Writer's Block: Super Bowl XLV

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No; I'm not all that into it. Instead I went out and did laundry, and now I'm doing homework and studying, because I have a government test tomorrow and a precalculus teacher who doesn't actually teach.

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Homework - the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon. It's not actually all that bad - ten minutes editing an article for newspaper, half an hour defining the rest of the terms for the AP gov test tomorrow; I still have thirteen problems of precal that I don't know if I actually know how to do, but I'll do those in a bit.

I spent all morning playing P3P - I really want to beat it so that I can start a new game plus to collect all the dialogue I'll need for 'death and all her friends' (I still need a better title for that :/ ). I'd just start a new game, but I'm so close to the end (January 11) that I may as well just finish it. Plus, it should be faster on ng+ anyway. I want to start Vision Quest so I can get more grinding in, but Yukari's been sick for a few days and that's pretty horrible for Priestess. (Though I should probably level Junpei up a bit a lot, which I can do even if Yukari's sick... well, whatever.)

I have Complicated Thoughts about editing for the school paper. I don't mind doing the actual work, mostly; it's all I actually have to do, which is nice, because I don't know how In Design works and I'm so ridiculously out of the loop about everything that I don't think I could actually write any articles. So I go through everybody's articles and make sure that they're readable and have everything spelled properly and have commas in the right place, that sort of thing; but I don't actually edit content or style, generally, unless it's so horrible as to make the entire article unreadable, in which case I usually just rewrite the entire thing.

Whenever I'm editing, though, I always feel a little weird. I think I'm supposed to be Quality Control, or at least that Neeth is trying to use me as QC, but I don't actually edit like that. There's going to be a sense-making article when I'm done; it might not be an interesting article, or even a good one, but by God it's going to be readable. Of course, just because I've deemed it readable doesn't mean that I want it in a publication with my name attached to it. That's my main issue, really - do I rewrite up to my standards and, in the process, probably end up stripping the original author's style right out of it; or, do I leave it merely readable and feel mildly embarrassed to be associated with the newspaper?

I swear I don't have this much trouble editing other people's stuff - but then I guess that's because most of the stuff I edit for other people is 1) interesting and 2) written by people who understand and practice proper usage of the written English language.

Anyway, those precal problems won't do themselves, and the sooner I finish them the sooner I can update firstawakened  with drafts of some stuff.

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And then I fought the Reaper. It only took half an hour (and, uh, two plumes of dusk because I'm playing on easy and also am an idiot, but still).

But hey! I can get into Monad now. And I think I've got some tasty characterisation for my Saika, as well. Now if only I can beat the game so I can get back to writing... |: