Imaginary Gardens

So again, not dead. Also, curiously enough, not exhausted. But work doesn't leave me much time for posting and surfing and Links of the Day, which is why sometimes this past week I've looked at the bed and said, "Ah, screw it, let's sleep." (Or rewatch Doctor Who Season 5, and sputter about things we still don't know about River - what did the Bishop in Time of Angels mean? - or about the finale - why 26/06/2010?)

However, I can report back that work is going well. So far it's still a lot of reading - although now they've brought down and hooked up my computer in my new shared office, so yay typing and oncoming productivity! I attended some presentations last week, and had an informal lunch meeting, and have a meeting tomorrow (where I think I'm supposed to introduce myself to the larger team). I've met more people than I could possibly ever remember and they've all been nice. Ah, international environment, how I've missed you! I've walked miles going from one part of the building to the other, getting lost in corridors and on staircases. I swear it's a bloody TARDIS-baby.

Last week I kept getting home absolutely exhausted - all read-out and socialized-out and languaged-out. Also, curisouly, with a raving desire for creativity. I've worked on that Not What I Had In My Head drawing (and worked on it so much it went from decent-enough to shite and back again) and have discovered The Coloured Pencils as well as the Badly Mangled Watercolours from my childhood. I also have charcoal pencils, so at least one version of the drawing is going to be passable. I even took Betsy out for a bit - didn't play her or even tuner her up, but I did wipe the dirt of her poor little guitar body.

In other news, have some links. Lots and lots of links.

Photo of the Day: True Blood SPOILERS ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: mybrokenlocket, here - AWESOMENESS

Can I please have dibs on "Big Gay Angel Crisis" as a band name? We'll sing songs about Supernatural fandom, it will be wonderful.

Song of the Day: "La Tasche Piene di Sassi" by Jovanotto ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Meme: The Year In Review - The first line of the first post each month. ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who and Co: ( Read more... )
Batman: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom and Crossovers: ( Read more... )
Random Literature: ( Read more... )
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* Anon. or uncredited

Gods know I don't like inflicting bad poetry on the poor undeserving masses. Still, if any of you'd be kind enough to check out this post on sickle_stories, I'd appreciate it. It's a rearrangement of a "spam poem" - i.e. a mess of lines gotten in spam - which seems to be the spam spawn** of a load of winter poems from the Chicago Press Winter Poems Collection.

I've got a few different variations for one stanza I'd particularly like input on.

But, you know, no pressure.

I also got a Hallmark E-Card from "tokenblackchick" - she who promised to do so for all who replied to her Valentines YouTube post on how much singles rule. That was very nice of her.

Dreamt I took the train one station too far and instead of Cubelles I exited in Montreal. Momentary confusion gave way to blissful joy and a sense of coming home.

Also, ( what a drawing says about me - purportedly*** )

Links of the Day:
A Shoggoth on the Roof, a Lovecraftian Broadway musical
Cthulhu on wiki, in popular culture, on film and as My Little Cthulhu figures, along with My Little Victims.
Wiki: Shoggoth.
Wiki: The Kraken
I Am Bored Sites

* The Idea of Florida During a Winter Thaw by Gail Mazur
** Tee-hee. "Spam spawn" :)
*** Is this a word? Does it mean what I think it does?

Neil was in Toronto October 8 and in Chicago September 22. He´s also going around the UK right about now.
I am not in any of these places.

I really do regret now not going to the SF convention in Toronto.

Sure, I didn´t have anyone to go with me, it was probably too late to get tickets, and all that crap.

BUT

James Marsters was there.
Adam Baldwin was there.

In my books, these are currently two of the coolest actors out there. Why?, you ask. They´re fine actors (JM particularly-- don´t know AB enough to say the same), nice and friendly people, and worked for Joss Whedon.

Oh, and they´re hot beyond hotness.

I´m still mis´.

PS: Neil´s Stardust is being cast for a movie, Coraline´s in the works, and Beowolf, an animated film, for which he co-wrote the script, is out 2007.
Maybe I´ll have watched Serentity by then. Not to mention HP and Narnia 1. And Mirrormask.


Let´s end on a comforting Neil quote:

"How do I come to terms with the balancing act? I balance as much as I can, and occasionally I teeter or topple. Then I get up and start balancing again."

PPS: Everybody go here *now*. It´s the quirkiest, most lovable site to get lost in.