it's the latest forest fire
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lotus0kid(Ooh, the sky's doing that thing you only see in summer when everything gets tinged a really cool shade of pink/yellow/green. I love that.)
So, had a meeting with one of those temp agency guys today. We'll see if anything comes of that. I think it might, since I have a somewhat decent amount of experience now. The guy seemed fairly enthusiastic. Tomorrow I will definitely start looking at GRE study materials. I've been horrifically lazy to let it go this long. I will also go to the grocery store and buy actual ingredients for things. What things, I'm not sure, but I will.
Some feral anti-virus program has latched onto my computer. It keeps popping up with "ZOMFG YOU'VE BEEN INFECTED REGISTER NOW" messages that I'm really hoping will stop if I click "GO AWAY, FFS" enough. For now I've just got my Task Manager up to zap the messages that way.
I don't normally stay up for it- so much easier to dash over to the website to see the latest episode- but I do want to see if The Daily Show has anything cool to say about the awesome news on Prop 8.
Hm, I wanted to have more fun things to talk about, but.. yeah. Oh hey, Rifftrax is doing another live show on the nineteenth! Reefer Madness, the colorized version. So, yeah, that'll be cool. Also, completely at random today while I was working on cover art for a song mix I'm putting together, I found "Shalala" by Martin McFaul. It's a pretty darn cool song you can go here to download. If his whole album is like that, I might not be able to resist buying it.
*sigh* I shouldn't, since it will probably interfere with those grandiose GRE and grocery plans I have for tomorrow, but my fic-writing brain feels like it's been stagnating since finishing the bigboom fic, so...
Give me a prompt for a five-sentence fic.
Thanks kindly! Now I gotta run and see if the TV's free for Burn Notice.
1. Alt!Wendy from The Middleman. Duh, Alt!Wendy is the best! I would watch a show entirely about her.
2. The Devil from Reaper. This is my favorite interpretation of The Devil ever, Ray Wise did an amazing job.
3. Mister Teatime from Hogfather. Ooh, so creepy, so deeply, deeply disturbed. If Terry Pratchett didn't in turn make such awesome heroes, I'd be worried about him.
4. Richard III from Richard III. Yup, throwing a litle Shakespeare at you. Now, I've only seen the 1995 Ian McKellan version of this play, but I just loved how he imbued Richard with this impish glee at every awful act. There's this wonderful moment when he delivers some news to the king, and as he turns away he glances at the camera for the slightest of instants. His expression... makes it the perfect movie to root for the bad guy.
5. Major West from 28 Days Later. Oh, CE, why are you so good at being so bad? Or at least so frighteningly sane he's come out the other side to batshit nuts.
Runners-up: Badger from Firefly, The Editor from Doctor Who
So, had a meeting with one of those temp agency guys today. We'll see if anything comes of that. I think it might, since I have a somewhat decent amount of experience now. The guy seemed fairly enthusiastic. Tomorrow I will definitely start looking at GRE study materials. I've been horrifically lazy to let it go this long. I will also go to the grocery store and buy actual ingredients for things. What things, I'm not sure, but I will.
Some feral anti-virus program has latched onto my computer. It keeps popping up with "ZOMFG YOU'VE BEEN INFECTED REGISTER NOW" messages that I'm really hoping will stop if I click "GO AWAY, FFS" enough. For now I've just got my Task Manager up to zap the messages that way.
I don't normally stay up for it- so much easier to dash over to the website to see the latest episode- but I do want to see if The Daily Show has anything cool to say about the awesome news on Prop 8.
Hm, I wanted to have more fun things to talk about, but.. yeah. Oh hey, Rifftrax is doing another live show on the nineteenth! Reefer Madness, the colorized version. So, yeah, that'll be cool. Also, completely at random today while I was working on cover art for a song mix I'm putting together, I found "Shalala" by Martin McFaul. It's a pretty darn cool song you can go here to download. If his whole album is like that, I might not be able to resist buying it.
*sigh* I shouldn't, since it will probably interfere with those grandiose GRE and grocery plans I have for tomorrow, but my fic-writing brain feels like it's been stagnating since finishing the bigboom fic, so...
Give me a prompt for a five-sentence fic.
Thanks kindly! Now I gotta run and see if the TV's free for Burn Notice.
1. Alt!Wendy from The Middleman. Duh, Alt!Wendy is the best! I would watch a show entirely about her.
2. The Devil from Reaper. This is my favorite interpretation of The Devil ever, Ray Wise did an amazing job.
3. Mister Teatime from Hogfather. Ooh, so creepy, so deeply, deeply disturbed. If Terry Pratchett didn't in turn make such awesome heroes, I'd be worried about him.
4. Richard III from Richard III. Yup, throwing a litle Shakespeare at you. Now, I've only seen the 1995 Ian McKellan version of this play, but I just loved how he imbued Richard with this impish glee at every awful act. There's this wonderful moment when he delivers some news to the king, and as he turns away he glances at the camera for the slightest of instants. His expression... makes it the perfect movie to root for the bad guy.
5. Major West from 28 Days Later. Oh, CE, why are you so good at being so bad? Or at least so frighteningly sane he's come out the other side to batshit nuts.
Runners-up: Badger from Firefly, The Editor from Doctor Who
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Date: 2010-08-06 12:26 pm (UTC)They're city boys, the both of them. "Rural" just isn't written in their genes and they know it- and so does their new friend. Claude joked earlier, "Of course another speedo from the countryside- the better to get the hell out of there, yeah?"
Mocking laughter has given way to fierce repellance and little Cindy is all but hissing like a snake as Peter picks his way over the stony creek bed, keeping up a steady stream of comforting words and assurances as he does.
The girl turns and begins to blur with movement- but doesn't get more than two feet before slamming into an invisible Claude, barrelling them both over in a spray of water.
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Date: 2010-08-06 03:51 pm (UTC)*snorts* Poor Claude, he's going to be picking nature off his clothes for days and complaining about it.
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Date: 2010-08-06 04:07 pm (UTC)XD Pretty much.