Julia's Bloglet - Wednesday 27 December 2006

Munchies Paradise

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09:49:16 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Cait is amazed by Chinatown in California

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09:46:03 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Cait missing her heart

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08:09:25 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Cait being amazed at the Golden Gate Bridge in California

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08:06:22 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Cait being amazed by a mission in California

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07:31:27 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Introducing the cake diet

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06:10:19 PM, Wednesday 27 December 2006

Don't you see Kyle? Presents!

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03:47:02 PM, Monday 25 December 2006

It was a family tradition/joke that someone would always give my father Spam for Christmas. He actually liked it, too. He ate it with relish (the attitude, not the condiment) every year. This year it seems his ghost is reversing the tradition, but instead of giving it to me, he seems to have gotten the blogmass at large. Sorry 'bout that, guys. _
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03:34:39 AM, Sunday 24 December 2006

So I had to bully the body shop guy into taking the car, but he finally did. Said he thinks it really is the windshield. I asked if he could fix it. He says he is mostly sure. So we'll see. I should have it back tomorrow afternoon. Then we'll have to work on drying it out and making sure it is mold free. If the windshield was the problem... In the meantime, here's a video for a song by Die Toten Hosen. It is pleasingly bizarre. _
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08:30:20 PM, Wednesday 13 December 2006

How to have a frustrating car saga in 7 easy steps:

1) Notice rain leaks onto passenger side floor.

2) Take car to dealer to get it fixed only to have dealer say that it is due to the windshield and they cannot fix it.

3) Take car to windshield guy only to have him say windshield is water tight and he cannot fix it, recommend taking back to dealer.

4) Take car to dealer and relay message from windshield guy only to have them say they still cannot fix it and recommend you try a body shop.

5) Call body shop to make appointment. Body shop guy is friendly and attentive. Says, "Well of course we'll want to check it out and see if we can actually help you first. A lot of times we can't. Have you ever had a windshield installed?"

6) Bang head against wall in despair.

7) Repeat as necessary until you have nervous breakdown or drown in accumulated water on passenger side floor.

Body Shop appointment is for Wednesday. Please wish me luck. _
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03:07:57 PM, Monday 11 December 2006

Ich habe kein mund aber ich musst schreien

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04:12:06 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Schnurrbart auschnitt

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03:57:23 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

schnurrbartelefon

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03:49:43 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Schnurrbartkugel

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03:42:38 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Schnurrbartonic

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03:40:04 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Zwei schnurrbartinis

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03:31:59 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Schurrbartini

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03:29:11 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Halbschurrbart

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02:25:53 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Er isst seinen schnurrbart

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02:23:17 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Sehr nightclub!

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02:12:04 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Sehr punk!

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01:48:17 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Sehr drollig!

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01:12:23 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Drei schnurrbarten und ein spitzbart

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01:00:35 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Ernst cousine

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12:57:21 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Die drei cousinen mit ihren schnurrbarten

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12:53:48 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Meine schwester auch

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12:49:31 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

Meine cousine hatte einen schnurrbart

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12:46:22 AM, Sunday 26 November 2006

coffee talk: it was really cool they had an island full of bat guano!

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03:48:16 PM, Saturday 25 November 2006

Tannenbaum

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11:51:58 PM, Friday 24 November 2006

Marie Catoinette

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11:48:32 PM, Friday 24 November 2006

Snerk.

In other news, the German vocabulary word of the day is:

Schnurrbart!

It means moustache, but I like to think of it as a general exclamatory expression. Try it, you'll like it!

And now to stop procrastinating and Get Things Done. _
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02:22:05 PM, Wednesday 22 November 2006

How do you feel about scented candles? Which scents do you particularly love/loathe? Seriously, I'm curious. How about perfume? Bath gel? _
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10:42:52 PM, Sunday 19 November 2006

For Tim:

Q.The stories of Earthsea seemed to end once in The Farthest Shore. However, the stories of Earthsea started to move again in Tehanu, which is my favorite book.
What motivated you to write the story of Earthsea again?

UKL. I knew that there was to be a fourth book, in which we would find out what happened to Tenar - but it took me 17 years to learn how to write it!

I had to learn how to write as a woman, without putting men at the center of the story. The feminist movement of the sixties and seventies was a huge help to me. I could not have gone on writing without it.

After I had learned enough, I could come back to Earthsea, and without changing anything in it, I could see it entirely differently, because I was looking at it from a different point of view - not from the place of power, now, but from below, from the position of an "ordinary" woman and a little girl who has been terribly hurt - from the positon of the powerless. From there, everything looks different! _
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06:38:55 PM, Saturday 18 November 2006

Mushroom fence

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05:40:33 PM, Friday 17 November 2006

(via Mira-Mira) 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* 2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov* 3. Dune, Frank Herbert 4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein 5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin 6. Neuromancer, William Gibson 7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke 8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick 9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley 10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe 12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. 13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov 14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras 15. Cities in Flight, James Blish 16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett 17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison 18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison 19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester 20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany 21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey 22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card 23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson 24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman 25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl 26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling* 27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams * 28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson 29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin* 31. Little, Big, John Crowley 32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny 33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick 34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement 35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon 36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith 37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute 38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke 39. Ringworld, Larry Niven 40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys 41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien 42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut* 43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson* 44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner 45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester 46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein 47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock 48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks 49. Timescape, Gregory Benford 50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer _
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05:12:13 AM, Thursday 16 November 2006

The grand scheme (for the record):

*November: Get first draft done. At least 50,000 words on this particular project. No need for coherent order, just make sure to get the bare bones of it all set out and get to the end.

*December: 5 hours or more per week of editing on this project. No wordcount goal, just concentrate on getting rough draft version 2.0 into coherent story order and make suitable changes where necessary.

*January: 5 hours per week or more on this particular project revising the draft and making it into something really readable.

*February: Send rough draft version 3.0 to various friends/family members for comments. Work on other stuff.

*March: Having received comments on version 3, do 5 hours per week or more on it to come up with Final Draft.

*April: begin querying. _
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09:34:35 PM, Sunday 12 November 2006

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