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fandom progressions
Sep. 14th, 2012 02:02 amTortall, Ragwitch -> Young Wizards, Kiesha'ra series -> Outlander series, Private Series, Shopaholic -> apathy -> Temeraire, Collegia Magica, Kushiel's Legacy -> ??
I still revisit some of them once in a blue moon. MLP:FiM, IPS, and others don't count, because I never wrote fic or went looking for fic, just enjoyed them (and that can be said of literally hundreds of books).
So!
Yours?
I still revisit some of them once in a blue moon. MLP:FiM, IPS, and others don't count, because I never wrote fic or went looking for fic, just enjoyed them (and that can be said of literally hundreds of books).
So!
Yours?
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Aug. 10th, 2012 02:38 pmI am seriously considering doing a piece of calligraphy of this quote, and sticking it on my door or wall:
Ideally I'd like to do this not as a flat, one-font one-size thing, but with words emphasized. (A fancy example would be something like this.) Does anyone know of a good Shakespearean actor you liked who read this? I'd love to hear takes on it.
Wast he hope drunk
Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely?
***
We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place
And we'll not fail.
--I, vii, Macbeth
Ideally I'd like to do this not as a flat, one-font one-size thing, but with words emphasized. (A fancy example would be something like this.) Does anyone know of a good Shakespearean actor you liked who read this? I'd love to hear takes on it.
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Jun. 27th, 2012 04:02 pmDear Skype:
I would like to be able to close your application without jumping through hoops. I'm sure you think that I need you open all the time, but this is my computer. I wish you'd cut it out.
Thanks,
silver
I would like to be able to close your application without jumping through hoops. I'm sure you think that I need you open all the time, but this is my computer. I wish you'd cut it out.
Thanks,
silver
(no subject)
Apr. 1st, 2012 01:05 am*Budgeting for federal government is announced. $5.2 billion slash, everyone runs around yelling. (Age of retirement has been raised, which is a big one, I think). http://www.canada.com/news/2012-budget/index.html I cannot vouch for its objectivity without having actually seen the budget in question, but it seems levelheaded enough.
*Mr Flaherty, finance minister, decides to get rid of the penny. Cue articles and editorial swimming in penny jokes. ("Well, Flaherty has done what no other finance minister has done - he has left Canada penniless" [groan] and more in that vein. Most of them make little cents).
*I found this. Worksafe, but you may want to read...gingerly...if you ignore the digs at swimming and run with him, it makes sense. A little.
*I feel rather dreadful about keeping up. Studying for final exams has ramped up (I feel like a hound that is indolent for approximately 8 months and then transforms at the smell of blood) and I'm applying for jobs and positions left and right. (APPLICATIONS). And I am forgetting things or putting them off and then forgetting them. Mostly just forgetting. If I owed you something, I'm sorry! :(
*I was careless while trying to do a choctaw (2 foot steps to change forward/backwards on ice) and fell. I ended up half-sitting and thumped onto my back, which makes me wonder where I acquired the bruises on my knees. ??
*Now that the unseasonal weather is gone, I miss it. I hope the flowers don't freeze.
*Mr Flaherty, finance minister, decides to get rid of the penny. Cue articles and editorial swimming in penny jokes. ("Well, Flaherty has done what no other finance minister has done - he has left Canada penniless" [groan] and more in that vein. Most of them make little cents).
*I found this. Worksafe, but you may want to read...gingerly...if you ignore the digs at swimming and run with him, it makes sense. A little.
*I feel rather dreadful about keeping up. Studying for final exams has ramped up (I feel like a hound that is indolent for approximately 8 months and then transforms at the smell of blood) and I'm applying for jobs and positions left and right. (APPLICATIONS). And I am forgetting things or putting them off and then forgetting them. Mostly just forgetting. If I owed you something, I'm sorry! :(
*I was careless while trying to do a choctaw (2 foot steps to change forward/backwards on ice) and fell. I ended up half-sitting and thumped onto my back, which makes me wonder where I acquired the bruises on my knees. ??
*Now that the unseasonal weather is gone, I miss it. I hope the flowers don't freeze.
Advice: never wire money unless you have to. 1
Interesting detail: gummy bear torture occurred in the hallway outside my room (!!!). Someone brutally tacked an orange gummy to the wall, and idk how it even stays (the pin shouldn't be long enough).
Other interesting detail: while I was in the bank, it was really foggy. The bank has enormous west-facing windows, so you could see one building on the next street which appeared to be slowly disintegrating into the sky. It's a standard high-rise, but the white exterior alternates with black windows, so it looked like a zebra-striped thing vanishing into air....it was incredibly bizarre. I thought at first that dark smoke was flagrantly disobeying physics and rising to the heavens in a zig-zag path. I wish I had a picture.
Being a student: is boring. Thought process during class: hm, okay, that makes sense, wait, what? no, what are doing? what? oh. ohhhh. I see. ok. hm. And so it goes. This is why I don't update much.Plus, I'm playing Runescape.
( Dear Liberal government: )
Today while in the drugstore I complimented a lady on her hat. She smiled and said: "Yes! It keeps me warm." The hat in question was the size of a car-tire and extremely white and furry. It was a bold fashion statement, to say the least. (She did look warm. Maybe I should invest in one too.)
Last thing: LiveJournal, too, has an announcement regarding SOPA and PIPA, although less in-your-face than Dreamwidth. I'm glad that both LJ and DW decided not to shut down as Wikipedia did; for a protest that specifically targets censorship, I think louder voices - especially on sites specifically designed for sharing one's life - is better. Wikiepdia's shut down is ramatic - yes. But I prefer having my voice.
1 So due to an unfortunate confluence of moving and credit ratings, I, the sole member of family in Canada, was tasked with wiring money. This was a three-trip affair, and the last trip took over an hour. (Admittedly, mostly it was because I kept getting wrong info, but I digress). In doing the wiring, I talked to all of the tellers of my neighbourhood branch, had the manager called over multiple times (?), and listened to a lot of pop music. On the upside, I now know this branch really well! Good Lord.
2 http://cfsontario.ca/downloads/CFS-Tuition%20Grant%20Briefing%20Note.pdf Retrieved January 18, 2012
Interesting detail: gummy bear torture occurred in the hallway outside my room (!!!). Someone brutally tacked an orange gummy to the wall, and idk how it even stays (the pin shouldn't be long enough).
Other interesting detail: while I was in the bank, it was really foggy. The bank has enormous west-facing windows, so you could see one building on the next street which appeared to be slowly disintegrating into the sky. It's a standard high-rise, but the white exterior alternates with black windows, so it looked like a zebra-striped thing vanishing into air....it was incredibly bizarre. I thought at first that dark smoke was flagrantly disobeying physics and rising to the heavens in a zig-zag path. I wish I had a picture.
Being a student: is boring. Thought process during class: hm, okay, that makes sense, wait, what? no, what are doing? what? oh. ohhhh. I see. ok. hm. And so it goes. This is why I don't update much.
( Dear Liberal government: )
Today while in the drugstore I complimented a lady on her hat. She smiled and said: "Yes! It keeps me warm." The hat in question was the size of a car-tire and extremely white and furry. It was a bold fashion statement, to say the least. (She did look warm. Maybe I should invest in one too.)
Last thing: LiveJournal, too, has an announcement regarding SOPA and PIPA, although less in-your-face than Dreamwidth. I'm glad that both LJ and DW decided not to shut down as Wikipedia did; for a protest that specifically targets censorship, I think louder voices - especially on sites specifically designed for sharing one's life - is better. Wikiepdia's shut down is ramatic - yes. But I prefer having my voice.
1 So due to an unfortunate confluence of moving and credit ratings, I, the sole member of family in Canada, was tasked with wiring money. This was a three-trip affair, and the last trip took over an hour. (Admittedly, mostly it was because I kept getting wrong info, but I digress). In doing the wiring, I talked to all of the tellers of my neighbourhood branch, had the manager called over multiple times (?), and listened to a lot of pop music. On the upside, I now know this branch really well! Good Lord.
2 http://cfsontario.ca/downloads/CFS-Tuition%20Grant%20Briefing%20Note.pdf Retrieved January 18, 2012
update from the rain-drenched world
May. 27th, 2011 02:28 pmI said I'd earworm you all a few days ago but unfortunately that huge post is being slightly deferred, because, um, too many videos and descriptions and so on.
It's remarkably difficult to stop thinking about all the poor worm corpses after you see one. :( It's been raining and raining and raining, and while I am mostly apathetic towards worms - won't pick them up, but won't squash them, etc - it is rather gruesome to see them scattered everywhere.
Proof that internet is infiltrating everything else: ( Gigantic picture I took outside the building: )
It's remarkably difficult to stop thinking about all the poor worm corpses after you see one. :( It's been raining and raining and raining, and while I am mostly apathetic towards worms - won't pick them up, but won't squash them, etc - it is rather gruesome to see them scattered everywhere.
Proof that internet is infiltrating everything else: ( Gigantic picture I took outside the building: )
