| It's here it's here! |
[08 May 2008|01:25pm] |
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Must open box nooooooowwwww!
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| Good News, Bad News, Good News! |
[30 Apr 2008|11:34am] |
The Good News: I am safely ensconced here in California, and have been kept delightfully busy by my ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cadhla. We've done Music Stuff at Mystic Fig, visited with rockin' folks, gone places with the help of porpentine, and been nourished and put up and put-up-with by the fabulous aiglet and gdmusumeci, who also taught me how to play poker. (Insert I-hardly-even-know-her joke here). All hail friends! I have a very happy writer who is busily doing all sorts of shiny stuff, but we've gotten lots of time together and she gives me sugar and I give her stuffed extinct animals and that's really nice.
The Bad News: As of this morning, I seem to have a cold. WTF. Oh, well, I will drown it in vitamins and fluids.
The Good News: We got our tax return. Do you know what that means? I'll give you a hint. It means I get something very special that I've been waiting about six years for. It's blue, it has five strings, and it came from here. I was sort of hoping to find one in the Bay Area so I could play around with it, but I had no luck, and besides, then I'd have to get it home along with my other fiddle. *breaks out in hives at the idea* However, the Best Music Company in Oakland has 4-string Yamahas if I want to play around with one again. Eventually, I will get an amp and a matching bow and a slightly better case than the ol'beat-up extra one I have. But that's okay. Because I'm going to have an Electric Fiddle. And it's going to be wanktastic. Fiddlewank-tacular. And I'll have it in time for Marcon.
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| Awesome People do Awesome Things, Part II |
[23 Apr 2008|02:43pm] |
Hey!
Yesterday I was telling you about how I know Awesome People and they've done or are going to do Awesome Things?
There's a new Awesome today!
Vixy and Tony have finally made Thirteen; thirteen tracks of joy and goodness, and you can have it NOW. Not soon, NOW, for just sixteen dollars via CDBaby's mp3 download option: http://cdbaby.com/cd/vixytony. G'wan, give it a listen; all the tracks are available for listening-sampling, and you can make your own informed decision about their awesomeness.
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| This Post Is Brought To You By Cut-tags, And The Letter Y. YARRRR! |
[22 Apr 2008|03:12pm] |
Hello!
( LJ Stuff )
( Life Stuff )
( Have you met Wild Mercy? )
( Have you read this book? )
So, to sum up -- I love you guys, look out for awesome stuff that awesome people do, and I'm going... um, everywhere-ish in the next year. Anybody want anything?
P.S. Happy Earth Day!
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| Feminism |
[09 Apr 2008|05:03pm] |
I'm just venting.
This has been inspired by a lot of events from the last two weeks.
You really don't have to click the cut-tag.
( Pardon me while I preach to the choir. )
Okay, I'm done.
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| When Patty is psychic, everybody wins. |
[04 Apr 2008|04:46pm] |
Soooo, y'know my previous post, where I was exhausted and smelly?
I was just about to turn in, when I remembered dapatty had sent me a care package which had arrived while I was out of town, and I'd been looking forward to opening it.
Inside were not just extraordinary bathtub essentials like bath salts and an alien loofah-like device, but also body butter and a lovely giant candle... and coffee.
Perfect timing is made of win. I have had an extremely girly bath of bubbles and soaky gardenia-y vanilla-y goodness, with reading and not dropping my book in the tub. Also, I am no longer in danger of killing anyone with my pungently bohemian train-station-smell. Everybody wins.
Nap now.
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| I'm home. |
[04 Apr 2008|03:29pm] |
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Home from trip.
Not quite dead.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
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| PSA |
[14 Mar 2008|09:59pm] |
( Grammar PSA. )
Who, me? Reading a lot of fic lately? Nah, couldn't be.
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| So You Want To Take A Plane Somewhere: Amy's Tips for Airplane Travel |
[06 Mar 2008|10:19pm] |
Once upon a time, I knew this saintly chick. Her name is Patty, or dapatty 'round here. She was a saint because she put up with me a lot. She still is, and still does.
Well, once upon a time, she somehow got talked into doing an international short term class project. In the UK. That meant an international flight.
Patty had never flown before. Heck, I don't think she'd even been on a public bus.
It wasn't until a bit late in life, comparatively speaking, that I realized that people don't just... travel, and that a lot of Americans don't have their passports. We were really poor, but having the ability to go anywhere was really important to my mom. I've had a passport since I was six.
So, I sent her a care package. (Because, in the Amyverse, care packages solve everything.) And it had earplugs and an eye mask and face wipes and lotion and hand sanitizer and gum and probably a lot of other stuff which all fit into a very comparatively tiny pouch.
But the really great thing was, I sent her the best letter I've probably ever written. It was funny, it was true, and it was perfect. I will never be able to re-create that letter, and it's probably for the best. Patty should have the only copy.
But here's another, more general guide for domestic air travel. It contains adult words and concepts.
It's all about knowing what to expect. If you know what to expect, you'll be able to stay calmer, do more. Fear is the mind-killer, all that stuff.
( Step One: Know The Process. Yes, ALL of it. In twenty-seven detailed steps. )
( Step Two: Know Thyself. )
( Informational Appendix. )
Thereya go. Next time, perhaps I'll battle international travel, overbook situations, and frequent flyer programs.
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| Also, now that it's past Valentine's Day, I just wanted to mention... |
[21 Feb 2008|01:58am] |
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Whoever posted "U iz 1 Hott Chik wit dat Fidl" in my V-Day postbox? Is made of win. Thank you, and thanks to all who sent anonymous <3-o-grams! My socks, they are rocked.
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| The other cool kids are doing it? |
[20 Feb 2008|02:33pm] |
And they don't have a fiddle animation. And I play piano, but I don't think I'm much of a piano person. So.
( Meez is here. Playing the banjo. )
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| It's not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah... |
[19 Feb 2008|05:06pm] |
Be nice to me, I voted today in the Wisconsin primary.
Also, one note:
Banks should give you lollipops.
Dentists should give you toys.
Blood banks should give you a cookie.
POLLING PLACES SHOULD GIVE YOU A STICKER.
*pout* They didn't have any.
(Conrep soon, promise.)
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| Capriconcapriconcapriconcapricon... |
[13 Feb 2008|05:32pm] |
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Laundry done, ride to Midway found, garlic and rosemary roast potatoes for dinner.
( Packing List )
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| Capriconcapriconcapriconcapriconcapriconcapricon. |
[13 Feb 2008|03:31pm] |
Right. In the laundry are piratical shirts and skirts to go with the corsetish items, in the oven drying is my papier-mache tricorn, in the coffeemaker is a pot of eggnog coffee which I will put rum and nutmeg in, in my husband's backpack is the replacement for the lost adapter which will let me record waltzes this evening, and in my head are a bunch of tunes.
On my mind are the following three pleas for help:
-Is anyone staying Sunday night? I could potentially chip in for bedspace, though more than twenty bucks is unlikely. I just got word that my cousin will be at Chicago Midway, MDW having a layover on Monday and we'll be able to do lunch, so being that I haven't seen him in like ten years, it looks like I'll be staying that evening.
-Would anybody be driving in the vicinity of O'Hare Airport on their way to the Capricon Sheraton on Thursday afternoon?
-Would anybody be driving from the Capricon Sheraton to somewhere past/around/sort of near the vicinity of Midway Airport on Monday morning/afternoon? Or partway in that direction? Southwardly at all? This last one is kind of the kicker, as if all else fails, I can cab from O'Hare to the Sheraton, but I can't cab from the Sheraton to Midway. It's thirty-nine miles. Guh. But I miss my cousin like whoa.
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