first day with the basic account

I was one of the first group of people on LiveJournal, back when it was invite only and you had to get a code from someone, and then I started paying for my account so I could have a lot of icons - that I never actually used because I prefer to be known as me by a standard icon. Now I'm making the transition to DreamWidth and have decided to let my LiveJournal account expire. Today, for the first time, I saw an ad at the bottom of someone's page, and was sort of confused by it. Well, mostly confused because it was so unobtrusive, actually; far less intrusive than FaceBook's ads, which people don't seem to complain about. I find it weird that people get so annoyed by their being ads on unpaid accounts on LJ. Although I know that the ads one gets when one is not a member and wishes to comment are far more annoying, because I've tried to comment on things when I was not logged in. :)

( I grow verbose over online identity. )

It's my weekend, now, and I did finally get a break at work on Thursday afternoon. There's plenty more craziness coming up, so I took the opportunity to roust out some old class materials and shred them, freeing up some space in the cabinet. Shredding is so cathartic. :)

Today I've been reading (short) plays, something I normally don't do, and, completely coincidentally, reading Stephen Fry's stories about writing plays, and re-writing other people's plays and musicals. It's been edifying. We were thinking of inviting people over to read the parts of a play, but I feel that I should try to find something that won't take long and has only four or five characters. I wish I were the sort of person who usually read plays and had a storehouse of thoughts on the matter of plays to draw from in order to find something appropriate, but I'm not - I actually hate reading plays, for the most part. Especially with the older ones they often tell at the outset and closing, and sometimes all through, the feeling that the audience should be feeling. we may be sure that he will soon be bland again. We have a comfortable feeling, you and I, that there is nothing of Harry Sims in us. I understand that they are giving a sort of stage direction "this is what you, the actor, should be striving to get from the audience," but if the play is working I don't think we should need this, or it could be stated differently so that I'm not being given an order to feel a certain way.

Does anyone have any plays they'd like to recommend to me? I mean, that I'm likely to be able to find scripts for.

[Orig fic] "Swept Away!" CH 13

Title: Swept Away! - Two Boys' Adventures on The Great River (“With A Thousand Elephants!”) - A Pseudo Victorian Boys Adventure
Author: Derien
Genres: Science-fiction/Victorian Adventure/Queer Teen Romance.
Summary: In the distant future a group of settlers try to recreate Victorian England on another planet, with mixed results. Two boys from quite different social strata find themselves alone on a raft on an uncharted river.
Notes: My initial notes can be found at the top of Chapter 1, where the story so far is now archived on AO3. I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but hopefully I'll get back to archiving it on my own site, soon.


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Chapter 13: The Dangers of Mud