Below are the most recent 14 friends' journal entries.

Friday, December 25th, 2009
kenshiro2k	3:28p	Tradition ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
etrangere	6:30a	Coldfire FST Sacrifices of Erna a Coldfire Trilogy FST "The efficacy of sacrifice, the Prophet had written, is in direct proportion to the value of that which is destroyed." ( 40 songs ) Anyway, hope you enjoy. Comments very much welcome ^_^ Download Current Mood: tired Current Music: Queen - One Vision (25 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
chechevitsa	2:17a	haha There are a great many people on teh intarwebs at whom I would love to spout this little piece. Speaking of Blue Cat-Love On The Titanic, we're going to see it tomorrow! Will it break my brain? Only time will tell! In other news, it's after 2 and I have been playing videogames since 6. Hurrah for Christmas! Now to rest my eyes... (Comment on this)
miss_rynn	12:05p	Merry Cheesecakemas! ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
kenshiro2k	9:52p	Thoughts about James Cameron's Avatar ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
jilavre	1:11a	May as well be midnight gardening In preparation for my jaunt in the bush I've had to plant a few things that have been struggling in their pots in the heat. ( Read more... ) Today I woke up snappy and waspish. Low mood - 2/10. I went to the gym and everything picked up. 7/10 mood. Suddenly I found motivation to cook dinner (lasagna of all things) and get into the yard. Tomorrow Dace is being abducted early by his grandparents who are showing him off at Crown (*shudder*, I can't think of anything worse), but that gives me the day free to clean like a mad thing. Definitely hit the gym again for another 30 minutes on the treadmill interval training, some rowing, and a quick light and easy weight circuit. I'm thinking about joining the 'Get Foxy' challenge in Feb - but it goes for three months, taking us to May and I'm due in June. A very pregnant hannah at the gym is a disaster waiting to happen I'm sure. But the doc cleared me for exercise saying I could do whatever I damn well please until 24wks. Then I have to stop with the weights (or reduce to practically nothing), and go easier on the cardio - obviously because I'll have the lung capacity of a paraplegic lemur. The challenge involves a PT session and a 'slim' session every week too. The slim is essentially a diet review and your measurements get taken. Plus there are teams and you compete. Not sure if it's kilos lost or hours clocked that they're going to be competing over. It's something to think about and I put my name down as interested but not confirmed. Not sure how much it costs extra either. Doc all but ordered me to the gym after he had the update on my mood. And well it works damnit. Exercise makes me happy and happy hannah's aren't so inclined to want to kill themselves. Wade has instructions to get my flabby arse to the gym if I'm misbehaving or cranky. Effects are almost immediate - but short lived. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
etrangere	4:13a	I need to remember to post an entry about stuff I did lately, and stuff I failed to do, reviews of anime I watched, and fulfilling memes. For now: ANON CRUSH MEME Current Mood: okay Current Music: Dar Williams - Your Fire Your Soul (Comment on this)
jilavre	11:34a	15 wks The bubba peanut is a week ahead of itself in terms of size. Go bub! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
kenshiro2k	2:54p	Hmm... ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
jilavre	10:14a	As a pagan I really suck. (So much so I don't call myself a pagan anymore) I don't do midsummer until the moon says I should.. and frankly right now when it's neither new nor full does not inspire me to celebrate. I like to celebrate outside (in the wind - way to go air sign girl) and *mental blank* umm baby brain... So in summary, I suck. I will celebrate my 'hey look it's the middle of summer' joy when the moon and I feel more in sync. Right now I feel like shit. In other news: On Thursday Wade and I are bushward bound. As much as I would really love to stay in the city and make demands on other people's holiday time. I also don't want to be anywhere but home. Yes the farm is still home. It took years of living there to think of it like that - I was so bitter about the move when it happened. But now it's home - still more home than the house I'm paying off and living in every day. Soon, I keep telling myself, this house will feel like my home. But I haven't been able to get to know it much yet. Dace takes up a lot of time - that is about to all change. No, I'm not shipping him out to Asia. Going to the farm for the next week or so will be really good. I get to see my dad, whose cancer has come back for vengeance. This time round my dad isn't as positive about the fight. Things are painful to think about in that direction and I'm going to endeavor to 'force' a 'talk' about that. Oh joy. The new year and few days either side see's Qwade wanting to go play. I think he'd feel much more comfortable knowing that wife and child were not at home while he is out, thus Dace and I are staying a few extra days up north. But I shall be back in time to see Annabe! yay! The new year also brings a welcome relief. We'll have a house guest who is delighted to moonlight as Dace's nanny. Sweet! This is also giving me hope. I'm planning more cleaning, more gym, and a correspondence course. But we'll see. And for any who don't know. In mid June the stork (hah!) will be delivering (it better not be a fucking stork!) the next addition to the Francis clan. A not entirely unexpected, but rather unplanned, happy surprise. 2010 then is looking to be a shit of a year an interesting year. I do want to see y'all. But with my mood being usually a 3/10 (10 is happy) motivation being rockbottom, and self esteem being some theoretical concept they talk about in books... what I want and what happens rarely marries up. Add being somewhat pregnant and carting about a bundle of toddler energy, and well basically I'm just completely fucked by the end of the day. *fingers crossed* I'll do better next year. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
morsla	3:54p	Holiday season? Chapters for the Economics study guide are beginning to appear in my email account, which means that the time before and after Christmas will probably become a mad rush to get the book ready for printing on January 6th. I've almost finished painting some Imperial Guard tanks for Dave T, which I've been enjoying so far: I'm using a bunch of new techniques from the Forgeworld Master Class book (thanks fetnas!), making them the most detailed vehicles that I've painted so far. The airbrush is a godsend for this sort of work, and hopefully it will help me to clear out a lot of my unpainted backlog next year. Then, I have two figures to sculpt for lena_supercat and altheas's wedding cake. I'm planning to use Sculpey for these, over an aluminium wire armature. Sculpey is much easier to rework and add detail to, but it means I'll have to finish an entire figure in one go - once it's been baked, I can't readily add putty to it. January's commission painting project is a Blood Bowl team for one of the guys playing at CanCon. I want to sculpt my own Blood Bowl figures one day (for the Nurgle's Rotters team), but I'm unlikely to get motivated any time soon... there are too many other games that I want to play first. The rest of January will be occupied by writing a literature review, and a draft of my methodology chapter. There's a large shipment of qualitative methodology textbooks inbound, courtesy of the remainder of my 2009 research funds :) I really want a holiday, but I think I'll have to wait until February as I seem to be working three jobs at the moment. At least the summer of commission work madness will help to pay for some of our furniture, and a new computer for aeliel... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
ariseishirou	2:07p	Reflections on the last exam of the year Composed by the poet Ari as she studied in the basement of the library in early winter: Nibbling on green grass the rabbit does not know what semester it is (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
morsla	11:33p	24-hour party people? Around this time each year, I run into a whole bunch of other people's Christmas parties. Literally, in some cases - I got caught up in some kind of festive pubcrawl today while trying to reach my tram, and almost got swept off down the street... The last time I had an actual Christmas party at work was in 2005, when I was leaving CSIRO. While the all-staff affairs are generally dull regardless of workplace, I actually quite liked the small-group versions on the last day of work for the year: pack up early, potter around the office cleaning up a year's worth of odds and ends, and then head off for lunch and an early finish. It was a nice way of actually spending some non-work time with a bunch of people that I rarely saw outside of their offices. This year, we had a fairly anti-climactic work lunch back at the start of November. Since then the group has unravelled, as one by one, people have vanished for holidays or conferences. I think we lost critical mass on Wednesday, and so the year has ended by default: another victim of entropy. I guess my main festive season ritual over the last few years has been the Christmas Special game, originally started by miss_rynn, and continued by bishi_wannabe. The Wednesday night gaming group are more a part of my family than many of my blood relatives, and I'm glad of the chance to celebrate with them. If anyone is in Melbourne over the Christmas period, aeliel and I will be home from late afternoon on Christmas day, until some time around New Year's Eve. The house will be open for visitors to drop by whenever we're at home - if you'd like to come and see us, send me an SMS to check whether we're home. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
etrangere	1:15p	interview meme answers for tomboy_typist 1. ASOIAF: Your top five pairings. Gushing is a bonus. Sandor/Sansa : hit me hard from reading the book. It's an interesting mix of creepy and sweet and a great execution of the classic Beauty & Beast archetype. I remember when I first finished read CoK I went back to re-read all their chapters together ;) Jaime/Brienne: they're so adorable and snarky together! Also love the reverse Beauty&Beast and the way it works on several layers (the honour as well as their appearance). Theon/Jon: probably my favourite crack hatesex pairing for ASOIAF. Besides the hot hatesex appeal, it's an interesting pairing to explore their respective daddy issues and feeling of not!belonguing (which is exactly why they hate each others so much ^^) Jaime/Loras: Well that scene where Jaime is all "Loras is minime!" and they are all cocky and snarky at each others is pretty awesome, thus pairing created. Yummy. Cersei/Sansa: soooo messed up, but an excellent pairing to explore mindfuck and fairytale archetypes. 2. Do you write at all in French? If so, is there a difference in what you write/how you write it? Speaking of which, is French your first language? Well, I'm capable of writing in French, and it is my first language, but I seldom write fiction in it, at least not for a long time. I never wrote any fanfic in French (though my first Buffy fanfics got translated back in the days). I think there' a difference in how we wrote any languages because of the inherent differences between languages lol so yes. They have their own rhythm, sonorities, structures, so of course it influences how we write. I find writing in English helps me not feeling like it "sounds false" when I write fanfiction. 3. If you could change just one thing about the world, what would it be? Discuss. I'd like to make people more aware about issues of racism, sexism, homophobia etc. not just the way they seem obvious, but the way they seep in everywhere unconsciously. 4. Dancing with the Wolves or Singing in the Rain? Why one and not the other? Errr, one's a racist overly long movie with Kevin Costner and the other is a charming and fun musical. I think I'll take Singing in the Rain!! 5. Just very randomly, your opinions on Tolkien? I don't remember whether or not you're involved at all with that fandom etc etc. I'm not in the fandom, though I read Lord of the Rings many times when I was younger. I don't have any particular opinion (especially since I haven't read it in a loooong time). He's a good writer with a lot of qualities, but neither do I think he's the best ever; I find accusations of manicheism etc. levelled at his writing are very unfair since his work was much more nuanced and his characterisation contained many grey areas. Anyway if you wanna know, my favourite part of the book was the return to the shire, my favourite character Faramir, and my favourite pairings Legolas/Gimli, Merry/Pippin, Faramir/Eowyn; and I had a big soft spot for all the almost-mostly-evil characters like Saroumane, Gollum, Grima & Orcs who captured Merry & Pippy #1 & 2. I never liked Gandalf. I liked the movies but mostly for opposite reasons to what I liked in the books. Current Mood: awake (3 Comments |Comment on this)