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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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10:57 pm - School Blather and Some Other Random Thing
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Apologies if this entry is duller than dirt. I've been encouraged to post a bit more often. ;)
The new semester begins here in eight days, and I'm frantically attempting to sort out my course schedule.
This time around, the school is offering absolutely nothing useful to me in the way of physical anthropology/biology courses. So, out of lack of anything better to do, I'm going to take this as an opportunity to improve my knowledge of some of the other subfields of anthropology.
Unfortunately, they're not offering a great deal in those, either.
One class that I was interested in taking didn't list a date or time, so I contacted the professor for more information. I heard back from him today, and it turns out that he's not even going to be teaching that class due to lack of interest. *headdesk* He's teaching another course that doesn't particularly appeal to me, but I might take it anyway out of sheer desperation. Ugh.
In other random news… I've been missing the hell out of my club in Dallas lately.
The Church is a goth-type club that operates on Thursday and Sunday nights. In the last few months that I lived in Texas, I was going at least once, and often two times each week. I'd quickly suck down one drink, maybe two, then I'd spend the entire rest of the night on the dance floor. I was usually there until it closed at 4:00 am.
For me, dancing is some of the greatest therapy there is. I can get entirely wrapped up in the music, the lights, the throng of bodies, and just forget everything else for a while. It's an amazing release. Also, just getting out, being around people, and getting some exercise does wonders for fighting off my winter depressions.
There is a pretty decent goth club here in Philly, but it only operates one day per week (Wednesdays) and it's somewhat difficult for me to get to. Still… I'm thinking I should start putting forth the effort to go there semi-regularly. I need my dance therapy.
Hey ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ornithoptercat -- wanna go dancing..?
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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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8:15 pm - Catching Up, Settling In
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I've just gone through and friended several more people from Terminus. I likely won't get around to writing up a more thorough wrap-up post about the last couple of days of the con, but I'll say that I spent time hanging out with some really awesome people, and I hope I managed to find them all again here on LJ/IJ. By the way, if I friended you on LJ and you're also active on IJ, please let me know so I can friend you there. Most of my fandom squee is on IJ these days.
Anyway… ( So there was this trip to Tulsa… )
I finally got home from my incredible vacation yesterday around 6:30 pm. No travel difficulties, no delayed flights, no lost luggage; I suppose I'm pretty lucky. Still, after two such great weeks, being back is a bit of a shock.
I managed to get out of the house and be productive today, though. Went to the post office to mail some things to nehalenia and nxtwothou, then hit my favorite fruit stand while I was in the area. Had a doctor's appointment in the late afternoon. Now I'm chatting with folks online and eating delivery food. Maybe it won't be so hard to fall into a routine here again..?
To everyone from Chicago and Tulsa -- I miss you all! Hope you're doing well.
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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7:05 pm - And Hello Again Philadelphia
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I'm back in Philadelphia.
Best. Vacation. EVER.
Also? Strangest vacation ever...
I'll likely elaborate more in another entry, but for now I wanted to let everyone know that I made it back to Philly in one piece.
♥ ♥ ♥ to everyone! What have I missed??
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| Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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1:15 am - Goodbye Chicago
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Hey all!
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I made it from Chicago to Tulsa safely. I'll be staying here and hanging out with my mom and various friends for the next week before I head back to Philly.
I'm completely bummed that Terminus is over. The time flew by entirely too quickly. It seemed that, as soon as I really started to get settled in and enjoy the hell out of myself, the whole thing was already drawing to a close.
I still need to do a more thorough con wrap-up post. For now, it's enough to say that it was great hanging out with everyone and putting faces to familiar names. I met so many wonderful people, and I wish I'd had a lot more time to spend with many of them.
I'll be doing some mass friending and commenting over the next few days. If you talked or hung out with me at Terminus, please drop me a note or friend me! There were a lot of cool folks whose LJ/IJ names I didn't quite get.
I miss you all! ::cries::
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| Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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12:28 pm - Briefly...
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Wait, where did I leave off..?
Yesterday evening was the general slash meet-up in Grant Park (where I had my badge doodled on by littleblackbow!) followed by the Snarry meet-up at Edwardo's. The Snarry meet-up was huge and wild and loud and awesome. Unfortunately, I was a bit dazed by that point, and I didn't join in the squee as much as I would have liked.
I recovered a bit after dinner, though, so I joined a group of people who migrated over to Grant Park from the Snarry meet-up. We played a game of Fandom Taboo that the fabulous dracofiend made, which was loads of fun even if my team did lose rather badly. Damn cheating Slytherins.
The roomies and I got something like five whole hours of sleep last night before getting up to have breakfast with kabal42. Then, at the god-awful hour of 9:00 am, ragdoll, its_art, and I had our panel on surviving in fandom when your favorite character didn't -- which we, well, survived. Haha.
Now I'm killing another hour in the hotel room until it's time to go to the pub for the Snaco meet-up. Then, this afternoon, I'll be meeting up with sansa1970 again. I foresee much alcohol and giggling in my near future. ;)
As a side note… On the whole, I'm much more tired here at Terminus than I was at Sectus. Did I get old in the last year, or what?? I'm currently vaguely annoyed with myself for not being more energetic. Grr. Bah.
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| Friday, August 8th, 2008
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5:33 pm - Terminus Day 2.5?
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It's a few hours into the second official/full day of Terminus, and I'm back in the hotel room, catching my breath and killing a bit of time until the general slash meet-up. So the LJ/IJ gets an update.
Got up at 9:00 this morning to get dressed and head over to Caribou Coffee for the Snupin meet-up which was COMPLETELY AWESOME, by the way. We were a small but incredibly entertaining and enthusiastic group. I love the Snupin corner of the fandom. It's filled with some of the most fun, friendly, and generally all-around fabulous people out there. ♥
Random waves to drusillas_rain, valis2, marginaliana, bronze_ribbons, leni_jess, gmonkey42, leoninedragon, apythia, tjwritter, alisanne, jin_fenghuang, and lesyeuxverts who were at the meet-up with twilightsorcery and me. You all rock!
After the meet-up, ragdoll, its_art, twilightsorcery, and I got together with adinkra (who I'd never met before) for lunch. Now they're all off in various panels and workshops (con programming? What con programming?) and I'm chatting with eeyore9990 (who I wish was here liek whoa). I'll update again tonight if the Snarry folks don't wear me out too badly! ;)
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2:34 am - So Many People..!
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VERY strange dreams last night, but much less tired and much more together today. :P
None of us had any particular place to be this morning, so twilightsorcery, ragdoll, its_art, and I got up pretty much whenever the hell we felt like it. Once we'd put ourselves together, we headed downstairs to one of the hotel's restaurants to have a late breakfast. Belgian waffle with strawberries gooood.
After breakfast, we quickly ran down to registration to pick up our nametags and packets, then headed up to Millennium Park for the Harry/Draco meet-up. OMG everybody. So. Many. People. So many awesome people. I couldn't possibly begin to list all the usernames of all the people I talked with, so I won't even try. I'll just say that it was loads of fun hanging out and talking with so many fandomers -- both familiar and new to me.
The Snack meet-up was supposed to come next, but it seemed that there was, erm, a bit of confusion. Several of us waited at Millennium Park where the meet-up was supposed to take place… but meanwhile, the organizers and a few other people apparently met in the hotel lobby and decided not to go all the way to Millennium Park to hold the meet-up. Erm, headdesk? So twilightsorcery, themostepotente, amanuensis1, nimori, Yolanda (whose username I can't recall; sorry!), and I just hung out for a while before heading back to the hotel.
The Terminus welcome feast was next. Don't have much to say about it other than -- I've eaten worse. :P
Right after the feast, I got a call from sassy_cissa who said, "Hey, sansa1970 is here; come down and meet us!" So I did. (Yeah, like I was gonna miss an opportunity to see sansa1970. ::grin::) Turns up empathic_siren was there as well -- bonus! :D
A big group of us ended up having drinks in the hotel pub -- me, sansa1970, empathic_siren, sassy_cissa, alisanne, dementordelta, twilightsorcery, ragdoll, jin_fenghuang, lesyeuxverts, kabal42, hpstrangelove, and a couple of other folks whose usernames I didn't catch. We laughed our asses off and made a general nuisance of ourselves until they closed down the porch on which we were sitting.
After getting kicked out of the pub, we moved the party to alisanne and sassy_cissa's room. We stayed there until midnight, and now my roomies and I are back in our own room, geeking out online. You can take the fangeek away from the internet, but you can't take the internet away from the fangeek!
Snupin, general slash, and Snarry meet-ups tomorrow; wooo!
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| Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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12:55 am - Here in Chicago!
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I'm at Terminus; woo-hoo! :D
I got to the airport ridiculously early today, but I suppose ridiculously early is better than tragically late. My flight left on time and actually landed slightly early, and my luggage made it to the right place, so no complaints here.
I met twilightsorcery (whose flight came in at about the same time as mine) at the airport, and we were both picked up and driven to the hotel by the lovely sassy_cissa. By the time we got into our room, twilightsorcery and I had just enough time to say hello to ragdoll and its_art, then run out again to meet the group going to the Erotic Harry Potter Night at Quimby's.
Quimby's was much fun. gatewaygirl, bronze_ribbons, mijan, kabal42, and ravenna_c_tan all did a fantastic job reading. It was hilarious, hot, and very interesting to hear the fics read aloud by their own authors. (Although I think I've spent far too much time on fandom pursuits, because I'm pretty sure I've previously read all of the fics from which said authors were reading…)
I ran into tons of people I knew from Sectus, plus a few new folks. There were also loads of people there whose LJ/IJ names I recognized, but it's going to take me all weekend to put names to faces!
After Quimby's, we went to dinner with gatewaygirl, jin_fenghuang, ramblingnic, and Chris-who-may-or-may-not-have-an-LJ/IJ. Mango margarita goooood. ::nod::
We're back at the hotel now, and I'm pretty fried at this point. I need to come up with a whole lot more energy for tomorrow!!
General waves to leni_jess, littleblackbow, bewarethesmirk, and anyone else whose LJ/IJ name I haven't connected yet. SO MANY people, and the conference hasn't even officially started yet!
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| Monday, August 4th, 2008
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10:31 pm - Thanks and Counting Down
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First of all, I want to say THANK YOU to all the people on IJ and LJ who responded to my questions about Snape fans' responses to Snape's death in canon. I was delighted with the thoughtful, in-depth answers you all gave me. I love you, fandom! ♥
I spent the earlier part of the day running errands and doing laundry in preparation for my trip. I'll be doing the majority of my packing tomorrow. I have my current schedule for the conference (OMG meet-ups galore!) ready to print out, and all the important locations plotted on a Google Map. I'm putting some finishing touches on my notes for the panel. I think I'm just about ready to go!
I leave in thirty-six hours! :D
I plan to post Terminus updates from the hotel, so stay tuned. ::grin::
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| Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
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11:57 am - Attn: Terminus Attendees!
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A small Snupin meet-up for Terminus has been planned!
We're getting together for coffee and ship chatter on Friday morning beginning at 10:30 am. The meeting place is Caribou Coffee, which is right around the corner from the conference hotel. The address is 41 E. 8th St.; you can see the location on this Google Map. We'll meet in the hotel lobby and walk over to Caribou together, but if anyone is running late, you'll know where to find us.
Hope to see everybody there!
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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4:54 pm - Terminus Panel Input (Attn: Snape Fans!)
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| Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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6:32 pm - The Obligatory "Who's Going to Terminus???" Post
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I can't believe it; Terminus is only a few days away!
Okay, so who's going?? Obviously, there are some of you who I know will be there, because I'm rooming with you or I talk with you regularly or some similar thing. But I don't want to miss anyone, so…
Are you going to Terminus?
What day/time are you getting there?
Are you staying in the con hotel?
What events are you planning to attend?
When/where/how can I find you?
Will anyone still be around Monday evening?
If anyone is interested, here's what my schedule is looking like so far. This is, of course, subject to change. And there are lots of holes that still need to be filled. ;)
( Places I Want to Be )
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| Friday, July 25th, 2008
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3:20 pm - Contemplating Holiday Fests (Already!)
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Wow. It looks like it's that time again already. I can't believe it.
Time to start considering holiday fests.
On her IJ, bethbethbeth asked how you tell when enough is enough when it comes to fest sign-ups. For me, though, determining "how many" isn't going to be as problematic as determining "which."
With grad school kicking my ass, I know I won't have time to write more than one good-length holiday fest fic (in addition to writing something for Kinky Kristmas on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) daily_deviant, of course). But I've decided that I do want to participate in one good fest, 'cause it just wouldn't be the holiday season without some fest squee.
The problem is deciding which one.
Things to consider:
- I prefer multi-pairing to pairing-specific fests.
- I prefer an establish fest, or one run by someone who I have confidence can operate a fest well.
- I prefer a fest where a good number of people I know are playing, so I can share the squee.
With those first two in mind, there are a couple of fests that I'm currently leaning toward. One of them is snapelyholidays. It's character-specific, but not pairing-specific, and seems like a good compromise. It looks like it has the potential to generate some good fic and art of the standard Snape pairings as well as some fascinating Snape rarepairs. I think the Snape fans on my f-list should consider checking it out.
As I said, though, I'm still undecided, due to consideration #3 above. I don't know where all the rest of you are going to be playing. SO TELL ME! What fests are you definitely planning to sign up for? What fests are you considering?
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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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9:23 pm - Writing Blather and a Tin Man Fic Rec
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Man, I've missed writing.
I took a bit of a hiatus from writing in order to focus on school work for a while. The thing is? I didn't really get any more school work done, and just found myself spending an inordinate amount of time doing absolutely nothing. This tells me that my fandom activities are not interfering with my school work (rather, my own general confusion and procrastination are interfering with my school work), and the writing hiatus was largely pointless.
So I spent the weekend writing. I'm terribly out of practice and it was very slow going, but it was awesome. I managed to pull off this fic for daily_deviant (Harry/Draco, just a bit of fun with the "courtship" prompt), as well as cowriting this other fic for daily_deviant with eeyore9990 (Snape/Sirius; OMG so much fun to write).
And now? Now I already have an idea for September's daily_deviant fic, AND thoughts on a longish Snape/Sirius fic. This Snack idea is kind of eating my brain, and I might really have to write it. ::wibble::
Also... A TIN MAN FIC REC for the Tin Man people on my f-list:
Follow the steps of the suns by mentha
Cain/Glitch(Ambrose), PG-13ish, ~9,000 words
This story is full of humor, tension, heartwarming moments, misunderstandings, just a bit of smut, and everything else I adore in a fic. mentha nailed Cain's characterization right from the opening scene; I could see his characteristic facial expressions and gestures as I was reading. Her characterization of post-miniseries Ambrose makes perfect sense as well; he's everything that he was as Glitch but more. In getting the two of them together, mentha takes some likely cliches for this fandom and turns them on their ears. This is simply a delightful fic; go read!
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1:41 pm - Fic Alert!
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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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5:23 pm - Fic Alert!
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| Monday, July 7th, 2008
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6:18 pm - The Little Things
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Hi! ::waves:: I still exist!
I realize I haven't posted any "real life" updates in a while. I haven't had much to say. At least, not much that would be positive. Pretty much everything was sucking like a Hoover a little while back. A lot of problems have now resolved themselves, for better or for worse. I'm mainly just left with a tremendous amount of academic angst.
But...
I just had the most awesome lunch. Maybe it's odd, but in the summer I tend to crave bread, cheese, and fruit a lot. So I just had a huge plate full of French bread, cheddar cheese, brie cheese, grapes, blackberries, and mango slices. The weather here is much cooler today than was originally forecasted, so I sat in front of an open window and enjoyed the breeze while having lunch.
Yes, this is completely pointless, trivial information. But see, while I was eating my cheese and fruit, I realized something. It's been a long time since I was able to sit back and enjoy little things like this. If I'm able to find some enjoyment in these sorts of things, and even feel somewhat positive about my life for a few moments, then I'm doing a hell of a lot better than I was a month or two ago.
Today, I'm happy that I can occasionally afford to buy unnecessary things like brie and outrageously overpriced blackberries. I'm thrilled that I haven't had to wait tables in almost two years. I'm able to see the positives about my life again.
I'm very, very stressed with grad school right now. As I said, there's a lot of academic angst and doubt weighing me down. But, today at least, I'm feeling like maybe everything isn't hopeless.
Brie is good.
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12:00 am - Slightly Overdue Squee Post
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Squeeeeee! I can has stuffs!
So last week I wrote some drabbles and ficlets, one of which was this Snupin ficlet. ghot gave me the prompt "pink," and I couldn't resist a bit of fun at Lupin's expense…
Well, ghot responded with this completely awesome drawble. Poor Lupin just can't catch a break. ::snicker::
Then, since other people weren't jumping on the posted drawble offer fast enough (silly people), I prompted ghot for some Snape/Sirius. This other completely awesome drawble is the result. This makes me nine kinds of giddy, seriously. Hee! Go look!
And finally, the Tin Man fans on my f-list absolutely must check out Strange and Unusual, a ficlet written for me by eeyore9990. I prompted her with her choice of three pairings and two prompts, and she used all of them -- and did it absolutely brilliantly. So much in so few words, eeee!
You guys made my week. :D
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| Friday, June 27th, 2008
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7:05 pm - Drabbles (and Ficlet) Delivered!
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So, a couple of days ago I took prompts for drabbles. I ended up with three drabbles, a double drabble, and a ficlet. What can I say? My writing mojo is unpredictable. Most are porny, a couple are silly. I'm rather rusty, so I expect none of these are exactly brilliant, but here they are:
For eeyore9990:
( Tin Man, Zero/Raw, touch, 100 words )
For lesyeuxverts:
( HP, Snape/Sirius, remember, 100 words )
For ghot:
( HP, Snape/Lupin, pink, 231 words )
For celandineb:
( HP, Snape/Draco, tried, 100 words )
For ceria:
( SGA, John/Rodney with a side of Teyla, following Elizabeth's death, 200 words )
And OMG, ceria just made me pop my SGA writing cherry! :D
Thanks for helping me shake some of the rust off, all.
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| Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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10:43 pm - Drabble Meme!
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I've been busy and haven't had time to do much writing lately... But I think I can manage a few drabbles. I miss writing! So:
I will write a drabble for the first five commenters to request one. In return, they have to post this in their journal (if they want). You may request the character and/or the pairing and give a prompt.
HP, Tin Man, or maaaaaaybe SGA.
Go easy on me; my writing mojo is a bit rusty!
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