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    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
    8:14 pm
    *waves like a mad thing*

    Sorry for disappearing. I just upped and went to stay with nan for a few months. Needed the change of air, the rest and the time to think. Then I went to stay a bit with Fleur. Then, when I came back, I moved. :-D

    I'm finally settled in my new flat - ground floor, stairs are not knee-friendly things - and my new life.

    HUGZ to all.

    Y'know, I've really lost the typing habit, have done a LOT of verbal communication and practically none of the written one, it feels awfully odd right now. BUT! I have Deep Thoughts on some things with which I'll bore you all to tears quite soon. I also have a fic gestating, but I don't know if I'm going to inflict it on you.

    Soooo... read any good book lately?

    Current Mood: chipper
    Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
    3:05 pm
    HELLO! HELLO! I'm back!
    Apologies to you all.

    I had another bout with Susan Death; survived again and was told - again - I overdid things. So, apart from convalescing and things, I took time out to reflect on life, the universe and everything. Had to. Reinvent a life I can live and all manners of sad things.

    So I've sold my business, am currently prepping for university and found a measure of serenity in it.

    Y'know, it's rather hard to find the words, which is odd, but there you are.

    Hope we're still friends and HUGZ to all with lotsa affection.

    Jane

    Current Mood: apprehensive
    Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
    12:33 am
    Yeah, I know....
    ... I've been procrastinating like a very procrastinating thing, but... but well, it seems I've turned out to be a bit of a coward, after all.

    It's all Joss Sodding Whedon's fault!

    ( What shall we do with Firefly, if Firefly should fly? )

    Alright, that's all. Hope I haven't offended anyone.

    Current Mood: het up yet fascinated
    Current Music: Symphony X - Paradise Lost - A Masterpiece
    Monday, October 29th, 2007
    2:26 am
    Just p-assing by
    Right, I have a very insightful and mature essay on Firefly but for now, after having watched the thing TWICE I have only two things to say:

    1) IT'S A FUCKING WESTERN!

    2) I'd rather he didn't steal from fucking loathsome Cowboy Bebop or whatever that thing is called. Wash the stampede my royal black ass! HMPH!

    Sorry to mock and run, but life rilly rilly RILLY hates me right now.

    P.S. GAAAAAAAAAH!!!

    Edited for typos
    Thursday, October 18th, 2007
    7:32 pm
    Sooo, being in a totally jocular mood, I made my new Mac the desktop that I'm putting under the cut because, though I reduced it as much as I could, it's a tad big.

    ( I kind of like it )

    Current Music: yaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn...
    Friday, October 12th, 2007
    9:42 pm
    Yoo-hoo!
    Hey! Sorry about disappearance, but we're renovating our agency, so all computers are down and - OF COURSE! - my laptop decided to give up the ghost. It is now an ex-laptop and pushing up the chips or something.

    SOOOO... I went mad and bought a 24" screen iMac with all the trimmings.

    My bank account will probably never be in the green again. BUT oh wow was it worth it!

    Am still learning how to use this beast, but I just a minuta ago managed to get back online and YOO-HOO!

    Will talk incessantly with you tomorrow, but now brain - all four neurons - hurts and, though early, time for bed methinks.

    HUGZ HUGZ HUGZ

    P.S. I know it's stupid and quite shallow, but am in mad passionate love with aluminium-and-white keybaord with lovely silent keys and itty-bitty remote! You can do things on this thing from across the room! Totally useless, but, my! How decadent can a plastic thing get? :-D
    Monday, September 17th, 2007
    4:50 pm
    Reading the Classics
    Sorry for the absence. Part of it was work, part of it was a bit of sex, but most of it was that I was thinking and trying to understand a thing that's been irritating me: why is it so hard to use decent reading comprehension when faced with the classics?

    ( Authorial Interest vs. Autorial Approval )

    Current Mood: annoyed
    Current Music: Telephone rings. Grrr...
    Thursday, September 6th, 2007
    10:17 pm
    Back online... more or less
    Just got back from taking Fleur to the sirport. Drove me car. Patted self on back acuz driving. Go me, innit?

    That said, THANK YOU ALL! Thankyouthankyouthankyou for the kindness, understanding and hugs, all were much needed and utterly appreciated. You all, friends and acquaintances online, are a wonderful bunch of people and am all teary and warmed and SO glad I met you.

    Me sister is so bloody intense it was a pleasure and hard work having her here with me. We do love each other, but it works better at a distance. Heh... She MADE me drive, which is very very good and also very very stressing. But what can you do? She and Angelique (French nan) were so effing close that intense Fleur truly needed to be made to break out of numb cataphract.

    Made her see Hogfather which she hadn't seen as Sky France hadn't seen fit to broadcast it. It worked very well to distract her. What a truly lovely true-to-book thing that is. Also Sir David Jason can read the phone book and have me entranced. Fleur got the Yuki Eiri's STARESTARESTARETM at Teatime. I have the odd idea she's going to stalk the actor.

    Also tried to push Gravitation on her. Worked too well, she's stolen my manga. Sometimes I find it SO easy to hate her. Oh well, will buy it.

    I had started Firefly before nan died and it hadn't seemed too bad. Will start seeing it again soon and will let fly with Firefly (has any of you ever seen the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup?) at you all.

    In conclusion,

    THANK YOU!!!



    Love you all and HUGZ all round.
    Saturday, September 1st, 2007
    11:31 am
    Sorry I disappeared.

    My French nan died suddenly last Monday and I had to go there. I loved her, she was a lovely and elegant woman. Am really sad, but, alright, life goes on and stuff. My sister is here with me for a few days so I won't be much online.

    See you next week.
    Saturday, August 11th, 2007
    7:17 pm
    When Completely Different Universes Collide
    So my brother came to see me cuz he's a nice man and brought his lover cuz his lover is a hunk and also a nice man and, instead of chit-chatting with his sister and allowing her to drool on the Hunk, he dumped a box on my table and said: "READ IT AND WATCH IT AND DO NOT DARE JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS UNTIL YOU'VE READ IT TWICE AT LEAST!" in scary capslock of Intensity. It's not easy - and not normal for him - but he cowed me into obeying. I meekly opened the box and GAAAAAAAAAAH! Manga! Anime! Ohshitohshitohshit my brother's gone bonkers... MUUUUUUUUMMMMM!!!

    But, being transfixed by Brother's Glare of IntensityTM, I did open the book and was immediately shouted at.

    "It's the other way around, you shallow woman of no Japanese knowledge!"

    Scary, I tell you. My bro had never been a Japanese fan, especially. He doesn't speak Japanese, he never went to Japan (I have, I liked Kyoto, disliked Tokyo, spoke with English-speaking hotel persons and that's it), he'd never indicated any interest in Japanese comic books and yet there he was, forcing me to read with menaces. I studied the instruction on How To Read The Other Way Around, and proceeded.

    ( And all was made clear unto me )

    Current Mood: dorky
    4:41 pm
    Disneyan Shallowness or the Trivialisation of the Bastard Hero
    There's a thing that's been annoying me for a long time... Well, alright, there's lot of things that annoy me, I'm easily irritated, but now I want to talk about one particular attitude towards a particular type of character (in all media) that annoys me to the point of rage.

    ( Unnecessarily Reforming the 'Decent' Bastard )

    Current Mood: thoughtful
    Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
    5:50 pm
    Skeleton Hand is back and writing book reviews! yay...?
    Got my new Robert Rankin madness the da-da-de-da-da code - title is all lowercase, it's him not me! - and what a frabjous day is this. In lieu of going Calloo Callay in me office (it's oddly quiet, too quiet, a tad scary, I don't feel like making a sudden violent noise), I'll regale you with a brief gem. The Very Beginning of the Book:( da-da-de-da-da )

    Now I'm off to have a Rankin-reading orgy and sod the customers! I'm closing early today. :-D

    Current Mood: ecstatic
    Friday, July 20th, 2007
    10:52 pm
    Alright, don't like don't read
    I know every sporker in every comm in every blog server in the netverse keeps on harping how it's a lame excuse, but this is MY playground and I can piss in it as much as I like so, if you don't want DH spoilers...

    ( Don't want spoilers, don't read. Moi, I can't resist )



    I really felt like writing this. So sue me. :P :P :P

    Current Mood: creatively meta
    Current Music: AH, I needed to get that out
    Thursday, July 19th, 2007
    3:16 pm
    AAAARGH! Now I want to KILL things!
    Okay, so I'm reading this rather splendid lit crit book on Diana Wynne Jones; it's a collection of essays and I'm enjoying them all when I happen upon an essay titled Good and Evil in the Works of DWJ and JKR. "Oh goody!" ejaculate I and plunge into it.( GAH! No, there are NO spoilers for DH, I could care less )

    Current Mood: infuriated
    Current Music: The gnashing of my teeth and the wailing of my brain
    Monday, July 9th, 2007
    5:07 am
    Sorry, everyone, I was abducted...
    ... by well-meaning family and forced to go to nan's (Jamaica) to recuperate from what they called: "Your cretinous propention for overwork."

    I'm all rested now and very sun-kissed and things and here I am.

    So dear [info]baeraad asked me what a strong feminine woman would be like and I got to thinking about that. Fact is I don't know. I think there are two kind of differences in general between males and females of the species Homo Sapiens. One is physiological (different build of body, different hormonal fluxes and so on) and the other is social and cultural, the behavioural brainwashing we all get since birth.

    The physiological differences are not immense or many, that's obvious, but they do colour our thoughts and emotions in part and, IMO, can't be dismissed as non-existent, BUT what really complicates things are the learnesd social responses so that it's now quite hard to understand when one's own attitudes and choices are truly one's own and when they are a reaction one way or another (embracing or rejecting) to social gender archetypes and stereotypes.

    One woman may be strong because she embraces the cultural gender mores and lives a happy and fulfilled life; another may be strong because she rejects the cultural gender mores and attempts to re-create herself according to her views, thus living a happy and fulfilled life. I could go on for hours. Maybe being 'weak' for a woman could mean wanting to be a man - though, of course, not in the transgender sense - and have the virtues our culture attributes to males... but this sounds awfully like one of the worst clichés in history, after all.

    So, yes, there's a bit of me who wants to say a 'strong' woman is one who accepts her physiology and lives as she thinks best, ignoring what other people tell her she should be, but the biggest part of me knows this is as fallacious as they come. Hell, I don't even know if I'm 'strong' or 'weak'. The only thing I can tentatively say is that probably I'm stronger now, after being physically weak and incapacitated for a long time, than I was before. Maybe all I am now is a little more aware of who I am. Maybe that's all the strength that's needed, what say?

    Oh, [info]ingriam, I haven't forgotten you and your interesting fics. Not at all. And, as you write Alkanphel TEH PRETTY!!ELEVENTYONE!!!11, look at my pretty in icon. :-D

    Current Mood: rested
    Thursday, June 14th, 2007
    1:34 am
    And now for something completely different...
    Oh, and browsing old F-W entries I found this. I think I ruptured somehing laughing. For some reasons - possibly that I don't watch TV a lot, or at all - I missed it and am now SO glad I could enjoy it.

    Go watch, it's funnier than mere words can express.

    Current Mood: laughing like anything
    Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
    10:41 pm
    Am barely coherent, but...
    So lots and lots and LOTS more work and lots and lots of physiotherapy for stressed knee and stressed fingers; the latter to explain absence from LJ.

    Have been reading good books, la creme de la creme of which is Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition by Farah Mendlesohn. Wonderful book, intelligent in-depth analysis of DWJ's opus and a lovely witty style that makes reading it a positive pleasure. Am actually re-reading it because it's such a lovely book to read. Also love DWJ, of course, but I think even those who have a superficial knoweledge of her should read it. It says a lot about Fantasy and Sci-Fi and makes one want to read the books, a far from mean feat in a lit crit book, BTW.

    As for the rest: it's hot almost everywhere I was forced to go, humid torrid jungle hot, a thing I don't like at all. Why is it that travel agency disaster NEVER happen in Iceland? *sigh*

    I onther news I got SO pissed off at LJ - wanted to remove a 'friend' (hate that name) and required button has mysteriously disappeared from 'manage friends' page, so I ask LJ admin and - after much faffing and fapping - they demand to know the username of the 'friend' I want to remove. I am forced to give it and get my instructions in the form of a 'go to' page in MY FUCKING LJ MANAGE ACCOUNTS IN MY FUCKING ACCOUNT. I want to kill 'em all. *deep breath* So I made two mirror blogs at JournalFen and GreatestJournal as a prequel to abandoning LJ altogether. [info]baeraad, I think I may be able to get you a free LJ at JournalFen if you want to have one. The way I feel right now I may not be on LJ much longer.

    HUGZ to all and sorry for absence. Unavoidable, I fear. I hope the worst is past, because I'm really tired.

    P.S. Oh, apparently G. R. R. Martin forbids fanfic about his Earth-shaking saga. Who'd have thunk it? He didn't seem to be like Ann Rice and the other stupidies...
    Saturday, May 19th, 2007
    2:34 pm
    Am exhausted... As soon as health probbos started to go away, work troubles attacked me as soon as my back was turned.

    Had to go fix things in 5 five FIVE!!! different tours and places without a break. Fixed things. Just come back home. Popped in to say hello am not dead, nor injured, nor abducted by aliens - well, alright, maybe a couple of persons were aliens - please fogive me for crashing on bed and sleeping twenty four hours at a setting.

    See you soon. HUGZ
    Monday, April 23rd, 2007
    11:20 pm
    PETER PAN and Passion
    Right, am definitely back from my travels, succeeded in creating tourist packages which I like a lot and sent my associates with clients to enjoy them as well. But that's a tale for another time because I'm still REELING from seeing Peter Pan directed by P. J. Hogan. Am going to rave and rant about it, so be warned.

    ( Rave and rant )

    ETA to edit - too late alas! - and add Lj cut. SORRY!

    Current Mood: ecstatic
    Current Music: LUMSK: Asmund Fraegdejievar - talk about INTENSE!
    Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
    1:46 pm
    Tam Lin, or...Once More, With Feeling
    First, take a peek at my icon. That thing really existed, hundreds of millions year ago, in the Cambrian era. Which makes me wonder why Fantasy author never bother to go look at past reality for their beasties, but such is Fantasy, never let it be tainted with real things, no matter how definitely extinct. Anyway, they've found fossils of it and they've named it Anomalocaris which means Odd Crab which also means they didn't get it right the first time. It was a winged lobster with double grabbing shrimp-like appendages and a circular bone-crushing maw. I rather love it and I decided this one's name is Tam Lin. Why? Because he used to wreck havock, back in the old days when humans were not, and Tam Lin is a hell of a havock wrecker on writers.

    Which elegant transition brings me to my ( Tam Lin Rant )

    Current Mood: chipper
    Current Music: Lumsk. Norwegian Troll Metal Group. GREAT!
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