awaywithpixies @ 4:28pm: It's never ending! and POTD
I'll never be more happier than in 2.6 weeks, when this semester is over. Seriously, been a tough one, only because the assessment is so VAGUE. I have submitted assessment 2, with no sign on the horizon of assessment 1 getting back to me. No idea if there is any cumulative fail going on, because ass 2 and 3 both rely on 1 being solid. Just one annotated bibliography left, then one more load of assignment that will get this crap off my hands!

ugh. So very over it. At least then I can have 13 weeks 'off' to do stuff... like housework, and read books I want to read, and catch up on 5 seasons of Lost before it starts up again, and well, work and photoshop the other 4000 photos from Paris and London, and well, fitting some writing in there too, lol - I can't leave certain characters hanging forever now, can I? If I do they keep me awake all night bitching about their lot in life.

Also too, need to brush up on all that Italian I have conveniently forgotten over the past 22 years, lol. I still have 10 months - oh shit no - only 9 months, 29 days, 18 hours, 41 minutes 30 seconds... (Man I love random iPhone apps)...

And on today's POTD...


And why am I posting this photograph that I took of the Royal Albert Hall? That's where Hellybean is going to see Snow Patrol in a couple of weeks. But she's not seeing Snow Patrol there next week at the Children in Need benefit concert.

Why are we all bummed about that? (please don't get Helen started on her future husband, Gary Lightbody, or whatever his name is...)

Because not only is it Snow Patrol, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, and Take That. It's Take That and some random bloke by the name of Mr ROBERT PETER WILLIAMS.

That's right. It's been confirmed that

ROBBIE WILLIAMS WILL BE PERFORMING WITH TAKE THAT FOR THE CHILDREN IN NEED SPECIAL!

*flailing x infinity*

I am glad at least that it is a one off, and for something like this. At least then people won't expect him to get back with the boys permanently. As much as I am OMGIAMSOFUCKINGTHRILLED about this, I do like them all being apart and doing their separate stuff. Even better when Marky Mark is doing his solo stuff too...

Right, that was the best news on my Sunday... What about you?

tryslora @ 11:37pm: [Icons] Logan Marshall-Green
Look, it's more Logan Marshall-Green! I swore i was done, but in doing the last two episodes of Dark Blue that I had to do, Mr. Muppet Face had some more lovely expressions that i just couldn't resist. So small set here, but I had to do it.

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chaperoned @ 11:38pm: And let us not forget we lost the king of pop on OBAMA'S watch.
( Who is Joseph Cao? )

shinyfish @ 11:30pm: To-Do List

☨ Application for neopolis // Daughter of a Witte Wieven and a vampire hunter
☨ ofblood - IC intro post, start Retake Grimmauld plot
☨ queenieg - Application, OOC intro post, IC intro post, ICONS
☨ asssp - Albanique thread?, THREAD OF SOME VARIETY
☨ Xan for PSL - ICONS
☨ Blair for PSL - ICONS
☨ Remus for PSL - JOURNAL + ICONS
☨ Harry for PSL - JOURNAL + ICONS
☨ Update Character Roster and Specific/Current PSL Listing

tryslora @ 11:29pm: [Icons] Nicki Aycox
Nicky Aycox from Dark Blue, FINALLY. I've been working on finishing out a decent set of her for ages, but I needed to get a few specific episodes done to get it complete. Standard Dark Blue disclaimers of course (there are some odd ones, from before I got the colorations better figured out, too). She was around 23-24 when these episodes were filmed.

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dogseesgod @ 11:01pm: steamtrek
i caved. so many of my fave people are apping this game. gotta do it.

( here lie two potentials )

tryslora @ 11:20pm: [Icons] Meta Golding
Meta Golding, from Dark Blue. Someday I will be a completist and go find photoshoots to do as well, but for now, this small set will have to do. She has no age listing on IMDB so I'll go with guessing 20s, MAYBE early 30s (but I doubt it).

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tryslora @ 11:09pm: [Icons] Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott was roughly 38 when these episodes were filmed. Again, please excuse some really interesting colour palettes!

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tryslora @ 11:00pm: I hate iconning Dark Blue, and yet, I continue to do it. Please excuse some really strange colouration, but I've done my best to fix where I can. Omari Hardwick doesn't have a lot of facial expressions, but everyone once in a while he hits paydirt. He was 25ish when these episodes were filmed.

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etudier @ 8:27pm: maría valverde.


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legendarcy @ 9:53pm:

7777 / 30000 words. 26% done!

helloworld @ 6:18pm: Whoo steamtrek
Lol I've been meaning to do a post-Powerswap post like... ALL WEEK. But whatever, this is totes more important.

( Chugga chugga choo choo! )

eclecticnpink @ 7:31pm: where you at?!
PEOPLE OF EARTH!
Srsly update your CDJs. Slackers.

Why you ask? Because I am a creeper. That's right, I like to stalk all you all and you all make it difficult when you don't keep them updated. How am I supposed to fulfill my duties if you aren't! Tsk. Srsly. Disgraceful. ;)

Really, I'm just avoiding writing an app and doing some tags-- so I'm checking on my peeps, but my peeps don't peep often enough. Really I just wanted to say peeps. On a side note, I like where I am at in the RP world for once. Horror of horrors, I know, but I am. First in a long time.

MINUS I AM NOT PLAYING WITH inotherwords AND lolo! NOT ON!

tryslora @ 6:26pm: [NaNo] day 7
Took yesterday off from NaNo because of traveling to go see TAI... with eternaleponine. So I had been spending some time trying to get ahead during the week (considering I took Wednesday off as well, that was a trick and a half!). I went straight from CT to a write-in at Brueggers without going home.

The write-in was a new experience for me. I was there for about 2 1/2 hours, and I was social for part of it. I ended up having to put my headphones in so I could actually crank out wordcount. Everyone was talking a lot, which was good and nice to talk to other people who were doing the same crazy thing, but I just had a lot of trouble focusing. And I really needed to make wordcount while I was there since once I came home I knew it wasn't happening.

Anyway, I ended up making over 2600 words today, which got me to just barely over target for the day. So yay!

11813 / 50000 words. 24% done!

My snippet for the day isn't a story quote at all, but the note I had to leave for myself when I mentally bailed on writing a fight:
[Insert battle here later when you can think. Cat jumps in, takes off one of the critters and shakes it up, ripping it apart. Jack shoots the other one. Shayne ends up injured with a long scratch down her shoulder]

sophthewiseone @ 1:50pm: Maybe spending all that time with middle schoolers has reverted me back to wanting nostalgic food things from my childhood, which consist of:

+Hamburger helper (I finally bought milk so I can make Stroganoff and Cheeseburger Macaroni. Booyah)
+White mystery Airheads (I have NO IDEA where I can find these)
+Caramel apple pops (Which I have a box of now and am going to go into a sugar coma this weekend if I keep eating them. Thanks Angeline!)
+Congee. Srsly. I need to get the recipe from my mom.
+Boxed mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs. I am SO MAKING THIS when I run out of proper gourmet things I should be eating.
+Tostino's frozen pizza. With the thin crust. In the red box. I seriously lived off of these as a kid and now I still can't get rid of my affinity for them.
+These non-existent Lifesaver drinks that no one remembers but me. They say they were released in the 80s but I totally remember them being around when i was 6 or 7, which was mid 90s. It was like sugar water but damn it was good. And I was obsessed with getting one.
+Bubblicious Peach Mango gum.

...I'm sure there's more if I think about it, but alas, I am such a nostalgia whore.

+Clean apartment
+Grocery shopping
+Finish Hurricane Katrina paper outline; email group members
+Start Pandemic Public Law paper
+Start findings brief - prelim research on sexual attitudes index
+Read through climate change white paper draft - add in Colorado policy information

Amazingly, that list is all that stands in the way before the semester is over, minus tackling Thanksgiving dinner this year. Thank GAWD this semester is almost over.

madargon @ 12:03am: Tweeet

• 02:22 ffs, was thinking about looking up something only not to remember what it was! >_< #
• 14:08 Whohoo didn't sleep the entire day away and OMG SNOOOOW! *_* #
• 15:39 FlashForward: WHAT THE HELL! #
• 16:06 I want my Zune! #
• 18:05 I have make up! But asides from the tequila I do not have a lot of booze. #
• 18:46 Packed, drugged and ready for a party. #
• 22:31 Lets twist again..and Im too drunk to care. #
• 23:02 Friend wondering what twitter if, Im stuck explaining. #

Tweeeet, tweet I say.

missbossyboots @ 9:31am: hrmmm.
Since it has proved beyond my capabilities so far.

If anyone can find/source/make icons of Nicole Kidman in Australia and/or the Golden Compass, I would seriously appreciate it.

Actually notes about my steamtrek characters are coming, I promise.

heather11483 @ 3:26pm: in which 'witch' is still a perjorative and 'warlock' is not
Merls 2x07, The Witchfinder. THIS EPISODE.

( spoilers like to pop out at you from around corners )

delineate @ 3:09pm: + 55 juno temple



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Please read the F.A.Q. before taking any icons! :D

spock @ 10:59am: EMILY BROWNING; 52 icons



( Emily Browning; 52 icons )

venezia @ 8:48am:

rpwrimo
16,800 / 30,000 words. 56% done!
Key
	- THY
	- Fair
	- Brave New World
	- Isolation
	- Incanto
	- Other PSLs

Not too shabby. I need a plan for today, and then I can act accordingly! Breakfast, tea, paper, reading, studying, and writing- I really want to rp or fic or something. And to try to maybe put a few threads up in my games. And resist the urge to app elsewhere until I find out about the two I have pending and make sure that I can handle it and all that jazz.

And now my stomach's grumbling so I shall go start on things.

lovedbythesun @ 6:18am: PB help!
I come to my CDJ flist because... well, a bunch of you are awesome icon makers and just generally A+ at picking PBs. I put in my holds for steamtrek, but, alas, one of my requested PBs had been swapped to before my hold went in. So I am looking for some ideas to fit the concept.

She's a Mata Hari-type seductress, skilled with a blade and can whisper sweet nothings in about a dozen languages or more. My original PB choice was Eva Green. My tendency now is to go with Liv Tyler. (Yes, it is my goal in life to gank all of Julie's PBs. No seriously, I almost put down Emily Browning for my botanist/chemist.) I have a personal preference for brunettes, but I am not at all adverse to other hair types. The character is supposed to be from Austria, so. And any suggestions at all would be much much MUCH appreciated.

missbossyboots @ 10:55pm: In Queensland, if you need me for anything then email me, I'll see what I can do.

Having lunch with Nikki tomorrow, you are all jealous.

awaywithpixies @ 9:33pm: rambling rambles
It's been one of those up and down weeks, tell me about it.

Spent much of today being spammed. Posted something on ONTD and forgot to turn off comments. Shit.

But my 'stupid' mistake last week on booking the 'cheap cheap' sale fare from here to Rome and back via Honkers has turned into an opportunity.

After clicking all the right buttons, and swiping the plastic, I realised we had a 17 hour stopover in Honkers (Hong Kong, if you didn't guess). 17 flippin hours in the airport... and I thought 7 in Sydney airport on a delay in the Qantas Club was bad enough.

Helen sorted me out and I <3 her. Hong Kong International has 24 hour checkin, so even if our bags don't get carried across from one airline to the next (we're swapping from Cathay Pacific to Qantas there), we can still put our bags in.

Turns out we can escape the airport, and do at least a few things in the only Asian city that has held any interest for me so far. A rapid train into central, up the peak on that vertical train, then back down and a ferry across Victoria Harbour, some 'real' Chinese takeaway (perhaps even scorpion), and dinner by the harbour before heading back to the airport.

Sounds like a plan.

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Crazy, huh?

The upshot of having to talk to MIL? She is now also on my faceachebook. Damn. Boss, supervisor, and Mother in Law all on facebook. Thank goodness I can still bitch about them on Twitter, and here.

shiegra @ 10:43pm:

A-AWESOME

IT'S ALREADY OUT. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.

On the other hand, I was watching it going 'I really hope Lola gets to do more' and she doesn't even appear once. **sulks**

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