State of the bironic
Relaxing: I'm remembering how to do it. I'm even reading a book.
When I got home on Thursday, I ran a bunch of errands and then we went to see a Ryan Star show nearby at my sister's bidding. It was a good one; louder than it needed to be, typical for this venue, but I was prepared with foam earplugs, and he played my two favorite songs of his: Brand New Day, which he tends to open with, and which got popped up for the Lie to Me opening credits, and The One You Know, which I've only heard him do once, out of tune.
Friday I played on the computer all afternoon, learning how to vid. I've now got a machine that can handle video capture and editing-as opposed to this laptop, which can't even take a still shot from streaming video-and I'm working on a simple vid to start, House-Wilson friendship, House POV, happy fluffy joy. I hope it will be ready in a week or so.
For the first time in a while, I had a Memorial Day weekend that felt like a Memorial Day weekend. Saturday my dad and I went to Jones Beach to see the annual air show with the Air Force Thunderbirds headlining. There were also Canadian Snowbirds, some biplanes, a helicopter that did flips, and some kind of huge, ground-shaking WWII-type jet that went straight up and hovered, among others. Back home afterwards we barbecued some hamburgers, hot dogs and ears of corn. Mm. Sunday I headed to my mom's place, and she and her s.o. and I went out fishing on the bay in their little motorboat. You can see the Manhattan skyline and New Rochelle and Connecticut from there even through the haze, and all the huge shorefront houses that make up the "Gold Coast" of Long Island. We didn't catch anything, but it was relaxing to lie there in the breeze in the sun, and to let my fish head (bass bait) bop around on the line, mouth gaping, when we moved from fishing spot to fishing spot. And then yesterday I went to Brooklyn to see no_detective (formerly moonlash_cc), pun and krisdia, where we enjoyed lemon-ricotta pancakes, vids from the new Star Trek movie, and much-missed conversation.
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My updates lately have been sparse and sometimes locked. Here's where I'm at and where I think I'm going for the next few months.
- Classes ended a week and a half ago. I'm now done with the coursework towards my graduate degree. All that's left is completing an internship. Mine starts Monday (maybe; long story), so I'll be in the D.C. area through August. I'm waiting for my apartment key to come in the mail and then I'm driving down. Hopefully tomorrow.
- At my internship, there will be no daytime access to email or LJ. It's not even a matter of willpower this time; it's all government-firewalled. My supervisor-to-be has to go home to work on developing the department's Facebook page. So I won't see anyone's posts or get messages between maybe 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., unless I skip out on lunch break to a public computer. Although I suppose it's possible nobody here will notice a difference in my participation.
- Accordingly, if I want to work on fic, I'll have to bring a notebook, because I also can't email that stuff to myself to or from my work account, and I can't hook up any flash drives to the network. I want to bring the notebook, though, because there will be kink_bingo, another Porn Battle, and Remix starting up in the next month or so.
Did I forget anything? I think that's it.
When I got home on Thursday, I ran a bunch of errands and then we went to see a Ryan Star show nearby at my sister's bidding. It was a good one; louder than it needed to be, typical for this venue, but I was prepared with foam earplugs, and he played my two favorite songs of his: Brand New Day, which he tends to open with, and which got popped up for the Lie to Me opening credits, and The One You Know, which I've only heard him do once, out of tune.
Friday I played on the computer all afternoon, learning how to vid. I've now got a machine that can handle video capture and editing-as opposed to this laptop, which can't even take a still shot from streaming video-and I'm working on a simple vid to start, House-Wilson friendship, House POV, happy fluffy joy. I hope it will be ready in a week or so.
For the first time in a while, I had a Memorial Day weekend that felt like a Memorial Day weekend. Saturday my dad and I went to Jones Beach to see the annual air show with the Air Force Thunderbirds headlining. There were also Canadian Snowbirds, some biplanes, a helicopter that did flips, and some kind of huge, ground-shaking WWII-type jet that went straight up and hovered, among others. Back home afterwards we barbecued some hamburgers, hot dogs and ears of corn. Mm. Sunday I headed to my mom's place, and she and her s.o. and I went out fishing on the bay in their little motorboat. You can see the Manhattan skyline and New Rochelle and Connecticut from there even through the haze, and all the huge shorefront houses that make up the "Gold Coast" of Long Island. We didn't catch anything, but it was relaxing to lie there in the breeze in the sun, and to let my fish head (bass bait) bop around on the line, mouth gaping, when we moved from fishing spot to fishing spot. And then yesterday I went to Brooklyn to see no_detective (formerly moonlash_cc), pun and krisdia, where we enjoyed lemon-ricotta pancakes, vids from the new Star Trek movie, and much-missed conversation.
.
My updates lately have been sparse and sometimes locked. Here's where I'm at and where I think I'm going for the next few months.
- Classes ended a week and a half ago. I'm now done with the coursework towards my graduate degree. All that's left is completing an internship. Mine starts Monday (maybe; long story), so I'll be in the D.C. area through August. I'm waiting for my apartment key to come in the mail and then I'm driving down. Hopefully tomorrow.
- At my internship, there will be no daytime access to email or LJ. It's not even a matter of willpower this time; it's all government-firewalled. My supervisor-to-be has to go home to work on developing the department's Facebook page. So I won't see anyone's posts or get messages between maybe 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., unless I skip out on lunch break to a public computer. Although I suppose it's possible nobody here will notice a difference in my participation.
- Accordingly, if I want to work on fic, I'll have to bring a notebook, because I also can't email that stuff to myself to or from my work account, and I can't hook up any flash drives to the network. I want to bring the notebook, though, because there will be kink_bingo, another Porn Battle, and Remix starting up in the next month or so.
Did I forget anything? I think that's it.