ephemera

[rivendellrose]

The office is dead today, and you know what that means... I'm bored, so I'm pestering all of you. :P It also means I've been reading random articles online, and have gotten through the news sites and out into the scary land of MSN Lifestyle (ugh) and, even worse, iVillage. OMG so. frigging. bored. And depressed about my utter lack of dating life, because that's what I get for reading those damned lifestyle sites. Must find ways to meet people. Absolutely must. Otherwise will wither away into Bridget Jones style prose and old-cat-lady-hood much too early. *Headdesk* Still, though... it's remarkably hard to think of places to meet either women who wouldn't freak out if I tried to flirt with them or men who I wouldn't want to smack upside the head. I'm afraid of clubs and bars as meeting venues, largely because... it never seems to work, or I end up with guys who I want very badly to Leave Me Alone. I've heard coffee shops claimed as great places to meet people, but I think Seattleites are too locked into our own little social groups for much of that. And of course there's the added thought that going out to bars/coffee shops/etc = money, and my last credit card bill was... ahem. A bit more than usual. And that wasn't the one with the seaplane ticket. o_O

Moving on from that series of complaints...

So I open my notebook, figuring I can at least make some notes on stories I want to work on when I get home or something... and the first thing that hits me in the face is the 12+ hand-written pages I wrote over my little sailing-vacation... which have been dashed into tiny little pieces by later revelations in canon. The worst of it is, aside from one stupid-big-hurking plot device that I had to use, I really liked that fic. Alas.

Also, there's a big paddle-wheel boat (don't actually know what to call them...) passing through Seattle waters today - she was sighted up in Portage Bay earlier, and about half an hour ago we saw her pass through the channel here at Shilshole. Her name is Empress of the North - apparently she cruises Alaska in the summer, and comes down here for the fall months.

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[oszras.livejournal.com]

Well, I picked up a guy at the job fair I went to...But he has an ex-wife and two kids soooo that's out of the question. Not that I have anything against divorce or ex-wives but I hate messy situations, children and ex-wives who have children and I happened to be dating Daddy. (not all are bad but the ones I've met have been seriously crazed so...I try to stay far away)

You know I hate it when I have a really good fic idea or plot and the show just bombs it. And I know it would have been a really cool idea but *whoosh* it's gone.

My cousin did the whole boat to Alaska thing, I don't know if she was on the Empress of the North but she could have been. The pictures she took were absolutely beautiful, I've been up there but only for two days and it's was in it's dark period or something. All I know is that it was really dark and I was dead tired. I'd only seen snow once before so it was cool to see it again and a lot more of it.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeahhh... that sounds like a good situation to stay out of, unless the guy is really awesome.

Granted, I was already struggling with the damned thing because of the afore-mentioned horrific plot-device, but... dude! JMS ruins all my fun. :P

Ahh, yeah, probably one of the multi-zillion cruise ships that go up there - the paddle boats aren't the sort you'd actually travel up there in, they're more for touristing once you're already in a region. The ones that do the full transit are HUGE motored monsters that look like cities on the water, practically. Kind of disturbing when you see them, particularly if you're out in a much smaller boat for comparison.

[oszras.livejournal.com]

My problem is JMS creates these perfect character progressions like Londo and G'Kar, and how in the hell are you supposed to make it better when imho it couldn't be any better? Then the ones he leaves huge holes in I wouldn't want to write anyway. Like Byron. I really disliked Lochley but I wrote in her pov a couple of times to really *get* the character (if that makes any sense? I don't think it did.) and for me it worked I could understand her better even liked her a little. But there is no way in hell I would EVER write in Byron's pov or anything about him. Not unless it was a AU and was in Susans pov were she killed him or something.

Ah, okay. I've never been on a boat my father made me watch Jaws when I was really little, I loved it but there's no way in god's green earth I'm getting on a boat. That movie left me scarred, man.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He does, certainly - I just like to play in the little bits and pieces he leaves unspoken. Although I'm finding increasing trouble with that as the series goes on... I keep running into spots that I thought were going to be left unspoken and then, whoops! Turns out he's actually stomped all over that. *Growls* I guess I'll just have a lot of AU fics to put up once I'm done with the series.

See, I like Lochley, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd write from her POV. I'm fond of her, but she doesn't interest me in the way a character has to for me to write for them. If someone requested her, I would, but otherwise...

I actually thought of writing something from Byron's POV, just to see if I could make him likeable. But I was half afraid I'd fail, and half afraid I'd succeed and then be stuck feeling a grudging fondness for the bastard, and I'm not sure I'm up to either of those conclusions.

Aww, that's too bad. I grew up on and off boats - my dad and his family do quite a bit on them, whether fishing, motorboats, sailing... It's a bigger thing up here than it is in a lot of place, though, I'd guess. We've kind of got the geography for it. ;)

[oszras.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem, earlier in the series you could play around with the missing moments. Like the Lumati thing with Delenn.

(crap I just remembered I was going to get the names for you. Okay, Correlilmurzon is the Ambassador and Taq is the translator. I got the Abassador's name off imdb.com I had no idea how to spell it.)

Anyway, like the Lumati thing with Delenn or what G'Kar experienced when he went looking for the Shadows at the end of S2. You can really play around with stuff like that and of course the stuff before B5 went online. But I have a hard time coming up with anything during S4. Well that's not entirely true but it's hard to make it fit in between episodes and still stay canon.

I wrote Lochley's pov in a flashback involving Zoe and Lochley's father also I've been playing around with a Lochley piece for months about Lochley's thoughts during the Earth Civil War. Being conflicted between Sheridan, duty and morals it's kinda hard because I side with Sheridan so trying to make her sound creditable without making her a Clark flunky is hard for me. And that is mostly because of the ham handed speech she made to Garibaldi, that pissed me off right there no matter how much of jackass he was being. And the clapping audience killed me. I was like 'hello? you people were on the supposed bad-side?'.

There is that quandary and the fact that I would have to use brain bleach on myself for trying to get into his head.

Yeah, I live in the middle of my state nothing but ponds around here. Now the Gulf is really nice but I don't get down there a lot and I don't get in the water anyway. :D

[maymargaret.livejournal.com]

uh oh, our lack of lovelife has gravitated from our maudlin conversations to live journal. I guess we do need to get out.
Paddlewheel boats are neat, I saw one launched onced, at the boat bilders on the Island. It is good to see boats go buy. The rain has been keeping me from my lunch on Lake Union.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yup. It was bound to happen sooner or later... eventually, I bitch about almost everything in my LJ. ;)

They are! And this was a really big one... at least I think it is/was, as I've never actually seen one before. But it didn't seem to have any passengers, that I could see. Odd.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Otherwise will wither away into Bridget Jones style prose and old-cat-lady-hood much too early.

I'm pretty much there already!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only one!

[hoperomantic.livejournal.com]

Hey, add me to that list, unfortunately. *sigh*

[ursula]

You know what you need? More SCA-related procrastination! ;) Have you searched out every SCA yahoo group remotely related to any of your interests?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* But all that'll do is get me wanting to do calligraphy when I get home, and that'll mean cleaning off my desk (hmm... on second thought, this might be beneficial to my overall well-being...), digging out my nibs and ink and all, and trying to find nice, short passages from the Havamal or Tolkien to write out and illuminate. Which.... well, it'd be fun. But it'd also be one more thing that I would start without much hope of ever really finishing. :P

[ursula]

You could read up on period scribal materials. Then all you have to do is wistfully think about how great it would be if you had ink, parchment, knew how to cut quills . . .

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'll stick with wistfully wishing I had the time and wherewithal to make my projects look nice, to begin with. I'll worry about more period-appropriate materials when I manage to turn out something worthy of them! ;)

[ursula]

But artists never feel worthy. It's just one of those things :)

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

Halloween is coming up. Halloween parties are always a great opportunity to meet people. Costumes and alcohol are a recipe for fun! Though that can also lead to smeared clown make-up all over your scooter and a general feeling of regret on the ride home the next morning.

You should find a trivia night or a weekly night to hit up the pubs with friends. I’ve been going out to the Bierstube on Monday nights and having a blast. I’m sure there’s something like that at the Latona Pub. You can bring in a crowd of people, get introduced to new people, and probably hit it off with somebody. Bars are really scary on the weekends and there’s nothing more depressing than going to a drinking establishment alone, but a friendly couple of hours at your local are pretty sweet.

Btw, when do you want to hang out?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is the problem - I pretty much only party with the same group of people I hang out with on a normal basis... and as much as I love them, I'm not going to end up dating any of them. ...At least that I haven't dated already.

The pub thing sounds like a good idea; I'll have to try that. And the Latona pub is close enough that I can make it a regular thing, since it doesn't take a lot of preparation or thought to end up there.

How does next week look for you? Anything in Ballard, Wallingford, and the U-Dist is good for me, and any night except... hmm, I think Tuesday and Friday are booked next week, but everything else should be free.

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'm free Wednesday night. Work has me closing four nights a week now, but I've got Wednesdays and Mondays off. I'm covering the monday shift this week, though. We're really short on people working here. It's crazy. If you know any UW students that are good with computers and aren't afraid of people, tell them to give my boss a call at the Health Sciences Learning Commons.

[jfrog78.livejournal.com]

Bars and clubs I'm usually with friends and I have never been able to approach a girl anyways. Well thats not true I did once and it lead me out here where life is great. I just wish I was back in college again that was an easier place to meet ladies. You either had a class with some which equals mutual interest or you had friends who knew friends.

Now I would love to go on a blindate but none of my friends no someone to set me up with..haha. One time living with Irishninja I went to a bar and a friend of mine got a ladies number for me. I called and only got her mother...hahaha that was an interesting conversation.