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Kitty: 1 Mouse: 0
I've gone through freaked-outness, to anger, and now it's just funny. Except for, well, the mouse.
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| erectile dysfunction, sci fi? really? who, exactly, do you think watches your shows?! |
[10 Oct 2008|11:27pm] |
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okay, we're watching sga and we are saying many things that aren't relevant unless you're watching too but, i just want to record, upon seeing clavicles+dogtags:
OH JOE FLANIGAN, WHY DO YOU WEAR CLOTHES???
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| mouse take 2 |
[11 Oct 2008|12:08am] |
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I am never letting that damn cat in late at night again!
Aaarrgghhh!
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| Plot Bunny Free to a Good Home |
[10 Oct 2008|03:46pm] |
So, here's what comes of watching Stargate: SG-1 and season seven of The West Wing while one of the movie channels is showing Dave constantly. This plot bunny (actually, more like a plot synopsis), just sprang full-fledged. I swear, I haven't spent much time on this but I've got all the details and some of the scenes sitting in my head ready to go.
President Santos used to be a Marine pilot. What if he'd been a Marine infantryman, instead? And stayed in, instead of retiring young? So, he's assigned to the SGC, there's a problem at Area 52 (invasion? break-in? NID? Ba'al?) and he's on the team called in to deal with it. The quantum mirror is in storage (they haven't been able to figure out a way to destroy it). Meanwhile, in the West Wing universe, they have a small Stargate Program that has never really done much and never managed to come to the attention of the Goa'uld. They have, however, managed to scavenge a few alien devices, many of which they've never figured out how to use or what they do, one of which is the quantum mirror. Santos comes to visit just to check things out. Combination of their fiddling and the fight in the SG-universe warehouse where the mirror is, the mirrors come to life. Colonel Santos doesn't spot it, President Santos does and is fascinated, the colonel falls back onto it or accidentally brushes it somehow at about the same time as the President touches it, they switch places, in the confusion the mirror is shut off/damaged/whatever and they can't use it to get back immediately. Colonel Santos gets stuck pretending to be President Santos until they figure out how to get the real president back, because people get nervous when the President disappears. Cue hijinks as Josh tries to cover up the fact that Colonel Santos, having had a much different life than President Santos, is a much different man (Republican, more military-minded, never met Helen Santos before in his life, distrusts politicians, whatever).
I'll never write it. And it could very easily turn into the most cliched kind of crossover. But it needed to be released somehow, so there it is. What I wanna know is why, when I've never had the slightest itch to write pure West Wing fanfic, I have all these ideas for West Wing crossovers.
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[10 Oct 2008|05:24pm] |
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Guess who got herself another p/t library job, bringing her hours up to a respectable 35 a week?
From Nov onwards, I will be the newest Collections Assistant at the University of St. Andrews Library. Yay. : D
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| Time for another PSA |
[10 Oct 2008|11:04am] |
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I'm bad with people. I do not pick up social cues naturally; I really have to work at it. Things are much easier in stories, because they focus on the cues that build the story; in real life, you have to sort through the ones that are just automatic and/or red herrings to figure out which ones are significant, and that's the part I have trouble with. On the internet, however, most of the time one has only text-based clues to work with (no tone of voice, no body language, no facial expressions, nothing.) Misunderstandings are much easier here than they are in real life ... and I'm bad enough in real life, so when I'm missing most of the cues I've trained myself to look for, I can very easily come across as rude, annoying, insulting, etc. without even realizing it because I've completely misread the "tone" of the conversation. Thing is, most people don't want to be rude or confrontational themselves so they won't directly tell me how I'm coming across--they'll try to gently imply it. Well, this is a problem for me because if I've already misread the tone of conversation I almost certainly won't get any subtle hints! And I can't fix my words and attitudes until and unless I know I'm doing something wrong. This has resulted in some pretty nasty interpersonal blow-ups both with people I deal with face-to-face (that was mostly when I was younger, I'm much better at dealing with people face-to-face now) and with people I deal with over the internet. Believe me, I much prefer it when something I do or say that's annoying or insulting or rude or whatever gets called immediately, so I can correct my behavior and things don't have time to fester to the point where a huge blow-up is possible. I can take correction. So, please, if you have a problem with me, tell me to my face, preferably when it's still a small problem and hasn't yet had time to grow into a bigger problem.
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| re: wife lives on other side of planet |
[10 Oct 2008|10:21am] |
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she's all disgustingly awake and cheerful and it's *sunny* and i'm, of course, burrowing under the pillow like any sane person would. ;p
but by the time i'm almost at class, i have to not only be up and dressed but actually almost *awake* so as i'm crossing the diag, and today's nutcase happens to be this man with a bible going on rather loudly about masturbators and muslims who are all going to burn in hell. so as i pass him, i wave and yell "That would be me!"
he, of course, asks "You're a Muslim? You're going to burn in hell with Mohammed!"
i consider yelling "No! A masturbator!" but i've passed him at this point--i'm about to be late for class--so i just yell back laughing, "It'll be great! We'll party! All the smart people will be there anyway!" and regret that i hadn't thought to add, "Actually, it's WORSE. I used to be Muslim. I'm now an atheist!!" (i feel that the word 'agnostic' might be too big a vocabulary word for him to wrap his mind around.)
i might, on my way back. /smirk
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| Stuff and |
[10 Oct 2008|09:53am] |
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
Huge hugs to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chasedestructo whom I nicked this off.
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| where would LJ be without memes? |
[10 Oct 2008|04:58pm] |
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When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.
WESTLEY: There's something... I ought to tell you...
INIGO: Tell me.
WESTLEY: I'm not left handed either.
...and I couldn't pick just one. Bad me.
MAX: I'll call the brute squad.
FEZZIK: I'm on the brute squad
MAX: You ARE the brute squad!
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| books |
[09 Oct 2008|10:00pm] |
The Runic inscriptions of Viking Age Dublin
Michael P. Barnes, Jan Ragnar Hagland, and R.I. Page.
Publisher: Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 1997.
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| Heehee |
[09 Oct 2008|11:54am] |
I was just going through various news feeds making sure I'd caught everything recent for my site's James feed and I stumbled over this deliciously amusing little thread that isn't right for the news feed but I figured that my fellow James fans might enjoy it anyway...
Who are The Big Bachelors in Hollywood
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| Odinic Symbol - Triple Horned Mosaic |
[08 Oct 2008|09:57pm] |
Just what everybody needs, a wall mosaic honoring Old One-eyed himself... it's a bit of an art piece that can be incoporated into use in your home or garden.
Better get it while you can, it is on eBay afterall!
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[08 Oct 2008|09:10pm] |
Just found the best thing ever. Jello Pumpkin Pie Spice Pudding! Seriously thinking about buying a ton of it before they take it off the market.
OMG. That Thing You Do is on Stars. Haven't seen this movie in ages.
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| Color Meme |
[08 Oct 2008|05:40pm] |
Because I have a ton of stuff to do, but don't want to get out of my chair.
( Color Memeage )
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