Miss Cellaneous

Copy-pasting from my iPAQ (the handheld computer, the pocket pc, the light of my life and fire of my loins):

Aw, London. Sprawling and crowded, overpriced everywhere but in fresh produce markets & Desi restaurants in Brick Lane, but also familiar, welcoming, and warm in the literal and metaphorical sense, with lovely friends old & new, and could this any more sound like a mix between a travel report and a Hallmark card?

So, the day, what I did, during:

( The BBC, Wallace, and some serious park-ing )

On my way home again, actually: kangeiko will be cookin´ a nice red Thai curry for us. I´m bringing the chicken. Already feeling all manly, rowr.

Arrived safe'n sound at kangeiko's after the quickest-ever trip into London. Was greeted not only by Kangeiko & a steaming cup of tea but also her flatmate in her underwear--laundry day, she hastened to tell me.

Either way, this party sure is off to a great start.

Q: How do you recognise a friendly cyclist?

A: By the flies stuck between his teeth.

Guess it's spring, indeed.

( Semi-secret Message to my sister, Jonesie, & Nina )

I need to go out and buy milk for that dash in my Lady Grey. Yes, I'm acclimatising already. Aw, London, most appealing moloch I've ever seen.

Also, seen everywhere on the flist and nicely customisable for both fannish and real-life content, that meme:

1. What do you think of _____________ ?

( The other 6 numbered, open questions! )

1,600 words of femslash! If you're so inclined, thank thingswithwings, who asked for Teyla/Jennifer recs right here. I promised her a drabble, but somehow, things got away from me.

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Title: Never Bend with the Rainfall
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jennifer Keller/Teyla Emmagan
Thanks to: ainsley and stultiloquentia
Spoilers: assumes the events of 4x07 "Missing" without the very last scene

( Never Bend With The Rainfall )

I just got myself into ( boring & certainly pretentious-lookin' wine talk! )

Will open the Nero d'Avola now and enjoy it with my beef steak on garlic-roasted mushrooms with some cauliflowers thrown in for good measure.

Oh, Gmail ads. Occasionally, you are amusing. This is not the case today.

FatLoss4Idiots.com - I lost 9 lbs. in 11 days, just by following these 10 simple rules.

I can deal with tiny virtual robots wrongfully thinking I was either fat or wanted to lose weight -- they are most likely used to all these thinspiration images & shots of America's/Germany's/Azerbeijan's Next Top Models on the web -- but that they consider me stupid is food for thought. Unpalatable food for thought.

The reason I saw this? I've been been tinkering with my CV for the last two hours; thanks to the4ts the Londoner looking over it. & :-)

Speaking of life & lessons learned, and hush, I know that's an awkward segue, thassalia is reviving the What I've Learned From TV meme.

( My answers )

Booked a flight to London today and, thanks to the utter loveliness of my friends, have quite a few highlights planned already -- just a week, really, but it won't necessarily be vacation-only; I plan to pounce on all and any job opportunities.

Should you have any advice -- or links -- on how to best structure one's CV for the UK job market, I'm all ears (and ♥s)!

(If job search musings & inquiries bother you in any way, it's probably best to take me off the flist. I'll cut-tag rather liberally, as always, but from now on, expect little to no study whining and a lot Oh My God The Job Market, It Is A Fierce Beast Indeed! whining.)

( Bread & cheese )

I've been all over the fascinating business of cancelling my telecommunication contracts today, but mostly, I've been relaxing...and am still going strong in that area: Drinking the rest of this wine my parents let me open to celebrate my Oral Exam towards the end of last week, and watching the Munich Tatort (I ♥ Batic & Leitmayr).

In other tv news pertaining to my oldest OTP: I asked in a community for The X-Files episodes of Season 8 & 9 necessary to get the movie:

( The results, thanks to one kind comm member )

Which eps do you think I need to watch?

I love my sister so much that I just watched Germany's Next Topmodel with her.

Maintenance on a site I rely on during this my late-night study session.

::twiddles thumbs::

::decides to offer ICONS! collected over the last weeks instead::

( John and Rodney and Teyla and Ronon )

Namely that I'm, well, not home.

( RL/EXM )

ascian3, I only now got your Christmas card: stuck in-between the pages of my April 12th, 2008 newspaper (I'm perusing them specifically for relevant tidbits that might come up in the Oral). I guess we can just blink at the postal service and think, better late than never, eh? Greetings back to sleipnirrr and oh, pukajen, as per her P.S. *g*

Thank you. Your words made me smile. ♥

Going over semi-official Oral Exam protocols. This last examinee here didn't add the usual good-luck phrase at the end but closed his account of the oral exam with, May the force be with you!!!

& :-)

I'm inclined to agree with the Random Proverb Generator athena25 has last linked me to there.

In other news, had my last Oral Prep Session with Di in the morning and a long, lovely lunch with a new friend who's awesomecakes.

Speaking of, I baked shortbread.

( Photos & the recipe )

Also, I looked fab today, with my boot-cut faded jeans and my sleek little black turtleneck. But let's face it, I didn't look quite as tasty as these cookies. So, uh, photos of me reserved for when the competition isn't so steep.

I may have decided to join mcshep_match -- or try to, anyway.

As requested by this our pre-season friendly, in small study breaks and increments, I made icons for the McShep Match --

check out my icons and vote for your favourites!

Right, you want to see examples....

sample#1	sample#2	sample#3

Now, go get 'em!

Browsed the flist and read an entry by st_salieri addressing some issues I, too, had been wondering about. She quotes the opening paragraph of journalist Amanda Fortini's latest New York Magazine article, and I'll do the same:

"Not so long ago, it was possıble for women, particularly young women, to share in the popular illusion that we were living in a postfeminist moment. There were encouraging statistics to point to: More women than men are enrolled at universities, where they typically earn higher grades; once they graduate, those who live in big cities might even receive higher salaries — at least in the early years of employment. The Speaker of the House is female, as are eight governors and 16 percent of Congress (never mind that this is 11 percent fewer than Afghanistan's parliament). Many women believed we had access to the same opportunities and experiences as men — that was the goal of the feminist movement, wasn't it? — should we choose to take advantage of them (and, increasingly, we just might not). There was, of course, the occasional gender-based slight to contend with, a comment on physical appearance, the casual office badminton played with words like bitch and whore and slut, but to get worked up over these things seemed pointlessly symbolic, humorless, the purview of women's-studies types. Then Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy, and the sexism in America, long lying dormant, like some feral, tranquilized animal, yawned and revealed itself. Even those of us who didn’t usually concern ourselves with gender-centric matters began to realize that when it comes to women, we are not post-anything.

[...]"

For further thoughts on this and a lot of my own stances on feminism, read Salieri's entry.

( If you don't want to hear about *abortion,* don't click this. )

Not re-posting them, got headache(tm), but here are links to my final three entries that didn't show up on the flist:

- SG-1 Movie Ark of Truth - brief musings & call for story recommendations

- On the Torchwood S2 Finale. Also, a Muffin Recipe

- Martin Luther King's speech *Beyond Vietnam*

Re-Post Project - Entry #5, sorry if you've seen it already: drive on by, then!

( Podbook Compilations by Countess )

Re-Post Project - Entry #4, sorry if you've seen it already: drive on by, then!

( SGA Fandom Secrets )

LJ has not been displaying my entries on Friendspages. ( Film at 11. )

I'm genuinely sorry for cluttering up your flist by re-posting the entries since that.

At midnight, I closed my scripts.

( SG-1 Movie: Ark of Truth )

That said, trying to sift through SG-1 fic without any pointers makes the baby Adria cry: Any recommendations post-Ark of Truth? Gen would be nice, especially Teal'c fic and Vala stories; Daniel/Vala would be great; Sam/Cam would be awesome. (Also wouldn't say no to good episode reviews.)

I took a study break to
a) be true to my current lj name and make muffins from a new recipe, and
b) watch Torchwood.

ad b) ( Torchwood S2 finale )

ad a) ( More Muffins! With recipe & photos )