State of 'Thene (cliffnotes version)
Jun. 22nd, 2010 09:59 pm• The Sunday before last
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• Last Monday I went to a Marian Call house concert. She's amazing. She's touring all 50 states, so go find out when she'll be in a city/town near you and go see her. She's a total nerd and cute too. Oh, and she'll be performing at the SDCC w00tstock! There were many nerds there and we all flocked together. Flirted with a guy who works at Blizzard. Hey, anything to get into the Cataclysm beta, right? ;)
• This last Friday was
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• Saturday night we went to the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin's production of "Yeoman of the Guard" with
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• The rest of our four day weekend was spend lounging around, getting stuff off of the DVR, playing WoW, and cleaning up the house a bit.
• Work is going well. I'm starting to teach more. I'm developing curriculum for a new feature coming out in our Summer release, which is kind of like shooting a moving target. Oh, and work's sending me to Boston in mid-August to teach four days of classes. The current plan is for
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• Other than that, life is busy with work, husband, cats, yoga, social engagements, friends, and WoW.
Good weekend!
Jan. 31st, 2010 05:31 pmOn Friday night
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On Saturday morning I had a massage with
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Saturday evening we went over to
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Today Aerith and I got up and went out to look at Wii stuff. We ended up at Fry's where I used the power of my iPhone to get us price matching on some accessories. Came home, did some relaxing and some cleaning and I did 20 minutes of Wii Fit workout. I'm going to really try and do some every day to every other day.
I am so glad that January is over as of midnight. It was a really wretched January for a lot of people, myself included. So fuck you January 2010. I won't miss you.
New Years and Stuff
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For New Year's Eve we went to a friend's house who was having a James Bond themed party. It was fun. We dressed up all nice. It was good to see some people that we haven't seen in a while.
( All dressed up )
On New Years day we mostly hung out and played WoW and stuff. Aerith made a Pork and Apple roast in the crock pot which was really yummy and made the house smell good all day.
Yesterday Camera came over for a while and we watched more Firefly (I am slowly turning him into a Browncoat. Mwahhaha!).
Other that it's been nice to just have quiet time at home. My dwarf is almost level 25, I've seen the whole first season of Entourage, and I'm reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and re-reading Kushiel's Chosen at the same time.
Party tonight, last day of vacation tomorrow, back at work on Monday, and mom comes to visit in two weeks.
State of Athene - First week of September
Sep. 7th, 2008 08:09 pmWent out to karaoke on Tuesday night. Was a huge crowd (as opposed to the week before when it was just a few people). Had a good time singing and chatting with people. TheatreChick leant
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On Wednesday we went to the poly meetup at Central Market, which was totally awesome. I really like seeing those people and it was fun to impress everyone with my amazing having a job in my field so soon after graduation power (I still think I was just damn lucky).
Friday night we went over to
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Saturday morning
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Today was more of the same from Saturday afternoon (I'm part of the way though Living Dead in Dallas, the second book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries) and also a trip out to pick up my repaired necklace.
About to go watch True Blood on HBO, which is based on the books I've been reading this weekend.
PS. GEAUX SAINTS!
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The rest of the Rock Band party was also a lot of fun. Got to see
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Saturday
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Saturday afternoon the plan was to get some work done and then head over to Eeyore's Birthday, but I ended up with so much more to do than I thought that we didn't get to go. Well, next year, I hope.
Yesterday evening
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Yesterday night, late, I was really feeling restless (not sure if it was stress, George's visit, something else, or a wacky combination) when I saw that
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Today the forecast is homework, homework, and more homework.
rock band and crawfish
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On Saturday I got a bunch of reading done for school and then
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After Cowboy Mouth, George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic played. They were really cool, but
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Today I've been avoiding writing my paper for Advanced Digitization mainly because I'm not really sure how to organize it (by collection or by principle) and while I know I can re-organize it later, it still bothers me.
On and Off weekend
Mar. 10th, 2008 03:30 pmOn |
Off |
Having |
It being so packed at the Dog & Duck that we didn't really get to talk to any of them (other than |
Going to see the Austin Wind Symphony's tribute to video games. |
It could have been a lot better than it was. The symphony didn't have a lot of "heart" as |
My sister, |
Due to traffic & other factors, they didn't get in until 2:30am. We had figured on them showing up around midnight Friday night. This means I didn't get to bed until almost quarter to 4. |
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On Saturday morning I thought I might have yet another UTI (ooohhh…too much information, right?), but I don't. Still, it didn't make the morning fun. |
I got to show |
I had to return a book to the library and pick up on that had come in. Unfortunately, by the time we got to the library it had closed, so I was only able to do the returning. |
We said good-bye |
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While waiting in line, we whipped out Munchkin Cthulhu and I ended up playing a lively game of it with the people who were in line behind us. |
We never got to finish the game, because the doors opened up before it was over. At least I wasn't the lowest level at that point. |
At one point while waiting, Jonathan Coulton poked his head out to start setting up his merchanidce. |
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We ended up with two tables right in front of the stage. |
We were trying to save seats behind us for |
The show was AMAZING (as always). There's too much to write up here, so see below for a longer write-up. I will say that he did infact play "Better". |
Jonathan Coulton's guitar. It sounded fine to me, but he kept tuning it throughout the night and never seemed quite happy with it. |
We got to tape the show. |
We didn't tape the funniest part because we were running out of battery power and tape. |
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It was pretty much winding down by the time we go there. But we were able to say hi to a few people, especially |
My sister got all dressed up to go to the party. |
She didn't end up making it because by the time she was about to leave, the party was almost over. Also, |
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We got up really really late (1pm) on Sunday and therefore weren't able to go to brunch at Kerby Lane. |
We did got to |
We were only there for a little while. |
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I felt…off/close to tears for the rest of the night. No idea why. Bleh. |
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I discovered that I deleted my "New Pics" folder from my desktop and empty the Trash before I noticed this. This is the folder in which I kept all the pictures from the camera that I have yet to edit & place online. There's a 94% chance that |
I took the whole weekend off to spend time with my sister and do fun things. |
I already feel like I'm behind on the amount of stuff I have to do over Spring Break. |
JoCo Show
The show was awesome (as I said above).
The opening act, Samantha Murphy, was interesting. I like that she played barefoot and was funny enough to keep the audience entertained. Also girl could hold a note.
Jonathan Coulton ended up playing 2 sets because there were so many people who wnated to get in and the show was sold out. I think it had to do with some standing-room-only people leaving so others could see the second set.
I'm sure I could say tons about the whole show all the songs he played, but hopefully I'll have most of the show up on YouTube soon so you can see for yourself. Therefore, I'm just going to give you the highlights (as I see them).
In the first set he played "Better" which had me grinning like crazy the entire time. At the end of "Creepy Doll",
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Unfortunately as this was part way through the second set, we were picking and choosing which songs to record because we were running out of tape/batter power (If we had known it would have been a double set concert, we would have brought a second tape!). Therefore,
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After the show we hung around for a little while to see if JoCo wanted to come to
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The rest of the weekend was spent working on a paper and doing reading.
This morning I went to the gym and did over 2 miles on the elliptical in 30 min. I'm proud of me. Then ignored everything and made Looking For Group icons. Why? Because it was fun.
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random update
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School has hit that OMG I have wayy too much work to do ahhhhh state. Kind of figured it would happen soon. I have a mid-term on Thursday, a paper due friday, another paper due the tuesday after that and a project due that thursday. wheeee. But I'm getting it done. So, that's good.
Boris has an annoying habit of sitting on the papers that I need to use to write things.
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We've gotten into a D&D game with
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Also, I'm probably going to be playing in the UT Vamp Larp. We'll see how that turns out...
And last weekend we met up with some Austin Browncoat at the Spider House (a very cool coffee shop) and watched Serenity. I cried again (before it happened...).
This weekend, I took a break from writing my paper on Intellectual Property issues as related to three items and their digitization possibility to go see Little Miss Sunshine at the Alamo. It was a really funny movie! Late late last night we caught the roast of Pam Anderson on Comedy Central. They weren't cutting it at all! They didn't even bleep fuck. They did bleep one thing, that that was "Diet *****." I was a pun on Diet Coke, but if it was cunt, they didn't bleep that word later in the show, so i have no idea. still it shows how the evolution of cursing and what is/isn't acceptable in this day and age. Personally, I think that cursing is loosing the power/shock that it once had. I'm not really sure what that says about our society, but I it makes me feel that maybe we're more open. It definitely shows the evolution of a language.
Oh, and i found out that "Carry on my wayward son" is probably on Guitar Hero 2. I'm excited.
Time to read more about qualitative studies as they relate to LIS research and order chinese food b/c I've been craving it since Friday.
The Museum of Role Playing Games
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( Read my entry )
really good weekend
Apr. 16th, 2006 09:23 pmFriday night
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Saturday Aerith let me sleep late (yay) while he did gummie ship stuff on Kingdom Hearts 2. After I got up i watched him play more of the game. OMG! I love this game. There are so many things that are way too cute. Also got in some good cuddle time with both of the cats. Ended up holding Boris on my lap like a baby while he nuzzled into my arm. Got in touch with
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Today I got up and did my full Cardio Pilates DVD :) Then Aerith and I went searching for Cadburry Cream Eggs. Finally found some at CVS. I think the guy thought we were crazy when we brought over the whole basket to purchase (there were only 10 or so in there). But we love to stock up on them. Came home and alternated cleaning in our room and playing Kingdom Hearts. Aerith has gotten so far in the game. But I think there's still a lot more to go. Afterwards, we went for a walk down into the woods and fields behind our place (I think we're not supposed to go there though). I finally got to touch the Connecticut River. I felt very powerful, standing on the shore with the wind and the water and the beautiful sky. Dinner was left-overs from Passover on Thursday and Bueno. After dinner Aerith was reading and I ended up trying to look for places to live in Austin.
And now it's time to feed the monsters and go to bed.
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There was a Star Wars exhibit at the MoS. It was awesome. Pictures here.
At VeriCon I won the Apples to Apples game b/c I know how to play the right cards to geeks, for example: dark = my mind, sexy = whips.
I have writen a post about VeriCon. I feel better now.
and to make me feel even better, George just showed up and it took me FOREVER to get my DivaCup in properly.
Shrine cookies
Dec. 25th, 2005 04:41 pm( picture of the cookies )
Decisions, decisions
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Here's a bit about my character: She's an elven ranger, good with a bow...very good with a bow actually. She's somewhat of a tomboy. She's also pretty good at ranger things including spot, search, and move silently. Basically there are 3 things that I want to do with her. 1) make her a very good ranger, 2) make it so she has an easy time up in the trees, 3) be a top-notch Legolas type archer.
That being said, here are the feats I'm looking at:
Agile: +2 to balance and escape artist - would help with the whole tree thing
Athletic: +2 to Climb and Swim - would also help with the tree thing
Diehard: Remains conscious at -1 to -9 - always a help, would make her seem tougher, which plays into the strong tomboy thing.
Dodge: +1 dodge bonus to AC - not so wonderful by itself, but if I then took Mobility, I could take Shot on the Run which would allow movement before and after a ranged attack...very useful.
Far Shot: Increases range by 50% - would help with the awesome archer thing, also very useful.
I think I'm leaning towards Agile, Dodge, or Far Shot.
[Poll #587023]
of Gods of War and Six Flags
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Saturday invovled getting up uber-early (for a saturday) and heading down to Six Flags with Aerith, Artemis, and the Frenchman. Was lots and lots of fun. We went on the new "Mr. Six's Pandimonium" which is this nifty spinny coster thing. Going up the first steep incline backwards was definatly a new experiance for me. Also, I was brave and tried the Batman. I liked it until we got to the corkscrews. I don't like being turned upside down by corkscrews. Aerith said he could actually tell when my screams turned from those of enjoyment to those of terror. I started crying when the ride ended. The verdict: loops = good, corkscrews = bad. At least we know this for when we go to other amusement parks. It took us an hour to ride the Superman b/c the seats kept not letting people out of them. I was like, "hey, if i get stuck I want to ride it again" but no one got stuck when we rode.
After Six Flags, I started crashing. We went and got some food, but that didn't help to much. Ended up napping when we got home. Then Aerith, Artemis, and I went out for Cold Stone and visited
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Sunday was spent hanging around the house and doing house type stuff. Grilled dead things for dinner and watched more Carnivale. One episode to go to finish season two. Then had ice cream, which didn't agree with me.
Now it's time to get back to work.