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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | ||||||||
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atalantapendrag |
11:48a | |||||||
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atalantapendrag |
10:51a | It's Saturday, right? I just finished Unseen Academicals. I love Pepe so very hard. I have lunch plans with ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} goddessgoddess, T., and their friend S. This is probably a good thing, as my food intake the past few days has consisted of a can of not at all good soup. A meal I can chew would be nice.Am wearing The Bra That Fits. At present there is only one. I have taken steps to remedy this. It is a front-hook. It kind of has to be. There are eight rows of hooks. Also wearing The Jeans That Fit, courtesy of hcolleen, and a not bad tshirt courtesy of some thrift shop somewhere. Smelly of the day as yet to be decided. I'm thinking Hungry Ghost Moon. Current Mood: mellow | ||||||
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | ||||||||
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ruaki |
11:58p | Guys, I totally forgot I had this picture of this INCREDIBLE Persona 2 cosplay of some of the Personae, from Akon XIII. (That's in 2002!) I thought some of you might enjoy it. I wish digital technology was around back then (instead of me relying on disposable cameras) cause HOLY SHITTTTTTTT You know, looking at the stuff I had, there seemed to be a lot more variety in things people cosplayed? I dunno, maybe I'm just not hip with the new things people are into, but you didn't run around into clones that often.... and just looking at the series, so many different series were represented... | ||||||
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atalantapendrag |
11:02a | Just sort of blankish Thankfully I am not tempted by BPAL's Naughty or Nice Inquisition. There are a few scents that sound nice but most don't appeal. It's rainy and I'm stiff and kind of queasy. more sleep is called for. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals 09 | ||||||
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aurussteelsword |
1:18a | And while we're on the subject of 1960s television Everyone needs to know how much I love The Man from UNCLE. This is one of my favorite episodes, and not just because it's got William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, pre-Trek, playing off each other and the main cast MAGICALLY. Also, Illya, I love you. I love you so much. (In more real-life news: I saw KISS on Sunday, and went to a car show twice last week, and dropped my laptop on the floor. ;_; But it was saved by science. NaNoWriMo has been, well, an interesting experience so far. I start work in a little under two weeks. That's more or less it.) | ||||||
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | ||||||||
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atalantapendrag |
9:35a | Dealt with, for now. Thanks to doombuggie's indispensable and much appreciated aid yesterday, I was able to get the paperwork I needed. Bright and early this AM I took my quivering self to the office, where the manager made copies of everything to take to the caseworker (she said she was going in this afternoon) and put a "recieved" stamp on all of the originals.Nothing I can do now until December 18th. My hands continue to shake. The cats have been doing their job, though. Last night there was some contention between Anya and Molly as to who would curl up on my chest. Being Boss Cat, Molly won of course, and Anya snuggled up at my side. Current Mood: drained | ||||||
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also_not_a_pipe |
5:01a | I don't have much to talk about lately. Everything I have to say seems either trivial1, interesting only to me 2, or both3. I remember seeing a meme a while ago where the question was something to the effect of "Hey, we sure don't know each other as well as the Internet makes us think we do. If there's anything you've been wondering about me, feel free to ask." I'd been going to post that one, but I can't find it now. So, hey, we sure don't know each other as well as the Internet makes us think we do. If there's anything you've been wondering about me, feel free to ask. 1 I get to work twelve hours next week! I'd have got to work fourteen hours this week, but I had to wait around to let some inspectors into the house of a neighbor who had to move back to Mississippi and is trying to sell her house today. I honestly don't mean that in any kind of snide way. I really like my job, I just don't get hours anymore. When some librarians retired this summer, the system replaced them each with two part-time staff. I was stupid and didn't apply because I wasn't sure I'd make enough to cover driving out to Xenia twice as much, and I was pretty sure I was about to get a full-time job out on the east coast. So now they're all covered and only need a sub a day or two a month. My choice this week is to cancel Rhapsody or go to a couple of NaNo write-ins. The Panera near me is hiring and I can't say I'm not tempted. 2 I did the math and I'm nineteen thousand words behind schedule for NaNo. Yeah, I'm not recovering that. I can't type quickly on the AlphaSmart--I did 579 words in ten minutes on Write or Die using the desktop downstairs the other night, which is on the slightly high end of what I can do in an hour on the AlphaSmart--and my laptop is out being fixed. Partly I'm stuck around 12K because I have to do something I really don't want to do to a character and so I'm avoiding it. I borrowed him from from the bad high school writing from which I scavenged my NaNo idea, and he wasn't native even to that story. He goes back to the very first story I wrote for a creative writing class, where his name was Adrian Blackburn and he was a Gary Stu so good-natured and sweet that he'd hurt your teeth. I feel kind of bad abut all the things I'm putting Adrian through, because he is a nice guy, and he's not really in a position to defend or help himself until about halfway through the story. He's one of the characters who keeps hanging around in my head, so I keep using him. This is about the third story in a row where I just kick the crap out of him (fourth, if you count the old free-form RP character I played in the White Wolf-based rooms on AOL). Because I was raised Irish Catholic, I feel guilty about that. Also I've been giving myself nightmares. The story I'm working on is a combination of ideas that I scavenged from really bad old stories I wrote when I was in late high school and early college. One of the ideas I kept was of a world populated by characters who were the embodiment of trope characters--the Wise Woman, the Charming Rogue, those sorts of things--and have powers of a sort based on their tropes. So far the most active villain in this story is a beast that's the affable-but-vicious pair of villains like Croup and Vandemar or the "hands of blue" guys from "Firefly." It calls itself the Dyad. I've been playing in the "rate the above poster's excerpt" threads on the boards a lot lately. I haven't planned it, but my last few excerpts have been scenes involving the Dyad (this is the one I'm using now) and generally what people have to say about my excerpt is "oh my God, that thing's horrible! Oh, and also your writing's pretty good for NaNo." I don't remember exactly what I dreamed last night, but I know that the Dyad was there, and it was horrible. I had to get up and put on some lights and futz around on the Internet for a while, it freaked me out that badly. When I went back to sleep, I had another really vivid dream about my other story that scared me awake. When I stall out on my official NaNo story, I write Charlie and Nicholas fluff, so they are still loud in my head. The story I started for NaNo 2006 and have never been able to write looks like it runs to two books. For a while I was thinking of killing Charlie off near the end of the second one because I just didn't see any way that he'd make it through. Then I decided that the reason in-story wasn't good enough to justify that, it would probably come out as one of those things that make the reader throw the book across the room. I still have no idea how the story actually ends. I don't remember exactly how this dream began, but it involved Nicholas discovering that his Charlie had been murdered, shot through the back so that his heart and chest were gone. The two of them had been fighting about something and hadn't talked in a few days. Nicholas already had a bad feeling because he couldn't get hold of Charlie, and he was absolutely devastated. Then the frame of the dream switched, and instead of just watching this all from some removed third-person perspective, I was Nicholas in the dream and I think the horror and grief and helplessness he was feeling was what woke me up. Yeah, I had to fool around on the computer a little while after that one too. Nicholas has always been really close to me. Charlie's dashing and boisterous and charming (even I'm charmed by him), but Nicholas is the one in whom I see a lot of myself. His voice is easier for me to write than Charlie's. I... don't know how I came to be that wired into him, though. What's weirder is that last night wasn't the first time Nicholas has showed up in my subconscious; the first time I saw "The Talented Mr. Ripley," he turned up that night to tell me how much the movie upset him. And I don't think I'm going to do any better tonight because I just spent about twenty minutes looking up clips from movies like "An American Werewolf in London" and "The Howling" for a post I started to write and decided I ought to do some other time (like when it's light out), then I YouTube-wandered into some parts of "The Shining" and now I'm kind of spooked out. Also my second order from Adagio came today and I tried all of them, so now I'm all caffeinated to hell and back. 3Jack the cat is my shadow lately. When he thinks I've stayed up too late, he tries to lead me to bed. When I kept getting up last night, he didn't like that at all. There's a step stool sitting next to the computer desk for some reason. Every now and then he'd put his paw on my knee and when I glanced over, there he would be sitting on the stool and glaring at me like a little schoolmarm. And if I didn't get the picture and go back to bed, he would dig his claws in and scold me. Current Mood: restless Current Music: Urinetown Original Cast - Follow Your Heart | ||||||
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | ||||||||
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sepiamagpie |
8:24p | As I set up my google calendar, I realize google owns just a little bit more of my soul than before. I got new toys. There's jawas and storm troopers and... girl troopers. Exciting. | ||||||
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ruaki |
6:55p | OH HO HO HO HO HO GUESS WHO DOESN'T HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW GO ON GUESS HA HA HA HA AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA seriously guys, i shouldn't be so happy that i fought for tomorrow off but i am when you work six days a week, i guess it makes you appreciate the extra day off more XD; orz: Under Heaven Destruction says: D: don't mock my lack of punctuation i'm typing like someone on twitter Komik says: nothisissomeonetypingontwittersowecanfil | ||||||
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atalantapendrag |
10:07a | |||||||
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | ||||||||
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ruaki |
6:23p | Anyone here listen to or have listened to Yellow Magic Orchestra? It really seems like nearly all the artists I like or enjoy the works of say they were inspired or influenced by this YMO group. So I gotta know. Anyone? | ||||||
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atalantapendrag |
2:56p | Fucking bureaucracy. Fucking paperwork. Current Mood:  irate | ||||||
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 | ||||||||
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the_seventh_l |
6:19p | LJ-cross post icon post of yay ♥ x17 Axis Powers Hetalia x14 Gensomaden Saiyuki x10 Doctor Who (Sixth Doctor) x10 Umineko no Naku Koro ni rules: [x]comment if you like them please :) [x]comment/credit if taking [x]no hotlinking or editing icons w/o text preview:
see them here at kept_unspoken | ||||||
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the_seventh_l |
2:55p | obligatory DW rant here Apparently, because a desperate and grief-stricken Rose absorbed the Time Vortex and saved the Doctor's life only for him to suck it out her & regenerate, that the remnant power of the Vortex has been slowly turning him mad, as we saw in Waters of Mars. Okay! Sweet theory, must admit. Oh, did I mention IT'S ALL ROSE'S FAULT? Cause she made him regenerate and she "selfishly" took the Vortex in her (because fuck, in her severely emotional state, she couldn't remember anything from Boom Town -- HOW DARE SHE HAS FEELINGS FOR HER BEST FRIEND/GIRLCRUSH ARRRGH) and if Rose was still around after Doomsday, she would have just fucked him up even more and egged him on to be a lonely god of emoness. I LOOK FOR LOGIC; I FIND NONE. I FIND NOOOOOOONE. ;______; FAN THEORY I JUST MADE UP GUYS REALLY: The Ninth Doctor takes the Vortex energy out of Rose to SAVE HER LIFE and accidentally sees everything, including the break of the time lock surrounding the War by the Master and the ~triumphant return~ of Gallifrey. When he regenerates, he forgets, but the closer he comes to the event horizon when everything will change (SUP "END OF TIME") his mind slowly turns against him to keep him from remembering. Thus, the madness and arrogance and Lonely God shtick we've been seeing, the constant reinforcing of I'M SO ALOOOOONE AND THE ONLY TIME LORD ;_____; ---- so he never remembers that Gallifrey is coming back, until it becomes impossible to hold back and that ---- swush. (Swush?) Gallifrey comes back, the Time War is broken out of his lock, insert some crap with Daleks, and by the end the Doctor is no longer alone and also looks like that one chap from Party Animals. SWUSH! REGENERATE! Yeah? Current Mood: *thud* | ||||||
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atalantapendrag |
2:08p | Sorry about the radio silence, guys. Stressed all to hell. Sleeping whenever I can. Have had to be awake today. Feel like 'm going to be sick. Big, stressy meeting tomorrow. This is not good. Current Mood:  distressed | ||||||
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also_not_a_pipe |
3:08a | Ha ha. I just cracked Also. I don't know whether it's the remains of Tropical Storm Screwed Up Hormones moving through, but all I'm of a mood to write right now is PWP. Even though I typically get really self-conscious and embarrassed when I'm called on to write smut so that I give up a page or two into it and there's really, really no place for a sex scene where I am in any of the stories I'm working on right now. The only real +1s of this week are that I found a fantastic little coffee house in the cutest town I've ever seen while I was scoping out options for northern write-ins, and now I can look down without feeling like I'm going to puke and/or pass out any moment. (two weeks of that good fucking hell) However, I did write this while I was at the fantastic little coffee house, which I like pretty well for raw NaNo draft. Current Mood: *siiigh* Current Music: The Arrogant Worms - Celine Dion | ||||||
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 | ||||||||
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ruaki |
10:49p | HELP GUYS JIN IS MOLESTING KY IN THIS PICTURE AND I CAN'T STOP HIM D: | ||||||
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | ||||||||
|
schuldig |
12:46p | One of the recent posts means I'm SO done with ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunnybusiness.No, don't look. You'll only hurt yourself. | ||||||
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | ||||||||
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atalantapendrag |
3:12p | Good mail day! Got a package from the ever-wonderful hcolleen. Several literal spoons (which I actually can use, and one of which is quite lovely) which made me smile and feel all warm and tickled inside. Also three pairs of pants, a pair of black jeans that probably won't fit for a while, an adorable pair of pinstripe pants that almost fit and probably will quite soon, and the pair I am wearing now.The Old Navy size 18s I am wearing right now. Size 18, motherfuckers. There's something to be said for this drugged-into-oblivion diet. Also got the BPAL I ordered before the EMERGENCY MODE went into effect. Pink Snowballs is delicate and lovely, in the bottle at least it is vanilla-with-rose rather than rose-with-vanilla, which will make for a nice change if it stays true on my skin. And Mother Shub's Pfancy Pf-however-you-smell-it is one of those baked good foodies I like so much. Going by the descriptions I was pretty much playing it safe, but unless they turn nasty on my skin I am not disappointed. And now I can sleep instead of just dozing! Current Mood:  thankful | ||||||
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sepiamagpie |
7:59a | This post isn't about a videogame, actually  What would a similar cut to this, but unstraightened, look like? QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED TO MY SATISFACTION IN THAT APPARENTLY A HAIRCUT LIKE THAT WITHOUT THE STRAIGHTENING WOULD LOOK KIND OF AWESOME. In other news! I'm reading The Discworld Graphic Novels which is the Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic and it is fabulous to finally own legal copies of these comics. They are basically how I picture Rincewind and Twoflower, explaining how the live action Colour of Magic was a tad bit jarring for me. That is all. Carry on. | ||||||
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atalantapendrag |
7:22a | *yawnstreeeeetch* doombuggie has started up a Facebook group petitioning for the soldiers injured and killed at Fort Hood to be awarded the Purple Heart. If it's your thing, check it out.Yesterday I stirred out of bed to find out UPS had tried twice to deliver a package - yesterday would be the last attempt, yikes! hcolleen also said she'd sent me something and yep, there was a "tried to deliver" notice in my mailbox. So I set up redelivery on the post office site, and left the front door open (screen latched) to listen for UPS. I left the slip out signed when mid-afternoon doombuggie came by to take me to get my meds, and I thanked him by taking him to Frank. Sadly he was not impressed with his chili cheese dogs but I found the catfish bacon sausage to be yummy indeed. And I got a few cans of soup at Walgreens when I picked up my Effexor. UPS hadn't been yet when I got home, so I chilled/dozed on the futon for a bit until they showed with my clearance footie pajamas. Winters here are not long, but we get a few chilly nights and the insulation in most apartments sucks, so I really needed them. Plus, footie pajamas! With skulls!Had a CnS in my inbox today, too. According to the PO, the BPAL Yules I ordered right before I found out the crunch was on should come today. So between that and my Mystery Box from hcolleen, it should be a good mail day!Rewatching my way through Young Hercules, because I'm going to app Discord at hogwarts_hocus. Amazing how much HoYay they got away with on a supposed kids' show. I had forgotten just how blatant it was! Oh, I love my Dead Gay Shows. Current Mood:  bored | ||||||
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sepiamagpie |
1:49a |
 These CSI: Miami episodes and Horatio (Oh Hocaine, hold me) Caine are having a detrimental effect on my mental wellbeing. | ||||||
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | ||||||||
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ruaki |
11:12p | BB gag comic Okay, had to share it cause I seriously got a great chuckle out of it: Ragna's Story : Terrible Childhood | ||||||
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thebratqueen |
9:49p | Am alive, honest I got a little note today wondering where I was. Apparently I haven't posted since September. Um... oops? I didn't mean to be so quiet! I think what helped confuse me was that I have been posting over on twitter, which allowed me to check off the "type some sort of update on the internet" box in my mental to do list. Not much new here other than being busy. There has been knitting, spinning, cooking, working and other things that I can't even remember anymore. Oh! Making things! Like butter. I have made my own butter and it is quite yummy. I have also made cultured butter which was easy but I'm not sure about the result. I mean having butter that knows more about Proust than I do is just embarassing. This week we're doing a cookie swap at work. It's my first cookie swap so I'm excited. Aaaaaaaaaand I think that covers it for now. Hi! =) Current Mood: embarrassed | ||||||
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aurussteelsword |
12:21a | I am not a number, I am a free man! Free streaming episodes of The Prisoner, on AMC's website. My gods, this show is awesome. I'm completely hooked. Why are 1960s spy shows so cool? Current Mood: Needy-like | ||||||
