08 January 2010 @ 02:06 am
From Twitter 01-07-2010  

  • 23:35:18: guess who exercised today? It's like a whole new world. I did 17 minutes on the Wii. Not a lot for a thin person, but a good start for me!
  • 23:42:26: Dear twitter friend to remain unnamed. Please to be stopping the excessive RT of ads and giveaways. kthx

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07 January 2010 @ 11:35 pm
 
Someone explain to me something about that glass football trophy from the national championship game tonight. Its history or something. Is it solid glass or hollow. Regular glass or crystal or whatever.
 
 
08 January 2010 @ 12:23 am
This is surprising how?  
Southern Schools Mark Two Majorities

ATLANTA — The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report.



We all know that the counties and districts are gerrymandered to put all the poor into one area and the rich into another because the rich typically vote republican. That then decides how the funding of the schools is distributed because it goes by how much the districts make off taxes and with the districts set up in that way then it perpetuates the class system.

I know that first hand. I grew up in the public school system until my mom pulled me out in sixth grade. I was failing English and getting C's in other classes. Yet in college I was getting A's and B's.

The South, desperate for a well-educated work force that can attract economic development, will face an enormous challenge in tackling on such a broad scale the lower achievement rates among poor and minority students, who score lower than average on tests and drop out more frequently than whites. Four of the 15 states in the report — Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — now have a majority of both low-income and minority pupils. Only one, Virginia, has neither.

“This is the beginning of a very clear trend that has enormous implications,” said Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University. “When we realize that the majority of graduates of our schools in the long run are going to come from backgrounds with educational deprivation, it makes it imperative that schools be improved.”


And of course with the neo-cons religious nuts in the Texas Education Administration re-writing the textbooks this is NOT going to help matters. We are going to have more students ignorant in many essential categories that colleges require their students to have. A lot of what I learned in school was redacted by what I learned in college.

Especially the history courses.

The public school system is absolutely broken.

If I had kids I would put them in a private school. Even if it was a church one. At least I knew they would be getting an education. Or I might teach them myself. I learned off of this homeschool program...I forgot the name, but it was really good. Way better than what I learned in public school.
 
 
08 January 2010 @ 01:04 am
I seriously....  
HATE AOL. Really, I've been with this company since 1996. One would think 13+ years would engender some type of loyalty to the customer. Really, the only thing keeping me with them is the 10,000+ (this might be a slight exageration, but not by much) links I have in my favorites. Jeff has been after me for a long time now, like years, to clean out my favs. He might just get his wish. If AOL doesn't quit fucking with what mail I get without even asking me if I have a problem with it, I'm through! Seriously, why is it when I clean out my spam folder, I have several different variations on sex site emails, but they block everything from Gmail from even getting to that folder? AOL either get it together and do right by your customers and give them the service they deserve and need, or give the fuck up and shut down!

Oh, PS...is it bad that I had to retype Seriously? At first it was Sirusly...yeah thats bad, but funny. :D
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Current Mood: pissed off
 
 
08 January 2010 @ 12:57 am
Archive Post for the Hat  
My random word table from the Hat[info]the_hat

Yellow Blue Crocus(foresight) Ivy(fidelity) Ice cream
Apple blossom (Promise) Tuberose (pleasure) Green Red and White Roses (Unity) Bananas
Peony (healing) Day Lily (Enthusiasm) Hyacinth (Sincerity) Fish Chips
Chicken Orange Blossom (Fertility) Amber Oranges Iridescent
 
 
Current Mood: artistic
 
 
08 January 2010 @ 01:04 am
Severus' Big Bang Birthday Bash  
This is it! I can't wait!

banner-aleonic Opening</a>
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 09:28 pm
Fic Year In Review - 2009 (Complete)  
The reveals are up for both snupin_santa and [info]smutty_claus so I can finally present the completed

fic year in review )
 
 
Current Mood: achy
 
 
08 January 2010 @ 12:24 am
 
I've never been so glad for my husband to leave for work than I was today.

We had one of those stupid couple fights. You know the ones where he's irritable because he hasn't gotten enough sleep and your pissy because you have this sinus headache that you've had for three days now and you feel like your brains are trying to explode out your eyes?

Yeah one of those. We both apologized but...

He's still irritable and I'm still pissy so it's good that we're not in the same place at the moment.

Neither of us wants to say things we don't mean.

It doesn't help that I can't get the mood theme I want to work and I can't figure out what I've done wrong... and that I can't figure out how to get a layout that isn't bloggish but has tags.
 
 
Current Mood: grumpy
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 11:40 pm
Fests, Reveals, and Squee  
So, the Kinky Kristmas reveals went up this afternoon! I had an absolute blast running it. I'm so proud of the amazing collection of fic and art everyone put together, and I'm both relieved and sad to see the month end.

Now that things are no longer anonymous, I can properly thank the people who did amazing things with my prompts.

[info]leela_cat wrote The Pleasure to be Found in Soul-Sucking, Joy-Destroying Bastards (Severus/Sirius; NC-17; ~3,100 words)
[info]nehalenia wrote An Awkward Path Toward Grace (Remus/Severus; NC-17; ~4,500 words)
[info]nimrod_9 wrote Language of the Wolf (Remus/Severus; NC-17; 1,475 words)

I got both Snupin and Snack! ::flaily flail::

Extra special thanks to [info]leela_cat for writing a (completely fantastic!) bonus fic for me, which I totally did not ask her to do, OMG! And to [info]nehalenia for picking up my prompt when it was dropped and for... well, for knowing all of my bullet-proof kinks. ::dies all over again::

I've also had fun the last couple of days checking out the reveals at [info]hp_yule_balls, [info]smutty_claus, and [info]lupin_snape's Snupin Santa. Between those fests and Kinky Kristmas, my fellow mods and I are putting together a nice list of people we'd like to invite to [info]daily_deviant soon. :)

At this point I'd like to remind everyone that [info]snapelyholidays has not yet posted its reveals, and you all still have a couple more days to catch up on reading there before things are no longer anonymous. Go browse the pre-reveals masterlist on the comm or some of my fest recs to find something you'll like.

Also, if you haven't already done so, please do go check out Whaur frae ye, laddie? (Severus/Godric; NWS Art) -- my gift on [info]snapelyholidays that an absolutely amazing artist must have spent hours making for me. This is incredible and needs way more love!!

Some boring stats on my commenting and reccing habits )

ANYWAY. Awesome job, fest mods and participants! I'm looking forward to [info]snapelyholidays reveals.
 
 
Current Mood: happy
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 10:54 pm
REPOST: art for Big Bang Blackout fic The Sketchbook  
Three drawings for [personal profile] snegurochka_lee 's amazing hot fic The Sketchbook at BigBangBlackout

It's a time travel tale with a twist, involving some interesting art magic that brings sexy young Sirius to life for Teddy Lupin.
Fascinating and hot, and what a pairing!! go read and enjoy, and comment on the archive.
There's lots of tasty Sirius centered goodness to be had.


Three Drawings this way... )
 
 
Current Mood: accomplished
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 11:14 pm
Just popping in to say...  
Rain and/or snow is predicted here tomorrow. The high is supposed to be *35*. I don't even like it when the *low* is 35!

And yay! for Lee Tergesen finally being on SVU, even if is several years past its prime. Of course I'll be watching.
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 09:55 pm
Drabble: Taking Advantage  
Title: Taking Advantage
Author: [info]alisanne
Word Count: 100
Characters: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy (implied), Hermione Granger.
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for [info]hd100's prompt: New Year’s Eve, and Chance.
Author's Notes: A sad lack of Draco.
Beta: [info]sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Taking Advantage )
 
 
Current Mood: working
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 10:02 pm
REPOST: Daily Deviant Kinky Kristmas art & fic  
</a></b></a>[info]daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas reveals are up!

I received a really magical gift of femmeslash art from wallflowergirl, aka (kath_ballantyne at LJ), click here to see. It really is art asking for a fic, don't you think, or writer friends? I adore the idea of ritual sex magic to reunite the school, the houses, the wizarding world. All you need is love!

Here's my offering:
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  Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: </a></b></a>[info]alisanne  From: </a></b></a>[info]venturous

Title: Illumination
Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Media: pastel, PS
Word count: 940
Kinks/Themes Included: glove fetish, orgasm denial, D/s implied,
Other Warnings: blow job
Author/Artist's Notes: I loved the idea of the gloves, and enjoyed exploring it.
Read more... ).</div>
 
 
Current Location: fireside
Current Mood: artistic
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 08:53 pm
Geekestry  

The graceful arch of a tortured spine

The tick tack of half-gloved fingers on petrol-plastic keys

Spectacled eyes squinting and straining

At spindly lines arranged in singular formats on an incandescent screen

And somewhere on this technological knot of cables some many centuries long

Something

Yes something

Went terribly, terribly wrong

 
 
07 January 2010 @ 08:53 pm
Spoken Word  

This piece when read aloud depends entirely upon your rhythm and speed of speech to give the mundane and rather unextraordinary phrases the qualities of spoken word.

 
 
07 January 2010 @ 08:46 pm
Like O and I  



Like a faucet dropping

Drip drip drip

Like a clock tocking

Tick tick tick

Like a heart stopping

Click click click

Like a sonnet rocking

Snip snip snip

Like a hopscotch hopping

Slip slip slip

Like a crowd mocking

Kick kick kick

Like a socket popping

Rip rip rip

Like an axe chopping

Chip chip chip

 
 
07 January 2010 @ 09:41 pm
FIC REC: Never Be Too Careful  
Title: Never Be Too Careful
Author: [info]amand_r
Characters/Pairings: George/Lee Jordan
Rating: NC-billionty
Kinks/Themes Included: Toys, sounding, restraints
Word Count: 2500 +/-
Kristmas Wish Fulfilled for: ozma_katiebell on IJ
Summary/Description: He liked to call it 'product testing'. So did Lee. That way they could pretend without pretending. Angelina called it 'making damn sure', but she left them to it.

The author wrote this for Daily Deviant's Kinky Kristmas. Any story that features 'innovative sexual magical toys', especially in the hands of George and Lee, is bound to have an advantage. Add to that, here, great writing, an innate knack for teh Funny, and...sounding! Yes, I said sounding. This is a wild ride that is hot Weasley wackiness from start to finish.
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 08:29 pm
waves  
Dammit! I keep giving these Hiya! messages. I don't habve the net. That was one of the things I had to sacrifise for that dreaded holiday. Right now I"m using a friends. I've been going nuts. So I watched the last episode of the of Daavid Tennent's Dr. Who, and am so freaking mad! Why?? Why did the writers kill him off? He was the best... well... next to the first Dr. Who that is. lmao! Actually, I would love to see Dr. Who as a black man. Now that would be a hoot!! *ahem* Baby steps, triceybabe, baby steps. Still, I'm going to miss David. There isn't quite anyone like him. I enjoyed it so much though/ Sorry to see him go. Now I need to find some Dr/Donna/Jack fics. lol I think Donna was prolly my fave girl. Then Martha. Anywoo, rest in peace, David Tennent's version.!
 
 
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Invented Sex by trey songz feat: usher and keri hilson
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 08:18 pm
Birthday Wishes  
Happy Birthday today to

[info]jennybliss!


Many happy returns! :)
 
 
Current Mood: working
 
 
07 January 2010 @ 09:10 pm
cons  
Are any of you going to Infinitus, or Con.txt?

*is debating*