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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | ||||||
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rotten_fish |
6:22p | I was just at the library, and I could have sworn that someone wrote, "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sith," on the pavement outside. But it was just that regular 'sin' version. The nefarious Dark Lord's grip on my college campus remains unquestioned. Current Mood:  nerdy | ||||
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tetradecimal |
1:38p | 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@N Geese: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21334371@N ETA: After I put that weekly stuff in, the test is now 0ppm nitrite/10 ppm nitrate. Yayyyy~ | ||||
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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 | ||||
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athersgeo |
11:21a | *yawns* Well last night was FUN. Not. I was writing until 1am (did manage to successfully wrap up what I was working on - which is something!) so it was a late night and I'd hoped to sleep in this morning. Soooooooo naturally, the cat decided at 6am to start her "I need to pee" dance. Went back to bed after putting her out, finally got back to sleep at 7am only to be woken up at 9am by the bother holding forth. *sigh* Still, for all that, I have managed to get some stuff done and, assuming my eyes will continue to cooperate, I'm aiming to do some of the outlining work to get THAT out of the way. ( Beware For This Is LOOOOOOOONG ) Right. With that updated, time to go email my beta reader about Learning to Fly and then time to get out my hammer and nails to fix my timeline up! Current Mood: under-caffeinated | ||||
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notjo |
2:36a | Oodles of Ood I watched Doctor Who: Waters of Mars! Behind the cut is my summary of the episode, my reactions to "next time on Doctor Who", and my random theory on what will happen next series, based only on having seen photos of Eleven and his companion. ( Cut cut cut cut cut! ) | ||||
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | ||||||
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polygamouse |
10:35p | |||||
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tetradecimal |
6:40p | 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! | ||||
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tetradecimal |
2:23p | |||||
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semtex |
10:36a | \o/ I know a Twitter layout isn't much more than a background image, but hey I updated my Twitter layout. Based on the subject matter alone, it has now been upgraded to AWESOME *\o/* Current Mood: accomplished | ||||
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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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athersgeo |
8:32a | The Week Off Starts Here... Well, strictly speaking, no it doesn't, given that I'm in work today - but, equally, given that I currently have no work to be doing...yeah. My plan for the week off is fairly straight forward. I need to do a LOT of writing, there's a fair amount of tidying to do, I need to give a day or so over to photography for a Christmas project and there are various other Christmas projects that need to be DONE in this week so that they can be posted well in time for Christmas. It'd also be sort of nice if I didn't spend the entire week "at home" as-twere...but THAT bit is going to depend quite heavily on what the weather does. With that in mind, I'm going to put up a mahoosive list of everything I need/want to get done so that I have something I can keep updated and to give me an incentive to get stuff done (cos nothing looks better than a list with everything crossed off!). ( Beware For This Is LOOOOOOOONG ) Current Mood: Determined | ||||
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | ||||||
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epeeblade |
11:12p | Fic: The Sirens Are Screaming (coda for 5.10) A little bit of genfic I wrote after tonight's episode. Header behind cut in respect for spoilerphobes. Won't make any sense if you haven't seen tonight's episode. | ||||
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epeeblade |
10:16p | Supernatural episode 5.10 It's ( behind the cut. ) | ||||
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rotten_fish |
5:36p | Well, I now have a job lined up and a roommate moving in starting tonight. I also have three papers due next week. I'm a little bit stressed, and I'm not sure how to calm down. Besides cleaning and exercising that is. Deep breaths, self, deep breaths! I also picked up Nano this year! Did anyone else? I'm like, four days behind D: For a while I just couldn't concentrate on anything, and I barely wrote. This cold weather just makes me want to curl up in bed and do nothing. Bah! Anyway, could be so much worse. Dark Forces is keeping me sane. How are you folks? | ||||
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tetradecimal |
4:53p | |||||
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tetradecimal |
12:03p | 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:
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. | ||||
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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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tetradecimal |
2:26p | I have been documenting function outputs for six hours straight. /wrist | ||||
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ridicully |
8:04p | I can't really tell if what I'm talking about are spoilers or not. I don't know if short and superficial posts are better than no posts at all, but since they're the best I can manage, the question really is irrelevant. Anyway, even though I live in a cave and didn't realize it was time for another episode of Doctor Who already, I really liked Waters of Mars once I noticed (because my circle started raving) and downloaded it. I always like the Doctor's exuberance, even when it has a more than manic note in it. Talking about it without a cut isn't going so well, but I'm too And now that I've posted the entry before I meant to, I'll wander off and search for new icons, because I've been feeling like it. See http://ridicully.dreamwidth.org/245874.hCurrent Mood:  indecisive | ||||
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atalantapendrag |
10:07a | |||||
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tetradecimal |
9:06a | 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 >:(? | ||||
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undomielregina |
2:52a | *g* So the Onion AV Club has a thread discussing Twilight, the movie. I'm in the comments cheerfully breaking brains with Breaking Dawn spoilers. I'm also giggling maniacally because this is so much fun, you have no idea. There are few things I love as much as the BSOD expressions and incoherent comments people get after you start explaining the crazier bits of Twilight. This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. There are Current Mood: manic | ||||
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