Miss Cellaneous

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! )

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 )

Remember the Mix It Up Meme?

Here are:

( A) My cast of characters )

( B) My first 3 answers )

( 7 Songs Meme, with mp3s for sampling purposes only to be deleted etc. pp. )

Remember the Mix It Up Meme?

Here are:

( A) My cast of characters )

( B) My first 3 answers )

Uh, Semagic Dictionary? "Gassy" is not a proper spelling or alternative for "sassy."

Had a low-grade headache all day; I think e. is right and yesterday's Languedoc Cuvée 2006 is to blame. ( w(h)ine )

That said, after a dinner of onion/tomato/lentil soup with herbs, I'll still be studying until midnight now. In the meantime, though? Last at technosage's:

The Mix-'em-up Meme

1) Make a list of 15 characters from various fandoms and assign each character a number.

2) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them, i.e. "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?"

3) Post the list of characters and answers to the questions.

As Allie said: I've got the list; bring it on!

I chose one character per fandom...and realised I have way too many fandoms; when did that happen?

1. ( How to Use Skills Aquired Via The Internet In Your Family's Daily Dealings )

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2. TSCC

The future of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is in serious doubt.

In this post, there's stuff we can do...and a link to the most apt comic in this context. chele74, you'll want to click.

I'd upload a Sarah Connor icon--or maybe a Cameron one? Decisions, decisions--but don't wanna lose my inactive icons. Later.

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3. Meme

And finally, although I fully well realise that any storyfinders summary worth its smelling salts would be longer than most of my fiction...if not all of it; a multi-novel epic makes up for dozens of drabbles, right?

Snagged from yahtzee63:

"The thing is, when people look for stories, they always make it sound like badfic. Now, often that's because it really is badfic, but sometimes it's good and they just suck at describing the story.

So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to summarize badly any one (or more!) of my stories and I'll try to guess which it is. You could even pretend you don't remember the pairing or fandom to make it harder to guess."

( 5 characters you have or had a crush on/find attractive but who would be a boyfriend or girlfriend in real life )

toomuchplor is hosting a new twist on the old challenge:

"So - six word stories in the comments, any fandom, any pairing, any genre."

Right now, it's way too Atlantis-heavy for some of you. & ;-) Come play!

Which reminds me -- she and I had the best-ever conversation regarding Rodney so-not-bottoming, thanks, over at thingswithwings, who had the liveliest fanfic!pet!peeves discussion. I think there's a certain Need To Know element, as in: Do I really need to know this ohmygod?, but really, if canon characterisation as applied to sexual preferences and habits interests you (and if you're reading this lj, it probably doesn't abhor you, at least), feel free to scroll down to my comment and the ones following it.

I continue to looove The Sarah Connor Chronicles. ::doodles little hearts:: Evil FOX, keeping me hangin' and hopin'. Icon recs, fic recs (gen so far, I'm thinking)?



ETA: Ooh, thanks to whoever it was who said awesome / things about me in svmadelyn's Valentine's Day Game!

If you're active in fandom, you should totally check it out; there's a good chance at least one friend left you an anonymous love note.

I came, I saw, I caved:



ETA 3: [spoiler warning etc. pp. retracted]

Name a fandom I'm into and I will tell you:

1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
( ...and 15 more, cut for your convenience )

Okay, so I contributed to More Joy Day after I finished prepping tomorrow's get-together. Only for SGA fandom yet again, which made me laugh by not one but two people on my flist reading it as More Joe Day. Never change, folks.

( For the SGA/JF fans )

I hear it's More Joy Day.

Of course, it's also the day where my desk lamp finally croaked juuust when I picked up the papers I need to prepare tomorrow morning's study group with two friends. So, right now, I am grumpily sitting at a computer shrouded in less-than-mysterious half-light, the latter coming from the one-two-seven candles I lit on top of the monitor.

I guess the for-once-good part is that I never got that flatscreen.

In more joyful news, sageness linked to an anonymous love meme, but when I read through it, I knew no one but her and Isis in it. The trouble is not so much me thinking, "Who the hell are these people?!" but the ones I do know--on my flist, in my fandom--being unlikely to venture there and start reading through all the comments. While I'm at it, ( why love memes are the only time when I think anonymous comments are awesome. )

Truth is, I'd totally host an anon love meme if I thought people would play. Hmm.

Also, speaking of such positive emotions, in her ficlet offer post, yahtzee62 wrote me a kick-ass Ugly Betty drabble featuring Hilda & Justin. ♥

Now, to the kitchen (it's where the tiles begin) table for aforementioned prep. Meh.

Is it too ambitious even for me to search for a dessert dish combining almonds, saffron, limes, and possibly apples or figs? (My father was given three boxes of Persian saffron as another good-bye gift from colleagues in Iran, and I immediately snagged one of tiny wooden inlay boxes.)

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If there is a less kind term for "spam robot test challenged," I don't want to know. Sure, my vision isn't perfect, but I wish LJ would at least make a half-hearted attempt at legibility: Having to go three rounds with each spam robot test is a bit exhausting.

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W(i)tF(i)?

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Y'all should comment with things that you think people reading this LJ ought to know about me. If you were describing my LJ to someone who was trying to decide whether to read it, what would you say?

What I like best about this meme is its use of the address "y'all."

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ETA: vylit says what I think about some fanfic writers..

I'm not quite sure what it means if one finds the results of a freaky 2-minute on-line personality test eerily accurate.

Also, not having the best year month week day, so let's be shameless for once. Twice. Perhaps more often; you know how it goes.

In keepaofthecheez's Secret Admirer/Crazy Stalker Meme, you can find my my entry here. Anonymous or with your name; I'm easy that way.

Already studied a few pages and am off for some lessons now. Safe to say I'll want to do something else afterwards. As I need to flex my writing muscles to finally continue with Ard ASAP,

feel free to give me a drabble prompt.

Stargate Atlantis, Heroes, House M.D., Dexter, and Ugly Betty come to mind, but I might pick up my older fandoms, too, if the prompt is inspiring. Depending on the number of prompts, I cannot promise I'll get to all of them, but I'll try.

Apart from pairing or character, be specific, please? One-word prompts and very general concepts don't usually work for me; poems, sentences, a set of three words, an image etc. pp. do.

Gateverse: jssangel wonders about fans, as do I.

Heroes: the_grynne gave me 3 facts about Mohinder from her personal pseudo-canon and shared speculation on that male character appearing in 2x01.

CSI the Original I accept no substitutes: Even if you are merely a cursory watcher -- do check out velocityofsound's pictorial recap of 7x24; it's hilarious. And true. Truly hilarious.

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Reply to this post, and I will write one thing I love/admire/find impressive/awesome about you. Maybe more than one. Then [no obligation: only if you feel like doing it] repost to your own journal and spread the love.

Because queenspanky and athena25 tagged me: ( 7 Random Things About Me )

Because panisdead asked, and who could deny her anything? (Ten more later.)

( 10 Items Of My Personal SGA Fanon )

I am foregoing my nightly exercises for this, y'all. Plz send the good drugs.

ETA: And because it's time for sharing the idea y'all are not COMPLETELY incompetent -- well, not always -- I could not resist the The Rodney McKay Backhanded Compliments Meme.

ETA too: Join? I already did because it gives me warm and fuzzy feelings: fandom_counts. (Snagged from stultiloquentia, seen everywhere.)

From everybody, her momma, and the dog:

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

ETA: Not writing anything new at the moment until Ard is finished; I'm just interested.

( The Dripping Ceiling Saga continues )

I googled it but couldn't find a key: Does anyone know the respective list of characteristics each of the various daemons of that Golden Compass movie site meme represents? You can still play with my monkey here (no jokes, plz).

Finally!

Not that the result didn't make me snort: Of course the honest answer to the effect that one will instantly and immediately share the great deeds done means that person is modest, and stating quite clearly that one prefers to meet new people and talk to strangers at parties can only mean desperate, wet-palmed shyness.

So, go make it all right, my dears: ( My daemon )

ETA: In less fannish and amusing news, go read synecdochic's amazing post on Labour Day, May 1st