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    Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
    icarusancalion
         		9:09p
    Sissyphus and school papers.
    Glrgh. Having such a hard time starting this paper.

    *Pushes the paper cart uphill.*

    Current Mood: frustrated
    icarusancalion
         		3:21p
    Who's more important, cats or mice?
    Cutest kitty ever.

    Exhibit A: I have the mouse on the couch next to me. Kitty has sat down next to me (after frustrated attempts to sit on my and my keyboard). He is now scootching closer and closer to the mouse, soft as a cloud, stifling said mouse usage.

    When called on this, "Monte...." he looks up at me with luminous eyes. He reaches with a paw and touches my arm.

    Petting must ensue. I don't care if I'm rewarding feline distraction.

    (The mouse has been knocked off the mousepad.)

    Current Mood: busy
    janecarnall
         		10:54p
    The Gambler – Part Four
    This is the fourth part of the third story (first part, second part, third part) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), and The Players (seven parts)

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. I also updated the cast list here.

    ( Know when to walk away and know when to run )

    Current Mood: tired
    stele3
         		1:28p
    Urge to kill...rising.
    I feel like Homer Simpson in that Halloween episode of The Simpsons that spoofed The Shining. Except instead of television, it's the Interwebz that has me going into murderous withdrawal and encroaching insanity.

    See, I have satellite internet. Most of the time, it's pretty damn good and it's the only thing that I could get, living where I am. Unfortunately it has two major drawbacks: a) it's an invisible beam going up to a satellite in the sky, so if there's heavy clouds or rain or a tree in the way, service gets interrupted (have I mentioned that I live in OREGON? In the COUNTRYSIDE? With fir trees that reach two hundred feet and a six-month rainy season?); b) I have a monthly download cap that, if I or anyone in my house exceeds, our bandwidth gets chopped in half. They do this to prevent pirating.

    So, I missed the Sons of Anarchy season finale and couldn't find it anywhere on the TV schedule on repeat, and chose to download it. Surprise surprise, that put me over the usage cap. So for the next week we're puttering about on lowwwww Internet capabilities.

    *fingers her axe* (And that's not a euphemism.)

    *****

    Another thing I hate about living out here: the way the men in my hometown treat women. Either we're sex objects or we're non-existent. I had this really driven home for me last night when these two regulars came into the pub. They're a married couple who are amicably divorcing, so this was sort of their last night out on the town together before she moved out.

    Now, they seem pretty cool and the guy's all right on the (very) relative scale of guys I see around me; but it was amazing to see how she just...disappeared. He started talking to my male coworker and another guy at the bar, and NONE OF THEM referred to her by name. It was "my wife" or "your wife" and shit. Every time she started to say something, one of the guys would talk over her. It wasn't even hostility on their part, it seems like the divorce was totally a case of "your life is going in that direction, mine is over here, I'm sorry, I still love you." They just didn't see her as a human being.

    I finally slid down to the end of the bar to chat with her because I felt so bad. She's clearly an awesome person (I heard her taking one of the guys to task for being a homophobe) and turns out to be an artist (she's gonna send me her portfolio so maybe she might be a comic book illustrator for me!), but none of that mattered to any of these guys. They didn't even refer to her by name (AMELIA, MOTHERFUCKERS, HER NAME IS AMELIA, JESUS). It was fucking unbelievable.

    *STELE3 SMASH PUNY BAR PATRONS*
    Monday, December 1st, 2008
    brownbetty
         		11:26p
    So, remember when I was all "lolcanada"? (Incidently, already taken as a com name, dammit)
    Canada continues to bring the drama and lols! Making Light has a pretty concise summary for those who may not have been following Canadian politics for the last six months, but I'm camped out at blog.macleans.ca, for lack of any better idea, unless people know of good (by which I mean snarky and left-leaning) political blogs on Canadian politics? (Rick Mercer, dammit, has dropped his blog. I stop paying attention for eleven months, and look what happens!)
    yonmei
         		8:43a
    infected by [info]melancharisbron: the shuffle poem meme
    Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

    (Created last night while trying to do one last nanowrimo update, but I forgot they now check your time zone - none of that "you've got till 8am GMT" any more... Oh well. 30K+ words in November, that's not bad at all.)

    Pay no mind to her, she only wants to play

    If you want me
    If I were a carpenter
    Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
    So blue lonesome too but still true
    Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile

    In Europe and America there's
    An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
    I chase your every footstep
    The wind blows hard across the Texas plains
    Oh, I could have worked on a research staff

    If you can't say you love me say you hate me
    At the end of the day you're another day older
    Come over to the window, my little darling,
    Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
    You could have your choice of guys in town

    I'm going to steal me a silver stallion
    I learned the truth at seventeen
    A man is walking on the moon, with his eyes turned up toward space
    Just a kiss just a kiss
    Riding on the City of New Orleans.


    ( Song titles/singers )

    Current Mood: sheepish
    Sunday, November 30th, 2008
    darkrose
         		8:07p
    icarusancalion
         		7:50p
    Hiding out in memes.
    Picked up from [info]sage_theory:

    The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Stargate Atlantis

    The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Harry Potter

    The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy Christian: Lord of the Rings (book fandom)

    The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town: Supernatural

    The steady: Stargate Atlantis

    The one you repeatedly cheat on your steady with: Merlin

    The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Ironman

    The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: Supernatural

    The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: (I don't really have a good answer for this one)

    The one you slept with on the rebound who still smiles at you, yet you have no interest in any more: Stargate SG-1 (so I made up my own)

    The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Dr. Who

    The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Supernatural

    Current Mood: cheerful
    Current Music: Mediaeval Baebes - There Is No Rose Of Swych Vertu
    yonmei
         		11:40p
    Lunch, writing, tempura
    I met [info]helenraven for lunch - she operates without a mobile phone, so we met at the hotel and walked to an Italian place not far from there: she left for a movie: and I met [info]afrai shortly afterwards in a Starbucks. She is as lovely in person as she is in print, and we walked down to Charing Cross and looked in bookshops and I bought a new Robin McKinley and we ate Japanese food and found a Caffe Nero and had coffee, and it was altogether a very social, very nice day.

    I never took any photographs. Well, two.

    Current Mood: thoughtful
    stele3
         		10:37a
    Second Circle, Author's Notes
    stele3
         		10:01a
    14/14 continued
    ( Sunday (continued) )
    stele3
         		9:48a
    Second Circle, 14/14 (COMPLETE)
    ( Sunday (part 1) )
    janecarnall
         		11:19a
    The Gambler – Part Three
    This is the third part of the third story (first part, second part) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), and The Players (seven parts)

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of [info]wrimowrimo. I also updated the cast list here.

    ( And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression )

    Current Mood: hopeful
    Saturday, November 29th, 2008
    telesilla
         		10:46p
    Seen all over the place...
    I tired to do the photo mosaic meme, but every single picture I chose--and I made sure to choose ones that weren't protected--came up blank. Every single one. :( So I did this meme instead.

    The "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme

    01. Put your music player on shuffle
    02. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title

    It was interesting and not as Vogon as I expected. :)

    ( Have I Lost You? )
    jordangrant
         		10:16p
    I always knew I was permanently insane!!!
    Wow. Just wow.

    I'm just hugging myself all over. Feelin' the love, y'know?

    Because some incredibly kind, generous soul has anonymously upgraded my account at IJ to PERMANENTLY INSANE!!!!

    I never thought I'd have a permament account but I really, really love the idea! I just went and checked out the features and it means I have SO many oodles of userpics available, that I'll never run out again. Among other fun things.

    Thank you, thank you, to whomever did this lovely thing for me.

    I am truly thrilled and touched.

    Jordan
    icarusancalion
         		7:25p
    On the End of Canon: What keeps a fandom alive?
    A question came up on my f-list about the end of canon in Stargate Atlantis.

    I'm not sure whether the imminent end of the series has any significant effect on readership

    In the Harry Potter fandom it certainly didn't. I can't imagine the end of the series would have a significant impact right away. Quite the opposite. There's a spike in interest as people mourn, fret over what's not neatly tied up, are annoyed at the author's/PTB's ships, or just miss it and want more, darn it. In time I think it will taper off as people find other active canons and drift to new fandoms, but no boom is going to be lowered late December, no, not at all.

    How active the fandom remains depends on the fandom:

    - Do the main archives, challenges, communities, still have people to run them? (Most Important Factor.)
    - Is the fandom old enough to have a solid body of work, and fandom tropes, to sustain it?
    - Are there lots of Swiss cheese-like holes remaining to play in?
    - How dependent on canon is the fandom (are the majority of fics episode tags, or have the fic writers embraced AUs and crossovers)?
    - How committed are the fans to keeping their fandom alive? Have fans declared that nothing will stop their ship? Or have they been ho-hum about the end of their series?
    - Are there other factors to keep the fandom alive? Spin-offs, movies, conventions.

    Current Music: The Ventures - The Cruel Sea (The Cruel Surf)
    icarusancalion
         		6:34p
    Merlin kink meme.
    Run, do not walk, to the Merlin kink meme.

    Forget to get me something for my birthday? Feel a need to make the world a better place write more Merlin fic? I know just the thing. Although really, any of these requests would be lovely.

    (Note the music.)

    Current Mood: cheerful
    Current Music: The Ventures - Walk - Don't Run
    Sunday, November 30th, 2008
    yonmei
         		12:51a
    Thoughts after evening spent henching with the London convent of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence
    ...that was the most genderfucky experience I have ever had in my life.

    Current Mood: awake
    Saturday, November 29th, 2008
    stele3
         		4:00p
    Panic timeline query
    (OY VEY. I hate satellite internet. It was the only kind that I could get out here in the boonies, but ho brother. There must be snow at higher elevations because the last two days have been GNARRRRR.)

    Panic won video of the year in late August 2006. Jon Walker was made an official member of the band only the previous month. I do not have the Internet wherewithal (points above) to go searching for this, so can anyone tell me: what video did they win for and was Jon Walker actually IN the video?

    ficsoreal, this is for the Sweet Charity I owe you. Yes, from way back in Spring. Yes, I suck. *POINTS AT THE SECOND CIRCLE*
    brownbetty
         		4:46p
    I've always admired the panache with which he delivered his 'Fuck you's.
    Canadian politics are threatening to become entertaining again, but for some of use, they're already entertaining:
    Chretien was seen on his way to his downtown Ottawa office, but when asked about the coalition talks he feigned an inability to understand English.

    "Je ne comprends pas anglais," he said.
    Source
    yonmei
         		5:19p
    Hello. I'm in London.
    I'm feeling tremendously happy for multiple reasons:

    1. I can get online at my hotel! At the little desk conveniently provided!
    2. MY LAPTOP WORKS. (Admittedly, the nice repairperson warned me, the power connector should be considered on its last legs, may give out at any time, and as of next week I need to start pricing new laptops.)
    3. I wrote nearly 400 words of my wrimowrimo story this morning: I am only 600+ words off being able to post part 3 of the current section.
    4. I just had a really lovely day with [info]ruthi in which we wandered around Burrough Market, bought CHEESE and other lovely things, and then had a really tremendously gorgeous lunch at Imli's.
    5. I just drank a nice cup of freshly-brewed coffee and ate a cappuchino-flavour cream puff that we were both too full to eat for dessert after Imli's.
    6. I am about to go out and hench for World AIDS Day with the London convent. This should be fun, and if it's not, I can always escape early, go back to my hotel room, and wrimowrimo some more.
    7. The window in my hotel room opens! I'd taken for granted it didn't, because they usually don't, and last night was rather stuffy, but it does. Fresh air is cheering.

    Oh, and tomorrow I get to meet up with first Helen Raven and then [info]afrai. So that will be good. And Monday night dinner with the Maenad. Two lawyers in two days, can I cope? Probably. I believe they're both nice lawyers.

    Current Mood: happy
    stele3
         		1:12a
    13/14 continued
    ( Saturday(continued) )
    stele3
         		12:57a
    13/14 continued
    ( Saturday (continued) )
    stele3
         		12:47a
    Second Circle, 13/14
    ( Saturday (part 1) )
    Friday, November 28th, 2008
    brownbetty
         		2:02p
    A tiny slice of things which occupy a brainshare
    For use on the "Blacks passed Prop 8" segment, a new poll indicating the numbers in the Black community are roughly in line with those of other ethnicities. The poll numbers have not been released yet, but something to watch.

    Resources for those concerned about loved ones in Mumbai, or looking for ways to help.

    Florida court rejects gay adoption ban. It's going to appeal, but it's an encouraging start.

    Electron microscope images: the teeny world made huge!

    Combining my interests in diagrams and chocolate!

    Gormenghast-esque sculpture!
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