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My xkcd book came today! *flails* It is shiny and pretty and signed by Randall and the back art is amazing and I don't understand most of the annotations but the extra drawings are adorable and I LOVE IT. <3 <3

There is also new Sarah Jane, but I haven't gotten it yet. :( I BET IT IS SHINY AND PRETTY, TOO.

...Mostly I am just still gleeful over finally getting my copy of the xkcd book. :D :D :D
 
 
mood: bouncy
music: In A Heartbeat - Time's Up
 
 
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...I need to stop spending money.

(Today I bought two Discworld books plus the Doctor Who "The Beginning" DVD set. All excellent purchases, but still, I need to stop spending money.)

(In related news, I am still waiting for my signed copy of the xkcd book. Or even a shipping notice, I would take a shipping notice happily. COME ON, RANDALL. Please? I realized when I ordered it that I would probably regret ordering a signed copy, but I thought that would be because of the price hike not the interminable wait. *sadfaces a bit*)

(Also in related news, omg how much do I want this shirt? SO MUCH.)


...um.
 
 
music: An Unearthly Child
 
 
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29 September 2009 @ 08:08 pm
Restructuring the whole BTIS 'verse in my head. Considering giving it a nonlinear structure (but not quite sure how that would work with the main storylines) or possibly a framing device (maybe a Behind the Music sort of thing? but who would do a BTM thing on a band that's just kind of a big deal on the Internet?) but the current structure isn't working for me. In any case, if I'm doing it for NaNo, I still have a month before I have to actually have a structure firmly in mind.

In other news, I haven't left the house in several days. I am fairly sure that most people would consider this a Bad Thing. Can I self-diagnose myself with Avoidant Personality Disorder? Because I think it might fit.

It's not like I'm actually getting anything done...despite the mental restructuring of BTIS, it's not like I'm actually writing anything. I finished backing up my music collection, which is...only important if you're crazy and OCD like me. I am considering applying as a researcher to one of those text-message-search-engine thingies because then I could earn money without leaving the house, and also I can't find any jobs I'm qualified for in my actual field. So, yeah, basically I'm not doing anything. At all.

Blah.

Um. In the 'less depressing' category...uh...I forgot I preordered the Kings DVD box set, so getting the shipping notice cheered me up a bit. Yay, Jack! I sold another book on Half.Com. There is new Glee and Dollhouse this week (right?) although no new Psych. I've got like half a dozen things being shipped to me right now...I hope they arrive soon.

Oh! And I've now been introduced to the ridiculousness that is xkcdsw. I think this is my favorite of the ones I've seen so far.

And we have chocolate chip cookies and chocolate frosting.

...I kind of fail at life a bit.
 
 
mood: depressed
music: the pogues - rain street
 
 
Ó mo Dhia! Tá an tua i mo cheann!
So is everybody reading this week's xkcd series? Because if not you should be. Because it's AWESOME.

More to the point, does anybody know if Nathan Fillion is reading it? I know somebody on the RSS feed claimed to have tweeted him a link, but I don't know if he actually saw said link or is reading it. If not he should be.

Also, "no, that's the opposite of true" and "things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously" are awesome lines and I'm going to be stealing borrowing at least the first for my Better Than It Sounds 'verse because it's exactly the sort of thing Liam would say to Kyle.

Speaking of.

cut 'cause it's long and probably not of interest; rambling about worldbuilding and original fiction and why I rarely have any actual writing to show for the hours I spend on it )
 
 
mood: contemplative
music: Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
 
 
27 February 2009 @ 04:23 pm
> Teh Niki's definitely out of the Boston trip. :( I'm gonna call the airline and cry at them and see if they'll transfer one of the plane tickets to a different name, since I already know I can't get a refund. If I can, I'll transfer her ticket to my dad's name. No go - tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Blah. Going to try to get my dad to scrape up the cash for his own ticket. Tickets bought! Managed to get him on the same flights. :) Going to Boston with my dad won't be the same, but dammit, I'm going to Boston and I'm going to see my Shane if there's any possible way I can make this trip work.

> Today I logged into and updated my fic journal for the first time since...November, and miniNaNo. Uhm. Yay, me? At least I finally did something.

> My W-2s finally arrived today! So maybe I can get some money back! Yay!

> Awesome thing: [info]lgbtfest. Go, join, prompt, wait to claim, whatever. It's got some awesome prompts already.

> ARD is still pretty much the highlight of my day. Almost done with book #5 right now. I love these guys to a ridiculous degree.

> Westley's a dick.
 
 
mood: lethargic
music: Animorphs: The Radio Drama (Uncensored!) - The Predator
 
 
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22 February 2009 @ 02:16 pm
Snippets from a crossover that I will probably never write in its full form.

Read more... )
 
 
location: somewhere else
mood: creative
music: Where Do I Go - HAiR
 
 
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...you know what I would like to see? A Doctor Who/xkcd crossover. With Black Hat Guy and Black Hair Girl as the Doctor's companions. He would be TOTALLY APPALLED by them and their methods, but they would accidentally save the universe through the liberal use of explosives and hacking! And velociraptors. And crossbows and lightsabers. And they would reverse-engineer the TARDIS and then start growing their own. Without the Doctor's permission. And they would critique the scientific holes in the Doctor's technobabble! And epic hat wars! AND IT COULD BE AWESOME.

This complete randomness at least partially inspired by the fact that there now exists in the world Black Hat Guy/Black Hat Girl fic! And it is good.
 
 
mood: cracktastic!
music: Skid Row - Little Shop Of Horrors
 
 
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10 December 2008 @ 09:53 pm
So. brief thoughts on Pushing Daisies 2x09 The Legend of Merle McQuoddy )


Fandom Wank is featuring wank about a recent xkcd strip. By which I mean they are mostly featuring complaints from people who don't understand the difference between nice guys and Nice GuysTM. Or who think Randall Munroe is somehow advocating the behavior of Nice GuysTM. Or who think Randall Munroe doubting the existence of genuine nice guys and relationships that grow out of friendships naturally. Or who, for some reason, think Randall Munroe is a Nice GuyTM himself. *flail*
 
 
music: The 42nd Annual CMA Awards
 
 
02 October 2008 @ 10:44 pm

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than twenty icons, post them all. If you have between twenty and fifty icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, and what significance it has.


here i go -- mumbling )
 
 
Ó mo Dhia! Tá an tua i mo cheann!
Most awesome-tastic thing heard in a while: The Pogues covering "Do You Believe In Magic?" *laughs*

Close second: The radio-friendly version of "Boys From The County Hell", mainly because the lyrics stop making sense when you replace all the profanity. "We got him out the back and we beat him 'til he bawled"? Really?



Some old [info]fannish5 entries, just because:

cut to spare your flist )


And, [info]fandom_memes!

Pick 10 characters from whatever fandoms you like -- and pick LJ usernames for them. Don't peek at the questions until you've made your list!

1. Martha Jones (Doctor Who/Torchwood) - [info]walkedtheearth
2. Spot Conlon (Newsies) - [info]spot_the_con
3. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies) - [info]losingatmo
4. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - [info]supergenius
5. Joanie (The Black Donnellys) - [info]junkie_girl
6. Florence Vassy (Chess) - [info]worldcitizen01
7. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood) - [info]tw3techie
8. Desmond Hume (LOST) - [info]yourwonderwall
9. Tobias (Animorphs) - [info]lonelyhawk
10. Karen Vick (Psych) - [info]interimchief

questions! )


And
You ever write a fanfic where you think certain lines are just fantastic, but nobody seems to have noticed or commented on them? Comment on this thread with a link to your fanfic, and I'll give you a full-fledged line!post with at least 5 of my favorite lines from that fic.



...I have to go in to work for Kinetix in, like, an hour and a half. *makes face*
 
 
mood: overheating
music: The Pogues - Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say...Poguemahone!! (disc 1)
 
 


All right, kids, I'm goin' off-line. Next time I talk to y'all it will In All Likelihood be from my new apartment and a hacked Internet connection.

Think good thoughts for me! I'll be thinking good thoughts for all of you.
 
 
Ó mo Dhia! Tá an tua i mo cheann!
Yes. I fail. I've been off LJ for way too long. I haven't been commenting. I know.

And instead of, y'know, finding people's posts and commenting, here, have a userpics meme!

cut for length and images )

...why do these always manage to come out so lopsided? *blink* Anyway, you can find credits for all those icons on my userpics page. Because I'm lazy.
 
 
mood: fail
music: big wolf on campus
 
 
Ó mo Dhia! Tá an tua i mo cheann!
I would like to apologize for all the emo I've been throwing at you guys lately. So! To make up for it, or at least to take my mind off of it, here are some Awesome Things:

- Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin - a .pdf document containing two pages of awesomely ridiculous academia. <3

- Girl Genius - which, I dunno, some of you probably already knew about. And if so, why didn't you tell me about this comic earlier? Or if on the off chance you did, why didn't I listen??? Gaslamp fantasy! It's so completely awesome! I only started reading it today and am up to Vol. 4 and love it.

- My new icon. *points* Hee. It makes me happy, because I have a special fondness for Adam's complete inability to remember his lines, ever.

- M*A*S*H marathon on TV. *is a dork*

- Blue Season - a YouTube video in support of the WGA strike, thrown together by some LOST fans. Completely adorable and v. funny.

- Minuet - the music video for Idina Menzel's song "Minuet", on YouTube. Consists mostly of Idina and Taye goofing off in a VW van and is ridiculously cute.
 
 
music: M*A*S*H on TV
 
 
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It's over. :( :( How come I'm always sad when a show ends and I have time to sleep and eat and do homework and mundane stuff like that again?

ANYWAY. It was probably the least-cursed show I have ever worked on. I mean OMG nobody got severely injured (Steve cut his hand up a little bit but not even that much) and there were no huge mistakes during any of the shows and it was seriously a ninja-bunny strike. ALSO OMG, the woman who played Benjamin in the original tour of The Yellow Boat happened to be at Regis on business...she runs an Internet company or something with her husband now...anyway, she saw our posters advertising the show and came down to talk to Steve and Wendy and then she and her husband attended today's show, watched it, and led a post-show discussion with our audience. *flail* HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? That's like, serendipity or something.

I stole one of the No Dolls and got everybody in the cast and crew to sign it. Usually I get everybody to sign a program for me but it felt right to use the doll instead. It's so adorable, though; Meaghan C. made sure to draw an arrow to the doll's face with the note "I DREW THIS!" And the cast gave me a flower and a really sweet card and we all hugged a lot and I maybe cried a little bit. I can't believe this is my last stage management experience as a Regis student. :(

I have, however, been formally offered a paid position as stage manager for Pippin this spring. Of course, in order to take this job I will need a place to live and an additional steady job somewhere else. *flail* Does anybody live in Boston who needs a roommate? *hopeful*



Meme!

How it works: Just comment on this post saying you'd like to play. Then I will choose seven interests from your profile, and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post these instructions along with your answers in your own LiveJournal so that others can play along, too.

[info]moregeil asked about...
bad movies, crack pairings, surviving trichotillomania, chess, friendly hostility, nonsexual life partner, snark )


And in other news, Rent Remixed is crack. *flail* I mean, no, obviously I am not making a judgment on the show based on listening to one audio recording, and will not comment as to whether I like it or not just yet. But it is CRACK. I mean, "Out Tonight" as a burlesque number? "What You Own" as a ballad? *flails more* It's so bizarre.


And I am considering buying this, because my EHD, as much as I love it, is rapidly starting to run out of space. :(
 
 
location: gone
mood: okay
music: Happy New Year - Rent OBCR
 
 
14 October 2007 @ 09:01 pm
People should not schedule dry tech and cue-to-cue to be on the same day and separated only by an hour. That hour break will not happen and dry tech will not be complete by the time cue-to-cue starts.

All right, all right, to be fair, it was a relatively painless cue-to-cue especially considering that when it started we had less than half of the show programmed into the light board. And that we were simultaneously training the sound tech and the lighting tech, neither of whom are at all familiar with running a show and halfway make me wish I was doing all the crew work myself except then I would truly be dead. I would be worried about the state of the Regis' theater's tech crew after I leave except I WON'T BE HERE ANYMORE and therefore I don't have to care. Haha. I'm evil, I guess.

We open on Thursday. *flail muchly*



Meme!

Comment and I'll pick seven of your icons, and then you will explain why you love/are using the icon (who doesn't love talking about their icons, seriously) and then post your explanation/this meme in your journal for other people to squee about their icons, and basically it will be a huge squeefest of love and 100x100 square pixels.

From [info]allfireburns:

seven icons )
 
 
mood: feh, tech week
music: Hopelessly Devoted To You - Kristen Chenoweth
 
 
01 October 2007 @ 03:45 pm
Hey, do you know what is totally NOT made of win? A four-hour power blackout followed by another twelve hours of internet what refuses to work. *growls at the school*

And then, and then, once the power comes back (but before the internet connection does) trying to boot up your laptop only to have it totally fail to respond, panic, spend frantic moments checking power cords and the room lights to make sure there's no reason why the power shouldn't be working, panicking more, walking downstairs to get a drink while continuing to panic and think about how you'll survive if your laptop is really and truly dead, then getting back to your room and realizing that the power strip cord was knocked out of the wall, which is also the reason why your phone has stopped charging and the TV won't turn on. Yes. I am an utter ditz who nearly talked myself into a heart attack.

(Also uncool? Being offline for sixteen-plus hours and then logging into your e-mail to discover a mere five new messages. *sigh* Yes, I'm an e-mail whore.)

I can't bear to face getting caught up on my friendslist because I'm In A Mood, so if you posted anything in, say, the last twenty-four hours that you think I should see, drop me a link and I will check it out.


On brighter notes, Yellow Boat has almost all of its props now! Yay! We still need the Frankenstein bolts. And the dolls are getting made on Wednesday during my Theatre For Young Audiences class. And minor adjustments need to be made to some of the props (clipboards need to be painted, finger puppet needs a grass skirt sewn on, that sort of thing) but this is well and truly Progress. Which is good, 'cause it's October now and we open on the eighteenth.

The cast is supposed to be off-book tonight. I laugh and cringe simultaneously and am somewhat grateful I will miss a large chunk of tonight's rehearsal for class.


Link of the moment: a post connecting Chess and xkcd, two of my Greatest Loves Ever. :D :D :D

And Randall blogs about the xkcd meetup!

No classes tomorrow, but I do have work starting at 9AM.

And, um. Yeah, that's about it. Mostly I'm still sulking about the power/Internet outage. I deserve a good sulk, I think.
 
 
music: London Calling - The Clash
 
 
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28 September 2007 @ 06:48 pm
So, I went down to the cafe to get dinner because I really don't feel like sitting in the dining hall eating barely-recognizable whatever. And while there I got into a conversation with the guy making my food about, among other things, the straight-edge movement.

I realize this doesn't sound like a big deal. But, um. This is not something I do. I do not have in-depth conversations with people I don't know. I only rarely have in-depth conversations with people I do know. The fact that I don't really know a lot of people who would be interested in talking about the straight-edge movement is irrelevant, because the subject could have been anything that required actual interaction and discussion and I don't do that with people I don't know. I get nervous and nod and smile a lot and mentally plot my escape, because I'm shy and socially awkward.

So, um, I'm not sure whether you should be congratulating me or wondering who possessed me for the duration of this conversation, but there it is, I am still trying to figure out how that happened.


In other news, Dirty Sexy Money may be a new addition to my list of OMGFANDOMS. I think I have to see a few more episodes to decide whether I'm addicted or not. And who my favorite characters will be, although Jeremy has pulled to an early lead. And, well, I'm digging on Juliet more than a bit, too. Are people making icons or writing fic yet? That may help me decide. In any case. Definitely sticking around for a while longer.

The Sweet Charity auction is officially over for this round. I won a fic ho and a jewelry ho and have just remembered that I have to go e-mail them. Oops. Also, our very own [info]trascendenza won my vidding services. :D :D :D Yay! I promise to do my very best to make you an utterly brilliant vid and have fun doing it.

The xkcd meetup made the news. Twice.


And in other, other news: I MISS MY NIKI and she needs to come to Massachusetts RIGHT NOW, plzkthnx. :( She can even bring The Boy if she must. I just neeeeeeeeeed to see her.


ETA: Also, OMG musical theatre fandom wank! *flail*
 
 
mood: missing niki
music: Halloween - Rent
 
 
25 September 2007 @ 11:02 pm
...I feel like hell.

Um. I was going to post my reactions to the Heroes S2 premiere and the Sarah Jane Adventures. But, well. I feel like hell. So quick sumups:

Heroes: mildly spoilery )

SJA: also mildly spoilery )

Also: Randall's speech at the xkcd meetup, wherein I am vaguely visible and make a bad crack about small children being crushed by our masses. If you're looking for me, I'm the skinny chick in the gray shirt with the blindingly red jacket over one arm.

And now, because of the aforementioned feeling like hell, I'm goin' to bed. Later, folks.
 
 
mood: sick
 
 
Ó mo Dhia! Tá an tua i mo cheann!
24 September 2007 @ 04:15 pm
Shamelessly copied from a list being used at the xkcd meetup. (Yes, eventually I will shut up about the meetup, but right now I'm still excited about it.) Pick a topic and start a conversation!

0. should the list start at 0 or 1?
1. geeks vs. nerds
2. lies teachers tell students
3. quantum mechanics
4. life before the internet
5. what does xkcd really mean?
6. what songs should be added to guitar hero?
7. other webcomics
8. driving in boston
9. when/how did you learn about xkcd?
10. group hugs
11-101 under the cut )
 
 
location: the geek side
mood: still cheering
music: collin raye