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[16th July , 2008|05:19 pm] |
I am now in San Diego. This is a very lounging around kind of hostel. And it seems to be a pretty lounging around kind of place, although I have been for two walks around the city so far and will go for another soon.
I had lunch with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pre_raphaelite1 yesterday. She is awesome! She picked me up from the greyhound station and took me to lunch and we discussed fandom things and politics and the weather and how the internet can hardly be considered to be making us antisocial. Then she drove me to San Diego, and the hostel even let her carry my backpack to my room!
So, the first fandom meet up of the adventure was a complete success!
We decided that we really do have to write those fics that have been sitting on our hard drives being occasionally poked. Of course, mine currently only on a CD on my desk in Melbourne, and no longer on this computer.
I'm catching the overnight bus to San Francisco on Friday. |
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| d minus 10 and counting |
[2nd July , 2008|10:30 am] |
Okay, so there'll be no fic for a while now. The chance of finishing any of the fics that I actually kept on my computer and posting them in the next ten days is even more slim than my usual chance of finishing fic. So I thought I'd ask, because I haven't in a while:
Are there any of my fics you'd like to see a commentary of?
Let me know and I will write one. It's always a fun thing to do, and I have some time in the evenings for computery stuff.
I'm waiting for a call back from the master printer at the Australian Print Workshop about printing the bloody great bit of art I'm making. Chances of my still being here when they've go availability: also slim. But so long as it's all cut and I've discussed printing options with them, then P can take the lino there. I'm going back to the studio now to do more work on it, because he hasn't called in the hour since I called them and I have to do more work and I get to watch Spooks while I'm working. I'm rewatching series two.
I have to wash and then not wear all the clothes I'm taking with me. And cut my fingernails. |
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[20th June , 2008|09:32 pm] |
It was officially my last day at First-job yesterday, but I have to back for a few hours of the next couple of weeks because they haven't found a replacement yet. The VP and Boss and new Boss all think I'm brilliant, which I think is completely ridiculous, but it's nice. The building had morning tea on Tuesday, with cream buns.
I have to resign from Phone job before Tuesday to get in my two weeks notice. I meant to do it two weeks ago.
Fannish things:
( two icons from that icon meme I'm not sure I've already done )
I have spent more than a reasonable amount of the last couple of weeks reading TV Tropes, so I'm giving everyone the link to the page on SeriousBusiness. Don't say I didn't warn you. I want to put links to TV Tropes in normal conversation. Also, check out the entry on Cricket, although this is probably funnier if you actually know something about the game.
Saints are up! It's almost ten minutes into the second quarter and we're more than twice Freemantle's score. It's not going to last, of course, but it's certainly exciting. |
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[5th May , 2008|11:37 pm] |
( When I write I write long: flakey meta stuff about fannish participation )
It was really slow at work a couple of weeks ago, when the computer system was down for a week, so I decided to write one sentence fics. I finally remembered to bring the scrap of paper home so I could type it up.
The first is the opening of my Simon Tam/James Wilson fic, but it changes the point of the fic (which was originally porn), so now it's about Simon and River and strangely supernatural for Firefly.
When they reached the end of the world, Simon turned right, towards the past and Earth was, although he knew that River, had they given her the opportunity, would have turned into the known and unknowable future, aware from him.
Doctor Who: Doctor/Jack, kind of.
The sense of Jack, the fact of his presence and the impossibility of his existence, sat in the back of the Doctor's mind like a stone in his show: it itched, and the only relief the Doctor had found was in worrying at it—imagining meeting Jack again, planning what he'd say, fantasising what Jack had fantasised about him—it pass the time.
House: House/Brenda, because there needs to be more Brenda fic.
They spent the evenings together sometimes, side by side on Brenda's couch arguing about general Hospital or in House's bed making out and laughing or in the clinic trading insulting comments about the patients: House was happiest the days after the making out, Brenda the days after nights in the clinic.
Angel: Wesley/Illyria, my favourite pairing ever, possibly.
It did not feel like the end of the world (she had seen that once before); like someone had extinguished the sun (she could feel the earth's spin and knew it would face its starr again), it did not feel as thought anything had stopped (she still breathed, the blood circulated through the shell, she could still hear the insect hum of the traffic), but it felt , and that was worth fighting for.
1. Reply to this post [and ask specifically to take part in the meme], and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
( My icons picked by Ignipes and Such-Heights ) |
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[18th April , 2008|10:31 pm] |
Actual exchange at work today:
CT: [Something about another agent]
TL: He's not in tomorrow. There's a Jewish holiday. Which holiday?
Me: [to self: duh! you know this one] Passover!
So, all the observers of Jewish holy days on my f'list, thanks for making somewhat aware of the rest of the world.
I mean that very sincerely. And all the best for the festival.
In completely unrelated news, my Fuck You, She's Awesome list:
I was going to explain this, but I think it's pretty a) widespread and b) self-explanatory
I have limited myself to one woman per fandom. These lists are not in any particular order (there not even in the order I thought of them in); they should be considered exhaustive and the women named herein are not necessarily the women I think most awesome in their fandom/field.
Fictional:
Amy Gardiner (West Wing)
Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
Winifred Burkle (Angel)
Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Meredith Monahan (SeaChange)
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Lucy Kenwright (Studio 60)
Ellen Harvelle (Supernatural)
Serafina Pekkala (His Dark Materials)
Non-Fictional:
Heloise, abbess
Julia Gillard, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette
Kaz Cooke, writer
Catherine Deveney, columnist and ranter
Elizabeth Bear, writer
Isobelle Carmody, writer
Sarah Monette, writer
JK Rowling, writer
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, courtier
I think is perhaps troubling, or, at least, indicative, how many women on that list are writers, and how many are writers of fiction. Also, I obviously need to study more history. I'm currently reading The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, which I bought when it was a set text for my first year history subject. This is how slow I do my uni reading, it's been almost five years since I bought the book.
Now I do intend to eat some strawberry icecream and answer comments from the last two weeks. |
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| Three days of posts in one |
[3rd April , 2008|08:59 pm] |
I wrote most of the following over the past two days. But then never posted it, because it's long and rambley and possibly not very good. I'm posting it now because I want to have said it more than the typing itself takes care of.
I am sick. This is both good and bad. I dislike being sick, but I am actually sick - low grade Flu-like thing - so I have a medical certificate getting me off work for three days. Woohoo! I need the money, but I'm really not up to being pleasant and approachable and competent for four hours in an air-conditioned office to people who have waited weeks to reschedule a technical appointment that's being held up be our computer system.
That's phone-job, where I need a medical certificate to have not shown up.
I don't need a medical certificate for First-job. I just need to sound poorly when I talk to Boss. This is not an act. I did go in on Wednesday because she called me when I was watching Heist on Tuesday. I got my pay cheque signed (for all the time I worked between the second pay in December and the last pay in February, so it was worth it).
I also wanted to say that I am very sorry about anjenue. I thought I did not know her at all, but I do remember the name rosesanguina. I've read nimori's posts and will pass on the link to we_love_you_anj.
( Some thoughts on internet death )
Thinky thoughts.
Now I have to try to get my head into a space for writing remix.
Also it was April Fool's Day recently. I'm not sure exactly when because it happened on the internet the day after it happened here. Nothing happened to me at all in flesh-space. But the best online thing was Questionable Content, xkcd and Dinosaur Comics pointing to each other.
In a last note before I return to writing the remix and making sure I have all the paperwork for my US Visa application interview which is tomorrow:
( The Hugo Award nominees list is out ) |
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| 23 years, three days, ten hours and 51 minutes |
[22nd February , 2008|11:25 am] |
That's how old I am!
(or was when I opened this page)
(sorry I did not post this when I posted the one my LJ. I will get better about remembering that.)
It was my birthday on Tuesday. From my parents I got a travel pack for my travelling, Goodbye Lenin and the soundtack to Juno. I now have Loose Lips stuck on loop in my head. Also, thelastgoodname has asked for cello music. So I will be uploading some tomorrow, in between sorting out my fic in order to sign up for remixredux08
Inspired by karaokegal's memes this year, I am resurrecting this one:
Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!
CJ Cregg
Josh Lyman
Toshiko Sato
Jack Harkness
Martha Jones
Lily Evans
Lisa Cuddy
I have spent too much of the last few nights watching Torchwood. |
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