Miss Cellaneous

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 )

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?

Thank you, anonymous donor! I've stocked up immediately. ♥

For the rest of you, if you need a laugh and have at one point seen BtVS and AtS, do head over to rahirah's last entry, wherein she comments quite, uh, unambiguously on sloppy spill-over characterisation in fanfic. & ;-)

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

While I'm doing my exercises:

Ask me for a fannish opinion, in any fandom I've ever shown any more than a passing interest in. Ask about a character, a plot point, for speculation (whether canon or my own fanon). Ask me about some meta issue, whatever.

I omitted the sentence that wasn't true (hi, Siri).

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 )

( This is probably only funny to other Europeans, possibly only to other Germans, and maybe not even to them. )

In fannish news, maybe you're interested in and want to contribute to the Fannish Vocabulary musings selenak has posted in her LJ. Example?

"Katana Space: it's a kind of magic, to say it with Queen. Refers to the mysterious place the Immortals of the tv show Highlander hide their swords if they are NOT wearing those handy coats. Buffy, Faith and other Slayers must know the secret, as they obviously hide their stakes in the same spot. They probably learned it from Captain Jack Harkness."

From kangeiko, before I head out:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (ex.: "Five things Buffy Summers would undo if she could."). Then, in separate posts, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun, fiction or non-fiction, so on or so forth. & ;-)

In case anyone wondered -- home safe & sound, although I made it back just under the wire.

( Written on my iPAQ this morning on the train. )

Fannishly, I am just throwing the recent memes out: I have Study Day tomorrow and don't have to get up/be back in darkness:

1. Reply to this post with your favorite icon of mine, and then I will tell you my favorite icon of yours.


2. ( The 'Tell Me What to Create' AnonyMeme! )


3. Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will tell you a (random) favourite moment or scene of them.

Christ. ( Dexter 1x10 )

Leftover squee from last week, with the occasional capslock warning: ( SGA 2x12 Echoes from 1. to 10. )

And hey, I finished the Multifandom Drabble-to-Ficlet Meme. If you are interested in the shows people requested (House, Atlantis, Firefly, The X-Files, Alias, Dexter, Veronica Mars, The West Wing, Battlestar Galactica, or Angel), click this tag.

Happy 1st Advent to all of you. <||:-)

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For kangeiko, House & The West Wing, 400 words: ( Dr. Gregory House & C.J. Cregg. PG. No spoilers. )

For avrelia, The X-Files & Veronica Mars, 200 words: ( Scully & Logan. PG. Spoilers for 3x07 Of Vice And Men. )

For honeymink, Alias & The X-Files, a drabble: ( Lauren Reed & Marita Covarrubias, PG, spoilers for Alias S3. )

I'll go out on a limb and say if you're not watching Dexter, you're missing something.

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In other news,

a) new default icon! Danny icons so well (among other things. Talented guy). I identify most with Zoe, quite obviously, but I have yet to finish her icon.

b) ( all the wackos bother me at home. )

c) ( PT )

d) I wrote a little drabble for angela8675: ( Rita & Kara Thrace - Dexter & BSG, PG, no spoilers )

e) NEW SGA. I CAN'T WAIT. I just must, since I have to study for an hour more and will talk to Auburn afterwards. That's okay.

I'd have posted this earlier, but I got a call.

For the_grynne, a drabble: ( Six & Dexter - BSG & Dexter, rated PG, vague spoilers up to BSG 3x03 )

( Brief reactions to Spooks/MI-5 so far )

Annnd exercises now. And then bed. Brief, brief evenings.

And, to bed with me. Just so I don't feel quite so miserable when getting up in the wee hours of morning --

tell me, if you wanted to convince a mundane that fanfiction can be better than original fiction out there on the market:

Which piece of fanfic would you make the other person read strongly suggest as an eye-opener? Bonus question: Why?

Sometimes, I wish I had a setting between "slacker" and "busy little bee."

Written on the train; 'twas the express one, thus this was done in 17 minutes, not twentysomething.

For batdina, a drabble: ( Mulder & River - TXF & Firefly, PG, no real spoilers. )

For witling, a 560 word-ficlet: ( Starbuck & Lorne - BSG & AtS. Rated PG. No spoilers. )

Surfacing briefly from the swamp to offer both this and my apologies for it:

As per diluvian's prompt, a drabble: ( Shepherd Book & Fox Mulder - Firefly & The X-Files. Rated G. Spoilers for 3x01 *The Blessing Way* )
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In other – much more important but also much more anxiety-inducing – news, it seems several US States' voting computers have broken down. Indiana, Ohio, notably East Cleveland. Shortly after the election started, there were already 250 notifications about issues with the voting process. (Spiegel Online citing phw/AFP/AP/reuters/dpa)

LJ is still slow as molasses and wonky. *miffed* We Europeans – and Asians, and Australians – All of us lost a whole frakkin' day.

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For solvent90, a drabble: ( Teyla & Zoe - SGA & Firefly, PG, spoilers for Serenity the movie )

For _bettina_, 800 words: ( Sharon & Sheppard - BSG & SGA, PG, no spoilers )

For shrewreader, 500 words: ( Krycek & Mal Reynolds - TXF & Firefly, PG-13, spoilers for Tunguska/Terma )

Came home, slumped onto the sofa and didn't leave it for quite a while. Class plus little sleep does not for a fit Mona make.

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God, I've missed this show. (And how could I forget it in my earlier meme list, along with The West Wing? *sigh*)

( Squeeview House 3x05 )

Which brings me to the fanfiction actually envisioned: The first three meme responses; I'll work my way through them as I can – I hadn't thought there would so many folks interested.

( Fox Mulder & Charles Gunn -- TXF & AtS, rated G, no spoilers, 200 words )

( Rodney McKay & Veronica Mars -- SGA & VM, rated G, no spoilers, 370 words )

( Rita & Angel -- Dexter & AtS, PG, pre-series for Dexter, 491 words )

I came home from the parents', and the radiator was cold and dead. My landlady was baffled. That's never a good thing.

Am almost excited for tomorrow and the start of the introductory course, though -- have already spent two days re-reading and studying a few things; let's just say even that amount of prep for that particular area is unheard of in history.

After these terribly exciting tidbits, I meme:

Give me two characters from two different fandoms with which I am familiar*, and I will invent a relationship for them.



* Alias, AtS, BSG, BtVS, CSI, Dexter, Farscape, Firefly, SGA, Veronica Mars, The X-Files, and I forgot House and The West Wing!