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Post by SpringSummers on Jan 24, 2011 20:38:16 GMT -5
A life watching TV? Sounds good to me. Can you tell us at all about your job, with out impinging on your privacy or job's privacy -- if that makes any sense? And where are you living, do you have neighbors and what social opportunity are you looking into (I always wanted to join a square dancing club). Frazzle - raffing proboards -- is still listing Julia's post at 11:43 as the most recent post (on the front page). Neither mine nor Spring's is showing up. Grr argh. I now work at a public library that has a much larger, and much different, patron base than where I used to work. Unfortunately, my job keeps me somewhat isolated in my office. I live in a nice apartment complex about half way between Denver and Boulder, so maybe I'll meet some people in the complex over time. It's a beautiful area and there are many things to do here, it's just a matter of meeting people so I don't have to do things by myself. I signed up for a martial arts class that starts next week, and I'm looking forward to that. I am also thinking about taking pottery classes; I have always wanted to know how to throw pottery. So things are starting to happen, but I tend to fall back on watching TV by way of habit. Good idea to take classes to get to know more people. I know you're not into organized religion, and neither am I (despite the Catholic upbringing and my methodist minister FIL and now SIL, I don't belong to a particular church). But you might consider joining the local Unitarian church - gives you the social benefits (which can be considerable) of church going, without the cost of feeling like a faker. When I first moved here, I remember someone trying to talk me into joining a particular church because she knew I was widowed with a small child, and she thought that church had the most eligible men for me. What a reason to join a church!!! OK, well now I've made it ALL ABOUT ME. Back to YOU . . . another thing that can help you get to know people is volunteer work of some kind. OK. That's all I got.
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Post by Lola m on Jan 24, 2011 20:39:00 GMT -5
A life watching TV? Sounds good to me. Can you tell us at all about your job, with out impinging on your privacy or job's privacy -- if that makes any sense? And where are you living, do you have neighbors and what social opportunity are you looking into (I always wanted to join a square dancing club). Frazzle - raffing proboards -- is still listing Julia's post at 11:43 as the most recent post (on the front page). Neither mine nor Spring's is showing up. Grr argh. I now work at a public library that has a much larger, and much different, patron base than where I used to work. Unfortunately, my job keeps me somewhat isolated in my office. I live in a nice apartment complex about half way between Denver and Boulder, so maybe I'll meet some people in the complex over time. It's a beautiful area and there are many things to do here, it's just a matter of meeting people so I don't have to do things by myself. I signed up for a martial arts class that starts next week, and I'm looking forward to that. I am also thinking about taking pottery classes; I have always wanted to know how to throw pottery. So things are starting to happen, but I tend to fall back on watching TV by way of habit. Ooooh, classes! Excellent idea! Fun, and with the people meeting stuff!
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Post by Lola m on Jan 24, 2011 20:48:10 GMT -5
Just finished my second original short fiction of the year so far. beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/tag/originalsince that's two more than I managed to write in 2010 and equal to the whole of 2009 I figure I'm ahead on points. Not impressive on word count, and they're both just sketches to start a 'verse on, but is something. 2008 had six Torchwood fics, so that's my next target to beat. Given a few more months... I like! You do that thing I love in the best SF, drop the reader down into the story and let the natural interactions and actions of the characters begin to explain and build the world they live in.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 24, 2011 20:57:01 GMT -5
So...one week into the elimination diet, and so far it's going better than I thought it would be. I keep having dreams that I accidentally eat something that I'm not supposed to and it messes everything up. But so far, I haven't had any problems cooking enough to satisfy me. I went out to dinner in Knoxville with some classmates this weekend, and despite me peppering the waitress with questions, she was very accommodating and we managed to find something on the menu that I could eat. The one thing that occurred to me after I started the diet is that without the milk/butter/yogurt and eggs that I normally eat, I've essentially been eating a vegan diet, as I normally don't eat a lot of meat due to the cost. So I've been making an effort to eat at least a little bit of chicken, turkey, or salmon to make up for it. I've also been drinking the alternative milks which are somewhat fortified, though they, too, are rather expensive. In case inquiring minds want to know, all the alternative milks have an off taste and in no way actually substitute for milk, but they have sort of grown on me. Oat milk and hazelnut milk taste the best, IMHO, then hemp milk. Rice milk strikes me as really expensive water. I used ground flax seeds as a substitute for eggs in a recipe, but it's not clear to me what they did, if anything. I've been using sorghum syrup as a replacement for honey. (I can't remember if I mentioned that before.) I haven't cooked with the various flours enough to have an opinion on them. Whenever I'm trying out a "substitute" food, unless it's really mixed in so you don't really taste it as it's own thing, I try to decide if I like it or not just as it is, not how it compares to the compared thing. Like, for example, enjoying carob as carob, not as "pretend chocolate". Um. Which doesn't really have much to do with your eating plan thing, I guess. It just got my mind wandering. No, that's a valid point. I generally try to think about it that way too.
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Post by Lola m on Jan 24, 2011 21:04:50 GMT -5
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Post by Lola m on Jan 24, 2011 21:06:23 GMT -5
It is currently 14 degrees below zero. That is all. That was what we woke up to this past Friday! Don't worry, it'll get warmer. Eventually. ;D ;D
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Post by Lola m on Jan 24, 2011 21:14:05 GMT -5
So, who's watching the new season of RuPaul's Drag Race? Starts in 45 minutes! **claps and burbles like a giddy little girl**
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:10:41 GMT -5
At least they gave them a run there at the end. Couple of questionable calls and they kind of folded. I think they will sell more tickets and bets if it's Packer/Steelers...so....I think that's the way it'll go. Hopeful, yet cynical... It would have been quite the Rocky story but the interception was almost predictable. If only the Bears defense had been more effective in the first quarter. It was almost like the defense was moving in slow motion the first quarter, and then woke up when Urlacher got the interception. Oh well...wasn't meant to be, and was a surprise that they got as far as they did after the poor showing in the first half of the season. Just goes to show you that anything is possible. One thing I did not like one bit was the way the Chicago 'fans' booed the team during the first half. Those were not real fans, in my opinion.
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:12:23 GMT -5
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Post by Sara on Jan 24, 2011 22:21:19 GMT -5
It is currently 14 degrees below zero. That is all. That was what we woke up to this past Friday! Don't worry, it'll get warmer. Eventually. ;D ;D Well, it'll definitely get warmer for me soon; Wednesday I fly out to Hawaii.
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:21:34 GMT -5
Quick hi to all! ERIN: Love the opener. Sorry about the Bears, Karen. I have spent the whole day working on our local NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) website. WHEW! I'm going to be putting a "google search" on the site - as a non-profit, we can get it ad-free and at no cost. It sounds simple, and it was . . . once I got past a lot of confusing reading. Anyhow, I put the search engine on a "draft home page" for our director to look at and make sure he is OK with. I am also talking to him about updating our DONATION info . . . which currently tells you where to send a check. And I re-did the way we list some things- anyhow it took hours upon hours, but it should be good when it is all in place. Thanks, Spring. Both my teams made it almost all the way this year. That's something. Some people's favorites didn't get that far. Congrats on your website redo, you tech-savvy babe!
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:22:32 GMT -5
How are you, angelique?
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Post by Queen E on Jan 24, 2011 22:26:28 GMT -5
Thesis-induced crazy of the day:
I've officially used the word "diegesis" so much in my work that I think I might accidentally name my first child that.
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:31:02 GMT -5
Just finished my second original short fiction of the year so far. beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/tag/originalsince that's two more than I managed to write in 2010 and equal to the whole of 2009 I figure I'm ahead on points. Not impressive on word count, and they're both just sketches to start a 'verse on, but is something. 2008 had six Torchwood fics, so that's my next target to beat. Given a few more months... Nice start. I like the imagery of the gel and the stars. Speaking of Torchwood, I finally saw the James Marsters episode on BBCA today. He returns, right? There was some awesome chemistry there...but there always is when JM is in the vicinity. I'm DVRing Scifi's version of "Being Human". I don't expect it to live up to the British version, but maybe I'll be surprised.
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Post by Karen on Jan 24, 2011 22:34:53 GMT -5
Thesis-induced crazy of the day: I've officially used the word "diegesis" so much in my work that I think I might accidentally name my first child that. Hehe....I had to google that one.
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