Jul. 8th, 2008 @ 06:43 pm whew!
Current Mood: busy
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So after an hour this morning tagging the last entries, finishing the master list, and posting, the first round of 0TP is finally done. Yay! I'm sort of stupidly grateful to only have one active challenge (well, sort of only one; HC is taking claims right now, but that's not much work) again. ^^; (...yes, I know there are a lot of feedback comments on the master list that I need to get to, but they might wait until tomorrow, while I get caught up on everything else tonight.)

Also, Seattle gave me my birthday present one day early! Today we had the construction guys come in at the office to start installing the air conditioning we've been promised. so yay for that, and omg, yay for one of the guys, who would fit right in as one of Horsepower!Noah's crew. Handsome, solid, and really adorably sweet, too. ♥ kept me pleasantly distracted all day, I tell you.

...Which was, despite amazingly coincidental timing, not what prompted me to start work on a new BCAU story this morning. Didn't think I had any of those left! Especially not in Fran's POV. And yet there it was. :3

Anyway. Plan for this evening: type up the rest of tomorrow's KF thing, and start typing up notes/uploading files for the music post I want to make tomorrow (because I want to give stuff to people who aren't into the tentacle rape, too), eat some dinner, try to convince myself to quit constantly working on organizing one thing or another. >->;
Plan for tomorrow: NOT GO TO WORK in celebration of my birthday! And post a bunch of stuff, and sit at home playing video games & drinking tea. At some point, make cupcakes with nectarines in them. At some later point, have dinner and split the bottle of Lindemann's framboise that my parents gave us for celebration purposes. yus!
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Jul. 8th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm Decisions, decisions.
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I'm thinking about splitting my current del.icio.us account -- due to technical issues with some of my tags, which the customer care service couldn't resolve yet... and the fact that I think 5,000 bookmarks in total is a bit much. But I'm unsure of which category I should focus on. (They're all pretty large, so taking one of them off the main account would indeed help some.)
( Poll under the cut. )

Also, I hope I can get back to some of your comments this week. It's just that my inbox scares me and instead of doing something productive I end up looking for distraction on the 'net. (Sorry.)

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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 09:53 pm fic pointer: "Cold and Dark," Baccano!
Current Mood: romantic?
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one last 0tp thing before the round shuts down!
I wrote the Ladd/Chane prompt in the first week, and so it only seemed fair to do this one, also. ^^;
...considerably less porny, though.

Cold and Dark, Claire, Lua, ~700 words, worksafe. post-Pussyfoot, so. full of woe.
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 09:54 pm Art Pointer: kinkfest
First kinkfest piece, and...only a day late! orz

Title: Bonding
Artist: [info]mahokiwi
Characters: Graham, Ladd, Jacuzzi
Rating: G
Prompt: Ladd/Graham/Jacuzzi - icecream - Graham really liked his two unofficial brothers, so they should like each other too, right?
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 03:33 pm Tweet Tweet!

  • 03:55 I'VE FOUND MY CHECKBOOK!! #

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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 09:26 am External Motivation
Current Mood: determined

Lots of things I want/need to get done today and I have already wasted like an hour and a half, just sitting here. Lists, lists!

Basic
[x]MAKE BREAKFAST AND EET
[x]shower
[x]MAKE LUNCH AND EET

Leave-house
[x]coverletter
[x]second cover-letter
[x]take resume down to places in both Ballard and Wallingford

Responsible
[x]find images of bruises/trauma for make up class
[x]locate one (1) "story" in/about the Pacific Northwest
[x]dishes
[ ]laundry?

And finally
[x]finish coloring yesterday's KF
[ ]...do I have a KF for today? Something makes me think yes
[ ]also you have that 0tp piece you've been sitting on for two months

I lied, not finally. Also not responsible at all
[x]keep tagging fight thread
[x]think about what you want to do for Ladd's intro, now that castmates are back(?) from AX

ME. TODAY. I WILL DO.

Edit:
Wrong Numbers are always weird, but man, this lady:
me: ..hello?
her: oh! Hi! It's [name], how are you doing?
me: [wracking brain] uh, good.
her: Great! Listen, is jim there? Oh, you know, I'll call him on his cell, I'm always calling him at home, pestering, it's [her name again] from [company]
me: okay, good! Actually, you know, you have the wrong number, so--
her: Oh! Okay then, thank you!
me:...sure?
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 02:40 am ARGH.
location: in bed
Current Mood: exhausted
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I want to sleep. I need to sleep. I know I am tired because I have been all day. But I am having one of those nights where my mind just WIll Not Settle; it keeps buzzing and running in circles and going so fast I'm surprised there isn't smoke coming out my ears. *sigh*

It was a really great weekend, really fun and really busy, probably why I'm so tired, honestly. [info]theladyfeylene came to visit us this weekend, and it was absolutely lovely seeing her. On Thursday we took her out to dinner, and on Friday [info]zinjadu hosted an awesome 4th of July barbecue (held indoors because the weather was iffy and we didn't want to get rained on). It did not rain that day after all, bt it turns out we have quite a good view of the Gasworks fireworks diplay from our building, so it's all good. Then Saturday, we went down to Pike's and Uwaji's, where I was sorely tempted by a very nice hat but wound up spending my money on Japanese snack food and volumes 1 through 5 of Moyashimon instead, and we discovered a truly awesome Japanese restaurant thanks to the recommendation of ladies at Kinokuniya. And then today we stayed inside and watched a lot of Doctor Who: first, the resolution of Season Four (which I quite liked); then, we showed [info]sigelphoenix everything from 'Army of Ghosts' up through 'The Shakespeare Code'. It was really nice, watching those episodes again.

As I said, it was a great weekend, and as a result I am just totally knackered. So why can't I sleep? ;_;
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Jul. 6th, 2008 @ 08:59 pm SPAM, also HC PSA
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: he's a wicked disgrace and he said it to your face...

So [info]het_challenge has opened for claiming now, and predictably I am not sure what themes I want to grab. So help me out here. ^^

( clever poll )
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Jul. 6th, 2008 @ 06:34 pm fic pointer: "Around the World," Baccano! AU
Current Mood: for awesome!
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I regret nothing. ^___^

Around the World, Ladd/Dune, not worksafe, ~2100 words + drabble omake. Retarded frat boy AU! So, uh, warning for clumsy drunken boysex! :D
...also you totally don't need to know the canon for this. er. for obvious reasons.
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Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 04:11 pm neeeeeeeee~
Current Mood: yay!

It's a good day to be me!

[info]mitsuhachi posted a birthday present for me early -- OC art for some characters that I'm working up for another potential novel, and they look gorgeous and so very much like I imagined them and eeeeee yes. ♥

And then [info]badpenny wrote me fic as thanks for running 0TP, and it's smoking hot: Appropriate Displays of Gratitude, Kimberly/Archer gangster AU fic (sequel to the also-hot but less explicit Good Things Come) and there is breathplay and guns and Kimberly being savage and hot and compelling, and Archer being fearless in the face of danger and also pinned to a wall.

mmm, good day. ^_^
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Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 06:07 pm That "Fandom and Male Privilege" post...
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... by cereta still gets linked and quoted and bookmarked on del.icio.us (which made it turn up in my subscriptions, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of it again).

What gets me is that it was written three years ago. In 2005. Like, it's old.

And I feel like it was yesterday: that post, the Women In Comics / Link Roundup blogs started by Ragnell and kalinara (e.g. [info]fangirls_attack), the outcry over the Mary Jane maquette and the Heroes For Hire cover, how Project Girl-Wonder got off the ground ...

This was years ago. (Admittedly, the MJ debacle happened in 2007, but...)

It's not just the realization how time flies. It's also that feeling of detachment, when I realized I'm not "in comics fandom" anymore. As if it was a country you used to live in. It's... weird. I spent so much energy reading and writing about comic-related things, be it meta or fic or general discussion. And then it just... fades.

(Yes, this post is a drive-by thought-dump. I feel old. Besides, I feel a yearning for something I can't name, but that's nothing new.)
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 02:27 am It's even longer in dog years!
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: "Mulians" - Ichiko Hashimoto
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Happy 4th of July, U.S. of A! It's your birthday, and birthdays are a time for making wishes; I don't know what you're wishing for tonight, but I hope it's something good.

As for me, my wish is that someday, hopefully someday soon, I can be proud of you. Don't get me wrong, baby; I'll always love you, whether I want to or not. I guess I can't help it. But goddamn if you haven't been embarassing me an awful lot lately.
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I really should be getting to bed; it'll be a busy day, after all. First, though, I want to share some icons, cos I got seriously bit by the nostalgia bug and want to share the results of my efforts.

18 icons, all from the first episode of Slayers Revolution (most of them from the opening)



( You can find them back here! )

#2 and #3 are totally dedicated to [info]niwatorimegami. ♥

Feel free to take any that you like; I just ask that you credit me.

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Today's mileage: 4.52
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 09:39 pm fic pointer: "Shed That Old Skin," Baccano!
Current Mood: exanimate
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I really, really love having a fandom where getting extra canon makes me want to write for it instead of against it. So much. I do.
Which is to say: this is the Dallas/Eve story that takes place after episode 16.

Shed That Old Skin, Dallas/Eve, ~3500 words, not worksafe. Warning for the pairing. Dallas gets a happy ending whether or not he deserves it.

note to rest of kinkfest prompts: pls to NOT FOLLOW DALLAS'S EXAMPLE, thx. omg, the boy cannot shut up.
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 07:13 am Het Challenge PSA
Current Mood: thunderstorms!

Guys -- prompt suggesting continues through Saturday, July 5, on [info]het_challenge.

Stop by this post and see what other people have asked for, and suggest a few things relevant to my interests. ^_^
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 10:08 pm omg
Current Mood: excited
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Today's mileage: 6.18 miles. And I didn't even workt hat many hours! But I did still do quite a bit of walking, I guess. O_o

The 1st ep of Slayers Revolution (raw) is now 44% downloaded. My inner 13-year-old is bouncing up and down and squeeing with anticipation.

Edit: FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 07:55 pm !!
omg, you guys, suddenly it's only a week until my birthday. >->;;

...I'm afraid all I'm getting you this year is tentacle porn. i hope that's okay. *cough*

Where does the goddamn time go?

PS Dallas would you just shut up and fuck your sister already -- I swear this is not so much to ask~
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 05:34 am fic pointer: "Right in the Face," Persona 3
Current Mood: groggy
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...Junpei's voice is awesome, for serious. Also I am so weak to this kink.

Right in the Face, Junpei->Akihiko, ~650 words, not worksafe. For the prompt Gunkink - I mean, dude, right in the face? I think you like that gun waaaay too much.

:3
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 09:07 pm ficlet: "Sickness and Symptom," Baccano!/FMA
Current Mood: oh yes
Current Music: slow down, ghandi, you're killin' 'em
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Kimberly always knows what to say when I'm feeling down.
...whut. >->;;

This is not a direct sequel to No Luck at All -- it's a few years further down the line. But Kimberly and Ladd are just kind of too good together. I can't put that down. they're like Croup and Vandemar, in a way. except that they're going to fight a lot about who has to be the stupid one.
Also [info]karanguni gave me the song and it ate my head.

Ladd/Kimberly, ~500 words, aftermath of a job. violence and some sexual content. (seriously, what else would the aftermath *be*?)

( Sickness and Symptom )
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 03:17 am Erstmal nur der Link, weil mir die Worte fehlen.
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http://www.taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/mutter-oder-vater/

Der erste Teil ist okay, aber der zweite Artikel... holla die Waldfee.

Irgendwann kann ich das auch mal genauer zerfleddern, aber momentan bin ich noch zu angepisst / ungläubig. Ich meine... allein schon der Vergleich mit dem Delphin ist so dermaßen unter der Gürtellinie... (fragt nicht, lest es einfach)

Und das von der taz. Ansich ja sehr liberal. Aber zwischendrin dann sowas. (Tanja Krienen, die *hust* sehr genaue Richtlinien vertritt wer sich überhaupt korrekt transsexuell nennen darf, durfte ja auch schon mal einen Artikel beisteuern, wurde aber wenigstens in den Kommentaren ordentlich abgewatscht.)

Ich red hier schon wieder viel zu lange.
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 05:40 pm Man, no wonder my shoulders hurt.
Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "Virtual Star Embryology [バーチャルスӟ
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Here, have some numbers!

142 - number of pounds I weigh with my clothes and shoes on, according to the scale in the lobby of the Washington Mutual near here.

176 - number of pounds I weigh when I'm also wearing my work backpack and holding my work laptop and carrying my purse.

6.1 - number of miles my pedometer informs me I walked today, at least half of which was walked wihle carrying aforementioned backpack, laptop and purse

1,500 - approximate number of wildfires currently burning in my home state, caused by a varying combination of drought, lightning, and human idiocy

2 - number of people who asked me this morning if my family was all right, before which point I hadn't even realized my home state was on fire (they're fine, by the way.)

6 - ways from Sunday in which my state is screwed. :-/

Also, it seems Pandora.com is trying to develop a sense of humor: I was in the middle of Gchatting with [info]lunapome about the wildfires when I realized that the last three songs that had been played were Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood", Sting's "After the Rain Has Fallen", and Genesis' "Land of Confusion" (but I can see the fires still alight / burning into the night). And then 2 songs later, "Electrical Storm" by U2. Classy, Pandora. Classy.

Okay, so that's math ut of the way -- on to literature!

"The Big Read (http://www.neabigread.org) reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ

I've also italicized those books which I started or have read parts of but have yet to finish. I do that with depressing regularity.

Also, it seems a bit unfair to me that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is listed separately from the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia, but His Dark Materials and Harry Potter get only a mention each. Ah well.

( My list )

In all, that's 20 out of 100 that I've read in their entirety, and if you count all 7 Harry Potter books and all 3 His Dark Materials installments, that bumps the total up to 28. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself (even if 9 of those 20 books I read for a class. Ssshhh!)

Edit: Currently iTunes is palying: "Blaze (Take 2)" from Escaflowne.

*facepalm* It's spreading.
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