1. I've been social two evenings in a row, which is unusual for me: went to a rather large party at a friend's house last night, and had two new friends over for dinner and conversation tonight (pesto pizza with yellow peppers, fruit salad, brownies with mint ice cream). I'm feeling very grateful that tomorrow I can work in my garden and then come ( Read more... )

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• MayDay.us. Many of you will have already seen this, but in case you haven't: Lawrence Lessig (pro-creativity lawyer of Free Culture and Remix fame -- you may have seen his TED talk -- who's turned from copyright reform to campaign finance reform) has founded the Mayday Political Action Committee, which "aims to elect a Congress committed to ( Read more... )

1. I have finished a vid for VVC Premieres! ...thus continuing my streak of having a vid in Premieres only in even-numbered years. Goal for 2015: make a vid for Premieres. Even if I have to start it in 2014. Which I might ( Read more... )

Past years: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008-09 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004

( general fannishness )

vonniek prompted: Do you have a favourite book(s) you'd like to see adapted to screen? If so, which format? (Big screen, miniseries, TV series). Have you done any fancasting in your head?You know, I don't, really. I suspect this is mostly because, though I now watch quite a bit of TV, I am in many ways still much more attuned to text (both by temperament ( Read more... )

Assume spoilers through all aired eps.

( Agents of SHIELD )

It's been a week, people. There's been the obvious emotional upheaval -- I have been on a hair trigger all week and on more than one occasion have had to excuse myself from a meeting or whatever to cry in the bathroom: dignified adulthood, party of 0 -- but also straight-up physical exhaustion; I brought home 40 student drafts last week and 2/3 of ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening a local friend sent me a link to this article about time vs. bandwidth, and this evening we talked about it over dinner -- about needing to think not just about managing our time but managing our intellectual or emotional focus, being mindful about what can and can't be multitasked ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here looking at this hot mess of a vid draft and realizing that I honestly have no idea whether the problem is that these are all the wrong clips or that they're the right clips in the wrong order. Or both. Probably some of both. Dammit.

I think it's officially time for bed.

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