kivrin: Peter Wimsey with a Sherlock Holmes quotation (Default)
( Sep. 4th, 2008 04:37 pm)
Easy rules: Post about ten things that recently made you happy.

1. Knitting.

2. [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses's enchilada casserole.

3. Crack!books - Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series, and the latest Naomi Novik. There are ways both make me nuts, of course, but they're so very engaging.

4. The appearance of a New Yorker issue I thought I'd never received. It was cleverly disguised in a plastic sleeve with a complimentary issue of EXPENSIVE SUITS AND BOOBIES or some such glossy fashion rag.

5. Singing Anglican chant.

6. And NOT singing the annoying and poorly-written Tree of Life song that was the bane of last Ordinary Time.

7. (Briefly) rediscovering floor beside my bed. I thought it was just books and cough-drop wrappers all the way down. (Now it's Bank Statements And Other Paperwork To Be Filed, but hey, that's less icky.)

8. Monk's Blend loose tea, soon to be housed in my call-box tin.

9. String beans from the farmer's market.

10. Lemonade. For some reason I can't get enough of it lately. Doesn't even have to be fresh-squoze; as long as it's not pink, I'm all over it. Cosi's Mojito lemonade (ie lemonade with mint) is very nice.
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( Aug. 23rd, 2008 10:44 pm)
Months ago my brother shared this video with me, and I believe I have neglected to share it with you. Bizarre, hilarious, historically inaccurate rap about George Washington. WARNING: profanity and earwormitude.


According to this meme I am weird but very, very slightly unique in my LJ-ing )
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1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).

4. Repost in your LJ if you wish.
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kivrin: a guitar with a hand resting on top (dave carter guitar)
( Apr. 22nd, 2008 02:34 pm)
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Sufjan Stevens, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
Pirates of Penzance 1981 Broadway Cast Recording, "My Eyes Are Fully Open" (yes, it's from Ruddigore, not Pirates, but in that production it was interpolated. Roll with it, dude.)
Patty Larkin, "Hallelujah Baby" (I think it's actually just called "Hallelujah" but as a song title that means either Handel or Leonard Cohen to me, so.)
Chanticleer, "Jefferson (Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken)"
Haydn's Little Organ Mass (quit snickering)
Carbon Leaf, "The War Was In Color"
Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry covering Jackson Browne's "Shape of a Heart"
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kivrin: White woman's throat with text "a kind of arum lily quality" (lily waterhouse juliet)
( Oct. 16th, 2007 09:48 am)
Post a soothing image.

Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire
Pastoral! Romantic! )
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kivrin: A sleepy Giles (sleepy giles (glim))
( Oct. 15th, 2007 11:47 am)

Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.


[livejournal.com profile] wesleysgirl chose the following:
Read more... )
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( Sep. 17th, 2007 04:14 pm)
1. pick 20 films you thoroughly enjoyed.
2. find screen captures (stills) for each film, preferably from scenes you like.
3. post the pictures with the rules; let your readers guess from what movie each still is from. (readers, no cheating. no google, no looking at livejournal interests or looking at the file names.) basically, do not cheat.


EDITED so pics 3 and 4 are no longer the same.

Read more... )
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1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever to do it.

Anyone who feels like doing this, do it. :)


1. I didn't get my driver's license until I was nineteen, and I've never owned a car. I kind of hope not to ever have to own a car, primarily (I must confess) for lazy reasons: I don't want the hassle of upkeep and insurance. And I like living in a city, where I can walk or take public transport most places I need to go. That said... I'm SO glad that I know how to drive. It makes logistics so much easier.

2. Any environmental gold stars I might earn for not driving are probably cancelled out by how much I fly. I realized, when en route to Michigan with [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses for Pony & G's wedding, that I fly a LOT for someone who doesn't travel for work. The last time I went a year without getting on a plane was 1994. I went to undergrad and graduate school several states away from my parents, but still went back there for most breaks. For going up and down the northeast corridor, flying or taking the train often costs about the same, and flying is SO much faster (even with security regs the way they are.)

3. I'm most comfortable falling asleep on my side, though I usually wake up lying on my back. I find it really difficult to sleep without something over me - at least a sheet and ideally a blanket or coverlet too. The weight is reassuring.

4. I like stitchy handcrafts; I used to do counted cross-stitch and now I like knitting, though in neither case have I ever taken on large projects. Of late I've developed rather a line in making tea cozies as gifts (five, so far, and I'm halfway through number six.)

5. After experiment and repeated attempts, I have concluded that I can't write with music on. Rather, I can but it's a waste of electricity because I don't listen to it in any meaningful way. I'll come to alertness to realize that the piece whose mood I thought would support whatever I was doing passed by three tracks back.

6. I am a recovering sucker-for-the-claims-on-the-back-of-shampoo-bottles, as the graveyard of hair products in my closet demonstrates.

7. I have a sneaking ambition to sing karaoke. This ambition may not survive actually entering a karaoke bar, but it exists. Clearly the bit of me that once upon a time wanted to be Mary Martin has not entirely gone away.
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ANOTHER MEME! NOOO! )

Older Futhark! It sounds like a demon language.
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( Nov. 14th, 2006 04:51 pm)
Ask me about a show about which I know nothing [which I'm defining as "of which I have not seen a single full episode"], and I'll try to come up with a description of it by osmosis.

List of fandoms I DO know:

- Buffy
- Angel
- Firefly
- seaQuest DSV
- Sherlock Holmes
- Holmes/Russell
- Harry Potter
- Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and Enterprise on a technicality (I only saw the premiere)
- X-Files (again on a technicality: I've seen one or two episodes and the movie)
- SW:TPM
- House (enough)
- Veronica Mars (though only season 1)
- Lost (though only season 2)
- Heroes
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A few selections from some of my less-recent not-gen stories.

Never Spoken )

Three Conversations in Liminal Spaces )

Winter Garden )

Watchers' Oaths )
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( May. 25th, 2006 03:00 pm)
Pick ten of your favorite books, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each book, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. (Obviously, using Google or Amazon to figure it out is cheating.)

I've standardized it to three SIPs for each book (since some had many listed and others had only a few.) In many cases I had to go to my next favorite book by the same author, because the one I wanted had either no SIPs or one that would have given the game away instantly. I also had to choose my own SIPs for one book, because Amazon couldn't help for any of my top choices from that author. And in cases when there were only two SIPs, I chose an addition from Capitalized Phrases. This ends the disclaimer.

1. magnanimous cuckold, silken tie, silver link

2. cipher letters, dark spectacles, bay mare. Have His Carcase, DLS, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] mayhap.

3. sludge tank, lavender plush, blue hunt. Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] greyhoundliz.

4. choir postulant, pleached alley, enclosure door. In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] mommy_bird.

5. shitty first draft, wire thing, short assignments. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] mommy_bird.

6. game fad, ability threshold, interdepartmental communications. Bellwether, Connie Willis, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] antennapedia.

7. steam launch, iron box, Andaman Islands

8. rainbow silk, stage school, Moses Cohen. Theatre Shoes, Noel Streatfield, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] bethynyc.

9. autumnal nights, dust pile, little snobocracy. The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] mayhap.

10. market truce, leather woman, floating market. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.
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Revisiting the meme here...

Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example: Silent Night = Nocturnal Time Completely Lacking Noise. When someone guesses the title correctly, italicize the convoluted one and put the real title and the person who figured it out.

1. One More Celtic Lyric for Performance While Imbibing Another Irish Drinking Song, by Da Vinci's Notebook. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.

2. Difficult to Succeed Hard to Make It, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.) Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.

3. It Arrived at the Midpoint of a Nocturnal Period Without Precipitation It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.

4. Nocturnally Luminescent Synthetic Superhuman Being Glow-in-the-Dark Plastic Angel, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] kelilah.

5. Approach the Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide. Go to the Water by Kat Eggleston.

6. Hibernation Season at the Point of His Departure Winter When He Goes, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.)Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.

7. Female Lacking Parents Orphan Girl, by Gillian Welch (performed by Crooked Still). Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses.

8. I Reside at a Location Separate from That at which I Fornicate. I Live Not Where I Love, traditional, sung by Kat Eggleston.

9. Burial Ceremony in the Center of His Circulatory System Funeral in His Heart, by October Project. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] kelilah.

10. At the Time of My Departure When I Go, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] spiritdance.
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Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example: Silent Night = Nocturnal Time Completely Lacking Noise. When someone guesses the title correctly, italicize the convoluted one and put the real title and the person who figured it out.

1. One More Celtic Lyric for Performance While Imbibing Another Irish Drinking Song, by Da Vinci's Notebook. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses

2. Difficult to Succeed Hard to Make It, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.) Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses

3. It Arrived at the Midpoint of a Nocturnal Period Without Precipitation It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses

4. Nocturnally Luminescent Synthetic Superhuman Being Glow-in-the-Dark Plastic Angel, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, guessed by [livejournal.com profile] kelilah.

5. Approach the Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide

6. Hibernation Season at the Point of His Departure Winter When He Goes, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.)Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses

7. Female Lacking Parents Orphan Girl, by Gillian Welch (performed by Crooked Still). Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses

8. I Reside at a Location Separate from That at which I Fornicate

9. Burial Ceremony in the Center of His Circulatory System Funeral in His Heart, by October Project. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] kelilah.

10. At the Time of My Departure When I Go, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] spiritdance.

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I shall now attempt to start a geektastic meme.

When you see this, quote Monty Python. If you hate Monty Python, when you see this, please quote your favorite Britcom instead. If you hate all Britcoms without exception or moderation in degree, quote something you do find funny.

What fires and stirs the woodcock in his springe or wakes the drowsy apricot betides? )

I thought about making it "quote Fawlty Towers" but writing "it's been trodden on" just doesn't get the point across.
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Inko's All Natural White Peach White Tea (bottled iced tea beverage) is very gross and overpriced. The same is probably true of the other flavors. It's possible that you won't become intensely nauseated, as I did this morning, after drinking it on an empty stomach, but why risk it? Boycott now.

Ginger ale and toasted plain bagel, how I love your calming properties.


Now, a meme from [livejournal.com profile] saskia139:

Name 20 of your CURRENT favorite fictional couples, then tag 5 people
to do the same.


Stretching the definition of the term 'current,' here are a few...

1. Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey. Of course. :)

2. Mary and Rob Roy McGregor (Rob Roy).

3. Wash and Zoe (Firefly).

4. Nathan Bridger and Kristin Westphalen (seaQuest DSV).

5. Annie and Liza (from Nancy Garden's Annie On My Mind).

6. Captain Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)

7. Rick and Louis (Casablanca), because [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses sent
me a link to this brilliant story.

8. Beatrice and Benedick, especially as played by Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.

9. Elizabeth Corday and [shoot! Eriq La Salle's character... what's his name? Oh. Phew. My steel-trap grasp of irrelevant information has not failed me entirely] Peter Benton.

10. [I want to have Giles in here, but what Giles pairing I like best depends very much on my mood, the phase of the moon, and all manner of other factors. In some cases, in this situation one could fall back on canon, but that would require Giles to have had a remotely successful canon romantic relationship, you know, EVER. I know no one ever gets a happy ending in Jossland, but I think Giles got it especially bad on that count. I suppose Giles and Wesley is the closest I have to a Giles OTP.]

11. Francis Cornish and Ruth... is it Nesbit? The governess-astrologer-spy, you know. In Robertson Davies' What's Bred In The Bone.

12. Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam.

[argh. Bailing out here because all my brain is digging up now are more Buffy pairings and my own long-buried Mary Sues. Flee, flee while you can!]

I tag offer a warm invitation to [livejournal.com profile] breadandroses, [livejournal.com profile] penwiper26, [livejournal.com profile] kelilah, [livejournal.com profile] headrush100 and [livejournal.com profile] glimmergirl to pick up the meme if they feel so inclined.
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( Aug. 26th, 2005 10:43 am)
Take your icons. List the people who appear in them. Alphabetize, and pair off.

Private Baldrick/ Violet Baudelaire - She'd be kind to him and possibly would invent something to either keep him from smelling bad or to keep her from perceiving the smell. However, romantically that just... isn't.

Captain Edmund Blackadder/ Dream of the Endless - Can you imagine what Blackadder would say if confronted with Dream? "Oh, God, what are you, some runaway from a mummer's troupe? A renegade mime? Look, thickie, the idea is to run out of the trenches, disguise yourself as an artist... or mental patient... and hide in a town. Not to put on black draperies and a lot of white face-paint and then come cavorting about in a trench!" "I do not... cavort" "All right, mincing about. Anyway, sod off. Some of us are busy trying not to get killed."

Elizabeth I [Cate Blanchett]/Eowyn of Rohan - I can't decide if they're alike in ways that would make them get along or kill each other. A royal wedding between them would be very pretty, though.

Rupert Giles/Xander Harris - Well, it's not a new idea. :)

Qui-Gon Jinn/The King of Siam [Yul Brynner] - Wow. That would be... kinda hot. They'd enjoy talking about Buddhist philosophy. And hello, the pretty.

Veronica Mars/Lilah Morgan [Stephanie Romanov] - That would be... really, really dark and scary. There's just no way for the age and experience difference not to make that a completely exploitative situation. Maybe when Veronica's older...? But I can't really picture it. Except in a scary way, with Veronica thinking she could handle herself and then being totally over her head with bondage games and W&H and oh, no, badbadbad things.

Willow Rosenberg/Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh - This just makes me laugh. He'd be intimidated by her, and she'd think he was kinda cute, and they'd stammer at each other a lot.

Buffy Summers/King Theoden of Rohan - They would probably kick significant ass as co-generals, but I think there would be way, way, WAY too many cross-cultural issues to a personal relationship.

Jane Tennison [Helen Mirren]/Andrew Wells - Oh, now that's just cruel. To them both.

Lord Peter Wimsey/Wesley Wyndham-Pryce - HEE!! Now, let me be serious... HEE! Heeheeheeheeeheee! *cough* *ahem* Well, Wesley could stand to learn about how to use the silly-ass-about-town facade to one's advantage. And Peter could... well, okay, Wesley's job would probably give pre-Harriet Peter a nervous collapse, and post-Harriet Peter is not going to be looking at anyone else, though I suppose the two of them might raise a manly glass together on the village green, or some such. (Peter/Wesley. heeheeheeheeHEEEheehee!!)
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List five songs that you are currently digging. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good. But they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.


1. Crooked Still, "Orphan Girl" (Gillian Welch cover). Brilliant crazed fiddle-style cello, killer finger-picked banjo, lovely pure vocals and double bass that I'm sure kicks ass in some way I'm not musician enough to identify. One of those songs that just makes you happy.

2. Tracy Grammer, "Shadows of Evangeline" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). Weird, hypnotic, complex, allusive. Typical Dave, in other words. I imagine a really chilling Buffy S7 vid to this song.

3. Jim Henry, "Ruby." I'm a sucker for father-and-daughter songs, and this one is so heartfelt and yet so funny.

4. Josh Ritter, "Snow is Gone." Another song that just makes me happy to be alive. Hello blackbird, hello starling/ winter's over, be my darling!/ Been a long time coming, but now the snow is gone

5. Tracy Grammer, "Preston Miller" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). I guess you might call this the love child of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song and a broadside murder ballad. (This is one of the songs that, eerily, I always think of first in Dave Carter's voice, though I've learned it from Tracy's performance and recording. I did hear him do it once, at the workshop stage at Falcon Ridge in 2000 or more likely 2001.)
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kivrin: Andrew from BtVS saying "I'm on a geek high!" (andrew (glim))
( Aug. 11th, 2005 02:28 pm)
meme from [livejournal.com profile] saskia139

5 things you are wearing
1. classy-looking black mules that I bought at a yard sale.
2. long red skirt with a vaguely Indian batik-like design in black and cream
3. black t-shirt
4. six little hair-claws in my hair
5. green amber earrings and ring

5 things you can see
1. monitor
2. two insulated mugs
3. "mind the gap" mug with a London underground symbol holding pencils
4. slip of paper with contact info for the (rather cute) historian from IU who's doing research with one of my collections
5. Turkoman Bokhara Mouse Rug

5 things you are doing right now
1. blinking to try to get a stray eyelash off my conjunctiva.
2. thinking about the papers I'm working on.
3. wondering if I'll go get ice cream later.
4. sliding one foot in and out of my shoe.
5. typing

5 things you ate in the last 24 hours
1. hummus.
2. not-too-great broiled salmon (the frozen-salmon-filet-from-Trader-Joe's
experiment was not really a success.)
3. rice.
4. chocolate-covered peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets.
5. lemonade coolatta.

5 things you did so far today
1. Took trolley in to work
2. Answered some questions for that researcher
3. Made a Dunkin' Donuts run for my officemates.
4. Poked at my finding aid
5. Ate lunch

5 things you can hear right now
1. humming of the hvac system
2. traffic four stories below
3. my own typing
4. colleagues typing
5. nothing more

5 colors you can see
1. black
2. red
3. blue
4. peachy-beige-tan-Caucasian-skin-color
5. white

5 thoughts in your head
1. Even though I just ate, my mouth still wants that buffalo chicken wrap that I virtuously passed up in favor of hummus and crackers.
2. So, wait, the guy who donated this collection also donated another collection of papers about one of the same people, a collection which he subsequently took back and then gave to the University?
3. why am i so apathetic? what is wrong with me? this project should be finished already. those emails should be written already. i'd hoped i would do this better. damn. [I could have saved time and just said 'Radio KFKD' here, I guess.]
4. How you do that with the page numbers is... uh, you click on... no, to the... yeah... no... here, let me do it...
5. Is freon a chlorofluorocarbon or other kind of greenhouse-effect-enhancer?
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