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Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 08:05 pm
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Loads of birthdays today. So happy birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) balefully, [Bad username: danijo1> and <lj user=]. Hope you have lovely days.
Oh lor'. I'm shattered. I go back to work after a two day strike and don't leave until 6:45. I just want to sleep. So I think I am just to curl up in bed and watch Xena - which arrived on Tuesday. And tomorrow, I have loads of work to do. I have a pile of books which are knee high to start reading for my assignment. But my summer school is in two weeks! Wheee!
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Notes and news; LJ stuff, wankery, wiki and a ficlet I wrote at work
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Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 07:33 pm
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In them notes:
- I know quite a few on my flist have been enjoying Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (which us non-Americans are denied, woe!) and of course, there is already wankery about it. That's totally not surprising.
- A silly Adama/Roslin ficlet I wrote at work. (The challenge was to get Laura in a flight suit. Hmm, yes.)
- An awesome reply by a librarian to a parent complaining about a children's book about a gay wedding.
- I love wikis. There's the original and supreme Wikipedia. There's the Fan History Wiki. There's even the Fandom Wank wiki. There's the total LOL-worthy Conservapedia. There's the Battlestar Galactica wiki. There's the World of Warcraft wiki. Mmmm. Wikis. You have a wiki love too?
- LJ sort of bringing back basic accounts? Also, there's a possible new profile page look that leaves me decidedly lukewarm. (Also, I'm starting to desire a just Adama/Roslin LJ layout. I am ever sad.)
- Discussions one should never have while eating lunch with colleagues at work - what actually happens to the human body when submerged in cold water for long at sea. (Answer: A whole lot of extremely uncomfortable things.) Even if this is quite relevant for a sea-faring country such as Norway. I still have no appetite :(
Wheee weekend.
In other news:
Why you can't die on Svalbard.
A judicial inquiry into the wartime activities of Jewish anti-Nazi resistance fighters in Lithuania causes controversy.
Belgium's King rejects Prime Minister resignation.
Italian heavy mental monk releases second album.
Man arrested for sheep-buggering.
A 16 year-old asylum seeker from Somalia in what appears to be a random shooting.I am currently...:  groggy |
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It's a birthday!
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Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 04:52 am
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Banner by annwyn55
Happy Birthday, dear mews1945! Your kindness, your generous heart, and your limitless talent make you a precious friend to all who meet you. My world is larger and brighter with you in it. I hope this birthday is full of all the joy and love you lavish on your friends.
To Everyone: As a tribute and "thank you" for mews1945's untiring fic recommendations and warm support, a community was set up for birthday greetings and recommendations of HER fics. Feel free to stop by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) mews_xpressions to browse through all the recommendations of Julia's varied and wonderful fanfic.
I couldn't pick just one story of hers to squee over, so here are excerpts from two of my (many) favorites:
"Tenderness"
( excerpt and link )
"Frodo Lad: The Heart of a Home"
( excerpt and link )
♥ ♥ |
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mini walkers will be the death of me, for sure
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 09:30 pm
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*whispers* i wanna write a jon/brendon au where jon's eight year old son has a major crush on bden's twelve year old daughter omg. i wanna write it so bad. like, um, he always shows up on bden's front porch wanting to hang out and he's super laidback jon cool except for how bden's teeny tiny tomboy daughter is AWESOME and mini walker gets big eyes around her and cassie lives across the street and mini walker's like WAIT TIL YOU MEET MY DAD CAN MINI URIE GO TO THE MOVIES WITH US! mini walker plays peewee soccer with mini urie and they're so cute you could DIE. i don't know what happened to mini urie's mom. like, i'm thinking they were never married - but jon and cassie are divorced, and cassie has custody of mini walker and cassie helps out bden, like, when mini urie breaks her arm and bden freaks out and forgets how to drive a car and cassie has to take them all to the hospital and mini urie is like OW! but also SO COOL LOOK AT MY CAST DAD! and mini urie totally tolerates mini walker - he's so young, and mini urie can almost date thanksverymuch, except for the part where bden will never ever let her date - and really deep down inside they're best friends, because mini urie is kind of weird, like her dad, and doesn't have a lot of school friends, but that's fine, whatever, mini urie knows she's awesome, her dad tells her so like all the time. and bden is in a band with spencer and cash in his spare time and ryan is the weird dude who lives behind bden and yells at mini urie and mini walker to stay off his lawn, and then one day spencer's like hey, wait, i totally went to high school with that guy, hey ryan! and ryan's all whatever, hey, tell those mini hellions to stay out of my pachysandra or i'll turn the hose on them, but secretly he leaves out plates of cookies for them, i don't know. ryan's a big ole softy. it's why he's got all those cats. |
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oh, right...
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 05:05 pm
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xandrama and I are seeing Harry & the Potters tonight at the Troubadour on Santa Monica. Will anyone else be there? Are there any rabid fans that desperately desire a signature? If so, send me a text message -- you can do so through my profile -- and I'll do my best.
*hunts for HP-themed icons and finds she doesn't have many anymore* |
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Meme: Lines from my 25 most recent drafts
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
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Nicked from lizbee: Post the first lines from your 25 most recent drafts. Although in this case, I used first paragraphs if they seemed to work better.
(In random order, finished or otherwise. Those finished have a link to them, so if they don't they're still a work in progress.)
( This is a cut. It has nothing clever to say )I am currently...:  refreshed |
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Are your ice cubes boring?
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 10:47 am
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Now this is a wacky idea...
"Titanic" and iceberg-shaped ice cubes
http://www.seedsofgrowth.com/titanic-ice-molds |
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because this is turning into a day for sociopaths....
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 11:17 am
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1) No. Words.
2) Keeping up with Tomorrow's Pioneers: Hamas TV Bunny Assud Is Tempted by Satan to Steal and Is Sentenced by Children Viewers to Have His Hand Chopped Off
transcript for those who can't/won't watch the video, including the following exchange: [12-year-old host] Saraa: What do you think about what Assud did?
Asmaa: It was wrong, because "as for a thief, male or female, cut off their hands."
Assud: Oh my God! You say that my hand should be chopped off, Asmaa?
Asmaa: Yes.
And, for those of you joining late, the geneology of the irhabi plushies: Assud, the Jew-eating rabbit replaced Nahoul, the animal-torturing bee after Nahoul was murdered by the Jews because they wouldn't let him leave Gaza for medical treatment. Nahoul in turn replaced Farfour the Mickey Mouse doppelganger, who was also murdered by Jews. And all of this is on Tomorrow's Pioneers, Hamas TV's children's show, hosted by the lovely young Saraa, who is not sure if she wants to be a doctor or kill Jews when she grows up.I am currently...:  irate |
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Luke, Noah, and sex
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 09:59 am
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Another report from the Luke/Noah (of As The World Turns fame) trenches...
A lot of people are frustrated that Luke and Noah haven't had sex yet, which is understandable. Every time it seems as though they're going to, some new conflict arises and they can't get past the point of shirtlessness. It's annoying seeing the show create interruption after interruption, especially when het couples who have been together for much less time get opportunity after opportunity to be seen naked between sheets.
However, there's one faction of the "Luke and Noah should have sex" crowd that really frustrates me: the one that claims that any couple that's been together has long as Luke and Noah have been should be having sex, and not to do so is weird or unnatural. Recently Nuke decided they should wait to have sex for a while, and you know what? That's fine with me. There isn't some mandate that states that once a couple has been together for a certain length of time they have to have sex, and I think it's really judgmental of people to act as though anyone who doesn't have sex after being in a relationship for X amount of time is a complete weirdo. When it comes to real couples, it's none of anyone's business, and when it comes to Luke and Noah, if they're happy waiting to have sex, then I'm happy because I want them to be happy.
Actually, I think it's kind of nice to have a gay characters who aren't asexual - they're in love, they kiss, they want to have sex at some point - and, on the opposite end of the spectrum, don't have lives that revolve around having sex. I liked Queer as Folk (although I quit watching after the fourth season because by then it had gone downhill majorly), but I always thought it was more interesting when they focused on the characters as people and not so much on who was picking up which guy at Babylon. The straight couples on As The World Turns spend more time having sex, but a lot of their relationships come across as superficial and purely sex-based. That doesn't mean that Luke and Noah sleeping together would make their relationship all about sex, but I kind of like them the way they are. They just got back together after their "break" and maybe they want things to settle down a little before they have sex. For them, the decision to have sex is a big deal, and I'm sick of it being treated in other media as not a big deal.
If Luke and Noah decide they're ready to have sex right then and there and the show makes someone interrupt, then I'll be annoyed. But I'm not annoyed by their wanting to wait for a while. They're happy, I'm happy.
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 02:40 pm
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Happy birthday to ebee Hope you have a lovely day!
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It's a birthday!
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 04:26 am
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Happy Birthday, voontah! I hope you have a wonderful day. I assume Gabby fixed you breakfast, and is even now giving you a birthday purrr and snuggle?
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life once more has a purpose!
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Jul. 16th, 2008 @ 05:45 pm
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Mitchell, who is the professor in charge of me for the summer, has assigned me to write a paper on the opening sequence from Elfen Lied. This is going to be totally awesome, as I have uncovered connections, though still faint, between Japanese colonialism and European romanticism. What this has to do with Klimt and Elfen Lied I know not. Nor do I know in what way the OP of the anime relates to the actual story, or at all to the anime, which is moe (big eyes, small nose and mouth, childish cuteness) to the point of annoyance.
Still. I have been assigned a paper, which means I have a purpose.
Next life's goal: come up with assignments on my own, thus give myself a purpose without the intervention of authority. |
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bandslash fic: Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
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Jul. 16th, 2008 @ 02:23 pm
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Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You | PG-13 | ~7000
Brendon/Spencer, Jon Walker’s beard, The Cab, Little Adam
Brendon likes leaning on tall things, like lampposts and Gabe Saporta. Which is probably why he wakes up naked, duct taped to a Big Wheel.
A/N: Remember how I said, when I started The Cab As Brendon’s Sidekicks snippets, that this was impossibly dumb and I couldn’t possibly write any more of it, because it was just—irredeemably stupid? Yeah, it’s still that dumb. Sorry. Many thanks to everyone who participated in the epic Drunk Naked Guy conversation, which was inspiring in a whole lot of ways. Rutherford B. Hayes was our 19th US president. If you don’t know who ZZ Top is, I’ll pray for your soul. Unbeta’d, so please let me know if you spot any horrible mistakes!
( Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You )
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Fic Update
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Jul. 16th, 2008 @ 04:52 am
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I just posted Chapter 6 of my story, wheee!
"Keep Him Secret, Keep Him Safe"
Chapter 6: "When Life Gives You Lemons..."
In which Aragorn is confused, Gimli is pleased, and hobbits will be hobbits.
http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=5877
http://thelastship.org/eFiction331/viewstory.php?sid=1867
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4239985/6/
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Some fandom and real life news; my continued loathing of NSB
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Jul. 16th, 2008 @ 11:41 am
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*waves* I live! Sorry if I got any of you worried - bad cold did get quite bad, but I am much improved now and even back to work. Which NSB rewarded me for by cancelling my morning train. In the rain. Bite me, NSB. (Yes, I know it wasn't your fault this time. Bite me anyway.)
And how are all you smashing people?
An interesting article on the legality of fanfiction, by a copyright lawyer.
Pretty good - and looks beyond the US, too.
Cast news for CSI that could be rather omnious.
That's bound to cause some wank too.
In them other fandom news, JumpCon looks pretty dead in the water. With these news and these and these, it sure doesn't look good. Owie. Wasn't there just that FedCon disaster too?
Watch yer money, people.
Have almost finished my Adama/Roslin gift exchange fic and feeling good about it. Will be my longest A/R fic so far. Yay? I would however like a volunteer to read and tell me if the format works - no beta work or proofreading or any such required, just an honest opinion on whether the fic works as a whole.
Now to catch up on life, work and the online...
In other news:
- Belgium's PM resigns over continued division in the country.
- Italian officials found guilty over G8 protests in Genova.
- An attraction in Swedish amusement park Liseberg collapses, injuring over 20. (Among them five Norwegians.)
- Murder rate in Norway plummets.
- Norwegians should complain more, thinks researcher.I am currently...:  accomplished |
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Apartment, computer, and Heath Ledger
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Jul. 15th, 2008 @ 10:17 pm
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Went looking with my parents today for my apartment for law school; it looks like we probably found it and we're going back tomorrow to decide one way or the other. If I do get this one, and I hope I do, I get a pool, a nice gym, 24-hour faxing, high-speed Internet, and a little glass-enclosed balcony. :D
Well, my laptop is back home, so tomorrow, provided I have time between getting the apartment and having my laser treatment on my face, is a fic-writing day! (I'm having laser treatment on my left cheek because this one spot has kept getting new zits for years now and the marks from the old ones don't have time to fade.) I thought a lot on the way home from apartment-hunting about Peter Pettigrew in the Another Prisoner, Another Professor universe, so my mind is definitely in the game. :D
Mr. Marauder hopefully got tickets for The Dark Knight today. I'm still really sad about how Heath Ledger died. I think it's mainly for five reasons:
1. He was really young and not too terribly much older than I am.
2. He was wonderfully talented and should have had a long and full career.
3. His performance as Ennis in BBM really sort of touched something in me.
4. He had a little daughter who, by all accounts, he adored.
5. He was just trying to finally, finally get some sleep.
Usually celebrity deaths are sort of "oh, that's sad - hey, we're running out of milk" for me, but this one's sticking with me. :( |
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Jul. 15th, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
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Happy birthday to unperfectwolf. Hope you have a fab day. And hopefully my Intertubes is back up and running :D
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On the road
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Jul. 15th, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
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Heee, I just passed a car bearing a license plate that must belong to a very happy southern Californian:
SNONOMO |
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Reading LOTR Aloud
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Jul. 15th, 2008 @ 04:24 am
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I'm participating in lbilover’s “Reading LOTR Aloud” project. Here is my section from The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 1. Please forgive all the mistakes, it's only 4:20 a.m. here! My voice hasn't woken up yet.
All the chapter sections will be posted in sequence at read_lotr_aloud.
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Jul. 14th, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
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Happy birthday to naughtyhouseelf! Hope you had a lovely day.
And my internet at home sucks.
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