| Temeraire! |
[07 Dec 2009|11:42pm] |
So, like three years ago, Peter Jackson bought the rights to ![[profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) naominovik's Temeraire novels. And the internet rejoiced, because Peter Jackson is awesome and Temeraire is awesome and Naomi is one of our own!
And then nothing was said about the project ever again. Jackson was working on The Lovely Bones (which I'm not sure I'll see, as the book was sort of upsetting) and District 9 (which I should see) and Tintin (eh?) and our beloved dragons got a bit sidelined.
But apparently all is not lost. Jackson has been thinking about it, at least, and here is a link to an interview in which he talks about it. WETA has been designing dragons! And we might have nine books in the end! And he wants to do them as a miniseries because a movie just isn't enough for him to tell the story! *dances madly*
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So, y'all have spoken and you want a Firefly/Reboot crossover of epic proportions. *gulps* How about we start with Christmas cards for my various fandoms? I will try to do one each for Who, Buffy, Vorkosiverse, and Temeraire by . . . well, I will shoot for December 25th, but let's say January 6th, just to be safe.
And in the meantime, I will obsessively rewatch the movie with twitchylizard and possibly rewatch some Firefly as well, and try and wrap my head around the idea. I want to write it as much as you guys want to read it - possibly more - it's just a bit . . . intimidating. ST canon is enormous and even more elaborate than Who canon, which is somehow easier to disassemble to pick and choose from its component parts, and the story would be really meaty and political and kinda ethically sticky, and really, I just want to read the damn thing, but it seems no one has written it.
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I went to my first yoga class tonight. It was . . . really hard. Flexibility and balance, they are not the strong suits of sahiya's in the wild (which I suppose is why the domesticated variety should try to improve them). I think it's not quite enough of a workout for me on its own, and my impression of my fellow yoga-ers was that they had done cardio beforehand. That sounds like the way to go for me. I could not do cardio afterwards, as the class ends with some meditation and I was way too relaxed. But it was something new, which is always good, and it got me back to the gym after, uh, we're not even going to talk about how long it had been. Before I got sick, anyway, and that was before Thanksgiving.
I liked the meditation. My head was buzzing at first with stuff I've been stewing about lately, but eventually I was able to get to the point where I was just feeling my heart beating and my lungs breathing. I felt better walking out than I had going in.
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It's fucking cold here. I really wish the main source of heat in my house did not reside in the living room.
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| My poor neglected LJ. |
[07 Dec 2009|05:59pm] |
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I think that the death of online blogging (which, lets be honest, led to the [partial?] death of paper journal-ing) is due in part to the rise of Facebook and Twitter and the like. Who wants to slog through paragraphs and paragraphs of thoughts and problems and complexities when you can just read a two sentence blip about frivolous and trivial (trivolous?) fun?
I'm out of practice, for real reals.
My Scotland Blog is still up, so you can see that I wrote relatively steadily throughout the summer. But being back in San Diego, back in the land of academia and stress has a way of sucking me dry of creativity and thoughtfulness, sometimes due to sheer exhaustion (teaching + grading + researching + writing = I love my bed), and sometimes due to crankiness. I forget how good it is for myself to actually write, how good it feels to get back into the swing of things, even if all I am writing about is a tube of lipgloss I really love or a perfect poached egg (I made one today! So proud of myself), and ranging all the way to, of course, the life of being a grad student, farmhand, QOC, and, most recently, in love (and terrified, don't you know).
I need to get back into it.
So here is my resolution (how very Nick Lachey of me): I will post three times a week, minimum.
I know the world is supposed to end with a whimper, but hell if I'm going to let this journal die that way.
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| ganked. |
[07 Dec 2009|01:22pm] |
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  nakeeyark sent to me... Twelve fires kissing Eleven orgasms reading Ten cartoons a-creating Nine cafes bowling Eight politics a-driving Seven beaches a-laughing Six loltheorists a-dancing Five cu-u-u-ultural studies Four text tattoos Three horror movies Two old jeans ...and a lust in an androgyny. |
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| *tosses confetti* |
[06 Dec 2009|12:54pm] |
Applications are IN! And I am down $240. To be fair, most of that is Stanford, which for some reason charges a $125 application fee (compared to Cornell's $70 and Wash U's $45). WTF.
Now I just have to nag my schools to make sure they get everything they should have (and, you know, await my results). And finish the last book review. But I think I can safely give myself permission to start writing! And on that note, a poll for your enjoyment!
Poll #1495425 I'm baaaa-aaaack!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35What should I write for my first story back from my writing hiatus? "Below."
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[05 Dec 2009|07:14pm] |
I am trying to figure out if this LiveJournal is dead or not.
I really have no answer at this point.
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| what's that watermelon doing there? |
[05 Dec 2009|03:14am] |
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Yesterday I went climbing at Mission Cliffs for the first time since probably July or August. It was totally awesome and super fun. Today I went climbing at Ironworks and climbed all 5.10Bs. Totally solid. There's a 5.10C there that I'm pretty sure I could do next time I go. I'm really excited about that.
I'm also excited about losing weight because I'm doing that again. Depending on what source you consult, I've lost anywhere from 7 to 30 pounds in the past year (and I can't say for sure because of how weird my scale acts). It was around this time last year that I had my physical at Sally's clinic and was staggered at how much I weighed and started actively changing my eating patterns to lose weight just by adjusting my caloric intake each day. I started by just cutting out extra candies and snacks and soda. A few months later I was meticulously calculating my daily calorie intake. For a while there I was losing weight and then I plateaued and then I adjusted it a lot and lost a bit more weight, then I slipped for a few months and was only kind of watching myself.
What I am doing now is different from what I was doing. Now that I have a good feel for how many calories are in meals and whatnot, I don't actually catalog everything I eat. But I only eat one big meal a day. For breakfast I have an English muffin. If I'm working or sometimes if I'm climbing I'll have a mid-morning/afternoon snack (granola bar or something), sometimes not. I have a normal sized lunch (500-800 calories probably, depending), and then a salad or snack in the evening. If I have a particularly light lunch I might have a very small meal in the evening. And usually at least one day a week or so, I eat whatever I want (like have ice cream or something). So I'm avoiding the thing about diets that really bothers me -- changing *what* I eat to things that I don't like to eat.
I've found a lot of really good low calorie snacks and things too. And I'm saving money on tons of groceries that I don't buy now. See, because of work, my big meal is usually lunch and I don't often cook for myself anymore except on my days off. My general goal is to aim for about 1200 calories a day.
Here's some good stuff I have found that works well for me:
-- bagged salad: I love to make big awesome elaborate salads, but for just myself, that's a waste and so I get salad in a bag. the one I get at Safeway is the '5 lettuce mix' because it's got variety and stays fresh longer.
-- salad dressing: Trader Joes makes this Sesame Soy Ginger Vinaigrette that is the greatest salad dressing I have EVER had and it's super low in calories too (like 30 per serving I think?), Newman's has a version but it's not as good tasting
-- English muffins: when I was a kid I hated these because my parents apparently got the crispy/crunchy kind or something. I fucking LOVE these and have one just about every morning with honey on it (pumpkin butter, regular butter, or jam are good too but I prefer honey) and they're only like 120 calories each, no corn syrup either, yo. What I really like to do for a low calorie light meal too is cut up a sausage and a babybel cheese, toast an English muffin with the cheese on it, and zap the sausage in the microwave and then put some in the muffin and have a little sausage and cheese sammich
-- sausages: my local Farmer Joes (which is a lot like Whole Foods) has a mind-blowing assortment of sausages you can get in 4 packs. The ones based in turkey and chicken are pretty low in calories too (like maybe 170 each) and make a good snack on their own or added to other stuff.
-- individually packaged stuff: like pudding cups, babybel cheeses - as opposed to getting a tub'o'pudding or a block'o'cheese, this way you can clearly define exactly how much you are having
-- granola bars: Quaker makes these 100 or 90 calorie little granola bars which are really good as little light snacks
-- pickles: they are super tasty and so low in calories they don't even fucking count
-- cashews: I don't really like nuts but I love cashews and if I just have a tiny hunger can throw down a few cashews and call it done
-- apples and cuties/other fruit: fruit is full of sugar of course but it's good for you and I recommend it
Among other things. And I'm getting to the gym to climb about 3x's a week lately, sometimes only 2, but it's still good. I've been considering going to the gym after work on days when I don't climb and it's possible... just to like run on the treadmill or something. But it's hard to work up the motivation I think.
But I really have been climbing a lot. In October I went climbing 7 times. In November I went climbing 9 times. So far, four days into the month, I have been climbing three times. And I could potentially climb every single weekday morning for the next two weeks. I won't, of course, but it really is totally sweet to see the very real progress and getting better and stuff.
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Today at work I set a new record for myself. I completed 24 repairs in my 8 hour repair shift. I also worked on a computer that I wasn't able to complete (and it was a bear of a repair too, this laptop which would gain new problems for every problem I fixed, I had to order a ton of parts and move it to Awaiting Parts). One of those 24 repairs was for a computer owned by Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon! He lives in the area and has been into the store before, I've seen him but never helped him before. And this is the first time that I know of him being into the store since I actually read (and really enjoyed) one of his books. I got super nervous before calling to say the computer was ready, but he didn't even answer the phone so it didn't matter and I was super professional anyway because that's the job you see.
Now, most of those repairs were fairly easy (and I have to tell you that like half of them were hard drives in various models of computers and we have this new server set up that makes hard drive setup almost a single step process, it's AMAZING) but still -- the VOLUME! We lost probably 50 hours of repair time this week to people calling out sick and whatnot, so our repair queues were packed and getting a little crazy but today we had pretty much everyone there and I just put on my 'TOTALLY PUMPED' playlist on the speakers and I entered the ZONE and never left it. No one has ever completed 24 repairs in an 8 hour shift at my store before I'm sure! My previous record was 18 or 19 (I honestly forget) for an 8 hour shift in repair and 14 for a 4 hour repair shift.
But anyway, after that, the VOLUME of repairs is back to like normal-heavy instead of FUCKING INSANE. Now, if we can keep our heads above water, we might get back to normal soon.
I also made sure that I was enjoying myself for as much of the shift as I could. Because I really work way too hard for what I'm paid, but I also really enjoy fixing computers and fixing a LOT of computers and so I had a blast ripping through those 24 repairs.
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Ummm. That's about it for now.
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| I'm BAAAAA-AAAACK! |
[04 Dec 2009|12:07am] |
Today I made a sale, submitted my Stanford application, conducted a group interview, went to a mixer for educational therapists, psychologists, and assessment professionals in the area, and still had energy leftover for grocery shopping with twitchylizard when I got home.
ENERGY! I have energy again! It's amazing!
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[02 Dec 2009|05:13pm] |
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Sick at home again today. Please send soup.
So very over this now.
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Apparently my 'type' is guys who are over six feet tall and are trying to quit smoking.
?????? what the junk.
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