Miss Cellaneous

Oh, oh! There is a "Bad Puns" tag up on The Archive of Our Own! I am ( gleeful about so many of them )

Yes, I've used it on this just-uploaded story.

♥

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Back from the annual office Martinsgansessen: that bird was pretty yummy, same for the Kartoffelklöße und the Rotkohl (even though the latter does not reach the one my Mama prepares). Cheerful chats with old(ish) colleagues were had at two different tables, too.

Speaking of workplace associations - I think I mentioned before that absolutely everybody should have an English office-mate. They make work life a lot more hilarious.

First, there's the phone conversation between sandynotlisa and his girlfriend in Brussels, where she interns - he started to laugh uncontrollably and immediately told me what had transpired:

gfnotsandy: By the way, I'll see my first Shakespeare play tonight! Very excited.
sandynotlisa: Sounds great. Which Shakespeare play are you going to see?
gfnotsandy: King Leon!

And then there's the story of this girl-pal of his, whose taste in men is not always...ideal:

galnotsandy: It's 10pm - you know, I'm getting hungry. How about dinner?
datenotsandy: Sure thing, babe.
datenotsandy: *goes, buys pack of crisps at the bar, and very proudly hands it to her*

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( Real life: family & work )

In the mean time, I have changed my blog layout. Y'like?

Also, with my first From Mona To Mona gift, I've made a couple of DVD Screencaps of SGA 1x01 "Rising." Have at 'em, if you like. Yes, I am icon-making as I post.

Finally (for this entry), new default icon.

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Watched Capitalism - A Love Story with vervealemania in one of the small Programmkinos nearby. Well worth seeing, this movie. Is it subjective and often simplistic? Oh, you bet. But it manages to provide food for thought and to put the spotlight on key aspects and players of the financial and political system that cannot possibly get enough exposure.

( Are contemporary and historical facts really spoilers? )

Is LJ hiccuping for you, too?

Also, when I tried to check the status, I stumbled upon the lj community kitchenfaq...and read it as kitchenfag. To my defence, the first descriptive sentence did not exactly disabuse me of this notion: "Want to share a fabulous home recipe for coconut bread?"

My icon says everything there is to say about my work day. Leisure time was much better, then: a good episode of Spooks, not to mention concurrent orgasmic noises from sandynotlisa. If I'd known he'd like my Leberwurst* so much, I'd have bought some a long time ago.

* not a euphemism.

The parcel from amazon.co.uk came at a perfect time, in any case: I gave myself an early Christmas present.

( Only SGA fans will understand )

While we're at it, did I mention Sandy had given me this as a little thank-you gift for lending him Seasons One to Three of The Wire?

( Aww! )

Because eruthros reminded me of this question that friendshipper and I had pondered a while ago during prompts for mcshep_match.

And what would give a better answer regarding one special kink & specifics & tags thereof than a *POLL*?

( A BD, an SM, and a BDSM walked into a bar. [Ouch.] )

sandynotlisa: Thanks for lending me your umbrella!
monanotlisa: Sure thing.
sandynotlisa: Just - you want it to dry, right? Could you open it, perhaps?
monanotlisa: I could, but why?
sandynotlisa: Well, it's an English thing. We don't like to open umbrellas inside: It's bad luck.
monanotlisa: Bad luck?
sandynotlisa: I don't walk under ladders either.
monanotlisa: You're really buying into that?
sandynotlisa: No, no - I'm not superstitious, mind you. I just - I avoid certain actions if at all possible.
monanotlisa: So basically, you are a Superstition Agnostic: This could either have mysteriously terrible consequences or not, so if it's no effort, you avoid it just in case?
sandynotlisa: Just in case! Exactly.

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The very last one in this oddly adorable interactive animation is bugging me. Pun as always intended.

*sneeze*

Otherwise, I plan on not meeting anyone tonight: nice change after Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Instead, there will be cake & organic steak - not at the same time - at the parents', who are at a birthday brunch now and will have old friends over later. (I do have to bake said cake first, but hey. Am thinking Dutch Apple Tart, and also have so much love for the Search function on Dreamwidth.)

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Watched the Vampire Diaries 1x09 and agree with pretty much everything coffeeandink says here in her VD 1-10 post. All her Oh, Nay! thoughts ring true...but as for the Oh, Yay! thoughts, they're decisive because of the way these girls are portrayed, by the writers but also the actresses, because this show does pass the Bechdel Test with flying colours, because I wish I'd had a show like this when I was a teenager.

Also, vampires! ♥

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Anyone of you got experience with http://www.iomoio.com/ ? I am eyeing Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park for nostalgic reasons, and 2+ EUR doesn't sound too bad either. But things that look too good-slash-cheap to be true usually are.

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I'm not entirely sure how stereotypical the depiction of Japan in this show was (and am vaguely afraid to know), but Jesus Christ, I love it for giving us a woman, and an Asian woman at that, with real agency.

( Spoilers for FlashForward 1x09 )

Also, I ♥ Olivia. And that ( spoiler! ) was pretty much the first time I liked this character: rang true enough, indeed. I am a sucker for characters calling each other on their ( spoiler? ) *g*

My biggest complaint, though: NOT ENOUGH JANIS. Room to improve, show! One woman does not actually make a summer.

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I'd told Aiko (愛子/あいこ), our Japanese colleague, three days before that this Friday Night of Office Fun* was taking place so she could get a babysitter**, and whoa, she did not just bring the rice snacks but also a bottle of sake that our way-too-cheerful huge blond Teutonic co-worker proceeded to open after we'd finished that second bottle of Portuguese wine (which, by the way, tends to be so excellent that, along with the personality of my dear colleague, it made me seriously contemplate a vacation in Portugal: The Iberian peninsula clearly has more than one culture to offer, and shame on me for not realising this earlier.)

* not as much of an oxymoron as you'd think, after all.
** I'm not a huge fan of women missing out on late(r) night socialising with the peers. I'm sure you're vastly surprised.

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I did not want to post about it before it was a done deal, but I turned sandynotlisa into a total The Wire fan...who now even feels that Season Four may be his favourite. It's mine, and he just gave me the Season 4 DVDs he ordered to me as a gift.

Sure, I was the one who'd hooked him up with Seasons One, Two, Three on DVD. But I'm still very, very pleased. ♥

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A lot of us have, over the last week or so, been uploading our back catalog to AO3. And, ahahaha. Wow. It's weird and kind of scary to look at the stuff I was writing back as a wee 20something fangirl (anything written in my teens as a "feral" fan did not survive my gleeful purge of my high school notebooks, sadly, but that's fine, because it was all RPF about people none of you have ever heard of...

Hey, why don't you take minim_calibre's little poll on the how/what/WHAT? of uploading to the Archive Of Our Own?

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The Beaujolais Nouveau Evening at Alex's turned out surprisingly nice, both people- and wine-wise (not to mention the cheeses - as Martin said it, I'd never thought we'd all bring such a variety to the table).

There are definite advantages of a slight head cold (not people-related).

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I have plenty of friends with kids whose careers have done just fine, who managed to pop out child after child without it holding them back for a moment, putting time into their families and time into their jobs and balancing them successfully.

These friends are all men.

These are ascian3's words:

( Feminism is not a solved problem. )

Her words, but not just her story.

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Just watched the ep with sandynotlisa.

( 8x03 Episode reaction )

walkingshadow is my heeero. For she made this:

How To Tell If Your Pain is ~Manpain~



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Fannish things I love right now:

• the Archive Of Our Own's functions: Did you know you can add an Inspiration or Remix link to a story, just like this?
  
  Made for a veritable riffer like me. ;)

• my SGA Secret Santa assignment. I had been hoping for this wish, and I got it, also happening to adore the wish-er. Already got the big picture of my story - if not the details - mapped out in my mind. 's all good.

• SGA Big Bang, all live and in colour. No time right now, but boy, I foresee a few fantastic months of great Atlantis novelisations. (Y'all, keep reccin'!)
  
  Must also mention the artists: I cannot wait to check out what they created and would totally do it before reading the stories if only the images and vids weren't per se spoilery. I'm constantly in awe of some of my fellow fans' talent (and basically chanting, WE ARE NOT WORTHY in advance).
  
  Still, I contributed:
  
  
  

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