cafaeum et physica et Rodneius sunt unum.

[bironic]

So so so—things that are awesome about this week:

- jadesfire2808, bless her talented soul, translated Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney into Latin (Tresdecim Modi ut Rodneius Videre Posset), and then into a script form of Ancient—she studied screen shots from the show and taught herself the Ancient alphabet a while back, which is just cool—and then wrote an absolutely fantastic expansion/remix which is not poetry called Rodney's Poetry Months, about Rodney and Atlantis and John and Elizabeth and friendship and the transition from season three to four and you should go read it immediately (and then tell her how great it is) if you are a fan of any of the following: poetry, SGA, Latin, language, fictional world-deepening, sticky notes, Rodney, John, remixes, illustrated fanfic, heartwarming...ness, the way creation inspires creation from person to person in fandom.

From the translation:

Inter viginti physicos castigatos
solum manus
Rodneii movebant.

From the story:

Once he'd finished yelling at Simpson over the radio, untangling Miko's math so that it was at least close to making sense, and yelling at Radek over the radio, in person, in the control room, in the mess hall and in all four of the engineering labs, it had been too late to go to bed. So he'd hunkered down with a not-too-stale sandwich and his laptop, and spent what remained of the night making yet more adjustments to the gatebridge macro.

He'd only stepped away from his desk for five minutes, to get the first good coffee from the mess hall, and he'd come back to…this. It vaguely resembled Ancient, and one of the words could possibly have been his name, almost, but he couldn't make sense of it.

Big thank yous to Jades for both of these delights and to nightdog_barks for starting it all.

- roga's photo tribute to the varied beauty of the U.S. based on where she's been. Which is a hell of a lot of places.

- 475 words of Remix written. Yeah, so that was all done on Sunday and I haven't added a word since then, but it's still about a third of the way complete, so, yay.

- I'm going to Poland and Israel in a couple of months with International March of the Living.

- Completely unexpected bonus at work that may cover the trip.

- Thanks to a tip from savemoony — Someone "confessed" to liking No Pain more than they should over at fandomsecrets, #41 here, which made me smile all day.

- Creamy tomato pasta sauce we made last night with a recipe from Cook's Illustrated. Holy tomato, it is delicious like a delicious thing. Tangy and rich but not too rich, with onions and sundried tomatoes and pepper flakes and mmm. I want to put it on everything forever and then lick the plate.

- Johnny Cash's The Man Comes Around. I know it's a cover, I know it's not quintessential/classic country Cash, but my heart lies in folk, and I can't stop listening to this song.

- Fangirl brunch this coming Sunday.

- And one more little ficcy thing that I get to talk about on Friday.

These are the good things, and much more enjoyable to focus on than the stressful.

How are you?

Comments

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It's ... a really nice change of pace from the last four years. I hope I'm not making other people sad by posting about how well things are going right now.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

I rarely get sad when other people are doing well, unless they're really obnoxious about it, which you're not. *g* I'm a little envious, to be sure, but that's life! And I much, MUCH prefer that my friends be happy.