I Really Want to Update

But don't have time to really type anything out, so here! Have a hilarious paper that yes, I actually wrote for one of my last senior classes ever. This is what happens when you have to give up your topic and make something up at the last minute. So have this:

Time and Translation:  The TARDIS and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Outlining and the Benefits of Telling It To Screw Itself

So one of the things that's been happening recently in the #RetakeMassEffect movement is the discussion of artistic integrity and whether or not video games are art and blah blah blah, which I might write a blog post on one day.

But today is not this day.

Today's post, after a couple of days of angsting over being unable to work on this paper due to lack of interest and being frustrated with some things in general, is about writing. Specifically, the art of "making it up as you go along" in writing, compared to "outlining everything in minute detail."

Didn't Want To Bog Down BSN

....so posting my improved ending here.

There’s two ways Bioware could go with this ending outcry: indoctrination theory and retconning or fixing the ending.

I’m not particularly an indoctrination theorist per se. I just think it’s the best way for Bioware to salvage themselves and their reputations. Honestly, I’m not sure what the hell just happened, period.

#RetakeMassEffect, Spread this around.

If I am called an "entitled fanboy" one more time, I will scream.

I am not "entitled," as I previously addressed. I am not even a "fanboy." I would much rather be referred to as a "fangirl," if you don't mind.

That's It

I'm quitting graduate school.

No, actually, I'm not. I'm just one of the few not-as-jaded people in my Crimes Against Humanity class.

Our discussion today was on the Killing Fields in Cambodia (which is not exactly the point, but that was the topic). All genocide is bad, yes. Always.

But are all people who are involved in genocide bad?

Entitled Gamers Unite!

All right.
Some people who know me may know that, all in all, I tend not to rock the boat. While I have opinions, and a lot of them, I usually don't voice the strongest ones. While this is a big change from high school (See also: Petition about Choir Director, freshman year; Petition about fixing the traffic light at school that went no where, senior  year), I've found that it's far better to funnel your energy into certain things. So while I might get very passionate and opinionated about being anti-human trafficking, my belief that sapient life should self-determinate, and other assorted big-ticket items, I'm not one to start petitions or stand on street corners or whatever unless it's one of those big-ticket items.

That's why some of my friends are . . . interested . . . in how vocal I've become about the Take Back Mass Effect movement. Because, seriously, it's a video game. (And I know it's a video game.) I mean, in the back of my head, I know that the $70 my mom shelled out (the preorder was a Christmas present because, come on, I'm in grad school) could have fed 70 kids for one month in a third world country and people are starving and dying and enslaved and all, and that's what I think about when I've got my Christian Graduate Student hat on. When I've got my I Need A Vacation From The Real World hat on, I turn on my Xbox. And for at least the last year and a half (since I got into console gaming, starting last Christmas), my series of choice has been the Mass Effect series.

Hello Everyone.

I have seriously got more blogs than I know of.

I keep forgetting what one is, decide I want to actually try to start blogging again because I sort of think I'm funny, and then BAM. The blog is gone.

This is primarily an introductory post. I'm Heidi, a grad student living in Boston. I was born and raised in subrural Maryland, so moving to a city's a change. I'm a struggling writer in my *cough* "spare time," as well as a gamer. I'm a Christian, as well.

I'm not entirely sure what this blog will be about. I haven't gotten that far yet. It'll probably be random procrastinating drabble, but I assure you that I am marginally funny.

As it is, I should resume working.