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Heavenly Pursuits
Friday, May 04, 2007Well. Next week is exam week, which makes today reading (no classes so students can study and catch up) day. Not a lot going on, work is slowing down, and I'm checking and double checking to make sure everything is covered, though I am sure I forgot something. My poor student workers are going to houseclean next week, as I get ready for summer. But summer is almost here. There is a holiday feel to the air, like one is just on the point of partying. Not yet, though. I'd play music, but all day I've had graduating seniors taking tests at the main table a few feet away, and I don't want to disturb them more than being in an office already does. What my main preoccupation of late has been is updating the film article. Each paragraph is its own movie, and so I go to the paragraph, check the links. Then, like, for example, for Stardust I Google: Gaiman + stardust And I read everything to see if I can pick up any news. Sometimes I find something neat, and if I can collaborate it, then I chose a the best link or two. Sometimes I find something that I need to ask Neil. There are so many rumors, you have to be careful. Then I type in: Stardust + Cox Stardust + Phieffer Stardust +.... I only do this with people who may have been interviewed, or have a good fan base. Then I re-write the paragraph to include the new information, revoice it a bit if it needs, code the links, highlight what I'd like Neil to take an extra look at, bold the title and start all over again with the next movie. You'd think I'd be done by now, but not so. I want this to be right...thorough and as close to perfect as you can get when you're writing about something that may completely change in two days. I actually enjoy it, though. I am still a librarian at heart. I am now reading Phillipa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl. It's such an easy read. A warm bathwater read...I've been laying in front of my open window and reading it, drinking tea and feeling quite happy and at peace. Then I'll go back to Mister Potter....I finished book one a bit ago, and have been trying to start Book 2. Labels: harry potter, maundering over happy thoughts of summer, Neil Gaiman, still a librarian at heart, The Other Boleyn Girl, writing Permalink Cindy scribed this at 1:54 PM 2 comments |
2 Comments:
Gosh, leaving comments here is difficult.
Cindy:
You can string all your google alerts into one thread. I'm running:
stardust (cox | miller | deniro | "de niro" | pfeiffer | vaughn | danes | gervais)
as a comprehensive alert and it seems to mostly be on target.
My links are here:
http://del.icio.us/thedreaming/film+Stardust
If you haven't seen the Time article on movie villains or the AP article on niche films, you might want to take a look at them -- the rest seem to be the same quotes over and over again.
Not that FOEM isn't picking up/reprinting what's out there as well.
Be well and good luck on the updates!
-randi
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Randi Mason, at
12:24 AM
Wow...that's very very clever! So that should work as an ordinary search string, as well?
And I'm sorry it's hard to leave a comment...I know it's hard to read them, and I'm trying to fix that. Is it just not showing up so you can see it easily? I'll fix that, too.
Thank you so much! Have a lovely weekend.
Cindy