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| 2009-04-27 16:29 |
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Last night's dream was one of this variety. Much less exciting, still not very restful. Sigh, brain.
In other news, I feel like I've been really uneven about crossposting between LJ and IJ lately, and I find myself looking forward to not having to do it anymore, which means I should probably actually say this in a post:
I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on getting a Dreamwidth account as soon as I can, which will probably be when the open beta starts on Thursday. Unless the site completely crashes and burns under the load, I'll likely at the very least make it my new base of operations. (And by completely crashes I do mean completely, utterly and unrecoverably. If they don't have some severe issues when they open I will be very surprised; that is just how these things work.)
I am not sure how much if any I'll be crossposting - Dreamwidth makes it easy in principle, but my current setup is sort of a mess, so while crossposting to LJ is probably quite doable I don't think I'll be able to post to the shared journal I'm using for personal stuff on IJ quite as easily. We shall see how much people watching me overlap and how lazy I am. ^^;
Further info to come when I actually have an account set up. o/
In OTHER other news, Kimiko Ross now has a twitter account, set up by Dresden Codak, of course. This should really not be more compelling to me than any other reason to start using twitter, but it is. For now I just set up an IJ feed for it. >_>
(Tiny Carl Jung has one too.)
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| 2009-04-25 17:35 |
| Adventures in my head |
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I didn't sleep very well last night because I had weird dreams, but at least they were more interesting and less distressing than last night. So I'm recording them for posterity!
The first one was the most understandable, since it was about arguing with people on the internet. Or, rather, it was about seeing someone I don't like and who isn't even in camp posting a comment in the OOC community for camp that was completely ridiculous, and then I don't think it really counts as arguing, because the response I composed in the dream was "What, seriously? Seriously? Fuck off." This was the most upsetting of the dreams. But it wasn't actually that upsetting - because it was cathartic, and compared to the ridiculousness of this comment (I don't even know what it was, but in the dream I was very certain it was ridiculous), all actual internet arguments are quite reasonable in comparison.
In the second dream, grindelwald was reapping Jack Harkness to CFUD... only the app was all in action tags because for some reason Jack was a sentient tree-vine-thing? Also it was a dup and both apps were like that. Yes, two people apped Jack Harkness as a non-vocal sentient tree-vine-thing. The explanation I was given in the dream (after all, I don't watch Torchwood!) was something along the lines of... the particular tree in question was a vital power source for spaceships of some kind, and so he took the form of the tree as... some kind of clever ruse? The most distressing part of this dream was that I liked the app that I was pretty sure wasn't grindelwald's better (it was longer and had more substance), and so I was extremely conflicted on which to vote in. My life is hard.
The last one I remember was more scattershot, and involved running away from something in a sort of RPG-style world. There was a mansion with a lot of square connecting rooms that didn't seem to have any particular purpose, and which connected in a sort of maze-like fashion. Outside the mansion there was also a strawberry field, and some sort of competition to pick strawberries better than some threshold, which I was pretty sure I could do because I have experience picking strawberries. (It was stated to be very important that one picked the strawberries by hand.) Despite the fact that we (I was with someone, dunno who) were theoretically escaping from something, there was not any sort of pressure, and I am not even sure whether we were in the mansion first or second. Picking the strawberries would somehow have been helpful, though.
I woke up quite a few times, obviously, since I remember so much. In particular I spent time committing that second one to memory because I was incredibly amused by it. ^^;
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| 2009-04-24 12:19 |
| dream; meme (those rhyme BTW) |
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So apparently a lot of people have nightmares about their teeth falling out? I've seen this mentioned two entirely separate places in the past couple of months. I definitely have them, and I had one last night.
( squick warning? I am squicking myself, anyway )
Anyway, I woke up from this an hour or two before my alarm went off, and spent that time lying in bed trying to convince myself to go back to sleep. And failing, as my brain kept coming back to the dream, or alternately seizing on bad things about anything else I thought about. I am feeling somewhat better now, but when I finally got out of bed I was surly and headachey. >_>
...BUT HEY check out this icon i made last night, isn't it cute? Also, let's have a meme (from various people on LJ):
NAME A FANDOM AND I'LL TELL YOU:
01. The first character I fell in love with:
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
04. The character I love that everyone else hates:
05. The character I would shag anytime:
06. The character I'd want to be like:
07. The character I'd slap:
08. A pairing that I love:
09. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. 5 things I enjoy about the fandom:
12. And 5 that suck:
13. Who are my 3 favorite characters.
14. Who are my 3 least favorite characters.
15. What are my 3 favorite pairings.
16. What are my 3 least favorite pairings.
17. Which character you're most like.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret. (Or something else random goes here, I do not often have deep dark secrets.)
Fandoms I know are in my userinfo except right now it says "last updated 6/20/08" so maybe I should go update it.
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| 2009-04-16 23:48 |
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...Okay maybe I don't hate all of Soul Eater fandom forever.
This one artist can stay. (On average not terribly SFW, some may require a DA account to view)
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| 2009-04-16 15:55 |
| I have a complicated relationship with fandom |
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In a perhaps ill-advised move, last night I poked at eBay to see what Soul Eater doujinshi people had up for sale. "Maybe it was just a bad selection left at con," I thought to myself. "I can at least see if other things exist before I condemn the whole fandom to my eternal dislike." And to a certain degree they did! It looked like there are some really cute Maka/Soul things, anyway. But there was also even more stuff that made me go "...?" (Justin/Kid, really? Why?)
And there was only one thing that had Medusa in it. Which is one more than zero! ...But it appeared to be crying bukkake'd five-year-old Medusa. I... cannot find words to adequately describe how very much that is not what I'm looking for. Just. Augh.
But in more positive Soul Eater news, I am writing! I made substantial progress on a fic yesterday and I really want to get through it so I can post it and start the next one I want to write. :3
I am in general feeling pretty positive right now, despite things. I suspect the way the weather has actually felt like spring these past couple of days is helping a lot. Also new Dresden Codak!
Although I'd like it if both IJ and LJ stopped failing at comment notifications.
...And I feel like there was one other one-liner update I wanted to make, but I don't remember what it was now.
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| 2009-04-01 13:06 |
| A morning narrative |
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I woke up, turned over in bed, and looked out the window to see precipitation falling.
...Fairly immediately I realized that if I could see it without my glasses or contacts, it meant it was snowing large fluffy flakes.
"What, seriously?" I said aloud.
Then I thought, "You know, if you're expecting Seattle to respond 'April Fools!' and immediately change to weather more appropriate for April, I'm afraid you're probably out of luck."
sun, warmth, where aaaaaaaare you D:
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| 2009-03-27 16:08 |
| a view post? |
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So I was looking at real estate listings with a coworker the other day and was reminded of something that annoys me irrationally - that being the use of "view" as an adjective. As in a "view house" or "view condo" meaning "a house/condo with a view (of something presumably aesthetically pleasing)".
...I am not sure why this bothers me so much! I mean, it's not used anywhere but real estate marketing. But it's a totally valid way to form a phrase.
Maybe it's that usually when something is formed like that, it's more about the main function? Like "soup spoon" is a spoon that's used for soup, not a spoon that just happens to have soup.
Or maybe it's that "view" is a verb, too, so it's ambiguous if "house" is the object or not. But I can think of examples for that, too. Like "hit man." No one expects the man to be being hit. Although I guess in "view house," "house" is neither the subject nor the object - it's not being viewed or doing the viewing, it just happens to be there while the viewing happens. So maybe that's it.
Anyway, it bothers me. This has been your random linguistic rant for the day.
In other news, I feel like I should be writing about something more immediately relevant to... anything at all... but I am in a weird mood, so therefore you get this.
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| 2009-02-26 13:06 |
| And all I need now is the intellectual intercourse |
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It's a spring thing, I think - waking up, feeling restless and creative again, wanting to do things, change things. Metabolism kicking up to where actually having tea/coffee and a bagel in the morning sounds like a good plan. Even kind of motivated to do work at work, even if it's theoretical planning stuff and not the grunt-work Perl coding I'm really supposed to be doing. I even find myself going to my closet for more interesting clothes, and not just the "jeans, t-shirt, other t-shirt, coat, other coat, dammit why is it so cold" that I've been doing for the past few months.
It's coming out of hibernation and remembering that summer exists - sunshine and flowers and leaves - and that I actually have lots of energy sometimes. The world and my brain don't always feel muted and dead.
...Current two inches of snow on the ground notwithstanding. Seriously, what are you doing, Seattle.
IN COMPLETELY OTHER NEWS I feel ridiculous for associating an Alanis Morissette song with Stein, but when it contains the line "I don't want to dissect everything today" I feel I cannot be judged too harshly. The rest of the lyrics aren't too bad either.
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| 2009-02-23 17:36 |
| An exciting post |
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Guys, I'm bored.
I have nothing terribly interesting to report from the thrilling saga of my daily life. Best I've got is that the trees outside my office window are budding, which is exciting even if my window is two floors lower than it was last week, because if Seattle has decided it's going to be spring already I'm not going to complain.
I want to write, I think, and I know there are things I could be writing, but the impetus is not there. The only thing in my head right now is so ridiculously self-indulgent that I don't think I can convince myself to put words to paper.
I kind of miss fic challenges right now, because I kind of want someone to tell me to write something. But I want them to tell me to write something I'll be excited about writing, not something that will feel like an obligation. ...I do know this is an unreasonable request, because people aren't mind readers, and I don't even know what I'll be excited about writing. But I'm not sure what to do about it. :-/
I feel like I have momentum but am sort of blah about direction.
Clearly I need excitement of some kind! And exclamation points totally induce excitement! Yes!
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| 2009-02-20 13:33 |
| Overheard on...? |
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So, the bus I take to work has a bit of a reputation. For being, uh. Interesting.
Normally I don't really notice or care about this! In commuter hours it's pretty much fine, if sometimes crowded, and anyway I just listen to my iPod and space out, so it doesn't really matter. (Although lately I've been kind of failing at "commuter hours" in the morning. Sob, I swear I will get back to getting up and out of the house at a reasonable time at some point.)
However, lately my iPod headphones have not been working properly. (At the beginning of the week they'd only work in one ear unless I fiddled with the cord by the jack just right; now they basically don't work at all without fiddling, and then intermittently and never in both ears at once.) I ordered new ones from Amazon, but unfortunately they have not yet figured out instantaneous delivery.
So my commute yesterday and today has been iPod-less!
Going in to work yesterday started out okay - there was a guy across the aisle from me talking loudly on his cell phone, but his conversation was sort of... spectacularly inoffensive! I mean, not only was it not awkwardly personal or infuriatingly stupid, he actually sounded like someone I wouldn't mind talking to for short periods of time? Which considering how antisocial I am is pretty amazing. But yeah, he was talking to a friend about his and his girlfriend's current job situation. ("I wish my job was better, you know, but I have one, which is better than some people" and "She's got a grad school internship, for 18 months or until she graduates, that pays really well - we'll probably manage to pay off our trip to Japan, which is good..." and "My hours are weird, right now - I work 12-8:30, so I get home at like 9, eat dinner at like 10, after I make it... in the morning I'll get up after her, at like 8, make her tea...") And when he finally managed to invite the friend to hang out with them and got off the phone he said "Sorry," to the girl sitting next to him.
Of course, once he was quiet everyone on the bus was treated to a loud conversation from the back about how being on opiates limited the amount of alcohol and other things someone could imbibe. :-/
Today, though, started out with me being asked to sign a petition to reduce property taxes (I declined) or do a community survey (I accepted, and answered like 5 questions) at the bus stop. And then on the bus, the driver apparently was running a Presidents' Day week quiz show, where he told us informative facts about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and then asked us questions. He also was more informative than usual as we reached stops. ("...and the Seattle Opera. They're doing a couple of modern pieces, right now...") It was actually pretty entertaining, and no one on the bus was particularly appalling in response to it, either.
In conclusion, riding on the bus only makes me hate humanity occasionally. |D I still want my headphones back, though.
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| 2009-02-12 12:08 |
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I got up this morning and my throat was scratchy, my head was fuzzy, and I managed to badly tweak a nerve in my neck while lying in bed somehow, so I tried not to move for a while. I still am having some trouble turning my head to the left. :-/
I AM HOME FROM WORK TODAY.
Ironically this may actually make me more productive. I should get myself some lunch and then do some laundry. Have also actually been poking pseudo-productively at the internet so far today.
Relatedly, housemates, do you want to go furniture shopping this weekend? For serious. I will buy us a new couch and a bed for the guest room and possibly some other things that are furniture. My mother says I can come over and take her truck to bring over the spare desk they have and also firewood if we want, and we could also use it for furniture shopping.
I have money why is it so hard to get myself to spend it
ALSO I am pretty sure I had something else to say but I don't remember what it was now.
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| 2009-01-21 11:49 |
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...And today it's sunny again! And after about 10 minutes at work today I figured out the problem I hadn't been able to manage the focus for at all, so far this week!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I haven't even had any caffeine yet. I should get on that. Also possibly food.
In other news, I watched the raw version of Soul Eater 41 last night, because I have no patience. Am trying really hard to not keep thinking about it and flailing and analyzing the imagery, since I only understood about 20% of the words that went with it and if I just wait 48 hours or so there will be a subtitled version. But I am not succeeding very well.
Someone distract me with something~
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| 2009-01-20 15:51 |
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When I left the house this morning, even as late as it was, it was misty enough for fog to be visible between the front door and the buildings across the street.
A couple days of slightly warmer weather and sun was enough to make me leave my scarf at home, which I regretted before I made it to the bus stop. It was cold enough the driver of my work shuttle was keeping the door shut to keep the heat in while he waited until the designated departure time - only opening it to let people on. One guy came and sat on the shuttle for a few minutes to keep warm until the shuttle he actually wanted arrived. (But of course it's not even that cold, compared to some places; 37°F, said a sign in downtown.)
The view from my 5th floor office window is mostly the tops of trees, across the plaza in front of my building. In the summer they're bright green and cheerful; right now they're dark spindly silhouettes against the flat gray sky. Occasionally a flock of black crows moves around in the branches.
A Hawaiian Airlines billboard, with bright sand and blue water, reminded me of the movie Dark City the other day, and it hit me hard how draining it is for the world to be missing sunlight and colors.
Whereas yesterday at work I was high from caffeine, slight sleep deprivation, and sunlight - almost giddy, too energetic to focus on much - today I'm just restless, and the only thing that has changed is that last factor.
I want to be doing... something.
EDIT: The mist came back in around 4:30. On the bus ride home, it was dark, and the street lights lit up the fog and made it look like everything was surrounded in orange mist.
AND THAT IS MY PONCY DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE VERSION OF MY DAY. The short snarky version is: Someday I will get used to the crazy things that exist at this latitude, like SEASONS and WEATHER and COLD and SNOW and DECIDUOUS TREES, but today is not that day.
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| 2009-01-16 14:58 |
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Last night I had a frantic dream. It was also tinged with deja vu, like I'd had it before.
( It was a dream full of ACTION )
IN OTHER NEWS, as of this morning I was going to mention in this post that I seem to be in one of my "words don't come together right and everything sounds awkward and I feel like everything I say is potentially obnoxious" moods. And I still kind of am, but between caffeine and righteous anger I am actually feeling a bit more functional for the moment. Still, if I have said anything obnoxious, or not said something when I should have (possibly for fear of being obnoxious), I apologize. I'll probably be less neurotic shortly.
...It is possible that what I really need is more sleep, but really, even on the days I've been getting to bed at a reasonable time I've still been getting up late and being useless for hours. It can stop being winter ANYTIME NOW.
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| 2009-01-07 16:55 |
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Now, breaking(-ish) news! News relevant to something I've been meaning to post for a while.
So, to start, here's an old riddle. Hopefully most of you have seen it before.
A father and son have a car accident and are both badly hurt. They are taken to separate hospitals. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the surgeon says "I cannot do the surgery, because this is my son". How is this possible?
( Answer, and a link to the news )
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| 2008-12-31 13:18 |
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Everything is too quiet today. Walking to the bus, on the bus, at work, it wasn't silent, but... more subdued than usual. The internet seems relatively quiet, too.
At least at work it's actually sort of empty of people, being the day before a holiday. But I don't know why walking to the bus stop should have been quieter than usual, and the bus itself had plenty of people on it, they were just... quiet. ...Which I suppose I shouldn't really complain about on my particular bus route, but still.
Then again, maybe it's just my head. I have a slight headache and I'm still not really awake. (Because of the cold maybe? I swear eight hours is sufficient sleep, self.)
And maybe I shouldn't be complaining, because one thing that would break the quiet would be the piercing sound of my pager, and I think I've heard that enough this week already.
Actually I shouldn't really be posting at all. Not only is this post sort of useless, I have plenty of work to be doing. >_>
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| 2008-12-12 18:23 |
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Snow started as I was walking home from the bus today~
Icy slushy snow that made noise at it was hitting things. It was fun for the minute or so I was actually out in it!
...I think much more would have been too much, though. >_>;
But it's supposed to be record-cold for the next week or so. With snow flurries. WTF, Seattle, high of 31 and snow flurries? I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WEATHER EXISTS
</southern California weather sensibilities>
I still really love my knee-length pleated wool coat, though.
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| 2008-12-08 17:32 |
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I am doing the thing where I am avoiding posting or talking to people just for the sake of avoiding it, so I figure it's time for a post.
I haven't posted or commented on anything in forever, but it's not entirely me just being out of it, for once. The causal breakdown is something like 20% fandom burnout, 30% generalized winter antisocial, and 50% camp.
I have three characters in camp now: Graham from Baccano!, Kimiko from Dresden Codak, and most recently Medusa from Soul Eater. ...I. I knew apping into camp would eat my life. I did. But it's been a lot of fun - the RP itself is often really awesome, and it's a different kind of social interaction with a different kind of people. And it's sort of. Constant.
...The last thing I posted here was my haiku-in-comments post, wasn't it? I. Yeah. To give you an idea of what camp does, we proceeded to have an in-character haiku post, after that. In which I, despite my misgivings, had Graham speak in haiku. Er, a lot. Because it turned out he needed to have an epic, plotty conversation with Jack Harkness of Torchwood about Stein from Soul Eater, and clearly the best way to have it was in haiku. o-orz but it was so awesome
Also! The other day I started writing a fanfic just because I had an idea I really liked! For the first time in months. And I'm still enjoying it so far. Maybe I'll actually finish it, even. \o/ (Camp is to blame for it, as well.)
...I really love Soul Eater a lot, you guys. The premise is cool, the art is cool, they do relationships really well, and almost all the characters are reliably different and interesting and awesome. Including female characters! Love it so hard. ♥
Finally, have a random link. Because it is relevant, and I thought it was awesome: If famous poets wrote zombie haiku.
There we go. An update.
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| 2008-11-13 10:23 |
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had something to post
don't remember what it was
it's a haiku now
clearly it's the best
do haiku in comments, guys
it will be awesome
(triple cross posted
as I have three journals now
for greatest haiku)
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