Happy-making things.
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thewlisian_afer. It's a little late in LJ-time, but it's taken this long to come up with ten things.
Ten things that have recently made me happy:
1. LJ fangirl brunch yesterday, with special guests from the West Coast. Great company and great weather, the sky that deep October blue made all the more vibrant by the changing leaves.
2. Seeing my friend Ellen (lately of Bardolatry fame) last Saturday while her acting troupe was in town. We had dim sum in Chinatown.* The food was cheap and plentiful, if not spectacularly tasty, and it was great to see her again; it had been two years, sincesynn and I went to see her in Arcadia in Boston.
*That sounds sophisticated, doesn't it? I might also have said: After meeting up at Grand Central, we debated who knew the least about Manhattan, tried to pick a neighborhood and/or type of cuisine, took the express 6 train downtown without realizing that it goes straight to Brooklyn Bridge, hopped back one stop after waiting several minutes for the train to leave the station, and wandered around by Canal Street with Ellen's contact lens fusing to her cornea until we found a place that looked good.
3. A spate of good fanfic. Of what I read this past week, I'd recommend:
5. Recipes from a weekly cooking class I'm taking with my dad. The class itself is rushed and disorganized, since we make three new recipes in two and a half hours with seven people operating off one table/one line of gas stoves/one set of questionably functioning ovens/one food processor/two puréers/etc. and our chef-teacher doesn't always have a handle on what needs to be done when, but we now know how to make a delicious carrot ginger soup (with orange juice) and spicy chickpea burgers, among other things.
6. TV shows. Along with House and SGA, there's Chuck on Mondays (good, light fun, with nerds, wit, slashy tangoing, and Adam Baldwin gagged & tied to a bed) and Odyssey 5 reruns on Fridays. I have O5 on DVD, but there's something fun about watching it "live" on TV, except for the commercials. One day I'll write a conclusion for my sister (the series got cancelled right after a conspiracy cliffhanger) and some Kurt/Neil slash (Sebastian Roché/Christopher "Jake 2.0" Gorham) for myself.
7. Going to see Kate Hewlett's play, Humans Anonymous, next month.
8. Going to an Ours concert this week with my sister. Think U2 doing alt rock.
9. New music, also care of my sister: I really liked some tracks off albums by Angie Aparo, Matt Good and Elefant. *makes note to upload them*
10. Cleaning out my closet and going shopping three weekends ago. (I don't know, I'm out of happy things.) Got rid of stuff that didn't look good and then went out to try to find some better things to wear to work this fall/winter. Shopping and I do not always get along, but a little optimism and a little help from makeover TV shows makes for a more pleasant and arguably successful experience.
The end.
thewlisian_afer. It's a little late in LJ-time, but it's taken this long to come up with ten things.Ten things that have recently made me happy:
1. LJ fangirl brunch yesterday, with special guests from the West Coast. Great company and great weather, the sky that deep October blue made all the more vibrant by the changing leaves.
2. Seeing my friend Ellen (lately of Bardolatry fame) last Saturday while her acting troupe was in town. We had dim sum in Chinatown.* The food was cheap and plentiful, if not spectacularly tasty, and it was great to see her again; it had been two years, since
synn and I went to see her in Arcadia in Boston.*That sounds sophisticated, doesn't it? I might also have said: After meeting up at Grand Central, we debated who knew the least about Manhattan, tried to pick a neighborhood and/or type of cuisine, took the express 6 train downtown without realizing that it goes straight to Brooklyn Bridge, hopped back one stop after waiting several minutes for the train to leave the station, and wandered around by Canal Street with Ellen's contact lens fusing to her cornea until we found a place that looked good.
3. A spate of good fanfic. Of what I read this past week, I'd recommend:
House:4. Postcards from traveling friends.
green to red by elicia8 (House/Wilson, moody, seasonal, chock full of similes) and levity; or how James Wilson got his lunch back by phinnia (House/Wilson friendship, humor, pudding). I'm looking forward to more now that Wilson_Fest has opened for posting.
SGA:
Snapshots From A Divorce by Lenore (John/OFC, John/OMC, heartbreaking look at a man who doesn't quite know and won't let himself have what he wants, **recommended even to people who don't know SGA**), All These Places We Have Met by toft-froggy (haunting, angst, parallel universes, with Rodney/John friendship), the transvestite!John series also by toft-froggy (John/Rodney, long, hot, treatment of transvestitism not just as a kink but as a shameful, repressed part of one's life), Faith and Mountains by friendshipper (Teyla, spoiler for a S3 episode), Long Road Home also by friendshipper (Texas border patrol AU, long, John/Teyla/Rodney friendship), So Very Wrong (but so very good) by telesilla (short & hot post-"Doppelganger" semi-con slash), and the latest batch of Nantucket AU snippets from dogeared, sheafrotherdon, aesc and siriaeve (Fall/Fine/Contour, Sweater Weather/Off-Season, wonderfully melancholic and sensual).
Other:
sheafrotherdon's and siriaeve's trio of soveryhot Cupid fics -- here, here and here. Three words: girl!anal and pegging. I didn't know anything about Cupid, and it didn't matter. Now it seems someone has uploaded all of Joe Flanigan's appearances on Cupid to YouTube in four parts, so you can see Alex and Claire in action for context. (Hey! It's canon that Alex can't keep up with Claire's sex drive.)
5. Recipes from a weekly cooking class I'm taking with my dad. The class itself is rushed and disorganized, since we make three new recipes in two and a half hours with seven people operating off one table/one line of gas stoves/one set of questionably functioning ovens/one food processor/two puréers/etc. and our chef-teacher doesn't always have a handle on what needs to be done when, but we now know how to make a delicious carrot ginger soup (with orange juice) and spicy chickpea burgers, among other things.
6. TV shows. Along with House and SGA, there's Chuck on Mondays (good, light fun, with nerds, wit, slashy tangoing, and Adam Baldwin gagged & tied to a bed) and Odyssey 5 reruns on Fridays. I have O5 on DVD, but there's something fun about watching it "live" on TV, except for the commercials. One day I'll write a conclusion for my sister (the series got cancelled right after a conspiracy cliffhanger) and some Kurt/Neil slash (Sebastian Roché/Christopher "Jake 2.0" Gorham) for myself.
7. Going to see Kate Hewlett's play, Humans Anonymous, next month.
8. Going to an Ours concert this week with my sister. Think U2 doing alt rock.
9. New music, also care of my sister: I really liked some tracks off albums by Angie Aparo, Matt Good and Elefant. *makes note to upload them*
10. Cleaning out my closet and going shopping three weekends ago. (I don't know, I'm out of happy things.) Got rid of stuff that didn't look good and then went out to try to find some better things to wear to work this fall/winter. Shopping and I do not always get along, but a little optimism and a little help from makeover TV shows makes for a more pleasant and arguably successful experience.
The end.
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Date: Oct. 22nd, 2007 06:38 pm (UTC)Huzzah for happy-making things! And ten of them, no less, and glamourous too. Friends, food, and fanfic are indeed tonics for the soul.
(I daresay that only thing that makes me happy at the moment is Ancient Greek, and that is pretty sad in and of itself.)
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:16 am (UTC)And what is wrong with loving Ancient Greek? Nothing, that's what. *g*
Would it make you smile if I said I named an interrogator Basano in an SGA WIP? Would've done Basanistes, but it doesn't sound as much like a proper name.
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:12 am (UTC)Yes, it would :D
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:15 am (UTC)*grins and runs away*
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:20 am (UTC)!
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 22nd, 2007 07:15 pm (UTC)It's ridiculous how happy getting a paid account, mostly for the icon space, has made me. Huh.
And Yay! for happy-making things! I will continue to send good vibes your way, and if you need anyone to bounce fic ideas with, I'm here. :)
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:20 am (UTC)And yay icons! I like the one you used here. Speaking of LJ perks, did you know paid account holders get a $1 credit for LJ purchases? It's for Halloween, I think. Check your gift shop / gift certificates dropdown.
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 22nd, 2007 11:48 pm (UTC)I hope Friday's SGA episode made you feel a little better—I know it cheered me up on an otherwise blah day.
I'm emailing you about another potential happy-making thing.
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Date: Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:14 am (UTC)SGA did help, yes. Lots of fun in that episode.