Flying North Again   
02:57am 10/04/2009
 
mood: anxious
In about a half-hour, I'll be departing to start the journey to California for my grandmother's memorial/ashes-scattering service. I'll be gone for a little under a week; I should be back on Wednesday night, hopefully. I don't expect to have Internet access, although I will be bringing my laptop.

Peace, y'all.		  
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So, I am the last person on the Internet to have seen Watchmen.   
04:21pm 15/03/2009
 
mood: content
music: Warren Zevon, "Reconsider Me"
Capsule review: pretty good! Certainly, probably the best adaptation of the material we could get in film form, and I definitely applaud it for not feeling its length at all. It was long, but it felt like it was for a reason, as opposed to so many New Zealand landscape shots!! a lot of other recent long-runners.

( Spoilery stuff under the cut )

I should probably reread the original graphic novel now, honestly. It's been years, and I'd forgotten big chunks of it. So it goes.

... I also may have to buy the soundtrack. Still have no idea what to think of the end-credits cover, but the rest was well-used and very nice.		  
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Good News, Bad News   
05:58pm 07/03/2009
  Bad news: I lost my job yesterday.
Good news: it was perhaps the most amicable, life-affirming job loss possible.

( The whole story )

My last day of work was in the preschool, and as if to see me off, the kids were incredibly cute. Allow me to present an exchange:

Four-year-old boys S and T are playing with dinosaurs on the floor.
S: (holding up T-Rex to me) Was this a meat-eater or a plant-eater? 'cause T says it's a plant-eater.
T: Yes, I did! It's really fast... like, 600 feet!
S: A centipede has that many feet!

There's a lot I'll miss about the job, but dream-logic exchanges with and between small children may be first among them. You go, boys.		  
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Top Chef Finale Thoughts   
09:59pm 25/02/2009
 
mood: SPOILER
music: Of Montreal, "Suffer For Fashion"
( Cut for spoilers )

That is all.		  
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Yuletide: The Reveal   
06:21pm 01/01/2009
 
mood: confused
music: David Bowie, "Starman"
This is obnoxious, I realize, but pimping one's own Yuletide fic seems to be the New Year's standard, and hey, maybe some of you will be interested in these.

As with last year, I wrote under my increasingly-usual fanficcing handle, Wasuremono. I wrote three fics for Yuletide '08:

The Hollow Earth: My main fic, for City of Heroes. An original-character origin story on which I probably worked too hard.

Harold to the Infinite Power: A Stranger Than Fiction fic which got more meta than it maybe should have. Also apparently my big Yuletide winner, by sheer number of comments/recs.

Princess in a Box: A Professor Layton fic from Flora's POV. This was a rush job, but I'm oddly pleased with it.

Now, to contemplate NYR fics...		  
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Yuletide Thank You and Pimping   
08:29pm 31/12/2008
  Breaking news: I'm back home. I'll probably write more about the trip tomorrow, but suffice to say it was good, and California is as lovely as always.

However, right now I really need to take care of some belated business, which is to say: Thank you, mysterious Yuletide secret Santas! I got two great fics in Yuletide this year, and I'm immensely grateful for both. I'm not sure if either writer will read this, but the world needs to know that I think they're rad.

Since I know the fics will be relevant to the interests of some of you, here they are. If you enjoy them, please comment on the fic to let the writer know:

Closed Position: The Fighting Polka: a Six String Samurai fic (SSS fic! Joy!) about the Russians. It feels like the best bits of the film, both absurd and melancholy at once, and is honestly everything I'd wished for with that particular request.

Diplomatic Relations is an Exalted story about Sesus Nagezzar, which is to say I'd love it by default, but it's also thoughtful and respectful of his character and his strategies to save Creation from itself. If you like Exalted on any level other than "whraaaa warstriders," you need to read this.

Once again: thanks, Santa(s). I appreciate it.		  
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A heads-up   
12:01am 22/12/2008
  Just so people know: tomorrow morning, I'll be taking off on a road trip to see my grandparents in California for the holidays. This will last anywhere between one and two weeks (very vague timeline on this), and while I'll have my laptop and will try to sponge Internet, I can't make any guarantees about availability.

Apologies to anyone this inconveniences, and to all of you, a very happy and peaceful holiday season. Be well.		  
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Hello, Yuletide Author!   
05:14pm 11/11/2008
  I apologize for how big chunks of this journal are locked. If you've come to datamine, maybe you'll still find something of use, though.

If you're looking for my Dear Yuletide Writer letter, it's here, with a few useful links.

Thanks much!		  
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In Which AVR Goes Hired-Gun For A Good Cause   
07:04pm 01/07/2008
 
mood: okay
music: R.E.M., "Sing For The Submarine"
The more fannish of you may have already heard about [info]livelongnmarry, a fandom-focused charity auction with all proceeds going (via direct donation) to marriage-equality charities. It's good, dorky fun for a good cause, and there's a massive selection of offerings, ranging from fanstuff and signed books to baked goods and BPAL oils. If you're interested in marriage equality and have some money burning a hole in your pocket, you should check it out.

While the auction itself is cool and all, that's not the real reason I'm posting about it. The real reason is this: I have a writing offer up. Fanfic or original fic, 1000 words and up, winner's choice within reason.

I'm telling you this, of course, because I figure my friendslist has a greater vested interest in making me write something than LJ as a whole, so... if you've ever had some brilliant (or "brilliant") idea you've wanted me to write, go over there and bid! Currently I am worth a tax-deductible $15 -- a veritable steal, I say! Go! Bid! Help someone out! Make me write the first stupid thing that comes into your head! I know you can!

Exclamation points!		  
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Memes: part of this balanced breakfast   
08:16pm 10/06/2008
 
mood: content
music: Cake, "Rock'n'Roll Lifestyle"
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want -- good or bad. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.		  
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In which I follow the crowd   
09:29pm 16/05/2008
  So, yeah, you know those clickable dragon eggs that have been sweeping through LJ like a contagion? I went ahead and got a few.

( It's here. Please look at it and/or click it, because if I somehow make a collection of pixels die I'm gonna feel really weird )

More content this weekend.		  
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Sing it with me, now:   
06:47pm 30/01/2008
 
mood: hopeful
music: one of the songs from "Cabaret" in my head

HIRED!


In other words: I have a job! I'll be working as the Office Manager at DOVES, the domestic-violence charity where I've volunteered these past months. My duties will basically be what I'm doing now, but expanded, and (of course) I'll be paid. (Not much, but still: paid!)

I'm going to keep job-hunting, of course, but this is still desperately good news.		  
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Yuletide Recs, Pt. 1   
06:37pm 25/12/2007
  ( Recs for Simpsons, Fifth Element, Dinosaur Comics, Earthbound, KoL, and Gormenghast. Cut for length and those of you who don't care. )  
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stars of wonder   
04:44pm 25/12/2007
 
mood: grateful
Season's greetings, y'all.

It has, for the record, been a good day -- gifts, cinnamon rolls, and a movie. I'm probably not going to do a swag report, but rest assured that I received from my parents two oddly thoughtful gifts: a flying alarm clock* and a car GPS system, "so you won't get lost wherever you end up."

The movie was National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which was everything I expected: dumb but fun, and with a sort of light-heartedness about it that I can respect.

The rest of the day has been Yuletide stories. Seriously, go read the Yuletide archives. There is some fantastic stuff in there in a lot of fandoms you don't normally see written.

So... how was your day, everyone?

* When the alarm goes off, it releases a little whirligig, and the alarm won't go off until you put the whirligig back. Ingenious, and also a family joke for some months.		  
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Whoo meme   
02:42pm 07/12/2007
 
mood: okay
In lieu of any real update, here's a kickin' meme from [info]chash:

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

The results:

Cherie Blair
Tom Lungley

1. The Final Showdown
2. List of protagonists in The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
3. Lynn Lake, Manitoba
4. Imitation of Life (novel)
5. Notice (disambiguation)
6. Martin W. Littleton
7. Mickaël Cherel
8. Cybi
9. Directo a la luz
10. Jean-Baptiste Singelée
11. Buel Township, Michigan
12. OnStream Networks
13. Assam Silk
14. Anglo-French
15. Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation

I'm not sure which part amuses me more: hitting an article that's already been used as a song name, or hitting a boring crufty "List of..." article.		  
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Probably the big news of the week   
06:50pm 01/10/2007
 
mood: good
music: nothing, it might wake the kitten
I've got a kitten. It's a boy, very tiny, and black and white -- a little too white to be a proper tuxedo, but still very cute.

( The long, weird story of why I have a kitten )

I don't have a name for him yet, but I'm thinking. The front-runner right now is Saburo, but maybe that's too weeaboo?

Anyway, here, have some poorly-taken digital camera pictures:

He's exploring!

Such a pretty boy.

"Giant terrifying human! I am ordering you to desist at once!"

Name suggestions, of course, will be cheerfully accepted.		  
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ding   
03:27pm 22/09/2007
 
mood: good
music: State Shirt, "Straw Man"
Today, I am 24 years old.

It's probably not going to be a very exciting birthday -- I have no plans and don't even have any interesting ideas -- but hey, it happened. I survived another revolution of the Earth, and that's always good.		  
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I don't normally post these things, but this was too good.   
10:59pm 13/09/2007
 
mood: confused
music: Erin McKeown, "Paper Moon"
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results.

1. Taxidermist
2. Veterinarian
3. Communications Specialist
4. Print Journalist
5. Translator
6. Critic
7. Market Research Analyst
8. Writer
9. Zoologist
10. Veterinary Technician

Seriously, meme... taxidermy? You're sure? ... Should I be insulted?		  
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BEWARE, I LIVE   
04:23pm 30/08/2007
 
mood: tired
music: Jonathan Coulton, "Creepy Doll"
Okay, so:

1) I am back from PAX / the Nebraska trip. "What trip?", you may well say. Well, uh... the reason I didn't post about it was that I thought I'd have internet access during it, at least sporadically, but that turned out to be a terrible mistake. So, uh, sorry I mysteriously disappeared for like a week.

2) PAX was pretty cool. More later.		  
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*ahem*   
03:08pm 26/07/2007
 
mood: satisfied
music: Neutral Milk Hotel, "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet:

I HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE.

And it only took almost eight years longer than it takes most people! Gosh, I'm talented.

Seriously, though, I'm more excited than this warrants. This has been a long, strange, demoralizing process for me, and now it's over and I have a little card with a terrible picture of myself. (The picture is really hideous, but this too does not faze me.) I can drive places legally! It's exciting!

... Yeah, uh, I got nothin' else, besides the usual promise to update about my RL situation at some point. So it goes.		  
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