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December 17th, 2009
settiai
 | 11:40 pm - ...
My paternal grandmother was just carried to the hospital. I might not be online for the next day or so.
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settiai
 | 09:00 pm - LiveJournal Coupons
If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can send up to 10 LiveJournal Basic/Plus users a $10 coupon for an annual paid subscription now through January 15th, 2010. Recipients can upgrade for $9.95 (instead of $19.95) for one year by enrolling in our automatic payment plan or make a manual payment of $15 (instead of $25). Please note that these coupons are not transferable and cannot be used to renew existing paid accounts.
Does anyone with a Basic/Plus account want a coupon? I have 10 coupons left. Comments are screened.
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Current Music: a S4 episode of "Criminal Minds"
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sinecure
 | 12:28 pm - Not fic related for once
*head desk*
*screams*
*calms*
Thank god for gmail.
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netgirl_y2k
 | 04:31 pm
Christ on a cupcake, snow! Well, that's it, 'tis definitely the silly season. And even if it weren't for the snow, I'd know because members of my family have started phoning me, drunk, from bookshops.
Sister: Hello, I'm really drunk!
Me: Er, lovely.
Sister: I'm in Waterstones, what do you want for your Christmas?
Me: Just get me a book token, please?
Sister: No. Pick a book. I'm on the second floor, somewhere between crime and science fiction, standing next to a table of, erm...
Me: Books?
Sister: Yes! Pick one!
Me: A book token.
Sister: Who wrote that?
Me: Oh, for the love of-- Cloud Atlas, okay?
Sister: Oh, never mind. I've just seen something you'd never buy for yourself. It's awful! I'll get you that. Bye!
So, I'm apparently getting a really awful book from my sister, that's something to look forward to, isn't it? I'm also getting a sat-nav from my parents. I know this because I just went and bought it for them to wrap up. It is really very thoughtful of me them, because I've needed a sat-nav for ages. I'd rather not try to go to a job in Bishopbriggs and end up in Falkirk five hours later. Again.
For those of you not from these parts, that's seriously fucking lost, that's the Fifth Doctor failing to get Tegan back to Heathrow levels of lost.
Speaking of Heathrow the British Airways strike is off so my family will be jetting off to foreign lands. Yay. Goodbye, you crazy lunatics. Now I'm feeling the Christmas spirit.
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settiai
 | 12:26 am - *headdesk*
Why is it that the only nights I physically cannot fall asleep are the ones when I really need to go to bed early? Because I'm opening at the Restaurant of Doom™ in the morning and therefore have to get up in, oh, a little over four hours. Except I've yet to fall asleep.
... and the worst part is that I'm too tired to actually be doing something useful while I'm awake, like working on my Yuletide story. (Threat level: BEARS!!!)
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Current Music: a S4 episode of "Criminal Minds"
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December 16th, 2009
naughtyelf
 | 09:19 pm - I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand
Today was another zombie day. I finished work at 2.30 (using my last few hours of holiday for this year) and drove up to Sunderland for the match. We lost, not surprising! Should have stayed in and watched Glee. I managed to get Starbucks before kick off though so by the time I set off home at 10.30, I was wide awake again. A combination of the toffee nut latte, chewing gum and very very very loud Glee songs kept me awake til I got home just before midnight. I ended up going to bed at more or less the exact same time I usually do, so how come it's so much more knackering just because you'd been out of the house?
Anyway, I struggled through today and will do the same tomorrow, and then on Friday I'm going to stay in bed til 2pm, get up, have a shower and drive to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jainaj's, hopefully arriving after she gets in from work. Then we're going to see Anna Friel in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Saturday, with jossno1fan, fray101, mrbuttmonkey, angelite and Mark. With added tapas beforehand! And then sleepoverage at Jaina's on Saturday night, when we plan to drink alcohol and watch random horror movies on Sky.
Monday I'm meeting Michelle and some of the girls from York for lunch, as it's my day off. I'll finish off any bits of Christmas shopping that I need to do while I'm in town, and then the plan is to get Mam's presents wrapped while she's still at the deli. I usually wrap on Christmas Eve but working in Bradford means I probably won't get home til teatime and I have too many other things to do (bath, change bed... that's about it really).
Mam is downstairs putting the tree we bought on Sunday in the bucket. Yes, we managed to get a 6ft Christmas Tree and both me and Mam all in my tiny little car. Hooray! Who needs men! Then the branches will settle tonight and tomorrow we'll decorate.
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Current Music: Royal Variety Performance
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sinecure
 | 01:01 pm - Hold on, hold on to yourself, for this is gonna hurt like hell
I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck!
I can't get a single idea on where to go with this fic. It's stalled, and I'm bored with it. I've got 50 billion things going on that need my attention, and it's falling by the wayside, which scares me. I do not want to abandon this fic and if I stop the momentum, I will. I know I will. *cries*
Also, is it just me or does Booth need to look at the road when he's driving?? God. That is one of my biggest pet peeves. Do you constantly look at the person beside you while you're driving? No! Why do actors? I hate that with so much passion. Grr! I pay so much attention to how long he's not looking at the road that I rarely ever hear what they're discussing. It's not just Booth. All actors seem to do it. I get why, but FFS learn to look at the road too, dumbasses.
/venting
Okay. Bye.
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settiai
 | 02:04 am - Dreamwidth vs. LiveJournal
I've posted about this in the past, but I thought it was about time to do so again. Several people on my friends list have completely abandoned LiveJournal for Dreamwidth, thanks to the female/male/unspecified debacle, and I wanted to make sure that this is clear.
I crosspost all of my entries to DW, but I don't actually read anything over there. I've bookmarked a few journals on DW, of those of you who I know have abandoned LJ completely, and I'll try my best to remember to read them when I can. I've barely had time to just skim my friends list lately, though, without even thinking about visiting individual journals every day.
If you've completely abandoned LJ but still read my journal over on DW, can you please let me know? I really want to make sure that I've bookmarked your journals. And please remember that, while I will still be reading your journals, I'll probably be behind, so if you post something that you think I need to see I'd really appreciate a poke in that direction.
Current Mood: exhausted
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settiai
 | 01:04 am - Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday, akashasheiress and monkey_junkey!
And happy birthday, aris_tgd, laura47, and way2busymom!
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Current Music: a S4 episode of "Criminal Minds"
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likeadeuce
 | 12:37 am - writing question
Trying to condense a complex and technical thought, but basically it's this --
Character V, third person POV character, is interacting with characters A & B, both of whom s/he knows well. Significant parts of the story consist of V's observations of A & B's interactions. At a certain point, I think, once V's credentials as an observer are established, it's okay to skip saying, "V could see that A was upset" or "V noticed that B was frightened," or "Clearly, A was getting on B's nerves," to just: A was upset, B was frightened, A was getting on B's nerves. The other options are things like "A was shaking," "B's voice trembled," "A's jawline clenched as he looked at B." -- all of which might be legitimate descriptors to include at some point, but I don't want to have to rely on them.
I don't want to break point of view, but sometimes it seems like it's fair to let the reader take V's word for what's happening. Funny, this wouldn't be a problem with first person, because it's given that V isn't going to start describing what another person is seeing or thinking, unless the narrator is supposed to be insane or seriously fucked up [i.e.: Humbert Humbert freely tells us what Lolita thinks, which is a sign of him being a narcissistic pedophile.] But third person is trickier. I sometimes think I work too hard, in third person, to prove that I'm a not-incompetent writer and don't give the readers enough credit for being able to know what I'm doing.
Anyway. I'm curious how other fiction writers deal with this and if it's something you even think about. This may be a little related to show-don't-tell, as well as to POV. Despite all that creative writing 101 advice, sometimes it's more efficient, and more effective, just to tell.
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December 15th, 2009
December 14th, 2009
settiai
 | 11:38 pm - Oh, LiveJournal.
This is already spreading like wildfire, but I wanted to post it here as well. I know there are some people on my friends list who aren't quite as linked to LJ news as I am.
LiveJournal is removing the option to leave your gender unspecified, giving people the choice of choosing either "male" or "female" as their only options. More information here.
ETA: LJ says that it was a mistake that was never intended to go live. *shrugs* True or not, it looks like "unspecified" will remain an option for now.
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Current Music: a S4 episode of "Criminal Minds"
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anythingbutgrey
 | 10:15 pm - Twilight - I Want to See the Sun Rise Anywhere But Here (1/2)
Title: I Want to See the Sun Rise Anywhere But Here (1/2)
Ship (Fandom): Jacob/Bella (Twilight)
A/N: Many many many many thanks to snowfire for being my beta, cheerleader, and co-fangirl in arms. The title is from The Rescues' Break Me Out. This is an AU fic set in the middle of New Moon. The line "as strong as the sun, as necessary" is a section of a quote from Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping. None of this business belongs to me. The second part to this will be posted early next week. Promise.
Summary: Her hands are shaking at her sides, but he knows can’t go with her. He knows can’t say yes. It doesn’t matter how much he needs her or how much this terrifies him. He doesn’t know if by “this” he means Bella or the wolf. AU.
( I Want to See the Sun Rise Anywhere But Here )
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Part Two: Coming Soon
feedback?
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settiai
 | 07:50 pm - Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday, avendya, cruisedirector, ellyr_in_ink, fahye, fugacious_love, gyoro, hence_the_name, jigglykat, poisontaster, saavikam77, thingswithwings, and viciouswishes!
And happy birthday, cleolinda, girlfromsouth, hydr0phobia, and titti!
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Current Music: a S4 episode of "Criminal Minds"
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netgirl_y2k
| 10:33 pm - Buggery. Or, BA Killed Christmas.
British Airways (bastards) are going to have a strike over christmas and new year. This, tragically, means that my family may be forced to be in the same country as me over the festive period.
Now, some of you may be thinking, won't it be nice for you to have your parents and siblings around you for the holidays? And the answer is no. No, it won't. See, we're around each other all year. Reading the paper. Drinking tea. Squabbling over who gets to use the car parking space right outside the house. And normally I love it, it's why I still live here. But as a nice thing to do for each other, at christmas, everyone buggers off to separate parts of the globe and leaves me in peace in the big house. I get to buy the nice wine without fear that someone'll drink it as soon as my back is turned, I get to lie on the couch and read without having to answer the question "what are you reading?" four separate times, I get to cook whatever I want rather than by committee.
And now, there might be people here. Talking. Drinking. Breathing. Ruining it.
Yes, I know I'm a misanthropic bitch. I'm comfortable with that.
The BA flight is only one connection. The current suggestion is that I tag along with them to Heathrow in order to drive the car back. And yes, it's a twelve hour drive back to Scotland. On Boxing Day. On my own. But on the other hand, on my own.
I mean, the wine would be right out, but I could buy some audio books. It might be nice.
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anythingbutgrey
 | 05:30 pm
i am reading purity myth by jessica valenti. i am about to have a heart attack over facts i already know.
but i just read something i did not know.
i did know, "The US Department of Justice estimates that 1 in 5 college women will be raped at some point during a five-year college career." i did know, "about 9 out of 10 times, the victim will know her assailant."
i did not know, "half of all victims will not call what happened rape."
this exactly mirrors a Huge Epic Loud fight I had with my father this summer about those feminists and their falsified rape statistics. maybe i should get him purity myth and this book for hannukah. happy new year, dude.
discuss.
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girlflesh
 | 12:05 am - Not dead, but might as well be?
You know what's fun?
Migraines. Oh yeah, loads of fun.
You know what else is TOO MUCH FUN?
WoW. I should never be allowed to play that game. I have an addictive personality like whoa.
Current Music: Frankie Valli - Grease | Powered by Last.fm
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