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[07 Jan 2010|07:13am] |
Last night was the critiquing group meeting (the original one) and it was pretty good. I still think most of the fanfic stories I beta are better than the stuff from my group, but I'm hoping that as we all edit each other's works, we will all become better writers. I need to get back into editing Egypt, but with Janowrimo going on, I'm not editing much. I'll be getting ahead this weekend so I'll try to do some editing as well. I need to have Chapter 4 ready to go in two weeks. I think I can manage.
Though I need to plan my trip to Japan badly, too. I have to weigh my priorities. Make the time. I wish I had Rich Steves books for Japan. I love that man's travel books.
I've been so disciplined this week that it's almost scary. I didn't know I could be such a model Nessa before. I plan on doing something stupid this weekend, maybe another anime preview, to blow time.
Priority 1 - Janowrimo
Priority 2 - Japan trip planning
Priority 3 - Anime Preview
Should #3 really be a priority?
Day 7 (morning)
Words since last post: 4,009
Total words: 10,377
   (I have a new gold! And it is a Dorkface. If anyone on my flist needs a gold, let me know and I'll attempt to breed for you.)
  
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| see what happens when I open my yap at a meeting.... |
[06 Jan 2010|10:29pm] |
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Well, I've been officially designated as co-coordinator for San Antonio Pagan Pride Day. This should prove interesting. I think what I've learned in the Knowledge Management field will serve me well here.
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[05 Jan 2010|10:32am] |
My Librarian just informed me that Title Wave used book store in Portland is going to have a 50% off manga sale on Friday the 29th. I browsed their online shopping webpage...
Wow. I should go take a loan out now.
*feels sorry for her pocketbook*
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| Long day is loooooooooong |
[05 Jan 2010|07:28am] |
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On Sunday the biggest macaw needed to see the vet, so I got the fun job of catching her. Couldn't be one of the smaller, tamer ones. Oh no. Had to be the biggest (apart from the peacock, I guess) and most dangerous bird in the place. I only managed because she miscalculated - ran into the back of the aviary. If she'd stayed on the ceiling, no chance. They know when you're after them, of course - they're not all that domesticated, and they notice when something big with eyes on the front of its head is singling them out from the flock (even when 'the flock' is just her mate, who bravely ran away and hid). It was pretty upsetting for both of us, because she was scared of me and I was scared of her, and even though I kept talking to her and saying I wasn't going to hurt her, I doubt she understood.
Of course I got bitten. Still got all my fingers, though I lost a few chunks of skin from one and had to go and get a tetanus shot. I think it's gonna bruise like a motherfucker, too.
She was pretty pissed off once I had her in a portable cage. Understandable. Lots of snapping and yelling. Except when she kicked over her water bowl. Then, as ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bethanthepurple pointed out, she let me put my hand in the cage to clean it up. Only after I'd left did she start making biting gestures again. Like, "I'm gonna be really angry and aggressive - but not TOO successfully, or I'll be stuck with wet feet. But I COULD'VE had yer. Yeah!"
Hopefully we will both be fine.
And then I still had the rest of the animals to feed. Bethan came to keep me company and hopefully call an ambulance if I tripped over something and broke my leg. Or fell to a sneak attack from the black cockerel (hard to see in the dark). She's awesome.
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| Janowrimo? |
[04 Jan 2010|12:51pm] |
So, I didn't do Nano in November because I didn't have time, so I'm doing it in January. I feel like calling it JaNo.
Here is my plan. On days when I don't have anything planned in the evening, I won't do extra writing other than my hour in the morning, but on other days, when I have a free night, I want to add another hour. So some days get one hours, other days get two. I figure it will even out by the end of the month.
So far I've done pretty good. As long as I have good plot ideas, I can get 1,000 words in an hour. Mind you, they are not really pretty words, but ya know how it goes. Last night while writing, I accidentally kidnapped one of my main side characters. She's now totally out of the picture. That wasn't in the plans, but... these things happen.
I also added a Berlin POV section I hadn't planned. And now I'm adding a Thomas POV section, which was totally planned. He's one of my uberbad guys, but I'm trying to get him to come across as a typical CEO type. Yeah, that's going to be easy.
Anyway, I'm good at this by now. I don't have the urge to go and edit, and if I did I would go deal with Egypt not this story. I'm just chugging away. Like the little engine who could.
Day 4
Words since last post: 6,368
Total words: 6,368
  
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| 2009 Book List |
[04 Jan 2010|08:58am] |
Every year I keep track of what I've read. I love it. It's listing. It's an addiction. For years now I've tried to reach 50, and by counting graphic novels and audio, I did it this year! I think my two favorites were Flashpoint by Suzanne Brockmann and When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson. I'm sad that nothing else really stood out.
( 52 books: 22 audio, 12 graphic novels, 18 novels )
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| Neil Gaiman |
[03 Jan 2010|08:09pm] |
Neil Gaiman is a genius.
I'm reading Endless Nights, which is a Sandman compendium. One story per Endless.
The man is a genius. Truly. In comic form he says so much. You have to examine the details
to get the depth, to see the fish be free and hear its song. Layers and Layers of meaning in everything
I wonder about his genius. Is this some natural talent? Is it even possible for mere mortals? Does it all flow from him, from some mystical well of Amazing Fucking Shit or does he work his ass off, goes over everything five million times to make sure just the right word, just the right turn of phrase, pacing, picture go together to paint this mosaic of perfection? Where you sit there, staring at the end of the story and are just rolled over by a landslide of awe.
Kingsolver is like that for me. You get to the punch line and it really punches. You can't stand anymore, you have to sit and read it over again and marvel at 'omg, how did the author come up with that, it's too perfect. I know exactly that emotion, that thought, that idea and had never before known that it was that big a part of me.
His genius. I would bear his baby (though he already has one) just to keep the genius alive. Because that stuff shouldn't be allowed to go fallow. I don't even like babies, nor the birthing ability of my body, but I would do it.
I wish I knew how he brewed it. Does he call out to specific gods. God of writing, God of intellect, God of caffeine to bring hours of wakefulness so he can forge ahead with all his hard work? Which one is it? Oh Gods of creativity? Which of You is responsible for Gaiman, because in me, You would have another true follower. Just give me half, no just a quarter of his spark, and I will devote myself to Your shrine.
Gods Preserve Gaiman.
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| Transformers = blech |
[03 Jan 2010|09:58am] |
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Oh right I almost forgot -- I finally watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen  . Now, I'm pretty generous with the 5 star rating system. If it's at all entertaining I figure it deserves 3. I'm trying to decide if this is 1 or 2. It was that bad. I think there was maybe 2-3 itty bitty moments here and there that were actually worth watching. MAYBE. What a crappy movie. And I LIKED the first one. So much so I had wanted to see this one in theaters and only missed it there because I'd been pretty MS'Y (that was when the dizzy stuff was starting to be more often and lots of exhaustion stuff then). Thank goodness I didn't see it in the theater as I've never fallen asleep in a theater so I'd have been embarrassed as this movie was literally putting me to sleep in several spots -- really, ask Brian. I was wide awake and alert when it started, not tired at all. BORING. I started drifting off to sleep several times as there was just nothing there to keep me interested at all. If you wanna see Megan Fox in shorts or getting humped by a robot, cool. But beyond that, nothing. Even Bumblebee lost his charm for the most part. Only one scene with him was cool. Shame. Brian kept apologizing and saying he knew it was bad but didn't remember it seeming THAT bad in theaters but he was suddenly glad he didn't buy the dvd and only spent $4 to rent it instead. I think I'll skip the next one altogether. I think I'm leaning toward 1 star -- had it been bad in a I can make fun of it sort of way then 2... it wasn't even bad in that kind of way. Just boring bad. And if anyone can follow the transforming / fighting scenes then they're better than I am.
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| In my world.... |
[03 Jan 2010|09:36am] |
Mountain cedar is at 21,850 count this morning. Bleah.
In other news, the first S.A. Pagan Pride Day planning meeting went exceptionally well. It was funny to see all the pagans with planners or Blackberries, coordinating dates. We have a theme, "Spirituality Through Diversity," and the site is already paid for. Two big details which leave us clear to build the rest around.
For updated information on SAPPD, fundraisers etc, tune in here: http://sanantoniopagans.us/Events/SAPPD.html
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| Still alive |
[03 Jan 2010|01:30am] |
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So a few days into the new year and now post from me, oopsie. Mainly because I'm feeling like hell. Tingly. Crampy. Headachey. Anything ending in y, you name it. Needless to say we didn't get around to seeing Avatar again, so we'll probably save it for next weekend, or during the week. We'll see. During the week may not work since Brian works. Didn't sign new lease yet since we have til the end of February and we want to clear up how they're gonna charge us for water now that it's not included in rent for new tenants and for lease renewals. All the office could tell us was it SHOULD be between $20 and $40 a month and they'd base it on the fact that we have two people living here. Beyond that they didn't know how it worked. Erm, what? No guarantees what the bill would be. No telling us if it's based on OUR use or the the building then divided by number of tenants or the whole complex divided by number of tenants or if it could be triple that estimate some months, etc. They said we'd have to talk to the manager to find that out as they didn't know. Lister needs Prozac. Okay, not really. But he's on a month long diet. Special f00d and no kitty treats. For one week also kitty ear meds. They're trying to figure out if he has f00d allergies -- they think it's possible that's what caused both his tummy and ear probs. Kitty f00d allergies wouldn't show up on the kitty allergy blood tests so it's easiest to test for them first by very strict f00d controls = only one kind of f00d and nothing else at all. He's moping. He doesn't like the f00d. He seems to think he's being punished. He doesn't even want to play with his toy mousey. He'd putting on sad kitty face and crying a lot. Kitty guilt trips are fun. I just tell him I'm sorry but humans get to go on diets too and he's still not getting kitty treats or different f00d no matter how much he sulks. I swear he even sighs. Link stolen from Krizzzzz: The problem with a vote against all option = politicians are sneaky ;) As I said on Twitter, if we had that option ALL of our politicians would change their names and we'd never complete an election.
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| Mmmmm Janis |
[03 Jan 2010|09:10am] |
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I got Cheap Thrills for Christmas. Howling along to 'I Need a Man to Love'. That wail of "It can't be now, can't be now, can't be now, can't be now, this loneliness, baby it's wrong, no it just can't be..."
There was some description in some book or other - "there was power in Janis's pain, malice in her masochism, as she dared her lover to take another piece of her heart."
I mean, the Smiths are good, don't get me wrong. But if you really want to howl along to someone promising "I know how you feel, honey I swear I do, I swear, I know just how you feel...", you want Janis. It's her sheer... disbelief at the pain she's in, and her refusal to accept it. "This can't be" shows up in quite a few of her songs. It's a good battle-cry.
And by the way, do these lyrics sound as queer to anybody else as they do to me? "Your daddy's rich
And your mama, well, she's a mighty good-looking girl
She's looking pretty fine to me right now
Don't you know she is" (Summertime) "If you're a woman, I can only assume
That you already know what you're looking for
If you're ever lonely
Ever looking
Ever lonely
Ever looking
I'm lonely...
I know what you're looking for
Honey I figured it out at fourteen years old
And I've been looking for it ever since, too." (Tell Mama)
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