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[11 Oct 2008|05:15pm] |
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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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[11 Oct 2008|07:08am] |
Lazed about, last night, after a fair day at work. Cleared a lot off of the DVR...
Then, this AM, I read another comic, this being Drafted #11, which had the best artwork that the series has had yet. Bravo!
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| Snooker started today:):):):):) |
[11 Oct 2008|01:15pm] |
I know the season doesn't TECHNICALLY only start when the bbc show up, but in my head that's still true. They're going to let Ken into the studio with Hazel and I love them for it. We'll actually probably get to see far more of him in the tournaments he doesn't qualify for than those he does.
Clive started the season by telling us that it was another season, another reason for . . . well, not for making whoopee, because of the current financial climate, but certainly for focusing on the eternal 12 by 6. Okay then, Clive.
I've been thinking about just boiler plating posts for the snooker this season. It would be so easy, you'd need a list of players I like, who could go in front of sentences like:
- lost.
- ( etc )
( Higgins vs Hamilton )
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| ATTN: Mal |
[11 Oct 2008|12:58am] |
TO: Malaclypse the Seeker, Grand Poobah and General Boss-Creature
FROM: Aristalarus Lemalishtara Merquoni, Footsoldier and Sword-Swinger for Truth, Justice, and Protection From Sponge
RE: Amazon.com Listings
Hey.
Illuminated guy.
Are you or yours responsible for this? Because I think it's hilarious, but you owe me a new keyboard.
Respectfully,
Dwagin.
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| Happy Birthday... |
[11 Oct 2008|06:55am] |
... to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) steverogerson. Have a great day, you.
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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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| !! Yay! |
[10 Oct 2008|12:04pm] |
Good news for once in this journal: Lookit CT! (thanks, rivendellrose)
Now we just need to kill Prop 8 in CA this Nov... (And by we, I mean voters in California, since I registered in Oregon. But I'm with you in spirit.)
Cold update: still breathing. Going to take painkillers and dayquil in advance today.
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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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[10 Oct 2008|08:27am] |
Services finished, last evening, and forestcats and I showed our skills, once again, at take-down. We rapidly loaded up the prayer books, and then moved the Ark back to the truck, and from there to the home of the Cohens. From there, we joined everyone from our group at a break-fast, to end Yom Kippur.
I'm feeling a bit better, though I'm not sure how forestcats is doing, virus-wise. Hopefully better.
I've finally managed to track down and read a comic: Planetary #19. After not reading the series for so long, it was a little hard to get back into the story, but I have the rest of the run stacked up, and I'll be reading them over the next several days.
This weekend will be devoted to preparing a room for mr_curmudgeon, and for beating the downstairs into shape. We also have to review what we need to do to put together a Sukkah; I've never had one before, and I don't want to make any errors.
Off to work.
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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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| Question Time. |
[10 Oct 2008|01:59pm] |
I love question time, I love it ALMOST AS MUCH AS AVON. Really. I think. This week's question time was beautiful, because it had lots of economists on it who all know each other and think each other are a bit rubbish and David Dimbleby had clearly geared himself up to be SO IN CONTROL IT WAS NOT TRUE and then he ended up just letting Ken Clarke say whatever he liked and hurrying everyone else.
( Probably quite a lot of words about Question Time. I loved every minute of this episode. )
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| Owwwwwwww. |
[10 Oct 2008|01:15am] |
I've got some kind of hell cold--and today I had to work late through my entire back tensing up with pain. *shakes fist at sky*
Going to sleep now. Hopefully I'll continue being able to breathe.
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