April 28, 2005

I know that it has been a long while since I last posted anything, which is why I am leaving this message here, for those who check my profile in order to get to my stories.

If any have feared that I have stopped posting, worry not: I am still going to continue the stories that I have put here, but there will be some very long delays. While delays may be caused by a variety of phenomena, the chief reason for the delays in my case is school. I am currently in the process of writing and researching for my thesis, which, as many may already know and others will come to understand, is no laughing matter and is not to be taken lightly. It simply means that I will have to put off writing fan fiction for a while until I am able to write again.

For those who have been following More Things in Heaven and Earth, The Two Faces of Hathor, The Forgotten Lands of Arda, and the other stories that I have put up, please, do not think that I have abandoned them. I am writing them when I can, but at the moment, updates will be extremely random and sporadic owing to my thesis and other such academic matters.

"Ode to Joy" by Beethoven
"Waltz of the Flowers" by Tchaikovsky
"Clair de Lune" by Debussy
"Into the West" sung by Annie Lennox (from the OST of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
"Luna's Boat Song" from Lunar: Silver Star Story
"Emerald Tiger" as performed by Vanessa Mae in her new album Choreography
"Happy Valley" as performed by Vanessa Mae in her album The Best of Vanessa Mae
"Canto alla Vita" sung by Josh Groban featuring The Corrs in his album Josh Groban
"Mi Morena" sung by Josh Groban in his album Closer

On my reading desk:

River God by Wilbur Smith
The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R Tolkien edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

In my DVD player:

The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions directed by Peter Jackson
Fantasia 2000 from Disney
Not One Less directed by Zhang Yimou

On my TV screen:

CSI: New York
LOST

If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first,
Think that of all that I have writ the worst;
But if thou read'st my book unto the end,
And still dost this and that verse reprehend,
O perverse man! If all disgustful be,
The extreme scab take thee and thine, for me.

-- "To the Sour Reader;" Robert Herrick

-- "To the Generous Reader;" Robert Herrick