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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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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 | ||
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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, Current Mood:  confused |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 | ||
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larathia |
10:31p | [Reeve/Rufus] Kittens Title: Kittens |
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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]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} teapotgirl's little sister!) |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | ||
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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. |
|
ajatshatru |
7:59a | I'm a mess ... I hope everyone has been well. I was awfully ill last week, and before that things were such that I haven't been able to go properly into lj, ij, jf and dw for a long time. The end result is that my email accounts are a mess and I daren't dnld mails to outlook express till I clean them up online first. I'll be doing that from afternoon today. I feel almost nearly myself today. Almost. Also, I plan to buy the paperback of 'Unseen Academicals' as soon as it is out ! But that's a long way away :( ... Current Mood: Morose |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | ||
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larathia |
3:56p | [Between One And Perdition] Home Free FF8: Between One And Perdition |
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lexin |
11:37a | Gah! It seems odd to be peeved that someone's not going to stick needles in you, but I rang the blood donation people about my new drug, not wanting to waste the time going if they were going to nix it and was told that they don't want my blood because of my bipolar disorder. Big question mark – I asked whether that meant that they generally wouldn't take blood from mad people and got a load of guffle in reply. But that's how it feels. I'm pissed off. It may be unreasonable of me to be pissed off, but I am. This entry was originally posted at http://lexin.dreamwidth.org/17109.html |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | ||
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rotten_fish |
10:31p | Chocolate with nuts is the best chocolate. Chocolate with fruit is an abomination. Chocolate with peanut butter is good if it's Oreos concerned. Chocolate, just chocolate, is boring and worse if it's Hersey. Also, Baloo and Louie are clearly otp in Jungle Book. If only they were not a bear and an orangutan. (chocolate/caramel is good too) Current Music: i wanna be like you |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | ||
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o_o |
1:14a | Your Thoughts on Yaoi II Or how a thread about Japanese actors's blogs closing turns into some asshole ranting about how men wearing bras is a result of this PC bullshit society blah blah blah. [permanent link, as 4chan deletes threads after they get bumped off the 10th page] |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | ||
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ridicully |
9:12p | After quiet follows rambling First of all, thanks to everyone for the conga rats! While I'm not finished with the diss by far, waiting for Prof. Blub to read it, is something completely different to not having written it yet. It feels good. After my very frazzled entry, I had a very nice birthday. Boring, but nice. Long bath with silly book (reread Pope Joan, still not particularly good but enjoyable nonetheless), which I hadn't allowed myself until I finished either (books, not the baths) sleeping for a few hours in a freshly made bed, more reading, dinner with M. (no one else could make time to come, such are the joys of our place of work) - on our own our conversation tends to the awkward, live was easier in Kindergarten when it was still possible to say "I like you, can I be your friend?" without having to justify it - and did a clean install of Karmic Koala on Lachesis. Today I avoided killing the Bitch Queen From Hell once again (barely), saw a Boa throw up 70cm of carpet and a dead rat and our head surgeon fix his trousers with Backhaus clamps. Now to finish setting up the computer with everything I want, start on the case report, maybe read the articles for the journal club tomorrow and most importantly acquire all the TV series I did not watch in the last six months (or maybe I'll wait until the weekend, I might get pimped something new at the Querstrich meeting...) Current Mood: content |
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pyratejenni |
2:56p | My brother bought the second Transformer movie. Now I know where that annoying Green Day song is from. |
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photosinensis |
7:12p | Sushi is awesome stuff. However, it seems that beyond a few standard selections (the California and crunchy rolls, for example), it seems that there is little in common between the roll offerings at most sushi bars. What's more, it seems that the quality of the establishment can be determined by the elaborateness of its roll offerings. I've seen preparations of dragon rolls that were truly astounding, and who can ignore the ultimate in the specialty roll, the Rick roll (made either by sushi chefs named Richard, or by severe Internet jumkies, and ordered almost entirely by the 4chan crowd). Yet I've also seen some really simple specialty rolls: the sushi bar in the Land of Uh has as a specialty roll a variant on the California roll, using cream cheese instead of cucumber. It's fattier than your average Japanese sugar cube, and its texture is much thicker and more consistent. However, you simply can't eat it with soy sauce, horseradish paste dyed green, and pickled ginger*, because dairy just doesn't mix with those things. That said, there's not much you can do with non-roll sushi. It's just seafood of some nature on a bed od short grain rice and secured with green horseradish paste (because almost nobosy in North America uses wasabi). It's rice (pure sugar) away from being sashimi. But when set up with edamame and miso soup, even the most routine sushi becomes an awesome meal. *And in saying this, I'm reminded of the scene from Lucky Star where the girls take a quiz to determine what kind of sishi they are, and Konata gets pickled ginger. As Kagami begins to taunt her, she exclaims, "You can't have sushi without pickled ginger!". Oh yes you can. It's strange and uninspiring, but you can. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | ||
|
sorchar |
8:58p | Happy birthday, Sally! |
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lauchlen |
8:11p | Sooo... My sewing machine got here last Tuesday, but we didn't have time to pick it up until Saturday. Which means I now have my NEW sewing machine!! *happy dances omg like woah* This is the machine I bought: Pfaff Creative 4.0. To watch a video at the Pfaff website about the machine clicky here. This machine does it all. It sews, it embroiders and it quilts. I don't really have an interest in quilting, but with my new machine and some of the very modern designs for quilts out there I might just decide I need a new quilt for my bed. *G* My Pfaff connects right to my laptop which makes it easy to transfer any embroidery designs I download to my machine and, if/when I get software that allows me to make my own designs and edit ones I already have, it makes transferring those a breeze as well. I can also use any true type font as an embroidery stitch as well. I forsee many things sewn for my girls. AND? Today and tomorrow Vogue Patterns is having a huge sale. Almost every pattern is on sale for $4.75, $4.27 for me because I'm a member of BMV. I splurged and ordered thirteen patterns. They are ( beneath the cut ) Current Mood: On Top of the World |
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braisinhussy |
2:20p | Because everyone needs to see my Halloween costume ( One picture under the cut ) |
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ridicully |
11:31a | IT LIVES! Hi, this is That is until work killed her dead and she made a deal with herself not to post any more until the first complete draft of the dissertation was out of her hands. I've been reading and - very occasionally - commenting on dreamwidth and intend to catch up on LJ as well. But, the point is... Now, in an attempt to avoid freaking out completely, I'm going to have a bath, sleep for a few hours and enjoy the rest of the day (I worked the night shift today, hence the having the day off.) Current Mood: indescribable |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | ||
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larathia |
11:51p | [FF6] Stars in Thamasa Title: Stars over Thamasa Fandom: FF6 Pairing: Celes/Terra...implied, edging-toward... Rating: G Summary: One night by Leo's grave, some wires get crossed. ( Read more... ) |
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persona |
9:52p | in the dark you sharped your nails As I marathon Gilgamesh, I re-realise two things: - Rewatching Kazamatsuri's scenes with later knowledge makes them more interesting. Particularly 'families can be broken', which seems like just some hollow, malicious wording on first watch, but... isn't. - Toru seems a bit partial to Isamu. Perhaps it's an idolisation thing... I'm also watching it in English with English subtitles and realising: The dubbers changed a lot. Now, I understand that this takes place due to lip syncing and other issues, but, uh... Some of it's really rather different. For one thing: I still can't keep the Also: QUALITY. Current Mood: *drool* Current Music: Koda Kumi - Crazy 4 U |
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wankaholic |
11:44a | Oh for the love of Pete. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION PART II! ELECTRIC BUGALOO! I think the really terrible part is the people that are defending it (saying it's totes fine that she took something that is a large part of Mexican culture and made it into a Halloween costume, because she lives in SoCal and obviously that means that she's ~*~in touch~*~ with the culture) are the sort that jump on people who get tattoos in other languages (specifically, the kanji tattoos that are so popular now) as being cultural appropriation. Also kind of love the people that are going, "WELL, IF YOU HAVE DREADLOCKS, YOU CANNOT ARGUE THIS" when the history of dreads is pretty convoluted and there are some white cultures that in fact wore them, so uuuuuugh, stfu. I think the most frustrating part is that it's spilling over into my LJ friendslist, so I can't post about it there without people hopping on me (someone that IS Latina) about how obviously it's not meant as a slam or anything, and she at least did it prettily, so it's not true appropriation. I also don't want to get called out again for apparently "looking white" (I, uh, don't) and how do I justify IDing as Latina/Chicana when I am clearly not (...wut). I also don't want to be called out on the fact that no, my family doesn't celebrate it (my mother doesn't hold with the whole, "unhealthy Mexican obsession with death", and that's one aspect of my culture that's been stomped out of me—thanks Mom), but yes, I'm still offended. It shouldn't matter whether or not I do celebrate it, or how I relate to it, it's still fucking cultural appropriation, and yeah, it's STILL OFFENSIVE. |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | ||
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sepiamagpie |
10:03p |  Welcome to my Halloween. I was gonna be Sherlock (Well, She-rlock, long story), but my Watson, my beloved sister, got ill. Possibly the hamthrax. So like hell am I going within a mile of her. She can suffer in silence. So instead me and my mom carved pumpkins no one but us would ever see (we live in the country) and watched The Colour Of Magic. ( Here are those pumpkins ) |
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shallow_kid |
8:18p | As a lot of you probably already know, my IRL name is Tamerlane. It's a cool name, I think. Different, at least. Never met anyone else with it, you don't confuse me with other people, I don't have to be identified by my last name, etc. But it has its disadvantages. NO ONE CAN PRONOUNCE IT. It's not hard. There's no trick to it. Tam - er - lane. It sounds exactly how it's spelled. For my entire godforsaken life, every time I've ever met new people, started a new year at school or started a new job I go through the same motherfucking ordeal without motherfucking fail. Them: What's your name again? Me: Tamerlane. Them: Whaaaaat? Me: TAM. ER. LANE. Tamerlane! Them: Tam ... Tamalyn? Me: Tam ... er ... lane. Them: Timbalan? Me: You could just call me Tam. Them: Tammy? Me: NO. Just Tam. Them: Okay, Tanya! Me: SIIIIIIIGH. Or pretty much any variation of something starting with a T that has a R or a B sound in it. At my current (new) job, I'm known as Tamra. This is the reason I started going by my middle name after the 4th grade. Of course, people even managed to fuck Rebecca up or call me Becky. I hate people. In other news, I'm at a 16-year-old's Halloween/Birthday party because ... I don't know, because God hates me, I guess. Were we this annoying when we were teenagers? Probably! P.S. I'm a Trill from Star Trek. Current Mood: Bitter |
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bubosquared |
10:53a | When Zombies Attack: A Dark Comedy In Three Acts Title: When Zombies Attack: A Dark Comedy In Three Acts Summary: The Mad Scientist community cordially invites you to attend the Zombie Apocalypse. Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters in this story; they belong to their creators/actors/whatever at thatguywiththeglasses.com and cinemassacre.com. Also, none of this actually happened (as should be obvious to you since I assume you’re not currently hiding from the slavering zombie hordes, and if you are, don’t you have better things to do than read fanfic?), and none of it is intended to be taken overly serious. In other words, if you’re reading this and getting angry at the very concept of fanfic about internet personalities, just close the tab, move on, and repeat to yourself: "It’s just a story, I should really just relax." Dedication: To Amy, for beta services and putting up with my flailing panic about this damn story. Overture: Back To The Future |
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dez_chan |
3:52a | Less than social Is it wrong that all I want to do tomorrow is stay in and watch Bela Lugosi movies? Current Mood: Forlorn |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 | ||
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persona |
8:44p | while I just sit and stare at you So, I'll be spending all of Saturday in the office, laying out the paper, looks like. That's scary. At least I have Google Reader to keep me company. ETA: I want to read this. Current Mood: Dumped on Current Music: A Perfect Circle - Blue |
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