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[Tuesday
March 9th, 2010 at 8:47pm ] |
Man, I hate today. Loads of work and places to be, said something bitchy to somebody because I was feeling terrible, nearly had my grad review rescheduled on me (bless you, Teresa, we do not deserve you), and generally had a wretched day of wretchedness. And to top it all off Castle was rather sucky.
Tomorrow will be better, I hope.
Things I have done today: went to two classes and a high tea and participated reasonably in all of them, read my Civil War homework and two-thirds of my Gendered Dialogues work, did very well in my Chinese practice, read four children's books for fun and a chapter of the Abigail Adams mystery I picked up for sheer wtf, and finally, started up this journal again. Seems reasonably productive, no?
Now let's just get five pages of writing and five pages of thesis done, and hope that'll work.
blah. I still feel terrible. At least I apologized once I wised the fuck up. Sheesh, self.
ETA: One page of writing (plus some stuff on another project) and two pages of thesis later, I'm done. blaaaaaah.
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| Fandom PLEASE |
[Monday
February 1st, 2010 at 10:40am ] |
Days like this I am really, really glad my journal is off-site and not frequented unless I've posted fiction recently, because HOLY GOD, specific DF fan, STOP BEING AN ASSHAT. Jesus fucking Christ, every time a book comes out you get all "You may hate me now because I'VE read the ARC" like six months before and then start bragging about spoilers. NO ONE CARES. SERIOUSLY.
I mean, good Lord. I take it from Pris because she is wonderful and lovable. Guess what, by the way? She doesn't do it as much or in as assholish a way as YOU do, and she is a FREAKING ACTUAL BETA.
Do us all a favor. Go make like a tree and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
no love,
me.
Dear self:
do not wank all over the entry. There is no need. Channel your icon.
Actual love,
me.
Dear Prisness:
Have I mentioned lately how grateful I am that you're not an asshat about these things?
Much love,
me
ps I keep mistyping "Prisness" as "princess." Lack of glasses, or Hint from Above?
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| Fic: Don't Think |
[Monday
January 25th, 2010 at 11:56pm ] |
Title: Don't Think
Summary: A quiet moment with Maggie and Malcolm.
Fandom: Dresden Files.
Spoilers: Uh, well, if you don't know the names of Harry's parents...
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For fandom_secrets, for gehayi.
( Don't Think )
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| Fic: Truth or Dare |
[Sunday
January 24th, 2010 at 8:39pm ] |
Title: Truth or Dare
Summary: Loker cannot believe this.
Fandom: Dresden Files/Lie to Me.
Spoilers: None.
Rating: PG
Notes: For awanderingbard's fandom_stocking.
( Read more... )
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| Fic: The Importance of Doing Research Yourself |
[Saturday
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:01pm ] |
Title: The Importance of Doing Research Yourself
Summary: Parker breaks into a very odd place.
Fandom: Leverage/Torchwood.
Spoilers: None, really.
Rating: PG
Notes: For fandom_stocking.
( Nate is a dead man. )
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| Fanmix: Dared and Done |
[Wednesday
January 20th, 2010 at 5:10pm ] |
Medium: Theatre
Fandom: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Subject: Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Robert Browning
Title: Dared and Done
Warnings: Um. I make fanmixes about nineteenth-century poets?
Notes: Loosely based on The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with expansion into their later lives. What can I say, I find these two adorable, especially because, quite apart from their personal lives, Robert Browning was a huge ridiculous fangirl of Elizabeth's work and didn't care who knew it.
( Dared and Done )
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| Signal Boost for Haiti |
[Wednesday
January 13th, 2010 at 11:14am ] |
So I'm sure you all know that there was a 7.0 earthquake in Haiti yesterday. Thousands are dead, thousands are missing. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and nowhere near equipped for this kind of disaster.
This is a signal boost for the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Oxham International, the LJ Help Haiti community, and everyone else accepting donations. Please help any way you can: Jessie commands you!
Seriously though, thank you.
Relevant links:
Tamora Pierce's roundup post
Copperbadge's roundup post (more links in the comments)
Help Haiti the fandom effort
In slightly relevant news, it always amazes me how fandom pulls together when things like this happen. I mean, the Help Haiti community was up within hours of the disaster, and they're already pulling together a fandom auction to raise money. It's a group of smart, dedicated, thoughtful and committed citizens, and I am proud to be a member.
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| Year in Fic: 2009 |
[Friday
January 8th, 2010 at 4:26pm ] |
Eight days late, but whatever, it's mostly for my benefit anyway.
Fannish Stuff What I Made in 2009
( Fic )
( Fanmixes )
( Q&A )
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| Fic recs! |
[Friday
January 8th, 2010 at 4:08pm ] |
The holiday ficcing season is over, and I would like to recommend the various fics I recieved for Christmas presents. I'll just go ahead and do them by fandom, I suppose.
Vorkosigan books
The Rules of Barrayaran Sex, Cordelia/Aral
Oh my god you guys this fic is made of SO MUCH AWESOME, particuarly if you, like me, tend to ship the old-married-couple ships. I asked for Cordelia and Aral being happily married, and my beautiful, amazing, wonderful gift-writer wrote me this... this marvelous work of art. It is full of tiny little touches of joy (Miles' first word being "Dammit", for example, or the entire thing about the socks), and it's SO in-character; it totally feels like scenes exerpted from the books. I just. I cannot. It is so full of joy, you guys. Read it immediately if you have read the Miles Vorkosigan books. If you have not read the Miles Vorkosigan books, read those immediately and THEN read this.
A Safe Bet, also Cordelia/Aral
This is a tag for Memory that I count as mine as well, because it was a deleted scene from Rules originally. It strikes all the same notes as Rules, with some additional emotional notes that don't quite match up. Anyway, it's just as utterly amazing if slightly less funny, and you should go and read it too.
Codex Alera
These aren't fic, but you should go look at them anyway, because they're awesome icons.
Tamora Pierce: Tortall
A Midwinter's Tale. Alanna/George, filled with cuteness and fluff.
Firefly
Christmas on Serenity, genfic set post-Serenity but in denial!verse, which is my personal favorite anyway so. An adorable little slice-of-life family!fic. Has Wash and Zoe, River being River, and Mal getting insulted.
Castle
Christmas Traditions. Genfic, a Castle family Christmas. Includes an awesome nod to the WriteRCastle feed that made me lol.
Stargate SG-1/X-files Crossover
Part one here, part two here. Inspired by the fact that Don S. Davis plays both General Hammond and Scully's dad, written for me by my homie eponymous_rose, made of awesome. Involves Jack being a prankster, jokes about Daniel's approach to aliens, Teal'c having more lines than "indeed," Sam being the responsible adult and slight Mulder/Scully shippiness.
Posts of all the fic I wrote soon to follow.
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| Things on Christmas Eve |
[Thursday
December 24th, 2009 at 1:32pm ] |
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1) I cut paper today at work, all day, and I discovered the Secret of the Paper Cutter. Namely, you align the body paper very carefully on the guillotine paper cutter, then deliver one short, merciless swift chop. No one cares if the edges are a little raggety, because the victim paper is just as dead cut.
Okay, so I spent the whole time pretending I was a revolutionary guillotining nobles in the French Revolution. SUE ME.
2) It is Christmas Eve! So many wonderful things happen tomorrow. Yuletide reveal, opening presents, baking cookies, roast chicken dinner. Tonight is Daddy!Christmas, so there will be presents tonight and possibly a goose.
3) Yesterday I saw Avatar (the other one). Enjoyed it, because it's pretty as hell and Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver kick ass and take names. Sort of disappointed that ( spoilers )
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| Again! |
[Friday
December 18th, 2009 at 6:38pm ] |
Does anyone read this journal anymore, or has it been too doom-and-gloom for y'all lately? It's cool if it has been, just wondering.
1. Elaborate on your default icon.
Weird but harmless! It's from Girl Genius. Dark_Puck made it for me, and I love it so, yes I do. Also, it's my default icon because I am.
2. What's your current relationship status?
Happily single, and/or married to Max (Codex Alera). Depending on when you ask.
3. Ever have a near-death experience?
Uh, not that I remember.
4. Name an obvious quality you have.
Friendly. I'm sort of like Daniel Jackson in that my approach to people is, "...oh. Hi! Wanna be friends? :D :D :D"
5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
Freakin' "No Scrubs", from that one fandom_secret not that long ago. It is STICKY AS HELL.
6. Name a celebrity you would marry:
Rachel Weisz. Or John Hannah.
Guess what movie I watched recently!
7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Maybe Puck, if anyone does.
8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
Yup. Someone told me once I look like Julia Stiles, which I guess I can see.
9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
...I wear a cheap plastic replica of Sarah Jane Smith's alien-scanning watch from the Sarah Jane Adventures occasionally. Dork? Who, me?
10. Do you have anything pierced?
Nope. I am allergic to pain and having unnecessary holes in my body.
11. Do you have any tattoos?
See above re: pain.
12. Do you like pain?
Noooooo. Allergic to it. It makes me come out in screams.
13. Do you like to shop?
Booooooooooks. Ahem. For books, yes, and food, a little bit. For anything else, I want to be in and out.
14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
A candy bar, I think. Oh, no, it was my Sigma Tau Delta dues.
15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
Overweight charge on my luggage.
16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
Um... Katie, probably, though it beats me.
17. What is on your desktop background?
A Roslin/Adama background that I have yet to get sick of.
18. What is the background on your cell phone?
Uh, something defaulty. Fireworks, maybe.
19. Do you like redheads?
Uh, sure, I like all sorts of people.
20. Do you know any twins?
Yup, Charlotte and Sarah are twins.
21. Do you have any weird relatives?
Oh god yes. There's good weird (two of my mom's sisters) and bad weird (my mom's other two sisters, every blood relative on my dad's side but especially my crazy conservative aunt) but they're all weird.
22. What was the last movie you watched?
Treasure Planet! CAPTAIN AMELIA ILU OMG CALL ME!
23. If you had £100 to spare, who would you give it to?
Friends in need. Failing that, a bunch of very lucky used-book sellers on Amazon.
24. Add your own question here for the person copying this meme to answer: What was your favorite book as a child?
Fantastic Mr. Fox!
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| A'memeing we go... |
[Monday
December 14th, 2009 at 9:39pm ] |
1) What's your name?
Kathleen, but I go by Kat. Kathleen's basically the Irish version of Katherine, and my family is very, very Irish.
2) How old are you?
21. I think.
3) Where are you from? Are you living there right now?
Originally, Los Angeles, currently Virginia. And curiously, I live in both places. Because I'm magic like that. Well, actually it's because I go to college in one place.
4)Is it cold where you are?
Yes. Annoyingly. It's a desert.
5) What's the time?
9:42 PM.
6) What are you wearing?
A black shirt with silver and white embroidery that my little brother gave me for Christmas last year, white pants, and socks with green and red snowflakes that my mom gave me for Christmas. And my sage-green comfy bra of love.
7) What was the last thing you listened to?
I'm currently watching Corpse Bride. Does that count?
8) What was the last thing you ate?
Some kind of French cinnamon-encrusted pastry, and I drank tea.
9) What was the last thing you watched on TV?
Either Castle or Lie to Me, not sure which.
10) What's your favorite TV show? Why?
I am counting only the shows I currently watch that are currently actually showing episodes, because otherwise it's a deathmatch between like eight. As is, it's only a death match between two: Castle and Leverage. Lie to Me, while awesome, gets a little dark for me sometimes.
11) Quick! Find a book, or something with text on it! Flip to a random page and read some of it! GO!
The book is Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis, and the text is the Congressmen from the Deep South being asshats about slavery. Essentially.
12) What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
Well, I'm currently watching Corpse Bride, and as I've seen it before I can tell you it's a great deal of fun! But before that it was the Great Mouse Detective, which makes me always full of joy.
13) Do YOU think you have an accent? Talk about that.
An American one, but I have the most generic of American accents. Not Southern, not Boston, not Californian, not Midwest, and heaven forbid not Texan.
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| Hail, Mary, full of RAGE... |
[Thursday
December 10th, 2009 at 6:03pm ] |
It's at times like this I remember I had a vaguely Catholic childhood at times.
Fair warning: this entry is me full of rage. But it is entirely justified rage because GODDAMNIT ARE WE NOT OVER THIS BY NOW, so, uh, whatever, just be forewarned.
( rage beneath cut )
In conclusion: fuck you, the horse you rode in on, and the carrots it ate. Fuck you and everybody who looks like you. Fuck your mom, your dad, your siblings, your cousins, your grandparents, and the family dog. FUCK YOU.
I'll be over here with the English majors, the girl gamers, the bisexuals and the men who like pink, actually enjoying ourselves.
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[Tuesday
December 8th, 2009 at 6:56pm ] |
Full of annoyance as real world will not organize itself to suit my story. Astonishingly, parental child abduction is not illegal if the parents are still married (and thus, both have custodial rights to the child) even though it violates the custodial rights of one of the parents. I can handwave that pretty easily (by either having a high-profile case make it illegal or have Jake just not know what he's talking about) but the other one is trickier. One of my characters is a member of the Navy, relatively high-ranking, and I want him to live in New York. This is plausible, I think, but I'd rather have him living in an area where there's a base, and the only Navy base in New York was decomissioned in 1945.
I suppose the simplest explanation there is that he's ex-Navy, but in that case I don't know what the hell he does for a living. Suggestions are appreciated. Anything appropriate for an ex-Navy man in his late fifties to early sixties with three kids, an ex-wife, a wife and a habit of compulsively helping people.
We're heading into finals week, so it is time for the Annual List of Shit I Must Get Done.
-last three-five pages of history paper
-wolf paper
-wolf symposium
-Chinese final
-Chinese class: 1 2 3
-history class: 1
-wolf class: 1 2
-history evals: 1 2
-wolf evals: 1 2
-writing evals: 1 2
-writing reflection
-writing response paper
-history final
-much reading of library books what need returning
You may have noticed that it's shorter than usual. That's because I was on the ball this year (GASP) and got a lot of stuff done ahead of time, despite having the shittiest semester in recent history. GO ME.
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| It needs to be good karma time soon. |
[Wednesday
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:47pm ] |
Here's why.
( much whinging behind cut )
You get the idea. Blah. I am tired and cranky and I want to be home and not having to work too hard. At least this new original story is going pretty well. Lord knows none of my real bunnies are.
*grumpyfais*
On the bright side, I'm getting angry and not hysterical about all this. It could be much worse.
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| Another meme! |
[Wednesday
November 25th, 2009 at 9:29pm ] |
Because I like talking about and analyzing myself instead of doing homework.
1. My username is ______ because ______.
TigerKat24 is my username just about everywhere, except for the part of me that's a Real Writer, which has its own seperate accounts elsewhere. Tiger is for my favorite poem ever, William Blake's "The Tyger," except spelled right because I have this thing about spelling (I'm sorry, Mr. Blake! I <3 you). Kat is from my real given name, which is Kathleen. 24 is my birthday. Elsewhere where I have more space, it's 245, my birthdate in the European order of things, aka May 24th.
2. My name is _____ because ______.
My name is Kathleen, and I have no idea why it's Kathleen. I presume it's because my father wanted an Irish name. My middle name is my mother's last name.
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
"a mite whimsical in the brainpan," because I am. It's a quote from Firefly, Jayne talking about River, and while I'm less whimsical in the brainpan than River is, I do have a couple of (related) menal illnesses and wouldn't be normal by any standards even if I did have them. I also like the sound of the phrase in general. Also, Adam Baldwin.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
My... friends page...? Never realized you could name these.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
This "weird but harmless" sign, from Girl Genius, again because I am.
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| Wishlist meme! |
[Tuesday
November 24th, 2009 at 8:50pm ] |
I do one of these every year, and something wonderful has always come out of it, because my friends are wonderful people. So! Here we go.
( The Christmas Wish List Meme )
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| poem! |
[Thursday
November 19th, 2009 at 10:44pm ] |
There is an explanation behind this one, which will come later or in the comments, whatever. But for now, it can speak for itself.
ETA: none of the words of the poem are mine, though the sentiment is.
Plagarism
for Pris
with apologies to Harvey Shapiro, Lord Byron, Billy Collins, William Shakespeare, Lucille Clifton, WH Auden, Amy Lowell, ee cummings and Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
I read one poem
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
then loping off into the orbit of rumors and lies,
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
but who can distinguish
one human voice
Even in the eyes of all posterity
it’s best to let the work speak for itself.
Nourish an ethical unrest.
No, no answer.
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
"I can tie him to a chair, Dubbie."
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[Thursday
November 19th, 2009 at 12:12pm ] |
Soooo the big scary thesis proposal that my professor told me was due November 2nd to the university for a university-mandated deadline on November 6th and proceeded to send me into a three-week-long tizzy about whether or not I would graduate?
Yeah. University-mandated deadline is not until the second week of my final semester. Which would, in fact, be sometime mid-January, next semester.
asnskgjnsfnsoidnsf I would feel so much less annoyed about all this if he hadn't managed to send me into depression at the worst possible fucking time.
Okay. Things I Have Done! Big scary presentation of doom yesterday went unbelievably well. I told stories, and entertained my classmates, and sneaked some actual real academic discussion in there and got to complain about Bullfinch's Mythology being obtuse. Professor looked impressed and even laughed a few times. *wins!* NaNo still on track, somewhere around the 32k mark... I think I miscalculated on my earlier to-do list and by the end of ths week I should be more between 38 and 40k rather than 42k. Either way, I'm ahead of the game, no fear there. History paper likewise going well: there will be research today, tomorrow, and on the plane home Saturday. I plan to get as much writing and reading as humanly possible done on the plane, if only because I'll be sitting there with nothing else to do. Writing/presentation project much less scary than previously suspected. Thesis still "augh"-inducing but less so: Awesome Advisor is now Awesome Thesis Director as well, and she knows how I roll.
In short, done being depressed, now being angry. Angry is infinitely preferable because it usually leads to productivity. BRING IT, THESIS.
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