Music vids *G*

Ug... if only my vidding software was working properly... had a lovely bit of inspiration earlier today (as I was driving to my re-scheduled meeting in the afternoon) It's for a Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ron fanvid to Clay Aiken's song 'Invisible' which I only just heard on the radio today (I don't listen to the radio much, I admit)
Wonderfully yummy scenes popping into my head right now *G* Man, I wish my software would let me vid without crashing on me every 5 seconds or stalling!

I have a great idea in mind for a Peter vid once the third movie comes out... oohhh not to mention a dozen for Sirius and Remus *G*

Anyhoo, thought I'd share. On an unrelated note, I think the new sneezefic archive looks lovely!

Oh, and I was SOOOOO impressed with my Obi-Wan in the Clone Wars episode tonight! Obi kicked some serious bad guy ass!!! Whoohoo! That's my General Kenobi! :-)

Q/O Drabble

I keep getting stuck in stories... well... not so much stuck as knowing the words but not being able to get them out of my head or feeling quite up to the challenge to do so. Thus, technically, stuckage.

So I thought I'd try a few drabbles... wrote a few Harry Potter ones... then this one (which was the only one in the bunch with sneezing, and the only one that even remotely makes sense). It's rated PG for kissing but, er, perhaps should be rated higher for its implications.

( 250 word Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan Drabble )

Took the big plunge!

Whoohoo!

I took the big plunge and sent the beta version of my thesis project to about 9 different mailing lists and a few friends with connections to more. I'm mentally preparing myself for all sorts of horrible comments back about how nothing worked and it was too slow and the special characters were fucked up and that this is the most waste-of-time research project they have ever beheld.

Yes, I'm a realistic pessimist who likes to imagine things much worse than they'll be so things will seem better when it turns out I only get bad feedback, not terrible feedback.
*crossing fingers* I'm not afraid to admit that I'm terrified out of my mind that:
1- people do indeed get off their asses to help me user test the project and find it sucks
and 2- people don't bother helping me out and I have no users
GAH!

Randomness

I got an e-mail from Alivans when I woke up this morning. Seems they're offering discounts for the holiday season. And seems that they finally are now offering Willow-wood wands! The willow is sort of my spiritual tree (some pagans have animal guides, I've got a tree) and oohhh I'm So tempted. Of course, I wouldn't know what to do with one if I got it... I'd just sit and admire it and be a very happy fangirl, displaying it on my coffee table along with Padfoot, Moony, Scabbers, and Norbert (and two coffee table books- one about hockey and the other John William Waterhouse paintings) Man... I have a WEIRD coffee table. STILL! I'm SO damn tempted.

And then the e-mail following that in my mailbox is my daily news from CNN. Every single day I wake up to '5 killed in Iraq' or 'Explosion kills 25 in compound' or something equally horrible. Today's was 'Massive explosions hit Istanbul; 5 reported dead'. I kept going back and forth between spending a bloody $35 on a fake magic wand and the fact that such horrid things are happening. And try as I might, I can't think of myself as a very good person for spending so much time on fannish pursuits and less on donating blood and getting people to register to vote and volunteering at the elementary schools, etc. I just... gah... I wish I could do so much more... and yet I go and hide in fandoms frequently to keep my mind off all the shit that's happening.

I'm constantly reminded of the 'Literature and the Environment' class I took years ago in undergrad. And how the need for us to focus on pointless, shallow entertainment springs up at the increase of media/journalism relaying the terrible side of life in vivid images and details. It's a very American thing, at least, to involve ourselves so deeply in fetish figures and shallow pursiuts to calm us in the face of so much destruction and tragedy and immorality in important issues. *sigh* I'd like to say I'm a horrible, shallow person- and I know I AM. Problem is, that's the norm these days. At least in this country. Which depresses me even more *sigh*

*SOB*

*SOB* I just watched ER. Oh my... I honestly don't think I can ever get into a helicopter now. *sob* I won't mention spoilers as I remember some people are on the west coast and have yet to see it, but I was sobbing hard at the end of the episode and screaming at the characters to realize that a particular one was dead. *sob* Every time they mentioned the character's name I'd yell "That's because he/she's dead!" (Obviously I used the proper gender, I'm just doing that for spoiler reasons) Oh man... the irony... and tragedy... and GODS I'm sad!

And so I'm in tears and I sit down and check e-mail, and what do I find out? Jonathan Brandis (I know, I'm showing my age, but I loved the guy ever since The Never-Ending Story) killed himself. Apparently on the 12th... I just found out now *sob* Soooo sad! I loved him to death on Seaquest DSV. Now that's one series I would love on DVD. So much of its quirky look comes through on Stargate SG1 :-) And Johnathan was the reason I watched that show to begin with. *sniffles*

NOT a happy night! *sniffles*

Now I get to go polish off the list of challenges/bunnies for the next Sneezefic Challenge!