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[Nov. 24th, 2009|06:24 pm] |
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The spouse and I are almost done getting ready (& packing all my extra meds) for the long drive North to our Thanksgiving gathering. Gluten-free noms here we come! ;)
We'll only have intermittent net access for a week, so a Happy (early) Turkey day to all! *sends warm wishes and blessings to my flist* |
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| *facepalm* |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
So apparently my mother's side of the family - the only family I've been in contact with these past two years - is falling apart as we speak. I don't mind so much because of Things I will summarise behind the cut, but my mother minds very much, which is why I'm very very angry about this.
( tl;dr about Jules' family which you might or might not want to know - touches some sensitive stuff )
I'm thinking it's getting clear why I'm not so hot on the family stuff.
Now this feels a bit better. A tiny, tiny bit. |
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| having a life |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|04:19 pm] |
It's me, doing things and having culture and stuff!
that is the entrance to Jones Hall from the underground parking garage that spans the underbelly of the entire Theater District. Cool art, for an underground lair. :D
Brahms was excellent. Mahler was odd. It was a great night.
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| LOL! |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|04:48 pm] |
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Get Your Sexy Name
Goodness.
Only just wading through my overflowing friends page. So thank you's to: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) iibnf, mabiana, ariadneelda, venturous, maddiec24, dacro, r_grayjoy, quiescent
for the well-wishes!
If I missed you, I probably haven't seen your post yet. I might not until much later, either, as I must get ready for a very rare night out with my beautiful spouse, who is going to take me somewhere (I don't know where) for my birthday. :D
*looking forward to it!* |
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| who wants to share writerly squee with me? |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|12:05 am] |
After months and months of not touching the keyboard, thanks to mini_nanowrimo, I'm back to writing daily. Each day in November (so far), I've managed to write at least 100 words. Go me!
But that's not the object of this post.
I've been thinking about what to do when Mini Nano is over. How to kick my butt and stay with the writing daily? And I've come up with an idea:
Is there anyone who'd like to open up a writer's group, so to speak (via email or whatever), where we can report our word counts, keep each other on track, and squee about our writing? I was thinking maybe we could give out prompts if someone fails their target or some such. What do you think, anybody for it? *puppy eyes* |
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| Trying to prod the muse into activity... |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|12:45 am] |
All this week real life in one form or another seems to have stopped me making any progress with An Angel's Touch, so I'm posting now in the hope that the muse will feel forced to oblige and help me keep my beta buffer.
Credits and notes as for Part I, except that, since OWL and the House Cup are keeping Annie so busy, the final beta passes on this and subsequent chapters are by geyer.
( An Angel's Touch ) |
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| rec me porn! |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|08:03 pm] |
LONDON IN EARLY JANUARY, YAY! HAVE FLIGHTS AND PEOPLE TO MEET. SO ECSTATIC! *dances*
Okay, on a slightly saner note: apparently you can forget how to write porn. It's painful to admit, but it is so - I've become rusty with the writing. On that note I ask that you rec me your favourite quick-and-dirty PWPs (HP, SPN, CW RPS, Merlin)! Please? *puppy-eyes*
Also, I can haz more triumph today: for my BA I have to attend this stupid course Pronunciation and Intonation - British English. Now the first time I was there the prof asked me whether I'd spent a year in England, which in itself is very much "!!". She was quite surprised when I told her I've spent four weeks in London, yo. Then she told me I might get an exemption from the course, I'd just have to send in a few mp3-files and then she'd judge. I got my course mark today: 1.7, which is an A-, which is pretty fucking fantastic - I don't have to attend the course any longer. HAH, take that! :P |
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| More from Greenland |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
The Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers:
From the beginning.
Picking up from where I left off.
As you might notice from the icon, I've been fiddling around in PSPro again. If you want to see how the banner version came out, then click on the first of the two links. |
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| update + happy early birthday to me |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|04:47 pm] |
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Still hanging in there. I appreciate all the well-wishes you've sent, {{{flist}}}. My cough has improved a great deal and I've been sleeping better. Now it's a matter of regaining strength. I had a slight setback dealing with strep, but that seems to be on it's way out now.
I'm very tired much of the time, even when I sleep eight or more hours (typical for CFS), and am reliably informed that basically I used up all my reserves fighting this stupid bug and need to recoup. In other words, it'll just take time and lots of rest and eating right and the usual things they tell one to do to gain optimum health.
( more boring tmi health details )
I'm way behind on reading my friends page. I might have caught up a bit sooner, but once I was able to sit up for longer than a few minutes at a time, I had to focus on finishing my writing for the holiday exchanges I'm doing. I still have two more to complete before I can indulge in more than an occasional tweet, much less journaling. Plus there is ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snapelyholidays, of which I can say I am more than delighted with the entries so far. :) I hope the readers will be, too.
There was one rather stressful-but-in-that-good-way thing I had to do whilst I was recouping ( aka- my exciting news )
The other thing I have been able to do whilst resting is reading some of the fics I had stored on my Palm for just such instances as this. (I have a habit of taking long &/or highly-rec'd fics and saving them for reading at times when I'm ill, like recently. Fanfic is a great distraction, believe me.)
So a few recs and then it's back to the writing grind.
gen: Crucio by ObsidianEmbrace
Fascinating and well-done AU tale highlighting the relationship between Harry, Sirius and Snape. Mind the warnings.
sshp: Sunrises by Julia the Younger
This one holds up very well, despite a few variations from canon that make it AU, but parts are very spot on, and I could see this Harry and Snape.
sshp: The Bondage Of The Mind by hobbitdragon
Holy smoking batsex, Robin! This fic blew my mind. It's post-DH w/a Harry suffering post-traumatic stress and a Snape we never discovered, but some might have guessed at... I'll say no more. But even if serious bdsm is not your thing, give it a try. If you like reading different permutations of our beloved characters, this fic might just blow your mind, too.
ssmm: Learned Too Well by Oh-Johanna
Ignore the SP&G if you can -- the story itself is gripping and ripping and... you may need some hankies. Oh, but the angst is superb.
ssmm: Levels of Comfort by Spyke Raven
Whew! I like good Snagonagall and this is excellent, packing a punch in not many words. I'm keeping an eye on this writer to see if there is more HP from zir.
sspw: The Librarian Of Strahov by sarka
Yummy. Read. |
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| Greenland again... |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|01:56 pm] |
Lol! Well, I finally cleared all the Potioneers comments on OWL so here are another couple of drabbles. Okay so I still have another 60 pages of comments on other fics, but...
The Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers:
From the beginning.
Picking up from where I left off. |
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| The sun is up |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:52 am] |
One of those days again. You get up long before dawn because you've been procrastinating too much and your work is late. And all of a sudden, whilst translating something boring about holiday adjust coupons (don't even ask), you turn your head to the window and the sky is on fire.
   
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| Temporarily Public Post - Comments screened |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|05:27 pm] |
(this post will be public for probably a week, unless flamers, spammers or trolls happen. Due to certain....issues with certain members of fandom, I've locked most of this journal away on private. Comments will be screened for privacy)
When I first got into the Harry Potter fandom, I only really got involved in one pairing: Lupin/Snape.
However, it's been four years, and that ship's left harbor, but quite a few others have moved in. But most of my online friends I chat with are primarily Snape/Lupin.
This makes me sad.
I very very badly want folks I can talk other pairings with: Snape/Harry, Harry/Draco, Snape/Hermione, Snape/Draco (and Dracpery Snarco, for that matter). Luna/Neville, Neville/Hermione, Hermione/Draco, Snape/Lucius, Snape/Luna, Draco/Ginny, Neville/Ginny, Remus/Hermione, Remus/Draco - as you can see, quite a lot of pairings, slash and het alike.
Christmas is coming - ok, it's a month and a half away now - and rather than cards or anything else, I'd like friends I can chat with and swap art and stories with, in a variety of pairings. Even more awesomely, people I can chat with once the fests are over.
Do you ship one or more of those pairings - or even a canon pairing or rare pair or nextgen - and want to chat over AIM, MSN, Yahoo, or googlechat?
If so, please leave me a comment with contact info? That would be awesomeness. :) |
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| it all happened again and again and again and again |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:18 am] |
On this Day of Remembrance, two songs by Eric Bogle about the First World War, lest we forget...
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (YouTube)
The Green Fields of France (YouTube) (performed by the Dropkick Murphys; video is historic photos)
And now some concerns for the servicemembers and veterans alive today, from Democracy Now! Because a 'thank you' means more when it's backed up by decent support and care:
Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance
Sexual Assaults, Inadequate Healthcare Among Spate of Issues Facing Women Servicemembers
And my usual barrage of quotes for the day:
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.
~George McGovern
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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| An Angel's Touch - Chapter 23 |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|09:31 am] |
Well, posting the other day seemed to force the muse into productivity, albeit that the resulting chapter was a short one, so I'm going to try it again.
Credits and notes as for Part I, except that, since OWL and the House Cup are keeping Annie so busy, the final beta passes on this and subsequent chapters are by geyer.
( An Angel's Touch ) |
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