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See what I'm doing when I should be writing? Ah well. This is the sucky draft I'm working through now, anyway. I just have to have faith it will get better.

Back to it, now. Hard to revise what isn't yet written. Let's see what chaos Ethan has been up to in my absence.....
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NOTE: no actual spoilers in here, just random comments, recs, and a meme. But cut anyway, to spare the flist. )

Until next week, that is all.

Hob
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So, I know I'm going to burn now for posting a meme and then not responding to anyone for the past few days. As the move out day gets closer and the boxes begin to pile up, I get a little overwhelmed. But for those who responded to my meme, thanks, and know that I did read and take amusement/ comfort from the answers. To save me time, here in one place are my answers, for anyone who wanted to know:
read more )
In other news, I have two page long starts to Giles stories, but something completely new and original has been sucking up the brain cells the past few weeks. Another reason I will burn, I suppose. I'll try to bang something out while wee hob is at Scout camp next month-- that's one of the reasons I chose the date I did, as it gave me that week of childlessness to focus on something, and then a few days after to edit it. Theoretically.

Hope everyone's well. I have a Harry Potter rec, for anyone who might have an interest. This is possibly one of the most beautiful pieces of fanfic I've ever read, and given some of the people on this very flist, that's saying quite a lot. Enjoy it. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/834017/1/
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YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I WANNA KNOW YOU...
I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine...You're on my list, so I wanna know you better! =)meme )
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Gacked from-- just about everybody by now, most recently [livejournal.com profile] blueanddollsome:

--Go to Google.com
--Click on Maps.
--Click on "get Directions".
--From New York
--To London (Paris, Rome, Dublin, or Moscow)

--And read line # 23.

If you laugh, repost this.

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In sadder news, Kurt Vonnegut has died. I discovered him as a depressed 17 year old, and, as was my habit in those days, I read everything of his I could find in the space of a few weeks that summer. I wouldn't recommend that to others-- there's a cumulative effect to the pervasively hopeless world view. At least, there was on me at that age and mindset. 20th Century literature in general does that to me-- where the monsters are these huge amorphous entities like society, and there's no God in His (Her) heaven to give one the hope it may all be set right.

But maybe that's the point-- that we have to be the ones setting it right, even if we're too small and ultimately doomed to failure. I'm glad I read his work, and I loved his biting humor and irreverent wit. He will be missed.

(And does anyone else see an eerie resemblance in the press photos to Mark Twain?)
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[livejournal.com profile] penwiper26 gave me my choice of dark green letters: F, G or P, and I chose this one.

10 things I like about the letter G:

1. Green. Dark, rich, the color and scent of growing things and shadowed light through canopies of leaves. It's always been my favorite color.

2. Giles. Duh.

3. Google Documents. The absolutely coolest way to share writing drafts with betas. Color comments! Conversations! (Several people agreeing that a particular sentence does not work the way I think it does.....)

4. Ginger. The color and the spice. Gingersnaps, gingerbread, ginger tea. All Good Things.

5. Great Big Sea-- a group I've recently been introduced to. Several of the sample tracks have made it on to my "Cheer Up" playlist.

6. Grand Piano-- hearing the resonances and overtones from the strings, the echoes, retunes my soul sometimes.

7. Ghosts. Real and imagined. Read an old post about ghost stories here. Kind of appropriate given my recent [livejournal.com profile] tenyearsofbuffy ficathon entry.

8. Great and Generous writers on my flist. (Sincerely meant, but yes, I am starting to draw a blank here......)

9. Grace. And gratitude.

10. Goblins. Not the evil Tolkien ones, but the otherworldly faerie folk. Though Rosetti's "Goblin Market" is one of my favorite poems. But my favorite goblin is Puck. Well, second favorite. I do have a Wee Hobgoblinn with pointed ears, mischievous smile and an apalling tendency not to make it to school on time this week. That will be changing tonight.....

A good day to all,

Hob

Meme

Mar. 14th, 2007 05:17 pm
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Ok, because if [livejournal.com profile] gileswench jumped off a cliff, I would of course have to do likewise:

A meme. (I still don't know from where the word "meme" is derived, btw, though I get the meaning from context, I think. Feel free to weigh in with that info, if you know. I'll pretty much believe anything.)

Respond with a comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/movie.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell my first memory of you.
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) In return, you MUST spread this disease in your LJ.

In other news-- none on the work front. I just stay in my quiet little cube and try not to piss anyone off. Is working well so far. I did have a very surreal dream last night in which I sat both my bosses down and gave them a stern talking to and told them to play nicely with each other. A plague on both their houses, I say.
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Of course, the below is not getting my [livejournal.com profile] tenyearsofbuffy story written. First half is off to final beta, but second half is-- a sodding mess. Procrastination, thy name is hobgoblinn.

I had better reset my journal so a long work of fiction is readable. I love the "a novel conundrum" style, but I need a break between paragraphs that style doesn't provide. So-- off to fix that next. And Then-- time to get back to mulling over the great ideas offered me by [livejournal.com profile] antennapedia and [livejournal.com profile] clavally and [livejournal.com profile] rahirah. And also from [livejournal.com profile] rainkatt, a member of a writer's group I recently joined.

Huh, a green brain. Well, it's refreshing to have someone tell me I'm "balanced." Very refreshing indeed.... And as for problem solver-- someone remind me to tell you the story of how I got around the problem of having to sign a very insane and unethical non compete/ non disclosure agreement at work this week. The thing about legal documents is, they all look so much Alike.... Word Document, meet Hobgoblinn. Hobgoblinn.... heh heh heh....


Your Brain is Green

Of all the brain types, yours has the most balance.
You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver.
You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don't get stuck in bad thinking patterns.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual).
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My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sister Inspired Cudgel of Reasoned Reason. What's yours?


It's been a trying day. I got out onto the roads briefly, then decided that however much my life may suck at the moment, being dead would not be an improvement. Wee hobgoblinn had detention (yeah, only school in greater Cincinnati Not to have a snow/ice day or early dismissal) and was only moderately happy that I took pity on him and picked him up so he would not have to walk home in the sleet. It's supposed to be worse tomorrow. Boy keeps asking me to check every couple of minutes to see if Ft Thomas has thrown in the towel on school closings yet.

It sounds like someone is tossing chipped ice at my windows just now. I think I'm staying home to do battle with my computer programs another day tomorrow. Assuming I still have electricity by tomorrow morning.....

I'm sure the above has long since made the live journal rounds, but I just found it. On Perlmonks of all places, on the home node of a 13 year old perl programmer. Neat kid. Anyway, click to go to the site, not so much to see your own name, but to read the column by Jon Carroll that inspired it in the first place. It certainly made a day of trying to understand why something in my program used to work right and now does not, a little more entertaining.

I must say, I really like my name, though. "Sister Inspired Cudgel..." Has a certain ring to it....

Here's a toast to warmth and safety for all. Good night.

Hob
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You know the Bible 100%!
 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Huh. Wasn't expecting to do that well. Especially as I spend most of my time these days behind the scenes as a musician, up in a loft where you can't hear a Thing (but sadly, the incense continues to clog one's lungs....)

Here's another cool icon-- Headrush pointed me to them, but I forget the creator's name. Bad me. I did comment and thank her though. Very funny "Good Omens" icons.....

Hob
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