nishatalitha

I have been vastly distracted this week with study and embroidery. No, not my dragon. I did a Christmas decoration from a kit that Mum bought when I was up north earlier this year. It's very beaded and stuffed and I may yet do another one for our flat. Test was disturbingly easy, so either I'm doing something right or I'm doing something wrong - and I'm not the only one in my class who thought this. We started ten-fifteen minutes late and I walked out twenty minutes early and this was a two hour test!

Have been reading actual books a bit lately. Ally by Karen Traviss (futuristic environmentalism taken to extremes), Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey (teenage angst with bad BDSM), Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie (light-hearted romance with food) and A History of Modern Japan by Richard Storry (interesting, especially around WWII, which reminded me of the army divisions in Barrayar). Am going to read Bismarck: the man and the statesman by A.J.P. Taylor next, as well as other books.

Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold is released shortly. Sample chapters are available here. Only one is up at this stage, but I understand there'll be another one or two before the book is released in ten days or so. I'm looking forward to getting my copy and (eventually) being able to put my two hardcovers together to see the complete picture in front of me.

Jenny Craig's is going well. Am having trouble managing to eat everything on my menu, and miss not eating what I cook, but it's working and that's the main thing. Have lost weight, which pleases me.

The cold weather appears to have settled in. We had a fire on Tuesday night and it was so nice being able to get wood from under the house and know that there was plenty to burn. Some of the gorse is probably still too long to fit in the fireplace safely, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

Tobias remains entertaining. He and Jemima have begun to get along better. I kinda enjoy watching them chase each other around the lounge in the morning before I leave, especially when Jemima drugs herself up on catnip. Other than that, he still has to learn about not digging claws in and the like. And to leave various things alone and not jump on the table. He is growing at a phenomonal rate.

LARP writing is going well. I need to contact N to confirm things. We have yet to name characters, but most of them have a history and connections and goals. Over the next couple of weeks we have to name them and post a list for people indicate interest in. Still, Confusion is in August, so we have plenty of time, really.

Last night C and I went around to darthsappho and tofulope where we watched, various, The Call of Cthulu (the recent silent release) which was pretty good, Renaldo: first sheep on the moon (stephanie_pegg, I never knew you felt like that about sheep) and more Blackadder.

And now, seeing as my alarm is set for another six and a half hours and my fingers are going numb, I should go to bed.

Last evening, on the way to Lace & Steel, house_monkey, mashugenah and I were discussing fanfiction, primarily slash. And somehow, being roleplayers, the subject of Cthulhu came up, and I was essentially dared to find out if there was any Cthulhu slash online.

I found this, Cthulhu/Aragorn, and there is a fairly inactive lj community, eldritch_slash, which is dedicated to Cthulhu fanfiction. There is also a Cthulhu sex magazine, but I'm sufficently wary not to follow that link. Although, this one could be tried, as it appears to be an archive (last updated in '97, so don't be surprised if you've already read some of it, and I'm not checking for quality, btw).

I told you guys that someone would write it.

*scrubs brain out*

My conclusion about Lace & Steel on Monday is that the GM is evil.

The kittens were cute, though. Moving around, and slowly growing accustomed to us. I took a few photos, but considering I have weeks to file and sort through, I doubt I'll be posting them anytime soon.

Had lunch with Alessan, seeing as he was having lunch outside too, and kept me company for a while. I have two more books of my pile to finish, and considering I just started Line of Polarity by Neal Asher, I doubt it'll be long until there's only one, since Asher's books tend to read like action adventure novels set in a science-fiction universe, where the sf is of some relevance to the plot.

Played Ultimate this evening. There were enough people on the Dirty Creatures team there to make up two teams. We lost, 5 - 9. I think. Something like that, anyway. Haven't counted steps today, since the podometer stopped working yesterday, and I haven't attempted to fix it yet. However, I probably did close to 10 000 yesterday, considering my day, and over today, since I walked to work, worked, and played Ultimate. I'll fix it tomorrow, or at least plan to.

Also, if anyone has a nice cameo broach that they'd be prepared to let me borrow for an evening, I'd muchly appreciate it.

Paid journal! Go me!

Also ( kittens - image heavy )