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Monday, October 8, 2001
07:32 a.m.
Do you think Lunar Bloggs to much? Sometimes I wonder...
Yesterday I made pancakes for breakfast and was smart enough to leave myself some leftovers (yum). But this inspired me to do my first "things not to do". I used to do these alot, but these days, it's really nistalgic really. Not that I know how to spell that...
So... Things Not To Do, Never...
Lay down after an afternoon party where you've consumed a bit too much alcohol and tell yourself it'll only be a /short/ nap... Having done that, do not let yourself wake up at 4am after sleeping through your alarm the night before, because there is NOTHING on TV at 4am on Sunday morning. Do not give into the temptation of reading decadent HP Sirius/Remus slashfics until 6am, and DONOT attempt to make yourself pancakes afterwards! Because if you do, you will only realize /after/ you've poured the batter into the pan.... that you can't find your spatula... /any/ of them... (*scratches head* they were around here somewhere...) Because it's only 6am, the idea of using a slotted spoon seemed pretty good. And in all honesty, it worked just fine until the last one. I inadvertatnly punched a hole through the center when I went to flip it. Hurray for donut shaped pancakes.
Thus ends, "Things not to do." Thankyou, have a nice day. Oh yeah and Twig, I think I have an ending for your special order of smut on the rocks, but it'll be longer than expected so it may take a while. And Flidget, YOU'RE GOING TO MAIL IT TO ME?! YOU RULE! I'll take super good care of it... me promise.
Saturday, October 6, 2001
10:08 a.m.
Now time for a regularly scheduled announcement...
Ok, so they showed episode 2 of Saiyuki, and frankly not even my pink-haired bishonen joker was enough to keep it from sucking... /sigh/... It was still better than the episode of "Happy Lesson" they showed... but not by much. Ririka was almost better, although this week's villian was the most pathetic playboy ever. He almost didn't deserve smiting, a crewcut and a few years in the army would've hurt him more. There's also a distinct trend in the show of people not learning when to duck. I mean Ririka only has /one/ attack, which she is /always/ kind enough to announce with a sailor moon style speech. So why the hell are the badguys always (and I mean ALWAYS) surprised by it? *sigh* I'm not cut out for these shoujo anime shows... I think too much.
And on argent Soma... the main character finally cracked a smile. Hurray. Well it wasn't much of a smile... but it was /something/. Sish I wish I owned kodocha... and Black heaven... but especially Kodocha.... Oh, and a PS2. And Flidget-chan... that Suikoden game for all you say it wasn't popular... is apparently 'lost gold'... finding a copy for under 35$ off of ebay is apparently a challenge. This is almost as bad as FF Tactics before it got re-released... Sigh, I'll try a few more blockbusters before I relent and go back to ebay.
"My name is Alice, and I live in a palace..." -Thankyou Alice Cooper for stooping to film a Marriot Residence Inn commercial where you jump rope with two little girls... Only reality could be this strange.
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
08:18 a.m.
Where oh where has Lunar-chan gone...
Oddly... nowhere... but I've been forgetting to post again. But then even I can only slack off so long. So wheee... anime club was good again this past weekend. Initial D, Black Heaven and Argent Soma make the heart happy... even Nurse Angel Ririka is growing... at least tollerable, although that could just be my braincells rotting. I think I already mentioned Saiyuki...
Shockingly, I'm still writing, although at the moment I'm wasting my time with a post-looking short story... Looking 6 will be coming along shortly once I figure out how to do the first 'big' scene... just getting there now... I want to get this chapter right so maybe I'll take a bit of time with it.
In other news I just saw the Incubus (spelling?) music video for 'Drive', the one with all the pencil art. It's gorgeous. I sort of wish he had done the whole video like that... but that've been hard I suppose, sigh. And I finally did laundry! Hurray! Lately I've been a little peeved because there's been no reviews of the new chapters on ff.net arriving in my mailbox... I figured nobody liked the new chapter, or they'd all given up on the website due to it's recent maintenence issues. However in randonly browsing the VS fics for anything new, I noticed that I had /indeed/ been getting reviews (shockingly positive ones) one of which even being effusive enough to compare Looking to LHR (cough cough *Twig* cough cough) and even to Madamhydra... that definitly got a @_@ response. I'll just say she was on sugar or something... But Fish-chan sent me an /awesome/ new 2-page DJ based on my current poll, so maybe I'll buckle down and try to have an update for the site soon. This thing is too gorgeous to hide.
Shouldn't I be at work...
Thursday, September 27, 2001
12:29 p.m.
Prog...nosti... what?
Miss me? I knew you didn't... this has been a strange week for me... I keep shuffling offices, so my work-buddies can't find me. I was sick earlier this week, so my 'home' buddies couldn't find me... Al my online friends are busy... so I couldn't find /them/... and B-kun, my usual 'slacking' companion has declared himself a proto-luddite and cold-turkied his way out of amlost all viable means of communication short of me tossing a rock through his livingroom window with a message scratched on it. I can say this, because he can't read my blogg anymore ^_^ He cancled his cable modem entirely. B-kun is a big dork. But I respect the man for sticking to his guns... not for dropping his cell-phone.. but *shrug*.
So Lunar has been watching the discovery channel again. I also cruised by www.facade.com since Wind-chan mentioned it... and my 1-card spread did indeed fortell that mass-murding hippos would destroy me tonight when I went to leave the building. This didn't amuse me, I've decided the William Blake Tarot deck is just a miserable miserly set of shitty cards ^_^; So I cruised by my personal favorite tarot site, www.fourthdimension.net only to discover that their 'featured' deck has also changed... the deck of the month is a Crowley Thoth. The nice cross spread was rather closer to home, and fortold that my current prosperity will lead to personal power, but leave me miserable, unsatisfied and loveless in old age. I refuse to allow the cards bully me around. I like my money thankyou very much, and I have every intention of repenting my capitilistic ways... after I'm rich enough to retire and become a painter in Vermont or something. ^_^
Or maybe I'll chuck this engineering thing and start writing trashy-romances...
Friday, September 21, 2001
01:23 p.m.
...and again...
On this day, 34 years ago, Tolken-sama published 'The Hobbit', a moment of appreciation to that crazy Britt. Who's the man? /He's/ the man...
booty, booty, booty.... yeah.
Friday, September 21, 2001
08:58 a.m.
No need for Lunar...
The archer is the symbol of Sagittarians. Sagittarians are thought to be friendly, philosophical, and optimistic. Though they need freedom, they tend to be fairly conventional. They respect honesty in all its forms.
So yes, I'm a genki, commitment-fearing nerd... /there's/ a big surprise ^_^. Any of my past boyfriends would love to tell you that. It has something to do with me loving relationships, but hating people... or wanting to rule my life with an iron fist. Hard to say. But check this dorky page out! It's a good 2-second diversion Lunar's Diversion Hey, it also told me I share a birthday with Gustave Eiffel (the man with the plan for a pointy photo-op) and with... 'the 10 Constitutional amendment's' ratification day... hurray.
...And yes, I can get more bored than this. ^_^ But I finally updated... that's worth something, right? *snicker* Twig-chan, give me more disgruntled-Cas plot soon, ne?
Thursday, September 20, 2001
03:18 p.m.
Lunar... goes... shopping?
Sad, isn't it? but I need... /stuff/ some garden fencing. Som new khakis (can never have too many)... and maybe a new plaid shirt... or god forbid, a jacket... ^_^; So I'm venturing forth into the unknown... now, if only I knew how to get to the mall. You'd think I'd know these things after all this time, I mean, I've been here for 3 months... /longer/... I'll try going north this time, I know there's a new mall out there. I'll treat myself to a new novel at Borders Books to make up for it ^_^ and maybe a popsicle.
I'm so weird, Iu'll happily drop 100 bucks a month on cable+ internet access... and then whine when I drop $20 on a haircut. Silly me.
Ah well, wish me luck... and remind me to wash my car.
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
10:01 p.m.
And the name for today.... is /Sasha/...
For Sasha is the name of kitty-chan's arch-nemesis.
Allow me to back-track a few weeks, back to say... when I moved in. Kitty-chan has not had close contact with many of her kind in her life... to be honest she's on;y been cordial with one other creature of the 4-footed variety in the span of her 15 years... and sadly Mr.Misto died of lung-cancer earlier this year. Kitty-chan hates dogs, and frankly all cats excepting the deceased Mr.M can take a leap into the 'big lake' for all she cares. She's a grumpy old baggage.
So the perks of a first-floor apartment for a cat are many... bird-watching, people watching, sniffing the grass, bitch-slapping ants and other small critters... But it comes at a price: the /neighbors/. She regularly cusses out the dogs (in full voice) about once a week, most of them have learned to stay away from my tiny bit-of-porch. 'Sasha' as I now know to call him, is a far more persistant suitor, and a rather fine one too, if I do say so myself. He's black+white, and possesses that adorable squeak-toy voice that so many male-cats do... and he wags his tail like a dog when he's excited. He /loves/ people. He is also a consumate coward, even when behind an inch of glass, Kitty-chan is enough to send him packing /eventually/. It was hate at first sight.
But I was walking outside today... and he followed me around for a minute, bold as brass, and demanding I scratch him behind the ears. Thus I finally got a look at the name-tag, and now know who to curse when I wake up on a Saturday morning to the sound of my cat attempting batter the sliding door down with her head.
Damn you Sasha... Damn you.
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
05:39 p.m.
"Fire as your guns bear!"
Ever play pirates as a child? I did, my dad is a huge sailing nut, so I grew up with plenty of swash and buckle for a new england girl. I only mention this because after a long dull day of work... I came home to find "Horatio Hornblower" on cable, and for a romanticized british naval novel... it made a surprisingly good old movie. And Gregory Peck, he and Richard Chamberlain were the /HBOC/ when they were on the right side of 40... Hell they were good looking on the /other/ side of 40... but then so is Mr.Connery...
What was I rambling about? oh yes, pirates, and the age of Fighting Sail... that would've been cool... I'd love to write a story with some old fashioned ships-o-the-line in it... but I know jack about boats of that size... and if I got the names wrong for one of the ropes Baka would kill me ^_^. Ah well... I'll stick to things I can do... pure fan nonsense with a generous splash of useful historical trivia.
I tried to learn a little about the Windows SDK libaries over on the MSDN website today to help a customer make his mouse do funky things... It was scary and I screamed 'uncle' in less than half an hour... Windows programing is arcane. I'll learn it some time, but not this week thankyou.
Monday, September 17, 2001
11:54 a.m.
More... training?
Be still me beating heart. I wish I had ethernet ^_^ The room has very nice computers, but none of them go anywhere. This is fine, really, because it forces me to pay attention, however I do wish there was a way of ftp'ing stuff back >_< I'm actually working on an example program in my spare time... and am now scrounging for a floppy disk to carry the files on. How terribly old fashioned! ^_^
Drew some more in the past few days, but the last 10 pages of chapter 5 continue to elude me. Go fig.
Friday, September 14, 2001
08:15 a.m.
Musings from the muddleheaded
it occurs to me, that since starting work, I have witnessed more sunrises and sunsets then ever before in my life. This is good, since I love both times of day. This is bad, because more often than not, I'm seeing both of them oi oi. During my commute. Oi oi.
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
11:34 a.m.
Ways to make Lunar crazy...
(1) Give her a Digital I/O board, tell her that one of the bits /may/ be bad... but /only/ when you wire /everything/ together... sixteen lines, two wires a line, and 4 tiny screws to be tightened in place per wire... now, all these wires/screws/ports/pins are contained in a 3 inch by 3 inch space...
I need coffee.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
07:31 p.m.
And now we return you to the program already in progress
Bleh, I must be feeling better because I look at the rant from earlier and am going 0.o "Lunar is bitter!" Cats make great therapy, so does drawing. I'd pull down the rant, but damnit I hate self-sensorship, so I guess it stays, not like this page isn't getting archived soon. I can just stuff it in a dark corner and forget about it.But hey, I even got a letter back from my friend Mike who happily was nowhere near NYC, despite it being his usual habitat. Thank heaven for that. He is now in the position to claim garage grunge bands save lives, who knew.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
12:55 p.m.
Lunar is angry...
And I hate it. So take notes kids, since this'll be likely the only truly angry blogg you'll ever see from me. At first it was a level of disbelief "stolen planes" and possible coincidence? Ok sure, weird, freakish even, but Hijacking? And then to hear Newt Gingrich on the radio over lunch... using words like "Revenge" and "Teach a lesson" It's just sick. People have died, and now more people are going to die, and... I am disgusted at the holier-than-thou attitude of terrorists. I am disgusted at the policy's of our government that has put America up on this anthill to be kicked over. I am disgusted to be part of a global society that thinks that blowing up random /boring/ /utterly non-military/ stock-market buildings will somehow change the word for the better. I am supremely disgusted at the Palestinians for declaring it an act from a loving god and celebrating. I'm disgusted with the people around me who are nowhere near /anything/ that has happened and yet can either become preachy or hysterical at the drop of a hat. I am disgusted at the voices on TV and radio who demand that we declare war immediately, forsaking those values that this country was founded on for petty /childish/ revenge.
And I'm disgusted at myself for wanting to see it happen.
We /are/ a bunch of savage monkeys. If killing is what will make this country happy, I have no doubt we'll do it very well, and we'll do it with pleasure. But it won't stop terrorism. In the end it'll just give Bush the excuse he's been praying for to make a hero of himself, and will likely begin a cycle that won't end until something truly unknown happens. Maybe the world will see this as a wake-up call... maybe at the very least, the US will. For me? I'm going to the Red Cross to donate blood, then I'm going to go home, and hug my cat, and /not/ listen to the radio for an hour. I'll morn the people on the airplanes,and the rescue workers of NYC, for they died knowing /exactly/ what was happening to them. I don't think I'll talk to people for a bit. Tomorrow I'll get up, take my shower, and go to work. Let my mother go into hysterics, let my father randomly speculate, /I/ for one will prove by my actions that the US still has enough cool-headed people remaining to behave in a sane, coherent manner.
I am angry. I don't like being angry like this, it really isn't my nature. If I'm not around, it's because I'm doing my level best not to tear someone's head off by accident. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, going forward is all we can do.
-- Lunar.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
09:30 a.m.
Oopsie?
Hrm, according to IMDB.com, Iron Monkey came out in 1993... I wonder why there are trailers being produced... maybe they're re-releasing it? The world may never know. I still want to see it... the bigger the screen, the better.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
07:19 a.m.
Ectetera... ectetera... etcetra... and death
So, I got into work today at 6:25am, (roughly 7am EST)and apparently missed the "News of the day" by about 20 minutes... Lucky me. The quiet didn't last though, as soon as the mid-morning-shift began hordes of co-workers proceeded with the "Do you know? Did you hear? Have you seen?" style questions, to which I responded, "No, and let me get another cup of coffee first if you want me to exibit any signs of life."
So enough about that, you'll all be hearing about it from /everyone/ later and I say screw it. I'm not qualified to talk about it. I can rant about other things, like kung-fu movies, and and art, and anime and whatnot. So, first of all, yes I Know I left InitialD out of my list the other day. It just slipped my mind, I was too busy pondering my Navel or something. So /yes/ Flidget, InitialD is good, all except for their commercial break tags, those are just weird ^_^ I also forgot to explain my title last time, and for that I am genuinely sorry. It seems that Crouching Tiger has brought new popularity to the Hong-Kong fighting flic/fairy tale, and I can't say I've ever been happier. The trailers for Iron Monkey look unsleakably cool, and even feature a female ninja, hurray! It sounds like a rough Robinhood sort of tale, and I am positively giggling in anticipation.
In othernews the nect chapter of Looking is nearing completion, although it's going to be beheamoth. At the moment it is 55 pages and climbing *_* I've promised myself that if I break 80 without reaching a resolution point, I'll snap the thing in half and post the first part by next weekend. It's mostly action, so that's good... lots of running/jumping/climbing trees... It is also quite possibly the only chapter in this story with no "mushy stuff." I just haven't got the space for it. The next chapter will be the one to look forward to... or avoid depending on who you are. (maniacal laughter) I've also drawn some art /finally/ so that an update may soon progress... Although I rolled the Quiz last week after a record 85 votes in less than 2 weeks. Yes, Sydney will retain his adorable shaggy hair, the fan-girls have spoken.
Twig has been bribing me with tasty piece of fic lately, and so I thank her, as for the rest of you? I give you a small teaser piece of art as a appology on the slow up-date... I give you... Moimoi! Gorgon, amazon, and general terror to the male dorms of the National Acadamy of Washington D.C. Where to this day, there is still a plaque dedicated to her achievements. Oddly, it's one of the few that noone dares to put graffiti on. /Ever/. Personally? I wish I had a pair of square-glasses... that'd be the bomb...
Boom!!
Saturday, September 8, 2001
06:05 p.m.
Bring me the head of "Iron Monkey"! (Bring the rest too, while you're at it...)
So this is week two of the anime club... I'm still amazed by the fact that I'm watching home-grown fan-subs in a movie theater. Otherwise, here are my opinions this far...not that it matters... (1) Noir-- if you dig the femme Nikita then you'll like it... as for me, I'm torn, it's well drawn, but slow as hell and promising to be repettive... on the otherhand it has a little girl taking down old men with extreme prejudice... gotta love that. Let's see... (2)Kodocha is as wonderful as usual... we're coming up on the bungie-jump challenge... I can't wait.(3)Violinist of Hamlin-- wish I knew what to say about this one... the jury is still out I think... the music is great, and Hammel is a cutie, but the plot is just getting started. (4)Argent Soma-- YOU MUST FIND THIS ANIME and inflict on your friends... they haven't gotten to the plot yet, and I'm already in love... it's got alien robots, it's got an angst ridden scientist and a small girl who's only friend is a large renegade alien with the intelligence of a loyal puppy... (5)Nurse angel---Two episodes, and I'm pretty tired of it... pluses? well the red-headed bishonen hero apparently has either mad-ninja skills sor some ESP mojo... but his aloof antics can't make up for the sheer giggly sailor moon feel... I'll take the little-girls-with-guns I think... and Twig? there /is/ and evil silvere-haired bishonen in this show... so it continues my theory... however even /he/ is sort of girly and lame... and B-kun insists that the gender is a mystery. (6) Black Heaven-- Interesting, this one is growing on me.But then I'm a sucker for guitar gods. (7)Dual pair-- just as cute as before, but it doesn't stand up well to re-watching... I'm kind of bored with it already... but the action is coming soon, so *ehh*
/anyway/ aside from that, today I went out with a flock of friends to discover a dinner-theater style thing across town, it's a movie theater, where you can order beer and pizza from your seat. I had a chinese beer, rather ta... and pineapple pizza... and I watched the new Kevin Smith movie ^_^ it's gratuitous, it's rediculous, it's self-glorifying... it is a cute waste of an afternoon, and well worth seeing. But then, I love Jay and Silent Bob...
Now, if only I could get some writing done... Ah well... Snoochie-boochies!
Thursday, September 6, 2001
09:11 p.m.
psst... hey Twig... tatamodo... ^_^
Thursday, September 6, 2001
08:17 p.m.
Literacy...?
I battled ActiveX and SQL servers today in single combat... and walked away the champion. That felt pretty good. Then I was sucked into a 2 hour meeting... that was just /cold/ it's really cold in the meetingroom! I also re-read the ending to Neil's "American Gods" yesterday... gah it was creepy... and unexpected... and expected... and just plain good. In the end, I almost felt bad for Laura, she wasn't a good person, she wasn't... but she was loyal, so very loyal.
Ko has been very bitter lately... I don't know why. Even perpetually perfect people occassionally want to kick ass and take names, it seems. I'll write him a nice short-fic later, and maybe he'll get out of my head so I can debauch in peace this weekend.
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
03:54 p.m.
I bet I'd make a pretty good cheap-romance writer...
So I was thinking the other day, yes I know, my doctor told me it is bad for my health... but I couldn't help it I had a genuine out-of-the-blue thought. It was probably necessitated by all the whining recently about how I need to "Get on With It" and finish the current story... i.e stop it with the plot and get to the mushy bits (to which I reply "nyah nyah" and continue to follow my initial outline). But really... I heard a story once, from Mom of all people... (I think it was last year) that there was a woman who really wanted to publish a historical book, but because she was a no-name writer, no publisher would take a chance on her, and in a fit of derperation she churned out 3 lame-ass romance novels in 2 years and made enough money to publish the 'serious' history book herself. It ended up being a best seller. Now I don't know about you... but it costs alot to publish a book... and writing a crappy romance novel can't be /that/ hard... not for a person who is used to appealing to fan-girls already... (giggle) Even if it sold poorly, it'd be enough to take a nice vacation on... hell it'd be enough to take several nice vacations on... maybe...
These are the things I think about... when I watch the tech-stocks wobble like 50cent gyroscopes bought at Eckard drug store... I have to meet these car down-paments some how...
In other news... and yes I'm going to use bold because this is important... Shari's Sketch Of Love is back up and hopefully will be off the ground soon, the art is more beautiful than ever... I can't wait... ^_^ I have a thirst for cute-vampire-artist fun... and Jordan torture... definitely more Jordan torture. Go there! Tell your friends! Wish her well with boku email! She's a very nice person and will love you forever if you do. Kero-chan Check! The hands... she draws the most beautiful hands... who's an art major? Shari is an art major... go Shari... go to her website, anyway.
Saturday, September 1, 2001
12:33 p.m.
Editing works better when you're awake.
Hey, T-chan, I put the story back up, didn't have to edit it as much as I thought... but I did change some stuff... ah well, so it might have been a mix of both paranoia and lots of small necessary edits that just made it a lousy read. I still don't know if I like it... but it's definitely better now. I'll leave it be for a few days and read it again to see.
Saturday, September 1, 2001
01:10 a.m.
For 'lo I have seen the light...
never such a thing as too much anime... well, unless it involves tentacles... in which case there is never too little... but the Univ. of Texas club is the BOMB, I got some Initial D, Kodocha, Dual Pair, and Violinist of Hamlin... and as a bonus I saw Trouble Chocolate, Black Heaven, Argent Soma (?) and... Nurse Angel Rurika... which was just as saccrine as I remember it. Then I 'coerced' B-kun to go get IHOP with me... and now I head off to bed.
Twig-chan... sorry I pulled it down, I went to read it after work today and did a @.@ "this is such a completely embarassing P.o.S.!!!" and immediately had to hide my shame... it'll go back up once I fix the typos... and maybe kick the ending a bit... then again, who knows, this might just be the 24-hour syndrome and I'll look at it tomorrow and decide it's not so bad... Go fig. But you liked it... ne?
Wow... I just realized that all of you are in school now... everybody but me and Ellcrys... kowaii.... ganbatte minna.
Thursday, August 30, 2001
11:37 p.m.
C is for Cookie...
Bah, it's late, hey Twig-chan I finished... spell-checked and everything, but by the time I figured out why my ethernet went piff... you went to bed >_< the file is called "Recovery" and you know where to look... if not catch me online tomorrow morning, you know where to look. It's complete fluff, and there are likely typos galore... and they're probably OOC but... whatever. Screw it. It was an easy write. Tell me what you think, ne? Then I can fix it.
-- I'm tired now...
Thursday, August 30, 2001
07:29 p.m.
Megalixers... I wonder....
If vending machines sold Megalixers... you know those "restore all MP/HP" tonics... would we buy them? You know... of you were staring into that aluminum and plastic beast, and row 'C' contained Snickers, Salted Peanuts, HoHos, and Megalixers... I dunno, I'd go with the full MP restoration. I think of these things... at 7pm on a Thursday night, because as I sit in my comfy "thinking" chair... eating my stale popcorn and dodging the cat drool... I realize that both breakfast and lunch today came from said Maws-of-Cheap-Sugar-Coated-Mayhem... and I got to thinking, as I sat here... that I could relly go for a Megalixer right now... but if megalixers existed, what would they taste like...? If we went by expense, they'd either translate into a half kilo of Coccaine... or a sirloin steak dinner... or maybe a half gallon caffiene drink... I still think SONY/Playstation will eventually branch their merchandising out into food at some point. You know... the "Potion" candy bar... "Ether" soda... "Antidote" jelly-beans. They'll all have SHINRA-style packaging of course, and the vending machines will be all futuristic looking... it'll be so groovy.
Can you tell I'm babbling? I can, I'll stop now ^_^
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
09:13 a.m.
zzzzz....zzzzz....zzzzz....*snork* Huh? Hello...?
This is the sound of a tired Lunar... a Lunar too tired to write a cohesive post this week... so much for the "almost daily" feature. I'm even too tired to go grocery shopping, luckily I have a case of Ramen hiding in the cubbord for just this occassion. So tired. Maybe I f I just sleep the week out... I'll be able to do something useful this weekend.
Or maybe not. Zzzzz.....zzzzz....zzz...
Saturday, August 25, 2001
06:49 p.m.
Thank you, Discovery Channel!
I love karma... Recently I've been bemoaning my fate because my customary tv hangouts (discovery, travel, history, sci-fi) have been showing show after pointless show about haunted houses and best casinos etc. I was spoiled you see by the Atlantis-related resurgance of intrest in ancient cities last month. But I've been very lazy about doing historical research for the next chapter of Looking... because I was generally uninspired about learning where to start... when 'Lo... the Discovery Channel randomly saved my bacon.
They had a special this morning about the new dam being constructed on the Yangtze River in China. The dam is a marvel, I grant you, but for me, I was oggling in delight as they showed panoramic images of the river as it went inland, naming several historic cities along the route. This then provoked me to write those towns down, then go to their website... where there was an even cooler map... which lead me to a link that described the general misery in China around 1955... which led me to go 0.0 for a few hours... poor Mason, he's walking right into the middle of some insane times... Purrrrrrfect! Tibetan conquest, mass crop failure, post Nanjing horror... I forgot how very badly China got wholloped by the Japanese back then. SO yes, I now have a map, and a destination, and some images of scenery ^_^ Ch5 is good to go. Now if only I could start writing...
Saturday, August 25, 2001
08:08 a.m.
Speaking of strange dreams...
So I woke this morning from another odd dream, this makes 2 in one year so it's something of a record! It was as if I was in High School again, sitting out in a field watching the end of what I think was a soccer game. The surreal bit was that (a) it looked like Texas... and (b) Twig and Ann were there... we had this picnic blanket affair going on and we're generally chatting about stuff ending with me pondering when I'd re-dye my hair. (A point emphasized in the dream because a remarkable number of students in the crowd were sporting remarkable dye jobs, there was a particularly nice lavender shade in fact... but no Lunar doesn't do Lavender.) Oddly Cassiel was also there... I don't know why... but he was being rather quiet, and eating 'Wheat Thins'. So anyway, the soccer game ends, and the crowd begins to leave, and Twig+Ann say that they have to go to the restrooms, so Cas and I agree to wait. We're just standing there in the almost empty field, when this enormous (like Boeing 777) style plane comes over head /really/ low... as if for a landing. As we stare in amazement, I realize that (a) we're not near an airport, and (b) the plane has no wings. It dissapears over the hill top and crashes with a BOOM, and I spend 20 very worried seconds trying to protect my head from scrapnel while wondering just /where/ the plane's wings ended up, and where Cassiel had gotten off to because Twig would be mad if I let him get hurt.
The moral of this story? I have no idea. I've never dreamed of a plane crash before. It was odd enough dreaming of that... and High School... and hair dye... but /Why/ was Cassiel there? and why 'Wheat Thins'...? The world may never know.
As a side bar, my cat sucessfully managed to wake me from this dream by poking me in the eye this morning and actually doing me damage. Not to the eye, thank god, but still. From now on, I remember to close my bedroom door more often. She can cuddle when I'm conscious.
Thursday, August 23, 2001
03:46 p.m.
What was I talking about...? Oh yeah... Oh wait... I forgot again.
It's been one of those weeks. I was startled today at lunch to discover it was Thursday. Somehow I kept thinking that it was only a day or two since I dropped Twig-chan at the airport... but no, it's been almost a whole week already! I think it's because I've been so busy at work... and I was also a little sick this week so that always makes me lose track of time. *sigh* So ff.net is back up, and there went my productivity. I've spent the week rereading all my old favorites that I thought were lost forever... Then I started reading a book... blah blahblah... I'll do Baka's comic tonight I think. I owe him that much!
Monday, August 20, 2001
04:08 p.m.
We look for things... things that make us go.
I know, asinine Trek reference, TNG even... for shame on Lunar. Today at work I had something of a mental breakthrough, and actually started writing a scene from the next chapter in between calls and write-ups at work. It doesn't suck even! Anyway, there's not much yet, so don't be whining for teasers quite yet, let me get through the first 3 scenes then I'll post it.
mmm productivity... and look I archived my "hideously long page... /finally/... so much for my 'once a month' system.
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