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Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 03:46 pm
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I has masters! The diploma came in the mail today, make me officially official. Now I just need the job to go with it.
In the mean time, I think I'm enjoying this kink!meme just a little too much XD. Although some would argue that that's not possible. Although I almost outed myself by forgetting to log out at one point. I might out myself when I'm finished anyway; I haven't decided if/where I'll post the completed fic. But the meme has proven that I can still write 1700+ words in a day when I'm "on." Too bad I haven't figured out how to control the "on" state.
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To do tomorrow:
- Wii fit - since I haven't in ... I won't say how long.
- mending - I have a habit of hiking my pants up by the belt loops, and one of them popped off a few weeks back. Of course it was on a pair of work pants.
- laundry - which isn't so bad now that we have a washer.
- write - which I want to underline about fifty times.
- ...and maybe poke at my resume and various job listings. Though I'd rather clean the house.
If plans go through for the weekend, it's my only day off this week, so I better use it well c_c
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I'm now on both LinkedIn and Twitter - though not connected to very many people yet on either one (like, any). I dunno how much or for what I'll be using Twitter, I mostly got on it so I could follow other people. But it's there.
Other than that, I've been working on my resume today - I hate writing resumes :P
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I'm starting to think FMA: Brotherhood should be renamed FMA: Abridged. Stop rushing through the goddam story! And stop leaving out important pieces!! What makes it so aggravating is that when they do step back from the fast-forward button and take the time to actually tell the story they do a really, really good job. Such as episodes 5, 8, 9, and 10. But then they rushthoughtheotherssofastyoucan'tbreathe, and it's a huge disappointment.
I dreamed the simulcast went down again because Funimation got fed up with the fansubbers, so I had to check this morning. It reminded me of my irritation with the last three episodes. Rush Valley was a disappointment. Yock Island wasn't bad, but now it looks like Izumi really did endanger their lives. Greed and the Devil's Nest - all I can say is the impression of "OMGwemustgetthroughthishurryhurry!" and why should we care about Yoki if we've never seen him before? They also left out an important piece, but I'll leave off on that until I see how they compensate for it in the next episode.
Goddam you, Brotherhood, why do you keep insisting on throwing out crap...Current Mood:  disappointed |
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From here:
Recently Hollywood are taking anime and turning them into live action movies. While some of the movies are looking really horrible, some might have a chance. If you compare the comments for each of the movies, even if their responding to the trailer, there’s a similarity. Fans are complaining the characters in the live action movie do not look like the characters in the anime.
Lets take The Last Airbender movie as an example. In the anime, Aang has a blue downward arrow on his forehead. In the movie, there’s an arrow but it’s more of a tattoo.
Ignoring the fact that Avatar isn't an anime, are there actually complaints going around focused on the tattoo? As opposed to, y'know, the racial inaccuracy of the casting? |
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Y'know, I think I might be more upset about Michael Jackson if I hadn't already mourned for him over a decade ago. Michael Jackson was my first celebrity crush* when I was a kid, and many of his songs and videos are amazing. As an entertainer, the man was simply gifted. But that Michael Jackson died some time in the nineties. What we were left with was something rather sad and frightening that I could hardly have cared less about. So it's sad that he died, and tragic that he died at 50, but I mourn more for the train-wreck of a path his life took over the last few decades.
*First celebrity crush on a real person - Derek Wildstar doesn't count.
Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 09:03 pm
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I haven't had a period drag me out like that in ages @_@. This wasn't the depressed/bitchy PMS I'm used to, more like an all-I-want-to-do-is-sleep dragged out. I think it teamed up with my allergies, which ALSO aren't usually this bad. Okay, body? Stop tag-teaming me, it's really not fair. (Also: the uterus and lower back are not connected, so cramps shouldn't make my back hurt! Stoppit! At least they don't go down my thighs anymore, but I dunno, I might prefer that to my back :P.)
Now that I'm a day into the cycle I'm starting to feel somewhat human again. Writing is happening again, I've done a bit of job searching, I can actually contemplate some of the stuff that needs to get done around the house - thinking is nice.
Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 07:02 pm
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So now I'm 3 episodes behind. The question is, should I wait for Funimation to get things together, or go hunt down fansubs? (Fansubs that aren't torrents, because torrents don't like me.)
Jun. 22nd, 2009 @ 04:19 pm
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From ADDitude Magazine
Sarah, an adult with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD), like many clients I work with, feels that socializing is anything but fun.
“It’s work,” she says. “And hard work at that!” Sarah dreads many of the parties, family dinners, and business functions during the summer and the holidays.
“I never know what to say, especially with people I don’t know that well,” she adds. “Any way you look at it, I’m in trouble when I go to a party.”
Sarah jumps from topic to topic in a conversation, and doesn’t listen effectively to the person she’s talking with. I worked with her to develop strategies that would make her feel comfortable the next time she heads out.
Y'know, it's gratifying to know it's not just me.
On a completely different topic, I haven't seen eps. 10 or 11 of Brotherhood yet :P. I was waiting for Funimation to watch 10, and that was right when they went down (for the second time). I can't get torrents to play so Eclipse's fansubs are useless to me.
But! There was tyco drumming last night at the library. They were such a treat to listen to. I got to watch them out the back door while minding the desk. We did have one neighbor complaining about the noise and threatening to call the police if they didn't "keep it down." Um, sorry? The drums kinda only have one volume, and it's well before curfew. The police really aren't going to do anything -_-;;. But everyone else thought it was great.
Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 05:09 pm
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Writing has ... not been happening, the last several days. Work has been crazy busy with the summer reading game starting, but I was off Sunday and today and just .. haven't been able to write. I got a little done on Sunday, but nowhere near what I wanted. It's not that I don't know what's going to happen, the plot actually resolved itself fairly well Sunday, but when I sit down to write everything that tries to come out is flat and clunky. Like I've regressed back to high school or something.
I read over some of my fics and parts of them read like a tennis shoe in the dryer. And I think, why didn't anyone tell me this was awkward? Then I remember that most people are afraid to leave negative comments. And I start thinking that everyone's just being nice and is too polite (or scared) to tell me it sucks. And, oh yeah, did I mention I've kinda been in one of my "the internet fucking SUCKS" moods lately?
Really, though, I think I've been worn out from work and either allergies or a mild cold/flu (probably allergies), which hasn't been the best for my mood OR any sort of thinking.
I did get a tiny bit of painting done today, so it wasn't all wasted. I really should wash my watercolor palette, though, it's running out of clean places to mix colors. And now my wrist hurts.
Jun. 16th, 2009 @ 08:32 pm
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Happy birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) militsa! May it have lots of Ed and Hei ^_^
Jun. 14th, 2009 @ 01:35 pm
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Ganked from several people.
1) write your username.
2) write the name of two of your favorite bands/artists.
3) write "i ♥ ______". this is to see how you write hearts.
4) write the name of your all-time favorite person.
5) write the name of a recently favored person.
6) tag six people to do this.
This is how I write when I don't expect other people to read it. That little squiggle at the end of "Fight--" is my shorthand for "ing."
Jun. 12th, 2009 @ 07:02 pm
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Happy birthday to loreamara!
Jun. 11th, 2009 @ 10:18 am
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I thought I was doing well last week when I called in my prescription refill with time to spare. I'm always doing it at the last minute, which they say is a bad habit to be in, in case, I dunno, society imploded or something. So I called it in when I still had at least a week left.
Aaaaand then I completely forgot to pick it up ::headdesk::
I was only reminded when I went to fill my pill minder for the week and discovered that I really only had 1 full day left. so I took a reduced dose this morning, and I'll swing by Kaiser after work.
In other news, I has light box! \o/♥ We took an excursion out to Berkeley so I could finally use my Utrecht gift card. I've been wanting a light box for ages. I also got an opaque white ink. I haven't really gotten a chance to play with either yet. (The card, however, rang up about $30 less than it should have, so I have to go call the corporate offices today. Yay :P)
I was kinda ignoring the internet over the weekend, so I have a bit of catching up to do. I'll get to LJ after work today, promise.
Jun. 8th, 2009 @ 08:04 am
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I was poking around on The Worst Review Ever at work today (yaaaay for babysitting a desk) and it got me thinking. While some of the reviews are truly awful (my favorite was the one for the book Generations, where the "reviewer" more or less said "books that don't have a social or political agenda are worthless and shame on you for writing a worthless 'entertainment' book and COME READ MY MANIFESTO to see how wrong you are"), many of them were simply from a person who didn't like the book.
Well, that's gonna happen. A piece of writing isn't going to please everybody. Having your work torn apart or even just someone saying they don't like it is going to sting, yes. I'm not arguing with that. But sometimes it seems authors think everyone must like their work and OMG YOU HATERS ARE AWFUL for not liking it.
A good negative review is a gold mine. Sometimes the reviewer was simply in the wrong demographic or was reading from a genre they didn't like (why review a romance novel if you don't like romance novels?), but otherwise, a negative review can point out weaknesses in our writing that we otherwise might not see. The reviewer might be way off base, but they're usually coming from somewhere. Glowing reviews are wonderful, but - in all honesty - they're not very helpful. I want the crits. I want my work to be ripped to shreds. Silence is the bad thing, not negative reviews.¹
Once we put our words out there, they're no longer ours. We can't control what a reader reads. And readers have a right to not like a work. They also have a right to post their negative opinions. Especially when it's not directly aimed at the author (one of the - many - reasons that review for Generations crossed the line). Reviews are written for the readers, not for the author.
However, I do think reviewers should refrain from personal attacks and phrases such as "candy-coated turd," as colorful as that is, or saying the author should be "drawn and quartered." I mean, really. At least post valid reasons for disliking something.
¹This is somewhat hypocritical of me, since I so very rarely post critical comments. But that's because it's SO FREAKIN' HARD to judge how a writer is going to react, and comments are much more immediate and personal than a review. That, and I've been singed a few times. But still. I would rather people not hold back. Tell me why it's crap.
Jun. 4th, 2009 @ 07:27 pm
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Today is June 2nd.
Tonight it rained.
This does not happen!! Not here!!
If predictions are to be believed, there's more rain coming o_O. And maybe thunderstorms.
I'd say I need a "WTF??" icon, but I don't have the room. I want more icons.
Note: I have a couple dreamwidth codes, so if anyone wants to create a journal give me your e-mail (I only have two codes!)
Jun. 2nd, 2009 @ 08:35 pm
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Website updated, yay. I removed the gallery because it was superfluous and I wasn't keeping it up and instead linked to my pages at PD, dA, and EW. Otherwise it was just a general clean-up and a new background picture (which also served to get me acquainted with Painter 10 - in 15-minute increments, sigh). The gallery for Silver still needs to be updated, I know there are a lot of broken images on that page. I haven't really wanted to deal with it.
I think that was all? Oh, I kinda updated the foyer, too, but as a links page it's pretty sparse.
May. 30th, 2009 @ 07:54 pm
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Apparently PaperDemon doesn't tell you when someone fav's your work, but it looks like both Silver and the back story got fav's. So, yah, color me surprised o.O . Especially since those are the only pieces - of the writing - to get a favorite.
Aaaaaand cue the guilt. Yep, there it is.
May. 29th, 2009 @ 09:28 pm
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I really want to draw. And I really, really shouldn't. I've already drawn more than I probably should today.
Also, these wrist braces are too bulky across the palm. I ordered them because I wanted the extra support, but it looks like I should have ordered the kind I'd been using. Of course, if I do that now, it's another $50-$60. These ones are tolerable, but they're not comfortable.
They're also hotter. It's enough of a pain wearing braces on hot days without them being insulated :P.
Really want to draw.
It doesn't help that I've hit a snag with the writing. Nothing major. But it does mean progress has stalled. So now I'm out on both art and writing.
I think I'm also grumpy because of the heat. And allergies. Starting my period a week early didn't help.
Edit: It also doesn't help that my back and all that's related is still touchy :P
May. 28th, 2009 @ 06:34 pm
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