My Past Week and Some Fun
For me, it's been a while since I've updated and, for once, it's a good thing. I've been busy getting my muse back and being a tad more bold than I usually am. So I've been doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes here. I created my own fic journal, as I said before, which really took a load off of my shoulders that I didn't know I was carrying around for so long. Then I posted a fic I was rather happy with, sent another to be beta read that I also enjoy (it was so damn fun to write actually), and I even took the majority of the day (ie probably six hours) writing, sending off to beta, and rewriting the second part of my inaugural fic, Who Needed Fireworks?. It was, for all intents and purposes, a true labor of love as I've never spent so much time working on something like that. And it came out so sickeningly sweet and fluffy that I think I may need to visit a real doctor.
And the above paragraph is another reason why I need a fic journal: I like commentary on what I've written, and use it as a way to help organize my thoughts or let readers in on what I was trying to accomplish with this or that. Might be slightly cheating, as good writing should explain itself, except, you must admit, there are times when I get ahead of myself. Heh.
Which reminds me that, after spending a whole day on one single fic, I might have to institute a writing quota for each day, minus Wednesday, so that something like this doesn't happen. 500 words wouldn't be too much to expect in a day, would it? As long as I can get my mind on it, and Earl Grey (Hot) works wonderfully to focus me in the morning for writing, I should be pounding out fics like I sometimes do with my entries. No sweat. *pets muse* I love you.
In other news that is both exciting and non exciting, I have two monitors now. I took some of the money my father gave me for my birthday, some rolled-up coins, and a few of my own extra cash (as if I had any), and bought myself a very nice Asus 24" Glossy Black VW236H Full-HD monitor. It sits to the right of my older, 23" monitor and everything looks so damn pretty, which you can see below:
Yes, that's my LJ account up on the left screen, complete with a half-dozen tabs open in Firefox, and Shogun 2: Total War playing on the separate monitor. I have yet to figure out how to position everything and be able to use both at the same time, or how to get the colors on both monitors relatively even (or even the crazy mouse movements), but I'm working on it. Plus, I want to customize my second screen with a whole bunch of Rainmeter skins, of which most of you won't know what I'm talking about, but it'll be amazing. I swear, getting that second monitor must have been what a geekgasm was like. Absolute bliss. *is geek*
Speaking of being a geek, work has been slow, even with boss out (news on that later), so I've looked at being a volunteer for LJ support. I've tried my hand at answering a few questions but I have a lot to learn about how LJ runs. It's rather exciting, and gives me the vicarious thrill that comes with helping someone out with a computer problem that I, myself, don't have. Some of the questions are simple but others require more thought. I've already learned a ton about how passwords and emails are handled by LiveJournal too. The little things in life are the most important, it seems.
Now that July is here, and the premiere for Torchwood: Miracle Day fast approaching, I called up my cable and internet company to get the Starz package and the HD box so I can watch the show as I want to. I also want to support the show like I can't with Doctor Who (or couldn't before) and actually pay for the services. By the end of July I'm sure that I'll be discontinuing the Starz package, but for an extra $10 a month I may keep the HD service. Not a ton of channels run on HD but I'd at least get my local ones. They were also very nice to talk to and I got a date for when my bill would be coming and when it was due. Everything, so far, is working out bill wish in my new apartment.
Speaking of my apartment, I now have a small table for eating (with no chairs) that sits to the left of me as I sit at my computer. It works for now, and my place is still cluttered everywhere. I want to at least put up two posters today, to keep the walls from looking so pitiful, and one of them has to be my Series 4 Doctor Who Companion poster I grabbed a while ago. That poster will either be placed above my TV (so I can see it practically all the time), next to my Mass Effect movie poster, or above my bed, which has many, um, "benefits" of being placed there. Tough, tough decisions.
Now, on to Doctor Who! :D
After another big purchase of DVDs from Amazon, I have a story from each Doctor, except for Six. In fact, the DVD collection is growing very fast. For Five, as I said before, I'm missing either two or three stories from him, and the rest is just a collection of mis-matched stories here and there. Let's see, I've got Stories 1-3, 6, 10, 11, and 12 of One; 46 and 50 of Two; 54 and 65 of Three; 78, 82, 88, 98-103 (Key to Time Season Arc), 105, and 112-116 of Four; 116-131, 133, and 135 of Five; and 152 of Seven. Notable Stories in my collection include, obviously, the first couple of One stories, The Aztecs, The Romans, The War Games, The Three Doctors, Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin, the entirety of Season 16 ("The Key to Time"), practically all of Five's era (minus three! Argh! Release the Special Edition of Caves of Androzani to R1 please!!!), and Remembrance of the Daleks. That's...a lot of Who. I've watched 80% of the Five I have, up The Five Doctors, so some progress has been made.
I also seem to have a huge addiction to the Big finish audios. The audiobooks with David Tennant reading the stores are just...mm, guh worthy, but the audioplays from Big Finish are something else and I treasure each one of them that I get. So far, I've mostly collected the older ones (I don't have the money for a subscription...yet), particularly when they had their big sale at the beginning of June, and I have a good number of them (ok, 33, I counted, not including a book adaptation they released). The relationship between Five and Nyssa is so rich and amazing that I love the two of them together. They're like perfect complements to each other, something you don't see in the stories, and I can completely see them as an earlier version of Ten and Donna. They're best mates and they just work. After hearing their first audio I knew I could never ship them together, never ever, because they are perfect friends. Perhaps better than Ten's friendship (yes, I see it that way!) with Donna. *ducks head* ...That may have gotten me into hot water. /Five and Nyssa friendshipiness
Oh, but listening to one of the BF audios, Winter for the Adept, while getting my fillings put in last week was a trip. Literally. I was halfway through the story before I turned it off and all I can remember is Nyssa being alone for a while, the Doctor making a grand entrance, and a poltergeist...kinda. Good thing it isn't one of the more well-received audios. Heh.
I'm slowly working my way through the Marvel "Civil War" comic event and I find it to be...alright. Not great but ok. I can't figure out which "side" I'm on but all of the talk about unmasking the superheroes would make a great analogy to coming out of the closet, ie "Oh! I'm gay!" I'm wondering if I'm the only one that keeps thinking that when a superhero says they want to unmask and come out. *snickers* It's funny.
Hrm, what else has happened? I feel happier now. And calmer. My mother's wedding is on Friday and I just don't care. At all. My apartment is coming along, the dishes are done, the fridge and cabinets are filled, and I'm ok. There's also good news on the boss front: prognosis came back and she has Stage II cancer but no further treatment, like chemotherapy or radiation, is required. I'm guessing that Stage II is ok? I looked it up and, although it's local, I wonder how "local" that means. No word on if she needs to go back for surgery, just that no "further treatment" is needed. *shrug*
I think that's about it. I'm doing ok, I'm feeling fine, and even the prospect of work tomorrow isn't freaking me out. Plus, there's a week-long vacation I have in a few weeks where I've got another story to finish. And audios to listen to.
Life is...ok. I think it's taken me years to say that but, it's true: life is ok.
*hugs to everyone*
And the above paragraph is another reason why I need a fic journal: I like commentary on what I've written, and use it as a way to help organize my thoughts or let readers in on what I was trying to accomplish with this or that. Might be slightly cheating, as good writing should explain itself, except, you must admit, there are times when I get ahead of myself. Heh.
Which reminds me that, after spending a whole day on one single fic, I might have to institute a writing quota for each day, minus Wednesday, so that something like this doesn't happen. 500 words wouldn't be too much to expect in a day, would it? As long as I can get my mind on it, and Earl Grey (Hot) works wonderfully to focus me in the morning for writing, I should be pounding out fics like I sometimes do with my entries. No sweat. *pets muse* I love you.
In other news that is both exciting and non exciting, I have two monitors now. I took some of the money my father gave me for my birthday, some rolled-up coins, and a few of my own extra cash (as if I had any), and bought myself a very nice Asus 24" Glossy Black VW236H Full-HD monitor. It sits to the right of my older, 23" monitor and everything looks so damn pretty, which you can see below:
Yes, that's my LJ account up on the left screen, complete with a half-dozen tabs open in Firefox, and Shogun 2: Total War playing on the separate monitor. I have yet to figure out how to position everything and be able to use both at the same time, or how to get the colors on both monitors relatively even (or even the crazy mouse movements), but I'm working on it. Plus, I want to customize my second screen with a whole bunch of Rainmeter skins, of which most of you won't know what I'm talking about, but it'll be amazing. I swear, getting that second monitor must have been what a geekgasm was like. Absolute bliss. *is geek*
Speaking of being a geek, work has been slow, even with boss out (news on that later), so I've looked at being a volunteer for LJ support. I've tried my hand at answering a few questions but I have a lot to learn about how LJ runs. It's rather exciting, and gives me the vicarious thrill that comes with helping someone out with a computer problem that I, myself, don't have. Some of the questions are simple but others require more thought. I've already learned a ton about how passwords and emails are handled by LiveJournal too. The little things in life are the most important, it seems.
Now that July is here, and the premiere for Torchwood: Miracle Day fast approaching, I called up my cable and internet company to get the Starz package and the HD box so I can watch the show as I want to. I also want to support the show like I can't with Doctor Who (or couldn't before) and actually pay for the services. By the end of July I'm sure that I'll be discontinuing the Starz package, but for an extra $10 a month I may keep the HD service. Not a ton of channels run on HD but I'd at least get my local ones. They were also very nice to talk to and I got a date for when my bill would be coming and when it was due. Everything, so far, is working out bill wish in my new apartment.
Speaking of my apartment, I now have a small table for eating (with no chairs) that sits to the left of me as I sit at my computer. It works for now, and my place is still cluttered everywhere. I want to at least put up two posters today, to keep the walls from looking so pitiful, and one of them has to be my Series 4 Doctor Who Companion poster I grabbed a while ago. That poster will either be placed above my TV (so I can see it practically all the time), next to my Mass Effect movie poster, or above my bed, which has many, um, "benefits" of being placed there. Tough, tough decisions.
Now, on to Doctor Who! :D
After another big purchase of DVDs from Amazon, I have a story from each Doctor, except for Six. In fact, the DVD collection is growing very fast. For Five, as I said before, I'm missing either two or three stories from him, and the rest is just a collection of mis-matched stories here and there. Let's see, I've got Stories 1-3, 6, 10, 11, and 12 of One; 46 and 50 of Two; 54 and 65 of Three; 78, 82, 88, 98-103 (Key to Time Season Arc), 105, and 112-116 of Four; 116-131, 133, and 135 of Five; and 152 of Seven. Notable Stories in my collection include, obviously, the first couple of One stories, The Aztecs, The Romans, The War Games, The Three Doctors, Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin, the entirety of Season 16 ("The Key to Time"), practically all of Five's era (minus three! Argh! Release the Special Edition of Caves of Androzani to R1 please!!!), and Remembrance of the Daleks. That's...a lot of Who. I've watched 80% of the Five I have, up The Five Doctors, so some progress has been made.
I also seem to have a huge addiction to the Big finish audios. The audiobooks with David Tennant reading the stores are just...mm, guh worthy, but the audioplays from Big Finish are something else and I treasure each one of them that I get. So far, I've mostly collected the older ones (I don't have the money for a subscription...yet), particularly when they had their big sale at the beginning of June, and I have a good number of them (ok, 33, I counted, not including a book adaptation they released). The relationship between Five and Nyssa is so rich and amazing that I love the two of them together. They're like perfect complements to each other, something you don't see in the stories, and I can completely see them as an earlier version of Ten and Donna. They're best mates and they just work. After hearing their first audio I knew I could never ship them together, never ever, because they are perfect friends. Perhaps better than Ten's friendship (yes, I see it that way!) with Donna. *ducks head* ...That may have gotten me into hot water. /Five and Nyssa friendshipiness
Oh, but listening to one of the BF audios, Winter for the Adept, while getting my fillings put in last week was a trip. Literally. I was halfway through the story before I turned it off and all I can remember is Nyssa being alone for a while, the Doctor making a grand entrance, and a poltergeist...kinda. Good thing it isn't one of the more well-received audios. Heh.
I'm slowly working my way through the Marvel "Civil War" comic event and I find it to be...alright. Not great but ok. I can't figure out which "side" I'm on but all of the talk about unmasking the superheroes would make a great analogy to coming out of the closet, ie "Oh! I'm gay!" I'm wondering if I'm the only one that keeps thinking that when a superhero says they want to unmask and come out. *snickers* It's funny.
Hrm, what else has happened? I feel happier now. And calmer. My mother's wedding is on Friday and I just don't care. At all. My apartment is coming along, the dishes are done, the fridge and cabinets are filled, and I'm ok. There's also good news on the boss front: prognosis came back and she has Stage II cancer but no further treatment, like chemotherapy or radiation, is required. I'm guessing that Stage II is ok? I looked it up and, although it's local, I wonder how "local" that means. No word on if she needs to go back for surgery, just that no "further treatment" is needed. *shrug*
I think that's about it. I'm doing ok, I'm feeling fine, and even the prospect of work tomorrow isn't freaking me out. Plus, there's a week-long vacation I have in a few weeks where I've got another story to finish. And audios to listen to.
Life is...ok. I think it's taken me years to say that but, it's true: life is ok.
*hugs to everyone*