burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

I haven't quite figured out how to hook up my digital camera to my computer (and there are also disposable camera photos from when my digital camera was being dodgy), but Gillian has her pictures up on facebook -- which okay, only helps the few of you who have her friended, but still.  I am really excited about posting my photos, though -- in part because I was playing with my camera at the Belfast Botanic Garden and now have a great shot of me looking sullen which I so want to be my new facebook photo (and possibly an LJ icon as well).

P.S. Gillian, Pastor Tiffany e-mailed me:

Elizabeth,

I wrote about our chance meeting in Wales on the CWM blog and wanted to ask you if I could post the picture of us and use your name. At the moment you are an anonymous, genderless, generic "parishioner."

I hope the rest of your travels are going well.

Paz,

Tiffany

The line At the moment you are an anonymous, genderless, generic "parishioner." made me giggle.  And then I actually read the blogpost, and she actually refers to it as "the hinterlands of Northern Wales"!!!  (Okay, this is only funny to us, but still.)

Edit: The photo is now up on the blogpost.

We went out to lunch today for Mary Alice's birthday, and within moments of sitting down, Eric and I were, as Mary Alice put it, bickering like an old married couple. This analogy is so very true (and frightens me perhaps less than it should). [Though her true for-the-win analogy was that cooking without onions is like having sex without kissing. This was prompted by a reminder of the fact that I don't like onions, but I do still really enjoy the analogy.]

P.S. I haven't finished up my roll of film, so I haven't yet scanned and posted my WriterCon pictures, but Lorraine has, and this one of Michaela and me doesn't suck. [Not a dig at Lorraine's the photographers' skills but a statement of my own feeling that I am not photogenic.]

Meg and i missed each other on Thursday, and Moriah had to cancel on me for Friday. Life is pain, as Meg said. Only, not really. My life is not Tess of the d’Urbervilles (which is nigh on 400 pages and which i didn’t start in earnest until Friday, because i suck). P.S. Oh, memories.

Friday was positively balmy. Predictions of snow, what? Crazies. I slept in, had a leisurely lunch, did assorted errands including laundry and finally putting a picture of myself up on facebook. Thursday night i finally posted to slashthekey and futureverse.

And yeah, there endeth-ed the productivity. On Friday i hung out with people -- or at least Emma -- from tea (4pm) until nearly 10pm. Though i did do lots of Tess reading afterward. And finished it on Saturday. (Oh, textual entrances into slash, how i love thee.) Now i just have to read Death of a Salesman and do my reader response journal for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (and reread and take notes on the end of Surprised by Joy). That’s for tomorrow. For now, fanfic to quell the Hit With Big Sticks feeling that carried me through most of the novel.

ZOE: You sanguine about the kinda reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
MAL: Absolutely. (then) What's sanguine?
ZOE: Hopeful. Plus, item of interest, it also means bloody.
MAL: Well, that pretty much covers the options, don't it?
-Firefly, “Safe”

Every time i read the name Angel Clare i kept thinking of Angel Juan. Oh, things i don’t have the time to reread.

209 rearranged their room, so i swapped my bookcase for a 4-shelved one. The shelves aren’t as deep as my old one, but that’s almost a non-issue; and there are 4 shelves instead of 3, which is the important part. And the dark wood is yummy.

Friday, Felicia called me and Emma (and Cat?) repressed. Somehow not the word that usually comes to mind. And it’s possible i’ll never be able to look at pineapples with a straight face again, at least around certain people.

Emma, on Time Bandits: “I still haven’t decided how I feel about the ending. I need to write that fanfic.”
Me: “I’m already writing that fanfic.”
Emma: “Why haven’t you finished yet?”

I’m thinking SuperBowl is prime time to work on fic ‘cause i clearly can’t do homework during it.

"Sometime before 6:30, the game will start. Remember the game, between the Patriots, who could win their third Super Bowl in four years, and the Eagles, who last played (and lost) in the Super Bowl 24 years ago?"
-Richard Sandomir, on the excess of pre-game programming

Oh, look, young Ian McKellan and Judi Dench from my MAT class copy of Macbeth.

David Lenson, my UMass Comp-Lit Brave New Worlds prof, mentioned during the Maria Tatar radio interview that one of his students wanted to do a senior honors thesis on fanfiction, and from his tone it sounded like he denied said student. I e-mailed him and mentioned Susan Cocalis, my UMass Grimms to Disney prof, in my e-mail. This is the response i got:

I'd never deny a student the opportunity to do new research! C'mon! I think the project may be a bit bogged down at the moment, but her name is [name removed] and she's in my current class. I'll see if it's ok with her to give out her email address.

I invited Susan Cocalis to join us on the show, but she had a prior commitment. Tatar, Cocalis and I are old pals from graduate school.

::loves::

"Your recs page is my new crack."
-wisdomeagle

And wisdomeagle wrote me fic for buffyverse1000! I have love.

I caved and signed up for the Ethan Rayne ficathon.

I am not, however, doing the Multifandom One Ring Fic Challenge, obviously.

I’m excited about my femslash05 assignment.

Emma, i thought of you.

I have the “Normal Again” outtake [JM/NB kiss] vid clip again! ::loves mpoetess::

There is an Angelus prayer. Yeah, it’s named for the Latin beginning, but still; being in fandom makes one’s brain extra-confused. (Hat-tip, maechi.)

BlogThings says i’m 30 :)

Thanks to hedy for taking the pictures. I know they're not the greatest, so anyone who wants to help me figure out how to fix them in a program i have (or can easily download) or who wants to try with her own camera, go for it. Until then, you can check out the current ones ( here )