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]]> ~sisterjanet fifty days http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/23796682/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/23796682/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:14:38 PDT
*happy dance*

(and then, in about fifty-four days, we leave for Ireland! How cool is that?!)

In other news, I decided to just accept my weird love of and fascination with the super-deluxe first aid kits. (Not just bandaids and pain meds, but also light sticks, eye patches, air masks, and sometimes things like sand bags that make you wonder just how much emergency the first aid company expects you to be dealing with.)

]]> ~sisterjanet news http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/21820298/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/21820298/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:50:49 PST
Also, as of this coming Tuesday, the 9th, it will be five months until I am married.

Also also, as of yesterday, all the stuff that needs to be booked for the honeymoon is in fact booked.

And I met my birth father the weekend before Thanksgiving, and I have the same nose as him except that right now my own nose is weirdly crooked and red. (broken?) (and how long does insurance last post-employment?)

And that's all for now.

]]> ~sisterjanet librarians can save your life http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/21585713/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/21585713/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:06:01 PST [link]

]]> ~sisterjanet travel http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/20063210/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/20063210/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:04:16 PDT
]]> ~sisterjanet the Hundred Dresses http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/19669910/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/19669910/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:09:14 PDT
Tomorrow, I'm going to try on wedding dresses for the first time. *boxing bell* In the red trunks, we have hopes, dreams, vague inclinations, and a stack of dress pictures printed from the internet. In the blue corner, we have heaps of damning hearsay about the entire dress shopping experience from recent brides, and a general dislike/mistrust of things that are too girly. The matchup of the century! Seven o'clock! Dress boxing!

]]> ~sisterjanet the One Ring http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/18618091/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/18618091/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:31:52 PDT


]]> ~sisterjanet writing prompt http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/18214984/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/18214984/ Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:20 PDT

After months of planning, years of emotional intimacy, and a great deal of money invested into the most "perfect wedding"; my bride leaves our table at the reception to take a "quick powder room break", and I haven't seen her since. She did manage to abandon the wedding dress and a note saying, "I'm sorry", in the locked (from the inside) bathroom. - It's been nearly 3 years.

found here:
[link] posted by stillsolo, third message.

]]> ~sisterjanet Honk if you know what I'm talking about. http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/17523602/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/17523602/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:00:21 PDT
]]> ~sisterjanet crazy chili! http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/17171735/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/17171735/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:28:58 PST
Then add the meat and cook it, and maybe add a little salt and pepper. (In my case, it's one package of fake meat from Morningstar, the stuff that simulates ground beef. Did I mention I'm a vegetarian? Apparently we taste better.) Once the meat or meatlike object is cooked, the rest is in no particular order.

A can of tomatoes with onion and pepper. A can of pinto beans, and another of kidney beans, and another of black beans, and another of chili beans. A jar of salsa. A chopped up jalapeno pepper, and a chopped up tomato. A sippy-cup-sized glassful of vermouth. A pause to think about it, during which is added a few dashes of paprika, cumin, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

Begin to let it simmer over any heat that seems appealing, settling on low-medium low as a happy medium, no pun intended. Contemplate things like adding a can of Coke, or some rum, or some whiskey, or some minced artichoke hearts and maybe some sundried tomatoes, and fennel while you're at it but probably at the beginning. Write the ideas down somewhere (like here for instance) so there's a document to find next time you're in this particular chili mood. Survey the mess you've made of the kitchen, and on impulse mash half a lime's worth of juice into the pot. The end!

It's for dinner tomorrow because I know from last time that nothing gets the taste quite where I want it the day of preparation. (That time I tried cocoa powder to try and get that missing flavor. Friends don't let friends add ingredients without tasting to make sure it needed something else.) I'll try to remember to come back and mention if it's weird, as I feared after the nutmeg, or if it's tasty, as I hoped after the lime juice.

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3-4-08
Yes, the chili is tasty. And yes, it might be even tastier if I had gone stark raving and added at least half a can of coke, and maybe some sundried tomato.

]]> ~sisterjanet random http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/16968948/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/16968948/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:22 PST
Secretly, I'm kind of a stalker. At least three people already knew this, and at least two of those three are cool with that. for the win! Ear cartilage is totally neat, and I recommend bending it whenever you can in such a place and time as will not cause you to be stared at out of all countenance. I picked up that phrase "stared out of all countenance" from reading the Pickwick Papers, which I've been gradually working on for a very very long time. It's really funny, especially Mr. Weller, and all the trouble Pickwick gets into. I suspect Mr. Jingle is supposed to be funny to, but instead I'm mad at him, even now that he's in debtor's prison. Until an all-to-recent time, I believed debtor's prison still exists. In case you were also under that impression, it doesn't. They have bankruptcy instead now I guess. Now that I've admitted that, allow me to announce I was a history major in college. I like self reflection a lot but I know that sometimes it's too much, so I try to be moderate. Did you know that Hume made himself go a little nuts just by thinking difficult thoughts? Let that be a lesson to you. Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president; I learned that this weekend. Champagne tastes icky. for serious. My cat says hello, did you hear it? I've been having interesting conversations with Imaginary Johnny Depp when I drive around in my car for well over a month. He's cool with my awkward compliments. I think that No Country For Old Men should win best picture, even though I think There Will Be Blood is fricking awesome and very well done, and even though I really liked Juno. I haven't seen Michael Clayton yet, but I have it rented and ready for when my boy comes home, so then I can know how it compares. It would make me sad if Atonement or Juno won best picture, because the deserving-it-ness just radiates off the other two that I've seen. Even though of course Johnny Depp is attractive, I honestly think he's got nothing on Cary Grant. I mean damn! Corporate America blows, which is the short version of long involved but not super informed rants about the importance of money and the not-importance of people, especially people who don't have money. Business is mean. I had swimming lessons three times but I still can't swim with my face in the water. I can mince garlic, but I can't mince herbs very well. My one true boy is a super genius, which is cool but sometimes a little intimidating, and sometimes a little weird because he's convinced he's not smarter than me after all. He's a good egg. I have trust issues I think, or something like that--issues about trusting people to continue to be interested in me once they start. It blows, but I'll live. (duh) And, in conclusion, and which you might not believe, I am not into drugs, not even now with all this nonsense.

I might delete this in the morning, even though it seems pretty and informative at the moment. Goodnight, internet world.

]]> ~sisterjanet It's my birthday and I'll verb if I want http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/16745807/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/16745807/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:33:06 PST
1) notarized my form, and mailed it,

2) bought some bitchin stamps which I plan to put on postcards soon,

3) made a wonderful curry with my friend, and

4) smiled about the fact that today is Caucus Day, and Fat Tuesday, and my birthday.

Twenty-six is not quite the coolest number, but at least it's 13x2. That is sufficient mathematical coolness for me.

]]> ~sisterjanet hibernating http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/14987020/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/14987020/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:11:52 PDT
]]> ~sisterjanet The Sleepy Grind http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/14653425/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/14653425/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:39:27 PDT
Which means, Hello and welcome to college: grad school edition.

]]> ~sisterjanet Potter-mania http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13911530/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13911530/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:34:58 PDT

]]> ~sisterjanet help please http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13656873/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13656873/ Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:50:22 PDT
]]> ~sisterjanet Harry Potter and the 212 Place http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13319331/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13319331/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:51:49 PDT
I am not writing lately, although i really wanted to write something in particular for something occuring in approximately two weeks. Perhaps I'll suddenly have inspiration, or will suddenly decide to give it another go even without feeling inspired, but for now I am not writing. I'm reading my damn fool head off, however. I'm half way through the ritualistic rereading of the Harry Potter books that accompanies the release of a new book. I'm also very much enjoying The Crossing, second in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. (If you've been looking for a good "show, don't tell" sample for writers struggling with that concept, I recommend McCarthy's work.) (I recommend it in any case, actually, but I do think it could be a good example for other writers.)

The 212 Place is nothing to do with Harry Potter except that I've begun going there to read a chapter or so a day after work. It's a nature preserve with walking trails and picnic benches and scenic overlooks and not a lot of pedestrian traffic. It's wonderful. I've lately gotten into ornithology, but haven't remembered to take my binoculars with me yet, more's the pity. It's actually called something like The Richard Anderson Memorial Nature Preserve, but I always forget exactly which words are in the real name of it, and thus use my own much shorter appellation.

I received the paperwork to register for fall classes at St Kate's. My one true boy believes I can and should make a 4.0, and I'm determined to try. Wish me luck.

]]> ~sisterjanet I'd like to thank the Academy... http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13092108/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/13092108/ Fri, 25 May 2007 18:06:08 PDT [link] , it begins in a few short days, the first of June. I plan to participate, and hope to give it a better go than this year's truly sad NaNoWriMo outing.


I've finished the first chapter of Swann's Way, and feel that I've settled into the writing style. Thus, I consider myself no longer desparate for a book club to drag along like Linus's blanket. I'm actually really liking it so far. I can't find the words to explain what exactly is so appealing, but if you enjoy Jane Austen's humor and social commentary, it seems likely you'll also enjoy Swann's Way. (I might just be making that connection because of all the Jane Austen I've been reading lately, but at the very least Moncrief's rendition of Proust's French strongly reminds me of Austen.)

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet GRAD SCHOOL!!! http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12901542/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12901542/ Wed, 09 May 2007 15:24:33 PDT
In other news, I got to the top of page nine in Swann's Way last night. I'm still hoping for somebody to leave a comment to the tune of "hey, I'll dive into Proust with you." It's still early. The prose is kind of deep, but the swimming will (presumably) be more fun and less confusing with a pal, right?

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet dA book clubs? http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12868538/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12868538/ Sun, 06 May 2007 20:19:59 PDT In Search of Lost Time to my list of life goals. I started the first volume, Swann's Way, about a week ago, and though I consider myself an above-average reader, I'm nonetheless still on page five.

This leads me to the question, are there book clubs on dA? Or at least, is there anyone out there in the internet, reading this journal, who would like to stumble through the first volume of Proust's magnum opus with me? I don't pretend to know what I'm doing regarding either Proust or book clubs, but I'd appreciate the company.

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Regarding the seven day writing project, I got a bit stuck in the story, and then started reading like a crazy person again, so for now I'm on hiatus from the project and am instead trying to whittle away at the books recently acquired in a library sale.

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet week 2 http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12420360/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12420360/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:45:30 PDT Some time in the next two weeks, I'm going to find out if I got into grad school or not. Exciting! Also, I moved some furnature today, and now I have my own corner of the basement because, alas, it's really beginning to look like I won't move out until obligated by marriage. Yay post-collegiate poverty. I'm thinking of getting a second job, but I should wait on it until I find someone to fill the gap in the schedule where I'm managing.

Weekly prose-writing info:
1a) zero. great big giant zero, in fact.
2a) I had planned to write five pages in my notebook.
3a) It's pretty much the things I foresaw last week. My one true boy was home this week (and we invented a cassarole, and made our own rootbeer, and we are the awesome!), and during work I was watching Gilmore Girls when I wasn't needing my full attention on work.

1b) I'm going for three, and hoping for five.
2b) Again, I plan to write on the long story I had been working on.
3b) I'll probably lose a little time to the Gilmore Girls, but I anticipate running to the end of the episodes they have available at the video store. Also, I might get stuck because of not being totally sure what happens next with the plot.

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet Seventh Day Prose-Writist http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12328373/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12328373/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:09:28 PDT GunShyMartyr suggested this once a week thing for prose writers (which I suppose poets could do as well if it appealed to them) that I'm going to try out. The cut and paste:

Every week you will have to list three things:

1) How much you wrote this week.

2) How much you planned to write this week.

3) What stopped you from writing this week.


You will also follow this up with three additional things:

1) How much you plan to write the following week.

2) What you plan to write.

3) What you anticipate losing writing time to.

So, beginning this week but nonetheless referring to last week,
1a) I didn't actually write this week.
2a) I didn't figure I would write this past week.
3a) My brand new addiction to Gilmore Girls (which I watch on DVD at work while waiting for customers) prevented me from writing at work. (I seem to not be good at focusing on my writing when I'm at home, which seems kind of bad.)

1b) I hereby plan to write five pages in my notebook (front and back) this week.
2b) I'll probably write these pages in the story I've been working on.
3b) I'll probably lose writing time not only to my Gilmore Girls addiction (and the inevitable 'helping customers' part of work) but also to my one true boy, home this week on Spring Break.

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet current event http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12097688/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/12097688/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:37:01 PST
I began a story several months ago that I'm calling "Night and Day." I stopped at about page 15. I did a little work on it around Christmas, then left off again. This past Monday, I started work on it again. It probably sounds very silly, but I'm so happy to be working on that story again.

[applause]

I'm not sure how long it will take me to finish. It's been coming along about a page a day so far. I'm not sure if I'll post any more than I have in my scraps at the moment, as the story seems oddly personal, but I wanted to broadcast my happiness, and also as a bit of "where is she now" trivia. So yeah. I'm writing. (oh happy day.)

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet State of the 25 http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11791673/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11791673/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:45:35 PST
1. Finish and send in my personal statement and my resume, and thus be finished with my grad school application. (preferably no later than this Friday, 2-16)
2. Pay off my credit card faster than I add things back onto it.
3. Bash at least one piñata.
4. Look for more money.
5. Sort through all my wonderful paraphernalia in the basement.
6. Sort through all my older but also wonderful paraphernalia in the upstairs.
7. Cook something like eggplant.
8. Get the stickers, which apparently are called license plate tabs.
9. Make cookies with the fancy chocolate chips.
10. Write.
11. Reduce the ratio of unread books to total books. (currently between 1:4 and 1:5)
12. Patronize all possible library book sales anyway.
13. Chill.
14. FAFSA it up.
15. Keep finishing Great Expectations.
16. Run a mile without stopping.
17. Finish the Aileen and Seth story.
18. Think of more goals for this year.
19. TBA
20. TBA
21. TBA
22. TBA
23. TBA
24. TBA
25. TBA
26. TBA

NOTES:
Ratio of completion= 2:26
3. Mexian Wizard Day is a holiday for the day before Valentine's, celebrated by bashing a pinata in the shape of a wizard hat. (unless that was a black clown hat.) 15. 30/59

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If you like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read A Life Transparent. ]]> ~sisterjanet A day that will live on in infamy. http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11702383/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11702383/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:24:41 PST
I got a coat and socks and movies and a hula hoop and THE FISHING GAME! It's not magnetic, but otherwise it's just like the one I wanted so bad when I was in (get this) kindergarten, approximately twenty years ago.

Tomorrow marks a new step in my development as I boldly go take the GRE and hopefully remember to e-mail my old history prof about being one of my references for my grad school application. It's weird to think about being twenty-eight or -nine when I'm done, perilously close to the dread thirty. If I'm doing the math right though, twenty-nine is the next prime, and those tend to rock, and then thirty-one I think is another one, so thirty will be a nice plateau between two awesome prime numbers.

I've been reading crap novels and introspecting, and I've decided that twenty-five is going to be a wonderful year. Wish me luck, please.

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]]> ~sisterjanet Do not be alarmed... http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11630370/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11630370/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:00:45 PST
In other news, if you like reading something so engaging that you keep turning the page even when you're very aware that it's not the kind of thing you'd normally read, go check out `alienhead's gallery, and possibly also buy his new novel.

In other other news, my "one bit of story per week" efforts are temporarily on hold because I'm studying for the GRE coming up on Feb. 6th. There's a story that's trying to come together in my head, so the hiatus is a little awkward, but on the other hand, I can do algebra again (mostly) and I know what sedulous and noisome mean.

]]> ~sisterjanet A Life Transparent http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11386299/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11386299/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:36:13 PST [link] and two [link] and then once you're totally hooked, look at this [link] and hopefully have enough money to satisfy your burning curiosity while at the same time helping out an awesome writer.

]]> ~sisterjanet 25 Things to do before I'm 25 http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11195826/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/11195826/ Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:58:41 PST 2. Read the insurance papers.
3. Finish writing at least one story.
4. Watch Breaking the Waves.
5. Realphabetize my movies.
6. Keep the mirror clean.
7. Walk.
8. Cook at least one thing from each new cookbook.
9. Read something like Great Expectations.
10. Bake a carrot cake.
11. Kiss.
12. Catch up on my devwatch thing.
13. Vacuum, and maybe even dust.
14. Create the pen pal CD.
15. Mail my Christmas cards.
16. Brush Peaches, and probably Monster too.
17. Renew my driver's license.
18. Clean out my car.
19. Complete the seventh age of Paris.
20. Take my one true boy out.
21. Dance.
22. Celebrate Festivus.
23. Discard the old hummus.
24. Hang out with Vanessa.
25. Decide whether or not to have a birthday party.

I have just over a month.

completed: 48%

notes:
1. promotion! 9. [19/59] 10. Try half a cup of raisins next time in the recipe from that really small cook book. 22. La Bamba. Crazy. Great Balls of Fire! (And Nick is not allowed to play with the ducks, and it's harder than you'd think to dance with a couch.) 23. No more for a while. 25. probably yes

]]> ~sisterjanet ch-ch-changes http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/10575060/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/10575060/ Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:17:41 PST
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Until my stuff returns, allow me to recommend the following writers whose work I have lately been enjoying:

From the library, I recommend The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon to those who aren't bothered when they don't understand what's going on, because you're not meant to get it but it's so engrossing anyway, and short enough that you're sure to be able to finish it. I also recommend The Body Artist by Don DeLillo because it's also short enough that you're guaranteed to finish it, and because the idea is captivating and some of his sentences are just gorgeous (and I'm so gushing, but I really do like that book) and because my one true boy, who keeps me current on the ways of the world, has informed me that both Pynchon and DeLillo are considered Very Important Writers by people who seem to know what they're talking about. I also recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels because I've read one-and-a-half of them all in a rush in the past day or so, and Jane Austen because she's pretty funny too if you can get into that sort of thing. (Not everybody likes their jokes circa 1830 I guess.)

On dA, I recommend... well, it's fastest to recommend that anybody interested in perusing the kind of stuff I like take a look through my favorites, because I've been somewhat fave-happy lately so anything I'd be likely to recommend should be in there. The newer sources of literary wow are ~moejo and ~LazyLinePainterJohn and the oldest two I can think of are *logey and ~queenhrosie (newer and older relative to how long I've been reading their stuff) and everybody might already know about them, but in case somebody didn't, that's my recommendation. Go forth and read, and sooner or later my stuff will be back too.

]]> ~sisterjanet 10-1 = wonderful day http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/10254761/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/10254761/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:25:33 PDT
I saw my first real-live (non-road-kill) possum today and followed it around for a few minutes in the company of my favorite person.

The Twins won the Central Division. It makes it cooler in my estimation that it came down to the last game. It makes it really sad for Detroit because Kansas City swept them. Playoffs start with Santana on Tuesday. !!!

I visited the MN Renaissance Festival for the first time in perhaps more than a decade as a regular paying customer-type instead of as a boothworker. I saw, among other things: Puke and Snot, women belly dancing with snakes wrapped around them, and a few new tricks to try out with my crystal sticks. I can still taste the dust clogging up my lungs if I breathe deeply, but it was a good way to spend a sunny afternoon.

...and of course, the part that people who haven't met me knew before I did: I got a DD on "The History of Snowmen." :) (It'll show up on watchlists again soon because I reread it tonight and noticed a few more things to try to fix.)

]]> ~sisterjanet explanation and recommendation http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/9684897/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/9684897/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:28:32 PDT As several of you have probably already figured out, I tend to let things sit in my watch list for a while before commenting on them. Writing is far more likely to receive a comment, because more people comment on pictures generally and because even though I still tend to feel like I don't know what I'm doing when I comment on somebody's writing, I feel significantly less like I know what I'm doing when I try to leave constructive criticism on images.

This is just something of a head's up that you can read after the fact, when you discover a recent comment left on something you submitted in April, or perhaps February.

Recommendation:
If you like philosophy, physics, and religion, and if you have no constitutional objections to the fantasy genre, I recommend the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman. I just started the third book, so it's theoretically possible I'll rescind my recommendation by the time I finish it, but so far that seems unlikely. It actually reminds me of a trilogy by C. S. Lewis that I read a while ago, although the frame of reference seems slightly but fundamentally different.



secret extra bonus material: a question for Danny (and whoever else feels like answering it, really)

Which account of the origins of everything (or perhaps 'which creation story') do you believe, and why do you believe that one?

]]> ~sisterjanet Guess what I did... http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8770872/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8770872/ Sun, 14 May 2006 17:07:52 PDT
(seriously. off and on all day, I've been exclaiming it to people. I am a college graduate. holy cow.)

]]> ~sisterjanet Hamlet! http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8641702/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8641702/ Mon, 01 May 2006 13:33:09 PDT
]]> ~sisterjanet Yay for meaningless surveys! http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8513402/ http://sisterjanet.deviantart.com/journal/8513402/ Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:38:01 PDT


FIRST

-- best friend:
Her name was Meghan. I have only two mental images of her, and only one of them is a memory.

-- imaginary friend:
clothespin dinosaurs, both carnivore and herbivore

-- pet dog name:
zero (as in zero pet dogs owned, not ‘ah, my beloved canine companion zero’)

-- piercing:
ear lobes

-- crush:
I’m not sure if I had a crush on Chris Schnable or if I just pretended I did so he’d run faster when I chased him.

-- CD:
I can’t remember which CD was first. This question reminds me how utterly novel the idea of music as a purchasable commodity was to me.

-- car:
‘91 Plymouth Accord, light blue with ever-widening gaps in the paint. RIP, little car.

-- school:
Rib Mountain preschool. The sandbox was wonderful but the teachers and I didn’t get along.

-- kiss:
Chris Schnable.


LAST -


-- time you smoked:
zero

-- food you ate:
spagetti with zucchini and mushrooms

-- car ride:
If car ride means ‘use of car’, then about an hour ago. If it means ‘long trip taken by car,’ then the Easter exodus and return.

-- phone call:
Gary the career center guy

-- CD you listened to:
Maurice and I by the Flash Girls

-- bubble bath you took:
I was probably less than ten. I know there were bubble baths in my childhood, but I can’t remember when they stopped.

-- song you listened to:
Sleeps with Butterflies by Tori Amos

-- fight:
There have been fights in the past decade, but not very recently so I don’t know.


Have You Ever -

--dated a best friend:
Dating is not a word I like, but yes.

-- been arrested:
nope

-- skinny dipped:
yes

-- been on tv:
If I was, it was by accident/without my knowledge.

-- kissed someone and regretted it:
I’ve definitely hugged someone and regretted it. The kisses were unwise, but I don’t regret them.

-- cheated on your girlfriend:
My girlfriend. :) Yay gender norms.
No, I am always faithful.

-- been on a blind date:
zero

-- been out of the country:
yes, three times so far


--Seven things you are wearing:

a gray cat sock, a green-with-candy-canes Christmas sock, my ‘Revenge of the Goldfish’ shirt, pants which might be puce but might be just purple, underwear, a bra, and glasses. Odd that if I’d been barefoot today I wouldn’t have seven bits of clothes.

--Six things you’ve done today:
worked
wrote a few paragraphs in which Aya runs frantically
attended history
remembered to make an appointment with Gary the career guy
attended philosophy
wrote an intro to =adrift’s forum contest


--Five favorite things:
trees, Boris the Mad Cow, my movie collection (especially if my boyfriend’s movies count, but my collection is nothing to sneeze at), literacy, logic puzzles (especially if I can win, but I still like them when I can’t figure them out)


-- Four people you trust most (in no order of precedence)
I trust Billy to keep me; Travis to answer all the questions, even the terrible ones; God to exist and somewhat resemble Anselm’s definition even though that argument still irritates me every time I think of it; and myself to persist.


--Three choices
Billy
soap-like objects based on smell
something like logical or theological fatalism, or perhaps causal determinism (not sure which term most accurately reflects my view, and I find arguments for all three compelling)
[link] is a pretty good resource for that kind of thing.


--Two things you want to do before you die:
get my very own accommodations
write a will


--One person you want to see
Patrick Shorb, so I can explain--or maybe Jordan so we can finally go on our walk

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The trees seem officially nude for the winter. They're too public and beautiful to be naked. I kind of know the science of it at a very rudimentary level, but maybe the trees do it because they know it looks prettier to have the branches showing when it snows.

I saw a cloud, while I was admiring the trees, that looked just about exactly like the wings `frail draws on his angels, or maybe his demons. I'll have to go on another walkabout of his gallery.

This one is really awesome to me, despite the gaping holes in my knowledge. Ready for it? ok. Everything is physics! :)

I like building surprises for people, but I'm kind of bad at keeping the secret a total mystery. I always want to just say, "hey guess what surprise I'm making for you?!" I'm a discloser, most of the time. Don't ask me things unless you want to know the things, because I'll probably put thought into the answer and then give you as much of the answer as I can put into words. (It's a fun game with ~areincarnation when he remembers to ask things.)

Which reminds me, I like thinking of things as games and adventures. Things are more fun that way.

I like obscure references, especially when I pick up on them, or when I make them and other people pick up on them. I also like chocolate. I also also like Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. I've seen three of the four films they made together, and two of them are among my absolute favoritest, and the third one is pretty awesome too.

When I get into editing my writings, I tend to come to a point where I feel like burning the copy instead of working on it anymore, and just starting over from blank paper instead of trying to figure out what exactly is worth saving and how exactly to fix the rest. I discovered a few years ago that burning things isn't as cool as I wanted it to be, so even if I do start over from blank paper, so far I haven't burned any of my stuff while editing it. ]]> ~sisterjanet