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    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    gelasius
         		12:42a
    What I Think About At Midnight


    In other news, I tried playing a Vampire LARP tonight. I don't know if I'm just not cut out for LARPing or if it was just a bad headspace, but I couldn't get into it and left early; according to the group gabbing about it outside my apartment, it was AWESOME. It ended with most of the characters getting stabbed in the eye with thighbones. To check for possession, or something. Whee! I'm feeling morose about my lack of involvement.

    *sigh*
    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    atalantapendrag
         		8:18p
    Finally, the account of Thursday night!
    Yes, I have more or less slept since getting home from the concert.

    Anyway.

    Thursday afternoon I had my MHMR appointment, Sucked as usual. I was supposed to see the doctor but they fobbed me off onto a nurse. Grr. But I got home in plenty of time to take a nap before showtime.

    Hitting Frank beforehand didn't work out :( Was looking forward to it, too.

    But that was not the important part! [info]doombuggie and I chattered on ride there, and I told him this would probably be the most fun I'd had since my RHPS days, and we discussed our mutual RHPS days a bit, and the possibility of investigating the current local cast, preferably with [info]rehd_fawx.

    ( What I wore )

    We were early enough to get good parking, which is always nice. We hung around a bit, and then we went up to the merch table, cuz Voltaire was there! [info]doombuggie bought a couple of CDs and had them signed, and I gave him, as I'd hoped to, the bottle ofConjure Oils La Calavera (which he sniffed and seemed to like... he also asked if I was the one who made it, which makes it two for two since Neil Gaiman asked if I wa a Labbie when I gave him a bottle of Shub... now I just need to find a goth icon to give a bottle of Arcana to) and got my copy of OH MY GOTH signed.

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    Moments after that was taken, I got an unexpected Voltaire-hug! Of the friendly variety, not the creepy one. It was smile-making.

    Waiting time. The very loud DJ music, bright spinning flashing lights, and smoke machines were far too much for me, and I mostly huddled up with my eyes closed so I wouldn't burn out.

    [info]doombuggie also greatly overestimated my ability to hold a conversation in a noisy club, which is pretty much nil.

    Then we had the opening act. Oh lord! He played a keyboard with so much bass that the seat of my metal chair vibrated, which is the best that can be said of him. He had this wannabe-Nick-Cave thing going and sang as if he'd been gargling ground glass and lye, but his speaking voice was normal. He did a few 'oooooo I'm morbid' songs, and then...

    "Beth" by Kiss. I thought we had reached the pinnacle, but he followed it with "Chim Chim Chiree" from Mary Poppins. Good thing I'd just hid the restroom or I might have wet myself. If this dude stuck to doing incongrous covers he could be the next Richard Cheese!

    And then.

    And then.

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    It was magic, completely magic. The man has astonishing stage presence, just a wonderful personality that shines through.

    [info]doombuggie went to do a little more circulation, and during 'BRAINS' a simply adorably pink-haired girl came up to compliment my barrettes. She asked where I got them and I let her know they'd been a Walgreens Halloween item. Poor dear looked so disappointed! Now, the thing about these barrettes... I had them both on one side because the way they were made, if you wear one on each side, one would be upside down. So it was an easy snap decision to pull one out and give it to her. I mean, this was a fifty cent barrette. The gleeful expression was worth much more than that, and she kissed me, too! And it gives each of us a nice little extra memory of an already awesome concert.

    As I've said, Voltaire was busily being awesome, doing a lot of his classics and a few new ones. Each one had me enthralled.

    And then...

    Truly Voltaire is a Messenger of Fate, for he closed with this




    I yelled "FUCK THE BACK ROW!" scary loud. And I tried to do a standing ovation, and I fell down.

    Stone cold sober, folks. I'm just that cool.

    And that is basically how it went.

    Current Mood: sleepy
    Current Music: Voltaire - Crusade
    ruaki
         		6:56p
    brb loling
    Hey guys... I draw like a girl, don't I? I mean, setting aside my content, my drawing style is a girl's style, isn't it? I dunno if it's cause I'm exposed to a lot of anime/manga, but I can usually pick out a "feminine" style and a "masculine" style, which is why I wasn't surprised to find out certain aritsts are actually female/male when other people were all taken aback. Now, I mock myself for it, but I do think I seriously draw like a girl and I think it's pretty obvious. Right???

    So um why do people assume I'm male going by my (non-BL) art???

    Also, I don't know what it is, but I seriously have a soft spot for illustrations from beginning artists. There is something frank about them... I think maybe cause they focus more on trying to "tell" something or express an idea with their art than technique or whatever.

    Slow night on the internet, man. D:
    Under Heaven Destruction says:
    is it bad
    when someone goes "i wonder how my casual clothes ragna and jin would look in your style" that my first thought was "they'd be busy ripping them off each other?"
    orz
    Job - Komik City says:
    ::door slams::

    PROTIP:
    IF YOU ARE SOLICITING YOUR ART TO SOMEONE
    DO NOT SEND YOUR "ORIGINAL CHARACTER"
    THAT LOOKS INCREDIBLY SIMILAR
    LIKE REALLY REALLY FUCKING SIMILAR
    (ie: you copied)
    TO AN ALREADY COPYRIGHTED CHARACTER
    DOUBLE NO IF YOU "REFERENCED" THE ORIGINAL WORK TOO

    also don't send art you "referenced" because that doesn't mean jack shit


    augh now how to diplomatically address this D:
    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    spawn_of_kong
         		12:37p
    If they've cast Bilbo for The Hobbit (assuming they have), why can't they just spit it out?  I mean, how long did it take for them to tell us that Elijah Wood had been cast as Frodo?  AAARRRGGGHHH.

    As for who should play Bilbo, I still say Russell Tovey, but I suspect he'd be too busy with Being Human.
    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    also_not_a_pipe
         		4:22p
    Woeful post is woeful. Also probably showing the effects of very little iron reaching my brain.
    I've been really blah lately.

    I don't feel good.

    I don't feel good because the same old reproductive disorder (two doctors have told me it's probably Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, but they'll diagnose it and do something about it when I get insurance) that was bothering me all summer and early fall was apparently just gearing up for now. Cramps so bad they make me vomit, make me wonder fleetingly if I maybe have appendicitis, cramps that laugh cynical little cramp laughs when I take a couple of extra-strength Tylenol and then send them right back up. I'm so anemic that I'm tired and dizzy all the time (and I woke up in a panic this morning because I saw my hand while I was still mostly asleep and came to the conclusion that I was going to lose my fingers because there was no blood left in them), but I can't sleep more than an hour or two at night before the cramps wake me up. And that's the least icky part. I've spent pretty much every day since last Thursday in a) a lot of pain and b) a sort of repulsed astonishment at how much actually fits in the horrid little meatbag wot babies come out of (though now that I think about it, duh, you can fit a baby in there). Also my back hurts and my knees hurt and my neck hurts and the fricking palm of my hand hurts. And, for some reason, I am absolutely craving Mexican cocoa.

    And I have some kind of sinus infection.

    And the Safeway store-brand peppermint and chamomile tea that always helped stuff like this is all gone, with no real chance to get more. I somehow ended up with a box my sister bought when she was going to school in DC. They're an eastern grocery chain; I don't think there's a Safeway within five hundred miles of here. And it isn't even hormone-induced irrationality that makes me want that specific one. I liked that one because it was nothing but peppermint and chamomile, and all the alternatives I've found that I can order or buy closer are peppermint and chamomile and a bunch of other crap I don't want.

    None of which is really very good for getting word count done. I mean, I can't really sit down for more than twenty minutes at a time without my back cramping up. We're supposed to be around eleven thousand something by today. I'm a bit over 5500. The story I'm doing is around eleven or twelve thousand words all total right now, and it's really tempting to, ah, forget what I wrote when. Because when I'm so sore and weepy and short-tempered and irrational that I'm pretty much staying off the Internet, it makes being so far behind extra, extra tragic.

    Even though I'd pretty much decided this year that I didn't care if I made word count or not, and was all snarlish and dramatic about how much everyone and everything associated with NaNo annoyed me this year. Because woe, we aren't able to do the day-long weekend write-ins at Karen's writing loft like we did last year (because her heat is broken) and I have to write every day instead of doing seven-hour gluts of writing. I've somehow ended up in charge of organizing the write-ins for Miami County, the next county north of Dayton. I think because I'm only about twenty or thirty minutes from Troy, Miami County's big city, instead of forty or fifty. I actually just remembered I was supposed to go look at a coffeehouse in the next town south from Troy today to see if it's any better than Night Sky, the one that's great for writing except at the time I scheduled the write-in (they have a weekend buffet. At 6:00 Friday there's nowhere to park, not a single free seat, and multitudes of shrieking small children). Because when the main reason I haven't dropped out yet is that I really like the people I meet at the get-togethers, that is a sign of a terrible, terrible time.

    Even if I weren't feeling like shit, I have way too much to do. There are a couple people about whom I said "ah! For hir birthday I will finish up this thing I've been knitting very slowly/seriously meaning to knit for them since about April! I have plenty of time!" Then it turns out their birthdays are all in like, the next week and a half. I was supposed to go out to Indiana to pick up the yarn I need for one project today, but my happy organs put the kibosh on that. But that's okay, I still have three projects of mine own to finish! Also I've been picking at grad school applications (I've almost worked up the nerve to ask professor friends I haven't seen or talked to in three or four years for letters of recommendation!). While they are all intimidating piles of paper, University of Madison's is even more intimidating than University of Milwaukee's or Simmons College's by virtue of being much less friendly and due on December 15. And I guess I can't really blame my innards for the fact that I'm distracted by Team Fortress 2. I don't play, I don't even like first-person shooter games, but someone linked me to Cuanta Vida and now I'm sort of fascinated by all the fan art and stories surrounding a game that has no plot and minimal character development.

    And for being so behind, my story's going great. Anyone in the critique group here will tell you that I never get past chapter two or three of a story before some new story grabs my attention (because I didn't know where the first one went after about chapter four anyway). I'm to chapter six of this one and outlined up to chapter nine or thereabouts. I don't know exactly what happens after that point, but I know how the story ends. My research that I have to do for this story is to read TV Tropes and to go hang around Yellow Springs and inspect a different coffeehouse there. I'd expected that I was going to be padding my word count with Charlie and Nicholas fluff--it counts if I write it in November--but I haven't had any time for them. This thing won't shut up.

    But yes. Not going to finish. Barely hanging in. So tragic.

    Current Mood: sore
    ruaki
         		12:39p
    MY DOGGY IS SO CUTE!1
    MY KITTY IS SO CUTE!1
    gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh *degenerates into baby talk*
    why are they so fuzzy and cute D:
    ms_katonic
         		10:46a
    Linkses!
    Short one today. First of all, marmots! How can you not like marmots? Everyone likes marmots. We like deer and we like marmots and we like all the fluffy animals and we really like the moon. ;)

    There is now a mouse designed specifically for use with OpenOffice. I am intrigued but feel I wouldn't use half the functionality.

    Many of you may be familiar with Failblog. Well, now there's a blog detailing the opposite - Succeedblog! There are some truly impressive feats in there, although in some cases, I do have to ask why?

    ION, someone's found a mandrake!

    This is really clever and yet disturbing - Face Paint artist from Michigan paints his face to look like the members of Kiss, octopi and a dog's arse. Um. Yes. It's good, but it's not right! Not for the face paint phobic, that.

    Everyone's got a Twitter now, and now even Big Ben's got one. Nifty but a tad repetitive, I feel.

    Daily Fail's current poll is more leading than even I'd expect. Should female MPs be allowed to employ cleaners on expenses? Well, yes obviously. Get in there and skew it, my friends. :)

    And finally! Got kids? Worship the Elder Gods? Want to make sure the kids grow up in your footsteps (or flipper tracks or tentacle trails, depending on just how far you've gone with it)?

    Look no further. Let this educational video assist you. The Adventures of Lil' Cthulhu. I feel it lays the finer points of the mythos out quite adequately. :)

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Muse - Uprising
    bubosquared
         		11:41a

    Dear Television Advertising,

    Why was John Lydon trying to sell me butter last night? I mean, I'm not one to get all "OMG SELLOUT!", because whatever, but ... butter? What? My flabber is officially gasted, here, people. o_O

    Also, what the shit is this? Are you serious?

    Now I'm boggled and despairing for humanity. Thanks a lot, douchebags.

    Going back to her NaNovel,
    Melle



    Current Mood: confused
    atalantapendrag
         		5:40a
    So bad it's hysterical
    Still holding off on the concert report until I get the pics from [info]doombuggie, but this is the opening act.

    Yes, this song was performed. There was a cover of "Beth" by Kiss as well.



    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Voltaire - Almost Human
    firedance
         		4:48a
    It's 4:48...why the HELL am I awake?!?!
    slackeremeritus
         		12:48a
    Perhaps it's time for a post that isn't voice.
    Especially since I'm getting very low on minutes and won't get paid until Monday at the earliest.

    I'm getting over the bronchitis rather well, I suppose. Some lingering cough/throat issues, but they're starting to clear up. *knocks on wood* Work seems to be settled into a relatively steady schedule that I hope remains so for a while. Perhaps long enough for me to find something better. If work has settled, I can hopefully work out a routine so I get my fun times and relaxation along with my ass-busting.

    Only vaguely related to work is this random titbit.

    When I started this job a month ago, I had to buy a new belt. So I bought a belt – 40 inches long, so I could wear it without feeling as though I'm about to be cut in half. When I started this job, I had to wear the belt at the second to last notch to be comfortable. Now, only a month later, I have to cinch the belt to the fourth notch just to keep my trousers snug. And the trousers that fit fairly snugly when I started this job now… do not fit so snugly. I suppose the combination of greatly increased physical activity and diminished food supply/poor diet have indeed resulted in weight loss. Or a loss of fat at the very least.

    Speaking of food, I still need to eat dinner and I'd like to get in some writing before I have to pass out.

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: Steve Jablonsky — Optimus
    Friday, November 6th, 2009
    atalantapendrag
         		8:12p
    oh damn
    Can't seem to wake up.

    Concert account will come when I get pix from [info]doombuggie.

    I sleep more.

    Current Mood: sleepy
    Current Music: Voltaire - Almost Human
    ruaki
         		3:21p
    After talking to Infiny about it, I sat down and listened to the Devil Summoner drama CDs (Sugita-san plays Raidou! And it's his "soft" voice!!)... and uh. Shit this makes me want to play the games again--they use the same BGMs as from the game. Well, I still haven't started Raidou's second game so... XD;;;;;

    And I think Nakata Jouji plays Gouto!?

    Koyasu is in this too????? lawl

    Okay, it's weird to hear Sugita-san in a role where he doesn't talk his head off. XD;;; At least they kept to the feeling of Raidou being that quiet badass. XD
    schtroumph_c
         		9:49p
    Wow, I wouldn't have recognize her if M6 didn't use the same voice for the dubbing. The daughter in the xmas episode of NCIS of season 6, it's Daisy from Bones.

    Another MW/SM video from 7x03, I wonder where the "No, keep going" was. I think it's just after, Sean is laughing and the shirt is opened.



    Michael: *do his joke* *wait for Sean's reaction.*
    Sean: *awed* "It's beautiful."

    Current Mood: Candy-Coated
    braisinhussy
         		8:53a
    More Halloween pictures


    Swing on over to Lydia's LJ to see all the shots she took of me as Sue Sylvester. They're pretty hardcore.

    (And as a bonus, you get to see me terrorize [info]teapotgirl's little sister!)
    dorothy1901
         		10:20a
    PSA: Tim Tam
    Dear Fellow Residents of the United States,

    Pepperidge Farm is distributing Tim Tam cookies. (Product of Australia, Tim Tam used under license.)

    I found some for sale at Target.

    Sincerely,
    A cookie lover.

    om nom nom nom

    This entry was originally posted at http://dorothy1901.dreamwidth.org/7026.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
    alya1989262
         		4:49p
    Rambly post of rambliness. Also: boy! :D
    Right now, I'm learning to say the days of the week in Czech to facilitate communication between me and my current crush. See, my friend Salma has two Czech friends who're here studying Arabic, and being a good friend, she introduced me because she thought I'd like Tomáš. And I do; he's cute, funny, very sweet, and pretty smart and cultured. I just wish he wasn't leaving in early December. Anyway, I don't know if he's even interested in me, or if he's just being nice to me because I'm Salma's friend. Last night, I took my cousin and went to visit him and his friend in their flat. We spent a nice evening drinking and talking. Layla and I even sang to them all the comical patriotic songs we know. And tomorrow we're taking them on a felucca. I'm even skipping uni. >.>

    Oh, speaking of uni, I'm enjoying this semester. It's more difficult and more satisfying than the last two years. Even though some subjects are whopping my ass (*cough*translation*cough*). And I'm beginning to have a clearer idea of what I want to do in grad school.

    In conclusion: yay!
    atalantapendrag
         		2:26a
    Just WOW
    Concert was epic.

    Voltaire is a Messenger of Fate.

    More later.

    Current Mood: enthralled
    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    ruaki
         		7:05p
    Watched Nabari no Ou 1-7. (ilu netflix)

    LOL Kakki is in it. He's breathy in his all his roles. It makes me think dirty thoughts. =(

    It's a pretty talky series, huh? Seems like that's a lot of what I've been watching lately (Moribito, D'Eon).

    However, I'm not sure what everyone means by the "character design being impressive" considering that I've seen very similar designs in other series and games. XD;;

    Realistically, I could finish Ragna tonight. I'm not sure why I'm dragging my ass suddenly, but I suspect it has to do with rising apathy for the piece... well. I guess that's what I'll work on now.
    tehrin
         		2:45p
    Three crits and one presentation in two days. No wonder my brain is like soup.
    Friday, November 6th, 2009
    loqia
         		6:22a
    Four Reasons Everyone Should Love Wave

    So, as some of you may have guessed by now, in the last couple of days I’ve turned into a total wave fangirl. I know, I know — hipster,i much — but it’s true. Thing is, though, it seems that a lot of people out there don’t share my squee; there’s a lot of “meh” going around re. wave right now, coupled with a dash of “this sucks”. I suppose I can kinda see why. Wave is in a fairly limited release, so people are feeling a bit lonely. You jump on wave, ready to be all like NEXT GEN COMMUNICATION YEAH! only to find you’ve got no-one to communicate with. So maybe you reach out to with:public, except now instead of feeling NEXT GEN YEAH! you’re starting to feel like you’ve suddenly been thrown back into Usenet after the first AOL invasion.

    And it’s like, “Wait. This was supposed to be the Next Big Thing?”

    Well, yes sort of. But mostly no. And here are the four main reasons why.

    Hold onto your hats, kids, because this? This gets wordy.

    ( Wave is not Google (Wave) )

    ( Why Wave Makes My Inner Mail Admin Squee )

    ( How Wave Could Kill Facebook (but Probably Won’t… Yet) )

    ( Why Microsoft Wants Wave (but Might Not Admit It) )

    The Shiny, Wavey Future

    I guess I’ve gone kinda nutso on the predictions here, and I suppose I feel obliged to point out I haven’t really talked about either time-frames or probabilities. If I had to guess, I say we’ll see wave adopted as a social networking tool before it’s adopted as a business tool, but conversely I think it’s more likely in the long run to be adopted by business than it is to replace Facebook and Twitter’s databases. There are also a significant number of hurdles to overcome with wave’s deployment: Real-time communication models are hard to scale; The storage requirements sound like they could be terrifying; What about “offline mode”? People still really like email… All that sort of stuff.

    Still, the thing I like about wave is that it’s full of potential and incredibly daring. I mean, re-writing email? People’ve been talking about doing that for years and no-one’s managed to pull it off. Re-writing email and completely changing the paradigm it’s based on? Margaret Thatcher’s balls, man! Wave is either going to change the way the internet works or be the biggest white elephant in IT history.

    Personally? I’m hoping for the former. It’s just more exciting that way.

    See you in the future.

    1. The geeky kind, not the fixed-gear-bike kind. Geekster? ↩

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    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    ruaki
         		1:14p
    ... aa... ...

    .... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    In the PSP version of the game, Ryoji represents the Fortune Arcana social link. It automatically starts on the 9th November, however, this is only for the Female Protagonist's route.

    SHIT FUCK GODDAMN this means I have to get it. Being able to mack on Shinji and Ryoji? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i'll suffer through the game a third time although wow. 9th of November? You've got about a month to max that link. D: THAT'S OKAY RYOJI I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOUUUUUUUUUU since shinji's too busy checking out his bff
    slythwolf
         		1:44p
    Heh
    Last night I dreamt my sister had got hold of my uncut muslin and was chopping it up into little pieces to make some kind of Christmas-related things to put on her dining table or something for when she was going to have people over. I was shouting and waving my arms but it was too late to stop her and I was going to be unable to make what I had planned to make out of it.

    I don't know what that is yet. I have half-decided to take the embroidery book out of the library again and make some smocked nightgowns, but I'm not sure. The practical thing to do would be to save it for the toiles I'll be making after [info]aprilmayinjune comes and wraps me in duct tape.

    Current Mood: chipper
    tetradecimal
         		12:11p
    I want neon tetras.

    Oh, cardinal tetras would be nice, too, but neons are adorable. Look at their beady little eyes and their cute little racing stripes.

    I've been trying to figure out my platys' personalities. So far, whenever I turn on the light, everyone will swim up to the top and look around except for Tango, who I gather is a bit of a late riser (she's also the smallest).

    Penny is kind of a picky eater, and will daintily inhale smaller flakes, then swim all the way across the aquarium to pick up the next instead of going after all the other identical flakes floating on the top. She is also the cutest, because she looks is all red body and beady eyes.

    Lemon, the fattest one, will nom on a big flake until it succumbs to her fishy perseverance.

    YES IT WAS A TOTAL MISTAKE TO GIVE ME FISH

    Here, have a random AMV that doesn't totally suck.
    photosinensis
         		11:33a
    Recent downtime, video posting delays, and other things going wrong
    This was posted originally at my WordPress blog, here.

    As you’ve probably noticed, I fell behind on my video posting. I couldn’t get the time, and now I’m way behind: I’m already back in Houston. The same goes for my photo posts.

    A factor in this problem was a few power outages here in Houston that took my uninterrupted power supply down for the count. As such, this site has been available only intermittently. This has also hampered my job hunting: until yesterday, I couldn’t even access my Craigslist scraper, and that’s fully half of the postings to which I respond.

    Today, if you follow me on Twitter, you noticed that the site was down very briefly while I remedied the power problem. We’re now on a much larger power supply, capable of serving a 42″ HDTV, the DSL modem, cable box, a PS3, a Wii, and a Time Machine (for my mom’s backups and house Internet routing), as well as the box on which this site is hosted (because I needed a hard line in to the DSL modem to get this thing on the Internet, and the other available site, by the print server, is in much worse shape). Don’t try this at your home, kids, I’m what you might call an expert.

    Those of you who have been following me for a while also know that I’ve been working on losing weight. I’ve now lost over 62 pounds. I was surprised to have lost 5 pounds on the trip, considering the fact that I was eating a lot of fast food (though it was mostly Chic-Fil-A and Subway, both of which have excellent low calorie menu selections) and was staying in a house where the idea of calorie counting was anathema. However, it’s good to be home where I can get a high-impact yet relatively low calorie breakfast (a smoothie made with nonfat yogurt and an apple, which provides 2 servings of fruit, 2 servings of milk, a multivitamin, 3 glasses of water, a serving of lean protein, and 2 teaspoons of cis-unsaturated oils1, for less than 300 Calories). It satisfies my dairy, multivitamin, lean protein, and oil needs for the day, freeing me to eat more interesting things at lunch and/or dinner.

    1. There are five oils in this category: extra virgin olive, canola, sunflower, flax, and safflower.

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