girasola: You know what's great about tonight? Tonight I get to actually go right home.And then I will write lyrics.
And then I will be at home, and I'll hang pictures.
maeritrae: OMG PICTURESHANGING PICTURES
OMG
SO
MY APARTMENT
MY APARTMENT HAS A FEW PICTURES IN IT
WAIT I NEED TO GO BACK A LITTLE FURTHER
SO
DUCK TALES
DUCK TALES ARE HUGELY POPULAR IN SCANDINAVIA
AND FINLAND
LIKE
THERE ARE DUCK TALES COMICS AT THE CHECKOUTS IN SUPERMARKETS
I KNOW I AM CAPSLOCKING AT YOU BUT TRUST ME THIS IS WORTH IT
AND THERE'S A PICTURE IN MY FLAT OF A HYPERREALISTIC DONALD DUCK WANDERING THROUGH A REAL HOUSE
LIKE A PRINT
AND THEN IN THE FAR CORNER
THERE'S A PICTURE OF A VILLA
WITH A BALCONY
AND ARCHED DOORWAYS
AND LOTS OF VEILS
AND IT ALL LOOKS PERFECTLY NICE AND PRETTY
YOU CAN SEE THE SEA THROUGH THE DOORS AND WINDOWS
TERRACOTTA WALLS
AND THEN
BEHIND THE VEILS
YOU NOTICE
( Possibly triggery talk about ducksCollapse )
I've migrated pretty much exclusively over to Facebook, even though I still check my friends list most days. I just don't feel like I have a lot to say on LJ any more, plus I don't want to talk about work here, which is the dominant concern in my life at the moment. I miss so many of you guys; I especially can't wait to see my gaming gang again, but it doesn't look like it'll be happening before Christmas. I'm crazy busy this week, then a week in Frankfurt, two weeks here, and then I'll be in Geneva for most of a month, less a week in Santa Fe.
What prompted me to post, oddly, is what's happened on Facebook. Two of my childhood friends got married this weekend (not to each other). The girl I was paired up with in Junior Cert home ec. appeared in the photos of one wedding sporting a large baby bump. I think it's her second, but it could be her third; she married a guy she met in Brazil a few years ago. But what stunned me was seeing the girl who, when I was ten years old, was my best friend and the coolest person on the planet as far as I was concerned, dancing in her wedding dress with the guy she's been dating since she was 12. I knew they were engaged, so this is the logical conclusion, but I had no idea the wedding was this weekend.
And then one of my bf's friends, whose wedding I attended last year, posted a picture of their eight-week ultrasound.
And I can hardly say on Facebook that I'm feeling stunned and a bit melancholy over everyone posting their pictures and news all at once, so I came here, because even though I've wandered off and not been active and don't really deserve a bunch of comments on this post, I know there are people who'll read it and comment on it and talk about it, and I miss those people, and I want to be a bigger part of their lives. I miss LJ. I miss you guys. I'm busy and I won't necessarily have a lot to say or much time to read fic, but I miss the people very very much.
What prompted me to post, oddly, is what's happened on Facebook. Two of my childhood friends got married this weekend (not to each other). The girl I was paired up with in Junior Cert home ec. appeared in the photos of one wedding sporting a large baby bump. I think it's her second, but it could be her third; she married a guy she met in Brazil a few years ago. But what stunned me was seeing the girl who, when I was ten years old, was my best friend and the coolest person on the planet as far as I was concerned, dancing in her wedding dress with the guy she's been dating since she was 12. I knew they were engaged, so this is the logical conclusion, but I had no idea the wedding was this weekend.
And then one of my bf's friends, whose wedding I attended last year, posted a picture of their eight-week ultrasound.
And I can hardly say on Facebook that I'm feeling stunned and a bit melancholy over everyone posting their pictures and news all at once, so I came here, because even though I've wandered off and not been active and don't really deserve a bunch of comments on this post, I know there are people who'll read it and comment on it and talk about it, and I miss those people, and I want to be a bigger part of their lives. I miss LJ. I miss you guys. I'm busy and I won't necessarily have a lot to say or much time to read fic, but I miss the people very very much.
I rather enjoyed the first of these books, especially the ending, and I can't wait to see where things go in the second book!
HEY GUYS
Doesn't this look cool?
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn't give you the date and it didn't give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die." MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Featuring stories by: Randall Munroe * Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw * Tom Francis * Camille Alexa * Erin McKean * James L. Sutter * and many others. Featuring illustrations by: Kate Beaton * Kazu Kibuishi * Aaron Diaz * Jeffrey Brown * Scott C. * Roger Langridge * Karl Kerschl * Cameron Stewart * and many others.
I love so many of these people. I love the idea of this book. And I love the promo they went with, even though I didn't hear about it until today. I ordered my copy this morning, and I would encourage anyone who is interested and can afford it to do the same, today.
"This isn’t some vanity-press sour-grapes effort. The simple truth is that we probably can’t compete on the shelves at Barnes & Noble alongside every other book in the world. The agents and the publishers are right; it might not work for a mass market. That’s okay. We don’t need to sell it to everyone. We don’t need to sell 100,000 copies; we don’t have the rent on a New York office to pay for.
We only need to sell it to you.
On October 26, we want to send a message that a little project dragged kicking and screaming from “crazy idea” past “it’ll never work” all the way to “By God, they actually did it” can make a big splash. We’re internet people; you are too. We want to prove to all the people who said “this will never sell” that internet people make things happen.
Did you know that on any given day, an Amazon.com bestseller only sells a few hundred copies? Sure, they sell a few hundred copies a day for weeks and months on end, but what we’ve learned is that it only takes a few hundred sales on a single day to become an Amazon.com bestseller.
We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller for exactly one day — October 26."
ETA: First forty pages online here.
ETA2: We're #1!
Doesn't this look cool?
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn't give you the date and it didn't give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die." MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Featuring stories by: Randall Munroe * Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw * Tom Francis * Camille Alexa * Erin McKean * James L. Sutter * and many others. Featuring illustrations by: Kate Beaton * Kazu Kibuishi * Aaron Diaz * Jeffrey Brown * Scott C. * Roger Langridge * Karl Kerschl * Cameron Stewart * and many others.
I love so many of these people. I love the idea of this book. And I love the promo they went with, even though I didn't hear about it until today. I ordered my copy this morning, and I would encourage anyone who is interested and can afford it to do the same, today.
"This isn’t some vanity-press sour-grapes effort. The simple truth is that we probably can’t compete on the shelves at Barnes & Noble alongside every other book in the world. The agents and the publishers are right; it might not work for a mass market. That’s okay. We don’t need to sell it to everyone. We don’t need to sell 100,000 copies; we don’t have the rent on a New York office to pay for.
We only need to sell it to you.
On October 26, we want to send a message that a little project dragged kicking and screaming from “crazy idea” past “it’ll never work” all the way to “By God, they actually did it” can make a big splash. We’re internet people; you are too. We want to prove to all the people who said “this will never sell” that internet people make things happen.
Did you know that on any given day, an Amazon.com bestseller only sells a few hundred copies? Sure, they sell a few hundred copies a day for weeks and months on end, but what we’ve learned is that it only takes a few hundred sales on a single day to become an Amazon.com bestseller.
We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller for exactly one day — October 26."
ETA: First forty pages online here.
ETA2: We're #1!
Once again, a brief update on the madness that is my life. Tomorrow, my parents are coming to visit (YAY PARENTS) and on Saturday we're clearing all my stuff out of the house into storage. In anticipation of their arrival, I have been poking around on 
what_a_crock looking for something I can do with the pork tenderloin in my freezer. I'm trying to decide between slicing up an apple and adding half a cup of apple juice, or putting in a tin of pineapple including juice. We're booked in to visit my new apartment at 10am Saturday so they have some idea of where I'll be living. I'm hoping they don't balk - it's a nice flat, and very close to uni, but it's close to some student halls and there are a few roads I wouldn't go down alone at night. Nothing too serious.
On Sunday they'll head home, and on Monday I'm off to Helsinki for a two-week summer school that I am in no way ready for. Then I have a one-week conference where I will be presenting a poster (which I'm nominally making right now) and then I come back here to move in to my new flat.
what_a_crock looking for something I can do with the pork tenderloin in my freezer. I'm trying to decide between slicing up an apple and adding half a cup of apple juice, or putting in a tin of pineapple including juice. We're booked in to visit my new apartment at 10am Saturday so they have some idea of where I'll be living. I'm hoping they don't balk - it's a nice flat, and very close to uni, but it's close to some student halls and there are a few roads I wouldn't go down alone at night. Nothing too serious. On Sunday they'll head home, and on Monday I'm off to Helsinki for a two-week summer school that I am in no way ready for. Then I have a one-week conference where I will be presenting a poster (which I'm nominally making right now) and then I come back here to move in to my new flat.
It has been brought to my attention via a sharp nudge that I have not updated this in a while. Life's been pretty interesting, so I figure I'll pop up a synopsis of the past while and let people comment.
And that is life at the moment. Have I forgotten anything?
- I will be moving out of my house in three weeks (sadface!), going to Finland for three weeks, and then moving into a new place, probably a one-bedroom city centre apartment. I'm still in the process of finding just the right one for me, but at least I have some ideas of where I want to be.
- I'm learning to drive. It's going okay; I had to take a long break because I was in Geneva for a couple of weeks and have been very busy since then.
- I'm going out with a young man from my department at work. It's going quite nicely.
- I'm learning to climb. It's going pretty well when you take into account that I have no upper body strength and a petrifying fear of heights.
- Last week I did a four-day course in beekeeping. It was very interesting, but even scarier than the driving or the climbing. I got stung on the ankle on Thursday, and it's still very itchy. I should really stop scratching it.
- I'm writing a paper and preparing a poster for my trip to Finland next month. It's going okay.
- Had aramuin and deannawol over this weekend, which was excellent fun. We went to the Royal Armouries.
- Last weekend I got home for the first time since Easter and had lots of family time and fun. :D
And that is life at the moment. Have I forgotten anything?
I'm having trouble focusing. Can people link me to short distractions? So, a newspaper article rather than an entire archive of webcomics. Thanks. ♥
Have watched so very much Supernatural the past week and a half. It's very good. I especially like the way it moves away from the shock-and-jump stuff to more plot-driven things, while still being tongue-in-cheek and poking fun at itself.
Have watched so very much Supernatural the past week and a half. It's very good. I especially like the way it moves away from the shock-and-jump stuff to more plot-driven things, while still being tongue-in-cheek and poking fun at itself.
Sometimes I feel like a fictional character. Wonder if that would work.
Got my hair chopped off and dyed at the start of the week. It's now fairly short, very curly and a darkish shade of red.
To-do list still far too long, but Progress is Being Made. Parents are arriving for the weekend in about 40 minutes. Looking forward very muchly.
So tired. Not sure why.
Got my hair chopped off and dyed at the start of the week. It's now fairly short, very curly and a darkish shade of red.
To-do list still far too long, but Progress is Being Made. Parents are arriving for the weekend in about 40 minutes. Looking forward very muchly.
So tired. Not sure why.
