"Mada, mada dane"

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091121.html

NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe

• 15:37 is anxious about the concert, but is confident in her singing abilities. ^_^ Hope to see all my local IRL friends at the concert.
• 15:41 My inspiration: "Dad, keep tryin' tryin'/Mom, keep tryin' tryin'/Older brother, Mr. Conductor, Ms. Bride/Keep tryin' tryin'" #utadahikaru
• 17:03 is leaving for the choir concert in 1/2 hour. Wish me luck. First onstage solo in 14 years! O_O Wish you all were here! Seriously!!

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Tycho: The exact total is $542,107.01 - a jump of just over eighty-six thousand over last week's figure.  We'll take it, certainly.  But I warn you: my palm is poised over the knob labeled Stirring Rhetoric.  I can crank this mode like you would not believe.  Act Accordingly.         Desert Bus 2009 is currently underway, and even though they've got over twenty-five thousand in donations and a mind-shredding one hundred and ten hours of that awful thing to play, they pegged it at over seventy thousand last year - so we've got some work to do.  I did mine earlier, swinging ...

Title: At Once Our Time Devour
Characters: Reborn, Colonnello
Summary: When you don't have a lot of time left, it's funny what matters and what doesn't anymore.
Notes: Adult! Set pre-curse, I guess. I'm a manga-only girl, so this isn't going to square with the Arcobaleno stuff that's coming down the anime pipeline. Smut, swearing, Colonnello and Reborn being asses to each other, 1706 words. Dedicated to wolfy_chan, whose smoking hot Reborn and Colonnello art that inspired this.

( Colonnello blinked once at the news, and then said, 'Bet you're going to miss fucking, huh?' It was a refreshing change from the wide-eyed looks of sympathy mingled with relief at not being the one chosen, so when he pulled his gun on Colonnello, Reborn didn't bother shooting to kill. )

Ben Edlund, at this rate you're looking like the only writer who is giving us something worth watching. ( Read more... )

Leaving in 1/2 hour for choir concert. First onstage solo in 14 years! Nanase captures my mood perfectly in this icon. ULP! indeed.

Wish me luck!

We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

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First of all, the choir concert is TONIGHT! *sigh* We managed to get through dress rehearsal okay, and even managed to hangout with some of the women in our choir at a small bar afterward, although I wasn't really much in the mood for it. But we survived it, and we can survive the concert as well. My first onstage solo in 14 years, although it's part of a small group. *swoons in fear* I should be okay. I belt the fucker out in "Give Me One Reason" (yes, the Tracy Chapman song!) and be done with it. I'm just worried about the other small group I'm in that's doing an interpretation of "Gloria In Excelsis Deo"; there's one part that we had finally gotten right, but the song is pretty complex and in Latin. Oy! The concert itself should go well, though.

Second of all, the trans study about how transsexual people experience sexism is a bust. *headdesk* ( More details if you REALLY want them. Cut for length. )

Between this and the choir concert, adding to the fun is that all 3 of us are hitting that fun-fun time of the month damn near simultaneously. I'm tired and anxious from the concert and frustrated with the trans study and my breasts hurt and I'm having bowel issues and I just want to stay in bed the rest of the weekend. But there's my group, the choir concert and another event we already said we'd be at tomorrow. *sigh* So I'm feeling half-insane right now.

In any case, hope y'all's weekend is less stressful than mine. Wish me luck during the concert! TTFN!

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This bright meteor streaked through dark

• 06:07 Can the world just stop sucking now? Having the concert this week is hard enough w/o finding that the trans study seems to have epicfailed!
• 08:26 @Londababe123 Maybe I shouldn't have said "epicfail". Some strong criticism from some about cisprivilege and all. :-S Makes me wanna hide.
• 10:24 is going to hide under a blanket for the day. Dress rehearsal tonight! O_O
• 12:17 is going to step away from the computer until Sunday, folks! TTYL!
• 13:00 College research study debacle + dress rehearsal = energy-sapped. I still have dishes & dinner to do. Calgon take me the frick awaaaaay!!!
• 13:02 How about Team Satan? I'm already sick of hearing about "New Moon" GAH! I wish I could get away from it. #TwilightHaters
• 17:28 Trans study may be tabled. *sigh* I just don't care right now. Getting ready for dress rehearsal for choir concert tomorrow night. Ciao!

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Spam! Wrote this not long after TDK came out but never posted it. Since the evil twin just wrote Joker/Scarecrow with similar elements, I knew I had to post it as the same time as hers or I'd never do it. Team Porn does Arkham. Arharhrh.


The Frayed Ends
Batman. Batman/Joker. R. ~1000 words. Nolanverse. Violence.
Darkness gathers into a swarm around them and Bruce doesn’t want to let the bastard take one more goddamn breath.


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Just a little something to get me in the groove for doing homework. Done without access to my usual brushes so there are several big things that make me go DDDD:, but I didn't want to spend more than an hour on this. Warmup means warmup, Pondy.

Avengers. Steve/Tony. G.



( Steve & Tony Warmup Drawing )

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Tycho: New Super Mario Brothers Wii is marriage poison. I wouldn't play this game with any person you want to see again. In its multiplayer interpretation, which I suggest be referred to as "Divorce Mode," choreographing your platform jumps in a way that does not interfere with another person's basic game interactions can be quite difficult - particularly in portions where player movement itself can kill teammates while you progress the level, or when the natural scroll of the camera can kill those who lag behind. One of these two things is almost always happening, though.  So hm.   That is ...

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New Comic: The Fullness Of Time

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Eerie spires of rock rise from shore of Mono Lake in the

http://xkcd.com/665/

• 05:27 @1capplegate Personally, I still plan on doing self-exams; I don't care what they say! Better safe than sorry, yanno?
• 05:29 @caisa RE: Turduken? "The lucky table cloth"? Wow, languages are interesting things, aren't they?
• 05:32 @neilhimself YAY for mind-poisoning! :-P If you count Stephen King into the equation, I've poisoned my brain since the age of 5! LOL
• 05:39 What IS this world coming to? Crazy!! 15-year old "wanted to know what [killing someone] felt like." bit.ly/3kjS90
• 13:05 is relishing the love that is InSoc Recombinant by #informationsociety. Such a neat lil' album!

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Attended a benefit dinner last night with J, maiki, and Susan for a non-profit that we've done a lot of work for. Materials that both Susan and I had designed were all over the place and it was really nice to see it all out and looking snazzy. Susan's done a lot to get their informational materials/reports looking clean and professional. I did the benefit's programs, invites, and carried over from last year was a set of promotional posters which I'm still proud of. The project, per usual, made me gnash my teeth at times, but I do enjoy working for them, and it was flattering when people whom I didn't expect compliments from told me they were impressed by the invitations in particular. :D Leading up I had this worry about the pagination on the program booklet since I worked entirely remotely and never saw a proof (or even had time to run one myself!) but everything turned out beautifully and typo-free. By this point, I've done enough recent work to have a solid design portfolio again, so with so few classes left ahead of me it's nice to have that in addition to what's shaping up to go on my reel.

I didn't mingle much, as J and I were introduced to some great people early on and there was no incentive to bother straying away from the interesting conversation to rub elbows with people outside my industry. It was somewhat fascinating attending something like this after so long, and also after now having worked on catering from the serving end! The appetizers, by the way, were awesome. I wish we offered some of them on our own menu, especially the warm cranberries and almonds in phyllo cups. Yum.

My shoes were remarkably comfortable. I haven't worn actual heels in forever and it's nice to confirm that my knee can handle hours standing around in 3" heels.

This was supposed to be anon commentporn, but then it wasn't fulfilling what the OP had asked for so I wrote it for Blue instead.

Boys' Club
X-men RPS. Hugh Jackman/Liev Schrieber/Taylor Kitsch. NC-17. 3400 words.
God, tonight he'd be a slut for it if that's what they wanted.

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This was the most popular choice in the poll, and funny enough, I haven't encountered yet a person who didn't like it, even when initially sceptical towards oatmeal or apples. (Well, unless they have allergies, of course.) I'm going to use °C and metric measurements for the recipe, but converters are easy to find online and also it's not one of those where you have to be super accurate, so that shouldn't be a problem.

What you need:

- oatmeal (I buy the 1 kg package which lasts for several meals)
- 2 to 3 apples
- sugar
- cinnamon
- a bar of butter (I use the 250 g bars -- you'll definitely need less than a pound)
- vanilla ice cream

and a greased baking pan, casserole dish, or similar (if it's fireproof and somewhat flat it'll work).

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Serve fresh out of the oven, in small bowls, with some ice cream on top. Makes for a nice hot-cold contrast. Oh, and you eat the cake with spoons.

Additional info:

- Makes you feel full extremely quickly. I've had huge people who are big eaters laugh in my face when I served them the "tiny" dish, only to see them declare defeat after their second bowl.
- The dough can be kept in the fridge to use it up later, and also works great as a muesli breakfast substitute.

You can't really mess up this one. Trust me.