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| Friday, December 4th, 2009 | | 12:32 pm |
Sick
This past week, I've had some sort of plague. It's not letting go quietly, either. A little sickness now and again isn't actually all that bad. I always feel like it's the world's way of saying it's okay to slow down a little sometimes. Extended sickness, by comparison, sucks rocks. It's not just the physical discomfort. I can deal with hacking up a lung here and there, the strange combination of having a fever and feeling cold at the same time. But it's also the worry that wherever I go, I'm bringing death and pestilence with me, that any friend I see I might be passing on the crap that is hindering me. Though for the record, the physical discomfort is not to be overlooked. Last night I caught a chill and spent six or eight minutes trying to warm up in my car so I can drive. It's humbling to lose control of your body now and again. It's also scary. At the 6 day mark, I probably should go talk to a doctor. But also, I know I'm probably almost over whatever it is that's assaulting my insides. There's this war that wages in my sensibilities between the guy who doesn't want to be the idiot on next weeks episode of House (how did you not notice you had Ebola?) and the guy who's telling me that if I go to the doctor, I'll pay him $35 for some Advil and a prediction I'll shake it off in 24 hours. That second guy also thinks that I'd be a real wuss. So for now, I'm convalescing and working and dealing with life through a thin film of ick. I doubt I have anything interesting or fashionable, like swine flu but whatever it is, it's giving my immune system a run for it's money. We'll see how it goes. It has to end sometime, doesn't it? | | Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | | 11:36 am |
Just a taste
For those of us still waiting... The 2009 Children in Need special. Also, a taste of what's to come in "The End of Time". | | Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | | 5:03 pm |
Dreams: Some shreds from the past week
I have a few dreamscapes I visit regularly. There's the mutant version of my home town, which is about five times as large as I remember it and just a hair more rural and undeveloped. There's the building with exposed pipes that I'm usually trying to get out of. There's the area that's got rivers and bridges and then there's the school. A few nights ago, I had a dream in the school setting. I was older than the kids there, but I my girlfriend was still in. There was a point where we were hanging out with our friends while I'm dodging teachers and then we started making out under a blanket. Half naked, we decide to go to the "throne room", whatever that is (this isn't my school in the dream) and have sex. When I get there, I lose track of her and there's a class going on so I move quickly into the room I think she went in. When I get there, there's a game of Wheel of Fortune going on. My mom is a contestant and it's Final Jeopardy. I have to answer the question for her. I don't know the answer, so I decide to write a message saying "I love you Mom. Hi, Dennis. Peace." but I can't get the pen to work. By the time I finish, a few people are annoyed with me as the shows been over for like 15 minutes. Then I remember, "Hey, I was on my way to have sex." Except I can't remember my girlfriend's name or what exactly she looks like (the girl in the dream was a mix of two girls I dated in high school and a lady who I've only known as platonic friend, all of whom are redheads). I check my phone to see if I have messages. I have four and when I try to check it, a large holographic 3-D ad pops out of the screen and I can't read the names, which I'm hoping will remind me of who I'm supposed to go have sex with. I try to close the ad, but the touchscreen isn't working. That's about when I woke up. The night before, I had another dream in which I'm pretty sure I was a woman. It was vivid and I wanted to get up and write it down when I woke up, but I couldn't motivate and forgot most of it. The only clear part is that in one portion, I was trying to shoot someone with a pistol. The gun wouldn't work for me. At one point, it did spit out a bullet, but it spit out the whole cartridge with it; it went spinning through the air and smacked into the guy with less force than if I'd thrown it. My dreams are sometimes weird. Peace. | | 3:15 pm |
| | Monday, November 16th, 2009 | | 4:56 pm |
So... very... wrong
I hate the song "Single ladies". I love John Barrowman. I have no idea what to think about this video. | | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 11:26 am |
Nanonuhuh
I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year. The reason: I'm already working on a project that I hope to have done by the end of January. As a result, I may write 50K words this month, I just won't be keeping track. To any of you who are doing it, though, good luck to you. Break a keyboard. Peace. | | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 1:59 pm |
Yay, I continue to get older!
So yesterday was my birthday. 38th in a row. I think I'm on a row. It was a very relaxed day and at the end I felt horribly civilized. The main festivities happened at She-Sha, a hookah bar in B'burg. We had hummus and feta dip. For my cake, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) faekitty got me a Transformers pull-apart cup cake cake... yay! She got us tickets to go see Avenue Q next month (teh awesome!) and I got some Magic cards (spiffy!). After dinner, hookah was in fact smoked (black fruit tobacco is interesting). I think I want one of those things. I've got no place to use it right now, but it's so different from cigars or cigarettes. I know it's not full of vitamins or anything, but I think it might be a good once-in-a-while treat. After dinner, we wandered over to the Cajun themed restuarant in town because they serve absinthe. I drank a glass and discussed poltics and visions for a great society and told a couple of stories (the Aiken Gang War and My Friend Jim, Who Shot Himself in the Head [a comedy]). After that, we walked around a little and got some food so I could drive. This morning included bagels, fruit salad, coffee and Powerpuff Girls. It's been good. Hope all you are having wonderful days, whether you're a libra or not. Peace. | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 1:22 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 11:57 am |
0_0
I don't know how many people on my list this will matter to, but Zeke, the guy who at Linsner.com made sure that orders got out and who remembered people like me even though he only saw them once a year at con, has passed on. He apparently had lung cancer, a condition he didn't advertise. If you knew him, you know why the world will be less for his absence. If you didn't, you missed out. RIP, man Link goes to the Linsner.com forum announcment and discussion of the news. | | 11:14 am |
| | Monday, October 5th, 2009 | | 5:00 pm |
| | Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | | 12:34 pm |
Renn-Faire 2009
Heya. To all those concerned, faekitty and I aren't going to be able to make it up for Renn Faire on the 17th. Thanks to tirani and crew for offering hospitality; we'll be able to make it up for the Pentaparty barring the unforeseen. If anything changes we'll let people know. Peace. | | 8:45 am |
They could see me this time
I had a flying dream again. I can only remember the dream in patches, but I remember being on a back country road. It was foggy. I don't remember why I started flying, I just did it. I worried about falling on the power lines at one point. The dream took a weird turn when I found myself on the set of Matrix: The Series. There were lots of bullet-time scenes and a guy playing Neo who wasn't Keanu. I remember at one point,the agents had Neo in their grasp so to make sure he would die, they bent his head backwards, opened his mouth and all four of them stuck pistols in it. It was a twisted ballet pose sort of arrangement. When the went to pull the trigger, time stopped, Neo stepped away and then punched the cluster of them until they flew to the horizon. Two guys were with me, one was a dark haired guy I didn't recognize, one of them was Dyer. They were enjoying watching the effects, things like flying motorcycles. I told them I could fly too and they laughed. I didn't mind. And then I showed them. We kind of all went flying together. Then I woke up... very happy. | | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 9:55 am |
Gray Days
The shift from Summer to Autumn is usually my favorite time of the year. I feel sort of a surge of power and confidence right at the end of summer and this usually flows into a time of just feeling happy as I start pulling out jackets and getting used to the sun going down at a reasonable time. It may have something to do with the fact I was born in the fall, I don't know. This fall though, things seem heavier. It could be that the first few days were dark gray and that a lot of my friends were dealing with some pretty heavy stuff. Whatever the reason, this season has started off by wrapping around me like a damp sweater. I'm feeling a little darkly nostalgic. I pulled out a copy of the first mix CD I made for Cat's funeral. Part of the reason wasn't I couldn't remember the words to one of the songs on it, but the rest of the reasons were that it was time. I'd forgotten that I started it with her voice mail message. faekitty recently told me how she was feeling this season and wrote about it in her LJ. She pointed out that this is the darker side of the year and I'm definitely feeling that. I'm not depressed or anything, but the season is just effecting me differently from what I normally expect and I'm not sure how I feel about that. We'll see what October brings. Peace. | | Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | | 3:56 pm |
Newsvine Article: New Standards of Success
I wrote a short article the other day after getting tired of how people were speaking about President Obama. The result, I'm hoping will be funny: Go read it. If you want to comment, you have to set up an account on the site but it's one worth having an account on. Peace. | | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | | 9:29 am |
| | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 10:45 am |
| | Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | | 12:59 pm |
| | Friday, August 7th, 2009 | | 10:38 am |
| | Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | | 10:44 am |
Accio Hotness
Joe Linsner is one of my favorite artists and one thing I love that he does in his work is cross genres and mess with my head. Take for instance this picture: Dawn... of house Gryffindor.p[Edit: Sketch was taken down] The original artwork was on EBay but didn't meet the reserve of $1500. |
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