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November 12th, 2009
xinef
 | 07:32 am - Urk day 3
My younger son was fine yesterday, went all day with a normal temperature. Got work done on his physics project (I wouldn't let him lie around all day and watch tv when he was obviously ok!). Back to school today.
Never did take him to the flu assessment clinic, since he really wasn't acting very sick, despite the fever on Tuesday. Didn't seem to be much reason. So, not sure if he had a really mild case of the flu, or if it was something else. He still has a bit of a cough, and had a bit of a snuffly nose last night. We'll see how he is this evening.
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[quinruthio]
 | 11:01 am - Freebie SK SAL sign-up
Anyone joining the 2010 SAL? I don't really fancy any of the charts this time round, so I'm going to skip it. Maybe there'll be something for me in the next one in July.
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[asgard]
 | 07:53 pm - Cross Stitch Design Suggestions Please
Hello everyone.
I was recently lucky enough to be able to score a job. After 7 months of being jobless (got made redundant from my last job thanks to this recession) I am hugely relieved, and also sad.
Sad because I am being brought in to eventually replace a lady who has terminal cancer.
She has been lovely so far and I really want to stitch her something special, just not too sure what.
She's bright, vivacious, loves her colour, makeup and high heeled shoes. I don't know what type of cancer it is, I've only known her for two days... but, can anyone make suggestions on what I could stitch?
I want it to be something small that I can stitch up into a hanging ornament. I don't know if she's the sort to appreciate a stitched gift, so I don't want it to be too "homesy" but not too kiddy either. Bright cheerful colours are a MUST.
I don't want it to be a sad thing, I want it to be a celebration, something happy but with a touch of sadness to say "I know, I understand, and I sympathise."
Whether its a freebie or a paid design, please give me your suggestions!
This job means I can afford to buy whatever design I need to get. :)
Thanks.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) drained
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November 11th, 2009
nelle816
 | 11:23 pm
So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips. -Matt Nathanson
It's in my head and it won't get out. But love the imagery I get from that last line.
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kajafoglio
 | 09:29 pm - Experiment #1 Torments His Sister
We're leaving early tomorrow for Windycon. In the meantime, here are my children:
The best part is that Alex keeps watching this over and over again, and it makes her laugh like a loon. Hm.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/amused.gif) amused
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770days
 | 09:01 pm - Ozzy Chapter Six
No word count update for today, taking the night off of writing. Got too much other stuff to do, really want to be in bed at a decent time tonight.
http://ozzy.770days.com/chaptersix.htm
Enjoy.
(Anyone reading it? Let me know.)
Current Mood: busy
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sinanju
 | 02:00 pm - A Veterans Day Tribute...
...shamelessly stolen from www.wwtdd.com
Today of course is Veterans Day in the US, where we honor the awesome killing power of the American military and the god like race of supermen who defend us. Our military is so advanced and our soldiers so superior that if our government wasn’t filled with such panicky little girls they could go to war with any country on Earth and it would be the equivalent of Zeus throwing lighting down on the trembling peasants below. Most people in Hollywood look down on the military because they’re pussies who want you to believe problems can’t be solved by kicking the other persons ass. Rest assured that any guy who ever says that has witnessed first hand as violence solved quite a few problems, but maybe can’t see it that way because he was the problem. When someone says violence never solves anything, what they really mean is, “oh please god stop hitting me.”
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unknownbinaries
 | 01:02 pm - Out of our minds and into our hearts.
New Melissa Auf Der Maur. You know you want it.
People I know have been posting. entries. on what they want, and it's making me want to do the same (the first link is friendslocked. It's more for me than it is for anyone reading this). It's also making me realise that currently I just Don't Know what it is I want. Making this contest over at DA even more difficult, because the theme is 'dreams', and not the kind you have while you're asleep, but the kind you want to be wide awake for. Fulfilling things. Life things.
(Oooh. Idea. I've been dreaming of a House.)
I've started rereading Tales of Pain & Wonder, and am trying to look at stories the way I look at the work of artists I like, to see the mind and the technique behind the work. I've never read in this fashion before, and I think it would be even more productive if my focus wasn't fucked up by being sickish, but my mind just isn't up to it.
Speaking of, does anyone in the area know where I can get dried rose hips?
Feeling better today. Most of the 'ick' is just the stuff in the back of my throat, and not so much of the full-body something-is-off feeling. Going to continue what I've been doing, only switching up the DayQuil for the Sudafed.
Time to do something useful. Maybe I'll feel up to cleaning after I get a shower.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/sick.gif) go away plague.
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waiwode
 | 12:15 pm - "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too...."
Had to shave the re-growing moustache off again. Not supposed to do public engagements with half-grown facial hair.
Today I went to Lakeport/Eden HS to talk about Remembrance Day as a part of their observation of the occasion. Although we all belly-ached about these tasks beforehand, honestly it was a pleasure to do actually do so. It was the prep and planning that sucked.
A note on High Schools. Damn. I haven't been exposed to that much youth in one place since ... well, discounting the times there would be about one hundred sergeants and master-corporals yelling, hollering, and sorting them all out on "1st day as a recruit day" ... since I was young. And that was a long time ago. High School teachers? My chapeau is off to you.
Still, they sat quietly (or seemed to, that being a critical skill when I was a kid, and I can't see it having changed much) and afterwards a bunch (individually) came up and thanked me. And that was nice.
The walk home was quite pleasant. Perfect weather for it, even if it was in imperfect walking attire. And an old guy in a Jag offered me a lift for the last leg (Carleton - Welland) and that was neat too ... never been in a Jag before. And now the duty's done, the uniform is put away, and the day is mine. But this isn't just a day off, or a half day off.
Because I remember.
Doug.
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jenavira
 | 10:22 am - Booklist 2009
Robert D. Hicks, In Pursuit of Satan
I pulled this one from the shelf while weeding at Middleton last summer, and I just couldn't see it get tossed in the recycling. The Satanic Panic of the 1980s-1990s has become part of the mythology of modern Paganism, and I was curious to see what it looked like from a little bit closer to the fact (the book was published in 1990) (Hilarious side-note, when I searched WorldCat to double check the date, the third result, after two editions of this book, was Bram Stoker's Dracula). This was a good overview, written by a former police officer, focusing on the "cult cop seminars" that led to police departments becoming fixated on Satanism as a cause for crime. It took a while to read, though, because it was so disturbing. Seriously, people believed this shit? People went to jail over this shit? *shudder*
Thomas O'Loughlin, Celtic Theology
I figured, well, if I'm going to read all this medieval Irish stuff I ought to know something about the environment in which it was produced. I liked this book overall; it was divided into ten chapters, each of which covered a different aspect of early Irish Christian theology -- and while it has aspects of a book intended for at least academically curious members of the general public, it was definitely written in the context of a religious studies argument about what theology means and whether or not it happened in early Christian Ireland. That I don't know much about, but I did learn something about styles of medieval religious writing, which will undoubtedly be very helpful if I ever get around to reading some of those saints' lives.
Cath Maige Tuired, ed. Elizabeth A. Gray
So it turns out that most of what I kind of randomly know about Celtic mythology comes from Cath Maige Tuired, the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, otherwise known as the Tuatha de Dannan versus the Fomorians, with added Dian Cecht being an asshole. (Kill your son because he's a better physician than you? That's cold.) Er, I found out that Memorial has a full run of the publications of the Irish Texts Society, expect a few more of these.
Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)
I've been meaning to read this since it came out, and finally got a copy requested from the library. I was very impressed -- while a lot of pop psychology books are very "our brains do this, isn't that neat!" no matter what they're talking about, this one talked about how the resolution of cognitive dissonance causes major problems, in everything from failing marriages to the criminal justice system. I'd expected it to be much more about the Bush administration, from what I remember hearing about it, but that was used mainly as a framing device, while the book itself talked about more persistent problems. (I was also amused to discover there was a whole chapter about the Satanic Panic, which helped explain a little more about how people can believe ridiculous things and refuse to admit they're ridiculous, although it didn't make it any less creepy.) I actually just recommended this for next year's UW-Madison Go Big Read! program, since I think they should read something less obnoxious than Michael Pollan next year.
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xinef
 | 09:26 am - Remembrance Day
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them....
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, I will observe two minutes of silence and remember those who died in our Armed Forces.
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[bethct]
 | 08:18 am - thatks everyone!
Well, I guess it is time to buy fabric, oh darn :)
I agree with you all that the pink is too dark, I just love the idea of the golds on the dark pink.... but that is ok, just another excuse to buy stash!
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[jessara40k]
 | 06:24 am - Spring Queen and Deepest Love
I think it's been a while since I've posted pictures of Spring Queen and Deepest Love here.
( Here's the last pictures I've uploaded of them )
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November 10th, 2009
770days
| 10:39 pm - ozzy update
Today... I didn't have a whole lot of time or energy for writing. I worked all day, didn't eat till I got home, and between work and home was the gym. Then I ate, cleaned the ferret cage... so yeah, it's almost 11pm and I really need to get to bed soon.
However, I'm still 'on track'. I've squandered my head start, but I'm not worried about it. I'll stay on track, do 2K a day for the rest of the week (not sure about Saturday) and then on my day(s) off and home, do some serious scribing.
Chapter Five is up to read: http://ozzy.770days.com/chapterfive.htm
17043 / 50000 words. 34% done!
Current Mood: busy
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sinanju
 | 04:46 pm - NaNoWriMo Day 10
I'm at 30,000 words exactly on my NaNo project today. That wasn't by design. Oh, I wanted to reach 30,000 words today, but hitting that total exactly was pure coincidence. I hit what I thought was a good stopping point for the day's writing, checked the word count and there it was. Thirty thousand words precisely.
My next project today is to finish filling out the cover art request form for my latest sale to Cobblestone Press.
For those who don't know, the process goes like this:
You receive an email with a contract offer.
You have seven days to sign and return the electronic contract, which includes all your contact information, pen name you're using, if any, how you want to be paid (Paypal, electronic deposit, or a check--and whatever infor is needed for the option you choose), and so forth.
You also have to fill out and return a book information form. That includes your contact info (again), pen name (if any), title of the work (and series title, if applicable), word count, the author bio (again), two blurbs (one 50 words or less, the other 100 words or less), and 3 possible log-lines (10-15 word one sentence description that, ideally, will motivate people to want to read the book),
Finally, you fill out and send in a cover art request form. While CP has final say on cover art, they do ask for your input, and will send you a proof of the planned cover art to look over before it's finalized and banners, various size cover images, and other promo items based on the art are generated. The form asks for descriptions of the primary characters, any special symbols or themes you'd like to see in the cover art, and what kind of image you have in mind. The artist will try to meet your request, but as I say, ultimately the publisher gets final say on the art.
I've had two covers done so far and I like them both. Neither of them is quite what I envisioned, but they're both very much what someone else might imagine based on my descriptions.
That's what I need to finish up and send back to them in the next few days. So, I guess I'd better get to it.
Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 3,504 (good)
Present Total Word Count: 30,000 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE!
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[kielrain]
 | 01:04 pm - Nearing the end
Here is an update of Fiona. It's been a bit since I posted one. The finish is drawing near now.
( Fiona )
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unknownbinaries
 | 01:54 pm - Hush, little bird, going to take to the sky.
Rain and incense are preferable smells to the sick that is threatening, so I've opened the windows and lighted something. The sticks were in an unlabelled bag. Everyone in the house is verging on plague-ridden in some way. Except for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lord_of_smoking. I think he has pretty much made himself uninhabitable to disease.
My sister has graduated to super-ghetto. While living with my mom, the water bill was her responsibility, but she's moved out recently due to disagreements between them. She told my mom when asked directly about it, that it was dealt with, only to have my mom find a shutoff notice on the door a day or so later. It hadn't been paid since April. My mom also has to get the locks changed because she's been sneaking in while mom's at work and stealing food. Not leftovers, but entire bags of frozen chicken.
We're not making it up north for Thanksgiving, unfortunately. It's surprised us again, and now there's no time to plan for it. And money situations seem to be imploding rapidly and without surcease.
Speaking of, I'm open for commissions, and I'm also looking to get my stuff up and sold at wolven's work. If there's anything you've wanted to buy or have me make, now's a good time to let me know. Though, fair warning, if it's a non-digital commission, I may need an advance to pay for something for it to be drawn/painted on.
I don't feel up to any of the cleaning that needs to be done before Friday, still, so today's probably for more dicking about in Painter.
Current Mood: I think that's my lung, there.
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