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walkingshadow) wrote2005-12-06 06:05 pm
walkingshadow) wrote2005-12-06 06:05 pm
i'll send you the news from the house down the road from real love
a. baby's first jury summons! it's for federal court; my term of service is two weeks, on telephone standby, beginning january 9th. on one hand there's the dorky thrill of THE SIXTH AMENDMENT and CIVIC DUTY; on the other there's bureaucratic shenanigans starting at eight a.m.; also the ominous creakings of the criminal justice system.
b. i have seven library books currently checked out, but all i want to read right now is the golden compass (first in the his dark materials trilogy), the book that WILL NOT COME.
c. the other day i saw shopgirl with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
malelia_honu and her mom. we all read steve martin's book when it first came out (that is, my mom, cousin m., and i), and it was this sweet and luminous thing. a lot of its charm came from the omniscient narration, the kind that tells the reader what the characters don't know, and what will happen to them in the future. he made me look up the word noumenal. i think i went into the movie expecting a little too much, but i'd say it was successful. it was beautiful, for one thing, beautiful colors and shots; the soundtrack was lovely, and i don't usually care for soundtracks on their own, but this one was used very effectively; i don't know if i was supposed to notice it. i recommend seeing the movie and then reading the book.
d. there are memes sweeping through my flist that i'm really enjoying reading but have zero intention of participating in myself, because 1) i am—what's the opposite of intimidating? and 2) when it comes to things i assume you know or think you should know about me, i have trouble coming up with two things to rub together. if anyone has any questions, you are more than welcome to ask.
e. i am embarking on a personal feedback project. it might take a while for anyone to notice this, but everything i read and enjoy from now on will be feedbacked, and also i will retroactively feedback most if not all of what i have saved to disk. oh, yes.
here's the thing: for several years i've been not so much lurking on the fringes of fandom as hiding out in the subspace of fandom. social contact makes me nervous, breaking into established social networks makes me want to panic, and when i say i have trouble making overtures, i don't just mean that i couldn't visit a professor at his or her office hours unless mandated or i'd just slept through a midterm, i mean i couldn't call my therapist back. i acquit myself very nicely when actually with people, and i'm thrilled when people approach *me*, but my first instinct is never to initiate. there, that's probably at least one thing you should know about me.
i'm embracing the fandom thing though. i love it here. you are all awesome. and when you say interesting things and write beautiful stories, i don't just feel an obligation to tell you, i want to tell you. it's going to be slow going at first, because first i have to panic over each one, and then i have to articulate exactly what to say; in general i don't like just leaving i loved this! unless it's a particularly short and fluffy thing, because i'd much rather give back the effort a writer put into writing—that is, whatever i got out of the story, i want you to know exactly what it was, what my favorite parts were, what i found particularly effective. it's going to get easier, because things always do.
f. bellsouth called the other day to tell us DSL would be available in our area in two weeks time, O FRABJOUS, FRABJOUS DAY. i would dearly love to upload lots and lots of music for you all, plus i cannot WAIT to download episodes of this cheesy sci-fi show, for the love of god.
g. over thanksgiving my brother m. sat me down in front of the internets and forced me to search through job listings on monster.com and also to tell him—wait for it—what i would like to do for the rest of my life. on a whim we requested a brochure from ITT technical institute, because i told him that if i had college to do all over again, i'd go in for web design (also i would set my sights on a much smaller school in a much larger city, but that's another story). a friendly man named joe has since called me twice, and sent me email once, urging me to contact him so he can give me a campus tour and more information. he sounds so sweet.
h. hey, television. arrested development and kitchen confidential were hilarious last night. HILARIOUS. are they actually being cancelled? do we know for SURE?
as for grey's anatomy, it's pretty much verse, chorus, verse. i am so fucking tired of meredith and mcdreamy. meredith and alex give off this sibling vibe, i like them together. i'm not sure how meredith got the slut label when she's slept with two people that everyone knows of, one of whom was the one-night-stand guy with the unfortunate priaprism. addison is awesome and really deserves so much better. bailey, bailey, bailey. if and when she leaves the hospital to have her baby, it's going to be so sad. best scene was george running away from the dog at the very end.
b. i have seven library books currently checked out, but all i want to read right now is the golden compass (first in the his dark materials trilogy), the book that WILL NOT COME.
c. the other day i saw shopgirl with
malelia_honu and her mom. we all read steve martin's book when it first came out (that is, my mom, cousin m., and i), and it was this sweet and luminous thing. a lot of its charm came from the omniscient narration, the kind that tells the reader what the characters don't know, and what will happen to them in the future. he made me look up the word noumenal. i think i went into the movie expecting a little too much, but i'd say it was successful. it was beautiful, for one thing, beautiful colors and shots; the soundtrack was lovely, and i don't usually care for soundtracks on their own, but this one was used very effectively; i don't know if i was supposed to notice it. i recommend seeing the movie and then reading the book.d. there are memes sweeping through my flist that i'm really enjoying reading but have zero intention of participating in myself, because 1) i am—what's the opposite of intimidating? and 2) when it comes to things i assume you know or think you should know about me, i have trouble coming up with two things to rub together. if anyone has any questions, you are more than welcome to ask.
e. i am embarking on a personal feedback project. it might take a while for anyone to notice this, but everything i read and enjoy from now on will be feedbacked, and also i will retroactively feedback most if not all of what i have saved to disk. oh, yes.
here's the thing: for several years i've been not so much lurking on the fringes of fandom as hiding out in the subspace of fandom. social contact makes me nervous, breaking into established social networks makes me want to panic, and when i say i have trouble making overtures, i don't just mean that i couldn't visit a professor at his or her office hours unless mandated or i'd just slept through a midterm, i mean i couldn't call my therapist back. i acquit myself very nicely when actually with people, and i'm thrilled when people approach *me*, but my first instinct is never to initiate. there, that's probably at least one thing you should know about me.
i'm embracing the fandom thing though. i love it here. you are all awesome. and when you say interesting things and write beautiful stories, i don't just feel an obligation to tell you, i want to tell you. it's going to be slow going at first, because first i have to panic over each one, and then i have to articulate exactly what to say; in general i don't like just leaving i loved this! unless it's a particularly short and fluffy thing, because i'd much rather give back the effort a writer put into writing—that is, whatever i got out of the story, i want you to know exactly what it was, what my favorite parts were, what i found particularly effective. it's going to get easier, because things always do.
f. bellsouth called the other day to tell us DSL would be available in our area in two weeks time, O FRABJOUS, FRABJOUS DAY. i would dearly love to upload lots and lots of music for you all, plus i cannot WAIT to download episodes of this cheesy sci-fi show, for the love of god.
g. over thanksgiving my brother m. sat me down in front of the internets and forced me to search through job listings on monster.com and also to tell him—wait for it—what i would like to do for the rest of my life. on a whim we requested a brochure from ITT technical institute, because i told him that if i had college to do all over again, i'd go in for web design (also i would set my sights on a much smaller school in a much larger city, but that's another story). a friendly man named joe has since called me twice, and sent me email once, urging me to contact him so he can give me a campus tour and more information. he sounds so sweet.
h. hey, television. arrested development and kitchen confidential were hilarious last night. HILARIOUS. are they actually being cancelled? do we know for SURE?
as for grey's anatomy, it's pretty much verse, chorus, verse. i am so fucking tired of meredith and mcdreamy. meredith and alex give off this sibling vibe, i like them together. i'm not sure how meredith got the slut label when she's slept with two people that everyone knows of, one of whom was the one-night-stand guy with the unfortunate priaprism. addison is awesome and really deserves so much better. bailey, bailey, bailey. if and when she leaves the hospital to have her baby, it's going to be so sad. best scene was george running away from the dog at the very end.
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not that I'm wanting to spread the HDM love at all. nope. *shifty eyes*
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*studiously ignores shifty eyes*
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