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For kaberett, who inspires.
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A SUM OF AWE (YOUR AWESOME IS SO AWESOME THAT)

your awesome flows
like a river downhill
teaming with salmon
who leap against gravity
flashing silver extraordinary up and up
in mature magnificence
to spawn more awesomeness
because inspiration like this
gives breath again to dare
in the act of taking it away
breaking complacent aspiration to create
awed pause for possibility—

silver salmon surging splashing flicker-flashing, o—!
o glory, o surely they have eaten hazelnuts
of wisdom, swallowed dream tokens
for safe-keeping, known the intimate ocean
depths and high swift mountain streams
to shine so brightly leap upon leaping

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lizcommotion

I have been somewhat delayed in posting this because dog!sadness and also abdominal pain of doom, but. I would like to send you a winter card! Given that I am somewhat delayed in starting, it may be after the Solstice/Christmas/New Year, but I will attempt to have them all sent sometime actually in winter. And who knows, it could be a fun surprise when you receive it!

If you are interested in receiving a winter card, please either send me a private message with your preferred envelope name and mailing address OR leave a screened comment here. Please do not assume I know where your address is if you've given it to me before; I'm a bit scattered at the moment so yes, sending it again would be most excellent.

Also, I have a lot of Christmas-specific cards because they're everywhere (not overly religious, just Santas and stuff). If that bothers/triggers you, please let me know when you send me your address and I will avoid sending you one of those cards.

P.S. Even if you are very new around here/only lurk/just dropped by via network, the above applies! I will totally send you a fun!times card in the mail. :)

jjhunter

My life these last few days has been a roller-coaster of high drama soap opera. Good gracious fuck. Very surreal when it isn't frightening.

Anyway, this all would be much more bearable with theme music. Recommendations for songs with a strong beat most gratefully accepted - I've been listening to a lot of Florence + the Machine, Gorillaz' 'Feel Good Inc', Pentatonix & Lindsey Stirling's 'Radioactive', Gregorian [chant] version of 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', Thao Nguyen and Andrew WK's cover of '1434 The River' via studio 360, etc. etc.

jjhunter

Via the AGNI Magazine mailing list: Job Opening at Grolier Book Poetry Book Shop

"HISTORIC GROLIER BOOKSHOP in Harvard Square , the oldest all-poetry bookstore in the country, is looking for a Manager. [...] The position is part-time now, with the possibility of full time in the future. Salary is commensurate with experience."

( full job advert text behind the cut )

ariestess

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ariestess

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qem_chibati

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/money/shopping-and-legal/legal/trans-pacific-partnership-secretly-trading-away-rights.aspx

USA Foreign Trade Policies Strike Again.

To summarise:
Long story short you remember the unpopular IP laws that got pulled back in the US? US is trying to make pacific countries implement them along with other unpopular aspects & US lobby groups get access to the treaty proposals being written up; but Australia, a country involved in the treaty, won't let it's own journalists/consumer groups see them.

FFS. I completely understand why a treaty may need to remain private during the process but this is a disgusting and gross violation of consumer interests, and is obviously part of a plan to erode these rights world wide to make it easier to implement in the USA.

Also in the world of disgusting polictics; is Australian politicians organising spies on East Timor for purposes of "national security" (LOL, East timor a threat to Australia? FUCKING BULLSHIT, especially not at the same time we're helping them become independant!!!) but in reality taking that information and selling it to corporations so that those corporations can screw East Timor out of oil rights. P.S. the lawyer of the bell whistlers firm got raided, by a warent signed by the attorney general and not a court.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stoush-over-alleged-australian-spying-on-east-timor-has-a-long-history-20131205-2ytm6.html
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/intelligence-agency-failed-to-investigate-spying-claims-lawyer-bernard-collaery-claims-20131204-2yr3m.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/politics-news/attorney-general-george-brandis-says-raids-on-lawyer-spy-were-above-board/story-fn59nqld-1226775186821

just. argh.

marahmarie

Seriously, I may never publish this thing because 1) USO blows and 2) there's too much credit for the many features it offers to spread around - so much so, I'm trying to figure out how to re-publish it under two separate licenses at once (MIT and CC3.0 - anybody?) to finally give the guy known on my blog as 'Chinese dude' credit for all the sidebar work that he once upon a time didn't do for me.

Yeah, I rewrote his code way back when - to the point that it was just barely anybody's code anymore - but I'm not using that particular rewrite next time 'round because, as fellow Google script-writer James has pointed out, it doesn't handle links right. Which is actually sidebar-writing dude's fault (if it's anybody's - I think the fault is no one's but Google's), but whatever.

In short, I've moved signed-in links for GMail/ G+ users back into the navbar (there's no room to shove them anywhere else since I refuse to lay the page out like Google does, so), adjusted Google gear and related icons for the billionth time in two years, rewrote enough of the sidebar code, from scratch this time, to make the sidebar seem like my own again, fixed third column height for just the umpteenth time in two years (I was setting margin on the wrong element every damn time; think I got that figured out now, duh), deleted about 50 lines of now-useless code and took some screen caps. Ahhhh.

I'm too tired tonight to lay out what still needs to be done all that coherently but hey, I'll try. In short, I've got page flow hacks in my script for James' script but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep running his with mine for any public-facing offering so I need to get those hacks out should I go with something else for the navbar; ~~I need to do logo work again on pages that are not Google results or Image results~~ - ETA, done; I need to figure out licensing, because I've got Matagus's, my own, and Chinese dude's stuff all rolled up in one script and Matagus's is not under MIT license, while mine is not under the CC3.0 license that Chinese dude's is (mine is under the same MIT licensing I inherited from the original author).

I need to learn how to write more of my CSS from scratch - and I think I need to do so before I try to learn JS. The licensing issues wouldn't even exist right now if I'd had the fucking ability to go, 'Oh look, I can move this thing Google did here over there and set it to position absolutely, color in some links - and bam, done!' But no, I couldn't think that far into it a year ago so here I am now trying to figure out how to run my own script with multiple licenses. The idiocy of it! Grrrrrrr.

lizcommotion

my body( illnesses )creativity

I spun some yarn today. It was fun but tiring. I want to do more, the fiber is taunting me, but I'm trying to take it easy.
I also, um, made some lotion out of beeswax, oil, and lavendar essential oil. it makes my skin uber soft!
I have all the ideas for knitting but no energy to actually get the yarn and start the project. Whoops. Maybe soon I hope?

other

if I don't go drink the ginger tea my partner made soon, I will be in trouble. :P

jjhunter

Not interested in getting into specifics in public. I may or may not be around much this upcoming week.

I wish it didn't seem like trouble comes in proportion to my increased capability to handle it.

lizcommotion

I am way behind and I just can't catch up because brainz, so sorry, I read your comments, I <3 them, they mean a lot and keep me sane, I just can't reply right now. Or maybe I can reply after right now. There's just too much of a backlog to catch up.

My guild's craft show went well despite the snow and ice! I sold 10 things so far (there's still an hour to spare) out of 32 that I put in, which I consider a success.
The things that did sell are the things I liked the most; the things I put my heart into. Not the things I made because I thought they would sell, or because someone told me they would sell. So, lesson learned: follow your bliss.
I ate solid food again today! So far, so good. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I am even contemplating knitting again. So far I have not had energy to knit since Rogue died, which is the opposite of helpful in regards to one's coping mechanisms.
I went to the yarn store and got some intriguing yarn. Now to find a pattern. (I know, I do it backwards, but it works for me.)
Am hoping to get unsold stuff back from the craft show soon so that I can present it, either to people I know or to people who are cold who can't get warm things. (I like to think of them winging their knitted way throughout the world <3).
Despite being unable to go to my guild's craft show (which is large and further from my house), I did go to jelazakazone 's craft show (smaller and more local). Her quilts are exquisite and my mom got some really awesome presents for people from the show.
Just because people are posting these: I do have a Permanent Wishlist because hey, it's nice to want things. No obligations at all but, you know, it's there if you feel like looking.
I saw a cute kitty today! <3
Lovely snuggles and comfort from my partner when I had a grieving ~~moment~~ hour for Rogue in the middle of the night.

alee_grrl

All of them. And I am super tired now, but satisfied.

Got several pretty shiny things at a local arts show. I got an amazingly gorgeous art quilt piece by

jelazakazone. You can check out her work here. I got the skull quilt. Wasn't sure whether I was getting it for myself, or someone else in the family when I bought it. Just knew I needed to buy it. Realized on my way home that it is absolutely perfect for my eldest niece, whose favorite color is blue and whose favorite books at the moment are the Skulduggery Pleasant books. I also got a pretty copper wire and green-stone-that-I-can't-recall-the-name-of-right-this-second tree that will go nicely on my wall. And a bar of lemongrass/mint soap that smelled heavenly. All in all it was a very good haul. :)

I then braved Whole Foods for the tortillas I'm allowed to eat (Whole Foods and Wegmans seem to be the only stores that carry them locally, and both are nightmarish busy most days). Then had to stop off at the Giant by my house to pick up the other items I needed (because Whole Foods didn't have niece's muffin bite thingies and I am a good auntie). Came home and ate a snack. Then agreed to go out with sister to get remaining things needed for Christmas presents, because. I have no idea what I was thinking. Both of us forgot about the Wintry Mix forecast for tomorrow. We did treat ourselves to a lovely dinner out at a local Japanese restaurant before descending into the bowels of hell that was Wal-Mart pre-Christmas, pre-Winter Storm.

We survived, but oh my gods there were people everywhere and lines backed up through the clothing department. So glad we got the shopping done, but damn am I tired.

lizcommotion

( medical stuff update, food poisoning edition, tried not to make it graphic )

jjhunter

caramelsilver is currently hosting the Three Sentence Ficathon 2013, which is a treasure hoard of many small delights - I highly recommend checking it out.

My prompts so far (open to reuse if any inspire!):

- Welcome to Night Vale / Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir, private (third) eye

[Fill] by moetushie (AO3 repost)

- Any Sherlock-related canon, Mrs Hudson, the importance of little rituals

( Read more... )

lizcommotion

Sorry for a delay in posting yesterday. The short version is: if you think meat is bad, don't listen to other people who say it's fine, THROW THAT SHIT AWAY. I tasted it a couple times while I was cooking and then we were like, "No, really, it's bad." Guess who got IV fluids and has been having a fun case of food poisoning! So yes, I am in need of good things.

IV Fluids are a good thing.
slept through most of the night.
My mom got an artificial Christmas tree from Craigslist, which means that we can deck the halls soon.
MY CRAFT SHOW IS THIS WEEKEND. And also they were really understanding about me not being able to work it because dog grief (and now food poisoning). So phew.
Still really excite about my grandmother coming to visit, and we might even get to do some short overnight trips while she's here (so no one gets stir crazy).
Had a shower. Yay! Clean!
Gatorade, gross but useful.

I guess I'll come back to this later because this is all I've got right now.

silvrguillotine

SO

MUCH

SNOW

It was freezing rain, earlier; just over a 15-minute walk -- with short duck into a bus stop shelter -- my umbrella got coated with ice. Same walk on the way back, it actually didn't want to close and compact on its own, and I had to crack the ice and fold up the umbrella spines myself.

I went to sleep around 9 PM, and it turned to snow sometime between that and 2 AM. (There was a fire alarm, so I had to throw on some jeans, my coat, and my tennis shoes, and trudge outside through the snow, which had already completely obscured the sidewalks and grass.)

Looking out my window, it's snowing harder than earlier, and in large flakes. There's even a set of humungous icicles hanging off the edge of the light in the parking lot outside my window; the icicles are loose and wobbling in the wind.

I've seen worse snow back home -- but it's getting worse, and where I am, I'm concerned about their ability to handle this much snow and ice. Given the region, I'd expect they'd have measures in place, but I haven't seen anywhere near this much snow since I came here and it's usually about 10 degrees (F) warmer here than back home. Do they have enough road salt stockpiled for a storm like this? Do people here have snow tires?

Normally I'd be like SNOW YES SNOW FINALLY but I am hoping to leave on Sunday. Travel + big van + ice + possible insufficient city/driving responses = not good.

ETA (3:20 PM): Now cars need to be dug out before they can be driven, but at least it looks like there's been an attempt to plow the roads at some point. Also looks like the post-plowing snow in the road has been compacted (making it slick), especially since cars are going very slowly on it. It's stiiiiill snowing in big, thick flakes, and I can see a car being towed through the snow outside my window right now, but people are walking around (looking a bit like dogs with boots on, high-stepping when they don't look prepared for the weather).

Current Mood: wat

jjhunter

Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku. I will leave anonymous comments screened unless otherwise asked; feel free to use this to leave private comments if that's what you're most comfortable with.

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Signal-boosting much appreciated!

qem_chibati

To: Qem's Husband
From: Qem
Date: 7:36 pm
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alee_grrl

To sit for the bar exam you have to submit both an application to take the exam, and an application to the character and fitness board (because they want to know if you're ethical enough to join a profession notorious for unethical people--which may be why they started the character and fitness program now that I think about it). Either way the application is seriously invasive and complex and is pretty much a test of: 1) your determination to take the exam, 2) your attention to detail, and 3) your ability to follow instructions. I had most of the attachments ready to go prior to last week, but needed to sit down and fill out the forms. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners does off a handy forms wizard, but even with the forms wizard it took me close to 9 hours start to finish (answer the questions, print the materials, proof the materials several times, print the materials, affix passport photos to the proper page, fill out the handwriting sample, note the pages that had to be notarized). Then it was another 3 or so hours the next day going to the bank to get the money order for the fees and getting the forms notarized while I was there. Then to the UPS store to make copies for my own records, organize everything via paper clips and binder clips, triple check everything, and mail it via approved mailing service (next-day mail by a third party carrier). The whole process took more spoons that I had ever imagined.

But I am blessed with a wonderful sister, who happens to own a wonderful bathtub (jacuzzi tub). I came home, took a long hot soak, then vegged out for a while. We had chicken soup for dinner (kelp noodles are surprisingly tasty, and approved for the low-yeast diet). Then Sunday my niece and I went to see Catching Fire while her mom finished up some homework assignments. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, but I enjoyed the time with my niece even more. She's twelve and super compassionate, so I wasn't sure if she would be comfortable with some of the themes of the movie. But we talked about it before hand, and she said she had seen the first one. When it started getting tense though, she leaned towards me and I scooted over and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. We finished the movie snuggled up. Let me tell you there is something amazing about knowing a child trusts you that much. She also asked me some questions about things after the movie, which was cool. I really love being an auntie.

Two weeks left of my internship, and a lot to do, but it's all coming along nicely. Hope everyone else is doing okay. I know I haven't been on much lately but am thinking about you all and missing you. I do love my dwircle. :D

lizcommotion

I found when our last dog passed that the first three days were the worst. I am finding on the fourth day that it is slightly less bad than the previous three. *crosses fingers* I know things are up and down, but -- holding on to hope.
There was a litter of Border Terrier puppies born the day after Rogue passed. I like to think his spirit, or part of it, may have passed on to one of them. Or who knows where else! (My friend thinks he was the missing Panchen Lama, taking a short spiritual retreat.)
The people in my guild were really understanding about Rogue's passing, and so I am no longer scheduled to do a spinning demo on the one-week anniversary of his passing. (And in fact don't have to help out at the craft show at all, which I feel slightly guilty about, but am fighting the imposter syndrome and reminding myself that I can help out next year.)
Going to attend my craft show and jelazakazone 's craft show on Friday with jelazakazone and my mother and maybe my partner.
My aunt is getting needed medical attention in the UK! Hurrah! Have been so worried about her. *crosses fingers*
Got/gave some much-needed canine attention yesterday from a friend's dog.
Tea.
Therapy today.
Rearranged the bedroom, it looks really nice.
Also gave me a chance to do a deep clean to help with allergy issues.

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Page Summary

jjhunter - Poem: "A Sum of Awe (Your Awesome Is So Awesome That)"
lizcommotion - Winter Card Time!
jjhunter - what even
jjhunter - ATTN Boston-area poets
ariestess - Today's DailyOM Offerings...
ariestess - Today's DailyOM Offerings...
qem_chibati - reasons to hate politicians #1734893578438595605987
marahmarie - Script in progress...
lizcommotion - state of the liz update
jjhunter - i am so very tired, and so sad
lizcommotion - I am declaring comment amnesty
alee_grrl - Did all the things today
lizcommotion - Now I know what a "10" on the pain scale feels like
jjhunter - Signal Boost: "Three Sentence Ficathon 2013 "
lizcommotion - Dec 6, 2013: Good Things Make a Post
silvrguillotine - (no subject)
jjhunter - How Are You? (in Haiku)
qem_chibati - P.S How was your day?
alee_grrl - The bar exam application is a test in and of itself
lizcommotion - Dec 4, 2013: Good things

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