Observations

( In bullet-point format, this time )

( These are perhaps not as mysterious as I thought... )

Title: If I Or She Should Chance To Be
Author: andrealyn
Beta(s): loveflyfree
Artist: orvaen_queen
Fanmixer: jazzy_peaches
Series: ST XI
Character/Pairing(s): Kirk/McCoy, Kirk/OFC, Winona/Pike, Jocelyn Darnell, Joanna McCoy
Disclaimer:  Not mine; only borrowing

Listen to mix here.

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( Illustration (spoilers) )

Really incredibly random, sorry:

I've had this quote stuck in my head for a frickin' week, and I can't for the life of me remember where it's from.  It's either a movie or a TV series (I think a movie) - some guy is telling someone else something helpful, yes I know.  The part I remember is "Man, if you seen this shit," and his voice cracks on the shit.

Anyone?  I know I'm not making this up...

...For whatever reason.

Player Refuses to Score Touchdown

Coach draws heat for QB's record

I don't normally follow sports - I watch football usually only when my dad or grandpa have it on, or the Superbowl.  Otherwise I really only watch the Olympics.  But I read through the articles mostly because I was bored and was amused at the comparison.  In one case, a team demonstrates "class and character" by not running up the score and was applauded for it by everyone, and in another case a team won with "class and dignity" according to the losing team but is being scolded for not having demonstrated sportsmanship by everyone else.

I understand that class, character, dignity and sportsmanship are big deals amongst schools, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing.  But reading those articles also made me think about Charles J Sykes' "50 Rules that Kids Won't Learn in School," specifically Rule 1:  Life is not fair - get used to it.

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1.  I am an enormous fan of reading, and have the largest personal library in my family.  Included in said library is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
2.  I am utterly incapable of walking into a bookstore and walking back out without having spent upwards of $50.
3.  This is me to a T.  I can't even write a three-line comment without a solitaire interlude that will last for about 70 games or so...
4.  Cordelia is awesome.  'Nuff said.
5.  I adore cartography.  Whenever I'm writing something, one of the first things I'll do is make a map - either of the city, the country, the continent, or the planet (or solar system or galaxy or universe - I've done smallest scale all the way to biggest scale).
6.  I just think this is hilarious...

Comment with the word "ICONS" and I'll select six of yours for you to talk about in your journal. :D

From obsidianglass

( I am odd )

(As of 2008)  This is the list of the top 100 grossing movies of all time. Bold what you've seen, strike out movies you never ever want to see and italicize ones you'd like to see.

 

( I've seen most of these )

 

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever.

( Haven't seen as many of these )

“The Big Read” assumes that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

( I'm working on these... )

From obsidianglass and originalpuck:

1.  Use the letters of your first name
2.  Find titles to your favorite songs in your ipod/itunes/whatever that correspond to each letter and include them with that letter.  No repeats
3.  Tag three friends

Between the Bars - Chris Garneau
One Day - Hans Zimmer (PotC:  AWE)
Beauty from Pain - Superchik
Budget Meeting - Hans Zimmer (King Arthur)
I Will Love You - Fisher

One - Rebecca St. James
Rain One - Cirque du Soleil
Voice, The - Celtic Woman
Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy
Nara (Theme to Cold Case) - E.S. Posthumus
All Improvviso Amore - Josh Groban


Tagging everyone else

From mephestopheles

Five things you will find if you open my bag:
1.  Sheets and towels
2.  School books
3.  Pens and highlighters
4.  Work and personal keys
5.  Book I'm reading (currently either Star Trek Titan:  Orion's Hounds by Christopher L Bennett or Steel My Soldiers' Hearts by Col. David H Hackworth)

Five Things in my bedroom:
1.  Lots and lots of books
2.  Lots and lots of DVDs
3.  Computer
4.  Keyboard
5.  Art supplies

Five things I've always wanted to do in my life:
1.  Go into space
2.  Speak Russian, German, Icelandic
3.  Live in the mountains
4.  Make someone's day better
5.  Give my first son my dad's last name (my dad's the last of his name, and he has only daughters)

Five things that make me very happy:
1.  My faith
2.  My family
3.  Drawing
4.  Learning how to do something that will help and be a benefit to others
5.  The smell of just-rained-on-grass

Five things I'm currently into
1.  Heroes
2.  becoming a massage therapist
3.  piano/vocal only music
4.  Chris Pine
5.  sleep

Five things on my To-Do list:
1.  Pay lainam for the gun/register said gun
2.  Study for Trigger Point final
3.  Get ready for art portion of ST:BB
4.  Finish unpacking/clean out my car
5.  Sit down with my mom and go over finances

Five things people may or may not know about you:
1.  I'm hypoglycemic due to not eating.  Usually this entails dizziness/light-headedness and the occasional blackout, but when my blood sugar levels drop suddenly it automatically triggers a panic attack, as I discovered on Tuesday.
2.  I want sixteen kids (I want twins or triplets, and I want to adopt half of them, so no, I'm not entirely insane)
3.  I'm the second-oldest of six
4.  My highest level of education as recognized by most employers is having graduated from High School, though I've contemplated going to college for a degree in Physical Therapy
5.  I'm twenty-one years old and have never been kissed or had a boyfriend, though I have been on a singular,nearly-disastrous date

Five most important moments of the last year:
1.  First day of classed at NSMT (Jan 5, 2009)
2.  Twenty-first birthday
3.  Moved out of apartment back into home with parents
4.  Youngest sister found after having run away for a week
5.  Started going to church again

Five things you enjoy during your free time
1.  Free time
2.  Reading
3.  Writing
4.  Drawing
5.  Photography

Five things you are looking forward to:
1.  Graduating and getting certified/licensed
2.  Getting paid for massage
3.  A wedding next year
4.  Moving back to KY (never thought I'd say that)
5.  Getting married (no relation whatsoever to #3)

Sorry it's taken me so long to answer, but I've been insanely busy this last week (this weekend in particular).

But without further ado:

( Top Five Favorite Cliches )

( Top Five Favorite Reboot!Trek Characters )

Fandom Meme:  Top Five Whatevers  (stolen from originalpuck)

Ask my my fannish Top Five [Whatevers].  Any top fives.  Doesn't matter what, really!  And I will answer them all in a new post.

Most Some of my fandoms, in no particular order:

Star Wars (Movies and EU)
Star Trek (VOY, DS9, ENT, TNG, Reboot)
Lord of the Rings
Merlin
Stargate:  SG-1/SGA
Transformers
Day After Tomorrow
Firefly/Serenity
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Bleach
Naruto
Fruits Basket
Hana-kimi
Stephanie Plum (Janet Evonavich)
Sartorias-deles books (Sherwood Smith)
Honor Harrington (David Weber)
Hellgate (David Weber)
March series (David Weber)
War God series (David Weber)
Miles Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Sharing Knife (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Tortall/Emelan (Tamora Pierce)
Belisarius saga (Eric Flint/David Drake)
1631 seris (Eric Flint)

 

Murray left last night for Glorietta.  She'll get back late Saturday night, finish packing on Sunday, and fly out to Mexico for six months on Monday.  LVA will finish packing and leave on Wednesday, and then I'll have the room completely to myself.

I've already started moving a few things in, namely clothes.  That in and of itself is a huge relief - that I have some place to put my clothes. I don't feel quite as disorganized and scattered (and hence stressed) now that I know where I can go to find what I'll be wearing that day.  All of the rest of my stuff is still in boxes by the front door, but most of that doesn't matter as much.  So long as I have and can find clothes.

One of the boxes I did dig into earlier today was my photo box.  I've got hundreds of photos still just sitting in the envelopes they came in, and now that I have a functional printer/scanner, I thought I should probably start getting them put onto the computer, then filed in an actual photo album.  I didn't get nearly as far into this project as I wanted before something made me think of the community caer_awen , curious as to whether it was still active.  So I dropped by and saw that they had just shy of 400 prompts, then spent the next hour or so typing them into a Word document I could print out and take with me when I went to school.

As a result, I've got about thirty or forty snippets I'd like to maybe write at some point, plus I've started thinking about maybe making a 3D map of my universe to get a better idea of borders and where skirmishes and battles would've taken place.  I have an idea about how I'd make it, but it's a little more involved than I have time for at the moment.  It'll be really nifty, though.  But not the only map I'd need, alas - I'll also need basic maps of all the key galaxies, globes of the various key planets, maps of key locations...you get the picture.

I also need to sit down and bang out a classification system of sorts for planets and stars and start figuring out what all fits where.  It will probably end up being very similar to Star Trek's set of classifications, but what I first want to do is see if there's a similar set-up in RL that I can base it against.

And then I need to get onto paper at least a basic image of every species I plan to use, from Devonians to Jetak'ni to the Gel'ne'datte.  At the very least I'd like to have a minimum of ten species for each of the main polities, though I'd love to have more.  How many do I have thus far, come to think of it...?

-Devonian
-Heron
-Sheook
-Jetak'ni
-Kazukan
-Kauyetti
-Prudian
-Gel'ne'datte
-Tsu
-Timal/Timaui
-Brogay
-Zhazeens
-Fult-nyaik
-Doughti

...So I've got a little ways to go.  I need to go dig up my notes for the defunct Denlings story - I've got tons of species listed there.  I can work with that.

So what does it tell you that my world-building to-do list is almost three times as long as my writing to-dolist?

Maybe these should tell you something...

Best DUI Ever!

Blonde Goes Back to Work after Many Years

Winter Sucks

The Juggler

Now, this is one my dad found, not one from work, but still...

CV63 in Heavy Seas (bear in mind, CV-63, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, is a supercarrier, which means the flightdeck is about 90 feet above the water...

( Then, of course, there are things like helpful household tips... )

( Seeing as more than half of the bank's employees are women, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that there are lots of  )

( And finally, the random fun ones: )

...of a sort. I hear or think up some really random things, and scribble them down with the vague idea of maybe possibly finding some place to use them in the future, but I never do come back to them. So when I clean my room - really clean it, like, go through every paper in my room and say keep? shred? toss? - I keep coming across tiny snippets that I wrote down and I have no idea what they're about or for or whatever. But I don't really want to throw them away yet, and my documents on Word are getting confusing, so I thought, why not just throw them up on LJ? If nothing else, maybe someone else will get an idea and run with it, I don't know.

So consider anything in this post up for grabs. Just drop me a line and let me know if you snagged an idea, a whole concept, a sentence, whatever. Maybe let me see the finished product?

Quotes/Sentences:

referring to the Biblical "turn the other cheek" : "If someone punches me in the face, I'm not gonna go, "Hey, uh, you missed a spot.'" - Emily F.

"Computer, initiate order 696, captain’s authorization code Barrat alpha-niner-niner-seven-four-three-niner-two-delta."

"Depressurization of the ship commencing."

Scenes/Concepts:

 

( Last Time on Monday Night Raw...(I was a WWE fan - so sue me) )

 

 

( Crossover between W Juliet and my Old History universe )

 

 

( SGA snippet 1 )

 

( SGA snippet 2 )


Words/Phrases:
-haraiyabet
-nyisheti iiteri voyoong


Miscellaneous:





x-posted to weishwei_nanen 

You Should Learn Japanese

You're cutting edge, and you are ready to delve into wacky Japanese culture. From Engrish to eating contests, you're born to be a crazy gaijin. Saiko!

Your Last Words:

"So, you're a cannibal."

WARNING: do not expect this post to make any real sense.

Question: For those of you who are HTML literate, what does < div dir = "ltr" > do? Or < div dir= "ltr" > < /div >? I keep seeing it when I go to edit my entries and switch to HTML,but I can't figure out if it's a line break (a la hitting "enter" a couple times) or if it's something else entirely.

An example of the HTML question above that's driving me crazy that I can't figure it out:

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Let's see how this looks, shall we?

So I'll be twenty-one in a couple weeks.  Not quite sure what I think about that.

Aside from the wacky dream I had last night, at least.  In my dream, for whatever reason, all of my family was out of town, I was on vacation so all of  my co-workers were at the branch, and all of my other friends were either sick or spending time with their family.  So for my birthday I took myself to a bar and had some drink - I think it was a martini or marguerita or something.  While I was there, I met a guy and spent four hours talking to him (bear in mind, that first drink was the only one I had that entire night!) about life, family and my plans for both.  He didn't want to talk about himself aside to mention that he travels a lot and tomorrow - in the dream, which would be Saturday - would be his last day in Vegas - I apparently didn't think anything about it in the dream.

But then he randomly proposed, and when I asked why, he gave valid (to my brain at the time) reasons.  There were several, but the only one I really remember now is that I want sixteen kids because I come from a huge family, and my cousin is the only child of an only child of an only child and I'm never going to do that to my children; he's an only child himself and thought that would be awesome - plus he's in a position to financially support that many munchkins.

Once I computed that - and still rather convinced he was playing a prank - I told him that, pretending we're both being serious, let's lay down some ground conditions.  There were several I would pay my own debts, and this would not be a case of "what happens in Vegas, stays" - I'd be  faithful wife and would expect him to be a faithful husband, were among those I listed to which he added a couple of his own (this was all very vivid in the dream, but already starting to fade now), and we came to an agreement of sorts.  By this point I'm finally starting to take him seriously, and, seized by a demon of spontaneity, I said yes.  So he drove us to a jeweler's, bought us rings, then drove us down to a chapel and we got married.

We went back to his hotel room because I wasn't about to take him back to my apartment or my parents' house on my wedding night - bad enough I'd have to explain a husband the next day! and did the stuff you'd expect for newlyweds, and I woke up the next day (still in the dream) with a complete stranger who was apparently my husband.  Cue denial and shock and disbelief and all that jazz, plus the grudging realization that I couldn't blame it on the alcohol, since I'd been as close to stone-cold sober the night before as one could be on their 21st birthday.  I woke up first, so I thankfully got to process all of that without his most likely distracting and unhelpful input.  Needless to say, I went into extreme and extremely quiet panicky-flail mode - and sat at his computer and wrote an LJ entry about it.  o.O

And then he woke up and my dream kinda skipped over that conversation, instead moving right on to me watching him board his plane after adding him to my bank account, and realizing that, while I did know his first and last names, I had no contact information!  No email address, no snail mail address, no phone number - nor did he have mine, and he didn't know when he'd be coming back to Vegas.  So there went my husband, and I had no idea if I'd ever see him again, much less if I'd ever be able to find him on my own.  Plus we hadn't gotten around to telling my family yet.

I was in the middle of panicking again when I woke up for real.

...

My brain is a really scary place sometimes.  I have no idea what's going on with it half the time.

On a completely different subject, I'm currently on the prowl for some piano/vocal duets, a la "Between the Bars" by Chris Garneau, "Almost Lover" by A Fine Frenzy, "Mad World" by Gary Jules, "Effigy" by Natalie Merchant (absolutely gorgeous vid, btw), and "Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus)" by Chris Rice (but more the others - this one is also accompanied by strings).  Kind of melancholy, fairly quiet...any recommendations would be appreciated!

So I'm not much of a speed-artist, and I'm going to be insanely busy until the end of the year.  So why, oh why did I sign up as an artist for startrekbigbang?  This is going to be interesting, to say the least...

Have some more recs?

Common Bond by florahart 

I didn't ship them until I read this, and now I wish more people would see the awesomeness and write it!  Sarek and Winona have a few things in common.

Conversational Vulcan and Time for Bed, Uncle Spock by bluemoon02 

A beautiful look at how Uhura and Spock's relationship might have started.



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