Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Fanfic Lounge
Best. Story. Ever.
Okay, not really. Not better than AtE. But it is really funny.
For pure R/H sweetness, you might want to try Winding the Clock.
posted by Kecia 6:30 PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
To Watch, or Not to Watch?
I could watch the state of the union address tonight, and feel like an informed and educated American. But then, is that feeling really worth two hours of yelling myself horse at the tv, punching the couch pillows, and loudly debating politics with anyone that will listen over the next week?
I think not.
posted by Kecia 8:24 PM
Monday, January 27, 2003
Which Literary Heroine Are You?
*cheers* Best literary character, ever.
posted by Kecia 12:50 PM
Lunchtime Quote
"I don't want anything to happen to Draco. I happen to like him the way he is. Don't want to see Suicidal!Draco, LuciusBeatsMeUpBooHoo!Draco, or IWannaBeGoodLikePotter!Draco. He must remain EvilSarcasticBaddie!Draco." - chemicalheart, on SQ, commenting on hopes for OotP
posted by Kecia 12:41 PM
In Memory of John
My junior (maybe senior?) year of high school, a classmate of mine scribbled a poem on the back of one of his tests. The teacher - more a friend of ours now, but our teacher then - saw it, and threatened all year to enter it into the arts competition we went to every year. John pleaded for him not to - he had written it as a parody of the poems we were doing in class - but Mr. Harris did, and it won second place. :) Today I was reminded of him, so I thought I'd post it here, as nearly as I could remember it.
Explosive Toothpaste
tooth-
less
girl
shut
your
mouth!
-John Hildreth, reproduced without permission
posted by Kecia 9:48 AM
Morning Lyrics
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us
-Indigo Girls, "History of Us"
posted by Kecia 8:19 AM
Sunday, January 26, 2003
Something Missing
We've got chips, dip, and pizza, but we're missing our friends. Just wanted to let you guys know - especially the ones we spent the last Super Bowl with - that we're thinking of you tonight, and wishing you were here.
posted by Kecia 7:29 PM
Toil and Trouble
Minions, you know what to do!
posted by Kecia 9:35 AM
Friday, January 24, 2003
Survey
For help with someone's school project (my answers are bolded). I filled this out in the person's lj already; you should too. :)
1. How long have you been in the Harry Potter fandom?
a. 6 months or less.
b. 6 months to a year.
c. One to two years.
d. More than two years
2. At what age did you first begin reading fanfiction
a. 5-9 years.
b. 10-14 years.
c. 15-19 years.
d. 20-24 years.
e. 25-29 years.
f. 30-34 years.
g. 35 or older.
3. How long were you in the fandom before you started writing fanfiction?
a. Less than three months.
b. Three to six months.
c. I always wrote fanfiction. That's how I got involved in the fandom.
d. I don't write fanfiction.
more than six months
4. Do you consider yourself to be part of other fandoms?
a. Yes.
b. No.
9. Do you beta (in any fandom)?
a. Yes.
b. No.
12. How many Harry Potter fanfics do you read each week?
a. 1-4.
b. 5-9.
c. 10-14.
d. 15-19.
e. 20-24.
f. 25 or more.
sometimes more, rarely less
13. About how many fanfics other than Harry Potter do you read each week?
a. None.
b. 1-4.c. 5-9.
d. 10 or more.
14. What kinds of fanfiction besides Harry Potter do you read? (List all that apply)
a. None.
b. Anime.
c. TV Series.
d. Film.
e. Fantasy.
f. Original Fiction.
g. Real People.
h. Literature (Other than Harry Potter).
i. Other (please specify).
15. Do you read every day?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. No, but I would if I could.
16. About how many hours per week do you read?
a. 1-5 hours.
b. 6-10 hours.
c. 11-15 hours.
d. 16-20 hours.
e. 21 hours or more.
17. Which of the following best describes your reading pattern?
a. I read mostly in the morning.
b. I read mostly during the day while working around the house.
c. I read mostly during lunchtime.
d. I read mostly in the afternoon.
e. I read mostly while traveling to and from work.
f. I read mostly in the evening.
g. I read just before going to sleep.
h. It's hard to say when I do most of my reading since I read every chance I get.
18. Which of the following best describes what you usually do once you've begun a fanfic?
a. I only continue reading it when I'm in the mood.
b. I read a little bit each day until I'm done.
c. I read as much of it as I can until I'm interrupted or have something else to do.
d. I won't stop reading until I've finished it unless it's absolutely necessary.
19. How often do you discuss fanfiction with others?
a. Never.
b. Rarely.
c. Sometimes.
d. Often.
20. Who do you discuss fanfiction with most often?
a. My parents.
b. My siblings.
c. My Real Life Friends.
d. People I know Online.
e. Other (please specify).
21. How often do you re-read fanfiction you've already read?
a. Never.
b. Rarely.
c. Sometimes.
d. Often.
22. Which of the following kinds of fanfiction do your read? List all that apply.
a. Het.
b. Slash.
c. Humor/Parody.
d. Gen (non pairing).
e. PWP.
f. Other.
all of the above
23. Which of the following kinds of fanfiction is your favorite? Please pick only one.
a. Het.
b. Slash.
c. Humor/Parody.
d. Gen (non pairing).
e. PWP.
f. Other.
it depends on the style, not the type
24. Which of the following best describes what usually makes you decide to read a fanfic or not?
a. I like the Pairing/Main Character.
b. I have already read something by the author and liked it.
c. I like the title.
d. The rating (R, NC-17, etc).
e. Someone else recommended it to me.
f. Other (please specify).
summary
25. How do you find out about new fanfics most often?
a. FictionAlley Park.
b. LiveJournals/Blogs.
c. Mailing Lists.
d. Other websites (please specify which). SQ and GT
e. On my own.
f. Other (please specify).
26. Which of the following best describes what you do when you realize you don't like a fanfic that you have already begun reading?
a. I stop reading and never finish it.
b. I read the ending to see how it came out.
c. I always finish it even if I don't like it.
27. Which of the following best describes your opinion on completed fanfics versus WIPs?
a. I will never read a fanfic unless it's completed.
b. It does not matter to me if a fanfic is completed or not.
c. I get upset if a fanfic is not completed. (unless I forget about it, which happens fairly frequently)
d. I will email/talk to the author of a fanfic that is not completed to ask them to complete it.
e. I prefer reading fanfiction as it comes out chapter by chapter.
28. Which of the following do you feel should never be included in a fanfic? Please select three and rank them in order of most distasteful to second most distasteful and so on.
a. Rape.
b. Explicit sex.
c. Sad Ending.
d. Physical torture of main character.
e. Mary Sue/Marty Stu characters.
f. Incest
g. Metafictionality (i.e. fics that make reference to the fact that they are a fic, or to other fics, or to the world outside of fic writing).
h. Underage sex.
i. OOCness.
j. Other (Please specify). lack of grammar/style
29. What are the three most important ingredients in a fanfic? Please pick the three which you think are essential and rank them in order from most important ingredient to second most important and so on.
a. A happy ending.
b. Lots of scenes of explicit sexual description.
c. Lots of detail about the world of J.K. Rowling.
d. A slowly but consistently developing love between the main character and the love interest.
e. A setting in a particular time period (MWPP, Post-War, 5th year, etc.).
f. A particular kind of pairing (het or slash).
g. Character growth/development
h. Proper English/Grammar.
i. Plot
j. Other (please specify). sophistication in writing
30. Which character from Harry Potter do you mainly read fanfiction about? You may list up to three.
a. Harry Potter.
b. Draco Malfoy.
c. Ron Weasley.
d. Hermione Granger.
e. Ginny Weasley.
f. Severus Snape.
g. Remus Lupin.
h. Sirius Black.
i. Other Weasleys (The Twins, Percy, Charlie, Bill).
j. Lucius Malfoy.
k. Tom Riddle.
l. Voldemort.
m. Other Wizarding adults (Narcissa Malfoy, Peter Pettigrew, Gilderoy Lockhart).
n. Other Professors from Hogwarts (Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sinistra, Hooch, Hagrid).
o. Other Students from Hogwarts (Oliver Wood, Pansy Parkinson, Cho Chang, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom).
p. The Dursleys.
q. Other (please specify).
r. I don't read for particular characters.
31. Which pairing from Harry Potter do you mainly read fanfiction about?
a. I don't read for a particular pairing.
b. Anything Het.
c. Anything Slash.
d. Anything with a certain character (please specify which character).
e. H/Hr.
f . R/Hr.
g. H/G.
h. D/G.
i. H/R.
j. H/D.
k. HP/SS.
l. RL/SB.
(as well of lots of other ones, as long as there's no H/D or H/H. blech.)
32. Do you consider yourself a ___
a. Slasher.
b. Het Person.
c. Not aligned to either one side or the other.
33. Do you consider yourself belonging to a community revolving around a specific pairing?
a. Yes. (Please specify). SQ and GT
b. No.
34. Which of the following best describes your attitude to the way the stories are told?
a. I like stories to be told by the main character, in first person.
b. I dislike stories which are told by the main character, in first person, but I will read them sometimes.
c. I won't read a story if it is told by the main character, in first person.
d. I have no preference about the perspective the story is written from, whether it be a narrator, the main character, or using other stylistic methods (e.g. only dialogue).
35. How closely do you think the characters in fanfiction resemble their Canon counterparts?
a. They are not at all similar.
b. They are somewhat similar.
c. They are very similar.
d. They are almost identical.
it depends on the story
36. How closely do you think the characters in fanfiction resemble the people you meet in real life?
a. They are not at all similar.
b. They are somewhat similar.
c. They are very similar.
d. They are almost identical.
it depends on the story
37. Which of the following reasons best describe why you read fanfiction? Please pick the three reasons which are closest to your reasons and rank them from the most important to the third most important.
a. To escape my daily problems.
b. For simple relaxation.
c. Because reading is just for me. It is my time.
d. Because reading is at least better than other kinds of escape.
e. For intellectual stimulation.
f. Other (please specify).
38. What are your three favorite fanfics? Please give the titles in order.
After the End, by Arabella and Zsenya
Not as a Last Resort, by Arabella
either Bounce, by Arborealis, or With Quill in Trembling Hand, by Ciircee
39. Who are your three favorite authors? Please list them in order.
Arabella
Ciircee
Zsenya or Canis M
48. Do you believe that fanfiction is illegal?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. Maybe.
49. If J.K. Rowling prosecuted people who wrote fanfiction, would you continue to support fanfiction?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. Maybe.
50. How do you feel about fan merchandising i.e. The FAP CafePress shops?
a. I have bought/would buy merchandise from such a shop.
b. I would not buy merchandise from such a shop, but I would not discourage others who wanted to from buying merchandise.
c. I would not buy merchandise from such a shop, and I would discourage others from buying merchandise.
posted by Kecia 1:28 PM
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Like a Woman
"She is a woman, and men’s codes of honor and duty make no place for us. If a woman is to accomplish anything at all, it must be through guile and sometimes a...certain lack of scruples. The rules are not made for women, nor, I think, are women for the rules." -Salsify
posted by Kecia 11:34 AM
You are blue. You are somewhat innocent, in the fact that your genius only extends to the physical world. You have a false sense of contentness. You are usually the quiet one, the genius. Everyone can count on you to help when they have problems, but you only fall short of being able to solve your own.
What inner color are you?
No comment.
posted by Kecia 10:47 AM
Monday, January 20, 2003
Those Who Remain
*sniffle* I am no judge of Tolkein fanfic - I don't read enough of it to know - but this . .. *sniffle*
posted by Kecia 10:06 AM
Ode to Hydrogen Peroxide
Oh, thou foul brew
bewitching you are,
for my love said to me;
"Pour it on, it will not hurt"
And I, like a trusting sod
(protesting all the time it would
for I know its properties)
did pour it on
and lo, it did sting,
like the veriest firey
brew from the pit of fire
and there was much lamentation
of which thou art the cause
ye potion of damnable name.
***
Ow. I was running in last night, because it was cold, and slipped and fell. I have a couple of bumps and bruises and scrapes, but I managed, with the help of the concrete and the rock salt spread on top of it, to tear a rather large, rather deep gash in my hand. We were so tired last night we fell asleep without doing anything other than rinsing it, but this morning it was still oozing, and my attempts to dress it were the inspiration for the above silliness. Ow.
posted by Kecia 9:28 AM
Sunday, January 19, 2003
Love
We had a visit from Audrey and Aaron tonight, who are some of the . . . for lack of a better word, "hip-est" people we know. We went out to a fancy, fun place in the District for supper, and talked about going to Adams Morgan later (though we ended up not) and generally had a wonderful time. We don't do stuff like that often. Sure, we go out occasinally, but it's usually to 'safe' restaurants. We don't drink, so we don't bar hop; we don't dance, so we don't go clubbing. We don't go on adventures to New York or down in the district or to Boston on weekends. We live simple, plain sort of lives. Despite the late night and the adrenaline still flowing from good fun and good friends, we'll drag ourselves up for church tommorrow.
Sometimes I wish we could be more urban, more adventurous, more worldly-wise. The people in the place we went tonight we all so sophisticated. Audrey and Aaron talk about trips to the Kennedy Center, to New York. They're always trying new things.
Sometimes I wish we could be more like that. But sometimes, like right now, I'm grateful for who we are. We're a nice, quiet, solid couple. We are secure in each other. We don't worry about impressing each other or other people. We are content within ourselves.
And I am glad of it.
The title of this post was inspired by a friend's post. There are all sorts of moments in life when you realize why you are who you are, why you're with the person you're with. Sometimes it can be a thoughtful gift, a backrub, a help to a friend in need.
Tonight, for me and him, it was a smile for ourselves alone, after our apartment door had shut behind the last vistor and we were alone, but alone together, in the home we have made.
posted by Kecia 12:35 AM
Saturday, January 18, 2003
Ron and Hermione
I want to write a fic to this song, which is actually "Complicated" by Carolyn Johnson.
I'm so scared that
The way that I feel
Is written all over my face
When you walk into the room
I wanna find a hiding place
We used to laugh
We used to hug
The way that old friends do
But now a smile and
A touch of your hand
Just make me come unglued
It's such a contradiction
Do I lie or tell the truth?
Is it fact or fiction
The way I feel for you?
CHORUS:
It's so complicated
I'm so frustrated
I wanna hold you close
I wanna push you away
I wanna make you go
I wanna make you stay
Should I say it
Should I tell you
How I feel?
Oh, I want you to know
But then again I don't
It's so complicated.
Just when I think
I'm under control
I think I finally got a grip
Another friend tells me that
My name is always
On your lips
They say I'm more
Than just a friend
They say I must be blind
Well I admit that
I've seen you watch me
From the corner of your eye
Oh it's so confusing
I wish you'd just confess
But think of what I'd be losing
If your answer wasn't yes
Repeat chorus
I hate it 'cause
I've waited so long
For someone like you
Should I say it
Should I tell you
How I feel?
Oh I want you to know
But then again I don't
It's so complicated
posted by Kecia 2:16 PM
Friday, January 17, 2003
Forecast
Yesterday: snow
Today: flurries
Sat: sunny, high 26
Sun: snow
Mon: snow
Tue: cloudy, high 37
Wed: cloudy, high 32
Thu: snow
Fri: snow
Sat: snow
Sun: snow
THIS IS SO ODD!!! Sorry, but I just can't fathom that much snow. I don't understand this weather. I wear my warmest coat, and yet I am not too hot. It snows and does not melt. It snows and it snows and it snows. It gets dark at four o'clock. It is an evil that does not sleep. (er, got a little carried away there. sorry. (down, inner!boromir, down!))
And yet, Matthew and I are the only ones taken aback by this. I think I'm feeling homesick again.
posted by Kecia 8:28 AM
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Idea
Fox's next dating/marriage themed show should be a bunch of men . . . competing for the affections of another man.
Matthew's quote: "Oh, the carnage! My goodness, you think women are bad . . . think of the carnage!"
posted by Kecia 10:06 PM
Again
I would like to point out that it is snowing. Again. For the fifth time in three weeks or so.
And it makes me happy. :)
posted by Kecia 6:59 PM
Order of the Sillyness
I did not, unfortunately, write this. It originated over in the wilds of Fiction Alley, and I saw it on SQ. It makes me happy. It's part of a collection of cliches in fanfiction, or some such nonsense.
---
~ The Headmaster is sitting at his desk. We are CASUALLY reminded of how KNOWINGLY WISE he is ~
DUMBLEDORE: Hello Harry. I am old and sage.
HARRY: I know. I read the last few sentences. Why did you want to see me?
~ DUMBLEDORE looks WEARY ~
DUMBLEDORE: Since this is your last year, I have decided to spill the beans on why Voldemort wanted to kill you.
~ Crackly TENSION fills the air. This is the moment we have ALL been waiting for, since the beginning of BOOK ONE ~
DUMBLEDORE: Brace yourself Harry! You are.....
~ There is an OVERLY long DRAMATIC PAUSE ~
DUMBLEDORE (cont'd): ......the Heir of Gryffindor!!
~ We all GAPE in COLLECTIVE SHOCK at this AMAZING REVELATION ~
HARRY: I've been waiting seven years for that?! What the hell does that have to do with anything?!
DUMBLEDORE: Quite a lot actually! You see, only the Heir of Gryffindor can kill the Heir of Slytherin and vice versa!
HARRY: That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. You mean to say that I'm the only one that can kill Voldemort?
DUMBLEDORE: Yes, exactly! Why else would I have spent so much time trying to keep you safe for the past 17 years? Normally, I would have just let you die.
HARRY: So then why hasn't he been able to kill me before? And don't go giving me that stupid 'love can defeat anything' crap again, I wasn't born yesterday.
DUMBLEDORE: Voldemort needs the Ancient Amulet of Clichendia to be able to kill you. You need it to be able to kill him.
~We all PAUSE briefly to PONDER the sheer STUPIDITY of this concept ~
HARRY: Do you know where it is?
DUMBLEDORE: Yes, but I think I'm going to let you figure it out for yourself so that I can prove, once again, how much of a cretin I am for not using my expansive knowledge to save innocent lives.
HARRY: Yeah! What the hell was up with that in the first book? If you were going to destroy the bloody thing anyway, why did you wait until AFTER I had already risked my butt?
DUMBLEDORE: I dunno, just for s---- and giggles I suppose.
~ DUMBLEDORE then proceeds to DIE in an extremely CONTRIVED way, leaving HARRY to face the EVIL alone. ~
-----
posted by Kecia 12:14 PM
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Bliss
*softly, happily sigh*
posted by Kecia 2:20 PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Silly Stuff
"You will live in a Mansion.
You will drive a periwinkle passat.
You will marry Matthew and have 2 kids.
You will be a artist in Asheville."
Whohoo! Exactly perfect! Except . . . if I'm an artist, how do we afford a Passat?
posted by Kecia 10:22 PM
Sappiness
It should *not* take that long to make a webpage. I am such a failed graduate of Tech. www.arfarf.org isn't pointing to it yet; Matthew needs to come home and fiddle with it so it won't look so much like crap first.
Went to visit the career counselor today. He was odd. I took the Strong Intrest thingee and the Meyers-Briggs Test. I looked at my answers after I was done, and realized the man was going to go tell me to be an artist. Oops.
posted by Kecia 6:03 PM
Monday, January 13, 2003
Storytime
There's not much of our lab in the story, but it's still a good background on what I do. (Or so I hear - I haven't actually heard the story yet, but Matthew did on the way home tonight.)
posted by Kecia 6:49 PM
All Things Considered, Redux
The spot about my lab should air today. Just in case you were wondering what to do with your afternoon.
posted by Kecia 8:41 AM
Saturday, January 11, 2003
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Why am I always the last to know things?
posted by Kecia 9:25 AM
Friday, January 10, 2003
Reposted without Permission
from git.talk.haiku:
It made me so sad:
A dwarf stripped of dignity.
It should not be so.
In the third movie:
Gimli beheads producers.
We can only hope.
--Erich Plonke
How true. :( I never got around to my rant about the travesty known as the Two Towers, and I don't have the energy now, but it still makes me feel all betrayed and not-happy. Bad Peter Jackson. :(
posted by Kecia 7:39 PM
My Heart has Found the One my Soul Loves
I pulled this off someone's (Leah's) wedding journal. It made me laugh. (and fully empathize!):
"By the way, since it's late at night and I feel like ruminating, discussions in pocket's journal and my other internet community have convinced me that I'm completely not ready to have children (I know this) nor can I, in my constant paranoia, imagine myself being particularly ready (uh, this is not good. I want babies. In about five years, but I want them. And I want to be a great mom.).
I’m an adult. I’ve gotten an education, traveled, been in love a few times and had my heart completely broken, and found the right person for me. I have good friends and I'm close to my family. I’m also living through the grace of student loans and I often let my apartment get cluttered and drink too much wine. And the thought of me...with babies...that don't go back to their mothers at the end of the night...yeah, I think I'm going to go to sleep now."
posted by Kecia 7:23 PM
I Don't Want To Work
This is my favorite site in the whole entire world.
And I agree completely.
posted by Kecia 6:09 PM
Suck
I have come to the gradual realization that I want nothing to do with science as a profession.
Unfortunately, the only training I have is in science.
Oops.
posted by Kecia 5:53 PM
Thursday, January 09, 2003
Plans
So this is more tentative than anything you can possibly imagine, but here is what Matthew and I have come up with so far regarding the wedding:
We'd like:
1) To be married in Montreat, NC
2) to have my brother and his aunt perform the ceremony
3) to have no dj within 25 miles of the reception
4) to invite ~100 people
5) to have 2 attendents each, of no particular gender
6) to have the only alcohol at the wedding be champagne for toasting (guests would also have the option of some sort of sparkling fruit drink)
7) to spend <$8000 (actually, we'd *like* to spend more than that. but only if we had it. and even then maybe not. $8000 is a lot of money, even if the average american wedding purportedly costs $19000.)
8) to be married in the fall of 2004
9) to offend as few people as possible, while having the wedding we want
10) to have fun :)
That's what we've settled on so far. We've also found a photographer we like in the Asheville area, but she is of an undetermined expensiveness, so we're trying not to think about it too much yet.
And remember: None of this has been even remotely finalized. We promise, as soon as we know anything definite, everyone will know. :)
posted by Kecia 10:31 PM
All Things Considered
Niftyness abounds in the lab today. An interviewer is here to interview Kim (the PI) about Norwalk virus, which is, conveniently, what we work on, and which has recently been getting a lot of press because of highly publicized outbreaks on cruise ships and in Boston. Fortunately for the health and wealth of the lab, it is also on the bioterrorism list. So now a lady is running around, following Kim with a microphone. It's really nifty. Unfortunately, my name will probably get cut because Kim stumbled over it. The lady was keen to interview (briefly) us all, to explain what we were currently doing, but Kim jumped in and explained for us. Which is just as well, because I would've made an idiot of myself. It would've been cool to be on the radio though.
Now she's in the lab taping "background noise." Too bad the whole antisocial, potential noise-making lot of us is hiding out here, behind our computers. :)
posted by Kecia 11:37 AM
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Career Crisis
So I've decided what I want to be: an 8-4 nun. I want to go to work and be a nun, and then come home to my family.
So I want to be a daytime nun, without the catholic or celibacy parts.
Think it'll work?
posted by Kecia 4:51 PM
Morning Humor
Q:Why did God put men on earth?
A:Because a vibrator can't mow the lawn.
posted by Kecia 8:55 AM
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Just a quick note to say I hope everyone had as good of a day as I did. Nothing especially exciting happened, but it was just generally a good day. Which is nice. :)
posted by Kecia 7:51 PM
Monday, January 06, 2003
So we just spent an exorbitant amount of money fixing my car this morning. Enough that Matthew has to worry about fixing his, because this week rent is due, too, and soon my fees for spring semester, and christmas credit card bills we had enough money for at the time, and we really would like to save up enough to be married *this* century, as opposed to the next.
*sigh* Life is very frustrating today. My mood was not helped by the fact that I spent five hours today at the mechanic's, waiting for my car, during which time I developed a massive headache from the combination of lack of breakfast and lunch, screaming kids (school was out because of the snow), and my boss calling my cell phone to yell at me.
There. I feel better now that I vented. And it's pretty outside, because it's still snowing. And I'm about to go bake some sugar cookies. Life's not all bad. :-)
posted by Kecia 4:58 PM
Sunday, January 05, 2003
Wedding Planning Gone Awry
This page and this one make me really happy. In that "my head hurts from talking to my mother and my mother-in-law-to-be in the same night" kind of way.
posted by Kecia 11:05 PM
Snow!
snowsnowsnow
In other news, both my and Matthew's cars appear to have broken down simultaneously, which in my opinion wasn't very nice of them. At least on the positive side, this means I may get to miss work on Monday. :)
posted by Kecia 1:40 PM
Saturday, January 04, 2003
I am absolutely brooding!
Find your soul type at kelly.moranweb.com.
posted by Kecia 8:30 AM
Friday, January 03, 2003
1) Midnight Train to Georgia
in which we get entirely too sleepy, and the car lands in a ditch
We left about midnight Friday night/Saturday morning, after staying up all that time to pack. The week before had been crazy-hectic, what with shopping, grading, and starting a new rotation, so we ended up packing all Friday night, when we had intended to be leaving. We took turns driving (the only part of the trip where we really did so) and in general thanked our stars that we were only driving to NC. It was nice once we got on 85, though, knowing that ribbon of highway led to home. :) The stars were amazingly bright as well, especially through rural VA at three in the morning. It probably wasn't smart of me to keep craning over the steering wheel to look at them while driving, but they were beautiful and it kept me awake.
We got to Matthew's sister's house at about four in the morning, after close encounters with scary people at a gas station along the way. (Actually, that whole gas station was odd. Who knew they made condoms like that? What next, ones that talk?) You could see the after-effects of the bad ice storm of a couple weeks back all around, still. It was creepy, and sort of unnerving - who knew what deer might be lurking behind a fallen tree, just at the edge of the road? We made it safely, though - until Matthew started to pull in the driveway.
I remembered that there was a steep drop to the edge of their driveway. Apparently Matthew did not. My car looked pretty pitiful, stuck in the ditch with a wheel in the air. :( Poor car. But we were too tired to do anything about it - we just went inside and passed out on the futon.
posted by Kecia 12:14 PM
Expansion of an earlier-posted quote:
"I thought there was something suspect about my friends, who were reading these children's books. Then I auditioned for this part and bought the books. When I looked up again, it was three days later and there I sat, unwashed and unfed, having read them all. I think of them now as the crack of children's literature." --Jason Isaacs, on the Harry Potter series
posted by Kecia 12:04 PM
Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz
It was either that or start a revolution using my artwork. :) I would like to point out, in case it was not obvious already, that I am *already* tired of cleaning house.
posted by Kecia 10:47 AM
Wednesday, January 01, 2003
Return of the Blogless
I would like to point out that it was very annoying not to have access to the internet, particularly this blog, all holiday. I composed many witty entries, which are now lost to posterity. Alas. I'm sure you all are crushingly disappointed.
Kecia's Holiday Tour:
1) Midnight Train to Georgia
2) Betrayed, my precioussssss! Betrayed!
3) A Charlie Brown Christmas
4) A Tale of Two Koalas
5) Christmases get better all the time
6) The Question
7) Long Day's Journey Into Night
8) The Island
9) LDJIN, redux
Nine blog titles to counter the fearsome Nine tasks which must be completed today . . . (I am *such* a dork . . . )
posted by Kecia 10:56 PM
