Yeah, that’s quite a bit more than I thought.\u00a0 I started late in the day, in between sessions of conference, and basically just wrote a little bit here and there.\u00a0 Just now, I opened it up to finish up the current chapter, but decided against it since I’m really tired.\u00a0 Then I did the wordcount, and wow…<\/p>\n
\nHowever, I’m a little bit worried that I spent too much time writing and not enough time on other things, like homework.\u00a0 Granted, I was ready for a break after a very busy week, but there is another paper coming up and I really need to do research for it.\u00a0 Plus, I didn’t do so well on the midterm, and that worries me.<\/p>\n
But oh well.\u00a0 Tomorrow is Sunday, which means no homework…except for Arabic.\u00a0 I should have done that today as well.<\/p>\n
Whatever.\u00a0 The novel is coming along nicely and that’s good.<\/p>\n
Conference was good–the parts that I caught, that is.\u00a0 I listened to all three sessions (including priesthood), but slept through some parts and chatted with friends through others.\u00a0 I went for a walk during the first session, so I caught most of it, but not so much the second session.\u00a0 And priesthood I was just hanging out with Steve and some other friends, and we distracted each other through most of it.<\/p>\n
One thing from the first session that stood out to me was the speaker who quoted D&C 121.\u00a0 Showing compassion after rebuking is not<\/em> something I’m good at.\u00a0 In fact, usually I end up chewing people out for little things and leaving afterwards.\u00a0 So that’s something to work on.\u00a0 I thought that it was really interesting how salvation is something personal, whereas exaltation is something we do as families, not individuals.\u00a0 Dallin H. Oaks said some interesting things as well, but it’s slipping my mind at the moment.\u00a0 Elder Uchtdorf switched up the sustainings, and I liked the way he did it–except that it’s not really a vote, it’s something completely different.\u00a0 But someone else corrected him on that.<\/p>\n The only trouble was that conference came right in the middle of such a busy time.\u00a0 I would have accomplished a lot more (maybe even started my research) if conference wasn’t this weak.\u00a0 But I’m not complaining–it was a good to hear from the apostles and prophets.<\/p>\n I’m reading On My Way To Paradise<\/em> right now (by Dave Wolverton–his first novel) and it’s really good!\u00a0 I’m extremely impressed with the way he writes.\u00a0 He makes things so meaningful–it’s not a “stuff happens, the end” novel at all.\u00a0 Every other page there’s some kind of introspection \/ world description that is neither info dumpy nor slow and detached nor flashbacky.\u00a0 Usually, something will remind the main character of some experience he’s had, or of something that he’s come across in the world, and he’ll reminisce about it in a philosophical way that ties it back to the action in the here and now.<\/p>\n Very good stuff.\u00a0 And it’s really gritty, with lots of tension and danger.\u00a0 Brandon calls this a classic cyberpunk novel, and I can definitely see how that is.\u00a0 There are a lot of man vs. the machine themes in this book, individuals fighting the system and getting crushed.\u00a0 But the main character is nothing<\/em>, and I mean NOTHING like the protagonist of Neuromancer<\/em>.\u00a0 That kid was a freak, a horrible person, and just plain detestable.\u00a0 Angelo Osic is someone I can actually feel for, an ordinary guy who wants to do the right thing but gets in way over his head.\u00a0 Good stuff.<\/p>\n And now I’m going to finish this post.\u00a0 Goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah, that’s quite a bit more than I thought.\u00a0 I started late in the day, in between sessions of conference, and basically just wrote a little bit here and there.\u00a0 Just now, I opened it up to finish up the current chapter, but decided against it since I’m really tired.\u00a0 Then I did the wordcount,… Continue reading Wow…2,500 words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,42,4,599],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-college-life","tag-frustrations","tag-the-lost-colony","tag-thoughts-reflections","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}