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| 02:46pm 24/05/2007 |
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So...it's been a while. And I know it. So what. School ate me, then work ate me (it's still chewing on me hard lately). So yeah.
Erin's been reading Star Wars again. Yay Star Wars. Legacy of the Force has been good thus far.
Wedge Antilles is like fine wine.
Anyhoo. Not much to report at the moment...I had something, but I forgot what it was *shrug* Oh well. |
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| Tomorrow is November! |
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| 10:11am 31/10/2006 |
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mood:  cheerful
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Tomorrow is November, and November means Nanowrimo! I'll be posting bits and pieces of my piece to the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nodice_fiction journal. It shall be fun, I'm thinking!
In any event, I have a laundry list of things that need doing right now, however...
- Irish History midterm
- Medieval French vassalage paper draft (13 pages + bibliography)
- Study for Medieval History Quiz
- Read Beowulf
- Read Drakwn's story at Critique Circle and comment on it
- Nano! (Fate and Second Chances)
- Prep D&D game a lot(and come up with a name for the campaign)
- Finish RS Wiki entries and suchnot for Aurora Force and AF-Kids
...that's all I can think of for now, other than:
- Pick up FFXII tomorrow
- Get Kendall's birthday present
- Not lose my mind at work (Gah! 20 hours a week + full time graduate student = uhhhhh?)
....I'm insane. We all realize that, right? |
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| Please help Carol and Mark |
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| 09:59am 12/08/2006 |
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mood:  sore
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I know Carol (Jedimom) through an online horse racing game I play. Recently, it came to my attention that her family is in some serious debt right now thanks to her husband's chronic illness. I'm posting this here 'cause....well...I have no place else to put it. Click on the link below to go to Carol's web site, and please post the link in your Livejournal if you'd like to help. I'm sure they'd appreciate whatever can be given to them.
http://www.freewebs.com/sendusaquarter/ |
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| Well crap. |
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| 09:08am 10/08/2006 |
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mood:  cynical music: MSNBC
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Threat level has been elevated to Bert.
Excuse my cynicism, but...yeah. I'm thinking we have more issues than that about now. After all, there are at least twenty cells running around the US that I'm sure we don't know about.
So yeah. Bleh.
I'm going to go play DDR. |
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| My baby is gone :( |
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| 03:55pm 19/04/2006 |
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mood:  sad
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My cat, Lily, whom I'd had for almost 19 years died today in my arms at the vet here in Troy. Vet said she was in the final stages of kidney disease when we brought her in.
I took this picture in December -- one of the first I ever took with my digital camera.
I'm going to miss her so much :( |
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| ....Turin 2006 |
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| 03:46pm 10/02/2006 |
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mood:  confused music: Opening Ceremonies - 20th Winter Olympic Games on CBC
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....right. Weirdest opening ceremonies EVER.
If you don't believe me, watch them tonight. CBC (Windsor TV) has them live. So I'm watching them. And they're WEIRD.
You shall see what I eman when you watch them.
WEIRD! |
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| Blogging fiction? You bet! |
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| 06:23pm 05/02/2006 |
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mood:  cranky
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I'm taking some advice from my most recent issue of Writer's Digest....and I'm going to start blogging fiction.
No Dice!
Project will probably be "Discovering Phoenix"....though there's the possibility of my doing a project I started back in '04, or maybe Digsite, which is a paranormal mystery I'd like to write someday. Readers welcomed ^_~ Visit me and friend me at nodice-fiction so you can read! |
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| First day (yay) |
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| 05:24pm 05/01/2006 |
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mood:  accomplished
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First day of grad school today was fairly....anticlimatic? I'm taking two grad classes this semester -- European Thought and Ideology, 1797-Present and The Reformation. These classes require me to be on campus for about 95% of the daylight hours (potentially longer on Thursdays). One's at 10, the other's at 1. Both seem like they're going to be interesting. My professor for my ideology class is rather Irish, therefore he drops F-bombs during class. Very funny guy. My Reformation professor specializes in medieval history and is apparently a hardass when it comes to grading papers. We'll see if he's worse than Devlin was (maybe being sticklers for grammar and stuff comes with being a medievalist....if so, folks should watch out if I ever become one!).
Well. Like I said. Largely an anti-climatic day. Got to campus a little after 9, went and got my student ID and a cup of coffee (coffee there is definately not as good as it was at GV. I might have to talk my mother into stopping at Starbucks in the morning before we drive to OU...or I find a Starbucks within walking distance of campus. Considering I think there's an Applebee's or a TGI Friday's within sight of South Foundation Hall....I'm not worrying too much). Then I hit the bookstore to check prices on books (can't buy them 'til my paycheck comes -- yay paycheck. Hopefully it'll arrive tomorrow.). From there, I headed to class.
Dr. Moran has apparently been running around like a chicken with his head cut off lately. He said he scrambled madly to finish the syllabus yesterday afternoon...and promptly forgot it this morning. I think he'll be cool, though, and so will his class. He was a student radical during the 60s -- he actually got tossed into jail for six months because he was a concientious objector during Vietnam. How cool is that? He was with SDS, too -- very uber cool. The man is insanely overeducated -- he holds degrees in philosophy and theology as well as in history and taught at American U and Georgetown....and as a grad student he got a fellowship at the Folger Library. Very spiffy.
Reading list for his class:
Rousseau, Rousseau's Political Writings
Marx, Selected Writings
Lemontov, A Hero For Our Time
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis
Mann, Death in Venice and Other Stories
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
Bonhoeffer, Letters from Prison
Virillo, The Information Bomb
Term paper topic: Something on nationalism, not quite sure what yet. Any ideas?
My other professor is Dr. Finucane, and he's a medievalist who's teaching my class on the Reformation. I've already taken a page of notes in his class (go figure).
Reading list for his class:
A.G. Dickens, Counter Reformation
J.H. Elliot, Europe Divided, 1559-1598 Second Edition
E. Muir, Ritual in Early Modern Europe
E. Rice and A. Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 Second Edition
James D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations
Term paper topic: Why did witchcraft accusations only begin to appear as a serious problem from the early 16th century? (he was glad one of the grad students picked this topic -- apparently, he's gotten some pretty flaky stuff on the topic in the past. What the heck is he going to think of what I'm going to say about the topic?)
Yeah. Books are likely to run me something crazy :P Need that paycheck so I can buy them (hopefully it'll get here tomorrow....hopefully...)
But yeah. Otherwise, pretty anticlimactic. Went and got my library card, took some books out -- mostly for my witchcraft paper, though some for background on historiography and the history of ideas in Europe.
Thoughts and such, please tell me! I could really use some help with narrowing my topic for my ideology class.... |
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| Too amusing not to post |
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| 01:01am 20/12/2005 |
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mood:  sleepy
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Dear Indy,
I have been very good all year. I would like a long post for Christmas. Also, please end world hunger. And that little misunderstanding we have going in the middle east... could you put a good word in there too?
Little Alextravia Grentarii
Aurora Force inside joke. |
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| Should I? |
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| 02:36pm 19/12/2005 |
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mood:  curious music: Creed - The Great Divide
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Those that know me know that I'm a poor artist -- as in not very good. However, what I can do with fabric can be fantastic! Costuming is a major hobby of mine that's slowly turning into an actual business.
So anyway. On to the "should I?" thing. I did this sketch of a D&D character I'm playing....and I've fallen in love with her jacket/overlet/whatever.
Here's the picture:
I've been thinking that I need to make it. Should I? I was thinking about doing it in some white muslin and doing embrodiery on it. That would look wicked cool, I thought. Anyone else have an opinion? |
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| Random update |
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| 12:06am 11/11/2005 |
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mood:  bouncy music: Piper and Jeff's song (ehehehehe...Unsung folks will get it)
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It's November, and that means NaNo.
I'm 10,000 words behind where I wanted to be.
I turn 23 in 10 days.
Borders hasn't called me for an interview. Neither has Jo-Ann's.
I don't know if Professor Coolidge has gotten my recommendation letter in to Oakland University. The application deadline is December 1.
...and 100.3 is playing nothing but Christmas music. And has been since November 1.
Gods help us all. |
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| It's coming! |
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| 04:49pm 24/10/2005 |
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mood: cheerful
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A week from tomorrow will begin NaNoWriMo. In a week, the shared hell of hundreds of would-be (and otherwise) authors striving to write 50,000 words on a new project will begin.
Call me a masochist, but I'm excited.
The project I wrote last year -- "When All's Said and Done" -- was finished last week. Over 80,000 words total in the first draft. Starting next Tuesday, I shall begin its sequel, "When the Gods Cry." Doesn't that sound fun? I think it does.
Yaaaaay for NaNo. |
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| If you don't know X-Files or SVU, don't read this |
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| 12:35am 26/09/2005 |
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I have to laugh.
I'm watching SVU tonight on USA (as I often do when I'm not actually doing anything), and there's this reporter guy on there talking about the truth, etc etc. He looks at a couple of the cops and the ADA on the show in the midst of their asking him to confirm where he got some information on a perscription drug being given to soliders in Afghanistan. He looks at one of them and says "Mulder, Scully."
Detective John Munch was in the room.
Now, this is an obscure thing, but if you've seen both shows (and potentially Homicide: Life on the Street and the original Law and Order), you may well understand why I laugh at this.
For those of you who don't get it, here's the scoop. John Munch is a character that Richard Belzer has played on five different shows: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street.....and the X-Files.
Yes, that's right. Dear old Munch met none other than Fox Mulder in the episode "Unusual Suspects" way back in 1997. It's fantastically amazing what writers forget -- if they ever knew it at all. At the time, the character of Munch was a conspiracy theorist, but not as much as he was AFTER he met Mulder and the Lone Gunmen.
Yes. It was a quadruple whammy. I'm surprised the man is still sane.
So when the reference came, Munch didn't even flinch. This I find amusing.
Mayhaps my theories on TV worlds are actually true.... |
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| Squee! |
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| 12:36pm 20/09/2005 |
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mood:  working music: Backstreet Boys - I just want you to know
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I got the stuff I ordered from Fire Mountain Gems today. Now I can make belts (mayhaps -- beads are a touch smaller than I thought, but that's fine! I'll make do) and, better yet, belt hangers! I bought some little perfume bottles (some permeable, some not) that are actually a little bigger than I thought they were that would be great for hanging on belts. Once I get one or two done, I'll take a picture or two.
Right now I'm finishing a skirt that K-chan may or may not fiend over. It's like my dancing skirt, but it's in solid colors. Red and black. In a silky fabric I picked up at Jo-Ann's. ^_^ I've got several more cut out, in various colors, and likely enough fabric to make a few more.
Well. Now that that's out of my system, back to the grindstone.
Oh! For anyone who cares, I'm modding a chat with Andy Collins (a WotC game designer) tonight on RPG Live (www.wizards.com/chat). It's part of UnCon. Should be great fun.
Okay. Now I'm done. |
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| 03:08pm 18/09/2005 |
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music: Evanescence - Bring me to life
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That's all I can say. Ahhh! Life is psycho crazy.
The good news is, I'm a vendor at the GV Renaissance Festival October 1-2 (and I think Mia and Leigh are going to show up -- yay!). The bad news is that I have almost nothing ready, fabric is frickin' expensive, I have no tent, and my parents may or may not be able to help me more than they already have (what I really need help with is buying the frickin' tent).
The good news is, I should get paid again just after festival, so even if I only make just enough to cover expenses, I'll still have money coming. The goal is to clear $300 GVRen weekend -- we'll see if that one actually happens. That would be enough to pay my mother back for the fabric she bought, though (which is a bit over $200), cover my expenses in beads and such (about $67)....yeah. We'll see if that actually happens.
Of course, I've been losing a lot of time lately when I COULD have been sewing because Max went and broke his arm. Again. Which means not only have I been picking up his usual slack with chores (he doesn't do a goddamned thing unless my father stands there and makes him do it) someone had to be his nursemaid. Which means I lost almost all day Thursday and half the day on Friday (since the doctor said he couldnt' go to school on Friday). Grr. All I accomplished those days was getting the panels cut out for some dancing skirts (I keep oscilating on the price for those....the fabric ended up being kind of expensive, so I'm not sure how much I'll charge. Maybe $30 for ones with eight panels? I don't know. I have to check how much fabric I have left) and getting shirts and smocks cut out (the most time consuming part of THAT is measuring things out and drawing straight lines).
What do I have finished right now? A vest. A skirt (non-dancing). A smock. A shirt. I've got enough panels cut for several dancing skirts. I have a bodice cut out (including lining -- but I need to find the boning to put in it). I should change the thread in my machine and finish off some shawls, which would be quick and easy. I've also got some of my bags (for books and for dice) done. Sigh. Too much to do, not enough time, because every time I get in a zone where I'm just doing it, I get dragged away. Like today. I want to finish at LEAST three garments today. I got pulled away when I was just finishing up the first one (the smock). Why? Dad wanted me to rake up the loose grass in the lawn -- which I wouldn't have minded doing if I wasn't struggling to get things done for Festival. I'm also freaking out about this tent thing. I don't want to spend more than $100 on it (especially since I know that I'll not be the only one who ever uses the damn thing -- I already KNOW that for sure. It's so not fair that I spend so much money on it and not be the one who uses it most often). Grrr. Maybe I WILL press to know exactly what the dimensions of the hex tent we already have are (My parents keep saying it's huge. Well. I'm not sure that it is -- so I'll press).
Of course...all of this stuff has cut into my writing time in a rather serious way. Sorry, kids. You may have to wait a little longer for some stuff.
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| So, yeah, worried.... |
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| 10:28am 30/08/2005 |
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mood:  anxious
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So, yeah. Friend of mine was sitting directly in the path of Hurricane Katrina. A lot of us were telling him to get the hell out of Dodge...but he wouldn't leave his mother (she has cancer). So now all of us are kind of sitting here. Waiting. Wondering.
He had my cell phone number. I doubt he still does, though, given the carnage down there. So all we get to do is just sit. Wait. Wonder.
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