My Randomness

Drabbles, Anyone?

2010-01-06T20:23:12Z

Would anyone reading this want to take over running the drabble challenge? Or know someone who would? I hardly spend anytime at all over at TF.N anymore, and really don't have the desire to do it. There are plenty of themes that have been sent in to use for this round. All you have to do is organize the order you want and update once a week. Or you can do it however you want since you'll be the one running it. Leave a comment or message me in some other manner if you're interested.

I've Made a Huge Mistake

2010-01-04T20:35:24Z

Arrested Development's second season was waiting in my Hulu queue when I got back home. Yay for happy and hilarious distractions. Even though I've seen all of these before, there are still moments where I have to control my laughter for fearing of disturbing others in the house.

Happy New Year

2010-01-02T05:08:23Z

One of my roommates from Ohio State had a baby boy just a few hours after the ball dropped in Times Square. I stopped by the hospital on my way to work. While walking down the hall towards her room I almost had to stop walking when a realization hit me: the last time I was visiting her family in the hospital it was when her husband had just had a surgery during his battle with cancer a few years back. To go from that to getting to meet the new baby? Amazing. I really hope it turns out to be foreshadowing for 2010, that all the crap we've all gone through lately will go away and the future will be full of (metaphorical) newborns.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-26T04:23:13Z

I would love to be able to write you all a sweet or at least witty Christmas wish, but I've been in the car for eleven hours today. We were supposed to be surprise Christmas/80th birthday presents for my grandparents, but as my Dad said, my Grandma (who can't remember what she had for breakfast) can apparently see into the future and figured out that we were coming. Add to that a blizzard in Oklahoma (where they live) and you get all kinds of fun.

Anyway, I'm brain dead from the trip. Have a wonderful Christmas (East coast still has 40 minutes, so I made this post in time). Sweet dreams, readers.

Why yes, I am a dork

2009-12-22T04:37:28Z

First, I posted winners for the Best of 2009 at voy_stillness . Congrats to my fellow winners. And, how great is this icon? airlockhero made my week with that one.

Speaking of Star Trek, Z got me Star Trek Scene It for Christmas (Kroger had it for $8, so why not?). Since I'm leaving for Indiana (again) tomorrow night, we opened it up and played. I kicked butt. And by "I kicked butt" I mean, "I showed off just how big of a dork I am and how much useless knowledge is floating around in my brain." It took me three tries before passing Biochem 511, but I can rattle of Veridian III in my sleep. Go figure.

Honestly, it's been the most excited I've been about anything sci-fi in months. I have no desire to write fanfic, even though I (in my opinion at least) nailed two holiday fics last year and would to dabble in that again. And even with drabbles, I'm tempted to pass off running that challenge to someone else. I know I go through phases when it comes to hobbies, but this one is a little hard to let go. Maybe because I've put down so many words or created a universe that's all mine. Two in fact. I don't know. As hard as it is to let it go for a while, it's even harder to get motivated enough to pick it back up. I'll get little glimmers of idea, but they fade away just as quickly as they come.

I have the sudden urge to go off about Dollhouse right now, but I think I'll wait till the series finishes. This past week didn't do too much for me (at least in anything where Echo is concerned. I love Victor/Sierra. Even Topher is growing on me.) Anyway, I have to pack. The thought crossed my mind to do a graphic representation of things I've loved in 2009 since tonight will be my last night with Photoshop access until the new year, but why be creative like that when you can waste time playing Restaurant City on Facebook?

So, in case I don't post again: have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

EDIT: Anyone know why LJ is ignoring paragraph breaks when working with Safari or is it just me who is having this issue?

Go Vote

2009-12-19T07:29:13Z

We're having a big, end of the year, "best of" vote over at voy_stillness . Please take a second and join in on the fun.

Caprica

2009-12-18T02:20:52Z

One of the many things I watched on Hulu today was the extended pilot for Caprica. I was just kind of meh about it. There were a few moments (can't tell you what they are now) that I felt a glimmer of the excitement I felt watching almost any BSG episode, but nothing all that spectacular. I liked The Plan better, but maybe that's because I knew the characters and the story so well. Have you seen it? What did you think? Meanwhile, I've sat here pretty much all day catching up on TV and playing stupid games. Therefore, I'm going to go out to my car and get my book (The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs--I highly recommend it), curl up in bed and read about this crazy guy reading through the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one year.

Best of '09

2009-12-17T03:07:13Z

Did you enter at least one icon in voy_stillness this year? Well go re-enter it. We're doing a best of the year contest this week. You can re-enter up to 10 icons you've made for the community's challenges this past year. Challenge details are here.

Facebook + Star Wars = Hilariousness

2009-12-07T20:58:54Z

My sister put this on my Facebook this morning and I'd thought I'd share:

5 Star Wars Status Updates on CollegeHumor

Holiday Icon Examples

2009-12-07T16:40:51Z

If you're interested in custom holiday icons (like I mentioned in my last post), here's an example of what they look like:

Let me know what holiday you want on the icon and what you want your gift to be. You can request up to 10.

All I want for Christmas

2009-12-06T01:01:39Z

Ok, I might be crazy and may not get this done, but I'll do my best.

I'm taking suggestions for "All I want for (winter holiday of your choice) is..." icons. So tell me what you want for what holiday, and I'll see what I can do. We'll put a limit at ten.

Brains

2009-12-04T03:41:17Z

So I have something in common with zombies: an interest in brains. I find this to be absolutely fascinating. It's the biology teacher nerdiness in me.

Feeling Naked

2009-12-04T02:42:40Z

Couldn't justify spending the money to keep my extra userpics, so I just had to delete 70 of them. I feel naked.

Naturally the perfect icon of this would be my animated one of Jim from "Fun Run" asking if this is an office or a French beach, but I had to delete it. Boo.

I'm a doctor, not a wallpaper

2009-11-18T20:21:50Z

Because amphetamine_47 needed a little pick-me-up:

For those of you who didn't watch last night's Big Bang Theory

2009-11-18T03:40:26Z

First--shame on you.

Second--go check out this awesome picspam by wowsugarpuss_ for the Penny/Sheldon storyline. (Don't be fooled, the Raj/Howard/Leonard storyline was pretty hilarious, too).

Need to do some shopping?

2009-11-11T17:16:17Z

The first 25 people who send me their e-mail address between here and my Facebook account will be sent a coupon for this weekend (Thursday-Sunday). You'll get 30% off at Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, and their outlet stores. You can use it as many times as you want in the store and once online. And 5% of your spending goes to Feeding America.

I heart libraries

2009-11-04T19:57:13Z

Went to the library to pick The Time Traveler's Wife. I put a hold on it a couple months back, and it's now finally my turn to read it. I haven't seen the movie yet. Deciding whether or not I want to after reading the novel. But first I must finish Carrie Fisher's The Best Awful, which so far hasn't been too bad. I have the audio recording of Wishful Drinking but haven't actually read-read one of her books before. I just came off of a binge of Kathy Reich's books that inspired the show Bones (read all 12 in 3 months), so I've been in speed reading mode, and you can't really do that with Carrie's book.

Any other books you think I should be reading? I prefer lighter stuff as opposed to books that, you know, force you to think.

Major icon dump

2009-11-03T22:39:17Z

It's been so long since I've done an icon update and I had so many that the 202 icons had to be split into two posts:

Preview:

Part 1:
Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Horrible, Firefly, Fringe

Part 2:
Glee, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Star Trek, Star Wars

One Year Later

2009-11-02T01:30:46Z

A year ago I started my Nano challenge. Thinking about it now, part of me wonders whether or not it was really worth it. Yes, I have the majority of an epic written. Yes, it made me outline the following two stories in the trilogy. But it also left me with a mess to edit. I don't have the energy to refine it. I can't begin to think about starting the next story (or really even finishing the one I spent a month writing last year) because I don't feel like I've done enough with what I have.

Any one else been in this situation? Which do you think is better: leaving the plot bunnies in your head or half-finished on paper?

Happy Halloween

2009-11-01T02:39:32Z

A few weeks ago one of the supervisors at the store I work at part-time told me I should dress up as Velma from Scooby Doo for Halloween. I told her that I hadn't dressed up in a decade. But this year I figured, why not. Maybe it'll make work go by a little quicker tonight. Thus...

I watch too much tv

2009-10-31T02:58:11Z

crazyvictoria did a meme where you post TV posters for all the show you watch, your favs, whatever. Below the cut you will find the shows I'm watching right at this moment. It varies depending on the time of the year.

For the Firefly Fans

2009-10-27T21:33:20Z

In case you don't watch Castle...

Blah

2009-10-25T01:14:58Z

I want to color, but there isn't any new lineart for me to do it. I want to draw, but I lack the skill to pull off what I want. I want to write, but am too lazy to type out the scenes floating in my head.

I guess I'll just crawl into bed and watch last night's Dollhouse instead.

Blah.

Help, Please

2009-10-20T15:30:36Z

Do me a favor and go break the ties over at voy_stillness , pretty please?

Sins & Virtues

2009-10-19T01:41:19Z

Not much of an update I know, but at least it's something. I just posted my entries for the second round of 10walls . This round focused on the themes of sins and virtues. To see all ten of my desktop wallpapers, go here. Fandoms include Pushing Daisies, Battlestar Galactica, Glee, Star Wars, Beauty & The Beast, The Dark Knight, and Wicked.