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You remember, back at the beginning of the month I posted about how I'd written 10,000 words over the course of three days?
Well, the trend has continued. For the never-ending story that seems to keep flowing from my muse to my fingertips, I'm up to about 44,750 words, if you count the two prequel stories I wrote just before starting the main one. And we're not done yet, precious. Even though I'm nearing the end, I'm not close to done.
Add to that an unrelated 2,000-word story for another game and a 1,200-word write up for yet another, and my total fiction word count for the month is up to nearly 48,000 words. 192 pages in a standard book. Which is, let's face it, kind of scary.
Why am I posting today and not on Monday, the official end of November? Because my writing spree started on October 28th (remember, this is NOT NaNoWriMo; I can start whenever I want), and today marks one month. Will I write 2,000 words today to get the total up to 50,000? I have no idea. We'll see what my muse wants.
I can tell you this, though, the big story is definitely gonna top 50,000 by the time I'm done. And that's just exciting, even if my target audience is less than 5 people.
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Right now, I can totally envision taking a nap right under my desk.
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'Cause I'm at work and bored.
Fanfiction. Discuss. Every angle welcome.
As usual, no flaming, no ad hominem arguments, etc. Basic courtesy applies, and don't be a jackass. Arguing in bad faith is discouraged, but not forbidden.
Aaaaaand... GO!
:::ETA:::
I was asked for clarification. So:
Why write fanfiction at all?
What makes fanfiction a valid form of expression (or not)?
What role do you think fanfiction plays in fandom?
Should an author have a say in what happens to their work once it's released to the public?
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So the next three days involve me and work and very little else. Joy.
I still hate November. It is kicking my ass hardcore this year, and I'm not entirely sure why. I am all paranoid and anxiety-ridden lately. It's not crippling or anything, but I would very much like it do be over and done with, THANK YOU.
On the plus side, my stomach is no longer trying to stage a military coup, and so for that I am grateful. Small mercies, and all.
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What the heck is an OODA Loop? It's management-speak, or rather, military jargon that's been appropriated by the sort of person who likes to consider themselves Zen Master Jedi businesspeople, but I think that it's one of those rare bits of consultant bafflegab that actually has some value outside the world of the team building seminar day two morning workshop. And it provides fodder for what I think is probably the funniest userpic I've got.
Then again, I've come to realize that my sense of humour...
But anyhow, I think that after six weeks I've just completed step three in the cycle with respect to my current health issues:
1) Observe: I have a ruptured lumbar disc and mild diabetes.
2) Orient: this has severely impacted my quality of life and could have a fatal outcome if I don't do something about it. This is not good; I enjoy my life, and am not willing to accept any functional limitations on it just yet. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bodhifox and kilted_omalley and I have a three-day hike culminating in Humping the Camel planned for next September, and dammit, I will a) be going and b) be pulling my weight.
3) Decide: I need to a) lose weight, b) get my glucose levels down, c) improve my diet, d) increase my body core fitness levels, e) improve my cardiac fitness ("Rule no. 1: Cardio" /zombieland), and f) start pumping iron again. Happily, I had a start on e) via the C25K program and a): when I met Carolyn, I weighed somewhere between 250-260 pounds. Today I weigh 225. And c) is well underway, which hopefully will be having a significant impact on a) and b).
4) Act: I am going to get seriously fit. First, by going nuts-within-safe-parameters with the stretches and body core exercises my physiotherapists are showing me, and then, as soon as I am able to walk without exacerbating my condition, regular walking, followed by resuming the C25K as soon as it's safe to do so. And once I've got my core muscles whipped into shape and I can do so without risk of blowing out my back again, I'm going to get back on the Body For Life bandwagon; the last time I weighed this little was after a couple of years of BFL (a fairly structured weights/cardio/diet regime), and a lot more of those 225 pounds was muscle mass, and the diet I'm on is pretty close to the BFL diet. And I'm going to try to get Carolyn involved too.
In fact, the only reason I got off BFL in the first place was plantar fascitis followed by appendicitis and then my relationship with Suzanne melting down and the whole massive life restructuring during 2004-2005 that led me from urbanite yuppie to my current life.
Patience is going to be the hardest part. I want to get cracking now. The immobility and lack of exercise is driving me nuts.
Nicht kleckern, klotzen!
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Can't manage the shenanigans that I used to before. After yesterday's massive police op, today my body decided that, nope, it was on strike.
Ridiculous.
Either that, or some of the food we ordered in yesterday really didn't agree with me. I'm hoping that's it, because, really, if I can't handle one little eighteen-hour day once in a while, then becoming a cop is going to be problematic.
Eesh.
Luckily I had today off work, so I've been alternating sleep with Tylenol.
Am I the only one whose head aches like a SOB when my stomach is upset?
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I need to get this all down and out of my brain. Asterick indicates overlap with another assignment/class.
( Hello, and welcome to my life... )
So, retarded busy, but not actually impossible. It helps that, with the exception of the exams and tests and whathaveyou, I'm actually kind of excited. Making stuff is FUN! Whee!
(I will of course be cursing my own name when I realise I can not come up with a awesome enough company name or logo - names are always hardest for me - but until then. Due to SPN I'm on sort of an archangel smiting fury kick at the moment, reading a lot of lore and articles, and have been toying with 'blasphemy' and 'one of seven'. Leaning towards 'one of seven' with 'prophet' as the line name.)
IN RELATED NEWS. My dress final is going together beautifully. I have only the shell done for the fitting tomorrow, but I am reallyreally pleased. All the issues from the muslin seem to now be fixed, along with many of the more superficial issues such as not liking how the underbust lay, or the collar being "too obnoxious". This is a relief; I was honestly worried I was going to hate this dress and be embarassed to present it.
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That's right, kids! It's time for another amazing D&D adventure in... The Voice of Doom!
( November 24, 2009 )
And that's it for this week. Until next time!
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The sad part is, the minute I saw the nationality of the people we were arresting, I *knew* that there would be references to "terrorism," even though that has nothing to do with the ongoing operation.
We busted a big ol' forgery ring! It was awesome.
It's been a rock 'n' roll couple of days. I was up this morning at 03:00, was at work for 04:20, and worked until 20:00, non-stop, with three five-minute pee breaks during the day. Go-go-go.
I am wiped.
I am also crashing in a major way. After not sleeping well (I kept awakening every hour and a half or so) and funneling all my energy into the operation, all I want to do now is crawl into a hole and die.
That being said, today is one of those days when I remember why my job rocks.
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This chap has the patience of a saint. I cannot even imagine standing in front of that for so long without being provoked sooner, after about 20 seconds I already wanted to grab the oik by the throat and squeeze hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0ov1LUdOU
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...and so was 1998.
And we all remember what happened in January 1998, right?
If I were in a bitter mood, I'd mention that you may all come to regret forbidding me to invoke provoke Huey by the time this alarmingly mild-so-far winter is over, but I'll limit myself to asking you whether you're all prepared to deal with another horking big ice storm, and attendant multi-day power outage. Are you?
If not? Well, the gov.ca has some recommendations. They're a good start, but cover the very basics only, and are alarmingly short on heat and warmth items. Propane catalytic heaters are good to have in that department, and those big multiwick emergency candles can put out a surprising amount of heat too. If you've got camping gear, you're laughing; a good sleeping bag will make sleeping through a wintertime power outage a breeze. A dome tent in your living room will help keep you nice and toasty warm as well.
LED camping lanterns are handy; area lighting is often more useful than the focused beam of a flashlight; think of cooking, for example. And although they mention flashlights and batteries in the Public Safety Canada page I linked to, I should reiterate the value of having a good flashlight. I'd recommend a Maglite over their sexy tacticool Surefire cousins on the grounds of runtime and battery costs. A big D-Cell Maglite will run for hours at a stretch and give you much more runtime for less money. And it'll last you for a lifetime. Buy LED flashlights over old-fashioned incandescent bulbed ones; LEDs last for tens of thousands of hours without burning out.
Make sure you have plenty of batteries, bulbs for your incandescent flashlights, stove/heater fuel, candles, and matches. Running out of them would be demoralizing. So stockpile them in depth, and invest in a handcranked lantern or flashlight. A handcranked emergency radio is also a good thing to have. And a spare battery and car or other emergency charger for your cellphone could literally be a lifesaver.
Consider the need for powerless preparation when acquiring your emergency food stash. A freezerful of frozen microwaveable burritos would be a bad choice; think things that can be stored at room temperature, and, that, if heating is required, can be heated without electricity. MREs come with flameless heaters that can heat up a meal without flame, providing the morale boost of a hot meal without the risk of burning your home down around your ears. These guys are a reputable Canadian supplier. And Mountain House makes some very tasty backpacking meals, available at better camping stores everywhere, that you simply add boiling water to, wait twenty minutes, and can eat right out of the pouch without dirtying dishes, which is something of a serious consideration if you have to heat your own water.
Speaking of sanitation... how much toilet paper do you have on hand, and what would it be like to run out of the stuff at the same time your municipal water pressure has dropped to nil in the middle of winter? What would you do in such an event?
Entertainment is important too: board games, musical instruments, and books are all good things for staving off boredom and internet withdrawal.
A generator is the kind of thing that can make a big difference in terms of personal comfort, and this may be the year that I invest in one. Make sure that you have long enough extension cords and get a really heavy chain and padlock to secure it to something really solid. One of the first things to appear during serious power outages are generator thieves.
In the event that you have to evacuate or go to a public shelter, having a Bug Out Bag ready to go, with seasonally appropriate clothing, food, water, toiletries, and other necessaries, can make that particularly painful step a little easier and make several days crammed into a high school gymnasium with hundreds of other people, their screaming progeny, and insufficient suppiles a little more bearable. Given that gas stations run on electricity too, having a couple of jerrycans full of gas (stabilized with Sta-Bil or other gasoline stabilizer to extend its shelf life) at hand could help you get out of the affected area entirely.
Keep a good solid shovel and plenty of salt and abrasives on hand too.
And lastly, consider your friends, family, and neighbours. Factor in having to feed, warm, shelter, and entertain others into your planning; both you and they might be glad you did.
ETA: the estimable zercool has linked me to a good article on the topic here.
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Today I'm working on the shell of my dress for the Construction dress final; I have a group fittng where we put it on the Judy and assess what could be done better and what have you. I adjusted the collar for about the 10th time last night, as well as the fit in the back and the torso, so fingers crossed this works... for one. Either way, it's a lot less work due Friday than I was expecting and am veryvery thankful for that.
After, I'm going to try and type out and cross reference my finals in Construction/Drafting and Illustrator. They don't mesh seamlessly, but have a lot of the same components and I'm hoping to use and reuse them to save myself some time. Of course, this could all blow up in my face, trying to sync too many things, but here's hoping.
And now, a meme from Erin. Because I am sort of ridiculous at remembering the basics and assume you are too.
( Stuff to know about my RL... )
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That's it. I'm done with the Scottish heritage thing.
Can anybody suggest a good ethnicity for me to appropriate? I hear that the Sikhs are still pretty badassed...
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Remember that drafting I spent three days on? You know, my entire weekend plus one of my working days?
Yeah, ends up we handed them in, she checked it off, and then took them back. Barely glancing at them. I don't even know if she checked to see if we had everything.
No, I didn't need that time to do other things, not at all! I'm going to buy (more) fabric. And then cut out the pattern for the garment that is due on Friday and I should have started yesterday. And then drink.
...a lot.
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Dear Kiehls,
Your customer service at the Ste-Catherine, Montreal location is made of utter, absolute FAIL. First I get harassed with "help" until I just hand over items I'm holding to your service rep so that she'll go away (because otherwise of course I was going to run out and steal everything I could in the process of course!) and then when I'm at the cash, item in hand and the rest on the desk before me (75$ plus of purchases, I note though it should not matter how much it was anyway), debit card out and ready no less... I get ignored by your entire staff and then the rep who bothers to go to the cash passes the woman BEHIND ME stating she was there FIRST?
Of course I walked out.
You suck. And I'll be filing a complaint on your website, for whatever it's worth.
No love at all,
Me
Edit: Complaint email sent in to the head office. I keep reading everywhere that they're very keen on customer service. Here's hoping my experience is the exception to the rule. In the meantime though, I'm off to buy a Juara Rice Facial Cleanser after work. Last time I went to the store they were amazing, and the sample I got for the cleanser was just scrumptious!
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Questions from bodhifox:
Why do you want to be a mountie?
Egads. That's complex(ish).
It has something to do with who I think I am, fundamentally. I have always had a really strong sense of justice, and until I started working in law enforcement (however indirectly), I never felt that I was making a proper difference in people's lives. In my previous jobs, I couldn't help but feel dissatisfied that no matter how hard I worked, I was doing nothing to make the world a better place.
The RCMP is allowing me to do just that. Still, sometime around last year, after a few conversations with colleagues and the like, I decided that I could be doing more than simply being a phone person. It's part of my little process of getting to know myself better, of trying to push my boundaries, seeing just how far I can go.
It's also a small matter of civic pride. I love my country, and the RCMP is one of the emblems of Canada. My father once pointed out to me that Canada is one of the few countries which is *known* for its police force. When people think of Canada, they think of maple leaves, hockey, and the RCMP. Somehow, the idea of serving that ideal appeals to me a great deal.
When you think, is your default French or English?
I don't have a default, really. I think in whatever language happens to suit the subject matter I'm thinking about. It varies from topic to topic.
If you were to date a celebrity, who would she be?
Hard to say. I only know celebrities from what I see on the screen, and of course that's not their real personality, is it?
Based on looks alone, Sandra Bullock is definitely on my short list. :)
Mountains and streams, orchards and fields, or buildings and streets? Which of those three best describe you as a person?
Do I absolutely have to pick one of those? I'm more of a forest and clearings kind of girl. If I have to pick from what you gave me, then "orchards and fields" comes closest.
What one thing *must* I see when I go to France?
Uh.
One thing?
Gah.
If you're in Paris, then the Louvre. You can't go wrong there, there will ALWAYS be something that will be of interest to someone.
I have a soft spot for the Chartres Cathedral, too. It has arguably the most beautiful stained glass in all the world. It brought tears to my eyes when I first saw the blue there. YMMV, of course.
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I finished up around 7pm today. That's three whole days of drafting. I have my exam tomorrow and I am so beside myself. My brain is toast. Once my exam is done, I have my dress final, which is an evaluation on Friday, and then I move on to working on the all encompassing project; we're doing a final line that is presented for a panel. We'll be continuing to work on it next semester, where we present to another panel, who may or may not choose to fund us.
Yeah, needless to say, I'm losing a lot of sleep lately.
My depression has also been managing to get a good grip on me, in case it wasn't hilariously obvious. Usually I'm pretty good about dealing with things, labelling them and moving on, but for whatever reason I've just been. Not even moody, so much as really sad all the time. And easily made really sad, like with teleivison and reading and whatnot. It's. Special. I've been rewatching/listening to season 4 of Supernatural this weekend, and the episode with Jimmy and his daughter made me a wreck. I haven't been about to rewatch 5x10 yet. It sort of doesn't bode well.
Master plan involves holing up until I'm done this assignment. Not helping my mental state? Probably, but I also won't make it worse.
This weekend, I'm going to try and sneak into my RMT as my shoulders are sort of locked in an upright position; I've had a shower and two doses of a hot waterbottle with muscle relaxers and nothing. Also on the list is organizing my operations room so that I can get my little Christmas tree put up in the corner, which is currently taken over with my pile (literally, it's a pile about 10" tall) of school papers/work.
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Okay, NOT a good idea to listen to Joan Baez in November. She breaks my heart on a good day. But God, what a voice that woman has!
Makes me wish I had enough talent to sing like that. :)
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I have no idea why, but I absolutely could not fall asleep last night. Got into bed around midnight, but was still up at 1:00. And then again at 3:15. And then at 4:00. And then at 4:30. Around 5:00, Marc started snoring so I went into our second bedroom and tried to fall asleep and wound up staring at the walls for half an hour.
So, in total, I *may* have gotten two hours of sleep between 1:00 and 3:00 and then *maybe* another hour and a half between 5:30 and 7:00.
Yeah, it's gonna be a caffeine-fuelled day. I'm so, so tempted to take a personal day today, but I'll be good and go into work. I want to maintain a good impression in my final few weeks.
Stupid sense of responsibility. *grumble*
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Marc and I have decided that now that we've moved in together, we need to celebrate, and the best way to celebrate a new apartment is with chocolate! Come join us for another chocolate fondue potluck, where we provide the chocolate and you provide the stuff to dunk in it. Once we're hyped on sugar and caffeine, we'll pull out board games, card games, or maybe play a round of Baron Munchausen.
In addition to being a housewarming party, this is also going to be a birthday party for Marc (slightly belated), so there's lots of cause to celebrate! Bring your dippables! Bring your creativity! Bring your hugs!
And, as if chocolate fondue wasn't enough, we might order pizza for dinner if people haven't fallen into sugar-induced comas.
Time: Saturday, December 5, from 2:00 p.m. until whenever we pass out in sugar-induced comas
Place: Our new apartment, 4700 Clanranald, apt. 5
Bring: Yourself and stuff to dip in chocolate fondue
Reason: Chocolate needs no reason! (Well, and a housewarming. And Marc's birthday.)
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Spent the morning with karine, owldaughter, ai731 and toughlovemuse doing the knitting thing, had a delicious lunch of soup, freshly-baked rolls, and schadenfreude pie.
Have been vegging at home, watching the new season of Heroes, getting some writing done, having quality time with the cats. Good times, overall.
The weather is kind of grey, which I suppose is normal for November. Sleeping cats, however, totally makes up for that.
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Oh no... I checked the Peter Hoffer Jagdwaffen site again... He's that Austrian gunsmith whose guns are so heartbreakingly, gobsmackingly, jawdroppingly pretty it'd be a crime to actually shoot them.
I'll be in my bunk. Of course, I'd be in my bunk anyhow, but that's not the point... Compare the above bit of traditional 8x75mm RS double rifle loveliness to this more modern development, the Steinkamp SW1. Sometimes aesthetics matter. Double rifles should not be GLOCKed.
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Prevention of spousal violence is frequently touted as a justification for the long gun registry. This letter summarizes that particular argument rather well. They key points raised in that letter that I want to address this morning follow (if anybody has any questions about the other points, please feel free to ask):
The writer claims that women and children are more likely to be threatened with long guns. That's entirely likely; they vastly outnumber handguns in Canada.
She also claims that "most" women killed with guns in Canada are killed with legally owned guns, and 88% are killed with shotguns or rifles. Again, given that most guns in Canada are long guns, that latter point is to be expected, and I'm not inclined to quibble about her claim as to legal ownership (since if taken at face value it merely demonstrates that the registry is ineffective at preventing violent crime anyhow).
She repeats the tired old anti line about gun crime rates decreasing since the registry's inception; those of you who have been paying attention will recall that they actually have been declining since 1977, well over a decade prior to the registry's inception, and firearms homicides have actually been increasing since 2005, in spite of the registry.
Now, I'd like to draw your attention to Statistics Canada's 2008 report on family violence in Canada.
In particular, I'd like to point out Table 1.10 on page 24, which details the methods of violence causing most serious injury in spousal violence cases in 2006 (the most recent year for which statistics are available). And in the interests of complete accuracy, I'll ask you to read the footnotes to the table; the figures below are partial and the real numbers are almost certainly slightly higher).
In 2006, there were a total of 38,573 cases of spousal violence reported, of which 32,208 cases involved female victims. Overall, 2,534, or 7%, of these involved weapons. 1,562 of these involved female victims (women are relatively more likely to use weapons on their male spouses than otherwise).
819 cases of spousal violence involved knives or other sharp objects. Blunt instruments accounted for 476. "Other weapons" (a catchall category involving cars, gasoline, poisonings, etc.) were used in 1,199 of cases.
Firearms (all kinds, long and short, registered or otherwise)? 40 cases nationwide in 2008, of which 34 involved female victims.
Hopefully, the misleading and deceptive way in which the letter-writer presented her statistics is now quite obvious; by failing to place her carefully selected statistics into an overall perspective, she made domestic violence involving firearms seem a rather more frequent occurence and graver problem than it actually is.
Now, I'm pretty sure that none of you think that I condone domestic violence of any sort. And I'll take it as read that you all agree with me that 34 women victimized by their spouses with firearms in any given year is 34 too many, ever (even if that's only one Canadian out of a million). However, can anybody honestly claim that registration (even if we were to assume that registration was 100% effective at preventing domestic violence, which makes assuming that abstinence-based sex education prevents teen pregnancy look sane) of a type of weapon that's used in slightly more than one case of spousal violence in a thousand (and only 1% of those involving weapons) is going to make any noticeable difference in the spousal violence rate? Even if registration was 100% effective, would spending two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000.00) to prevent those 34 cases a year be the most cost-effective way of preventing such violence? If registration of weapons were effective in preventing violence, would it not make more sense to target knives (which are used more than twenty times more frequently than guns in spousal violence) rather than firearms?
Of course, when one takes into consideration the fact that registration does not prevent criminal misuse of firearms of any sort (as I've pointed out many times, slips of paper with my guns' vital statistics are not what's preventing me from, just to use a shocking and somewhat apropos example, murdering my entire family in their sleep, cats and dogs and all), invoking spousal violence prevention as grounds for keeping the registry is completely nonsensical.
Presumably, the Coalition for Gun Control knows this, which raises the interesting question of why they so frequently invoke spousal violence and violence against women as justification for the registry. Given that firearms are only used in a vanishingly small number of spousal violence cases each year, I can only conclude that their primary concern is not prevention of such violence, and that they are merely (and cynically and knowingly) exploiting these issues to mislead and emotionally manipulate people into supporting the registry, despite the fact that they know it isn't going to work.
Which really leaves me scratching my head as to why they're so obsessed with controlling guns. The more I learn about this stuff, the more I have to question either their sanity or their motives.
So the next time you hear a registry proponent invoke spousal violence or violence against women, please don't fall for it. Remember, spousal violence involving firearms directed at women accounts for less than one case of domestic violence in a thousand; even a total ban of all firearms would not make a detectable dent in spousal violence rates. The incomplete and ineffective registry certainly won't.
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I haven't felt this isolated in a long time.
I mean, at least in Winnipeg I was waiting to get out. Yeah, I was all alone, been left for dead, but I had my parents - and isn't that a sucker punch - and it was just getting through to something better.
And now I'm standing where something better is supposed to be and wondering if it isn't just one big pot of gold --> rainbow phenomena.
I haven't been able to keep one single friend, without remember when, the good-old-days, since I moved here.
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New here to the comm. Felt I oughta introduce myself, sort of.
Name: The Ren Geek
Location: Chicago, IL
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Highlander, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, Marvel/DC, Harry Potter, Disney, Arthurian legend, Firefly, Warcraft
Toys: More than you. My house is crawling with Transformers mostly, but I have all sorts of other Doctor Who stuff and some vintage toys and... and... stuff.
Geek type: I am a Renaissance geek. I'm a movie geek, a wiki geek, a sci-fi geek, a mythology geek, a history geek, a toy geek, a costume geek, a Shakespeare geek, a comic geek, a Trek geek, a cartoons geek, a library geek, a museum geek, a Broadway musical geek, a dinosaur geek, a...
Hobbies: All sorts of amazingly boring stuff. ;) I love reading and adore watching movies of all eras. I like writing macros, mostly for Doctor Who. I'm excessively addicted to wikis. I love going to museums and Renaissance Faires. I also love costuming and have a Fourth and a Fifth Doctor costume, as well as Gregoire Fronsac from Brotherhood of the Wolf, d'Artagnan from the 3 Musketeers and I'm dabbling with a Rorschach costume from Watchmen. I also play far too much World of Warcraft.
Additional: Is there anything I haven't covered? I mean, really?
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A few years ago, my dad nailed a grouse with his house. He heard a loud thump against one of his windows, and upon investigation, discovered a grouse had killed itself flying into his windows.
That doesn't compare to this story, though.
Via abz6598.
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The movies at this site are fascinating. I especially enjoyed the ones about L.A. oil and the missile silos. It was only half way through the second video that I realised the purpose of this website was to market boots. Very clever! I approve. If you happen to be in marketing, more of this please! :)
This evening I looked in the fridge, we had some cubed pork and a half-finished packet of bean sprouts. I know that apples go well with pork, and we have apples too, so I googled "pork bean sprouts apples", and made the first thing I found. Needed to go to the supermarket to pick up some missing ingredients, but it was a nice evening walk. It turned out pretty well I think, Gabrielle didn't like the bok choi much, but she liked the rest.
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It was in Kingston.
As a result of the over six hours I have spent not horizontal, I am in fairly severe pain at the moment, and wishing that all the, um, people who thought that a long gun registry was more important than putting modern diagnostic imaging gear into every hospital in the country could have a lumbar disc ruptured and then be forced to drive two and a half hours each way for an MRI, after waiting two weeks for an appointment. [lengthy profanity-filled rant deleted]
The stupid, it hurts. Quite literally.
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In a few hours Muriel and Kelvin will be on this bad boy, taking it back to Paris on its inaugural Paris-New York round trip. She won the tickets in an auction. Kelvin is, of course, beside himself with excitement. I shall be remaining in Montreal with Gabrielle; we are too cool for Paris, clearly ;)
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The million-dollar question is, do I go to bed now (because I'm tired), and risk messing up my sleep for the next week, or do I try to hold out until early-ish tonight, and spend the day dragging around anyway?
Meh.
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I have a ton of work to do. My 1/4 scale notebook is due on Tuesday, and I have my exam then as well. Not looking forward to that... a lot of rules to remember. I also need to cut out and get started on my dress final. And this is all the easy stuff before my final, end of the world year project. Which involves more work than I am willing to think about right now.
Insomnia for the second night in a row, followed by waking up to watch a much anticipated episode of Supernatural. Not heavy spoilers, but a) made me cry like a girl b) TWO MONTHS? So, I'm feeling kind of miserable. Yes, fictional characters affect me too easily, shut up, no one cares.
Master plan for the rest of today in hopes of killing off this funk as follows: Zelda, more Zelda, sex, ice cream, alcohol. In vaguely that order.
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Is it just me, or should we not have had at least some snow by now?
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Thank GOD for Bittorrent.
*waves to joane*
You've created a monster, darlin'. ;)
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Tired. Can't sleep.
For those of you who were wondering, the cake was actually something in the way of a joke by my uncle, who a) is a painter and b) has a highly developed sense of humour. He's recently discovered that cake decorating makes an excellent outlet for his creative urges; he called this one a "sciatica cake". I thought that it was an apt representation of its subject matter, with the twisted, spiky bits of snack food radiating from the cake evoking the pain and tingling in my leg, and the unnaturally coloured maraschino cherries symbolizing the medications I have to swallow. It's a wonderful example of the Post-Surrealist Neo-Brutalist school of baked goods.
It was actually surprisingly edible once all the cheesy poofs were pulled out of it.
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Today is my two-year anniversary at the RCMP.
Go me!
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A couple of weeks ago, jbmcdragonasked for ideas on wee gifts to give when funds are low. Since this happens to be my specialty, being chronicpoor, I replied but figured I would post some of the recipes/ideas here as well, so you could all use them.
Tea Time (beginner)
Acquire a white spiced pear tea and package appropriately! My local tea shop down the road will give you little envelopes and stickers, or you can make tea bags out of cheesecloth from this tutorial by Sayward. Next! Make spicy chocolate ginger cookies, from this recipe by Saucy. It involves a cake mix. It is the easiest recipe ever and So Good.
Tea Time (advanced)
Prepare a scone-in-a-bag with a combination of this tutorial by LollyChops and the following recipe...
( Scones-in-a-bag recipe )
To this, we will add two kinds of jam.
( Lavender peach jam )
( Pomegranate jelly )
Put all of these in your box or tin of choice and add a fancy spreader. This year, mine are silver dragons. :D!
Candycane Bark
I was going to post up the recipe, but there is an awesome one here at Instructables. My only request is that you smash it instead of make little squares because, well. ONE, smashing. TWO, bark. This year, for the boys (John, Rob, Greg), I'm making this and putting it in little takeout boxes I found that were striped accordingly. So cute.
Beer Bread
For boys! It's hard to get them little things, it's not like they need lipgloss or nailpolish and while they may need soap... ahem.
( Beer bread )
Personally, I feel that making up the recipe sans beer and putting it into a jar, then adding a can of their favourite of choice and handy instructions is your best bet, and involves less work. Tie with ribbon, go.
ALCOHOL!
Listen up, American readers. Sorry, Canada, we have regulated alcohol (LCBO) but our friends down south are apparently capable of getting these things at the supermarket. It's all very confusing to me. Anyway, because of this, they are not gouged by such simple things as vodka and can get huge amounts of it very reasonably. Thus leading to...
( Chocolate liquer )
( Hazelnut liquer )
( Coffee liquer )
Make a set of three! Make a giant bottle of one! Or, do what I'm doing, and package three little bottles, along with a martini glass and a package of flavoured sugar crystals for rimming.
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