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tarotgalNews in my world:
*The Annual SF Challenge deadline has been extended to April 4th. So get writing, people!
*My computer is dying- been having lots of problems. Managed to revert to an earlier system registry in order to finally get it to start up so I could back up my e-mail (I just backed up all my files last week- took 3 bloody days but it's worth it). I'm going to buy a new computer from Dell this week. Soooo many decisions. Sooooooooo much money. I was hoping my computer could hold out another paycheck or two buy that's what savings is for, right? Sheesh. Poor computer *pets* My computer is anout 6 years old now so it's about time for a new one. Plus I have an old monitor and parts of the desktop are burned into the screen. Oops.
*I'm totally, utterly addicted to Torchwood. Can't get enough. But I'm terrified to go onto communities because they're all filled with spoilers. I was just spoiled for something by someone's icon while I was icon searching so I'm even more paranoid now. Meep! And SOMEONE (I'm not naming names but it starts with a Space and ends with a Wolf) submitted a Torchwood plot bunny to the weekly hatching that I CANNOT get out of my mind. I friggin LOVE it. It's like my very own private showing of a Torchwood episode going on in my head. Bloody fantastic!
*My scarf- I'm almost done with the first step of knitting my Gryfindor scarf for Moony. The beginning is crap, so I'm going to rip that out. And then I have to learn how to do the last bit at the end and then how to weave in all the loose ends where I changed colors (there are so many loose ends!) but I still feel a nice sense of accomplishlemt. THere was a Harry Potter knitting group meet-up on Sat but I didn't go because things were still crazy in my world on Sat.
*Celebrated my dad's birthday today. His bday was Feb 20 but he had to fly to Iowa to be with my grandmother before she passed away so we didn't get to celebrate then. Twas a nice night. I rented him a DVD (he went with me yesterday to pick one out), I bought him a card that plays the Pink Panther theme song (which amused him to no end), and I got him a large package of CD labels (he got a record/tape-to-CD burner for Christmas and now he can make pretty labels to put on all the CDs he burns). I also bought him a nice pastry and gave it to him the actual morning of his bday before all the shit hit the fan.
*I'm now a library volunteer!!!!!!!!!!!! I stopped by the library after work on Thursday for a meeting with the coordinator and instead of the Adopt a Shelf thing, they're putting me to work as an actual volunteer. I agreed to work Saturday mornings before I realized that means I won't be able to sleep in. DOH! But I had SO much fun on Sat morning, checking in all the books that came in through the bookdrop overnight, learning about what to do with damaged books, and then doing some of the Pick List (going around and pulling books off the shelf that are to go to other libraries because of holds people have placed and such). It was delightful. I can't wait to go again.
*I have to get 10 volunteer hours in for VT-ENGAGE, a program Virginia Tech set up to honor the victims of the April shooting last year. Since our motto is "That we may serve" the idea is everyone is supposed to put in hours serving the community. So I signed up to volunteer at two different libraries, and I'm going to be helping out doing web work for a Cairn terrior rescue group- all things I've been wanting to do for a while now, but now I had an actual kick in the arse to do it. Should be easy to get 10 hours in by April at this rate.
The program: http://www.engage.vt.edu/
*Doctor Who- I just got the first Doctor Who (new series) comic last week. Haven't read it yet since I'm not sure when it's set and don't want to be spoiled. I'm finally getting the series on DVD through Blockbuster Online. The first disc is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Gods I hope it's the right disc because I'm dying to see the series and get properly caught up. Sure, Torchwood has spoiled me for Jack but I'm glad I didn't wait and there isn't all that much overlap/spoilers in Torchwood so no worries there. Yay!
*I got my hair trimmed yesterday. I had split ends, but now it's all nice again and not too much shorter. I should be able to grow it out a few more inches and cut it off by the end of the year for Locks of Love.
*I've considered doing ScriptFrenzy this year. Even thought maybe Ace & Pit's excellent cross country adventure would make a nice script. But I really don't have the time, realistically. Plus May is the big month-long Lusty Month over at pervy_werewolf and two months of writing so much every day in a row will be difficult to handle
*The Girl Scout Cookies I ordered came in tonight! Mmmmmm! Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Do-Si-Dos. Tagalongs have always been my favorites. Sooooooooo yummy. I can spend half an hour eating one cookie, savoring its goodness (and I have). And Thin Mints are delightful. And sometimes I crave Do-Si-Dos. But I'm not a huge Samoa fan. I KNOW they're, like, everyone's favorites, but they're far superior to my favorites, IMHO. So don't you dare try to talk them up. Not here on my blog. A Samoa free zone, this is! Safe for the proper appreciation of all the other girl scout cookies! ;-)
*I've got another Harry Potter meet-up tomorrow. We'll be discussing the fandom in general (i.e. how to keep our HP fannishness going now that the books have all been written). I think that's an important concept for any fandom, really, so if I learn something new, I'll share it. But I've got to say that podcasts and meet-ups are top on my list.
*The Capitals' new players- holy crap! I'm so sad because it means we're probably going to lose Ollie and I love the man. But OMG I will be in heaven if we make the playoffs this year! *crosses fingers*
*My Christmas tree is still up. Gods I'mlazy busy.
*The Annual SF Challenge deadline has been extended to April 4th. So get writing, people!
*My computer is dying- been having lots of problems. Managed to revert to an earlier system registry in order to finally get it to start up so I could back up my e-mail (I just backed up all my files last week- took 3 bloody days but it's worth it). I'm going to buy a new computer from Dell this week. Soooo many decisions. Sooooooooo much money. I was hoping my computer could hold out another paycheck or two buy that's what savings is for, right? Sheesh. Poor computer *pets* My computer is anout 6 years old now so it's about time for a new one. Plus I have an old monitor and parts of the desktop are burned into the screen. Oops.
*I'm totally, utterly addicted to Torchwood. Can't get enough. But I'm terrified to go onto communities because they're all filled with spoilers. I was just spoiled for something by someone's icon while I was icon searching so I'm even more paranoid now. Meep! And SOMEONE (I'm not naming names but it starts with a Space and ends with a Wolf) submitted a Torchwood plot bunny to the weekly hatching that I CANNOT get out of my mind. I friggin LOVE it. It's like my very own private showing of a Torchwood episode going on in my head. Bloody fantastic!
*My scarf- I'm almost done with the first step of knitting my Gryfindor scarf for Moony. The beginning is crap, so I'm going to rip that out. And then I have to learn how to do the last bit at the end and then how to weave in all the loose ends where I changed colors (there are so many loose ends!) but I still feel a nice sense of accomplishlemt. THere was a Harry Potter knitting group meet-up on Sat but I didn't go because things were still crazy in my world on Sat.
*Celebrated my dad's birthday today. His bday was Feb 20 but he had to fly to Iowa to be with my grandmother before she passed away so we didn't get to celebrate then. Twas a nice night. I rented him a DVD (he went with me yesterday to pick one out), I bought him a card that plays the Pink Panther theme song (which amused him to no end), and I got him a large package of CD labels (he got a record/tape-to-CD burner for Christmas and now he can make pretty labels to put on all the CDs he burns). I also bought him a nice pastry and gave it to him the actual morning of his bday before all the shit hit the fan.
*I'm now a library volunteer!!!!!!!!!!!! I stopped by the library after work on Thursday for a meeting with the coordinator and instead of the Adopt a Shelf thing, they're putting me to work as an actual volunteer. I agreed to work Saturday mornings before I realized that means I won't be able to sleep in. DOH! But I had SO much fun on Sat morning, checking in all the books that came in through the bookdrop overnight, learning about what to do with damaged books, and then doing some of the Pick List (going around and pulling books off the shelf that are to go to other libraries because of holds people have placed and such). It was delightful. I can't wait to go again.
*I have to get 10 volunteer hours in for VT-ENGAGE, a program Virginia Tech set up to honor the victims of the April shooting last year. Since our motto is "That we may serve" the idea is everyone is supposed to put in hours serving the community. So I signed up to volunteer at two different libraries, and I'm going to be helping out doing web work for a Cairn terrior rescue group- all things I've been wanting to do for a while now, but now I had an actual kick in the arse to do it. Should be easy to get 10 hours in by April at this rate.
The program: http://www.engage.vt.edu/
*Doctor Who- I just got the first Doctor Who (new series) comic last week. Haven't read it yet since I'm not sure when it's set and don't want to be spoiled. I'm finally getting the series on DVD through Blockbuster Online. The first disc is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Gods I hope it's the right disc because I'm dying to see the series and get properly caught up. Sure, Torchwood has spoiled me for Jack but I'm glad I didn't wait and there isn't all that much overlap/spoilers in Torchwood so no worries there. Yay!
*I got my hair trimmed yesterday. I had split ends, but now it's all nice again and not too much shorter. I should be able to grow it out a few more inches and cut it off by the end of the year for Locks of Love.
*I've considered doing ScriptFrenzy this year. Even thought maybe Ace & Pit's excellent cross country adventure would make a nice script. But I really don't have the time, realistically. Plus May is the big month-long Lusty Month over at pervy_werewolf and two months of writing so much every day in a row will be difficult to handle
*The Girl Scout Cookies I ordered came in tonight! Mmmmmm! Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Do-Si-Dos. Tagalongs have always been my favorites. Sooooooooo yummy. I can spend half an hour eating one cookie, savoring its goodness (and I have). And Thin Mints are delightful. And sometimes I crave Do-Si-Dos. But I'm not a huge Samoa fan. I KNOW they're, like, everyone's favorites, but they're far superior to my favorites, IMHO. So don't you dare try to talk them up. Not here on my blog. A Samoa free zone, this is! Safe for the proper appreciation of all the other girl scout cookies! ;-)
*I've got another Harry Potter meet-up tomorrow. We'll be discussing the fandom in general (i.e. how to keep our HP fannishness going now that the books have all been written). I think that's an important concept for any fandom, really, so if I learn something new, I'll share it. But I've got to say that podcasts and meet-ups are top on my list.
*The Capitals' new players- holy crap! I'm so sad because it means we're probably going to lose Ollie and I love the man. But OMG I will be in heaven if we make the playoffs this year! *crosses fingers*
*My Christmas tree is still up. Gods I'm
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Date: 2008-03-03 06:06 am (UTC)Whereas you can't possibly go wrong with peanut butter anything, especially peanut butter and chocolate. (Unless you are allergic to nuts in which case your life sucks.)
-Garnet
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:45 am (UTC)Maybe it's just everyone I know and it's not a good statistical representation of the country. But I feel overwhelmed by the Samoa lovers. Good to know I have girl scout cookie kindred spirits on my flist!
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Date: 2008-03-04 12:50 am (UTC)Have you gotten the DVDs yet? Not to add to the spoilage but there's a lovely Jack sneeze in the blooper reel...
~BVB
Who will now go back to lurking :)
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:08 am (UTC)I pre-ordered the DVDs so they came a while ago. And I watched an episode or two but hadn't seen the Outtakes yet. *immediately gets out DVDs* Holy shit! So cute!!!! And in the background Owen/Burn looks all distressed (is he... or is he just out of breath? Either way, he does rub his nose, too). But Jack/John... soooooooooo with the cute! I think I'm going to wear my DVD out rewinding it so much, LOL! Thank you so much for alerting me! *happy happy happy sigh*
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:30 am (UTC)Sorry, I'm a HUGE fan of the Girl Scout Samoa cookies here. If they'd make another cookie with both chocolate and caramel, I'd be all about that too, but until they do, Samoas win. To be fair, I bought 4 boxes of cookies total, and only one was Samoas. I also got Thin Mints, the chocolate/peanut butter ones, and Shortbread cookies, so I do spread the love around, hehe. Oh, and they must have been renaming cookies or something, because I don't even know what the Do-Si-Do cookies are. Neither those nor Tagalongs were listed on the sheet I ordered from.
I still have yet to see a Torchwood episode. My friend Sirenprincess likes it for the slash, but I'm a little nervous about it letting me down, because I just can't get into Doctor Who no matter how much I try. How different are the two series?
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:53 am (UTC)That DOES make me feel better. Thanks! At least I packed up all the ornaments and took down the lights and stuff. It's just I can't fit the tree in my car so I need to wait until Mom or Dad can let me use the van to transport it to my storage unit.
*sigh* Yeah, I love caramel and chocolate, too, please don't get me wrong. I'd certainly eat Samoas over many other cookies out there. I just don't understand how they can eclipse Thin Mints as everyone's favorites. I'm glad you got a variety, though. So much numminess to sample & enjoy :-)
The Girl Scouts use different bakers in different regions of the country. The bakers used in my neck of the woods have put copyrights on many of the names, forcing other bakers to rename their cookies. They're pretty much all the same, but that's why they have different names on your order forms. When I went down to Virginia Tech (just 4-5 hours away from northern Virginia) I had to re-learn all the names of the cookies (because my roommate was a scout leader and we had crates of cookies as furniture for a few months out of the year). But, yeah, that's why.
Tagalongs=Chocolate & peanut butter (Red box)
Trefoils=Shortbread in the shape of a girl scout logo pin that we call the trefoil (thus the name) (Yellow box)
Do-Si-Dos=Peanut butter cream on crunchy, um, non-shortbread cookie (Orange box)
You know what? I bet it's on Wikipedia *searches* Yep!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scout_cookie#Varieties_of_cookies
There you go! Everything's on Wikipedia! lol
I saw an episode of Doctor Who that TERRIFIED me when I was, like, 6 or 7 (it was on late night PBS and my parents were watching). So I've always been a bit reluctant to watch the show. I watched a few episodes of the new series but they didn't grab me. Torchwood, however, had me at Hello. Certainly doesn't hurt that the creator/writer of Queer as Folk is on the project :-) And I knew it would have m/m and f/f content so that helped, too. But it's a beautiful show and so character-driven and mysterious and angsty and hot and gorgeous. Seriously, in my mind there's no comparison between the two. I LOVE Torchwood. And because I love it so much, I'm willing to give this new series of Doctor Who another try- all because of Captain Jack. He's got too much charm for just one series :-) But since I've only seen a few DW episodes, I don't think I'd offer a fair comparison. To me, they are VERY VERY different right now. But maybe a few seasons into DW I'll feel differently and love it, too? I dunno yet, to be honest. But I would absolutely recommend Torchwood. It's probably one of those 'you either like it or you don't' things. But it's a little bit time travel and a little bit X-Files and a little bit Queer as Folk so I'd bet you'd enjoy parts of it at the very least.
Pssssst! I don't have much of a birthday present for you yet this year! *worries* I have a very little something that I'm going to send you along with your Farscape S2 box set... and I have something else little planned... is there anything you'd like me to get you???
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Date: 2008-03-04 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-04 05:25 am (UTC)My major problem with Doctor Who was that it goes WAY beyond the realms of cheesiness (intentional or not) that I can deal with, and honestly the production values were so bad I honestly just could not suspend my disbelief for the series the way I can for other sci-fi/fantasy. I also often had trouble understanding the dialogue, because the accents are heavier than I'm used to and they often speak too fast for me to follow. No offense to Doctor Who fans. I fully admit the Doctor (both 9th and 10th) are quite cute. I just can't get into it like I have for other series like Star Trek or Farscape or Battlestar Galactica, though I'm only on the first season of BSG at the moment.
The mentions of QaF and XF do help relieve some of my trepidation about Torchwood, so thanks! It's going to take quite some doing to keep me from thinking about anyone other than Captain Jack Sparrow when I hear the phrase 'Captain Jack' though. *G*
And awwww, thanks for remembering that it's nearing my birthday! I've had several people ask me what I want for my birthday lately, and I've been drawing a big blank, honestly. There's a couple movies I want (Stardust, and Pride and Prejudice, and HP5) and various fantasy 'essential' books I've been meaning to check out (George R. R. Martin, for example), but that's about all I can come up with when pressed. Please don't feel you have to go out of your way to get me anything though. Often the tiny little surprises are the most fun anyway!