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No, Jag, you're learning Russian not Huttese.

Okay, this delayed body action thing is not helping my concentration. At. All. Just saying. There are a few details that I typed out but then thought better of sharing with the entire internet, but, argh. Bodies. How do they work.

Fuckit, I've tagged all the relatively urgent tags I've needed to, so. Fuck this LJ downtime crap. Although it does make me glad I back all my personal journal stuff up here. The RP stuff I'll be sad to not have access to for a while, but I'm not all that fussed about it since most of the people I RP with these days, and actually talk to, have my IM info or this journal anyway.

I read Ghost Story. I won't put any spoilers here, mostly because I can't figure out what coherent things to say about it. There will probably be spoilers in the comments. My most coherent review is AUGH! HARRY YOU IDIOT! BOB! BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB! BUTTERS! AUGH! DAMMIT! HARRY YOU IDIOT! MURPH! AUGH! I KNEW IT! HARRY GODDAMMIT! BUTTERS! AUGH! HARRY YOU BASTARD! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. So, there you have my very non-spoilery review. Unless you're spoiled by knowing Butters and Harry and Murph and Bob are in the book. Sorry.

Next up, um. Oh! The Middle Kingdoms books. And then Game of Thrones with the possible sporking. And in the meantime, attempting to drag my ragged routines back into some semblance of coherence. Which, actually, no. I take it back, I haven't been doing so badly at all (Apart from last night, which was occupied by Ghost Story). It just feels like I'm more exhausted than I am, because I didn't get an actual weekend off and because my body is doing stupid shit. Okay, that's a bit reassuring.

So it goes.

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Oh science, why are you so weird. No, seriously, a glow in the dark dog? I think this article would have made a lot more sense to me if they'd tied in the glowing with the Alzheimer's/Parkinson's treatment potential. But they didn't. They just gave me a glowing beagle.

Closing tabs. Also have finally been dicking around with customizing the layout for my DW journal, since the latest round of DDoS attacks on LJ has prompted another round of people going 'fuck this, I'm moving to DW.' Yay? Yay ish! And offering to help monitor for responses and whatevers dealing with the slowness of DW ended up getting me possibly recruited to write FAQs and Guides and things for DW. I have no idea how I get myself into these things, I swear. No, wait, I know. It looks shiny. And then I go "oh yeah, I could totes do that." And then I go, "crap, what did I get myself into." BUT, even with allowing for that, actually, working on some non-fiction/copy editing/copy writing should be very good mental floss for between scenes in the evening, so I'm not trying to do an additional twenty things at once.

I swear I had something else to talk about here. I could froth over the current state of US politics, which is basically everyone whining and screaming at each other about how they can't have their way and no one actually thinking about the increasingly mob-like population of most of the rest of the country who are suffering because of it. But I don't want to froth. I want to be cheerful. Bele Chere is coming soon, I can't decide if I want to work it or if I want to take a freaking day off. I think I will end up coming in, if for no other reason than I can always use the extra money before Dragon*Con.

Oh! The other thing. I want to take this as a challenge, but I'm not sure how. Help? Thoughts? Anyone? Admittedly, I have almost everything for the next several fic challenges lined up. Most of my SFBB/NovelBB/Original BB is done, none of which qualifies, I'm doing Black Ice collection for Nano, and while I could try doing another fantasy novel for it, I don't know what world I'd set it in or if I would just have to make up a new one in September. Oh, and Horror Big Bang, which I signed up for ages ago and at some point I need to input those dates, is already half written too. And also does not involve fantasy. So, thoughts? Or would anyone else like to take up the challenge for me?

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I really have no idea why my life has been so damn crazy lately. Also, if my body doesn't start bleeding soon I'm going to punch it in the stomach. This shit is freaking me out. As you may have noticed by the fact that I won't shut up about it.

So! No groceries. Which is good. This means I get guitar and Japanese practice in. Plus an actual healthy dinner instead of fast food. And possibly cooking something crap I need to cook the boy's dinner and wake him up. Bother. Um. Stuff and things. Okay, next up, then, is making dinner/lunch, guitar goes in here somewhere, and then editing and writing. Mostly Big Bangs. And then going to bed on freaking time my lord I have been so bad about that the past couple of days.

Hm. So, there's a couple of new folk lurking around this journal now, I might as well discuss a new concept ... okay, it's not that new, it's almost three years old, where the hell did the time go. For the past two and 2/3 or so years a couple friends and I have been doing this thing called Courtesan School. Because it sounds niftier than 'I wanna learn this and this and this' and it puts it all into a catch-all name. We decided we were tired of talking about how awesome we could be, and decided to make ourselves as awesome as we wanted to be. We did this in a threefold way: we laid out our goals in specific terms, looked at how we'd tried to achieve those goals in the past, and laid out plans with our previous failures in mind. Lather, rinse, repeat.

We check in once a week with each other to offer advice, encouragement, commiseration, etc. We picked Courtesan as a concept because historically, the women who are now called courtesans, had to be awesome and better at many things than most people around them, in order to continue to wield the power and influence that they did. And we've been doing this for about 2 2/3 years. We've gone from "lose X pounds" to "get fit, be able to do $exercise", we've learned... four languages between us, we've set small step goals for our hobbies like music, writing, crafts. We've learned new skills, confronted new social challenges. And we've tripped and fallen along the way. But we pick ourselves back up again, and keep going.

So, a lot of the time, you'll hear me talk about things in that way, I want to do this, oh, crap, I'm not doing this, well, I need to fix this, oh, there!, or you'll here me refer to CS, or checking in, usually on Wednesdays. And that's what it means! The More You Know /star

Kitchen Experiment #1

Trying to make a balsamicish dressing out of these two recipes. Here follows my own notes:

1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce (low-sod)
1 tablespoon white sugar
3 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon onion powder (ended up not chopping the onion after all)

Possibly there will be no onion because I have a red onion to chop. The idea is for this to go on grilled vegetables w/cheese and flatbread or a vegetable-and-onion salad.

Thoughts? Suggestions? We'll see what happens tomorrow!