics modules (a representative democracy and parties and pressure groups) and two English modules (attitudes and values in poetry and text transformation). In case I hadn't mentioned it, my parents will be away for all that time. They're going to San Francisco. I am insanely jealous but trying to hide it; I rather think they ought to go. Their being here won't affect me much one way or another - I'll only be going in for exams.

Fandom to exams in one fell swoop; how symbolic of the way my mind works.

Comments

[solitaryway.livejournal.com]

Don't feel so bad about being anal with organization. I do that with my music files. Everything is organized by artist, and if the file info is incorrect in any way, I MUST change it. Heh.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I do this. Track name, artist name, album name. It's all good.

[solitaryway.livejournal.com]

Related question: what about your CDs? Are those alphabetized? I do that (by artist name, then chronologically by release), and if they're out of order, I go mad. No one else I know does this; rather, they put them in order of what they have recently listened to, which I find odd.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My CDs! What a question! My organisational skills are limited to the realm of the virtual; my CDs are currently arranged in an artistic heap below my desk. I'm naturally a rather messy person. No, really.

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

You're not boring! Just yesterday I was thinking how much fun and entertaining your entries are. :)

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Ack! I'm never going to catch up with you on what I'm sending you in August -- you've had a head start, and I'm not creative. I too have a (completely incoherent) list on my hard drive, but it's too short! Once I turn in this next paper, I'm going to have to sit down and figure out something exciting.

I haven't thoroughly cleaned my hard drive in a long time, and since you've reminded me, I'll probably do that in the next few weeks (especially considering that I have to leave this computer when I go off in August, so I should probably remove the personal things now). I organize everything obsessively as well, but it actually extends to certain tangible things: most of my room is a mess, but the books, CDs, theater magazines, movies, and taped television episodes are in perfect alphabetical/chronological order, depending on what's most appropriate. It's very soothing, I find.

My exams are over my June, but you will have my boundless empathy during whatever overlap there is between yours and mine. I've just been looking over my May schedule. *clutches head*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I refuse to believe you're not creative. Doesn't fit into my worldview! I just like making parcels; they're the one thing the internet can't do for us. I've just watched the CotG beer scene again. Too, too cute. Squee.

Roll on August for a variety of reasons. Exams, parcels, etc. I have no doubt that by then, my room will have descended into something resembling the fall of the Roman Empire, to say nothing of the sentient life forms evolving in my coffee mugs.

Unrelatedly, I am now going to rec Dr Jackson's Diary (http://www.versaphile.com/anais/January.shtml) to you again. I'm re-reading it at present, and need someone to share the squee with. Best fic ever, seriously. Features Daniel and Jack in flagrante delicto every second page.

I think I'm tired; I'm rambling and it's a quarter to one. Good night!

Re:

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me any more about the scene, though. I want to be pleasantly surprised. :)

I really do have to read Dr. Jackson's Diary. I got through most of it the first time you recced it to me, but then I was snowed under by something and never got to finish. Another thing to do once things calm down....

[fragility-lily.livejournal.com]

*scratches head*

This is only semi-unrelated; February is a short month, but has it gone by unusually fast for you? I say this after your 'Argh! Is it really almost next week?!"-type statement.

Oh, and that CoTG scene is just too cute! I've seen it on a season one DVD of the show but not on TV, so you're right on the money there. I think.

'Dr. Jackson's Diaries': teh shit. Ah! A question for Gandalf a fandom elder; where on Earth do all the fic references to Dr. Frasiser fetish for fingers up the ass come from? Some sort of play on the physical aspect of slash?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

OMGsquee. The icon! I so need a Stargate icon.

February has disappeared like a dream in the night, etc. I don't understand it.

CotG - wonderful episode. With that bit, though it comes perilously close to perfection. Everyone loves it.

Dr Jackson's Diary - am up to May on the re-read. I rather believe Janet's fetish is a fanon creation, but it's a play off something that did happen in canon. Some chance remark of Jack's, no doubt, that implied he was less than well disposed to prostate examinations. The Broca Divide comes to mind, although I may be totally wrong. The slash connection is just an added bonus(!)

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

There was another thing: yesterday, hathy_col lent me a tape of season 7 Stargate episodes. I can't make the damn thing play. Well, I can, but it jumps so much it's unwatchable - I've no idea what's going on there.

*panics*

This is probably my own fault for using crappy tapes. Have you tried just playing it for five minutes? It tends to sort itself out by this point...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I watched until just after the opening credits before giving up. Then, fast-forwarded to the next episode to see if it had sorted itself out, but it hadn't. I meant to ask Pedar about it, but forgot; he'll probably come with up something. Keep you posted.