I made my annual 11/9 post in my other notebook.

Shazam!

Roommate stress is now over.

At the concom meeting for CONvergence last weekend I announced to everyone that I was looking for roommates/someone who knew someplace to rent for cheap, and got a nibble right away, woot.

Even better that it's two people I know and like.

For anyone who knows them, it's Bri the sheep and her fiance Chris, two lovely ladies who have three laid back dogs and an adorably spastic cat.

We're going to rent a house together in NE Minneapolis, and it will be awesome.

Now, it's time to hunt for houses to rent~!

I've found my livejournal again... let's see if I can actually keep at it... it's been nearly two years... lots has happened... too much to type out :p

am job hunting at the moment... still with the same guy... and got addicted to facebook... ;)

how about you guys??? what have you been doing???

Saturday was the SATs again.  Everything that could go wrong, did.  Coffee pot exploded, a glass jar was broken and the restrooms were locked.  (Supervisor didn't receive correct key from secretary)  So, they had to use the staff bathrooms.  I know there are only 2 stalls in the women's bathroom--our normal 5-minute breaks turned in to 15 minutes.  Joy!

On the way home, checked phone to find voicemail from picookie .  "My brother got 4 tickets to the Seahawk's game tomorrow and I'm calling people I think would be interested.  Wanna go?"  I could not call him back fast enough.  He answered and I said, "Yes, yes,yes, yes, yes...am I too late?"  Nope, I'm the winner!  Sweet!!!!!  So, Sunday morning, left the house to meet picookie at his house, drove to Tukwila to meet up with his sister and brother, (T and R respectively), took the light rail down to Qwest Field and had a great time.  The first quarter sucked lemons, but then they finally got the hang of the game again and came back to win it 32 to 20.  (They were playing the Detroit Lions)  This was my first Seahawks game...ever!  And it was great.  :D  And because our defense intercepted the ball and ran it back for a touchdown, all of the ticket holders get a free hair cut from Great Clips.  (Any scoring by the defense would do that...also, if there are at least 3 false starts on the opponents, the tickets holders could go to QFC and get a free Jones Soda.  There were two in the first quarter--and none after that.  oh well.)

Fun fact: since 2005, Qwest field has seen 91 false starts (by the opponents)  That's the most in all the football stadiums.  Second place goes to the Metrodome in Minnapolis--they have 76!

This tutorial on how to eat corn on the cob is hilarious.

Various seasons and characters

I've had a busy week what with the primevalathon ::g::

Title: Life Studies
Author: alyse
Pairing: Abby/Connor
Rating: PG
Length: ~2,300 words
Warnings: None

Summary: Sometimes all you need is inspiration.

( Life Studies )

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Title: What My Lips Have Kissed
Author: alyse
Pairing: Jenny/Sarah
Rating: PG
Length: ~1,800 words
Warnings: None

Summary: Sarah sees her.

( What My Lips Have Kissed )

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Title: Pricking Thumbs
Author: alyse
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing: Helen/Nick
Rating: R
Spoilers: Set post 2.7
Word Count: ~3,000.

Summary: Something wicked this way comes.

( Pricking Thumbs )

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And since I'm posting anyway, have some Lester/mammoth fic, which I wrote for the new pairings challenge on primeval100. Bestiality warnings obviously apply (albeit in a PG rated fashion).

[Mod: Could I have some form of 'femslash' and 'Jenny/Sarah' tags, please? Thank you.]

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The masterlist of stories posted as part of this season's primevalathon has been posted and can be found here.

Stories cover a wide variety of pairings, gen, het, slash (including femslash) and threesomes and moresomes, so there should be something for everyone.

Title: Firework Kisses
Author: Primeverse
Fandom: Primeval
Characters: Abby, Connor, Becker, Sarah, Danny, Lester, Jenny, Christine, Sid, Nancy, Rex, Jake, Redfern, OC and others.
Pairings: Abby/Connor, Sarah/Becker
Words: 4442
Rating: T or 13+. Unbetaed.
A/N: Thanks everyone! and Crossposted to fanfiction.net and primevalarchive.co.uk. Written for the ARC: Mid-October comp, Trick Or Treat.
Summary: You have been invited to the ARC Halloween 2009 Party. It was always the most unexpected things in life, that were the best.


( And they ran, out of the main operations room, they split up, Connor and Abby running outside, and Sarah and Becker hiding in the labs. )

Newsletter 112: 31 October - 7 November is now up at anomaly_news

Douglas Henshall has said that he will not be returning to Primeval.

I think it’s better playing bad guys because you don’t have to ‘do the right thing.’ In Primeval there are times when I think, ‘Why do I have to be doing the right thing again?’ That’s harder to make interesting.” he told Benji Wilson of the Daily Telegraph.

 “I’ve been with Primeval for two and half years now and that’s longer than anything I’ve done previously,” he says. “I’d never repeated a character before so it was difficult. An 11-year-old kid wrote in saying my face was always the same when a monster came – and he was dead right.

I don’t know how many other ways you can do that ‘Oh a monster’s coming to eat me’ face. So the kid was right, and that actually made me think. Now, somewhere there’s a Primeval fan out there going, ‘Good, he took note.’”

Earlier this week he told David Bentley of Coventry Telegraph’s Geek files that he was not surprised that Primeval was returning for another two series

"I thought that the writing was good enough and the premise was good enough, then if people liked it, it could go pretty much as long as it liked. As long as people had faith in it who were making it, then I thought it would be fine," said the 43-year-old.

"It taps into an eternal thing in young people, dinosaurs, monsters and myths and legends. I went to the Natural History Museum the other week with my niece, she's in her twenties, she's not a kid, but we had to go down there because I thought she should see it.

"Me and my partner, the three of us were walking through the dinosaur exhibit and kids, boys and girls were queuing and queuing to see this big Tyrannosaurus Rex and you think, 'What is it about dinosaurs?"

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How very exciting.....a couple from work were out at the Swap Meet a few weekends back, and in their browsing found a very old run down Hand Press for putting in eyelets. After restoring it to working order and giving it a gorgeous paint job I have become the lucky recipient :D

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=92262

Reasons I love Opitz Outlet, numero eleventy million.

This coat. $20. It's got some dirt on it and a loose button.

$85 dollar sweater? $8.50 because it's a little pilled.

My favorite green trench coat? Also about $20.

Merrell sandals of comfort + 10? $26, normally at least $80.

Hellafuckyeah.

This store is my addiction. I don't always buy stuff when I go, but goddamn if there isn't at least one thing I want to try on every time I go? As a woman who is firmly in the realm of deathfatz, this is awesome. Super awesome. Extremely awesome. Amazing, even. Granted, I'm not sized out of department store plus sizes (but running close to that edge), but I still count this store as a very good place for fatties to shop. Not only can I peruse the plus size section (which is not big but has a pretty good variety of styles and is organized by size so I don't have to dig through a rack of the same shirt to discover that there isn't one in my size), but their Junior plus section almost always has a cool shirt or dress for me to try, too.

Why would I ever try shopping in a department store ever again when I can find most of the same clothes for a fraction of the price at this other place? Yeaaaaaah!

Happy belated birthday to princessdiablo!!

(The super-blogging thing is getting in the way of basic 'net socializing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)

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