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November 25th, 2009

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Well, I finally got around to rearranging some stuff so I could actually put the nightstand/endtable that was brought back from my grandmother's where I wanted it. I was tired of waiting for Mom to get her stuff out of my room so I could have space to move things around more easily and went 'The hell with it', and somehow managed with the bit of floorspace I have.

So yay for having access to my desk, lamp, and window again.

November 22nd, 2009

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I mowed the front half of the backyard earlier. I would have done more but between the the facts that at that point, I needed a break that would have lasted just a bit too long for there to still be daylight by the time I got back out and the leaves and ground in the furthermost portion was still too damp/wet... Hopefully, if it doesn't rain tomorrow and I get up early enough, I'll be able to finish.

Meanwhile, so far as RuneScape goes, I've been picking what skills to work on mainly by what has the least amount of xp needed to level up. Well, aside from the times I'm required to use a different skill in order to work on the other skill. Little hard to smelt/smith whatever if I don't mine the ores I need y'know. ;-P Or in the case of a couple of skills that are designed to be moneypits, spend gp. Which I have to earn somehow. ::headdesks because she doesn't want to spend her hard-earned moneys that she needs to save up for better armor/weapons to fight higher leveled monsters, therefore making more money...::

November 17th, 2009

Passing ENDA - Call your reps! National Call-In Day for Equality

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http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180630476026&ref=nf

As we move closer to a House vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination, we need to burn up the phone lines to Congress, and let them know that ENDA is next, ENDA is NOW! We must let Congress know how important ENDA is to LGBT people and all those who care about equality. With your help we can end job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Tomorrow is the National Call-In Day for Equality. It’s the day when we flood Congress with our calls demanding equality in the workplace. Tomorrow, talk to Congress. Call them at (202) 224-3121. Give your zip code and ask to be connected to your Senators, and then your Representative. If you haven’t contacted your elected officials, NOW IS THE TIME. Let them know that you support ENDA and you want them to support it, too. If you already have, please do it again.

Prefer to email your representative and senators? Click here and urge them to pass ENDA.

Talk to your friends, family and neighbors and let them know. Start with the simple opening: "Did you know that Congress is considering workplace legislation? Did you know that only 40% of the country is covered are clear laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination?" Ask the people in your life how they feel about that. Then tell them they can help protect people from discrimination based on who they are--ask them to take action.

Share this event with your friends and family and ask them to join this event and pledge an email or phone call to Congress.

It just takes a minute to do your part to end discrimination in the work place.

November 16th, 2009

Round 10 Of MP3s.

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  1. Loreena McKennitt - The Foggy Dew
  2. Dick Van Dyke - Chim Chim Cheree
  3. Sailor Moon Stars - For The Princess
  4. Manowar - Heart Of Steel
  5. Fullmetal Alchemist - Heavenly Spirit
  6. Orchestra On The Half Shell - Cowabunga
  7. L'Arc~en~Ciel - Link
  8. The Arrogant Worms - A Man Has Needs
  9. Trespassers William - Different Stars
  10. The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman

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I finally have my Learner's Permit for driving. Yaaaaay. Thankfully, the process was nice and painless. Managed to be in and out of the MVA in a little under an hour.

I tried to fit a nightstand/endtable into a spot in my room and it's just that teeny bit too wide to fit. Poot. Shall have to figure out what to move and how by much.

Well, this was Dumb

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I am this close to asking my aunt if I can spend Thanksgiving Break camped out in her sunroom (or the garage) writing and drawing, and be excused from dinner prep and family socializing. Because, despite not doing NaNo, I am feeling overwrought with projects. I did finish my [info]scifibigbang fic (only two weeks after I was supposed to do the rough draft), and am working on my [info]slayers_request fic. The outline looks long, so I might have to go at NaNo rates to get it done in time to edit. Plus, I need to rewatch some anime for [info]yuletide, and I missed MAX entirely*, and gah!

It didn't help that I spent this weekend feeling sick to my stomach sporadically -- tea and quiet time away from the computer seemed to help. And I'm not entirely sure it isn't stress, since it's coming back as I write this. So now I get to spend today doing grading that I meant to do over the weekend -- if I didn't have group therapy, I'd be camping in Borders to avoid the Internets**. And tomorrow there's dinner with the DGS, which I am tempted to skip work before so I can bake and get my kitchen clean enough that I can call in someone to fix my garbage disposal and find out why the sink drains so slowly.

* As much as I love the Anniversary round, I might drop MAX until January just to give myself time to recuperate. And bow out of [info]mrcaex in December as well.

** A lot of the off-campus coffee shops around here have a 'fifteen minutes every hour for free' policy. Their firewalls don't block ssh or ftp programs, though, so I can still remotely work from them, just not use email or my web browser or chat programs.

November 15th, 2009

I Liiiiiiiiive.

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I'm back from Indiana. I did try to backtrack through my flist, but when I hit skip150, I said 'screw it' and gave up. I don't feel like trying to read/skim through however many posts.

So. Did I miss anything important? Aside from the tropical storm trying to drown the East Coast, I mean?

NaNo and Knitting

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Well I haven't updated in a while so here we go.

NaNo: Last Sunday and Monday (the 8th and 9th) I didn't write at all so the whole week has been a slog of trying not to fall any further behind. I had a good day today and finally, finally hit a spot where the words didn't require concentrating until I sweated blood to get the out. I'm still behind but I wrote 3k today and if I can manage that again tomorrow I will be caught up.

Knitting: I've got eight inches done on the vest for my Mom for Christmas. That's about 40% complete since Mom is shorter than I am.

Estes Vest - WIP 1

I'm a bit farther along that this now, but I haven't taken a new photo and probably won't until I'm ready to divide for the arm holes in about five inches. Older stuff under the cut. )

November 13th, 2009

Book Review: The Charmed Sphere by Catherine Asaro

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I haven't done one of these in a while... it's book review time!

So, in an effort to branch out, I've been trying to read new authors. )

WTF... my health

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Me: Ugh, my stomach. *emails boss saying she feels like crap and won't be in for group meeting today, then goes to rest*
Nausea: *clears up*
Me: ...

I'm starting to wonder if its some kind of fried food thing. Yesterday I had potato chips and made some fake fried rice -- basically it was rice with veggies and scrambled eggs. Yesterday night, I felt miserable -- hungry one minute and bloatedly full after I ate a normal snack. And today my digestive system is registering its displeasure with me.

(I still have to head out and drop off some anime at the club's business meeting -- we only had the first two discs of one of the shows we show, so that meant buying the rest.)

Two Memes, no Waiting

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Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?


I got Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Vision of Escaflowne from [info]corellianrogue.

Read more... )

Name a fandom and I'll tell you
- three pairings I love,
- two pairings I consider shipping,
- and one pairing I hate*


* In my case, this will be probably 'dislike' or 'would probably never read unless a good friend and awesome writer wrote or recced it to me'.

So, you can either name fandoms for me to answer questions about shipping, or have me give you fandoms to answer about your involvement.

November 12th, 2009

Stir Crazy

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I'm a bit stir crazy at work. Not that I don't have plenty of stuff to do, but it's the inability to focus. That and I have a lot to do this weekend:

1. Finish my MAX picture.
2. Make sure everything I need done by Dec. 1 is started. That includes my [info]mrcaex and [info]yuletart pictures -- even a sketch would be nice.
3. If my [info]scifibigbang story isn't done tonight (I have 3 scenes left -- a climax and two denouement scenes, and about 4k words to hit the minimum), then it better be done by Sunday. I need a short break before I edit this sucker to let it gel, and it was supposed to be done two weeks ago. I also need to make sure my artist doesn't hate me for this, since I haven't given much direction (which can be good or bad).
4. Make a start on various holiday things. I've finished 1 of 5 gifts that I'm making and have a good start on a second. I also signed up for four holiday exchanges (two Slayers and two general ones).
5. My kitchen and bathroom are starting to get scary. I need to fix this. And also buy food for the week and make some food for the potluck on Tuesday.

I also need to decide if I'm going to go to anime club, go to Ask an Astronomer Live (I'm not on the panel, but I can help field any observational astronomy questions), or stay in and play in the RP event the game I'm in is putting on. This is why I hate events on Saturday nights -- it seems like everything happens then. And all of these run from the same time window -- Ask an Astronomer is from 8 to 9:30, Anime Club is 7 to 10, and the RP event starts at 7.

I am this close to taking next Wednesday as my 'stay home and get crap done' day, since, as far as I know, I don't have any reason to be on campus except for work. Heck, I'm this close to going home and working on non-work stuff just in hopes that it calms my nerves.
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