Things to remember and stuff
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sorcyressIn lieu of my having an actual brain, this entry will serve as my short-term memory for a few days.
Scheduling:
1) Meeting with Angela @11AM Monday. Theoretically to work out my independent study next semester, but really just to gossip and do modular origami.
2) Arriving at BDan's @7AM on the 11th for adventures. (and sleeping in the car. >.>)
3) Figuring out when the Regency tea dance is on the 19th and going to it. See also workshops on the 18th.
3a) Magically kidnapping SCDAlex from Seattle or MD and dragging him with me to said tea dance because it is truly unfair that they moved the tea dance so it would be when he wasn't around.
(I have been noticing lately that I have been actively missing dancing with Alex, which speaks very highly of both his abilities as a dancer, and the general fact that he really enjoys dancing and it shows.)
Costuming:
1) Tooth Fairy --I finally have an idea for a sketch (riffing on the idea of "do you really wanna mess with a fairy wearing human teeth as earrings?"), I need to bring my wings to MD (this is going to be fun), tooth socks, bandoliers, etc. Over break, I need to make a skirt (tooth poodle skirt!!) and possibly figure out a better shirt. Also, harass everyone I've ever met forever for their spare teeth.
2) Ash --Pikachu is in MD, I need to decide whether I'm going to get some paint and deaditeify him or not --leaning towards not right now. Need to dig through the basement and Nik's room and see if we have any pokeballs left (those firstgen Burger King pokeballs were the best), and I think I need green fingerless gloves. And a hat. I should probably pack most of the costume in the fashion of "beg a friend to bring me the bag for Arisia so I don't have to take it home too".
3) Something Garrity-related --no ideas. Not sure I could do Unity in a tasteful enough manner to satisfy my "not being an asshole" needs (she's a zombie sewn together from many parts, meaning an accurate costume would involve figuring out a way to make half myself look black, which is a little too close to running into blackface for me to feel comfortable trying it) and I'm not nearly blonde (or curvy!) enough for Helen. Mell might be ginchy though, and I do have a very cute little plaid skirt. And if I do Ash, I'll have at least one gun, and that's really all I need for Mell --a gun and a plaid skirt.
Christmas List:
1) Headphones. Not picky.
2) Orange fingerless gloves. More importantly, warm bike gloves.
3) A large spiral-bound sketchbook from picadilly inc, and yes, I do insist on the correct brand name here. The one I had is the only sketchbook I've ever had that didn't completely destroy my drawings because I'm warped enough to solely use pencil to sketch. Death on sketchbooks that rub your drawings into a blurry mess. You know, all of them.
Dance:
1) Aforementioned Regency and more Regency. It will be very strange to do Regency without Magus. Almost stranger to do it without Racheline. And I already mentioned that it's just damn depressing to not have an opportunity to force SCDAlex into a pretty tailcoat.
2) Ooo, the temptation to be cryptic is so...so tempting! But I wouldn't do that to you.
2b) So, I'm off to New Haven next weekend, for an invite dancing thing. There shall be quadrilles. And probably me dancing the boy part, because thats what happens a lot of the time. I'm honestly starting to prefer Tech Squares to everything else, simply because squares gives me the ratio closest to 1:1 regarding which role I dance. I like dancing *both* roles, thanks. It's more fun that way!
3) Speaking of squares, graduation is on Tuesday. IhopeIpassed, IhopeIpassed! Also, there will be hack tips (muahaha) and I might have thought of a personal hack to do to myself, because I am a very bad person. Or pretty damn cool. More cryptic, I see! 'Tis the season and all.
It being the season...
1) Yeah, no one is getting physical presents, unless they are things that I no longer need. I am stone-flat broke.
2) Still seriously debating bringing my collection of ducks and other tchotchkes to Arisia, and giving them as presents to interesting people.
3) Looking forward to Getting Things Done in Maryland. Ambivalent about everything else, right up to and including New Years. I'm sure that will change sometime.
4) On the plus side, weird mid-week Georgetown on the 22nd! Come spend your Wednesday evening laughing at the people who haven't finished their shopping. And finishing your shopping!
Food
1) I am casually speculating that I might be slightly allergic to shellfish. Or to my pair of cargo pants. Experimentation may have to occur somehow over winter break.
2) So, in this class, the nice lady next to me offered me some of her bamba snacks. They are peanut butter poofs (compare to cheezy poofs). Oddly awesome!
Transportation, Communication, Accommodation and Hair
1) Transportation: Blaise continues to be the Greatest Thing Ever. Rode nine miles over the past couple days, and she is still just a delight. I will dearly regret having to put her away once there's snow on the ground.
2) Communication: I hate phones. I am bad at e-mail. I haven't been on IM. Sorry that I've been completely out of touch.
3) Accomodation: I got a night to myself last night, since Ria was busy gallivanting. I swoon with happy.
4) Hair: Not critical, but could use a washing. Managed a 96% perfect braid, and am feeling very smug about that. Is apparently 75 cm long --was measured for a thing in class-- which seems a little short to me, but let's go with that.
5) What?: It's a thing from a person Racheline knows. If you've all the above in order, you're probably doing alright. Speaking of whom, give money to Dogboy and Justine!
Things to Do
1) Schoolwork. We'll leave it at that.
2) Yuletide. Tentative ideas, I think I need to sit down with Write or Die and crank out a thousand words of drivel that I can maybe find a plotbunny in.
3) My room is a mess. And I need to do laundry.
4) I still haven't registered for classes, because I am having Tuition Issues From Hell. Almost sorted -I have taken all the steps that I am responsible for.
That is all for now. Hopefully.
~Sor
MOOP!
Scheduling:
1) Meeting with Angela @11AM Monday. Theoretically to work out my independent study next semester, but really just to gossip and do modular origami.
2) Arriving at BDan's @7AM on the 11th for adventures. (and sleeping in the car. >.>)
3) Figuring out when the Regency tea dance is on the 19th and going to it. See also workshops on the 18th.
3a) Magically kidnapping SCDAlex from Seattle or MD and dragging him with me to said tea dance because it is truly unfair that they moved the tea dance so it would be when he wasn't around.
(I have been noticing lately that I have been actively missing dancing with Alex, which speaks very highly of both his abilities as a dancer, and the general fact that he really enjoys dancing and it shows.)
Costuming:
1) Tooth Fairy --I finally have an idea for a sketch (riffing on the idea of "do you really wanna mess with a fairy wearing human teeth as earrings?"), I need to bring my wings to MD (this is going to be fun), tooth socks, bandoliers, etc. Over break, I need to make a skirt (tooth poodle skirt!!) and possibly figure out a better shirt. Also, harass everyone I've ever met forever for their spare teeth.
2) Ash --Pikachu is in MD, I need to decide whether I'm going to get some paint and deaditeify him or not --leaning towards not right now. Need to dig through the basement and Nik's room and see if we have any pokeballs left (those firstgen Burger King pokeballs were the best), and I think I need green fingerless gloves. And a hat. I should probably pack most of the costume in the fashion of "beg a friend to bring me the bag for Arisia so I don't have to take it home too".
3) Something Garrity-related --no ideas. Not sure I could do Unity in a tasteful enough manner to satisfy my "not being an asshole" needs (she's a zombie sewn together from many parts, meaning an accurate costume would involve figuring out a way to make half myself look black, which is a little too close to running into blackface for me to feel comfortable trying it) and I'm not nearly blonde (or curvy!) enough for Helen. Mell might be ginchy though, and I do have a very cute little plaid skirt. And if I do Ash, I'll have at least one gun, and that's really all I need for Mell --a gun and a plaid skirt.
Christmas List:
2) Orange fingerless gloves. More importantly, warm bike gloves.
3) A large spiral-bound sketchbook from picadilly inc, and yes, I do insist on the correct brand name here. The one I had is the only sketchbook I've ever had that didn't completely destroy my drawings because I'm warped enough to solely use pencil to sketch. Death on sketchbooks that rub your drawings into a blurry mess. You know, all of them.
Dance:
1) Aforementioned Regency and more Regency. It will be very strange to do Regency without Magus. Almost stranger to do it without Racheline. And I already mentioned that it's just damn depressing to not have an opportunity to force SCDAlex into a pretty tailcoat.
2) Ooo, the temptation to be cryptic is so...so tempting! But I wouldn't do that to you.
2b) So, I'm off to New Haven next weekend, for an invite dancing thing. There shall be quadrilles. And probably me dancing the boy part, because thats what happens a lot of the time. I'm honestly starting to prefer Tech Squares to everything else, simply because squares gives me the ratio closest to 1:1 regarding which role I dance. I like dancing *both* roles, thanks. It's more fun that way!
3) Speaking of squares, graduation is on Tuesday. IhopeIpassed, IhopeIpassed! Also, there will be hack tips (muahaha) and I might have thought of a personal hack to do to myself, because I am a very bad person. Or pretty damn cool. More cryptic, I see! 'Tis the season and all.
It being the season...
1) Yeah, no one is getting physical presents, unless they are things that I no longer need. I am stone-flat broke.
2) Still seriously debating bringing my collection of ducks and other tchotchkes to Arisia, and giving them as presents to interesting people.
3) Looking forward to Getting Things Done in Maryland. Ambivalent about everything else, right up to and including New Years. I'm sure that will change sometime.
4) On the plus side, weird mid-week Georgetown on the 22nd! Come spend your Wednesday evening laughing at the people who haven't finished their shopping. And finishing your shopping!
Food
1) I am casually speculating that I might be slightly allergic to shellfish. Or to my pair of cargo pants. Experimentation may have to occur somehow over winter break.
2) So, in this class, the nice lady next to me offered me some of her bamba snacks. They are peanut butter poofs (compare to cheezy poofs). Oddly awesome!
Transportation, Communication, Accommodation and Hair
1) Transportation: Blaise continues to be the Greatest Thing Ever. Rode nine miles over the past couple days, and she is still just a delight. I will dearly regret having to put her away once there's snow on the ground.
2) Communication: I hate phones. I am bad at e-mail. I haven't been on IM. Sorry that I've been completely out of touch.
3) Accomodation: I got a night to myself last night, since Ria was busy gallivanting. I swoon with happy.
4) Hair: Not critical, but could use a washing. Managed a 96% perfect braid, and am feeling very smug about that. Is apparently 75 cm long --was measured for a thing in class-- which seems a little short to me, but let's go with that.
5) What?: It's a thing from a person Racheline knows. If you've all the above in order, you're probably doing alright. Speaking of whom, give money to Dogboy and Justine!
Things to Do
1) Schoolwork. We'll leave it at that.
2) Yuletide. Tentative ideas, I think I need to sit down with Write or Die and crank out a thousand words of drivel that I can maybe find a plotbunny in.
3) My room is a mess. And I need to do laundry.
4) I still haven't registered for classes, because I am having Tuition Issues From Hell. Almost sorted -I have taken all the steps that I am responsible for.
That is all for now. Hopefully.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2010-12-04 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-12-04 06:58 pm (UTC)~Sor
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on 2010-12-04 07:09 pm (UTC)BTW, I got your email, it's just going to take me a bit to respond, as I am horrifically swamped with work.
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on 2010-12-04 07:55 pm (UTC)~Sor
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on 2010-12-04 05:46 pm (UTC). o O (which i could totally do, but you'd probly not get them for another 5 seasons :P)
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on 2010-12-04 06:03 pm (UTC)(And "no" is so very okay, and I will be very happy with you that you're not stressing yourself out with projects that you can't do. Seriously. If you don't think you can manage in that time with your busy life (your kids and keeping you and W happy, and doing your own stuff ALL COMES FIRST) I will be so so happy if you just say you can't, and not stress yourself out on my account. I would feel so bad about that!)
~Sor
Knee-jerk: Ohyesyessyesyesyes, anything for you, Sor!
on 2010-12-04 06:21 pm (UTC)Which is not to say that i'm saying yes but i'm sorting out if i can pull this off. i never am quite 100% certain if i can do a project till i try it half the time, irregardless of what the Optimistic f!H inside me says ;)
That said, post-Xmas, i could start on it and a small bag would take almost time at all to pull together. It might even take a few tries to get the right thing going. Is there a deadline for my Yea or Nay?
Re: Knee-jerk: Ohyesyessyesyesyes, anything for you, Sor!
on 2010-12-04 06:56 pm (UTC)(of course BRIGHT WHITE PERFECT means I could never use the bag for normal stuff 'cause it would instantly be all dirty)
I have no idea how hard it would be to pull off, but if it closed and somehow looked all bumpy like the top of the tooth, that would be the BEST THING EVER. But if it's too hard, don't even, and just leave it open, or with just a drawstring. I will mostly just be putting teeth and quarters in it.
More of a rectangular-tooth shape would be excellent, if you can swing it. I literally have no idea how hard a task I am asking of you, so seriously, tell me to sod off if I'm being ridiculous. And you can give me a yea or nay whenever you want --straight up until then (or hell, I might use the costume again in May, so...). I'll need the bag for Arisia (we leave on the thirteenth, I think?) so I'd need it by then, but the costume won't suffer without it. It just won't be as poingliciously awesome.
~Sor
Re: Knee-jerk: Ohyesyessyesyesyes, anything for you, Sor!
on 2010-12-04 07:21 pm (UTC)i pulled out one of Josh's fully intact wisdom teeth for reference so i can go for as much accuracy as possible... i was already even vaguely pondering the notion that it could close up with bumpy things on top...
i think what i will do is start mucking about with it after Xmas is over and let you know by the beginning of January if it looks like it is actually coming together or not. How's that sound?
Re: Knee-jerk: Ohyesyessyesyesyes, anything for you, Sor!
on 2010-12-04 07:56 pm (UTC)~Sor
Re: Knee-jerk: Ohyesyessyesyesyes, anything for you, Sor!
on 2010-12-04 08:02 pm (UTC)And really, from the moment you mentioned specifics my brain was off and running! There just wasn't any stopping it! ;D
. o O (Who me? Researching yarn even as we speak? i don't know *what* you are talking about! ;PP)
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on 2010-12-04 06:22 pm (UTC)Second off, THEY MOVED THE REGENCY TEA DANCE!? Sooooooo not cool. Sad panda.
-- SCDAlex
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on 2010-12-04 06:49 pm (UTC)I should probably catch you on IM, since I suspect you don't come back and check these threads. You totally need an LJ account just for that (and so I can put you on scandalous filters).
~Sor
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on 2010-12-05 06:34 am (UTC)Also: are the orange gloves and the cycle gloves the same thing, or is that two separate glove-related items? Because I'm pretty sure you want fingered gloves for cycling.. and those do come in orange, just sayin'. Actually, your best bet is probably to get some cheap "winter work gloves" from Home Depot or something, they'll be nice and warm and come in safety orange.
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on 2010-12-06 03:04 pm (UTC)Just be more assertive about being *in* the lane (ie, don't try to ride the nonexistent margin) - and drivers tend to be friendlier about it in my experience anyway when it's obvious why you're in the lane - and don't bike when it's actively snowing or on uncleared roads, which don't take long to not be the case.
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on 2010-12-05 02:25 pm (UTC)