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I basically don’t know what’s going on anymore. Hi…? Привет? コニャナチは？I kind of was going about novelling, but I also kind of got lost. Mother wants to write now, and I support that, but I just do not know.
Also, I need to talk with the Great Dr Pfaffle or see whom on Earth I need to talk to for getting into Aurals III.
Alsoalso, I don’t know exactly if my encyclopedias were paid for or what I need to do with the Folio society now.
Also3, I don’t know how my phalure at the Theory midterm will phactor in to my poor destroyed GPA.
Also, my sibling is disgusting with how she disposes of the excess snot in the back of her throat.
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| This is how we roll. |
[15 Nov 2009|11:13am] |
Roommate and I went out yesterday, just to get out of the house. I figured that as long as we were doing that, and as long as we've been living here for...six months now, we should probably know where the local comic and gaming stores are.
Found both of 'em. There's a Comix Revolution near the library, and an independantly-run gaming store not too far south of there; right across the street from the Metra station. Both in downtown Mount Prospect, which is a gorgeous area anyway.
I went out on a limb and bought Tessa her own dice set and a really nice purple-and-black velvet dice bag from the shop. Those were an early Hannukah present, so she's not getting the big final-night gift from me. I told her that she should take eight dice out of the bag and give them to herself, one every night. (I'll probably pick up some gelt for both her and Dayna, though; Dayna will be here for the first couple nights of Hannukah)
Of course she was a total girl about it and had to spend half an hour comparing dice colors and styles before making a final selection. Although I can't really blame her; it is an important decision. Shopping for your first set of dice is almost like shopping for jewelry; you have to compare and waffle and waver and go back to your first choice and then put them all back and ask to see something completely different and then the gold-and-silver or crystal sets get spotted and then it's back to square one.
She's taken her first step into a larger world, however. Now she just needs her own copy of the Player's Handbook; now that we're customers of the store, we can probably hang around a lot and see if there are any local games we can join. If not, Debbie said that her friends Kelly and Steve game, and I might try to get them to do something with us.
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| Scout's progress |
[15 Nov 2009|09:33pm] |
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So I just finished "Scout's Progress", the next Liaden book by Sharon Lee and Steven Miller.
It turns out to be a romance about a mathematician/maths lecturer who uses her ability with equations to become a renowned spaceship pilot and find love. I mean really, how could I not enjoy it? :)
Also the introduction is by Susan Krinard, who is married to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) serge_lj, which is just cool.
The ending is remarkably abrupt though. I vaguely recall someone warning me about that.
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| Picspammy Challenge #13 |
[15 Nov 2009|04:09am] |
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Picspammy Challenge: Something Different
I love movie posters. Seriously. I cannot get enough of them—half the time, I don’t even care if the movie is good or bad, the poster is what I want. They can really make or break a movie. I don’t necessarily have the funds, time, or wall space right now to collect, but I am guilty of many an impulse buy when going through posters.
So I figured, hey? Why not use this picspam to do just that? I haven’t seen some of these movies, but I have seen the posters—damn, are they good. These are just some of my very favorite posters, no rhyme, reason, or theme. If you’re expecting order…don’t.
*Warnings: Really, none. This is a pretty tame picspam.
A Poster Picspam
( 22 images under here—not dial-up friendly. )
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| Liaden universe |
[15 Nov 2009|05:20pm] |
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After being recced them a bunch of times I finally got around to trying a Liaden Universe novel. They're by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
Specifically, "Local Custom", which was written something like 5th in the series but is first chronologically. It was a lot of fun, somewhere between Anne MacAffery and Lois McMaster Bujold on the girly space opera continuum.
( Read more... )
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[14 Nov 2009|10:21pm] |
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OH shit, realisation that would go in journal but here now b/c i want to write it down v. quickly. About holding things in, emotions and whatnot. I enjoy this. I do it so that I can watch the emotion or sentiment, watch it grow, nourish it, give it a fuller life, and it will grow large and I will step in and envelop myself in it. I do this with both positive and negative emotions...thus I love more fully and I my hatred becomes a all-destroying force as well. I turn my passions inward and grow cold and stony in the face of my beloved whilst a spark, a kindle grows up in stages to a raging inferno and I experience intense desire. While the other has no idea because I only compliment them in my head.
this is cool and all, but what I need to do is say it after i think it rather than merely think everything. I do do this, but it takes an extra step and I have to consciously think about it and tell myself to say it. I think this is what introversion really is, at its core. My thought processes are going on in a different center of the brain. I'm on an inward process and the speech doesn't go straight to voice. I have to shift it over, and this requires some processing power, which is why social interactions are tiring rather than stimulating. I'd say that nearly every word I say is pre-rehearsed in my brain before I speak. Writing, however, is different--it goes straight. That's interesting. especially typing--i can type straight thought pretty much. i can type at the rate of thought i should say, and it goes straight from brain to keyboard.
Other problem is that what's going on in my head isn't conversation starter material. I've always got some pretty esoteric stuff going on. I need to be in a PhD program where the grad students talk shop all the time. ALL THE TIME. I mean I'm reading the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature and Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community and Milton's early Latin poems for fun.
jeez, this makes me sound like an extremely inept human being.
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| "If you want to try you should try like a loser" |
[15 Nov 2009|10:17am] |
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So, it seems I've sort of finished uni (if I wanted to be finished). Well, honours isn't really like the rest of undergrad study, so it's like I've at least finished a chapter.
I also finished Middlemarch. I LOVED it so much. Even though I read it for over six months, I was really gripped by it, and enjoyed all the characters (and even liked a few of them). Apparently a movie about it is coming out next year, which is exciting. But I don't think you can charitably condense 800+ pages into a movie.
Anyway, I have picked up Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", but was finding it hard to get into. I realised that this was nothing to do with Orlando, but everything to do with Middlemarch: I'd been so used to reading Middlemarch that I just couldn't change gears to Orlando that quickly. I also was kind of missing reading Middlemarch (even though I was so excited about getting to the end of it).
In a way, this is how I feel about finishing my pass degree coursework. I know that I'm glad it's over, and I loved every minute (actually, I'm REALLY glad it's over, I was getting quite over it) but it's difficult to believe that I won't be doing it again next semester.
I guess that's what I get for spending 5 years doing my degree(s) - a whole lot of nostalgia.
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| Knitting query |
[14 Nov 2009|09:36pm] |
I'm doing entrelac. I managed the first tier - working in short rows of 8 -
coming to my first turning triangle.
It's not working
( Read more... )
ETA - tentatively solved by doing something completely different. If anyone can offer a splanation of how this is supposed to work, I'm happy to hear it.
Lady Eleanor Entrelac stole from Interweave's Scarfstyle
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| Phwew, am I going to die next semester? |
[14 Nov 2009|04:34pm] |
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My Tuesdays and Thursdays are fairly silent with only the interesting seeming MTC 171 at the ungodly hour of 2 o' clock in the afternoon. Will I be able to get up that early? *gasp* Srsly. I don't know about this. Is studying Pop Crap with Dr Silverman going to be worth it? Well, I resolve, one has to study the enemy! This is my thought process. Interestingly enough, I have not once had the same professor/teacher for more than one semester, beyond the lovely Svetlana Anatolyevna, who does not count. Arbitrarily. ETA: I don't count Dr Grabb either. :| Both teachers are or were staples of my University Excursion!
My horseback riding probably needs to be on Thursday again, with my private lesson on Tuesday. Or vice versa.
Then again, TR shall probably be a restful prelude and postlude to my deadly Wednesdays of Doom, which house four exciting hours of study:
Music Theory III at 9,
Music History I at 10,
Dr Grabb's mysterious Special Subject Seminar which had a better name that I have since forgotten at 11 [during which I'm likely going to mentally sleep, even if physically I'll react to stimuli] ETA 2300 SAME DAY: I REMEMBERED WHAT IT WAS :D!! a course on rhythm n.n;;; ,
the gaspworthy Pre-Calculus yet again at 12 [I'm excited! Is anyone else excited? :D],
then everyone's favourite, the Aural Activitie III, which I have been having slight computer difficulties scheduling myself into.
Maybe at the end of Finals, I'll pull out another sheet of paper to make another HORAE PLACIDAE chart. I liked Mother's suggestion of posting my schedule on the locker door, even if the peacock magnet attaching it does not grip well.
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TITLE: Who knows..?
PERPETRATOR: Mrs_J_Potter
SUE-O-METER:  (toxic)
FULL NAME: Stephanie Leung
SPECIES: Witch
HAIR: "medium-length black sleek hair, with crimson streaks all through"
EYES: "dark brown eyes"/"chocolate brown eyes"
MARKINGS: "Two ear piercings on each ear", "I’m tanned as I travel a lot to Australia and I’m always around my friends." Being around your friends makes you tanned?
POSSESSIONS: Sue-friends Sanice Embleton, Bella Jones, Cassandra Thompson. Brand-name crap: "Sanice accidentally turned our normal brown suitcases into Louis Vouitton ones. (And also accidentally turned our 1997 Honda Civic into a Lexus.)". She buys a "Firebolt 2000". She has an iPod that plays Stiff Dylans' "Ultraviolet". Her room looks "exactly like the one back home. My wardrobe with all my clothes for the four seasons neatly folded inside, every wall which is supposed to be showing a royal purple colour is covered in posters of Twilight, Gossip Girl, Jonas Brothers and many other Disney stars etc. There’s a piano in the corner with a CD player next to it also my study table with photos of my family and friends and then my bed." Her bathroom is "enormous, clean, white bathroom that had a beautiful deep and long bathtub, and a nice shower with these little fishies on the tiles, two basins, two mirrors and two toilets, and did I mention there was a Jacuzzi in here?" *face smash and rub against keyboard*
ORIGIN: They know about Hogwarts as a series of novels, like everyone else. Then she and her friends get their letters to Hogwarts and magical abilities late. Dumbledore makes an exception for them "because apparently we’re "in touch" with our magical abilities and we have different kinds of magic".
CONNECTIONS TO CANON: Her friend has a vision that she is going to be co-Head Girl with Hermione, and Draco is going to be Head Boy. The three of them are going to live in a dorm together. Nice. She meets Draco is Diagon Alley, where she gets into an argument with him about his character while trying to purchase a new broom. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore explains to them that they are actually all descendants of Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw, and there has been a prophesy made about them. The four girls are going to "save us all". They are all sorted into Slytherin, except for Bella who is sorted into Gryffindor to be paired with Harry Potter.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: "rebellious". Plays the piano with her friends in their band called "On the Brinc".
NOTES: Remember how I said that the last Sue had a lot of pepper-jack cheese in it? This one is worse. Like I feel like I have to pay extra for it.
( Why do you have to write down your magical abilities? Are your memories that bad? )
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[14 Nov 2009|01:34pm] |
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I've not yet read my email since Mother told me she sent me her novel ideas (which are really exciting! I am pleased I have converted another plebeian to the Wayz of NaNoWriMo), but I'll just mention I went to Katie-chan's viola recital today as of just a few hours ago and gave to Katie immediately afterwards my warmest regards as to her viola skillz and how I recognised many of the pieces she performed because I made n play the viola, making myself listen to many viola pieces and oh dear Mother's emailed me.
Better just get over it and see what she's got to say. *click* Oh, by the way, concerts are so much more fun when you go entirely because you want to rather than that you have to.
Interesting! *copypastes to her Emailz Word document to respond since that's what she does, without first deleting what she wrote to Tim-sama since she doesn't know if she sent that already or not*
I hear my parents listening to my performance of the Loeillet Concerto in the concert from the other room. *cringe* I am really such a poor musician, especially intonationwise; it was in C Major at that, too, with the second movement a minor... Ms Behler [the harpsichord player] did the best job of any of us, especially since so many of us used her mad clavichord skillz to accompany the pieces. (Although many people picked piano instead of harpsichord...)
Now she printed her email to give to me. I have it...
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[14 Nov 2009|06:58pm] |
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alankria and I are going to AQWA on Monday, probably late morning/afternoon. Anyone else want to come along and see some fishies?
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[14 Nov 2009|12:19am] |
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HAY J00 GAIZ!!!
HAY HAY HAY!
*clears throat, more scholarly sounding* Isn't it true that I am a wind musician? *loses it*
CAN'T I WRITE SOMETHING IN THE HIGHLY STRUNG WORLD, BUT TREATING THE WIND MUSICIANS MORE THAN THE STRING?????
This n idea has not panned out well, but but but!
I can let Mother have the remnants of TNTTNEA,S since she seems interested and regroup to compose more regarding wind in an aptly-named Long-Winded!
:D *♥ herself*
Nitenite.
If I wanted to fit this as my 2009 NaNoWriMo novel, I'd need to write 3334 words a day. But I can do this!!
Labelled it as Adventure since it's going to be quite the adventure to write so many words in a day.
Probably can't do this sleeping business properly.
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TITLE: Oh, boy!
PERPETRATOR: Wildflower
SUE-O-METER:  (bad)
FULL NAME: Kana Fujiko aka Daisuke Hayate
SPECIES: Witch
HAIR: "shoulder-length black hair was now cropped and slightly ruffled"
EYES: not described
MARKINGS: "You could still see me, as Kana, but my once delicate girly features are now, stronger more defined and boyish. My shoulders had broadened and my muscles grew."
POSSESSIONS: a "School Memories" photo album with "photos and Origami decorated the pages". Mmmm, pepper-jack cheese tastes so good. A Sue-friend named Beth.
ORIGIN: She is Japanese, so the story is littered with Japanese references. After drinking what she thinks is Felix Felicis, she is turned into a boy. Now that she's a boy Sirius Black is "giving her the eye". She likes this.
CONNECTIONS TO CANON: Wants to bone Sirius Black. Is a grandmother figure to Rose Weasley. She calls her "Obaasan". She was in Hufflepuff, and is a chaser on the Hufflepuff quidditch team.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tries hard not to be a Sue: "I'm a little lazy, stubborn, sarcastic, unsmart, a little clumsy and I guess now, annoying".
NOTES: I don't find the writing bad or cheesy, just the idea.
( You have a magic stick! )
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| That's right, I said blargh. |
[13 Nov 2009|09:26pm] |
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This was going to be an incredibly busy weekend. I had plans for morning, afternoon, and evening of every day, with just enough downtime in between to make it nice.
And then I got sick.
Blargh.
Whatevs. There's no to-do list this week because I'm not going to be able to accomplish much of anything, except maybe a quick trip to the store tomorrow morning for OJ and soup (I'm out of both! Ask me how sad that makes me) and lots and lots of rest. Because that seems to be helping.
Oh, and maybe I'll do a little work on NaNoWriMo. Since that's going on and all.
Anyway, I'm spending this evening wrapped in blankets, drinking tea, and watching my favorite movie. I think that's a good way to do things.
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| Macrons? |
[13 Nov 2009|08:55pm] |
I've only taken one year of Latin in school, but I intend to pursue the subject on my own, and perhaps in college. My first year Latin teacher told us to ignore macrons, and after that absolutely nothing was said on the subject. I never paid any attention to them...should I have? I literally don't notice them now, and I have no idea when they should appear. I'm feeling like I should've paid attention from the beginning...then I'd have some idea of their use and application.
So, are macrons important? Should I start figuring them out? Annnd, any tips?
(There are some translation help requests below this post - I don't mean to bump them down.)
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| This week in search 11/13/09 |
[13 Nov 2009|04:33pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/wKZeEZ8gmHo/this-week-in-search-111309.html This week brought a variety of changes, including a flu shot finder to keep you healthy during this year's flu season. And since you'll be healthy, you can enjoy updates to our movie showtimes feature and go out and have fun.
Flu shot finder
We launched a flu shot finder with the goal of helping people find where they can get their fall flu shots. At the moment we have data for shot locations in 20 states. We'll be increasing our coverage to all 50 states. We're just getting started with this project, so stay tuned for improvements.
You can find flu shots at www.google.com/flushot.The ability to lock SafeSearchWe launched a feature that lets you lock your SafeSearch setting. When you lock SafeSearch, two things will change. First, you'll need to enter your password to change the setting. Second, the Google search results page will be visibly different to indicate that SafeSearch is on and locked:  That way, if you're taking care of kids, you'll be able to verify that SafeSearch is on from clear across the room! Just look for the colorful balls in the upper right corner. You can lock your SafeSearch by visiting our Search Settings page in the Settings menu in the upper right corner of www.google.com and clicking " Lock SafeSearch". Updated movies showtimesWe launched an update to the movies showtimes feature, which now includes movie posters to enrich our movie results. When you click on the result, you'll get a more comprehensive summary of the movie as well as the ability to view theater locations on a map and sort by genre.  Example searches: movies, where the wild things are, 2012Adding World Bank data to searchWe have added World Bank data to search. This makes finding global facts like life expectancy, electricity use and birth rates a lot faster and easier. The Public Data feature also lets you make comparisons across countries. Here's what the feature looks like when it appears in your search results:  Example searches: the worlds life expectancy, electricity use germanyHope you enjoyed this week's new features. Stay tuned for next week! Posted by Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management, Search
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| I think I have become enslaved by Something Peculiar... |
[13 Nov 2009|07:09pm] |
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I'm just mentioning here the orchestral fangirling attack I restrict myself from portraying that loudly, whilst I lay on the entry screen until this Concerto runs its course entirely.
*squeeeeee*
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*clears throat*
My affections, from an objective standpoint, seem fairly obsessive. Likely creepily so. Poor various males to whom I have perhaps arbitrarily attached myself. *mild pity* Of course, it may be that one of them I'm actually this "destined to be with" painted positively so frequently in anime. Perchance.
Sort of doubt it, in trufax, probably keeping me indefinitely single for now. Unless I can convince the Certain Mathematician returning to a relationship is a Good Idea. ... Maybe by the end of graduate school... ♥ ... Is there going to be an end to grad school? ... or am I uselessly piling on the various aspects of academia? ...
I quite likely adore my imagination more than I adore true human beings. After all, I can barely tolerate holding my breath long enough for one of these kissing sorts of things and my tongue is frequently too injured [from burns, gnawings, &c] to be extremely inviting for alternate-nationality sorts of kisses, e.g. now.
Distracted by my email. Brubs.
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