I ponder a lot of ponders...

[lithera]

.. but I have no where to put them.

I guess, I could attempt to write a series of geeky sort of essays here on my LJ. I would seriously have to tighten my writing back up before I'd let anyone see them again. Man, I haven't written an essay in a long, long time but there are things I've been pondering about that I'd like to write about more cohesively.

It is a pondering ponder.

I would like to go back to the dojo but I am starting to run out of days in the week fo things.

Monday: Bowling
Tuesday: Chorus
Wednesday: Every other is Skau's game
Thursdays: Open
Fridays: Curently Gatekeepers fits here
Saturdays: Open
Sundays: Every other Sean's game

So, there is room but not a lot. It looks like I could do Thursdays and Saturdays... which does fit with the dojo adult schedule. I'm just hesitant to take up all of my weekday nights with something. I know I get burnt out quickly like that and I become crazy hermit lady really fast. I'm already riding the edge of that right now. Maybe just Saturdays and see how it goes?

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[aylara.livejournal.com]

For me, LiveJournal is my non-cohesive writing place. I have two blogs for other stuff.

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Criminy, only three nights a week to disport yourself at your leisure? Sounds like you're pushing it already to me. Not a lot of free time, that.

Also, I hunger for your geeky essays whether they're up to your coherency standards or not. You know much. Self-indulgent nerdy pedantry is the best possible kind. Whip it out I say!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to try Saturdays and see how it goes. I do want to get back to the dojo and it is RIGHT THERE, OMG.

Heh. Well, recently I'm on sort of a kick about prevelance of supernatural fiction (some urban fantasy but not all) that stars a 'strong woman' in the lead and I expressed my frustration with most of these 'strong women' as it seemed to equate strong with never changing or bending or adapting at all, which is why I start liking these characters and end up being frustrated by and hating them. Good examples are Anita Blake (though I think there is a good case here for it having started out at least as a gender switched noir series before it went off the rails) Sookie Stackhouse, Rachel Morgan and so on and so forth.

Some of this is due to the format that is serialized story telling. This is why so many many characters are SO BORING in contrast to their supporting characters on TV and in novels, though in comics pretty much everyone gets shafted. There is a level of protecting yourself and by keeping the character in stasis, you protect your paycheck.

I think some of it, though, is a telling look into the mindset of the average American woman and a misplaced attempt a regaining power and a misperception of strength. Compromise is not weakness, infelxibility is not confidence and the inability to adapt gets you broken or killed - but in our escapism, we tend to wish that we're powerful people who can do and say what we want and still have all of the things we want to work out, work out.

Yadda, yadda, something something.