Subtle, show, subtle. And I mean that in about 4 different ways (none of them complimentary).

So, it's kind of been...3 months of so since my last post I guess. Time flies when you're, well, trying to kill time before you can leave your soul-sucking job. I'll make an actual post tomorrow probably, when I've got some time, but I just wanted to say:

Thank you so much for the cute little polar bear, anonymous! It's adorable!! It brought me much joy when I got it, and I'm still grinning. :D

Anyway, off to watch me some SN, which also brings me joy (and my mother uncharacteristically took me to a no-strings dinner, plus I only ended up working about 4 hours of my shift due to training, so my day's been crammed full of joy).

I went to a great deal of trouble to get this up (stupid damn internet), so I hope you appreciate it. It's the original first paragraph to my bigbang B5 crossover, but if I use it at all it will be highly edited/possibly in a different part of the story. I polished it up, made it 100 words, so now you have a ( B5/DS crossover drabble )

So, my job is actually really, incredibly, soul-suckingly boring. Imagine a 4 minute slice of your day. Now pretend you do those 4 minutes over and over again for 8 hours. That's my job! I don't mind the sales aspect of it, or the customer service aspect of it like some of my fellow trainees, I just can't stand the repetitiveness of it. I'm going to try and stick it out until the end of the year, though, at which point I'll have enough money to comfortably look for a good job back in BC, and will be able to say I've stayed with my family for one Christmas (and will never have to again!). That's about the only new thing in my life, although apparently my sister and mother had a fight last night/this morning (sometime after I went to bed, anyway), which is not unusual.

Last night, I was watching a rerun of House, the one where the kid with a big tumor on his head is followed around by a news crew. All I have to say is, where did that Wilson go!? He was funny, smart, pulling tricks on House - just overall a wonderful example of why I love him so much. Where did that go?? Why?!!

ANYway. I've got about 850 words of my big bang story written, which is Fraser from birth-21. It's a little condensed :D. Anyway, I might go back later and add more in there, but I've got up to the war and the fun stuff that I was going for, anyway, although the narrative on the first few paragraphs is a bit weird (it's been so long since I've written a story with narrative!).

Plus, I finally broke down and bought season 5 of B5. I've had all the other seasons/movies/Lost Tales for years, but I don't really like season 5 and never really wanted to get it, but now I have. I'm planning on rewatching the series (although I might skip season 1, since I often plan on rewatching the whole thing and stopping after that, so I've seen all the episodes about 10 times). It'll look gorgeous on the monitor I bought when I came out here, if I don't steal the big screen for some of it. Yay!

Anyway, I'm off to play a bit of WoW, I think. Hopefully 3 will join me once he's back from work. *Hint to onnada.*

I know you guys are smarter than me (and have different musical tastes), so I was wondering if anyone could think of/recommend a song whose lyrics or general mood are about wanting something so bad, but when you get it you don't want it anymore/it's not worth what you did to get it/you realize it wasn't a good goal to begin with, or about how the road to hell is paved with good intentions, or just something where your choices along the way transform you into something you wouldn't recognize at the start, or how trying to get back to where you were before doesn't work. You know what I mean?

For those of you cool people on my flist, once I've got my big bang story under control (Fraser is demanding a lot more attention than I had planned), I've got a really big idea for a vid about Londo Mollari (thus the very broad themes above), and while I have a couple of songs in mind I'm shopping around a little. :D

ETA: Oh, ouch. I just had a thought about the vid, and it's really, well, painful (for Londo. Not for me).

Expect an actual post shortly, I promise! This was ganked from dreamwarrior (secret message: did you want to do something on Monday or Tuesday? I'm off work at 12:45 both days)

Dear primroseburrows:
I don't really know how to tell you this, but our horoscope doesn't match. I think I realized it last year at the mental hospital and I saw you carve your initials into the crazy monk. I'm sure you're scarred enough to understand that Extreme Home Makeover sucks. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep your left ear as a memory. You should also know that I told in my confession today about your eggplant-fetishism.

Your everlasting enemy
Laura


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So when I signed up for ds_c6d_bigbang, I figured I'd give myself a week or so's grace to figure out, you know, characterization, style, plot, those things, but the timeline I've been working on (for the last 2 hours) has eaten my BRAIN. You see, I am doing a very foolish thing. My big bang story is not just going to be epic, it's going to be an epic AU crossover with Babylon 5, which has perhaps the most intricate, detailed, planned out universe in all television, and I don't want to muck around with established events. It's definitely all going to work, but there will be much planning going into exactly where Fraser and Ray et al are going to be/CAN be at any given time. Thank God I've seen the series at least 5 times and read all the novels at least 3 (and I don't care about the events in the comics).


Seriously though, can't you just see RayK and Vir, or Fraser and Lennier, sitting around the Zocalo having a drink?

It's kind of been a while since my last post, for several reasons, so this one will probably be a bit longer to make up for it.

( Saving your FList one day at a time )

So, I've spent most of last night and tonight reading through apocalyptothon, which was both awesome and depressing. I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories, it's pretty much my favorite genre, but after a while I start coming up with more plans for how I and the people I'd care to rescue would survive in any possible situation... (Yes, I already have plans for certain scenarios. Yes, they are pretty detailed. Yes I am paranoid, and Yes, I am a geek.)

In other news, I have discovered that one of the movie stores near here has all of SN on DVD, so I rented and watched them all. I wouldn't say it's my favorite TV show ever, but it's definitely good. Biggest non-surprise: loved Dan. He's funny, he's smart, he'll stand up for what he believes in no matter the personal repercussions, and all around is awesome. Biggest surprise: The first episode with Sam Donovan I thought I'd really dislike him, but during the second episode he really started growing on me, until I really didn't want him to leave. Anyway, now that I've seen it, bring on the recs suchthefangirl! You know, in your copious spare time. I've already mowed through most of crackvan, but I'll give almost anything a try.

Point the third: I've got about 800 words into my Dief/Dief/Dief. I'm sold on the first part, but the second part, especially the dialogue, is going to get rehauled once I get it all down on electronic paper. Anyway, I can already tell that unless I really skimp on it, it's going to be in the 5000-10,000 word category (at least), which will be my second actual fic that long, I think.

I also promised someone a fic for the Fall Fandom Free-For-All. SGA / Dr Horrible – Atlantis (cannon or OC) scientist trying to get into the Evil League of Evil constantly thwarted by an oblivious McKay was the prompt, and I know exactly what character it's going to be and I have a basic outline. It's going to be legendary!

Non-fannishly, my sister dragged me to the beach this afternoon. It was about 35 out, and sunny, but by the time we got there (it's about a half hour drive) it was a bit cooler and the sun was behind clouds, and the water was really still - no waves at all - so we didn't spend too long there. I think I've gotten more sun this summer thanks to her than I have in the last 5 combined. I'm starting to lose my basement-white tan! It's truly horrible.

I'm going to go put off sleeping for a while longer, but I just wanted to say all the fics at ds_flashfiction are so awesome! I can't wait till we get the second half.

Ok, so there's really only one - she asked me to get up at 7:30am (on about 4 hours sleep) just to drive her to work, so she didn't have to get up half an hour early to catch the bus. I may still be bitter. God I hate that I'm a morning person - not only can I not get back to sleep after really waking up, I'm actually in a fan-fucking-tastic mood for no reason other than being up so early, and I won't get tired for another 6 hours.

In other news, I'm re-reading my criminal procedure and evidence textbook for something to do. I have a large library book list, but I'm saving those for the 1/2 hour bus ride to and from work, since I read really fast. I'm betting I can get through my list before I go home.

Is it a bad thing that upon read this: "The largest forgery ever attempted was by the Nazis in 1940, hoping to cripple [the American] economy by inflation. Notes worth $150 million were printed out, but luckily never reached England", my first thought was actually "Of course they never reached England, Hogan's Heroes stopped them in time!"? Aaaand now I want to go watch some Hogan's Heroes, since I've got it all on DVD.

Just threw up a 500ish word ficlet (Wilby Wonderful) over on bringthehappy, after discovering that if I use my wrist brace and put the keyboard down on my lap, my wrist is good for about 20 minutes of typing with no pain. Then I iced my wrist a bit, and it felt wonderful, no pun intended.

So, for my mom's birthday I said I'd do some gardening for her, and she asked me to transplant some rosebushes for her. It wasn't until that night (Monday, after about an hour's worth of digging) that my right wrist started to hurt, and even putting enough pressure on it to use a pencil for writing with really made it hurt. All yesterday and today it's still been hurting, although by now it's just sort of a dull ache when I move it too much. I'm just trying to figure out if I used it more shoveling than I did my left wrist, or if my mouse wrist is just more messed up than my keyboard wrist (hello, beginnings of carpal tunnel). I've pretty much been watching movies and DVDs all day yesterday and today, trying to avoid doing anything with it (which is why I haven't gotten back to you yet, onnada, sorry).

I did, however, manage to get down about a page on my Dief/Dief/Dief story, and the rest is all figured out in my head, so once I feel up to typing it up it shouldn't take too long. Apparently it wants to be far more action oriented than I thought, which will be fun, since I've never written action before.

Plus, I've got this music vid idea for Ellen from S&A, which what? I don't even like her, her character is pretty much an amalgamation of every character trait I find really annoying and I don't particularly find her sympathetic (yeah, I know I'm overreacting to it all), but still. Every time this song pops up in Winamp I'm thinking about what shots to use, and the imagery, and the underlying meaning of the song as it relates to her, etc.

In other news, they've announced the Hard Core Logo sequel/series. I'm pleased that the movie got such recognition (even this long after the fact) that they'd get the backing to do it, but honestly I think that a sequel where they "cleverly bring back Joe Dick" sort of ruins the point of the first movie. Knowing that he'll come back for a sequel (unless he's a ghost, or a hallucination or something) just takes away the impact of that last minute of HCL, the total finality, the message that yes, life sometimes does this, takes away people for no goddamn reason. Sorry for the mini-rant, but I've had nothing to do for the last few days but sit around trying to avoid the computer!

So we went to my aunt's house for a BBQ yesterday, but since most of the family was otherwise occupied (or didn't want to make the 4 hour drive to come) it was a pretty small gathering. I'm still playing around with my fruit trifle recipe to see what works best - so far, the chocolate cake/butterscotch pudding has been the stand out, but next time I'm going to try angel food cake with chocolate pudding and see if that works. Tonight I'm making a nacho dip for dinner, so my parents are very confused that I keep making stuff.

My dad's not doing great, he hasn't been able to keep any food down for over a week, and they don't know why, so he's going in to the hospital sometime this week so they can do some tests and make sure he's getting enough nutrition from his liquid meals. This makes him less inclined to do the cooking, and I can only tolerate my mom's for so long, which is half the reason I'm making nachos! The other half being, of course, I really want to try this recipe.

In fannish news, the horrible suchthefangirl has gotten me reading Sports Night stuff from crackvan, even though I've only seen about 10 episodes. Yes, I'm sure I'll get around to watching more of them, but there's a new box set coming out in a month so if I'm going to buy them on DVD I'm going to wait until then. I've also been watching some of the vids that came out of Vividcon, and they're awesome! And thanks to onnada, I've figured out how my Dief/Dief/Dief (yes, all 3) fic is going to work, and it's really fun. I'm going to start it in a couple of days.

Oh God. I was thinking of this HP fic I wanted to re-read, so I (foolishly) went down to the pit of hell that is the FF.net HP section, as that's where I originally found it. My brain hurts so much now, I just can't even say. The sheer stupidity I could see just from reading the *summaries* has shown me the error of my ways.

In other news, my to-do list has shrunk by one (H2O meta), and grown by 2 (music vids for Slings & Arrows), which is...well, fine, since I don't have much to do until the new job starts. I just finished watching Threshold, a TV series that only got to 13 episodes before being canceled. It's actually quite good, even if I'm slightly biased (Brent Spiner owns a corner of my soul). Thanks to onnada and 3 for mentioning it.

I've finished the second half of my H2O Canadian commentary here. I should point out that, with both parts, it comes to just under 4,000 words! Next up is to write up a con report so I can make everyone who couldn't come jealous (yes, onnada, I'm looking at you, mwahaha).

Plus! I definitely got the job I wanted, they called me this morning to let me know I got through the credit/criminal/background checks just fine, but I don't start until Sept 8. On the plus side, I get to geek out at the Blue Man Group concert on the 18th!!!! For the second time. That's right, I'm so cool.

The first part of my H2O Canadian commentary is up here. Let me know if you think I've made a mistake or if you have any questions you want to ask.

So, the con was awesome! I'll post a con report when I get around to writing it up, but suffice it to say I kind of wish I'd swung by a day earlier and left a day later to maximize my fangirl hanging out potential. On the other hand, a few projects have come out of this.

1. Must write Dewey/Thatcher diary fic that, after having given it some thought, might turn into something really long.
2. An AU to the above fic that is Dewey/Welsh.
3. Diefenbaker/Diefenbaker(/Diefenbaker?)
4. A commentary on H2O for those poor unfortunates who aren't Canadian (or those Canadians who don't know a lot about politics/governance), and thus won't understand any of the politics involved (or certain aspects of most of the second half). I was bored this evening, so I've actually started on this. I'm a half hour into the 4-hour-less-commercial miniseries, and it's already taken me 1.5 hours (and 1000 words). Plus! I don't even have any of my poli sci textbooks to use as a handy reference if I need to remember something. I may have memorized all of the roles and responsibilities of the Governor General and all their powers in certain situations, but I sure as hell don't remember it all now. Oh well, I'm managing with the interwebs to prompt my memory, and my memory to expand my searches when I know the info provided is incomplete. It's something to do until the new job, anyway.

If I'm watching the Olympics for background music when I'm doing Sudoku or something, I really, really, really do not want you to do a 15 minute interview with George W. right in the middle. Like, at all. Why? Why would you do this to me? I don't even think AMERICA really cares. (Plus, that incredibly over dramatically over-the-top introduction of the US gymnastics team? Yeah, it was a bit much.)

No love,
Me.

I have finished my due South vid! And it is awesome, even if youtube mucked with my nice, crisp, editing a little bit (bastards). I'd like to thank onnada, as usual, for being an awesome beta, and for putting up with my bitching when movie maker ate my files every 15 minutes.

Anyway, on to the vid! It's to Save a Horse, Ride a MountieCowboy, by Big & Rich, and it's... well, Fraser/everyone.



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So, I did this meme a while ago but never got around to posting my results:

Analytical Thinker (AT)

Analytical Thinkers are reserved, quiet persons. They like to get to the bottom of things - curiosity is one of their strongest motives. They want to know what holds the world together deep down inside. They do not really need much more to be happy because they are modest persons. Many mathematicians, philosophers and scientists belong to this type. Analytical Thinkers loathe contradictions and illogicalness; with their sharp intellect, they quickly and comprehensively grasp patterns, principles and structures. They are particularly interested in the fundamental nature of things and theoretical findings; for them, it is not necessarily a question of translating these into practical acts or in sharing their considerations with others. Analytical Thinkers like to work alone; their ability to concentrate is more marked than that of all other personality types. They are open for and interested in new information.Analytical Thinker

Analytical Thinkers have little interest in everyday concerns - they are always a little like an “absent-minded professor” whose home and workplace are chaotic and who only concerns himself with banalities such as bodily needs when it becomes absolutely unavoidable. The acknowledgement of their work by others does not play a great role for them; in general,they are quite independent of social relationships and very self-reliant. Analytical Thinkers therefore often give others the impression that they are arrogant or snobby - especially because they do not hesitate to speak their mind with their often harsh (even if justified) criticism and their imperturbable self-confidence. Incompetent contemporaries do not have it easy with them. But whoever succeeds in winning their respect and interest has a witty and very intelligent person to talk to. A partner who amazes one with his excellent powers of observation and his very dry humour.

It takes some time before Analytical Thinkers make friends, but then they are mostly friends for life. They only need very few people around them. Their most important ability is to be a match for them and thus give them inspiration. Constant social obligations quickly get on their nerves; they need a lot of time alone and often withdraw from others. Their partner must respect this and understand that this is not due to the lack of affection. Once they have decided in favour of a person, Analytical Thinkers are loyal and reliable partners. However, one cannot expect romance and effusive expressions of feelings from them and they will definitely forget their wedding anniversary. But they are always up to a night spent with stimulating discussions and a good glass of wine!

Adjectives which describe your type
introverted, theoretical, logical, spontaneous, rational, analytical, intellectual, sceptical, pensive, critical, quiet, precise, independent, creative, inventive, abstract, eccentric, curious, reserved, self-involved, imaginative, unsociable, determined, modest, careful, incommunicative, witty

These subjects could interest you
literature, science fiction, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, Internet, drawing/painting, astrology, spiritual things, meditation, music, writing, strategy games, politics