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05:58pm 18/07/2009

music: Mark Owen - Back Pocket and Me

My 1st Walmart Boyfriend is leaving. This makes me sad since he's the Mark Owen look-a-like. I have been lavishing him with candybars and all sorts of things, like promises of hot sweet nookie in the dressing room. Now to clarify, I'm very much a lesbian. But in Walmart I have what is called a harem.. comprised of 7 boys and 1 girl. It is because inherently I have a very flirty nature and I like attention.   I've capped it at 7 so there's a waiting list (and Mikey told me to give him a call when #7 opens up.)    It makes the night rather fun, though last night was a little bit better and myself and Sharon actually got things done, no one was pulled up for people greeter and OMG I got trained on the register by CSM Mikey.

Other news of note.

1.) I'm stuck here in the Sault until I get a transfer. It sucks, I know.. but oh well.   I stay because the possibility that I won't find a job in Kentucky probably exists, better to go into a job that is pre-existing. There's no guarentee that I could walk into a job in Kentucky if I quit, so I'm staying with the job I -have- until one opens up in Kentucky.

2.)  I finally have an extension for my ipod in my car. There was much music-age!

3.) Morrissey is hilarious.

4.) They have breaded okra at the Super Walmart. This pleases me beyond measure (since that is my favorite food.. coupled with thousand island dressing. Yum yum, one of those things that haven't changed since my childhood.) I don't like the breaded okra that comes in bags (though I never complain if it's made since it's the thought that counts and I recognize it) because it falls apart, the perfect breaded okra are the only ones that I think is restaurant grade.

5.) I really want Robbie William's album "Swing while your Winning" since I think his voice is really suited to classic songs. *listening to his rendition of "Delovely" which is really nice*

6.) I had a dream about Black Jack, which was really nifty. He was fighting ogres, I remember this clearly. Though there was one that needed an operation. Hey, if anyone can do Ogre surgeries, it's Black Jack.

7.) I caved and got Sims 3 so hence tradition, I made Sigurd and Hyuga sims. Hyuga is like a step closer to being a Super International Spy while Sigurd is on the rock star track. Hyuga wants a baby too, but I promised that once he gets Super International Spy, then he can have all the babies he wants. I have plans to make a Locke Cole sim, because I think that it'd be fun to have him be a Friendly Klepto. (Shukoi just needs to make Rachel for him is all, so she might want to think of that while she's in Kentucky)

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Fanfiction | The Big Bang Theory | mild S&P | "The Standoff At Fort Miranda"

des_akazim

05:20pm 18/07/2009

mood: dumb

music: Fire Burning-Sean Kingston

ughhh there's a brown recluse in my room
I think I failed in it's termination. normally I'd let it chill but..i'm not too keen on the potential necrosis of my limbs B\
Projected location of target: somewhere near my feet, underneath desk.

in other news...
I stupidly bought a blu ray disk of advent children thinking it would work on a DVD player ALSO, not just squint worthy on the small tv..no. also I need a HD cable apparently, so I said screw it and ordered an additional copy with this gift card I got like 4 years ago so I got ~*~*~*collectors edition*~*~*~ for cheap yay.

uhhh. I don't know it makes me feel ESPECIALLY stupid because I hate wasting moneyyy

speaking of money, yay for free birthday offering coupons! ...not so yay for it all being ice cream (not good with lactose) BUT I SHALL distribute amongst my family and friends.
Also, I get a free gelato so I'm saving that for maybe my birthday? since everyone's working.

I'M GOING TO BE 19 YEARS OLD SOON, WONDER WHAT WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR

for JELLYFISHYYYYYY (click for the big version)
( cuttlefish cupcake doodles, and pics from boston! )

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BABY TIME BITCHES!

seethecee

02:51pm 18/07/2009

mood:

cheerful

I would like to welcome into the world my little monster child, Loghan James Henderson-Kinvig. born on July 8th(my dads birthday) at 9:56pm.

i'm to lazy to put up pictures here but i have a freaking full photo album on Facebook.

-->LOGHAN PICTURES<--

hes doing great, had a pretty bad first week with a bad gas attack that lasted monday and tuesday, his eating has been screwed up by that but we've gotten him to clam down now and just to get him back to eating more regularly.

he is 10 days old today! first check up on monday :( he is going to cry his brains out..

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03:11am 18/07/2009

Notes: I posted this first at Fiction Friday, then I uploaded a slightly cleaner, edited version to FF.Net, and posted below. This is almost a fusion, but not quite a crossover.

Title: The Standoff At Fort Miranda
Genre: Humor
Spoilers: none
Challenge: couch, Sheldon & Penny
Rating: PG
FF.net link: here
Wordcount: 1,300

Summary: The very dramatic, no-holds-barred laser tag battle for the living room, by a bunch of people who watch too much Firefly.

( ''Your pal's dead!'' Sheldon shouted, with a dramatic space-monster growl that impressed Penny, aspiring actor. ''We shall violate his body, drink the marrow of his bones, and pillage his equipment!'' )

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Harry Potter HBP: No home, no rest, no sanctuary.

eibii

12:37am 18/07/2009

music: Kitka - Lamentation

Well, I haven't gotten crap done for art or portfolio work, let alone scripting or outlining, my camera is en-route but no memory card yet, my pattern for my shiny new coat needs replacing in a size that actually fits me, and I seem to keep spending too much money on groceries.

But! At least I have some awesome free Russian music. Man, what a time I picked for an eMusic trial. Potential blitherings coming possibly after a family gathering and work tomorrow.

I wish there were a few more hours in the day to use as my own.

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Pip pip!

starkodama

02:03pm 17/07/2009

mood:

good

music: Bro playing Phoenix Wright: Justice For All

And now we're in London! Hammersmith, to be exact. Brittany's got our itinerary planned for tomorrow and Sunday, and on Monday Bro-Bot and I will head off by ourselves to go to the London Dungeon!! woo!!

Yesterday we went to Hampton Court Palace. I really like hearing about Henry VIII and all his wives, so it was pretty neat to see where and how they lived.

I'm riiiiight at the end of FFVII: Crisis Core and I love it so much I don't want it to end!! It is so unspeakably amazing to be able to revisit FFVII and all the characters I know and love. ;_; I feel like I'm 14 again and playing FFVII late at night after a long day of school and pushing shopping carts at Safeway. :P I'm glad I don't have to bag groceries anymore to make ca$h, but the giddy feeling I get when playing a really good game will probably never change. :D

Bro-Bot stole my copy of the second Phoenix Wright and he's tearing through it!! He's way better at that game than I ever was. D:

We went to a pub and I had a draft Guinness with a cheeseburger and chips. Life was good.

Cheerio!!!

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The fangirl in me just vomited.

12:11am 17/07/2009

I can use one word to describe the 6th Harry Potter film: ( Intimate. )

I have to stop typing now, because this is getting to a ridiculous length. Anyway, it's brilliant fun. Go see it. At this point, if movie 7 and 8 improves at the rate the movies are improving, I might like the films better than the books. It's certainly making me like the books more, at the moment. It's all the wonder and the characterization and the detail of this world that JKR made, but with prettier imagery than JKR's prose ever came close to being. Her prose was never the match of her imagination. In the films, finally, we are seeing the story presented in a medium that is.

ETA: How could I forget the unicorn? THAT UNICORN. I don't know why it's there, in Hogwarts, in that room, but oh I love that it is.

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thefreefall

08:20am 16/07/2009

mood:

bitchy

Forks, WA - A Lesson in TAKING ALL OF FANGIRLS' MONEY

No, really. I liked Twilight. (The books.) But this is just disturbing.

Relatedly, Topless Robot is amazing.

In addition, I desperately want this hoodie.

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It's a bit crowded in here. Stop looking over my shoulder!

08:06am 16/07/2009

Opening day came and went.

God damn it, am I tired. We're open 24 hours and I think that I just want to sleep forever. Errrh, I wish I could go into details but my brain is just frazzled. In every new endeavor, there is always kinks, and unfortunately they didn't see the kinks until they hit NIGHT SHIFT. (yeah I look forward to seeing how they correct it at a later point in time)

This icon clearly shows that I'm loving life right about now.

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Android

emutracer

04:01pm 15/07/2009

mood:

okay

Вот развлекаюсь на работе свежевышедшим лайвсидюком Андроеда.

( мама, хде море? )

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been so long

blanckien

11:54pm 14/07/2009

mood:

chipper... ?

incidentally, i haven't finished ANY of the goals mentioned below.

...well, at least i got it together just enough to get my diploma.

and now i have some free time and opportunities to practice, so i'm gonna try tackling the driving thing first.

...but maybe it's a bad idea to start driving after playing endless hours of gta.

...

Fanart | Book| Queen's Thief series | Attolia

11:13pm 14/07/2009

mood:

complacent

The last few days I've been listening to Last Chance To See, and nonfiction book about endangered animals, written by Douglas Adams in the late 80s or early 90s. It's narrated by Adams himself, and this is the first 'new' book narrated by him that I've listened to in a couple years. The irony of the title isn't lost on me, since I believe this makes the last audiobook of his that I haven't listened to at least once already. My last chance to listen.

An interesting side effect of listening to forty-five minutes of Douglas Adams's unique narration style is that everything I read for the next couple of hours is, ipso facto, also narrated by Douglas Adams.

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: I understand the meaning but I can't explain this feeling now :

04:52pm 14/07/2009

mood:

awake

Hey folks! New reader here. I just finished reading The King of Attolia, and I felt compelled to do fan art. Since I am typically a writer, it takes me really liking something to do fanart! And I thoroughly enjoyed KoA. Also, I think that if my brain is fried and can't think of writing fanfic for something (like books) then it defaults to fanart as a creative outlet instead.

Teaser:

Full color image, no spoilers, @ Deviant Art: Attolia with inkpot.

Sketch draft & color zoom here.

Although this fanart was inspired by KoA, there are no spoilers present. =)

I like the almost Aegean feel to the series, so I tried to give a Mediterranean feel to Attolia's outfit. When I read the novels, I imagined Attolia as resembling the Greek goddess Pallas Athena, who was ruthless in war and who valued knowledge, progress, and the evolution of cities. In my mind she looked like a tougher, curvier, sturdier version of Keira Knightly: cold but alluring.

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05:08pm 14/07/2009

music: Take That - Never Forget

We open the Super Walmart tomorrow. I'm going to be in there putting the final tweaking touches on it. Really it's very exciting, despite the opening ceremony where the managers pretty much use it to fap to how wonderful they are (with the exception of the nightshift managers because honestly, WAY MORE HUMBLE). Despite the fact that management will be management, it's really awesome to think of the wonderful job all of us 'peons' did. We got that place shit-hot and looking good and I would like to (on behalf of the nightshift) take 100 percent of that credit, however I'm sure that Dayshift did maybe 10 percent of it. No matter, we still did a large portion of it.

There's a certain pride that one takes when they realize that yes, they can sort of make a difference especially when you are building something from the ground up. It was an invaluable expirience for me, remiscient of my time in the military when I got to help building from the ground up a base in the middle of Qatar. You might think that 'oh, it's just a store.. and that was a military base'. But there was more people there building up the military base, not to mention that it was never as polished and as refined as this store LOOKS.

The military base was rough.. but we'd polish it with use. This was a diamond that started off as a lump of coal and we had to polish it just so that it would be ready for eventual display.

Is it polished? Yeah, I think it is.

That's been my random musing on work.

And now for a feel good Take That Video.

The above video looks better on High Definition.

Which reminds me, another happy bit of note. They filmed Take That "The Circus" Tour and I don't know when it's coming out, but it WILL be coming out and you can guess who is going to buy that. (No, I bet you guys can't guess)

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No fly tipping

starkodama

04:52pm 14/07/2009

mood:

content

music: Hell if I know British song on radio

Yessterday we went to Bath and we saw a sign that said "NO FLY TIPPING-- FINE 250 POUNDS". What on earth is fly tipping??!!

Bath was AWESOME~! I love me some Roman Empire stuff so it was really cool to tour the Roman baths there. It was so beautiful just to walk around and see the city.

My sister is a teacher at a special needs elementary school, and they had their talent show today. Somehow I got roped into being a judge! :P The kids really did a good job though, it was really sweet to see their performances. One group even did a Michael Jackson tribute! love it~!!

Our houseboat is pretty sweet. We got woken up this morning by a family of swans-- parents and 4 babies-- pecking on the walls of our boat asking for food! We were happy to oblige.

I miss RooG a lot but life's still good here. Can't wait till we can get to the London Dungeon! Probably sometime next week.

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thefreefall

07:48am 14/07/2009

mood:

contemplative

music: Shawnie singing. =D

I have a lot on my mind, a lot on my plate lately... But, as usual, I try to distract myself with retail therapy.

Today, I found this top and I squeed like I haven't squeed in weeks. A Pogues corset? Hullaballooo... gimme now.

I might have to buy it.

I get a tooth pulled tonight. I should be all drugged up. I may take tomorrow off work if it hurts badly enough. I eagerly anticipate a complete inability to talk.

That's it... Gonna go back to watching Lost/Six Feet Under/possibly Chicken Little...

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Book fanfiction.

Legend of the Seeker: a question for canon readers

03:01am 13/07/2009

Most of the time, I have trouble reading fanfiction for book series. Does this happen to you guys?

There are some books I can read fic for, quite easily: Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings, for example. I can read fic for HP because the style is simple and easy to emulate, and I can read fic for LOTR because it's been about 8 years since I read Tolkien so my most recent memory of the story is through the movies, and thus fanfiction style doesn't bother me. For both of these series, there's so much background, so much text and worldbuilding, that a lot of fanfiction will still fit within the plausibility of canon, and for some unexplainable reason, variations in prose style don't bother me.

For most novels, however, prose is everything in my reading experience, so fanfic just doesn't work for me. I'd want fic to be exactly like the source, and that's not the purpose of fanfiction. I think that when it comes to visual media like tv, video games, film, or manga, there's a necessary transformation when changing from the visual to the audible. When going from pictures to language-describing-pictures, there's no limit to how you want those words to sound. There's a certain limitation within dialogue style, but for narrative delivery it is completely up to the fanficcer what style she chooses to write. I can write it however I like, and because it's from a tv show, no one can tell me I'm doing it wrong.

With most books, I don't feel that kind of freedom. I don't feel like I'm released of the obligation to mimic the source material. And I don't want to read fanfic that doesn't also mimic the source material. But as far as fandom activity goes...this doesn't leave me much.

I might try to read Susana Clarke fanfiction if I could ever find any. I'd love to read quality Discworld fanfic too...but for me to like it, it would probably have to mimic Pratchett's style. Same problem with Douglas Adams. And so far I've only found that successfully in crossovers. (I love crossovers.)

Thoughts? Major book fandoms I've forgotten? (don't mention that one, I haven't read it, you know of which evil I speak.)

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01:12am 13/07/2009

Book Canon Trivia Question:

In the novels, does a Confessor's influence end with her death? It appears to be the case in the tv show, but I don't remember if the issue came up in Wizard's First Rule or not. I guess I had the impression that it didn't go away. ...Also, in the books, the Confessors could transform people into animals to mitigate the life-crippling effect of being Confessed. Did the Confessor have that ability, or did someone else, like a wizard, change the person's shape?

TV Review, no major spoilers, general for eps 1-8:

Although this is marginally better than the tooth-pulling awfulness that was episode 7, I'm still frightfully put off the by the dialogue. I mean, Merlin is cheesy, but at least its reasonably good cheese. Three dollar and fifty cent pepper jack, as opposed to the grocery-cart permiscuous (but still pompus) six dollar gouda that is Doctor Who. In comparison, Legend of the Seeker is really bad in-store sharp, in string-cheese stick shape, left at room temperature.

But, as before, I am highly impressed by a few things:

A. The costumes (except the torturer's, which is just stupid), especially Zed's and Khalan's and the Random Villagers'.
B. The scenery, especially the mountains and forests.
C. The special effects, varying from adequate smoke tendrils to beautiful bursts of enegery, light, and miasma. Zed's disappearing act was slick and effective for its simplicity.
D. The art direction & props, all around elegant-looking, the whole thing.
E. Richard's abs, because holy flying spagetti monster, that's not right. This is fantasy escapism, not Biology 102.
E. Kahlan's upper assets, because wow, doesn't her neck ever get cold? Even her overcoat doesn't cover any more than the white dress.
F. Kahlan's white dress. I love it. I'd cosplay it. It's one of the few costumes in popular fantasy tv that I could pull off well: it emphasizes the top and forgives the belly.
G. The Confessor stuff, because I find it interesting, and it makes Kahlan interesting to me as a character.

In contrast, Richard is so painfully and frustratingly blank. Like a paper doll. He doesn't even have Luke Skywalker's childishness or bouts of selfish whining. He is nothing but an utterly perfect heart of gold, pure angel. He could probably ride a unicorn, and look properly manly while doing it. I wish this were written with humorous irony, like Carrot Ironfoundersson of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, but sadly, it's written completely straightfaced. And even Carrot had personality quirks beyond being "perfect": he liked to read, and always remembered people's names, and was a total geek for cultural history, and he had an unnerving devotion to the noble rule of law. Richard doesn't have any personality traits or interests that make him distinct as a person beyond being a heroic symbol, and even that is taken too seriously--there's not a lighthearted wink at the audience like you get all the time with Merlin and used to get with shows like Hercules. I almost want to write fanfic just to GIVE him a personality. I mean, heck, Merlin took the most noble, well-intentioned, blessed hero in western legend and made him a peacock and a jock. If you can give an idol like King Arthur a personality beyond his symbolic role, you can easily give one to Richard.

Other thoughts:

This show needs a Toph Bei Fong. A Han Solo would work too, but I don't know any female Han Solo characters from my current fandoms. We badly need a foil for Richard, an antihero to play off his hero status, and another female character would help balance the dynamic considerably.

I like how much Richard relies on Kahlan as the person at his back. He completely believes not only in her loyalty, but in her competence as one of his guides and protectors.

Zed's actor amuses me. He does what he can with the script, and I think he'd do very well if given better material.

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