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So I'll be in Sydney for the week from Easter Monday and Leura on the following weekend, with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) astolat and kaneko. I'm not sure if there's any specific fannish planned activity yet, but if you're interested in catching up and haven't already commented on astolat's post, drop one over there, or here, or whatever!
In other RL news, I'm in a new job for three months, and it's one of the best places I've ever worked, and I love love love what the work is, even though it's occasionally head-explodey and bewildering and daunting. Now I just have to get more work there when my three months is up, and avoid having to go back to my permanent job, which is pretty much hands down the worst place I ever worked. (Man, if you've ever had your dream job at your worst nightmare workplace, that's what my permanent job is. Soul-destroying head-fucking torture.) Giving up a permanent job in a gigantic global recession, however, is something I could come to regret very bitterly. So the job front is going to be a bit nerve wracking until I know what's happening.
In fannish news, Leverage owns me (and brown_betty's Leverage threesome-ing owns me), I just watched the Kings pilot (which, holy fuck, that was like a ten course banquet of a television drama), I am being pimped hard on Generation Kill, and when I read any fanfic these days, it's pretty much still Merlin. Mostly I've been doing the book thing a bit more, trying to get through my embarrassingly large (and continuously growing!) pile of books I own but haven't read. So far nothing is inspiring enough that I want to post about it, which is probably why they were in the unread pile to begin with. *g*
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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omg so I am tired, hot, sweaty, and pissed as a newt, and it turns out to be fucking toga night. pimply drunk teenagers wearing bedsheets stole all my fucking taxis.
Dinner: microwave mac and cheese, a salami stick, and a cabury creme egg. I had a wagon. I forget where I parked it.
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
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(Don't worry, I won't normally do food posting this often. I've just been feeling very kitcheny this weekend.)
Dinner: quinoa with roasted pumpkin, baby squash, mushroom, tomato, spinach, cashews and a soy and maple syrup dressing. Definite win.
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tuna, diced cherry tomatoes, lemon juice, mint, basil, shallots, mixed up and plonked on toasted turkish bread spread with avocado. the mint seems to be the magic ingredient, although I'm feeling that fennel would have been awesome with this.
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
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Er, hi. Is this thing still on?
I've been meaning to do this post since, oh, November 2008? Now I'm confused if this is the 2008 state of the me or the 2009 state of the me.
( Aha: 2008-2009 state of the me! )
Fannishly, much as I hate to admit it, writing and fannish interaction have to stay on the backburner, at least for the next few months. I'm reading and betaing in Merlin, and currently watching Leverage with much adoration.
However, one thing I'm going to try to do, with the emphasis on food above, and as I adjust to life without dairy, is do very quick posts when I make something yummy. Like this morning, YUM.
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Breakfast: buckwheat pancakes with peanut butter, caramelised banana and peach slices, and a tiny splash of maple syrup. Fan-frigging-tastic.
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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OH HAI INTERNETS.
I've been largely offline for nearly a month with being away over Christmas and then moving house and then waiting for the internet connection to be installed at the new place, but that is all over and now I am HERE!
And now I can talk about Yuletide! Better late than never, I hope!
I'm very proud to announce gloatingly that I got a Nightrunner story for Yuletide: Casting Gently by inksheddings.
It is set between the second and third books, and is rich with subtle references to canon, particularly where the moon is concerned, and the many and varied meanings ascribed to the moon in the series. It fits in perfectly, with Alec growing into his relationship with Seregil, and Seregil still affected by the events of Stalking Darkness but beginning to, if not move past them, then at least move around them. It's sweet and a bit risque and just lovely, hitting all the right notes. A big thank you to inksheddings!
I wrote The Pragmatist, a Blakes 7 story about Jenna, for vee_fic. It's gen but you can certainly read m/m and f/f into it, if it pleases you to do so. :D
The request had me stumped for some time, and then househunting and move planning and packing had me rather short on time to write, but in the end I'm quite happy with it, and definitely much happier than I expected to be, especially during that last 24 hours when I was sure that I was DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED. (Ah, that Yuletide spirit!) I couldn't have made the deadline without ukcalico and kaneko, and I owe special thanks to Cal, who wrote some words about Jenna and what might happen that went straight into the story.
Despite the stress of the time, it was great to write B7 again, probably ten years after I last wrote it, great to end up really thinking about a character I had never paid much attention to, and it was great to have the impetus to re-watch the show, because it is a great, great, great piece of television.
Right now I am broke and exhausted and still have a lot of unpacking to do, but a very stressful couple of months is finally over, and I am feeling quite nice and fresh-starty. Hello 2009! I hope we're going to get along. :)
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Dear Santa,
Sorry about the delay in writing this, I hope you weren't inconvenienced. If you're already underway with something, just ignore me here.
I'm telling you what follows in the hope of giving you ideas and inspiration, not because I demand this or that thing, or expect you to adhere to my perspective. It's more that I'm trying to squee with you about these fandoms, which is going to be awkwardly one-sided since I don't know who you are, and you can't talk back. But I'm going to attempt it anyway! You can squee back at me in the story. *g*
( squeelicious! )
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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Hi Santa,
OMFG, I have had the worst day ever and I don't have time to write a full on letter tonight, and I might be out tomorrow night too. So in case you want to get started right away, I'll point you to my 2006 yuletide rundown of things I like and don't like: http://julad.livejournal.com/84411.html. A more fandom specific letter will follow in a couple of days.
Also, in the comments, Kaneko who I beta a lot is going to pinch hit my Dear Santa letter (!!) and tell you what, from her perspective, I like. This is not meant to give you instructions, it's more meant to give you insight into my psychology or whatever, in case that's helpful.
And now I'm going to go finish cleaning beef and black bean sauce off everything that was in my backpack when the takeaway container lid came off. Some days, I just can't believe my life.
Love,
Julad.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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Agh, so that promised fannish post never materialised. and now I am doing flyby requests for advice...
Web hosting? Recommendations? My needs are pretty average, PHP MySQL blah blah blah, and my needs are modest in terms of bandwidth (there will be no video piracy here), but I need to host several domains there and hopefully one day use it play around with python and ruby stuff. I'm after kind of modest but honest: averagely reliable service (I'm not going to flip over the occasional downtime), user friendly, good support, and not going to make me want to kill them or myself or throw the phone through the window, that sort of thing (I'm looking at you, smartyhost). Basically, I don't need much but I'll gladly pay not to get screwed.
I seem to recall lots of dreamhost refugees going to somewhere UK based? Did that one turn out to be good?
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Good luck, America. Make it happen. :)
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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So I've been ( having a kind of weird run of things. )
One thing I want to say outside the cut:
I went to a seminar on negotiation for women a few weeks ago and it blew. my. fucking. mind. I can't even begin to tell you how eye-opening it was. And for the first time ever, I negotiated over salary with this last job offer. I came out of the negotiation with 5K more than they initially offered. Then I had a counter offer from my current workplace to match it if I chose to stay, which would have been a 10K payrise. Just for negotiating. It was quite scary, yes, but for ten grand I would do way fucking scarier things. And so can I say to all the women* on my friends list, please read this page (it's short): http://www.womendontask.com/stats.html, and then, seriously, look into this issue. This is an equity issue. We are not going to achieve equity unless, among other things, we as women start negotiating. It's not just negotiating salary, and it's not just negotiating work issues - this applies to all aspects of our lives - think buying or selling a car, for starters. One of the women in the seminar applied a lot of it to negotiating with her husband about their division of childraising responsibilities.
There are three big things I took away from this seminar:
1. Women don't negotiate, and it costs them a motherfucking truckload, in $$$ and non-$$$, in both the short and long term.
2. When they do negotiate, women ask for less and bargain themselves down before they even get to the bargaining table (this is also known as "being reasonable" - it's not and you're not).
3. Gender stereotypes and gender differences can harm women who try to negotiate, so the "conventional wisdom" on how to negotiate can actually be harmful to women. It's yet another trap where women get disadvantaged by the fact that "the norm" is the male norm. Women need to do negotiation a little differently, although many of the same core things still apply.
The presenter (a researcher from Melbourne Uni) recommended the work of Deborah Kolb and Linda Babcock for further reading, although I haven't had time to do that yet.
(* Apparently a lot of this is also true for 'non-traditional' men, so any 'non-traditional' men on the flist are also advised! Whatever 'non-traditional' in this context means...?)
Fannish post coming up later this weekend, I swear!
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
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Oh, wow, it's been a long time since I posted. How is it now June?
I have nothing but RL to report! I'm so disappointed-- I had so hoped to be posting stories again by now but I seem to have some kind of curse where as soon as something that was preventing me from writing goes away, something else happens. It had been my back for the longest time, but my back is way, way, way better now. But I went and got myself RSI from hell for several months, doing a project at work that required insane amounts of writing and typing. And then as that cleared up, I got really bad eyestrain.
( The eyestrain was kind of interesting. )
I want to say a lot more, about the saga of the other cute guy, and work and SPN and Torchwood and politics and stuff, but I have used up my allotted computer time with the eyestrain story. I am hoping that nothing else happens once this goes away. And then I will WRITE OMG.
PS. dsudis is posting the Numb3rs epic that had me so obsessed that I could hardly sleep for thinking about it. Might be worth checking out. ;)
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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Life is settling down - I tremble as I type that because who knows what horror I will cause to descend by starting to think life is settling down. But lately I've watched all of The Sentinel for the first time (hooray for bittorrent) and just wildly enjoyed it. The staggering gay, the staggering stupid, and sometimes so adorable I was writhing with love and glee. And it's been so nice to have time to do that - just get through a couple of episodes here and there until it's all done.
SGA is ( spoilermumblespoiler )
Torchwood is ( spoilerkinda )
I'm toying with a couple of stories, all stalled. I am always amused by the cats when they play with moths - they're all, awesome toy! Whee, fun, yay!, and then the moth stops moving. And they stop and look confusedly at the moth, and dab at it a few times with a paw, and nudge it a little, and get up close to inspect it, and poke it again to be sure, and sit back bewildered and disgruntled because the moth doesn't work any more. I sometimes wonder if there's an invisible god of writers who is watching from the sky, wildly amused by me doing the same thing with my stories.
Gacked from resonant8 and wildly modified.
( three things i learned... )
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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People of Brisbane! Or people who know people of Brisbane! Or people who are thinking about moving to Brisbane! Or the gratuitously curious!
We're about to have a room for rent at Fangirl Towers. All fannish mod cons! Well, I think - we only have the cheap Foxtel. But anyway, the deal is:
* 3 girls
* 2 cats
* Wireless ADSL2 (yes that is the most important information after 'who would I be living with', or possibly even more important than that)
* Fully furnished including the Foxtel TIVO thingy, Wii, 2 hammocks, and about eight billion books, comics, CDs and DVDs
* House has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, polished wooden floors, big balcony, lots of room
* Bus stop next door for city, Indro and UQ
* 15 min walk to train (Ipswich line), 10 min to Indro, corner shop nearby
* Great price for the house and location
* Available in 3-5 weeks, but we can possibly be flexible
The room is unfurnished.
Um, did I leave out anything important? Internet, check. Hammocks, check. What else is there?
If you're interested, email me at juladj@gmail.com for more info. If you know a fannish or fan-friendly type who might be interested, feel free to point them here or send on the text.
I swear I will post something interesting soon but between starting this and finishing this, the vodka kicked in, so I go pass out now. Night!
ETA: Or as one of the housemates puts it: Who wants to live with Mayhem?.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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Hello Friendslist Persons of the Australian Persuasion,
A few fannish types (mostly the Brisbane gang) have rented a huge, beautiful house at Byron Bay over the Easter weekend and for the following week, about ten days in all. Ocean views, short walk to the beach, it's really, really nice. A few cancellations mean there are extra beds available. If you're interested in joining us for a week or just a couple of days, email me at juladj@gmail.com and I'll send more details.
There are many Australians on the flist I've never met so please consider if you are free at Easter! :)
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
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\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ !!!!!!!1!!
and bennelong ahahaha omg.
still waiting on the senate...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
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When I wake up tomorrow it will be election day. This time tomorrow I will be profoundly relieved or fucking gutted. At this stage I am not optimistic.
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