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So, I'm back... to some extent anyway. Hi!
(Uh. For some reason, this is completely terrifying. Like reintroducing myself to high school friends or something... Okay, not quite that terrifying. But I'm going to have forgotten people's names and stuff 'cause I'm TERRIBLE with names. Please forgive me!)
So, um, let's see. Last fall was my last semester of college. I directed a play and wrote a bunch of stuff. It went surprisingly well. I've discovered that I am a kinetic learner and it was great to be able to do something so hands-on. I'm actually not quite done yet - I still have some writing and stuff to do but I will graduate this spring. I'm (nominally) looking for a job now.
A. (the boy) is still working at the library but his new boss sucks monkey ball wrapped in bacon so he's thinking about quitting. We've been talking about whether moving to northern Vermont or Boston in the sometime future might be a good idea. And the boy has been talking about applying to Oxford in a few years time!
On August 20 2008, the sweetest, most wonderful cat in the world died. Gink was with us for about 9 months and I think that he was really happy during that time. I was away for most of that spring and he was the boy's sole companion then, so it was especially hard on him. I'm not usually a very sappy person, but I do think that Gink was an exceptional being. We used to joke that he was an alien investigating life on earth, because sometimes he just didn't act like a cat. He never bit or scratched and he loved to be cuddled and picked up. In the end, he got sick - we don't know with what but he had jaundice and stopped eating. We took him to the vet but he died a week later. I had to leave the next day to co-lead an orientation trip for a week (which went very well) but we mourned him together when I got back. And strangely on the same night (while I was on this trip) A. and I both had a dream about an orange cat.
In October we got two new cats from the Humane Society. They are silly, crazy beasts -- Caruso is about two and he gets into everything (including the toilet if you don't put the lid down) and Badger who is five or six and is a lady lapcat. Caruso is an orange tabby and Badger is a grey, orange, black and white torbie.
Sorry, that's a lot about cats but they are pretty central to my life. Hmm. What else. I'm learning how to knit and I'm going to try to make a knitted doll (yes I am ambitious!) I made a tiny red hat for it yesterday.
On the fandom front, I'm already getting back into stuff now that I have some time. I read and commented on a lot of Yuletide fics this year (I was one of the top ten non-writer commentors for about one day! Hehe!) And my birthday present from A. this year was going to see "Equus" in NYC. We went on December 29th and it was very cool.I saw Harry Potter naked! *cough* More importantly, I am now a big Richard Griffiths fan. We drove back to Vermont on New Year's Day and had surprise tall, dark-haired visitors (good luck!)
Surprise, surprise, I'm getting sucked into Merlin fandom. (Oh god! it's like the new SGA...) I had watched the pilot last fall with A. and we agreed "this is worse than the BBC Robin Hood!" The anachronisms are rife (tomatoes, corn, people sticking their goddamn swords in the ground all the time, to name a few.) But I can't resist a burdgeoning fandom that includes so many of my favorite writers... so now I've watched all the eps and I've got a couple fics started and vid ideas and... shit, it's embarrassing. Happily, this has also interested me in the real King Arthur story. Last week I read Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia (the Arthurian passages and the story of Brutus establishing Britain) which was *hilarious* and now I'm listening to a recording of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It's fun. :-) If anyone wants to recommend me some good modern Arthurian retellings, that'd be sweet.
Yup, so that's me in anutshell long rambly post. What's new with you guys?
(Uh. For some reason, this is completely terrifying. Like reintroducing myself to high school friends or something... Okay, not quite that terrifying. But I'm going to have forgotten people's names and stuff 'cause I'm TERRIBLE with names. Please forgive me!)
So, um, let's see. Last fall was my last semester of college. I directed a play and wrote a bunch of stuff. It went surprisingly well. I've discovered that I am a kinetic learner and it was great to be able to do something so hands-on. I'm actually not quite done yet - I still have some writing and stuff to do but I will graduate this spring. I'm (nominally) looking for a job now.
A. (the boy) is still working at the library but his new boss sucks monkey ball wrapped in bacon so he's thinking about quitting. We've been talking about whether moving to northern Vermont or Boston in the sometime future might be a good idea. And the boy has been talking about applying to Oxford in a few years time!
On August 20 2008, the sweetest, most wonderful cat in the world died. Gink was with us for about 9 months and I think that he was really happy during that time. I was away for most of that spring and he was the boy's sole companion then, so it was especially hard on him. I'm not usually a very sappy person, but I do think that Gink was an exceptional being. We used to joke that he was an alien investigating life on earth, because sometimes he just didn't act like a cat. He never bit or scratched and he loved to be cuddled and picked up. In the end, he got sick - we don't know with what but he had jaundice and stopped eating. We took him to the vet but he died a week later. I had to leave the next day to co-lead an orientation trip for a week (which went very well) but we mourned him together when I got back. And strangely on the same night (while I was on this trip) A. and I both had a dream about an orange cat.
In October we got two new cats from the Humane Society. They are silly, crazy beasts -- Caruso is about two and he gets into everything (including the toilet if you don't put the lid down) and Badger who is five or six and is a lady lapcat. Caruso is an orange tabby and Badger is a grey, orange, black and white torbie.
Sorry, that's a lot about cats but they are pretty central to my life. Hmm. What else. I'm learning how to knit and I'm going to try to make a knitted doll (yes I am ambitious!) I made a tiny red hat for it yesterday.
On the fandom front, I'm already getting back into stuff now that I have some time. I read and commented on a lot of Yuletide fics this year (I was one of the top ten non-writer commentors for about one day! Hehe!) And my birthday present from A. this year was going to see "Equus" in NYC. We went on December 29th and it was very cool.
Surprise, surprise, I'm getting sucked into Merlin fandom. (Oh god! it's like the new SGA...) I had watched the pilot last fall with A. and we agreed "this is worse than the BBC Robin Hood!" The anachronisms are rife (tomatoes, corn, people sticking their goddamn swords in the ground all the time, to name a few.) But I can't resist a burdgeoning fandom that includes so many of my favorite writers... so now I've watched all the eps and I've got a couple fics started and vid ideas and... shit, it's embarrassing. Happily, this has also interested me in the real King Arthur story. Last week I read Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia (the Arthurian passages and the story of Brutus establishing Britain) which was *hilarious* and now I'm listening to a recording of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It's fun. :-) If anyone wants to recommend me some good modern Arthurian retellings, that'd be sweet.
Yup, so that's me in a
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I've got to ask, what the hell does Caruso do in the toilet? o.O
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Hehe, Caruso just likes water of any sort. He'll jump in, get his feet wet and then track wet litter all around the house (he's got extra toes, which helps!) We've sort of given up on the sink.
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Hi, Lincoln! Haven't been over your way, but we'll probably wander over there now that the holiday madness has quieted down.
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Sorry to hear about your kitty. But glad to hear you have some new lovely kitties in your life. I always say the best cure for losing a kitty is getting two new ones! When I lose my baby, I'll have to wait for a bit before I can get new ones, for several reasons, but I shall have them, nonetheless.
I wrote two Yuletide stories this year (Keen Eddie and Jane Austen Persuasion), a first for me. They're both quite short, but I've gotten a lot of good feedback on both of them.
I need to try Merlin. I don't mind anachronisms in Arthurian stuff as much as I do in Robin Hood, so I might actually like it. Not sure. My big fandoms are still Torchwood, Doctor Who, and now Primeval (and I don't even like dinosaurs that much!). Also loving the new Timothy Hutton show, Leverage, on TNT. Great stuff, good writing.
Hope your holidays were good! Again, a big ol' huge welcome back!!!
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Oh, I will have to check those out! I don't know Keen Eddie but I watched Persuasion recently (I haven't quite gotten around to actually reading Austen yet but the boy has been getting me into period movies.)
Merlin has grown on me, once I got past the silly. It has Anthony Stewart Head as Uther and Guenivere (Gwen) is played by an actress of color (Angel Coulby.) I need to catch up on Doctor Who, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle of the last season. What's the draw of Primeval? I noticed it had a lot of fics in Yuletide.
Thanks and likewise!
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Keen Eddie was a very fun show that was on A&E a few years ago, about a New York cop who ends up doing some work with the Met in London and ends up staying on. It has Mark Valley as Eddie, the adorable Julian Rhind-Tutt as his partner Monty, and Sienna Miller as Eddie's spoiled upper class housemate. It's very tongue in cheek and rather fun.
The draw of Primeval for me is Douglas Henshall, who plays Professor Nick Cutter, the head of the team. There are some other excellent actors in there, including Ben Miller and Juliet Aubrey, but it's mostly Dougie Henshall for me. I've liked him for years, ever since I saw him as Anna Karenina's brother in the 1998 BBC version of Anna Karenina. So I was thrilled to see him show up in a primetime BBC drama. The dinosaurs and monsters are a little creepy, but the rest of the team is very interesting and there's a lot of good banter and stuff.
I do need to see Merlin, then, how can one go wrong with Anthony Stewart Head!!? I still loved his creepy alien villain in the school episode of Doctor Who. You do need to catch up on DW. There were some really good episodes last season. The Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead were excellent.
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Oh, Julian Rhind-Tutt guest-starred in an episode of Merlin (1x06)! They de-eyecandified him a bit though. I just downloaded an ep of Primeval. Looks fun!
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Ooh, do let me know what you think of Primeval. I have the entire set on DVD of the first two seasons (which BBC America sort of showed as one long season, since the first series in Britain was only like 6 eps long or something. You're fairly close to me here in Vermont, I believe, so I could loan them to you if you get hooked. Just an offer! (Please, be another Primeval fan, so I have someone else to talk to! Please!! *makes pathetic begging gesture*) ;)
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I'm sorry to hear about Gink. My dog died in the fall, too. She lived with my parents, but she was mine, you know? Your new cats sound like fun, and I'm glad you're giving them a loving home in which to be silly and crazy.
Arthurain things: Stephen R. Lawhead has The Pendragon Cycle, which I think consists of Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon, and Grail. It's an interesting version of the Arthurian legend in that it adds the lost city of Atlantis into the mix. I also really like Anne McCaffrey's Black Horses for the King. It's intended for young readers, but so is half of what I read. It's all from the perspective of a boy who cares for horses.
In my life: Hmmmmm. I feel very boring. I told you that I fell headlong into bandom. I've written two short High School AU things for it, which I can link you if you feel like reading. Madly in love with Chad/Ryan from High School Musical, despite the fact that it's High School Musical, of all things. Still loving SGA and BtVS. Ummm ... I'm doing a fast right now. I just started, so I'm not feeling too bad yet, and I'm drinking lots of water.
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Aw, sorry about your dog. I hope you got to see her before she died.
Thanks for the recs! Black Horses for the King sounds right up my alley. And I'd like to read your fic when I have time! I watched season 7 of Buffy last fall and was really into Spike/Xander for a time. (I'm oh-so-predictable.)
Ooh, neat. What are you fasting for?
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My company sells a superfood juice, and everyone else in the office has done a fast with it, in which they consume only our juice and water for three days. Since my husband has been wanting us to go on a diet, I thought doing the fast would be a good way to get us out of our usual eating patterns before we start on better-for-us food.
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Cool! I love the idea of fasting but I've never really done it (sometimes I forget to eat but it's not quite the same.)
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sorry about your cat! That is really really sucky, but I am glad to hear you adopted some new ones.
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It's only the BEST FILM EVER MADE~~~ no seriously, it was very sweet and lovely, and it won th egolden globe for best picture last night. and i'v been listening to the soundtrack on loop non-stop since i saw it, omfg. and using icons of it.
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I'm at uni now, in edinburgh, doing maths and computer programming. I completed nano in november \o/ 54,000 words of real-world magical apocalypse (...I know ^.^'), and the last 18-odd k needs to be burnt at the stake *twitches* but at least I know it's /possible/.
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