rflong: (Camberwick Sam)
rflong ([personal profile] rflong) wrote2009-03-26 09:54 am

I have been absent (lilbit)

And will be some more.

This weekend is P-Con, so I will be there, for the most part. This weekend is also [livejournal.com profile] e_w_h 's birthday so I will be at his party on Saturday night as well. And staying overnight in parents. There is a fair amount of running around to be done anyway, and child-wrangling.

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For some reason my stress levels have gone through the roof lately. Its a combination of many small things rather than any one biggie, but its irritating the hell out of me as I have now graduated to those ridiculous dreams where you keep thinking you've woken up, but you haven't. I'm trying to ignore things. Not sure its working.

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We watched Quantum of Solace last night, which wasn't as bad as I was led to believe, but I really couldn't* buy the villain in his flowery shirts. And as for the theme song... *shudders* I am one of the few people in the world it seems who liked the Chris Cornell one for Casino Royale, but this... uh... nothanksbyebye.

*eta: Couldn't buy the villain in a flowery shirt, I had "could", probably was half asleep when I typed this. He was not a James Bond villain. Sorry. Not at all. Blofeld and Goldfinger would never have allowed him in the club.

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I have no news. I started working on Moy Tura Echoes again last night. I thought I had gone wrong with a scene and should have killed off a character, but when I went back to look it turns out I still need him. This is not to say he will be safe for much longer. but for a little while. That said, there are already two characters slated to die towards the end so another might be overkill (Ha! Pardon the pun).

Another thing I have to do is write an article on Fantasy Worldbuilding before the 5th, which I would like to do without repeating all the things I've said about it elsewhere. This might be the tricky part, mainly because when I sit down to write about a subject I tend to forget whatever I've written on it before and before I know it... identicle article. So I want to have a long hard think about it. Sometime. When I have some time. Which I won't. Suspect I will sit down on the 4th to write and forget everything I have ever written on the subject before and... well, you get the idea. Not that my theories have changed. I'd just like it to be fresh.

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Also one of my colleagues just showed me this website. I am a cat person, sure, but sorry this is just WRONG!

[identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Made the evening news, no less! Gave my son and I a good laugh.

[identity profile] theladywolf.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
We're all going to be wearing them on t-shirts this summer. ;D

[identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The news said that he's kinda overweight, and jowly. My son literally slapped his knee over it he was laughing so hard.

[identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the best article I've read on it so far - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0326/1224243451787.html

Generally though, its just really embarassing now. No sense of humour indeed.

I think the t-shirt idea is Brilliant! I'd buy one. I wouldn't wear it (coz ick, another image calling for brain bleach) but I'd buy one.

[identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd take him over the poodle any day. My son was taken with the idea of sneaking something into a gallery. Thanks for the link, now we can see what all the fuss was about.

Too bad his art class was last semester, this would have made one heck of a report on art's inpact on the media instead of vice-versa.