| jetsetting wknd |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|08:21 am] |
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It's been a long time since I had a rock star weekend but now that this one is winding down i'm looking forward to being done. I just wish my honey baby was with me. I took a very brief and fast tour of old stomping grounds around the AZ dessert. Flew in on Friday morning and back out today, monday... sighs
it was a ramshackle of pretty great awesomeness as this trip had two functions. One, was so my sweet could get his tooth properly looked at and perhaps get plans started for something solid. Second, was so that I could meet with the brothers and significant others before the wedding. That rocked.
Friday was with Chris and Sarah, lunch/dinner greek dancing. Then saturday was brunch and a drive to Flagstaff where we met up with bro numba two and his soon to be for a bbq but not before we made a stop by arcosanti. Sunday heralded the best moff sunday at Martaens this excellent mexican hole in the wall. On the way down the 101 after driving through unbelievable Sedona and Bell Rock we had a near dissaster as we completely blew out a tire going 75 and passing a semi. But due to awesomeness things are great and the tire was changed in minutes by this hunk I call my husband.
The only thing is, now i have to fly home alone and continue to be that way until wednesay arvo. My sweet goodness needed to stay for the first reason and then an extra day because it was cheaper to wait. I'm doing okay at the moment. almost had a near breakdown right after i got in the car. this was the first time we were unable to drop each other off at the airport because time confliction. This is also the first time we've spent days away from each other in 8months. yes i know it's time and it's great that we are able to do this.
I know it is important to spend time away but when it's been hard to get time alone with that person time away is a bit harder. but i have some time to get the house packed before our nov 15th move. HURRAY!!! we found a HOME!!!! and it's AWESOME!!!!
i'll give a more detailed description about things like arcosanti and sedona and martanz later but right now i'm just about ready to board the plane. see you on the flip side.
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| My Johari Window (withthanks to stephbg) |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:42 pm] |
How it works: I've chosen six terms from a grid to describe myself. You can go here to choose six terms you'd use to describe me, identifying yourself or not, as you wish. Then we see how much my self-perception matches what I'm putting out there in the world. *grins* |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|12:22 am] |
A while back I went out to dinner with some people, one of whom was Sofie Laguna. Really charming person, married to a very talented artist. So charming in fact I had a hard time imagining her writing a really dark book about incest, matricide and cannibalism (that was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award, no less.) She told me some days getting stuck into it for twenty minutes floored her for the rest of the day. I can believe it.
All of which is my way of trying to not feel like a dilettante because Falling is a good piece of work, but it's not an easy write. I'm also worried that I'm not going to get a decent wordcount out of the damn thing. The story and the telling is, by its nature, one of compression. Which would be great if I wanted a short story but I need this thing to be a novella. I'm also walking a fine line between authenticity and coming across as attempting to emotionally manipulate the reader, which I can't accept.
Still, I could be collecting unexploded mines for a living.
Nonetheless... wah.
EDIT: Awright! Fight Club was barely over 50k. Even that looks like a stretch, but I'll worry about it once I get an editable first draft. |
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| Discuss. |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:50 pm] |
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I listened to an hour-long interview with Alice Walker, the woman who wrote The Colour Purple. It was part of the World Book Club over on the BBC World Service. Brilliant podcast, this one in particular I thought.
Anyway, at some point she floated the idea that bisexuality (or a decent degree of it, I inferred) is essential to creativity. This isn't her idea, it's apparently a notion that's been around for a while and one she agrees with. I have to say it made sense to me, but what do you reckon? |
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| Monday updateyness |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:40 am] |
I'm working at the bookshop today *joy*
I handed in my last assignment this morning - just the exam preparation to go! OMG no idea how I'll do it. Can't wait to collapse!
I'd love to do a super cheap getaway weekend to Margaret River, driving down, camping somewhere cool, and tasting lots of wine and only buying a bottle or two to drink under the stars with company.
I'm interested in any kind of day tripping or overnight tripping adventures actually.
Started my Self Expression and Leadership Program on Saturday - wow, this is going to be so awesome and so much fun! I get to create a community project, and I'm so excited about this! I have a few ideas, but mostly I'm looking at the communities in my life atm and working out which one I'd love to work with and see what occurs as awesome from there :) Loving the creative process!
Cry Havoc inspired me at the level of monologues again - these are my favourite pieces of theatre writing, and seeing the play last week reminded me of this. I expect that just being interested in writing monologues isn't useful however :P Maybe I'll look into this script writing thing afterall :)
Okay, enough of this procrastination thing, time to study while everything is quiet! :) |
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| Script archive. |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:05 am] |
Interested in how to write TV scripts? There's a great archive of pilot scripts here. I particularly recommend checking out Sorkin's pilot scripts to The West Wing and Studio 60, but there a bunch of other excellent scripts on there as well, including Deadwood, The Wire and Fringe.
It's all a copyright minefield too, so I'd check it out sooner rather than later if you're interested. |
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| FEMINISM - News and what the hell to do? |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:44 am] |
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt-
Of the Richmand rape victim: "Summerlynn Sigler, an English teacher, said there were some boys planning to beat up the victim once she returned to school, on the grounds that she was to blame if her attackers received life sentences."
In Australia in an all-male college: A group of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''.
When her attorney, Barry Goldstein, co-author of the forthcoming book Domestic Violence, Abuse and Custody, criticized the judge in an online article, the judge retaliated with a complaint, and Goldstein was given a five-year suspension. Goldstein says the sanction represents a chilling pressure on attorneys, who may now fear penalties for criticizing a court’s gender bias that will interfere with their duties to their clients and that could result in women deciding not to leave abusers out of fear they won’t get a fair trial. And for more on how evil women are, read the comments
From Echidne of the Snakes. The officer who apparently took Nidal Malik Hasan down is officer Kimberly Munley: "Sergeant Munley bolted from her car and shot at Major Hasan. He turned toward her and began to fire. She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and the gunmen went down with several bullet wounds, Mr. Medley said." And Echidne quotes one of the responses:
this female MP was the first responder
What does her gender have to do with it??????
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 11.05.09 - 9:29 pm | #
everything, because it shows that woman can't fucking kill someone when they have to.
BURP | 11.05.09 - 9:30 pm | #
From Quixote at Shakesville: "Rights are for all. When only some people have them, they're just privileges. And privileges can be taken away."
So, what can I, white able-bodied female-type person, do about this destructive culture?
- Don't stay out of it. Speak up when someone makes a rape joke, tries to blame the victim, or makes the perpetrator invisible ('He 'got' raped. She 'got' attacked').
- Understand you don't get a cookie from strangers for being a decent person - you don't deserve a reward for that. Often people will loathe you FOR being decent, and say you are a killjoy. But, also (I think), pat yourself mentally on the back. Encourage yourself.
- Understand it's not about you, so don't try to derail conversations. Take a breath if you get hurt feelings.
- Look at what makes you uncomfortable and why.
- Understand where you have privilege, and where you do not. Discuss your lack in appropriate conversations, which may mean waiting.
- Do not demonise empathy as weakness.
- You WILL mess this up, maybe a lot. Keep trying.
- Acknowledge this is hard and you will get depressed sometimes.
Speak up, support, acknowledge, and - importantly - rest when you need to. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|05:08 pm] |
http://ping.fm/p/o6JEm - Was hit by a train this morning, express through Richmond clipped me. I am for the most part ok, been x-rayed and seeing a Dr shortly. Hurts |
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| OTW donations |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|07:35 pm] |
I recently started volunteering for the Organisation for Transformative Works (it does fandom-stuff, for those of you who haven't encountered it, & it's pretty damn cool). I also totally missed the October push for MONIES, because... I don't know why, actually. I just did.
Anyway: in case any of you lot feel like donating a few pennies to the cause of protecting & preserving fannish works as legitimate creative activity; now you can even get a travel mug for doing so as well as a nice warm glow. |
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| Astroboy |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|09:21 pm] |
Part of me wants to enter into a long and impassioned rant about how the new animated feature film Astroboy completely fails to adequately work its source material, and how it was a very boring film, and how I actually fell asleep a little bit in the middle (films I have fallen asleep watching in the cinema: The One, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, A Perfect Murder).
All of that would be to give the film attention it doesn't merit. It isn't a good film. It isn't worth your money. It also isn't earth-shatteringly awful. It's just kind of... there. |
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| PARKOUR - Woo |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|07:15 pm] |
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Okay. Just got out of Parkour, well...technically just got out of the shower and collapsed. Talk about a hard workout. I couldn't even do most of the stuff! The step-up where you run at and up a wall I only managed once. Part of it is lacking technique (both I and Chaos were trying to use climbing technique) and part of it is lacking upper body strength. Part of it was fear too, I think, I was very nervous of smashing my jaw on the brick wall.
Overall, I think it went well. I'm scraped up and bruised a bit, but nothing bad. Mostly the rolls on hot concrete knocked me around a bit - next time, I'm going to wear longer sleeves. I did laugh mightily at the teenager who decided to go shirtless and then did full body rolls onto sunburnt shoulders. It was very, very hot, and the ground was very hot when we were putting hands onto it.
Our group's average age was approximately a hundred thousand times that of the young teenage boys who were the majority of the class. So I didn't really care that I couldn't vault up over a wall - I know that I'm reasonably fit, and I kept up in the running and the jumping down, but eh.
Am going back next week. By then, some of the scrapes and bumps might even have healed... |
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| Emily the Not As Strange As You'd Think |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|05:00 pm] |
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| | Alanis Morissette -- Ironic, and that's ironic for a number of reasons | ] |
Once upon a time , we were sitting waiting for a bus and I noticed something Very Funny on the window of the Emily the Strange Purveyor next to our Bus Stop. I took a crappy phootie with my crappy mobile phone camerator...
The reason it was very funny was because I'd just been reading a post about Emily the Strange and her... um, "predecessor", Rosamond the Strange, on the plagarismwatchblog YouThoughtWeWouldntNotice, wherein:
 
(clicky for the moarness)
Now, I was going to make a post about it, but other things in my life soon took priority, and I figured the only real hook I had for my phootie was that nobody knew about Rosamond, and as it'd been a while, everyone prolly knew about it by now. But Lo!, turned out that not everyone did, as I found today, so voilà: Le Blogue.
Also, the Imaginaterrarium of Dr Parnassaluffagus--Foxtrot Tango Whisky. That is all. |
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