Carnet de voyage

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Is this what your job is like, Meg?

...I need to think about the fact that the only stuff I've read all year, that I relate to emotionally, is T.S Eliot's writing. Even Prufrock, which I detested for years, has begun to take on a visceral immediacy.


So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- from East Coker

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HAY GUYS thank you for all the music recs, I am still working my way through them, and sorry I am so crap at getting around to replying to you all. orz

Nano: still steadily underacheiving!



Fff, and that's after I allowed myself to add a four or five hundred word snippet that was written beforehand to my word count. (It was getting unwieldy to keep leaving it out, man.)

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In other news, I highly recommend PageFour for those of you who are very non-linear thinkers like me. Pathetic as my wordcount is so far, I wouldn't have anywhere near it if I hadn't discovered this program shortly before Nano started. Do you think in fragments? You don't want to open new documents to jot each one down, but it's nearly impossible to keep them all straight in one document? THIS IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEMS.

Some examples of how I am using it. As you can see, you can just open up new pages for each bit of dialogue or imagery or whathaveyou that springs to your mind, and they're all consolidated under one project, and you can move the pages around, make folders and folders within folders, merge selected pages together, whatever you want, and you can see it all at a glance there in the sidebar. Plus pages stay open in tabs until you close them, so it's super-easy to flip between them.

Of course, those of you in the Mac-using world can have your stupid shiny Scrivener. No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?

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Today's adventure: photographing a queer burlesque troop performing at a wine bar downtown! Drunk is the best way to be a photojournalist.

Except that my white balance was wrong and all my pictures are out of focus. Le sigh.

• 14:56 NEXT TIME I SEE YOU VINCENT< YOU ARE FUCKING DEAD, YOU HEAR ME? DEAD. #
• 23:33 oh god my head hurts. #

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I just realised that for the entire month of September – including the week of Aussiecon 4 — I’ll be in Malaysia at this hospital, doing an internal medicine rotation.

This definitely rules out the chances of any happy skiffy fannish reunions for me.  Urgh.  So much for my malevolent plans.

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HEY
THIS IS A GREAT MEME

LINK ME TO YOURS

I WILL DO IT I SWEAR
(except if there are too many of you then maybe you'll get stick figures fjlgkdjfg)


DRAWME!

 

Since I have been too lazy dilatory distracted to keep this journal up to date . . .

Life is being beautifully quiet. I am enjoying good food, knitting, and watching anime. archangelbeth</a> and I have now watched through the whole of Princess Tutu, and she thoroughly enjoyed it. (I had seen it before, and was keeping my mouth firmly shut at a number of points. If you know that series, you'll know why.)

She has also finished crocheting a shawl for me, which is beautiful. Photos will follow at some point. (I am currently knitting a shawl for her.)

I also showed her a production of The Mikado yesterday. (It was the version with Eric Idle as Ko-Ko.) She enjoyed it. A lot.

Unfortunately, she is currently upstairs with a headache. Since inflicting my presence on someone with a headache seems a less than brilliant idea, I am down here checking up on my email.

(We have also finished case 2 of Phoenix Wright: Justice For All, the one with Morgan and Pearl and Ini Miney. I plan to jump to case 4, in the hopes of finishing it before I leave. After all, case 3 is entertaining, but not as good as case 4.)

DRAWME!

I am a very good artist who wants to draw all of you


sexually

ETA: SOON WALLPAPERING MY USER INFO FFFFFFFF SO GORGEOUS YOU GUYS

"Follow the Man" is so addicting for reasons that are completely and totally unknown to me. ( cont. )

Happy November, everyone. ♥ It's been good to me so far, and I hope it's been good to you.

SHARING TIME:
    I am not sure how I feel about the Return of Alice trailer, aka the Alice2 trailer. The atmosphere looks right, but the claymation-style look of it just... isn't nearly as cool as the original was. Alice herself looks almost sloppily done and it's hard to get excited about something that should look amazing, considering how far graphics have come in the last decade.

Seriously, remember how awesome the original game was?

AND ONTO THE RECS:
    Avatar: The Last Airbender - 1 Fanfic
    Final Fantasy XII - 2 Fanfics
    Glee - 3 Fanfics
    Gundam Wing - 1 Fanfic
    Gurren Lagann - 1 Fanfic
    House - 1 Fanfic
    Kamen Rider Kabuto - 1 Fanfic
    LOST - 1 Fanfic
    Sailor Moon - 1 Fanfic
    White Collar - 6 Fanfics
    White Collar/Leverage - 1 Fanfics
    Katekyou Hitman REBORN! - 1 Doujinshi
    Bleach - 2 Fanart
    Katekyou Hitman REBORN! - 2 Fanart
2009 GOAL: 859 (+ 390)/1700

( Avatar, Bleach, FFXII, Glee, GundamW, Gurren Lagann, House, Kabuto, Leverage, LOST, REBORN!, Sailor Moon, White Collar )

Ah, FFXIII, you and your oh-so-subtle goal of getting American teenagers and college students to learn a new word/term. The word/term in question being 'gestalt'.

...incidentally, just looking at the newest screenshots, is it just me, or the battle system actually really not all that different from what we had in Xenogears and in the Gear Guymelf...what the hell was the term for those things!...combat parts of Xenosaga III?

VINCENT FOR NO FUCKING REASON JUST BIT ME ON MY FACE.

AM SEETHING MAD AND IN PAIN.

WILL FUCKING KICK HIM NEXT CHANCE I GET, SEE IF I DON'T!

Ladies on the twitters asked me to upload a clip of me singing karaoke at PMX
but I have something uh better

3AM ACOUSTIC HALLELUJAH CHORUS FFFF

ALSO I HAVE A PLURK
IT IS HERE I have 4 friends yesss

To describe work today would involve someone losing their appetite spectacularly so will refrain except to mention that after my pants dried from walking in pounding rain to the bus and thence to work, I had about ten minutes to appreciate it before there was an emergency shower, elderly British professors expanding my vocabulary considerably, and, yep, wet pants.

Failing chocolate, booze or someone teleporting me their cat, I would like a cookie. Or hot milk, that would be awesome.

Then I got home and checked the mail and found the results of the cholesterol test, in which Dr B said, and this is a quote, Wow, your lipids are really high! and actually SENT THE SCRIP so I could get on god damn Lipitor without delay.

Amazingly, and I feel this proves my love for Amy, I did not throw anything at her when she sat there reading the highlights out loud and sniggering obnoxiously. Brat.

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In English, the term is 'bibliometrics'

In Russian, it's библиометрия.

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(Also 'comparative bibliometrics' *is* totally a valid way to call what I do in my paper, at least in so far as I'm not the *first* person who used it. Even if I am - at least according to Google - the second...)

What I am doing: Sitting on my couch hunched over my laptop typing furiously to finish my take-home midterm in 20 minutes.

What is all over the couch: Papers. Plastic garbage bag. Plate with pizza crust.

What is on the coffee table: Open cereal box. Two pumpkins. Empty Andre bottle. Empty wine bottle. Empty Gatorade bottle. More dirty plates. Some junk mail. Febreeze.

Who just walked into my apartment: Three prospective future tenants who wanted to look around!

Thanks, landlord!

I am just glad that the landlord didn't actually come in here herself, because I think she would have locked us in the basement and then forced us to pay for maid service.