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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries November 21st, 2009atalantapendrag @ 11:39 pm: Cat rang bell. I ate food.
 Lovely afternoon/evening with ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) goddessgoddess, T., and S. (who turned out to be a cute longhaired fellow in a fetching paisley skirt). We went to Clay Pit for lunch (dodging all the burnt orange turnout on our way downtown); it turned out they have a lunch buffet on Saturdays as well as during the week. That turned out pretty well, they had saag paneer, lamb korma, and vegetable pakora. Stuffed! After that goddessgoddess made her desire for warbat known, so we went to Sarah's. They're always fun to browse; T. got some rose syrup, goddessgoddess got eight warbat, and I caved and got a packet of honeydew shisha and a little vanilla sugar (which was really cheap!). The lady behind the counter was once more super friendly and chatty, joking about how I got goddessgoddess addicted to warbat and how I should eat more. If I hadn't been so massively stuffed I might have snagged a falafel or two, they're so good there! Went back to T.'s for lazy-afternooning. There was checking of emails, Facebook, and the like, and it was learned that I cannot use a nipple mouse. There was sharing of warbat. There was cozy napping and the watching of TV, some current shows I didn't recognize, and the first three episodes of Coupling; I had forgotten how deeply I love that show. And how awesome Susan was in the beginning before she got all domesticated. Eventually dinnertime rolled around. Dinner was chosen with remarkable ease, and we went to a Thai place. I had a Thai iced coffee, which I haven't had in years. S. had one too.Tasty, tasty drinks, those. My entree was a pork and noodle dish, peppery without being actually spicy, that I ate maybe a third of. Yay leftovers! There was also a dessert of some sort that I tried a bite of. Very sweet and sticky. After, Planet K was investigated, and another pipe shop, with discussion of further explorations, but I realized that I was dead on my feet and regretfully said my goodnights. So now I am doing my night-time catching up, getting loved on by Molly, and discussing the awesomeness that is Discworld with waywardoctagon before collapsing into sleep. With a very full belly. Current Mood:  full shouganai @ 05:30 pm: Underworld
 I enjoyed this movie. I had a bit of a hard time figuring out what was going on at first, but then it sort of lulled me with all the violence and atmosphere, so I didn't much care who was killing whom. The story was fairly original, with its Vampires Vs Werewolves war (although, why hasn't someone done that already? Seems like a natural), and I liked a lot of the characters. I think my favorite was the Lucian, the head Lycan. I also liked the way it wasn't always clear who the good guys and who the bad guys were. A pleasant way to spend a cold dreary afternoon. Tags: movies: 2009
tetradecimal @ 01:38 pm:
 Am I supposed to change my filter, or rinse it off and put the old one in :/ ? It says to change it every 3-4 weeks, but as usual, internet advice is different. Anyway, I got NEW PLANTS today, and spent some time planting them for the Gang. After the initial "OMG! ONOZ!" reaction, they started giving the plants little nips and zipping around curiously, so I take this to mean All Is Forgiven, Giant Hands. I am happy, too, because they shall have more stuff to poke at. So, here are my water test results: pH: 7.6 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: .25ppm Nitrate: 20ppm I think I should keep an eye on that nitrate especially. I've been using this weekly water additive called EasyBalance that supposedly has "Nitrate Reduction Granules", but I think I'm supposed to have 0 of both nitrate and nitrite. Platies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N03/sets/72157622848521702/Geese: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N03/sets/72157622848496918/ (from the Pittsburgh trip) ETA: After I put that weekly stuff in, the test is now 0ppm nitrite/10 ppm nitrate. Yayyyy~ Tags: fishies
atalantapendrag @ 10:51 am: It's Saturday, right?
I just finished Unseen Academicals. I love Pepe so very hard. I have lunch plans with 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.
November 20th, 2009tetradecimal @ 06:40 pm:
If anyone knows what the hell is up with KIBA, I would love to know. I stopped watching because (a) I was pretty sure it was all going to end in tears (see also: Wolf's Rain) (b) As each successive episode aired, it had me asking, "What the fuck is going on?!" (c) It's kind of derivative, like that Avenger thing about Mars or something and then no one could have kids and WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT SHOW? KIBA is about a kid named Zed who is kind of an asshat and then he is transported to a Magical World (TM) with magic, where he is still an asshat. He also has a super powerful spirit named Amil Gaoul who is awesome and kills things but mostly it's about Zed and his annoying uke brainwashed friend Noa, who is so incredibly annoying and brainwashed he spends a good deal of time contributing to a false sense of dramatic tension by murdering people because... um, someone told him to? It's kind of like Miaka and Yui, if Miaka was a power-hungry jerkoff with absolutely zero social skills. But they are BEST FRIENDS AND YET ENEMIES. It gets to a point where they're constantly introducing various half-explored characters and countries and then something happens and everything explodes, but then for some reason Zed (who goes through 51 episodes and is still, somehow, an asshat) merges with Amil Gaoul or something. I watched a full half of this series and I still have NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON, which I guess happens a lot when you mix together a bunch of things you liked from other cool anime shows but actually have no idea what you are doing. Stop trying to blow my mind, Japan! It never works! Tags: anime, omgwtfbbq
atalantapendrag @ 11:02 am: 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 November 19th, 2009tetradecimal @ 12:03 pm:
 Okay, I just saw a listing with a HUGE DARK STAIN on the hardwood in two of the pictures. "Not a short sale or foreclosure"? I could believe that. It looks more like someone bled out all over the floor. I don't even know if I WANT to buy a place. Up to $300,000?! That's like more money I've seen in my life! (And you should see some of the crazy shacks people want to sell for $250,000, let me tell you internets) Argh, housing is such a pain. The real estate agents, and the lost weekends, and the... ARGH. So, to summarize, here are the reasons for and against moi buying a house/condo/townhouse:
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* More room for fish
* I actually own something for all this money I'm paying
* Decorating new place + more room for stuff
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* Stuck in the same place for years
* HUEG DEBT weighing me down like a millstone :DDD
* A billion hours of stress, research, and negotiations
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And wouldn't you know it, the thing I am most excited about is decorating and more fish. I don't really like the idea of owing people things. I don't think I've ever bought anything I couldn't pay for, but since housing is so monumentally expensive, it'll be 30 YEARS until I can pay it all off, and how do people take the pressure? Jeez. On the other hand, I guess it's better than paying rent. I mean, either way you need to pay something monthly, but at least you own something at the end of it :/. You know what would be hilarious, though? I would probably have to... ...get a roommate. LOLOL I hope the market's better than in New Haven.
atalantapendrag @ 09:35 am: 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.
also_not_a_pipe @ 05:01 am:
 I don't have much to talk about lately. Everything I have to say seems either trivial 1, interesting only to me 2, or both 3. 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 November 18th, 2009tetradecimal @ 02:26 pm:
I have been documenting function outputs for six hours straight. /wrist Tags: this is so not cool, work
atalantapendrag @ 10:07 am: Still stressing out
( More whining )Current Mood:  stressed Current Music: Anime World Order tetradecimal @ 09:06 am:
Yesterday I went to my mall pet store, which inexplicably had much happier-looking fish than the last place. It also had super awesome fish, like a big silver arowana that glared disdainfully down at me and a sleepy lionfish. I'm not buying any fish atm, but I like looking at them. So, the next step up from a 5 gallon tank would be... what? I'd like to get at least a 20 gallon, because I want morefish and more room for plants and hiding places. Still freshwater, although I think it would be awesome to eventually have a marine tank with coral and everything. Also, any suggestions for types of fish/plants/whatever? And how come every single piece of fish advice on the internet is different >:(? Tags: fishies
November 17th, 2009atalantapendrag @ 02:56 pm:
 Fucking bureaucracy. Fucking paperwork. Current Mood: irate November 16th, 2009tetradecimal @ 08:48 pm:
Uh, so. If you like Japanese CG bio-armor cyberpunk, CASSHERN MAY BE THE MOVIE FOR YOU! ( Excuse me whilst I kill your internet connection )I know I have no coherent reason here why you should possibly watch this goofy-ass movie. So, um. It's the campiest Darker and Edgier remake I've ever seen? And. There are pretty bishounen? And fighting? AND ROBOTS! ...why do my favorite characters always die :<? First Yakuza with Revolver in Versus, and now Katana Dude. SHENANIGANS.
More photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N03/sets/72157622695442491 Tags: anime, casshern, lol japan, movies
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tetradecimal @ 05:25 pm:
Provolone is the best cheese! Tags: cheese
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