Life is a Cabaret

i. Post #1,500! Um, that's a lot. Less so considering it's over almost eight years, but still. A lot of posts.

ii. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms on my flist! My parents and I went to visit my grandparents, and then Younger Sis called and Twin skypped from Switzerland, so that was nice.

iii. Remix reveals are up! Finally I can claim my fics. I wrote:

Like a Rolling Stone (The Metamorphic Remix) for framlingem. Star Trek Reboot, Gaila gen with Sarek and Amanda. This was my assignment.

A Bad Habit (The Master Never Learns Remix) for Hokuto. Doctor Who (1963), various incarnations of the Master and the Doctor, plus a few companions. Pretty much gen but you're welcome to see Doctor/Master subtext, because that was not entirely unintended. :p This was my pinch hit.

Justification (The Psychoanalysis Was So Twentieth Century Remix) for Ineffabilitea. Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/Spock, R-ish. I wrote this for Remix Madness.

I've already put them up on my website. I don't have time right now, but I'll be putting them up here over the next few days.

iv. I have definitely decided to do startrekbigbang this year. I've even started it! I've got the first chapter done, and it's already a quarter of the minimum limit for Big Bang, so I'm definitely not going to have any trouble meeting the word count. I imagine it's probably going to hit at least 40,000, maybe 50,000 words.

And I love my idea. This is going to be so awesome. :D

Pi day! For dinner I roasted pork with apples and my mom said that it was like pork with apple pie. Except that was a coincidence. :p

Though on that note, I've started actually seriously learning to cook. And I'm enjoying it so far, which is nice. I've mostly been getting recipes by googling things, but do you guys have any favorite recipes? I'm not a big fan of Mexican or beans but otherwise I'll probably eat anything. I'm particularly trying to find good vegetarian main dishes.

I'm leaving for Tapachula, Mexico on Wednesday. It's sort of strange, because I'm going with my grandparents and their church group, and it's actually a mission, but I'm not religious. I don't even remember the last time I went to church, but, well, I guess I'll be going to church there. That should be interesting. Mostly I just said yes when my grandparents asked because I get to go to Mexico and actually do something useful there, not just be a tourist. We'll be building a church, but we'll also be building some clinics, so I'm trying to work around my discomfort about missionary work.

Though of course, I'm not bringing my computer. That is going to be...strange. A week and a half completely without internet access. When was the last time that happened? XD It's just as well that I'm not likely to have time to go on the computer anyway.

And finally, I've finished my Star Trek TOS-era movie essay. Or at least, as finished as anything is until it's posted, because I've already added almost a thousand words since sending it to the person who volunteered to beta it. I'm not even sure I should call it an essay, because it's practically a thesis -- it's certainly long enough. Current word count is, um, almost 24,000. Which makes it the second longest complete thing I've ever written. Yeah, I'm pretty crazy. In most fandoms I don't even write fic approaching that length.

So...that'll be posted sometime after I come back from Mexico. In the meantime, I will probably revise it like crazy. :p

Today's my sixth LJ-versary. I've had this thing for six full years now, and tomorrow begins year seven. Damn, that's a long time. This is definitely the most consistent journal I've ever kept, even if in recent years I haven't posted as often as I did in the beginning.

Not much has been going on with me. Yesterday I watched the Fourth Doctor serial The Deadly Assassin, of "Four in Time Lord robes" fame. Which made me sporfle, because ahahahaha Time Lord robes are utterly ridiculous, and Four just makes them funnier since it's, well, Four. It's also basically the only serial in the series without a companion, which was interesting but also sad.

I've also started learning Old English (or at least, how to pronounce Old English phonemes), and it's crazy. By the end of this unit we're supposed to be able to speak and write some simple sentences, but it has such odd pronunciation and spelling. I think it's awesomely cool to learn actual Old English, but just from what I've seen so far, it's also going to be really hard.

I have to go to California for a wedding this weekend, so I'm flying down on Saturday and back on Sunday. I'm looking forward to the wedding itself, since I'm very fond of the cousin getting married, and it'll be the first time I've seen my twin since early January, but I hate flying. *sigh*

I also have more paperwork to finish up for study abroad. I'm going to try and get that done this week, though I still have a few weeks until it's due. I am definitely not going to let my laziness get in the way of me going to London.

Am back at school. Also, Younger Sis is here! She came back with me, and she's staying until Tuesday night.

I adore Younger Sis, since she's fun and social and likes spending time with me. But she's also not quite as good at entertaining herself as Twin is, and of course as I am, so I don't expect to be online all that often over the next few days.

Tomorrow we're going to the Tacoma Art and Glass museums. On Tuesday, we're going to Seattle. We haven't decided what we're doing Monday yet, though we've pretty much decided against going to Canada. We'd not really do anything there, except, well, be in Canada. I'd like that, except Younger Sis isn't sure it's worth six hours in a car. :p

Okay, am so tired. Younger Sis also wanted to drink, so I've been drinking a bit. Am not drunk, or even tipsy I think, but am so tired. Will possibly be going to bed soon, but will be online and read fic more beforehand.

Today I was going to get started on a five-to-ten page paper that I've got due on Monday. That didn't happen.

I was also going to get started on this S2 Ten/Rose fic where I play with the alien aphrodisiac cliche and perhaps do something slightly different with it, but that didn't happen either.

Also, today was my younger sister's birthday. She's twenty now, which means all three of us are out of our teens. I wonder how my parents feel about that? XD So I was going to call her today, and that did happen!

One out of three. Well...it could be worse.

I am feeling rather ridiculously stir-crazy right now, which makes no sense because this past week I've been very busy and active. My parents were up this weekend, and on Saturday we went to a place north of Seattle to go wine-tasting, as well as a tour of a brewery. So I ended up drinking...quite a bit of alcohol on Saturday. XD They also bought me two bottles of wine (raspberry fruit wine, which was really good when I tasted it), but I haven't had any yet. I need to find out how I should store open wine bottles. I assume I'll need to refrigerate them, but I need to find out how long they last. I really know practically nothing about wine. :p

I also habitually carry a book around in my purse, and we'd had about an hour free between wine-tasting and going to dinner, so we just went back to my parents' hotel and read a bit, since all of us are readers. I brought a Dorothy Sayers book, and when my mom saw what I was reading, she went into RAPTURES. XD Quite a bit of excited babbling about Dorothy Sayers and how great she was and other similar authors I might like and now she knows what to get me for Christmas.

Yesterday I had a few hours of dance rehearsal and then heart_of_man and I had pizza and watched Boomtown through The Christmas Invasion. Watching David Tennant in TCI and the Children in Need special...he looks so much younger than in S4, and I think that has to be the Doctor because I don't think three years really make that much of a difference ordinarily. Though I should probably look at shots of him circa the CiN special and him now just to be sure. (Such a hardship! XD)

It really made me wibble, seeing Ten all bouncy and happy and adorable with Rose and knowing that RTD will soon begin his mission to CRUSH THE DOCTOR'S SOUL. I want there to be more happy, dammit! XD

So that was yesterday, and today I had class and then work. I am also really quite tired, so it makes no sense that I also want to out and do something. Gah!

Maybe I will get around to answering comments soon, if I can sit still long enough. Why am I so bad about doing that? XD

My younger sister is home! It was lateish at night, so I wasn't sure my parents would be awake, but they were. Our dog started barking when we walked in, and my mom was like, "Oh, be quiet, it's just Beth--" and then "BETH!" She had this look of complete shock on her face--it was great. *g* Ever since, she's been gushing about what a nice surprise, she can't believe Beth is home now, etc. Wonderful family reunion, though too bad Twin isn't here.

Also, have been seeing this around:

When you see this, quote something from Doctor Who.

ROSE: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.
DOCTOR: Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now. You've got the entire Vortex running through your head. You're gonna burn.
ROSE: I want you safe. My Doctor. Protected from the False God.

I love that exchange so much. SO MUCH.

About me meme, seen a couple places on the flist. Considering there's now a bunch of new people after I joined Who fandom, I thought it a good idea.

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

( About me )

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Happy Mother's Day, to all the mothers on my flist. :) Hope you had a lovely day.

Twin is home! She's leaving at the end of the month for an internship in Oklahoma, and when that's done there's not long before school starts again so she won't be coming back for more than a week or so, so she won't be home for very long. :( But still, Twin is home! My little sister's also gone, and I miss her too, and I miss my parents when I'm away at college, but Twin is different. She's...my twin. I'm sad that we won't have very long together, but I guess that's just part of growing up and making our own lives.

The apostrophe/qutotation marks key on my keyboard sort of fell off today. I have been able to stick it back on, but I'm not sure how long it'll stay there. Eek. This computer is only two years old--it's way too early for it to start falling apart like this. Oh, and now it fell off again. Gah.

( Random Doctor Who fic thing, spoilers for The Doctor's Daughter )

Twin got season one of the new Doctor Who for Christmas, so we're watching that now. I really, really like the Doctor. :D The show is sorta weird, but the Doctor is really cool. And I'm...really seeing the Doctor/Rose. :p

My family opens presents on Christmas Eve, so.

My haul:
Nintendo DS & Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
PotC 3
West Wing seasons 6&7
Very pretty dragon ornaments
Crochet stuff
Bath & Body Works gift card
A sweater
A necklace
A kit for my car

yuletide opens soon--I'm so excited! I wrote three stories, one my assignment, and the other two for Yuletide Madness. I really hope the recipients like them.

Merry Christmas, all, whether you celebrate or not. :)