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07 July 2009 @ 02:04 am

I really shouldn't be awake.  There is going to be hiking tomorrow.  And swimming.  And suchlike.  So I really need to have some rest.

Today, I uttered the phrase, "...and then we could built the zombie version of the Popemobile!"  I'm a little in awe of myself.  I was so inordinately proud that I already texted quite a few people, but I thought I'd throw it up on lj, since I'm still not unconscious.

I went to the Green Valley Book Fair!  I got 14 books!  Only one of them was Star Trek related!  Two of them were Restoration play compilations, one was Marlowe, one on ships, one on Victorian society stuff, one history of mankind thing, a YA fantasy quartet, a fantasy spoof guide, a Stephen Fry book, aaaaaaaaaaaaand... another one.  That I can't remember right now.

Holy crap, I just plugged Jarvis in and the screen got way brighter.  Oh, my eyes!

In other news, Patrick Stewart is going to be a Dragon*Con and I still can't go.  Also, if you mix cornstarch and water, you can throw it at the wall and it will SHATTER... and then dribble.  I have known this for over a decade.  It's frickin' amazing.  But you're not doing it right if there isn't food coloring involved.  Green is the classic choice.

I have a theory (that I need to stop starting sentances with that [DAMN YOU JOSS!!!!]) that you can tell a lot about a person by their Mom's reaction to the sound of a great length of duct tape being pulled off the roll right behind them.  My brother, honest to God, taped a kid to a tree with the help of his friends when he was in Middle School.  The kid was a douche, to the point were the other parents just kept picking up their own kids.  The little bastard was at least a foot off the ground.  I just made a wallet.
 
 
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Shea
22 June 2009 @ 02:44 am
Don't get me wrong, I like A Christmas Carol and all, but I've finally found a Dickens that I love.  I haven't read it yet, but I do want to.  I discovered it quite by accident on Netflix as a BBC mini, and it's LOVELY.  And has Paul McGann and David Morrissey in it, as well as a whole host of familiar faces.  In point of fact, the actress who plays Chuck in Pushing Dasies is in it, and I was rather surprised to see that it was her on imdb.  (Because I don't really like Chuck, but I do like Bella.)

For those whom it may concern: (becuase I know that there is at least one of you) D. Morrissey strips down to starkers for a minute or two in it, too.  They're pretty tactful with the camera angle, but still.

In other news, Mark Strong is in the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movie.  HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!  But now I do.  Is it Christmas yet?

[Edit becuase I'm really dim sometimes: The mini is Our Mutual Friend.  In case that was relivant or anything.  ::rolls eyes::  Sheesh.]
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Shea
18 June 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Can someone please icon the phrase from this: "When they enter the bridge, the first thing that catches his attention is Spock's eyebrow that says "whatever you are planning, it is highly illogical and probably fucking stupid", but Kirk just waves him off because, well, yeah, it's all of the above," with Quinto's Spock!eyebrow?  Somehow?

Because, dear gods, I was wheezing by the time I stopped snickering.

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Shea
17 June 2009 @ 11:46 am
If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
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Shea
01 June 2009 @ 02:49 am
OMG, I'M ALL SUPERJAZZED ABOUT MY WOLD-BUILDING WORLD AGAIN!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

GODSDAMNIT, RIN, YOU SUCK.  I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!  BUT IT'S SO AMAZING!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I'M LITERALLY FUCKING BOUNCING!  OBNOXIOUSLY, SO THAT IT SOUNDS GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I LOVE MY GODS!  AND THE MINOR GODS!  AND MY CHARACTERS!  AND I WANT TO BRAIN THEM AGAIN!   HOW CAN I HAVE TIME FOR THIS?!  WHAT SHOULD I CONCENTRATE ON?!  CAN MY BRAIN HANDLE CONCENTRATING ON MORE THAN ONE EPIC IDEA AT A TIME?!?!  I DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I'M SO SUPERJAZZED ABOUT MY WOLD-BUILDING WORLD AGAIN!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
 
 
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Current Music: Rin's talking about her time god. I may make one of those. ^_^ Hee hee hee hee
 
 
Shea

Alright, the yardsale was an unqualified lame!fail, but the day was saved by a cardgame that Rachel brought out for us to play called "Camelot Ledgends."  I won but was still really cranky because Rachel assassinated my High King (and his lady love) the turn before the end of the game... when they'd already gone to Avalon!  I mean, WHO DOES THAT? Apparently Sir Breunis, "the most vile and dastardly of rogues," that's who.  I may have won, but she totally ruined my story.  So once Merlin lives backwards enough, he's changing it, because that was LAME.

...We're also changing pretty much everything else.  Arthur didn't even get out of the deck into someone's hand in our game, so he doesn't even really exist our fantabulous retelling.  He got kicked in the head by a cow when he was 9, got rolly-eyes and wanders away all the time.  Lancelot saw a guy in a chicken-suit in a tavern that had rolly-eyes once.  Go figure.  Lancelot is a big poser man who has hordes of fangirls and fanboys (who are worse than the fangirl, except for this one sorceress chick who wants to preserve his corpse and do creepypervy things to it [that's straight from the deck]), but his big brother Sir Ector is kind of awesome and is the one who introduced Princess Guinevere to her love, Sir Gareth (who was my High King, and totally cool, and most definately the hero of the story.  His best friend is a DWARF!  How can you not love that?!  That just really fuckin' rocks).

We're thinking about doing a webcomic, to be updated very sporadically.  It'll be epic.  Thought you should know.

ASK ME ABOUT IT!  IT'S AMAZING!

 

There is a character list with tiny bios at the end of the manual. We've changed them a bit. )
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Shea

[AN: AH-HA-HA!  This post is my post #666!  SO COOL!  BWAHAHAHA!]

I'm having a yard sale tomorrow.  Because the term ended at my college and people are ridiculously wasteful, I went around to all but one dorm (I forgot PEG) and collected stuff that people were throwing away.  I have about 10 huge trash bags of perfectly good clothes, a scanner/printer, a TV (that admittedly I still haven't tested yet), a DVD player, a CD player/boombox and a rather large box of shoes and stuff.  I haven't even bothered to go through my OWN stuff to see if I want to get rid of anything.

I realize that clothes don't tend to sell particularly well at yard sales, but I can hope, right?  I kind of like this whole thing.  I'm pretty sure that a large part of that is the fact that other than 3 or so hours gleaning from dorms and then 2 or so organizing all of the shit, I've not spent a thing, so any money that I do make from this will be pure profit!  Whee!  Moneh moneh!

Here's crossing my fingers, eh?

In other news, I've got an idea for a sci-fi story that included pirates and a navy.  Woot.  And the main character's name is apparently Kit.  Because I think that that is the most fun nickname for Christopher and wanted to use it somewhere.  And then the other (eventual) main character's name is (the dorkiness continues) Misha.  Well, Mikhail, but the nickname of awesome for that one is Misha.  But not in the creepy, I name!stalk actor kind of way.  In the 'that name is super-de-dooper awesome so I steal it' kind of way.  ::sigh::  I'm just digging myself deeper, aren't I?

It's all Susan Cooper's fault, though I'm damn sure that she wouldn't want to be blamed for this stupidity.  See, I read Victory, which is quite lovely, and a very quick read, by the by, and one of those main characters is a galley boy then powder monkey on the HMS Victory.  You know, Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.  Again, I say woot.  ^_^  The story was engaging, and therefore my brain engaged, and of course decided that it would also be awesome to follow a sort of similar story in a SPACE NAVY!  Bwahahaha!  But what is a space navy without SPACE PIRATES!  BWAHAHAHA!  It pretty much went downhill from there.

I've got an idea of a material that could be loaded into torpedo warheads that would necessitate the presence of something like powder monkeys, so that that's not 'random boys running around' time.  There is a semi plausible reason.  >.>  Sort of.

And I've got the basic 'Kit is press ganged by Pirates and then rescued by the Navy, tralala' plot, with lots of places to go.  Now I want for someone to bounce ideas off of and just generally bounce with.  Hee.

I'm taking Jarvis with me to work again, but I reeeeeeeeeeeally need to remember to Z out the register after each show this time.  Otherwise bad things will happen.

 
 
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Shea
15 May 2009 @ 02:52 pm
Woo!  
Don't need to keep the Star Trek Official Site up to hear the music anymore.

I bought the soundtrack.

::Loves::
 
 
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Current Music: Nailin' the Kelvin - Michael Giacchino
 
 
Shea
14 May 2009 @ 09:05 am

This bird dances better than I do.  (Which is not saying much, but does explain why I don't dance.)

Here.
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Shea

Star Trek in IMAX is even better the second time around.  F, if I had known more than a few hours (and in class) that I'd be going I'd have let you know.  Plus I just got my paycheck, so felt a little more liquid.

L, I'll look at it tomorrow later today, but must crash because Rin linked to tv tropes and I lost half an hour (the little fiend).  I'll get to it soon, promise.
 
 
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Shea
10 May 2009 @ 12:15 pm

 

I find that I start a lot of my entries with "So," or if I don't, I almost certainly wanted to.  That's a little sad and lacking in creativity or imagination.  Boo.

So, I have a new project.  Of the kind of huge kind, which might be a leetle bit overwhelming at the moment, but what the hell: bring it on!  Before May Term is even over!  Erm...  That's totally a good idea.

There's an inn in town which is not living up to its potential, and I've basically been conscripted to revitalize it.  Yeah.  I have a whole bunch of ideas, but not a lot of idea what I'm doing.  Exciting mix.  I'm very much open to help from friends that are in the area.  I've mentioned it to one or two of you, but this is sort of a 'this is what I'm up to, but wtf am I doing?' post.

Plus I have homework.  Ew.

Demetrius is acting quite strangely, even for him.  I think it's because we just put a slip cover on the chair that he and Melita have spent the past year ripping the arms of to shreds.  He just doesn't know what to do with himself!  Oh noes!  Other than squawk and flail and then tear around the apartment, only to come to an abrupt stop in the middle of the room, stare at me for a moment, slink off, and then repeat the process.  He does change this up with flouncing into the middle of the room, throwing himself down, hooking one of his claws into the carpet and then propel himself around it on his side in a circle.  Breakdance!kitty is so fly!

Today is just going to be plain weird.  Also, I miss having people around.  [/random]

 
 
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Shea
08 May 2009 @ 03:33 am
Approved.  They are going in a new direction, but make that clear enough.  Duuuuuuuuuuuude.

More later.  I'm ridiculously tired, as only getting about 4 hours of sleep a night will do to me after almost a full week.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Yes.
 
 
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Shea
05 May 2009 @ 09:07 pm

It wortheth! [info]foxglovehp is my hero.  The project that I have spent 28 hours on is now picture perfect as a PDF.

I am now busy doing my HAPPEH DANCE!  WOOOOOO!

 

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Shea
05 May 2009 @ 11:40 am

Does anybody know of a good way to convert word document into a pdf file?  Everything I've tried either has a stamp from the software across the top or just screws with my formatting.  I have spent literally HOURS on this formatting and reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaally don't want to lose it.

Suggestions?

Other than, ya know, killing the program DEAD in the FACE until it is NO MORE.  Because I've thought of that one.

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Shea
02 May 2009 @ 11:13 am

Star Trek isn't going to have midnight showings.  Instead, they're just premiering it on Thursday night.  Usually movies come out on a Friday so the theaters will sometimes to 12:01 showings Thursday night/Friday morning.  They're apparently kicking it back a whole other level to 7pm on the day before.  My theory is twofold: 1) beat the rush by doing something different and 2) quite a few Trekkers/Trekkies are getting up there in years and might not actually be able to do a midnight showing. 

Anyhoo...  I'm not working on Thursday night, finish class at 4 and don't have class until 1 on Friday.

I'm lookin' at you, [info]sing1118!  IMAX!  Thursday at 7!  Can we make that work?  Pretty please?  Mom wants to come too!  (She has another friend to stay with.)  She's the one that started me on Trek after all... while I was in the WOMB!  Bwaaaaahahahahhaaa!  And then TNG started up 16 days after I was born.  Hee.

I've left the official site up on my computer for a bit because I'm having fun listening to their snippets of music. ^_^

 
 
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Shea
30 April 2009 @ 05:04 pm
My uncle just gave me a heads up about this.  He heard it on NPR and assumed that I was in the know, but I hadn't heard at all.

It relates to Lord of the Rings and online videos: LOOK.
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Shea
25 April 2009 @ 02:27 pm

I'm going to the staged reading of "The Insatiate Countess" at the Friars on Sunday.  Anybody still in town/going to be in town wanna come with?

The little blubs said this:
"FREE staged reading of "The Insatiate Countess" featuring M.Litt/MFA students this coming Sunday, 26 April at 7:30pm in the Blackfriars Playhouse. A bit like an early modern version of "Sex and the City" the main character scandalizes Europe with her sexual escapades, while the comic subplot focuses on two witty sisters who have married mortal enemies. With bawdy jokes, gorgeous poetry, a beheading, a fall from the balcony, misogyny, and a double bed trick, there's something for everyone!"

I'm gonna probably head down about 7.  Peoples should come!

 
 
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Shea
25 April 2009 @ 12:39 pm
You know what are awesome?  Dirigibles!  Dirigibles are awesome! 

::flails like a flaily thing:: 

I want to hear more about dirigibles!

I can totally explain this...  See, I was working on being sort of studious while I'm sitting here at work twiddling my thumbs, so I went to look up stuff on Historic Preservation (the final that I have left) online.  I went to the National Trust for Historic Preservation website, and then their list of endangered historic properties. I 'oooo, aaaaah'-ed over Boyd Theater because, hey, that's gorgeous.  Then there was, the 'hmm, what's this?' moment when I was hovering my mouse over the 'Hangar One, Moffett Field' link because aviation = cool.  Then I clicked on the link.  That thing's fucking huge, and looks really cool.

Wikipedia was calling me by that point, so I went here, here and here and duuuuuuuuuude.  Just listen to read this description:

"The airship hangar's interior is so large that fog sometimes forms near the ceiling. A person unaccustomed to its vastness is susceptible to optical disorientation. Looking across its deck, planes and tractors look like toys. Along its length maintenance shops, inspection laboratories and offices help keep the hangar busy. Looking up, a network of catwalks for access to all parts of the structure can be seen. Two elevators meet near the top, allowing maintenance personnel to get to the top quickly and easily."

I want a story!  Or a lot of them!

I've been sorta interested in steampunk for a month or two, but don't know a whole lot about it, nor have I found any stories to immerse myself in (haven't looked terribly hard either), so I'm not quite sure if this would be up that alley.  Or converting the kind of expansive awe of the hanger into pure scifi with a space-age shipyard.  Or, I donno, but....  SO COOL!

DIRIGIBLES!  So, so cool.

...anybody have any steampunk recs?  Or AUs of stuff that I'm familiar with?  I think that that would be the most desirable.

But I just wanted to let everyone know that dirigibles are awesome.

 
 
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Shea
23 April 2009 @ 10:16 pm
I don't have to take my Anthro final at 8:30 Friday morning!  Woo!  I'll be taking it 1:00-5:00, and then working the 6-close shift.  I was scheduled to open, but Raven agreed to switch shifts, so HALLE-FRICKIN'-LUJAH!  That'll give me more time to work on my Reader Responses (ew, so much reading = 3+ books) to turn in with the final.

I made a table of contents for my notes.  ::is a dork::

My elbow kinda hurts.  I think it was from having it a bit tense for 3.5 hours writing my WCiv exam.  Which I'm pretty sure went brilliantly, by the way.  I really enjoyed the class, and to be honest, I kinda had fun with the final.  ^_^

Shakespeare's Birthday Party was awesome.  There could've been more people there, but I think we did pretty well with rocking out.  Oh yeah.  My face is sore from laughing so hard.  Also, Dan's Dr. Pinch... well, actually there are no words.  Maybe one: KNARF!

Now I'm cold.  And have a metric buttload of stuff left to do.  Away I go.
 
 
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Shea

The past 12.5 hours have been devoted to Western Civilization, 1648 to now.  I still haven't taken the final.  And I still don't feel quite ready to.  ::facepalm::

Then there's the Anthro final which I haven't even looked at stuff for.  It's an open notes/book test, so you know it'll be wicked hard.  AND I have to turn in all of my reader reaction stuff, which I still haven't completely done yet.  ::shoots self::

Plus the Historic Preservation final which ... ew.

I love finals week.  To add insult to injury, the Blackfriars birthday bash for Shakespeare is tomorrow night. Which I (of course) really want to go to... and really shouldn't.

Boo bad timing.

The highlight of my day was[info]childminerva getting an A on her Bowen paper (dude!) and an A in her French class!  Go her!

Now I'm going to sleep.  Sleep!  You hear me brain?  That state in which you cease to churn over facts and stress me out.  In fact, in light of all the studious type stuff I've been doing ALL FUCKING DAY, an awesometastic dream wouldn't go amiss, ya know?  I'd take flying.  ::nods::
 
 
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