PM writes in the shadow of a vast cyclopean city...
Okay, so I have three pieces of news:

1) I've been writing fiction again. :D
It's a story I've had bumping around in my head for years. Somewhere on the six to ten years scale (since middle school or early/mid high school). It's all very silly and I've always known it, which is why this is my most substantial attempt to write it thus far... my previous attempt was late last year, and I got part of a page done on a road trip before the sun went down and I had to stop. But back in the day I used to fantasize about it for hours and I even sat down and drew some logos, because it started as a superhero team story and turned into high fantasy and then kinda maybe possibly back into a superhero story? I don't know... I've (mentally) laid out more of the middle ages-y part than the modern-day bit. I did think of a cover for it in class today... very old-school fantasy. Never mind that it has no title. Beyond that I'm being intentionally vague.

2) I got into H.P. Lovecraft
At some point around a week ago, I realized that while I hate horror movies (they turn me into a jibbering paranoid insomniac) I rather like prose and comic book horror... at least of the creeping evil with scary PUNCHLINE type, if you get what I'm saying. I mean the type that's ominous, then more ominous, then OH SHI-

Anyway, this lead me to check out Lovecraft, and this is exactly the kind of horror that he writes. He does it pretty well, but there are a few issues: blatant racism, well-nigh unreadable dialect, overly wordy descriptiveness, repetitive use of certain adjectives (you will get tired of 'gambrel', 'cyclopean' etc.), and predictability.

I kind of suspect Tolkien read his work, or some of it, mainly due to their shared liking of lengthy description and horrors from the deep. I have yet to find any other reference to such a connection, however, and wordiness is fairly common... honestly I thought Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the worst I've read so far in that respect, though (I read it in the original French).

Anyway, Lovecraft was not an especially prolific writer, so I'd like to know others to check out... I liked one of Stephen King's short stories, so I'll probably start there. After that, maybe I can write something. I mean, cosmic horrors are all well and good, but as for things that really creep me out...

3) I just got an email from my college telling me how to register for commencement.
On the one hand, YEAH! I'm graduating in June! *triumphant dance*
On the other... EEK!
So yeah.