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[Dec. 16th, 2008|10:28 am] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  tired | ] |
I've got a new phone, thanks to my father. It's not as pretty as my last one, but it has all the same functions, and the guy at the store said that it has better reception.
What I don't have are people's numbers. You might want to give those to me at some point, y'all. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2008|12:52 pm] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  chipper | ] |
Anyone want to go to the Dickens Fair this weekend? I'm finished with finals and want to do something.
Or, barring that, rent a bunch of movies and have a marathon? |
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| FINAL POST ABOUT THAT TWILIGHT THING |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|11:25 am] |
Is the
5:30 show, on Sunday the 23rd at the Metreon
okay with everyone?
I'd like a headcount, just so I know who we'll be waiting for, if you please. If you're coming, comment plz. |
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| MOVIEGOING THIS WEEKEND |
[Nov. 18th, 2008|04:08 pm] |
It seemed that about even numbers of people can manage Saturday and Sunday, so I'm going to say we'll go see Twilight on Sunday, November 23rd (because I'm off-work and don't have to worry about getting back into the city.)
I haven't been able to contact ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lichifruit, so if someone could check and see if she can make that day?
Are we all buying our own tickets, or does someone want to be the central person? Or am I going to be the central person? And does anyone have particular time preferences?
I figure we'll go to the Metreon. Fandango says there are shows in the evening at: 5:30, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, and 10:45 so we've got our pick. |
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| LA PEOPLE |
[Oct. 17th, 2008|05:05 pm] |
I got tickets to come in for the concert-- I'll be coming into LAX on 11/1 around 4:00, 4:30. I'm not sure how long it will take for me and mom to get to the Roxy from there, but we should plan things!
Plan things with me or I'll cry. :( |
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[Oct. 7th, 2008|03:44 pm] |
Things I learned while shopping with Connie yesterday:
- It only takes about three-inch heels to make me look like I'm wearing fetish wear, I'm so short. You know those cutesy shoes with uber-high heels that sometimes show up in schoolgirl and girl-next-door porn? Yeah, normal cute heels make me look like that.
- You can buy a Stephanie-Brown-as-Robin costume. I wanted it, but they only had smalls.
And now:
Cowboy Mouth concert planning!
Their CA tour dates look like:
11/01/08 Los Angeles, Ca Roxy
11/06/08 Agoura Hills, Ca Canyon Club
11/07/08 Petaluma, Ca McNear's Mysti Theater
11/08/08 San Francisco, Ca Slims
Mom and I are planning to fly out for the LA show, so people in LA (jhyanmar and kikos_ai, I'm looking at you), we should meet up, have dinner and go see an awesome show!
People in SF, I'm obviously planning to go to the SF show. I'd like to get a survey of who's planning to come, and who wants me to buy their tickets. If you want me to get your ticket you need to let me know asap, and preferably paypal me the money, because they're 20 dollars each and I'll go broke otherwise.
I'm also thinking about planning a chocolate tasting birthday party. Would anyone be interested? |
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| You're making it very hard to mind-control our happy little family! |
[Aug. 7th, 2008|01:00 pm] |
Hey guys! I'm back from my vacation. Not that most of you probably noticed I was gone but whatever.
I flew out to Ohio to help comixologist move from her apartment in Columbus, where she went to undergrad, to her new grad student digs in Florida. Roadtrip! It was... an interesting trip, if a bit stressful at times. Not that I blame Comix for being stressed beyond words, all things considered. We spent a couple of days in Ohio, finishing the last of the packing and hanging out with her friends, then we drove to Winston-Salem where, for the first time in over a decade of knowing the woman I actually got to meet her dad. And his two dogs (LARGE dogs, eek). And five cats. He was nice, even if I was extremely paranoid about offending him by being my usual, rude, yankee self. We spent another 8 hours in the car from there to Florida, during which time the cat managed to get out of his carrier not once but twice, and nearly gave us both heart attacks (seeing as how we were driving at 9pm, on a road without street lights.) We finally managed to find her apartment after several Florida's-street-name-conventions-suck-balls-related freak-out, and moved her in successfully. During this trip we also managed to listen to two Poirot audiobooks, "A Study in Emerald", and the first half hour of at least four other books, due to the failure of Artemis Fowl 6 to make us do anything besides laugh hysterically (tis the season for faily ends of YA book series, apparently.)
The drives themselves were fun (aside from the aforementioned homicide-by-cat and street-name-related freak outs), but moving is just stressful and scary no matter how you cut it.
Also, comixologist and I are no longer dating. This has less to do with eight hours in the car than you might think. We're still BFF (and that won't change as long as either of us has anything to say about it, I think), but we were that before we were dating. She's stressed over grad school, I'm in an unstable place with school and work, and we have a lot of Major Issues to Work Out if we decide that we really do want to go the long term plan route. And neither of us are in a place right now where we can do that-- or, for that matter where we're sure we want to.
Save your pity. While I liked having the reassurance that knowing I didn't have to consider whether or not I'd have a partner in my future, a lot of our relationship was based in love that we'd had for each other for years before we got together. That's not going away. I'd like to think this break-up reinforced our love for each other rather than destroying it. Also, my parents have pretty much adopted her anyway, so I doubt they'd just let her go.
To sum up: I went on a road trip. There was stress. I did, however, have fun and have returned home at least mostly content, if exhausted.
Also, I got home last night and mum was having a major freak-out over some critique she received by one of her textile arts groups. I sympathize-- critique can send me into a tailspin too sometimes. Here's hoping she pulls out of it soon, though. Her art's good, and I'm really exhausted already. :/ |
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[May. 9th, 2008|06:28 pm] |
Just a quick update (I swear I'll respond to comments from yesterday's post soon).
For those of you I've been hanging out with once a month and having great LULZ, I will be there tomorrow. :D
BACK TO WORK. D: D: D: |
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[May. 6th, 2008|03:00 pm] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  working | ] |
| [ | Play it for me |
| | Justin Timberlake - Sexyback (OMG DUN JUDGE ME) | ] |
I still have five (well, four and a half) projects that need to be done, but I'm popping on LJ to say:
Have a couple pictures of Rachel Luttrell as a birthday present. :D
( Hoppy Birdy! ) |
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[Mar. 20th, 2008|12:00 pm] |
I'm having a good time. I've been at the PCA/ACA conference, and listening to papers on the use of Chinese in Firefly (that was terrible fanwank, BTW), the social construction of the obesity epidemic, and the use of folklore in Supernatural. I missed an entire panel on Doctor Who because I didn't want to get up at 6:30am today, though... and ended up missing all the panels I could go to today because I overslept. I'm meeting roseganymede and shay_reynolds at the Exploratorium in a few hours and don't have time to get downtown and listen to some papers before then. Woe.
Last night was awesome, though. At the Fat Studies panel I went to, Marilyn Wann (fat activist, writer of Fat!So?, and all around awesome person) was handing out little stickers inviting everyone to open houses at her place all weekend. Since it wasn't that far, I went to hang out at like, nine. She was gracious and sweet and dealt with my having a migraine, being a spaz, and one of those halves of a couple who never shuts up about their girlfriend. Who, by the way, didn't find out whose place I was at until I'd left, and promptly proceeded to spaz and fangirl a bit. Marilyn was brilliant, and we had a lovely conversation about activism, internet memes (I explained Anonymous and RickRolling), adipositivity, music and whole host of other things. She sent me an email afterwards, so... go me! :D
SPEAKING OF!
BOSTON FRIENDS, YES YOU! LISTEN UP!
H. 1844: the height/weight anti-discrimination law
People of all sizes face discrimination based on height or weight. It's real. It's not okay. Without a law, we have no protection. Only a few places have this law: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Washington DC, Madison, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
You want to make history?
1. Call your Massachusetts Representative: 617-722-2000 (Ask to be directed based on your zip code.)
- Ask: How will my Rep. vote on H. 1844, the height/weight law?
2. Come to the crucial hearing! Tell your story!
Tuesday, March 25, 2pm
State House, room A-2, in Boston
If you know other people living in Massachusetts, please forward this info to anyone you think would be interested!
For questions, contact Marilyn Wann: marilyn @ fatso.com |
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| LARPing |
[Mar. 10th, 2008|12:43 am] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  hopeful | ] |
I've been saying for months that I want to run a LARP or two in my area. Now that Intercon is out of the way, I have some free time.
Now, you see, I'm not big on boffers (for the simple reason that I am small and weak, and boffers hurt when they hit me), and popular as vampire games are, coming into the middle of a campaign LARP is kind of stressful. So I want to run some one shot theater-style games here.
I was thinking of starting out with:
The Free Animals' Republic of MacDonald Presents
the Trial of the Big Bad Wolf,
to be Immediately Followed By His Execution, in Honor of Our First Anniversary.
however, I'm willing (and planning) to run other things.
Poll #1151647 I wanna be loved by you, just you and nobody else but you.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4If I were to run a LARP, this/these day(s) would be best The LARP I am most interested in seeing you run is
All games are two hours long. Keep in mind, I need between 5-12 people for all of the games (12 for 10 Bad, 5-12 for The Trial, 8 for All the President's Zombies, and 10 for Tempus Frangit). I can scale up or down, but I'd like to have at least 8 people who want to play.
If you know anyone who might be interested in these sorts of LARPs and isn't on my flist, talk to them, point them and/or point them in this direction! I'd love to meet new people and have them in my games.
( Links to Game Info )
Just a note, but I'm doing three runs of 10 Bad LARPs in 100 Bad Minutes: The Radio Edit at Kublacon (May 23-26). It's a version of 10 Bad that takes out all of the really racy and/or offensive and/or horirble meta games. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2008|12:10 am] |
Intercon was amazing and awesome and I'm gonna do a full con report soon, but I'm still decompressing a bit. Just, basically, I love all of my friends, I saw a bunch of people I adore and pretty much had a roaring good time. :D Getting to buy people's souls all weekend was an added bonus.
In other news, it's rather jarring to a) see an exact phrase from a Fox News piece repeated pretty much verbatim, seriously, and without irony by a Bitch Magazine article, and b) to learn that fucking Milton John Kleim Jr (a guy who used to call himself "Net Nazi Number One") is apparently going to your grad program, is on the student e-list, and accused you of supporting the Patriot Act/censorship. |
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| I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|12:38 am] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
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I've noticed something. I've been on LJ for about seven years. I have 175 friends, from every stage in my life. It's interesting to me, because I see friends who talk about one or two fandom topics and tend to assume that their flist knows what they're talking about (the post that started me thinking about this was someone asking for a very specific AU for one fandom). And, to be honest, they're usually right-- those sorts of posts actually get responses. And I was thinking to myself that if I made a post like that, I wouldn't get any (or many) responses, just because my flist is so damn diverse.
This isn't a bad thing! It's just got me thinking-- some of you people I picked up when I was hardcore into yaoi and anime, so if I talked about Kyou Kara Maou or One Piece you'd get it. A bunch are good friends from college, or people I met through those friends. Some people I picked up through the non-fandom communities I mod and participate in. Some people through Doctor Who or Supernatural or Heroes. And I tend to try and mediate myself when I post, because I don't want to bore any of those groups even though I know the major reason they have me friended is because somehow they're interested in me and what I have to say.
I wouldn't want a friendslist that was all one or two fandoms, because god knows I'm a flighty little bint. I can focus on something for a few months, maybe-- and I might stick with the fandom, but my attention won't really be on it any more. And my habits, being as they are, mean that my friendslist will never migrate with me. (I noticed, writing the list for that meme the other day, that my list was so weird that I'm going to have to add links for people to look up the characters. My interests are diverse and often obscure.)
So I like having all of you as friends, but I suppose in some ways I envy people who can talk about crack AUs and have a lot of people understand and respond in the desired manner. I wouldn't mind saying "I'd pay good money for someone to write me a serious AU where Samantha Ferris is Jeffrey Dean Morgan's love slave" or "So, someone go read Lackadaisy because I need rumrunning cats having hot, dirty, angry sex now" and have someone come up with a ficlet for me-- or at least acknowledge what I'm requesting and why.
Basically. I don't know how to be popular on the internets. I don't really want to be, but I'm curious about the mechanisms sometimes. Like, how you build up an flist that knows your fandom(s) and responds. It has something to do with why I always end up on the outskirts of fandom-- I don't know how to make the friends and get really into it. Well, I don't know how and I'm not sure I want to invest myself into it when I know that in a couple of months or a year I'll be totally obsessed with something else.
That said, I love my flist and that y'all are the diverse bunch you are. It means I don't get bored. (But if someone wants to write that shit for me, I'll seriously bake cookies.)
In other news, Sweet Charity raised fucking $19,000. Holeeeee shit.
I have to go bake cakes now. And I await with bated breath to learn who ended up winning my writing, since the lovely anonymous bidders haven't ponied up yet. |
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[Jan. 1st, 2008|06:21 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | comics, friends | ] |
| [ | Play it for me |
| | Matchbox Twenty - Girl Like That | ] |
I am filled with love! I had a wonderful birthday-- I love hanging out with you people! ♥ You all let me geek out and watch Power Rangers and Superman:Doomsday (Holy shit, that was pretty gay, Lex.)
And I love everyone who didn't come too, but we should get together.
I got some awesome gifts-- an ALA membership and a copy of the Watchmen and earings and a gift certificate to Comic Relief and a BLOWTORCH (thanks, mom!)
Also, the Yuletide and Pretty Lights exchange reveals have occurred and I'll link my fics later.
In totally different news, what the hell is with me and Becky Cloonan comics? I read them and then want fic or something and there's never a fandom. First there was American Virgin, which has three trades and has been running for at least a year, and now East Coast Rising, which is like a gorgeous indie comic crossover between One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean, only more awesome and set on the east coast seaboard, if the east coast seaboard were under water. But only one volume's come out (the second is slated for March 2008, Amazon tells me), and I want Deathsnake/Cannonball Joe slash. Or Lee/Deathsnake slash. Or or or! I need moar. aadkjlfklsjdj
Anyway. ♥ |
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[Nov. 27th, 2007|04:56 pm] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| | hopeful | ] |
I don't think people noticed this before, so I'm posting again:
My Birthday: December 31st!
Come, there will be partying and merry-making! And desserts. Lots of desserts.
If I know you and we have talked more than once, you are invited.
(If you don't know my address, just ask.)
Please let me know if you're showing up so I can make sure I have enough food. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2007|08:47 pm] |
Oh, I should mention! Thank you to ladymako71, basilmemories, sleepfighter, bonobochick, hannahrorlove, nobody_674, bandit_genrou, sophie_448, technocracygirl, and fickle_goddess. You have no idea how much seeing ten invitations made me happy (even if two of them were across the bloody country :D). I found a place to go for Thanksgiving, so I'm set.
I love y'all, and want to hang out with every one of you guys at some point. I might possibly have spent hours sitting around trying to figure out whose invitation to accept... I don't get to see my friends around here enough and you all are amazing. Just so you know.
And if you guys are free and want to see me, I'm plotting my birthday party! My birthday is December 31st! I'm not planning anything formal, just hanging out, talking, being geeky and eating cake. If you're gonna be free and want to come over, consider this an open invitation. Just drop me a line at some point so I know how much food to get, okay? (If you don't know where I live, when you let me know you're interested, I'll give you the address.) |
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| LERVE MEME! |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|09:46 am] |
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| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  sick | ] |
Because natbudin ♥ me!
Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love.
If you're gonna be a party pooper and refuse to spread the love, don't bother replying... what comes around goes around, so no love, sorry! |
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[Aug. 19th, 2007|02:27 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | fanmix, friends | ] |
| [ | If I wasn't apathetic, I'd be |
| |  artistic | ] |
Love meme coming soonish. I've been busy playing Persona 3 (WTF. It's a cross between an RPG, an anime, and a dating sim.) Also, had sleepfighter and essandem over to watch some Supernatural yesterday--ended up playing some Persona first, though. And then we all went downtown to meet ladymako71 and bonobochick. It was quite the entertaining day. Time with friends = aces. ♥
And I've decided on the theme for a new fanmix. Songs for Lucifer. So far I've got "Falling from Grace" by Stevie Nicks, "You're Nothing Without Me" from the City of Angels cast recording, and (possibly) "Escape Artist" by Sage Francis, although I'm not sure, since I just used that one for Artemis Fowl. |
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