QotD
May. 25th, 2013 05:24 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dglenn"The Futurians are a thing of the past. The wave of the future is the Pastafarians." -- Keith F. Lynch, 2013-05-17, rec.arts.sf.fandom, Message-ID: <kn3tff$k8c$6@reader1.panix.com>
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15 tweets for 2013-5-24
May. 24th, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Friday, 0013: Tumblr favorite: http://gyzym.tumblr.com/post/5118859590
2/the-longest-shadows-ever-cast (from gyzym) - Friday, 0028: Tumblr favorite: http://tatterdemalionamberite.tumblr.co
m/post/51178013591/temporaldecay-nightin gales-before-we-begin (from tatterdemalionamberite) - Friday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/23/2013: 1,150 steps and 0.5 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Friday, 0127: @trixieleitz Hee, snuggling hens are awesome.
- Friday, 0225: @trixieleitz Clingy hens! ( read the other 10 )
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May. 25th, 2013 12:32 amkaberettApprox my current mental state.
Two important realisations:
1. I don't have the foggiest what an operating curve is supposed to be in this context. BETTER FIX THAT.
2. The reason I was wiped today is that I forgot my psych meds last night, so took them this morning rather than risking withdrawal, having, um, forgotten that there's a reason I take my citalopram and amitriptyline at night...
Good things:
1. Thank you all, so much, for helpful suggestions about various bits and bobs, especially the gifts for counsellors etc.
2. For the first time in my undergraduate career, I have come home for the weekend in order to be looked after and concentrate better. This... is something I'm going to want to unpack a LOT with my counsellor, but is fundamentally probably a Really Good Sign.
3. Wove in the ends of project #1, got properly going with project #2.
4. Fannish conversation withrandomling ♥
5. ALL the people are dating. :-)
6. Three lectures to go on this wretched course, and then I can call it good (enough).
7. My lovely mum, for just saying "yes sure when would you like to be picked up what would you like me to cook you for dinner" when I phoned her up at 10pm and pathetically asked if I could come home for the weekend.
8. And also for buying me an AMAZING COMFORTABLE MATTRESS last year, when I was really ill, on the grounds that if I was going to be spending a lot of time in bed I might as well be comfortable there. ♥ (And also my lovely goose-down quilt, which was a... Christmas present? When I was quite small.)
9. Ran lots of errands, including collecting nice post and paying in cheques and lunch with lovely director of studies and all the other geologists from my college.
10. Boything came to see me last night and we got to spend time together and I was reasonably sane and. Boything! Hurrah compatible neurodiversities. Hurrah people who recognise that curling up on each other and then Lying Very Still with occasional squeezes counts as snuggling. Hurrah all round, basically.
hurrah also being more-or-less in one piece. ♥
Two important realisations:
1. I don't have the foggiest what an operating curve is supposed to be in this context. BETTER FIX THAT.
2. The reason I was wiped today is that I forgot my psych meds last night, so took them this morning rather than risking withdrawal, having, um, forgotten that there's a reason I take my citalopram and amitriptyline at night...
Good things:
1. Thank you all, so much, for helpful suggestions about various bits and bobs, especially the gifts for counsellors etc.
2. For the first time in my undergraduate career, I have come home for the weekend in order to be looked after and concentrate better. This... is something I'm going to want to unpack a LOT with my counsellor, but is fundamentally probably a Really Good Sign.
3. Wove in the ends of project #1, got properly going with project #2.
4. Fannish conversation with
randomling ♥5. ALL the people are dating. :-)
6. Three lectures to go on this wretched course, and then I can call it good (enough).
7. My lovely mum, for just saying "yes sure when would you like to be picked up what would you like me to cook you for dinner" when I phoned her up at 10pm and pathetically asked if I could come home for the weekend.
8. And also for buying me an AMAZING COMFORTABLE MATTRESS last year, when I was really ill, on the grounds that if I was going to be spending a lot of time in bed I might as well be comfortable there. ♥ (And also my lovely goose-down quilt, which was a... Christmas present? When I was quite small.)
9. Ran lots of errands, including collecting nice post and paying in cheques and lunch with lovely director of studies and all the other geologists from my college.
10. Boything came to see me last night and we got to spend time together and I was reasonably sane and. Boything! Hurrah compatible neurodiversities. Hurrah people who recognise that curling up on each other and then Lying Very Still with occasional squeezes counts as snuggling. Hurrah all round, basically.
hurrah also being more-or-less in one piece. ♥
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May. 24th, 2013 09:27 pmkaberettliv is hosting a discussion on mental health/illness, how SSRIs work, appropriate behaviour on the part of healthcare professionals, etc, and I am having WORDS all over the comments.Wadham, Lucy: Heads and straights
May. 24th, 2013 05:23 pmtriaWadham, Lucy: Heads and straights
A lovely little book that follows the author's family tree; I read it at one sitting, in a Costa in Staines, and the excursion to 1970s Chelsea was very welcome. Heavy on anecdotes which made me want to read them aloud to friends, and plenty of characters who are indeed characters, but no plot to speak of, other than the unrolling of time. Less like the Circle Line than the Metropolitan in the way it wanders around the place. Recommended.
A lovely little book that follows the author's family tree; I read it at one sitting, in a Costa in Staines, and the excursion to 1970s Chelsea was very welcome. Heavy on anecdotes which made me want to read them aloud to friends, and plenty of characters who are indeed characters, but no plot to speak of, other than the unrolling of time. Less like the Circle Line than the Metropolitan in the way it wanders around the place. Recommended.
Do you hear ... ?
May. 24th, 2013 02:54 amazurelunaticSo it turns out that I do know "Do You Hear The People Sing" well enough to sing along with the chorus, thanks to Summer Fine Arts Camp and my general time spent around various musical theatre types. (And I have a difficult time not singing along to "I Dreamed a Dream" because while I was not in the actual musicals, I spent the better part of my youth in various choirs.) I discovered this on the phone with zarhooie the other night, where by "the other night" I am pretty sure it was around the end of April, because hilarity directly began to ensue.
And then the bottom fell out of my schedule because conference and also conference.
But the conference is now over.
(Musical note: you either have to sing "heave" on two notes or skip a note to make it work, and go fast-and-light on "we'll not" and really hammer "be" to make it scan right.)
zarhooie the other night, where by "the other night" I am pretty sure it was around the end of April, because hilarity directly began to ensue. And then the bottom fell out of my schedule because conference and also conference.
But the conference is now over.
Do you hear the bloggers sing
Singing a song of angry fen
Heave-ho, hoist up the colors
We'll not be struck-through again
When the posting of your gif
Reveals they all reload as one
There is a site about to start
When tomorrow comes!
(Musical note: you either have to sing "heave" on two notes or skip a note to make it work, and go fast-and-light on "we'll not" and really hammer "be" to make it scan right.)
QotD
May. 24th, 2013 05:24 amdglenn"What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent when their own go on TV and tell the parents of children lost in a tornado that those children and their families got what they deserved. What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent and supportive when their own are accused of multiple counts of child abuse and appeal to the first amendment to try and avoid investigation. What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians perpetuate an abusive theology that teaches people that whatever abuse they are suffering, whatever pain they are enduring, whatever violence they have been subjected to, is deserved and perpetrated by god." -- Rachel Held Evans, 2013-05-21 [thanks to the friend who linked to this in a locked entry]
33 tweets for 2013-5-23
May. 23rd, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Thursday, 0010: I'm watching MythBusters (307 are watching) http://getglue.com/tv_shows/mythbus
ters?s=tch&ref=azurelunatic #GetGlue @MythBusters - Thursday, 0010: I unlocked the I Can't Stop Watching sticker on #GetGlue! #comedyweek @youtube http://getglue.com/stickers/youtube/i_c
ant_stop_watching?s=ts&ref=azurelunatic - Thursday, 0011: RT @nadyne: I've never seen air sitar before.
- Thursday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/22/2013: 3,495 steps and 1.5 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Thursday, 0431: (finding my bff's attempts to friend like an adult inexplicably adorable. he's lucky I like him. <3) ( read the other 28 )
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Community Promotion for May 2013
May. 24th, 2013 02:48 amweber_dubois22 posting in ![[site community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
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Project idea: Bike Pilgrimage
May. 23rd, 2013 06:10 pmartsyhonkerI had this idea before but didn't write down my ideas.
Basic plan:
-find other musicians-who-cycle: maybe four to six.
-cycle 30 to 50 miles per day, visiting churches
-put on concerts at the churches. The churches keep the proceeds. In return they give us dinner, somewhere to sleep, breakfast
-individual cyclists can do charity sponsorship thang
-we could do lunchtime stuff too
-not everyone has to be there entire time
-not everyone has to perform every night
-whole thing lasts about 2 weeks, leaving London on a Sunday afternoon and returning Saturday 13 nights later
It would be a bit of work to organise but it ought to be possible.
Musicians would need to play small, light instruments, or sing. We'd need to do some rehearsing and planning beforehand.
This is a very rough draft post but please do comment with suggestions, ideas, and so on.
Basic plan:
-find other musicians-who-cycle: maybe four to six.
-cycle 30 to 50 miles per day, visiting churches
-put on concerts at the churches. The churches keep the proceeds. In return they give us dinner, somewhere to sleep, breakfast
-individual cyclists can do charity sponsorship thang
-we could do lunchtime stuff too
-not everyone has to be there entire time
-not everyone has to perform every night
-whole thing lasts about 2 weeks, leaving London on a Sunday afternoon and returning Saturday 13 nights later
It would be a bit of work to organise but it ought to be possible.
Musicians would need to play small, light instruments, or sing. We'd need to do some rehearsing and planning beforehand.
This is a very rough draft post but please do comment with suggestions, ideas, and so on.
QotD
May. 23rd, 2013 05:24 amdglenn"You can be the best in the world and not be recognized.... A lot of it has to do with breaks. If a coach at Tennessee State hadn't given me a break at 14, I never would have been in the Olympic Games." -- Wyomia Tyus (b. 1945-08-29), sprinter (gold medals in 1964 and 1968).
15 tweets for 2013-5-22
May. 22nd, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Wednesday, 0003: RT @anildash: Thanks to @bradfitz @lisaphillips @dormando & so many others for memcached, without which the modern social web wouldn't run.
- Wednesday, 0831: @semanticist Indeed so. The light is useful to me as a driver to know the state of the other light.
- Wednesday, 0834: @semanticist Some of them trip on legal right on red turns.
- Wednesday, 1238: RT @oakandsage: A poorwill is arguing with a rooster.
- Wednesday, 1251: RT @ajaromano: Basically currently all fics are transformative until proven derivative in a court of law (which has only happened once ever… ( read the other 10 )
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What I Have To Offer, by Benedict Smith
May. 23rd, 2013 06:41 amlizwOn trains in London you are told to mind the gap
And the gap is a gap between people
They do not talk or make eye contact
The solitude is protocol
But at 1 in the morning
If an elderly piss-stinking drunkard gets on
Dribbling, jabbering gibberish
The people will laugh
And smile at each other
They are in this together now
We need the drunkards
And in later life
It is a service
I am happy
To provide
***
That one got me right in the gut, and I don't think it's just because I'm biased. I'm kind of in awe of what he's writing at just 20, and I find myself wondering what he might be doing by the time he's my age. Meanwhile, there's more, and darker, in Dog Tired Eyes, available at Lulu.
And the gap is a gap between people
They do not talk or make eye contact
The solitude is protocol
But at 1 in the morning
If an elderly piss-stinking drunkard gets on
Dribbling, jabbering gibberish
The people will laugh
And smile at each other
They are in this together now
We need the drunkards
And in later life
It is a service
I am happy
To provide
***
That one got me right in the gut, and I don't think it's just because I'm biased. I'm kind of in awe of what he's writing at just 20, and I find myself wondering what he might be doing by the time he's my age. Meanwhile, there's more, and darker, in Dog Tired Eyes, available at Lulu.
Conference!
May. 22nd, 2013 10:25 pmazurelunaticConference is over, and entirely possibly a success. Logistically, it went smoothly enough that the biggest thing affecting my full functioning on day 1 was that the charger I'd brought wasn't working, forcing me to fall back on the emergency battery charger.
Topped off the day by calling my BFF. ♥
Topped off the day by calling my BFF. ♥
help help i don't know how to world
May. 23rd, 2013 01:50 amkaberettSo I'm having my last appointment with my current counsellor (of the past... four years, wow) on the 28th of June. And my wonderful, wonderful case manager at the Disabilities Resources Centre is retiring on the 24th of June. And I want to get them both goodbye presents! But I have no idea what! And I am currently in too-many-choices overload. Suggestions? I mean, I think probably not booze because WHAT IF THEY DON'T HAVE LIVERS, but... I like my chocolate ridiculously dark and I'm ridiculously picky about it and I DO NOT EVEN KNOW how to go about buying for people. Haaaaalp.
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19 tweets for 2013-5-21
May. 21st, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Tuesday, 0105: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/20/2013: 6,195 steps and 2.7 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Tuesday, 0703: Who hosts "Say Yes to the Dress: Galactic Empire"? Leia Organza Solo.
- Tuesday, 0848: Who is the ruler of the insects on Barrayar? Insectovors.
- Tuesday, 0956: "What is this?" "Slide whistle. For committee members and managers."
- Tuesday, 1225: @thette I woke up with the insectovor one. I got a whole 6 hours of beautiful sleep. ( read the other 14 )
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