Life Does This Sometimes
Nov. 21st, 2008 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusI lost internet access for 4 hours last night. I was less than happy about it. My phone went with it. I'm surprised it didn't go for the trifecta and take out my cable TV as well, which I don't actually watch anymore, just have it for the kids and DH. But the TV signal was fine. Now since they all come into the house on the same cable, I don't really get why I still had telly but I did. This is the first time since we've been with them that we've lost service due to anything other than a power failure so that's not too bad. No, the point is I realized how bloody hard it is for me to go without internet access for that long.
It's not that I'm addicted. Well, yes, it is, but that's not my point. My point is I use the internet for everything. The kids' school is online and so are half of their assignments. I don't keep a standard phone book anymore because I just look everything up on www.dexonline.com or do a google search for whatever I'm looking for, be it my dentist's number or the kids' doctor or the number of the dance studio so I can look up the times for Nutcracker rehearsal for the week. I use it to check the grocery ads at our local stores since we don't get a newspaper. I use it to look up an actor or actress I see somewhere who looks familiar but I can't place on IMDB. I use it to download the little TV I do watch. I use it to read about show synopses at www.epguides.com. I use it to look up recipes for things my son can't eat processed anymore due to his chemical food allergies. I use it to check www.nwcn.com for whether or not our river is on flood watch, or if any of our local roads are closed due to snowfall or when the ski season starts or if the slopes are open (since that means our roads will be very busy at certain times of the day).
When I write I am constantly looking stuff up on www.dictionary.com, usually for the thesaurus feature, since for the most part I can spell. There are just so many times you can use the same turn of phrase in one chapter before you drive yourself, let alone your readers, crazy. And I particularly like to find different ways of saying the same thing when I'm writing smut because there are only so many times you can refer to the Doctor's penis as an actual penis before it begins to grate on you. Although some of you might like the Doctor's penis to grate on you but that is a whole other issue. So, yes, the thesaurus feature for words like shaft, manhood, length, and how he uses it like sheathes himself, encases himself, buries himself, etc. within Rose. He plunges and thrusts and parries and dances and glides and moves rhythmically and jerks erratically, spasmodically, wildly, crazily... And Rose, for her part, clamps and clenches and spasms and contracts and is overcome and has waves of bliss and on and on. *laughs*
I also use it for research. I want horselike names in Latin or Greek? I look it up. Oh, look there's Hipparion and Phillopos. Let's give the merpeople names that have to do with water. And play with light and dark with Lumos and Caligo. So what if few people ever put it together and are just here for the smut and/or the storytelling...I still know what it means and that the background is there and it makes me happy.
Say I want evil villains from Orion? He was a hunter. Let's have pack hunters. Let's name them after the Orion of legends' hunting dogs and let's make them actually have canine DNA while we're at it, then look up the Latin names for the animals they have DNA from and name the planets that and find a virus that was common amongst hyenas and give it to Rose and Ten's daughter Cassi. Let's pull in the whole Andromeda myth while we're at it. Let's weave in the fact that mythology took place in a place called Boeotia and weave that in with Jack's actual origin of the Boeshane penninsula, by placing it on the planet Boetia (not the city). Hmm...can't do that without internet access.
Need to look up some interesting mineral or gemstone (star sapphire anyone?), it's there at my fingertips. Want to add a photo so people can see what I'm talking about? Oh, look, there's a good one, let's copy it and upload it to photobucket. Need to research something on encyclopedia Brittanica like violent mating habits in animals that might provide good background information to explain an extremely primative first mating ritual of Gallifreyans like in Wolf Moon? Oh, look, it's at my fingertips.
My point is for four hours last night I had none of that. Weird how dependent I've become on being able to just jump over to wiki to see if there really is such a thing as a trinary star system (there is). And I really, really don't like it. I can go months without using my cell phone, but take away my internet and I feel authorially crippled. It's so good to have it back.
It's not that I'm addicted. Well, yes, it is, but that's not my point. My point is I use the internet for everything. The kids' school is online and so are half of their assignments. I don't keep a standard phone book anymore because I just look everything up on www.dexonline.com or do a google search for whatever I'm looking for, be it my dentist's number or the kids' doctor or the number of the dance studio so I can look up the times for Nutcracker rehearsal for the week. I use it to check the grocery ads at our local stores since we don't get a newspaper. I use it to look up an actor or actress I see somewhere who looks familiar but I can't place on IMDB. I use it to download the little TV I do watch. I use it to read about show synopses at www.epguides.com. I use it to look up recipes for things my son can't eat processed anymore due to his chemical food allergies. I use it to check www.nwcn.com for whether or not our river is on flood watch, or if any of our local roads are closed due to snowfall or when the ski season starts or if the slopes are open (since that means our roads will be very busy at certain times of the day).
When I write I am constantly looking stuff up on www.dictionary.com, usually for the thesaurus feature, since for the most part I can spell. There are just so many times you can use the same turn of phrase in one chapter before you drive yourself, let alone your readers, crazy. And I particularly like to find different ways of saying the same thing when I'm writing smut because there are only so many times you can refer to the Doctor's penis as an actual penis before it begins to grate on you. Although some of you might like the Doctor's penis to grate on you but that is a whole other issue. So, yes, the thesaurus feature for words like shaft, manhood, length, and how he uses it like sheathes himself, encases himself, buries himself, etc. within Rose. He plunges and thrusts and parries and dances and glides and moves rhythmically and jerks erratically, spasmodically, wildly, crazily... And Rose, for her part, clamps and clenches and spasms and contracts and is overcome and has waves of bliss and on and on. *laughs*
I also use it for research. I want horselike names in Latin or Greek? I look it up. Oh, look there's Hipparion and Phillopos. Let's give the merpeople names that have to do with water. And play with light and dark with Lumos and Caligo. So what if few people ever put it together and are just here for the smut and/or the storytelling...I still know what it means and that the background is there and it makes me happy.
Say I want evil villains from Orion? He was a hunter. Let's have pack hunters. Let's name them after the Orion of legends' hunting dogs and let's make them actually have canine DNA while we're at it, then look up the Latin names for the animals they have DNA from and name the planets that and find a virus that was common amongst hyenas and give it to Rose and Ten's daughter Cassi. Let's pull in the whole Andromeda myth while we're at it. Let's weave in the fact that mythology took place in a place called Boeotia and weave that in with Jack's actual origin of the Boeshane penninsula, by placing it on the planet Boetia (not the city). Hmm...can't do that without internet access.
Need to look up some interesting mineral or gemstone (star sapphire anyone?), it's there at my fingertips. Want to add a photo so people can see what I'm talking about? Oh, look, there's a good one, let's copy it and upload it to photobucket. Need to research something on encyclopedia Brittanica like violent mating habits in animals that might provide good background information to explain an extremely primative first mating ritual of Gallifreyans like in Wolf Moon? Oh, look, it's at my fingertips.
My point is for four hours last night I had none of that. Weird how dependent I've become on being able to just jump over to wiki to see if there really is such a thing as a trinary star system (there is). And I really, really don't like it. I can go months without using my cell phone, but take away my internet and I feel authorially crippled. It's so good to have it back.
