I just don't know what to say about Torchwood. ( Read more... )

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. (Please note: If you simply wish to comment on something I've said but don't want to participate in the meme, that is fine. I will only give you five words if you specifically comment you with 'Words!')

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My contest has started! Go over to thespiralnotebook.com to enter — and please enter. (I'm a little worried that I won't have enough entries!!!)

Also, feel free to pimp the contest far and wide. Everybody likes Harry Potter! Everybody likes free books! :D

Guess what, peeps!

I'm going to be giving away FIVE gift packs of Harry Potter paperbacks, books 5, 6 and 7, over at The Spiral Notebook starting next week! I'll be giving them away over a four-week period, and I have NO IDEA what my criteria for winning should be!

Thoughts? Ideas? What do we think? A drabble fest with a randomly-chosen winner each week? Best Harry Potter-related story? Best photo of you or someone you love in a costume?

Any and all ideas appreciated, and I'll be sure to let you know when the contest starts!!!!

This Our House, episode 3: Name That Plant! Now with 25% more mystery plants!!!

I'm posting about the house saga over at Unfinished Mind, so if you're interested, hop on over there. I'll continue posting updates and photos over there, for the most part.

Can I just say? I never thought of myself as a great housekeeper. I mean, I'm not dirty, but I don't clean every day, and I'm certainly no Martha Stewart. But let me just say this: the next time I start thinking to myself that I'm a bad housekeeper, I will simply remember the state this house was in when we got it and laugh and laugh.

Seriously. I realize that my house goes weeks sometimes without being dusted, but you know what? Once every month or two I do a deep clean and then I'm done with it. My walls do not have big dirty smudges everywhere. My baseboards do not show years of accumulated pet hair and filth. My vents? DO NOT HAVE CAT FECES IN THEM.

Ahem.

Yes.

;)

You know what's funny about Facebook? Realizing that your high school friends are still doing EXACTLY the same things they did in high school.

no AC in here
this first 90 degree day;
i must buy a fan


ETA:
merciful heaven!
oh, great glorious rapture!
there's a swamp cooler.

I just saw Star Trek?

I'm such a trekkie at heart.

I want to draw pink sparkly hearts around the whole thing. Until I have more coherent thoughts about it, can I just say how glad I am that Brandon made me watch "Wrath of Khan" a couple of weeks ago?

I just read a possible Dr. Who spoiler that totally made my day.

I am such a nerd.

ETA: SPOILER now in comments.

There's a kind of a poetry game where people write their own versions of this poem, by William Carlos Williams, in which he apologizes without ever really saying he's sorry:

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold


It makes me think of an exercise I did in college for a class called acting for directors. We were all supposed to write a letter, apologizing to someone real in our lives, then we brought them to class and exchanged them anonymously and had to read them as monologues.

I wrote a letter to a high school friend with whom I had become estranged. When the person who got my letter stood up to read it, the teacher stopped her half way through. "That doesn't sound like an apology to me," the teacher says. "That letter sounds really angry. Why don't you try it angry?"

And I tried not to die of embarrassment as the girl started shouting, "I'm SORRY we're not friends any more, and I'm SORRY I wasn't good enough for you..." and I was really glad they were anonymous.

I haz a Dreamwidth code!

The question becomes, do I remain LacyLu42, as everywhere, as always, or do I get LacyBoggs on the off chance I need a "professional" livejournal/dreamwidth type thing someday?

Woo hoo!

Bookshelves of Doom is accepting orders for the first issue of the TBR Tallboy!

And if you look closely, that is my name right there on the cover, it is.

I might be excited about this.

Go ye and buy one if you want to! They're only $5!

The publisher of the TBR Tallboy has asked for a couple of soundtrack songs for my short story, and I'm having a really hard time picking!

I don't generally listen to music while I write. If it has lyrics, I get distracted listening to them or singing them in my head, so I don't have any I can say that I was listening to as I was writing this one. I'm torn between saying it needs a country music soundtrack, a blues soundtrack, or some kind of bubbly alt/punk/pop something.

So far, here's what I've come up with:

Atari by Lucky Boys Confusion
Bye Bye Baby by OK GO
Texas Angel by Honeybrowne
Sympathy by Goo Goo Dolls
Blackbird by The Beatles

I think I'll take off "Texas Angel." It's too contemplative.

In other writing news, I found a critique buddy, and we're exchanging pages, which is cool. Good impetus to keep writing! :)

Only now, I kind of want to write more short stories. Except I don't think I have any ideas right now. Hmm.

I watched a ton of good TV today, up to and including "Planet of the Dead," the Dr. Who Easter special, the final episode of this season of Sarah Connor Chronicles, and — surprisingly! — the most recent episode of Dollhouse.

It makes me want to write. :">

One of my short stories, called "186 Miles to Nowhere," has been accepted for the inagural issue of the TBR Tallboy that Leila at Bookshelfs of Doom is producing! The issue will be out June 1, and you'll be able to subscribe at bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com.

And, in more personal news, WE GOT THE HOUSE! :D We close May 27th.

The March issue of SHAPE is out! They picked a good photo! It's a full page long! Most of the quotes are not actually things I said verbatim! (Though, they are correct, I just didn't say those exact words.) I can't stop typing exclamations!

I can't decide whether to be excited or embarrassed or both!!

Cate has asked for scans, which I will try to procure!

Dear Senator Nava,

Please don't let my college die.

I am an alumnus of the College of Santa Fe, class of 2003. I received a degree in Moving Image Arts from the college and graduated magna cum laude.

I chose the College of Santa Fe for a variety of reasons. First, I wanted the best film school education I could afford, and at the time, CSF was ranked fourth in the nation—behind only the behemoths of NYU, USC, and UCLA. Quite an impressive achievement for a school barely a fraction of their size.

Second, I wanted a smaller school where I wouldn't feel like just a number. My graduating class from the college was smaller than my graduating class from high school, and that made for an amazing experience, forging a close bond between my classmates and my teachers.

Finally, I fell in love with Santa Fe, plain and simple. Santa Fe is for artists, and at your disposal you have one of the finest campuses for the arts ever conceived, with state-of-the-art facilities for the visual arts, the theater arts, and the moving image arts all in one place. There is no other facility in the New Mexico state system to rival it. You have a place rich with history, interwoven into the tapestry of the history of Santa Fe itself. And you have the perfect city culture for nurturing young artists in a community dedicated to the arts at all levels.

Please vote yes on House Bill 577 and do not let this college go quietly into the night. Too many people—faculty, staff and students alike—have poured their hearts and souls into making the College of Santa Fe the quality educational institution that it is. Please don't let our love be only for a memory, our good work be in vain. Do not let the financial mistakes of a few ruin the future of this venerable institution.

Please vote yes and ensure that future students will have the opportunity to live and work in Santa Fe, to pursue their art in an environment that is utterly unique in the world, and to come away from the experience better, stronger, more accomplished citizens than they were when they began.

I implore you to support HB 577 for the good of the New Mexico state university system, for the good of the city of Santa Fe and for the good of the thousands of future students who will bloom and grow at the College of Santa Fe.

Most sincerely yours,
Me

sheafrotherdon gave me five things for the five things meme: ( books, crocheting, film, hair, new mexico )