Redacted a lot of the stuff above this for melodrama. TL;DR: Bus route is
down, bus company is dragging its feet, and I'm physically unable to go
to university as a result. Unless I take the train in one direction for an
hour then ride it in the opposite direction for two. Not even factoring
in the time it takes to bus to the train station itself.
On top of all this. I've found myself obsessed with The Sims again. I'm not
even sure if I actually *like* the damn game. I found that I mostly already
*had* a plot when I sat down to play it. Why not just write it down in
story form then??? Ugh.
On the bright side, I'm currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness and I
really like it! I'm about to start Chapter 5. So far I'm interested in
*how* humans got to other planets, and how/why they fell out of contact
with each other. Why do the Gethenians have kemmer while the other humans
don't? I also find it interesting that the rest of humanity gets called
perverts, when in this world people will call you worse for a shifting/
changing gender.
Also, it's interesting that Genly defaults to gendering the Gethenians as
male. I somehow get the impression it's because Genly himself is a man.
Reminds me of reading something about how men would generally say "he"
and women would opt for "he or she" or something to that effect, but
honestly without context that observation seems wrong to me. It's still
rattling around in my brain though, and it is likely to have been true
in the past, or be true in social groups in which I'm not.
Oh, nice. Chapter 5 opens with "My landlady, a voluble man."
