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adiva_calandiaI downloaded Portable Firefox to my external hard drive so I could
surf at work when I'm not doing anything else, and then what happens?
No free USB ports. Damn.
I also managed to leave my cell phone and wallet at home. I am
SPECTACULARLY well prepared for my first day, ne? Thankfully, as Dad
pointed out this morning, I work today and then have a three day
weekend, so I can figure things out by Tuesday.
Remind me never to become a judge. I could never keep all the rules of
conduct in my head. I would much rather play one on TV.
I've
been thinking a lot recently about how one of the great things about
acting is the opportunity to be something else, do things you would
never do in real life. I have no wish to be in the military, but I'm
sort of curious as to how I'd do in boot camp; I'd like to play a
soldier. The idea of medical or law school intimidates me, because I
simply don't have the right kind of focus for those professions; but
I'd like to try playing a doctor or lawyer. Even things as simple as
being more confident and in your face, or more shy and submissive,
than I am in real life -- I'd like to try those.
RP and writing lets you get away with some of that, but it's not quite
the same. Like . . . like I play Russ over in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
handfulof_dust, right? And while the opportunity to play a
motorcycle-riding, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking, stone-cold callous
calculating sonuvabitch Alpha werewolf might one day come along, it
wouldn't be the same as Russ, because I'm female, and I look like I
do, and I'm not James Dean. Or take a less extreme example, like Nita
Callahan: she's very, very close to me in a lot of ways, and I'm aware
that she's about two steps away from being a self-insertion, but
writing her still creates a very different character than if I
were acting her.
I think a lot of it has to do with the one-step remove of the PB.
That's why I've always been intrigued by the idea of using myself as a
PB. But I feel like then you really cross a line into
self-insertion. Besides, photos I take of myself will never be as cool
as the high-res photoshoots celebrities have. Still . . . it'd be
kinda fun to create an OC who was completely different from myself,
personality-wise, and use my own face.
Nita ramblings: Check this
out -- Jupiter's
developing a new red spot. Am I totally going to find some way to
use that in the YW-verse over the next year or so? (It's too big to
have just popped up, come on.) You better believe it.
Also over the next year or so, Nita gets to face college. If my
calculations are right, she's just finished her junior year of high
school, which means applications start. There's nothing as cathartic
as putting your pups through your own hells. :D I think Nita will be
mainly looking at state schools, although she might look at getting
merit scholarships to some Ivy Leagues and other expensive schools.
But, y'know, single income family, and her dad's a florist who doesn't
make much. She can't go applying willy-nillylike I did.
It'll be nice when she gets to college, I think, assumng I'm still
playing at Milliways in a year and a half (I'm not planning on going
anywhere, not with a good ten pups still in play, and the game doesn't
seem to be in too much danger of dying). An 18-year-old away from home
has a little more leeway in how she acts than when at home. Speaking
from personal experience, anyway. >.>
Omigosh I just got the first phone call I had to handle myself and I
sort of gave her the wrong information but I called back and I hope I
didn't screw up aaaaaah.
Okay, hitting send/post now. This is more than long enough, and I go
home in 45 minutes anyway.
surf at work when I'm not doing anything else, and then what happens?
No free USB ports. Damn.
I also managed to leave my cell phone and wallet at home. I am
SPECTACULARLY well prepared for my first day, ne? Thankfully, as Dad
pointed out this morning, I work today and then have a three day
weekend, so I can figure things out by Tuesday.
Remind me never to become a judge. I could never keep all the rules of
conduct in my head. I would much rather play one on TV.
I've
been thinking a lot recently about how one of the great things about
acting is the opportunity to be something else, do things you would
never do in real life. I have no wish to be in the military, but I'm
sort of curious as to how I'd do in boot camp; I'd like to play a
soldier. The idea of medical or law school intimidates me, because I
simply don't have the right kind of focus for those professions; but
I'd like to try playing a doctor or lawyer. Even things as simple as
being more confident and in your face, or more shy and submissive,
than I am in real life -- I'd like to try those.
RP and writing lets you get away with some of that, but it's not quite
the same. Like . . . like I play Russ over in
handfulof_dust, right? And while the opportunity to play amotorcycle-riding, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking, stone-cold callous
calculating sonuvabitch Alpha werewolf might one day come along, it
wouldn't be the same as Russ, because I'm female, and I look like I
do, and I'm not James Dean. Or take a less extreme example, like Nita
Callahan: she's very, very close to me in a lot of ways, and I'm aware
that she's about two steps away from being a self-insertion, but
writing her still creates a very different character than if I
were acting her.
I think a lot of it has to do with the one-step remove of the PB.
That's why I've always been intrigued by the idea of using myself as a
PB. But I feel like then you really cross a line into
self-insertion. Besides, photos I take of myself will never be as cool
as the high-res photoshoots celebrities have. Still . . . it'd be
kinda fun to create an OC who was completely different from myself,
personality-wise, and use my own face.
Nita ramblings: Check this
out -- Jupiter's
developing a new red spot. Am I totally going to find some way to
use that in the YW-verse over the next year or so? (It's too big to
have just popped up, come on.) You better believe it.
Also over the next year or so, Nita gets to face college. If my
calculations are right, she's just finished her junior year of high
school, which means applications start. There's nothing as cathartic
as putting your pups through your own hells. :D I think Nita will be
mainly looking at state schools, although she might look at getting
merit scholarships to some Ivy Leagues and other expensive schools.
But, y'know, single income family, and her dad's a florist who doesn't
make much. She can't go applying willy-nilly
It'll be nice when she gets to college, I think, assumng I'm still
playing at Milliways in a year and a half (I'm not planning on going
anywhere, not with a good ten pups still in play, and the game doesn't
seem to be in too much danger of dying). An 18-year-old away from home
has a little more leeway in how she acts than when at home. Speaking
from personal experience, anyway. >.>
Omigosh I just got the first phone call I had to handle myself and I
sort of gave her the wrong information but I called back and I hope I
didn't screw up aaaaaah.
Okay, hitting send/post now. This is more than long enough, and I go
home in 45 minutes anyway.
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Date: 2008-05-24 01:30 am (UTC)I was pondering this for the MiBs, but if you can work it into the Jupiter story, take it away!
Plus, the MiBs are always available for Nita!plot, if you want 'em.
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Date: 2008-05-24 02:13 am (UTC)Hey, the MiBs could take the Moon, Nita could take Jupiter, and they could field trip to each other's universes to help out!
(Nita really should meet Zed sometime. I have no idea what she'd make of him.)
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Date: 2008-05-24 05:31 am (UTC)Ok, then. I'll go sort out the Truth about the Moon while you show us What's Really Happening on Jupiter with field trips all around, and a Zed-Nita well before that.
Seems like. A Plan.
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Date: 2008-05-24 03:34 am (UTC)