"it's not fun if they don't scream"

[aamcnamara]

The last part of my winter break was wholly unproductive--I alternated sitting around reading books and hanging out with friends. Only being back for two weeks means that I definitely failed at seeing everyone, but I got to see quite a few people, which was good. Hit most of my Twin Cities highlights, too: Como Park Conservatory, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, three or four different libraries...

Kinds of cookies devoured: 4 (sugar cookie cut-outs, pumpkin with cranberries, molasses, oatmeal-raisin)
Kinds of bread devoured: 2 (Stollen, cornbread)
Candy canes devoured: 12?
Books read: a bunch
Tiny oranges devoured: too many to count

Soon I will be headed back to campus for J-term. My writing goals for the next few weeks include:
- write some more solstice stories
- keep working on the first draft of The Urban Fantasy Novel
- print out "As Large As Alone" and go over the beginning with a fine-toothed comb
- for my J-term class (GLBT content in children's and YA lit), write a final project--possibly the first chapter of a YA GLBT novel.

Other activities will include Having fun and Working at my awesome job.

Comments

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

It was on the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Weber. I had gotten to go see Phantom twice when it was in LA and loved it and my roommate/friend had introduced me to Into the Woods the previous year and I loved that even more.

Plus, I am very music illiterate. So it was lots of fun to not only get to talk about the stories and listen to the music, but to also have someone explain to me how deliberate the funky notes are in the opening sequence of Sweeny Todd and what different vocal ranges are meant to represent and stuff like that.

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Expect me to be bugging you about reading suggestions - I may soon be back in Youth services! (As if I need excuses to read teen and kid lit.)

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

No problem! I like giving people reading suggestions. (Off my own bat I've mostly read YA, so the picture book and MG angles are new to me--so far picture books are at most conditionally awesome, unfortunately. MG, I'm not that great at and it doesn't seem to be a large focus of the course, but we'll see.)

That does sound like a cool class, both from this comment and your other one. Hmm. I'll have to keep an eye out for that.