Migrants to IJ, 2007

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A friend-of-some-friends-who-is-kind-of-a-friend who I've got listed as a friend on my Facebook is apparently fighting with his girlfriend at the moment, and posted a big rant on his wall. I'm pretty much just waiting for his girlfriend to post a dramatic reply.

He says in the rant that he "doesn't want to talk about it"; but come on, dude: you posted it on Facebook. Either you do actually want to talk about it, or you just wanted to publicly embarrass your girlfriend. It's basically the internet equivalent of getting in a fight at someone else's dinner party: all it does is make the situation between you and your SO worse, while at the same time making all your friends feel really uncomfortable. Well, unless they like a good trainwreck.



. . . *gets popcorn.*

Please to amuse me (and yourselves as well).

Direct quote from original thread lo these many years gone.

(The conceptual/existential flame war now begins. ;)

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Rambling, not-well thought-out, however well-meaning opinion about random minority culture, country and their religion. Includes at least one misspelled word and a wrong historical idea presented as fact.

NEXT!

Lovely afternoon/evening with goddessgoddess, T., and S. (who turned out to be a cute longhaired fellow in a fetching paisley skirt). We went to Clay Pit for lunch (dodging all the burnt orange turnout on our way downtown); it turned out they have a lunch buffet on Saturdays as well as during the week. That turned out pretty well, they had saag paneer, lamb korma, and vegetable pakora. Stuffed!

After that goddessgoddess made her desire for warbat known, so we went to Sarah's. They're always fun to browse; T. got some rose syrup, goddessgoddess got eight warbat, and I caved and got a packet of honeydew shisha and a little vanilla sugar (which was really cheap!). The lady behind the counter was once more super friendly and chatty, joking about how I got goddessgoddess addicted to warbat and how I should eat more. If I hadn't been so massively stuffed I might have snagged a falafel or two, they're so good there!

Went back to T.'s for lazy-afternooning. There was checking of emails, Facebook, and the like, and it was learned that I cannot use a nipple mouse. There was sharing of warbat. There was cozy napping and the watching of TV, some current shows I didn't recognize, and the first three episodes of Coupling; I had forgotten how deeply I love that show. And how awesome Susan was in the beginning before she got all domesticated.

Eventually dinnertime rolled around. Dinner was chosen with remarkable ease, and we went to a Thai place. I had a Thai iced coffee, which I haven't had in years. S. had one too.Tasty, tasty drinks, those. My entree was a pork and noodle dish, peppery without being actually spicy, that I ate maybe a third of. Yay leftovers! There was also a dessert of some sort that I tried a bite of. Very sweet and sticky. After, Planet K was investigated, and another pipe shop, with discussion of further explorations, but I realized that I was dead on my feet and regretfully said my goodnights.

So now I am doing my night-time catching up, getting loved on by Molly, and discussing the awesomeness that is Discworld with waywardoctagon before collapsing into sleep. With a very full belly.

Monday November 16, 2009 "All this would have been enough to recognize the craft as a pirate-—but it displayed the universal device of pirates as well, that parody of the Yin-Yang: all Yang, declaring allegiance to imbalance. In a yellow circle, two round black dots stared like unblinking demonic eyes; beneath, a black semicircle leered with empty, ravenous bonhomie."
"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum" Benjamin Rosenbaum, _The Ant King and Other Stories_ Published: 2008 http://www.feedbooks.com

***To Pillsbury House for their Harvest Festival. (Basically, an early Thanksgiving dinner.)

In the lobby was a Health Fair; a conventional medicine/alternate healing hybrid. I learned that I was at high risk for heart problems unless I lost about 20 pounds.

Ate the dinner. Pillsbury House staff and volunteers gave better service than many restaurant workers provide.

After which I got a back and shoulders massage.

There was also an arts fair in the lobby, with live music.

• 15:37 is anxious about the concert, but is confident in her singing abilities. ^_^ Hope to see all my local IRL friends at the concert.
• 15:41 My inspiration: "Dad, keep tryin' tryin'/Mom, keep tryin' tryin'/Older brother, Mr. Conductor, Ms. Bride/Keep tryin' tryin'" #utadahikaru
• 17:03 is leaving for the choir concert in 1/2 hour. Wish me luck. First onstage solo in 14 years! O_O Wish you all were here! Seriously!!

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geri_chan asked how I got into Snupin and ended up as a mod for lupin_snape.

I think I've sort of told this story in bits and pieces in different places over the years, but to have it all in one place....

Once upon a time, I was a fandom lurker. I'd drifted into HP from XF and after a couple years of lurking, some LJ friends were pimping a new RPG on their journals...over and over again. I started to wonder if I shouldn't give an RPG a try. I wanted to write again and I'd been reading an RPG avidly, so why not try it myself? From my reading experience at my fave RPG and checking out a few others, I was sure putting in an application so late in the casting period would net me a super-minor, low-maintenance character like Hannah Abbott or Stephen Cornfoot (remember him?); a student character not close to the main action. I said I'd take anyone. I received back: Snape.

Severus Snape? Are you kidding me? I don't care about the adult characters?! Arrgh!

But I said I'd take anyone, so I went on a research bender for Severus Snape. O....k. You know, when you bother to look beyond the surface, there's something up with Snape. He's not just the year-long red-herring; he's Albus' right-hand, he's powerful, he sees through Harry and when Voldemort comes back, Albus sent him off to re-join the Death Eaters (this RPG started in the weeks before OotP was released). I came to respect Severus Snape while looking at the facts. I fell in love with him when I started reading the fan fic.

RPGs are all about the shipping, did you know that? (*snicker*) I started to wonder with whom I could possibly ship Snape (even in a longing, unrequited way in the RPG). I ruled out the kids right away (I didn't even know what "cross-gen" was back then, but I don't like unequal relationships), and I realised there were no developed women in HP that were Severus' age either. I'd just had the slash light turned on by Aragorn/Boromir -- surely I could slash Snape! There were at least a few candidates around his age. With those limitations in mind, I hit the Snape FQF archive.

I read several pairings for Snape, but the character that I kept going back to was Remus. I read some great stories in many pairings, don't get me wrong. But much of the Sirius fic was hatesex or I didn't recognize Snape or Sirius in them, and Harry fics bothered me as much as I thought they would. Albus usually involved power games, the Weasleys weren't really in play back then, Kingsley wasn't on the horizon, James was dead, Lucius was a married bad guy and I wanted my Snape to secretly be good, etc.

Severus had real history with Remus. They were the same age, had held the same job, had gone to school together, had darkness tinging their souls. Snape had followed Remus' gang around school, Remus had almost killed him and Snape still made him Wolfsbane. Severus and Harry have history, but it's convoluted and uneven at best. Same with Albus. And Sirius, not so much. In fact, I've always found it hard to believe that Snape/Lupin wasn't a popular ship right off the bat. Maybe it seemed too easy to some people, I don't know.

ANYWAY, the more I explored Snape/Lupin, the more in love with the idea I fell, until Snape/Lupin was all I wanted to read. The problem I had was that there wasn't a whole lot of Snupin out there. After I went through the FQF, I found lupin_snape, which, at the time, did not have much activity, and I scoured the journals and archives from there. Once I'd exhausted all the resources I could think of, I knew there was only one thing to do:

Go on an Epic Campaign to encourage more Snape/Lupin.

To Be Continued in the next post. I started this late for a reason....

love, lore

ok watching an episode of Ivanhoe with Roger Moore. 1958 ish.

Has he EVER played a straight man? LOL

THIS HERE IS A SPECIAL MEME. Ripped from longsufferingly. YOU SHOULD DO IT it's deeply enjoyable in a wtf sort of way.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

Genjo Sanzo
Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Kanda Yuu
Takatori Mamoru
Schuldig
Vegeta
Revy
Gwendal von Walde
Peter Bishop
Charles Gunn

( With a cast like that, what could possibly go wrong! )

Title: Too Good to Hide
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Word Count: 100
Genre: Humor
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
A/N: Written for centaury_squill, who correctly guessed which fic I wrote for the snarry_ldws. Her request was Snarry, prompt: Kilt.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Too Good to Hide )

Finished the pathfinder, both paper and web versions, and submitted 4 hours before deadline. *does happy dance* Only one more major assignment, plus a final exam, for the two LIS classes, if I remember correctly. Will double-check tomorrow. Possibly a minor thing or two as well, not sure.

Also today took SO out to lunch, went to four stores for grocery and other shopping, and made a white-bean-and-greens dish that turned out pretty well (which is good since there's like 3 or 4 more meals' worth!). Watched part of ST:XI during dinner, SO's choice.

Tomorrow: walk Juno (hopefully) and/or do some yard work, work on resume and job apps, cook for the first half of the week, talk to maternal unit, and do some reading for classes.

Other things to do over the next week: start writing holiday letter/cards, make a lot of cranberry bread, possibly bake regular bread, write/edit some fic, work on last big LIS assignment, go to the art museum, cook a lot, clean the house, and do the last course preps for the term. I was really really clever and managed to schedule things so that I don't have any grading of substance to do over Thanksgiving, go me!

So, I've been working on Directions today.... it's so good to feel the fic flowing again. :)

I am going to try to finish it this weekend and send it for beta, although I may need next weekend to get it done. I should probably wait until after the Thanksgiving weekend to post it, shouldn't I?

In other news, I have bunnies for a Xena/Gabrielle fic, a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer fic, and a Michael/Ben fic, and NO ONE but me really wants to read any of those things. It makes me sad, yo.

Although I also have a Drew/Emmett bunny and I know at least Travis likes to read those!

My collector's edition of Dragon Age hasn't arrived yet. :| This makes me sad. Four legged ostriches are fine for the meantime.

Bri's questions from that survey!

1) What state were you born in?
Northern Territory!

2) How did you find your love for Batman/Joker?
Comics! X3

3) What made you decide to add me?
Because you're a permanent/active user here on IJ, and you looked awesome.

4) Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Still living under Kef's couch, and maybe finally have gotten a correspondence thing for Photoshop.

5) If you could go anywhere for a week, where would you go?
Italy.

EDIT:

Finished my layout! :D No problems.

Now back to fixing my new layout. Hopefully I've finally fixed the fucking stupid thing, I'm getting sick of re-opening Photoshop and tweaking a graphic to make it seamless :|

Sigh. My cake didn't rise, and worse, it tastes like failure.

*crosses that recipe off the list*

On the upside, there was reviewing of yuletide source. Now I just have to figure out what I'm writing.

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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/98189.html. people have commented there.

and what we did: we did do the grocery list, which turned out to be a fairly short i.e. inexpensive list--less than $40!

This afternoon we all played a beautiful new board game Cat'r had bought called Tobago. As Cat'r was reading the rules, and at the beginning of the game, I was thinking, "This sounds soooo complicated--argh!". But as the game went on, it started making sense and being fun! In fact, I managed to win!

We followed that up with a couple rousing games of Cosmic Wimpout, the first one being probably the shortest game we have ever played! Cat'r rolled a Freight Train (5 fives--instant 500 points!) plus 30 points beyond that. And we were suddenly at Last Licks (last round of turns)! Of course he won! So we played a second time, and I won that one. :-)

We never went to Cat'r's--B. and he will be working on stuff over there tomorrow. And I never got any knitting or crocheting done today. I'll do some of that tomorrow while the guys are gone.

I did manage to give all three of my ukuleles some love and attention while the guys were at the grocery this evening. :-)

Black Friday Deals: The Only List You Need?

Happy Birthday today to

mom2enk!

and



phoenixsong71!

Many happy returns! ♥

Phoenix's Universal Laws of Computing:

1) Your computer is stupid, but completely obedient. It will do exactly what you tell it to do, whether or not that's what you actually want or, indeed, what you thought you were doing.

2) Your computer is out to get you. It hates your guts and wants you dead. You cannot let down your guard even for a moment. Save early, save often, and back up everything regularly.

3) Your computer can tell if you're afraid. It will do everything in its power to keep you that way. You have to show it who's boss, and that had better be you.

Title: Malfoy Mistletoe
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Hermione Granger, Severus Snape/Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Summary: A Malfoy always has a plan.
Word Count: 520
Genre: Humor, romance
Warnings: Potential threesome.
A/N: Written for for, who correctly guessed which snarry_ldws story was mine. Her request was for Lumione, prompt: Mistletoe.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Malfoy Mistletoe )