Archive for August, 2006
I’ll be on the road north for the next few days. When next I post, it will be from the great state of Massachusetts!
(But you may see me popping up thanks to hotel wireless and such…)
If you didn’t get the e-mail I sent this morning with my new address and you would like it, let me know. Also, I’m now on Skype — my handle there is the same as my AIM handle (or drop me a line and I’ll give it to you).
Categories: technologia, travel
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I’ve been back home for almost a week now. In that time, I have:
- read two books.
- eaten seven dinners with the family.
- gone to the doctor, nominally for a check-up, but really just because I needed him to sign a form saying I’ve had my shots and can go to school. Wound up getting a tetnus booster which must have k.o.’ed my immune system enough that I caught whatever stomach bug is going around, because of which I have…
- spent one night (Wed.) talking to Ralph on the porcelain telephone, so then I…
- spent two days (Thurs. and Fri.) recuperating.
I have also:
- seen one move (Being There with Peter Sellers, which is very funny once you get through all the exposition).
- gone to Montgomery with my dad, my aunt, and my cousin to see an Alabama Shakespeare Company production of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, which was nicely done, despite being peopled by depressed Russians.
- and moved the boxes I stored at Grandma’s for the summer back to the living room in preparation of my move north next weekend. Actually departure plans are somewhat dependant on whether Ernesto comes to call at the same time.
Categories: home, just the weather, movies, travel
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For all those who love to make fun of those ubiquitous “inspirational” posters:
Star Trek Inspirational Posters. I mean, the 20th century must have been a great place…’cause they were always going there.
(Previous line and title both shamelessly stolen from creator of the above-linked posters. Because I just wish I were that funny.)
There are a few clinkers, but I have too many “favorites” to start listing them.
(Btw, I’m a hack. Pug found these…I am merely the mouthpiece. Er, yeah.)
Categories: Star Trek
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A quick jaunt through the movies we’ve been watching for the last month and a half.
Chocolat, Guys & Dolls, The Elephant Man, and more.
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Categories: movies
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I get the feeling this is going to be one or the other. Two characters who have each died at least once; here’s a chance to kill the legend.
(How was that for melodrama? I’m pretty pleased with it.)
Topic under discussion is the Star Trek movie that’s in the works. Slated for release in 2008, nothing certain has been released — not even which incarnation of the franchise we’re dealing with. All that’s floating around out there are rumors and (now) a poster.
(Both links lead to articles on Star Trek.com.)
The poster makes some pretty strong suggestions, though it could be a clever ploy to lead us in the wrong direction. Thoughts?
Categories: Star Trek, movies
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Now you too can be Jackson Pollok! At least online. (Everyone’s ambition, I know.)
The cross-breed zoo. I know I’ve seen the duckigator picture before, but not the rest. They’re all amusing, though I’m especially fascinated by the gryphon, cardifox, and bunny-bird.
I’ve been going back and re-tagging some old entries, especially ones that (a) were “Uncategorized,” (b) needed my new “D&D” tag, or (c) needed my slightly less new “Mmm, London!” tag. Which took me to this entry, at which point I started feeling a little bit guilty because the site I made with foreign study stories was (a) never finished and (b) no longer online because of that little graduation thing. So it now has more blathering added to the end and a link to my pictures, which are not on Flickr, but are on Kodak’s “EasyShare Gallery,” through which I ordered all the gazillion prints that went into my scrapbooks. Mother had discovered that before I discovered Flickr.
And if you were curious like Tae…
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Categories: miscellany, mmm, London!, scribblings
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I spent a large part of my day proofreading an index. By the S’s and T’s, I was starting to get a bit on the punchy side (”effing numbers, effing numbers, semi-colon — how does Teg- come before Ted- ? Effing numbers. Semi-colon.). Also kept me there a bit later than usual. Which, to be honest, is not all that late, due to the fact that I was told the first day that “Most of our interns just work 10 hours a week.” Ooookay. (Probably just as well — there are three of us right now, and we are apparently too efficient for our own good.) So I go in on Tuesdays and Thursdays around 9am and work until sometime mid-afternoon, which translates to whenever I finish whatever I’m working on. Between not having a desk and not being in every day, there’s not really anywhere I can leave things I’m partly done with. So I clean my plate.
Been scribbling in my spare time. Have crazy ideas about resolving to finish a story per month or some such, as incentive to keep self writing — ’cause the deadline thing worked out pretty well for the fiction class I took last spring.
Anyway, I did finish off something that I’d been sort-of working on for a year or more as my “July story”. Planning to give it a month or so before any serious revising so it’s easier to tell what’s crap and what’s ok. I’ll post it now if anyone wants to take a look. Otherwise it’ll probably show up sometime this fall.
The “August story” is a thing I’d started for an assignment last spring, but just wasn’t working out. It still amuses me, though, despite the fact that it’s probably a no-plot-wonder. Toying with ideas of how to make it work as a story anyway. Something one characters says early on may tangent off into a tale of its own. I’ll put that up too, but only if you promise to offer me some good, off-the-wall suggestions.
Categories: internships, scribblings
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