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Miscellany
Sep. 29th, 2015 09:53 amLately, I've stopped doing things I find fun. It just hasn't been worth the bother (like I didn't walk the few hundred steps out the front door to glimpse the lunar eclipse). So today I'm going to do them, rather than take the easy way out by reading or lying in bed, thinking up stories. I've got no gumption. Maybe writing this, and a new short story, will bring it back.
I read an article the other day about celebrating and not being ashamed of gay men's femme sides, so one of my characters is going to be one of those boys everyone knows is gay (even if the kid isn't). He was going to be the POV, but as I wrote the summary he became the Love Interest mostly because he has a secret that's part of the story question (or whatever it's called). I've had several people tell me that many effeminate men are annoying to be around (we have one at work the sings as he rings people up. Some customers/employees love it, some hate it) but I think maybe if these men weren't told they were being a man wrong, they might not be so aggressively defensive. Or maybe the in-your-face is only annoying because we are judging them, even if we don't realize. Interesting article anyway.
And you just have to watch the cute kitty with the white under his neck. About halfway through he puts his paws together not quite like he's trying to catch something.
I think I left my favorite hoody at work yesterday. I remember taking it off the hook when I took my shoe bag off (I leave my work shoes in my locker) and I think I had it over my arm as I walked to and from the bus going home, but then where is it? I can't remember seeing it when I looked down at my bag at the bus stop. It I left it on the break table at work, it will still be there when I go back to work on Thursday (maybe in need of a wash), but if I left it on the bus or at the stop, I'll never see it again. It isn't worth the effort to spend a day getting it from TriMet's lost and found. I hope I left it at work. And that someone hung it back up for me.
I'm still trying to figure out names for my characters in the story I'm about to start. I really miss the Nickelodeon one which gave you not just the date it was popular, but other similar names AND other names likes by people who liked that one. Whole families could be names using that last feature. After the lists stopped being searchable (could no longer jump to page twelve of thirty-seven), I stopped going there, but I returned this morning to look up Owen because I want a name like it, but not necessarily it, but the lists were gone. I couldn't even find a link to them. I ended up using Baby Name Wizard and got some plain-jane American names that will do, but they are so boring.
Behind the Name is my go to place if I want names from a specific place or even when looking for a place for all my characters to be from, but this is set nearby and the three characters with unimpressive names are all the straight white boys with straight white guy privileges that they don't realize they have. I guess Owen will have to do.
What do you guys use to find names?
I read an article the other day about celebrating and not being ashamed of gay men's femme sides, so one of my characters is going to be one of those boys everyone knows is gay (even if the kid isn't). He was going to be the POV, but as I wrote the summary he became the Love Interest mostly because he has a secret that's part of the story question (or whatever it's called). I've had several people tell me that many effeminate men are annoying to be around (we have one at work the sings as he rings people up. Some customers/employees love it, some hate it) but I think maybe if these men weren't told they were being a man wrong, they might not be so aggressively defensive. Or maybe the in-your-face is only annoying because we are judging them, even if we don't realize. Interesting article anyway.
And you just have to watch the cute kitty with the white under his neck. About halfway through he puts his paws together not quite like he's trying to catch something.
I think I left my favorite hoody at work yesterday. I remember taking it off the hook when I took my shoe bag off (I leave my work shoes in my locker) and I think I had it over my arm as I walked to and from the bus going home, but then where is it? I can't remember seeing it when I looked down at my bag at the bus stop. It I left it on the break table at work, it will still be there when I go back to work on Thursday (maybe in need of a wash), but if I left it on the bus or at the stop, I'll never see it again. It isn't worth the effort to spend a day getting it from TriMet's lost and found. I hope I left it at work. And that someone hung it back up for me.
I'm still trying to figure out names for my characters in the story I'm about to start. I really miss the Nickelodeon one which gave you not just the date it was popular, but other similar names AND other names likes by people who liked that one. Whole families could be names using that last feature. After the lists stopped being searchable (could no longer jump to page twelve of thirty-seven), I stopped going there, but I returned this morning to look up Owen because I want a name like it, but not necessarily it, but the lists were gone. I couldn't even find a link to them. I ended up using Baby Name Wizard and got some plain-jane American names that will do, but they are so boring.
Behind the Name is my go to place if I want names from a specific place or even when looking for a place for all my characters to be from, but this is set nearby and the three characters with unimpressive names are all the straight white boys with straight white guy privileges that they don't realize they have. I guess Owen will have to do.
What do you guys use to find names?
