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    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    the_shoshanna
         		1:20p
    signal boost: swine flu myths
    via [info - livejournal.com] randysmith: New Scientist on swine flu myths that could endanger your life.

    I just knocked off work for an hour to go pick Geoff up at the airport. His being back means that I will almost certainly start cooking dinners again; I haven't been taking the time for it while I've been home alone, what with the working until 10:30 or 11 pm. Plus there will doubtless have to be pesky socializing and stuff. Dammit, I'm not even sure I'll feel able to go to church tomorrow, given my workload, and watching Supernatural is a vague fantasy. On the other hand, I think I sleep better with him than without him. Oh coffee, how I am loving you this week.

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    yuletideadmin 1:10p
    SIGNUP REOPENED!

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/84917.html

    The following stuff has been fixed:

    - the handful of fandoms with the word "(any)" after them will now show up on the requested/offered list, renamed to "(all)" and LEGION + REBELS (comic) is now LEGION plus REBELS (comic)

    You do NOT need to redo if you requested/offered these.

    - any wrong/nonworking emails we knew of have been fixed. If you have not gotten a copy of your signup emailed to you, check your spam folders and make sure your email is correct before assignments go out.

    - unfortunately I can't fix the handful of fandoms that were incorrectly removed without potentially messing up the matching. sorry, guys. :( hopefully there's enough out there that everyone can still find others they will enjoy.


    REMINDER -- if you had a signup window already open, you can go ahead and submit it, just please make sure your offers/requests look right when you get the copy of your signup email and redo if they don't.


    Also, to pass along the answer to one question I've seen: if you are super-flexible in what you can offer and want to help make matching easier for us, it doesn't actually help to offer everything under the sun; what is most helpful is offering fandoms off the neediest list, and skipping fandoms that have a ton of offers. Not necessary, though! :)
    whatho
         		5:34p
    Words.
    These are words that Lola gave me. If you want five words I associate with you, shout 'Words!' at me in the comments. I'm not very good at associating people with words, so you might end up having to talk about omelettes.

    ( Cake, art, writing, cats, travelling )
    yuletideadmin 11:39a
    SIGNUP TEMPORARILY LOCKED

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/84489.html

    Doing a little maintenance, will be back open in a few. Sorry!

    PLEASE NOTE: if you have a signup window in progress started before I locked signup, you do NOT have to start over from scratch, but *DO CHECK YOUR SIGNUP VERY CAREFULLY AFTER YOU SUBMIT*; if there are things on there you didn't mean to sign up for, you will need to redo. (This shouldn't happen but I am feeling a little paranoid here. :P)
    alixtii
         		11:04a
    Am I missing something?
    New York Times: We should point out that you were deposed from ministry of the Episcopal Church by the presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, after you threatened to have your diocesein Pittsburgh secede.
    Robert Duncan: That was a year ago, but what’s interesting is that virtually no one in the Anglican world accepted that sentence. Within two weeks of being deposed, I was received at Lambeth Palace in London by the archbishop of Canterbury, who continues to consider me a bishop. (Source)
    Of course he's still a bishop. It's disingenuous to imply that ++Schori or anyone else would think anything else. ++Schori stripped him of his position within the Episcopal Church. I don't know of anyone who thinks that she would have the authority to strip him of his position in the historical episcopate, and to imply otherwise strikes me as downright dishonest.

    But I don't actually know how ++Schori or anyone else sees things, or how the canons of the church are actually written. (And I don't care enough about canon law to look into it.) So I could be wrong.

    This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/310731.html. There are currently comment count unavailable comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID (prefered), or here.
    asylum_promo
    [ mugetsu ]
         		4:14a
    Batman, The Joker, Vagrant Story, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums
    [info]octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!

    [info]gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>

    [info]vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown.

    And,

    Please feel free to join [info]commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.

    It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.

    I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP.

    I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.

    Current Mood: full
    Friday, November 6th, 2009
    the_shoshanna
         		11:08p
    signal boost: online job fair
    via [info - personal] wintercreek:
    Social networking working for you: [info - livejournal.com] copperbadge is running a job fair/"temp agency" in his comments. If you're looking for work (or will be soon), you can drop a screened comment there now. If you're looking to hire or have possible leads for others, you can respond to the comments when they open in 36 hours. [about 31 hours as I type this --t-s]

    Anything's worth a shot in this economic climate, right?
    As for me, I just knocked off work for the day at 11:05 pm. I must do as much tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, usw. Woot.

    (I'm still not sorry I went. But I can see sorry from here.)

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    carolyn_claire
         		8:52p
    Physically. Ill.
    The Man is watching SGU, and I'm in the living room on a work break, so I'm seeing parts of it, too.  This has happened before, I've caught parts of it while he watches, and it's mostly been boring with sides of skanky, though every time Greer is on doing the "Mad Dog" character (or whatever inappropriate thing it was they chose to call the black character), I wince.  Watching Ming Na's character be a cowardly bitch has been less than enjoyable, too.  (Now we know what the "context" will be that they claim will make what they'll do to her all a-okay!  She's a bitch and she deserves it!  *gags*)  But from what I've seen in tonight's episode, just half an episode, I'm beyond appalled.  The way they treat women on this show is HEINOUS.  I can't believe anyone watches this show and enjoys it who thinks of herself as a feminist, even remotely.  YES, I said it and I'm not taking it back.  TPTB are deliberately presenting their beloved young male demographic with these disgusting abuses of women as titillation, completely unapologetically. Seriously, people, this is wrong, and Syfy needs to hear how we feel about it. 

    DO NOT comment to me about how you really don't think it's so bad.  Really, don't.  If I know you, I'd like to think better of you than that.  If I don't, I guarantee I won't want to if you say that here.
    poisontaster
         		10:19p
    This is the Sound of One Head, Desking
    All my [info] mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

    Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

    On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

    Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

    I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

    I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

    ...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

    Current Mood: blah
    poisontaster
         		10:19p
    This is the Sound of One Head, Desking
    All my [info]mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

    Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

    On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

    Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

    I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

    I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

    ...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

    Current Mood: blah
    dragovianknight
         		5:05p
    Crying is not productive
    Particularly when there is quite literally nothing to cry about.
    alixtii
         		7:05p
    148 First Lines of Fic
    Gakked from [info - livejournal.com] wisdomeagle, here ("I'm sure all of fandom has heard of this by now. Post the first lines from some of/20 of/50 of/all of your fic. Your flist writes drabbles for you.") and here ("So. Here they are. Sixty-odd first lines of fanfic. [. . .] Do as you like with these: put them in drabbles, put them in ficlets, put them in novels. Change the names, leave the names, edit them, what have you. Post the drabbles here, there, everywhere. Guess where they came from. Marvel at their inanity. Ignore them. Up to you.").

    So under the cut we have almost 150 first lines, in alphabetical order.

    ( 148 first lines )

    This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/310355.html. There are currently comment count unavailable comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID (prefered), or here.
    yuletideadmin 6:47p
    sadly no you cannot get your signup re-sent (sorry!)

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/84432.html

    Sorry guys, miscommunication! The resend feature only works for assignments, once those have been made, not for signups. If you didn't get a signup email, check your spam folders and sign up again if you made a mistake.

    If you got your email wrong and can't redo your signup, email us at yuletide @ yuletidetreasure dot org and we'll let you know when it's fixed.
    whatho
         		11:21p
    It's not as though my fandoms are overwhelmed with fic.
    I understand that quite a lot of the Hornblower fic disappeared from the net because Ioan Gruffudd argued with some fans. But I question the fairness of that response. I didn't argue with some fans.

    Where is the Damned United fic anyway? Is the answer 'in my head'?
    yuletideadmin 5:13p
    Resend Assignment Glitching

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/83844.html

    Don't fret if you try the "Resend Assignment" and it tells you you have no email on file! As long as you're listed in the sidebar on the website, you should be fine, and we'll try and get the problem resolved.
    yuletideadmin 3:42p
    Getting a Copy of Your Assignment

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/83685.html

    1106! \o/


    • Be sure to add the "yuletide@yuletidetreasure.org" email address to your contacts for the email you sign up with, and/or "whitelist" it. Check your spam folder to see if it got flagged as spam. Your assignments will be coming from this email, so it's important that you know email from us can get through!

      If you still don't find it, write to us, including your signup name and the email you used. We generally ask that you wait 24 hours before writing us.

    • Once assignments have gone out (or shortly before), I'll make a "Dear Yuletide Writer" post in [info]yuletide, where you can provide links to your DYW letters.

    • There will also be a post where you can offer to beta in general or in specific fandoms, for anyone in need of same. As always, if you can't find anyone, you'll be able to write us and I'll see if I can dig up someone from the other folks who offered to write in the same fandom!

      Both of these posts will be linked on the sidebars of both communities, so they can be easily found.

    • For new folks, you might want to take a look at After You Get Your Assignment, in the FAQ. This will spell out the commitment you're making, answer some questions you might have when you get your assignment, and explain how you can go about getting more information from your recipient, without revealing your identity.



    Post edited to remove my own confusion!
    zulu
         		7:46p
    An Awkward Moment
    Okay, so among the tutors there is me, and there are my two friends, and there are the people we are friendly with. And then there are those for whom we experience, shall we call it, antipathy. Mainly for their lack of ability to do their damn jobs, and to dump work on those around them, ie us.

    Well. Tonight at dinner, me'n'my friends and another tutor were having a lovely meal together, good conversation, the rest of the table mostly deserted. We'd finished, and we were just in the mopping up stages--you know, the few minutes before you actually make the effort to stand up and leave.

    And just then, who should come along but one of the tutors we (the three of us anyway) are on not-so-good terms with.

    And all four of us were like, "Well, I gotta do this," and "Oh, I have a lot of work," and "Hm, well, I'm off to do such and such," etc. And we all stood up and left, abandoning the newly-arrived Unliked Tutor.

    It was awkward. And probably very obvious? But on the other hand, we were finished, and we were just about to leave anyway, and we did say hi to her quite personably before we all up and left.

    But, heh. Timing! Whatchagonna do.

    I need a *sheepish* icon.
    asylum_promo
    [ bri ]
         		1:11p
    Asylums for you!
    On any asylum, you should always read their info first for rules and any regulations. :)
    (Please note that all asylums listed below have been around for a good while; these are not new.)

    [info]graphix - A great graphics asylum that offers making and posting of many types of graphics.
    NOTE: We currently are in need of active makers, please help!

    [info]ijelite - Another great graphics community that offers icons and all sorts of graphics.

    [info]christians - A place for Christians and non-Christians alike to discuss the Christian faith, prayer, and problems.
    NOTE: Need active members; please join us!

    [info]iconism - An icon only asylum.
    NOTE: Sister asylum of [info]graphix.

    [info]hardball - Want to debate? This is the place to do it. Please read rules before posting/commenting.

    [info]addme - A place to find friends to add!

    Current Mood: creative
    the_shoshanna
         		12:54p
    PSA: six free Mac apps, six days left
    MacHeist is giving away copies of ShoveBox (info organizer) WriteRoom (writing environment), Twitterific (Twitter app), TinyGrab (screencap & sharing), and Hordes of Orcs (game), plus MarinerWrite (word processor) if enough people download the package. This is legit, not a scam, though you do need to register with the site. Grab 'em if you want 'em!

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    dragovianknight
         		9:30a
    I am spoiled
    For the latest SPN. I am now barely able to contain myself while I wait for the download to finish downloading (and then I'll have to wait until tonight to watch it; woe!).

    I am a bad person in that I want to write PR apocafic so I can title it "The Lone Ranger". I am a worse person in that this idea was originally, "I wish there was an Autobot who transformed into a Ford Ranger, so I could call a fic..."

    In spite of all of this, I kind of want to cry. No, there is no particular reason, aside from my brain being a very fucked up place. Work should be all KINDS of fun today. :P

    Current Mood: amused
    whatho
         		3:36p
    Imagine there are bullet points.
    I'm about six posts away from my 2,000th post on LJ, so if I disappear for several months after 1,999 it's because I can't think of anything sufficiently landmarkish to say.

    I want a meme. An easy one. A list of questions into which nobody put any thought.

    There's a jam sponge cooking on my hob. I hope it won't boil dry. Give it your best wishes.

    Other than that, it's not been a day of achievements.

    I had a dream the other night that Alien Forces were attempting to eradicate the human race by making the world a bit too chilly for comfort. It went down in stages and it was getting properly uncomfortable and probably it meant I needed to refill my hot water bottle. Nobody actually died of exposure though. People just got so fed up with it they committed suicide en masse, and the few who had warm enough coats survived.

    The next day I encountered three piles of vomit in the street. I was concerned they might be leading me towards the vomiter, but they ended at a cashpoint instead. I didn't use it.

    I have new glasses. I don't because they're in the process of being made, but I'll have them this time next week. It's quite a tricky business, choosing glasses. You really need your glasses on to do it. I think I keep most of my identity in my glasses, 'cause I found myself wholly unrecognisable in some frames and had to whip them off pronto. That said, I get used to new glasses very quickly, so probably I'm just being cowardly. My new glasses are red, and the spares are purple. I paid £29.99 for £180 worth of eyecare. I love the NHS. Also, opticians are getting younger. So am I, apparently. Two people in as many days have looked stunned to discover I'm 29. It's true that I don't really look my age - well, I don't think I do - but I sort of wish I did. There's no point looking like a sixth-former if you can't go back to school.
    frogspace
         		12:30p
    Auf auf und davon
    Ich packe gerade meine Sachen für das Querstrich*-Treffen und bin dann auch gleich weg. Slasher-Treffen, yay!

    Das einzige, was schon in der Tasche ist, sind die DVDs fürs Wichteln und meine externe Festplatte. Man muss halt Prioritäten setzen. *g*

    * VORSICHT bei dem Link! Spinnenphobiker seien vor Katjas animiertem Icon gewarnt.
    solo
         		8:18a
    Well hai thar BTR DVD, there you are at last :-)
    Was starting to wonder. And of course I just ordered BANDAGE yesterday... or was it the day before? Anyway, very recently, so I could have combined orders and saved, what, maybe 200yen on shipping. If I'd known. Only I didn't.

    I wonder what the 'documentary footage' on the bonus disc is. Backstage stuff like on NEWS Diamond? Guess that would be too much to hope for. Maybe some additional footage from the different solo corners. I'd love that, actually - it would epic to get Murasaki (yes, I'm predictable, so?) but I'd also really like to see them do things like Pika Pika and Tsuki no Michi and Precious One again.

    I just hope it's not more bungee jumping. Please let it not be more bungee jumping

    Anyway, CDJapan, here I come (again).

    State of the Collaboration, 21: Jin worries about putting Kame on the spot. Kame worries about chopping people's arms off. American rappers don't rhyme sushi.

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    Current Mood: waking up
    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    yuletideadmin 6:32p
    Guidelines on Posting to yuletide

    http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide_admin/83352.html

    Sorry for the duplicate posting for those of you watching both this comm and [info]yuletide.

    Given the increased volume of posting in [info]yuletide, please review the posting guidelines on the info page, particularly this bit:

    To keep volume to a reasonable level, stuff not to post here (totally fine to post these to your own lj, of course!) includes:

    * Questions that can be answered by the FAQ, or should be directly addressed to the mods. The latter can be sent by email to yuletide@yuletidetreasure.org, or in a comment responding to a post to [info]yuletide_admin.



    Please don't ask individual questions about signing up, how things works, etc., in [info]yuletide. Instead, comment to any post in [info]yuletide_admin or email us directly. Answers are promptly given!

    We're looking at probably 2000+ participants this year, so if everyone who had a question asked in the community, it would be a little overwhelming for people watching the comm
    poisontaster
         		3:58p
    Demons and Ghosts
    I need a distraction to keep myself from going postal. All help is appreciated.

    To that end, TWO memes (take your pick):

    Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

    You can find all my fic on my LJ/IJ/DW under the "fanfic" tag, or tag for a specific fandom, OR you can go to my archive page: Love Is Just A Bloodsport OR

    Ask me either a broad [writing-related] question (i.e 'who is your cruelest character?', 'what is your most optimistic story?') or a specific question/request ('what world does ___ come from?', 'tell me about ___') and I will answer you. Or you can ask meta- questions like 'what was the inspiration for creating ____?'

    Pretty much ask me anything about my fic and I'll ramble at you a bit.

    Current Mood: aggravated
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