| My friend Krisha won a seat on Blacksburg's Town Council! :) |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|12:15 am] |
I am so proud of Krisha! She's bright, energetic, honest and thoughtful - exactly
the kind of person we need in office on all levels. This election was as meaningful
for me locally as Obama's was nationally.
So score another one for viable progress! Hooray! *beaming smile* |
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| Writer's Block: Time traveler |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|06:12 pm] |
No way. All other decades have worse health care. You could not pay me to go back and stay. As a diabetic, my
odds without my oral meds would be seriously lessened. I like it right here where I am. |
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| LJ Halloween! *grin* |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|01:03 am] |
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| murrday goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Madame Zhonga. | | colleenk gives you 10 light green tropical-flavoured gummy bats. | | devilkitten1 gives you 6 mauve chocolate-flavoured gumdrops. | | djinni gives you 18 red peach-flavoured gumdrops. | | dvantmonkmiroku gives you 11 light orange chocolate-flavoured gumdrops. | | frobozz gives you 3 dark blue spearmint-flavoured wafers. | | gwox tricks you! You lose 33 pieces of candy! | | hippydippydncr gives you 7 light green peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. | | kittenchan gives you 8 light green raspberry-flavoured wafers. | | kittykatya tricks you! You lose 15 pieces of candy! | | platypusgirl tricks you! You get a rock. | | murrday ends up with 15 pieces of candy, and a rock. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
But the twist is, I like rocks! So thank you Mandy! And Gary and Barb saved my blood sugar levels, so thank you Gary and Barb too! It's all good. *grin* |
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| Sadly, I must also stop the care package project. |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
I have not been able to send any care packages over the summer because of having gout.
I am also less able to carry groceries, so that means more trips to the store. I'm just plain
running out of steam to work on them, and carry them to the post office.
So at this time, I am letting that project go. I will donate the remaining supplies and postage
to the Women's Resource Center.
Partly, this too was a clutter issue for me. I'd accumulate stuff for it and I need to reduce
accumulating.
But before arriving at this point, we did collectively send over 125 packages to service
people overseas. So we made a good difference. |
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| Hi, I'm Peg, and I have a clutter problem... |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|01:52 pm] |
So I got to thinking, I'm diabetic, got gout and insomnia and assorted other challenges. And while I'm in no hurry for it to, I got to admit, some part of that's gonna pick me off, eventually. And I don't, really don't want to die and leave my friends and family stuck shoveling loads of needless stuff.
So the time to start biting the bullet and clearing out, is now. Old blurry photos - gone. Expired seed packets that I never got to - gone. Scraps from a craft that I no longer make - gone. I actually felt myself get the shakes as I dropped those into the trash - not for wanting them back, but because I really am admitting that I'm done with
that stuff, and getting it out of my life. I'm more serious about it, this time.
Lord knows, there's masses of piled up crap, and it's going to take me lots of time to get through it. But I'm making a start. |
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| Hugo Awards - congratulations, winners! |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|11:45 pm] |
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus”, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008)
Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar 2008)
Best Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
Best Related Book: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008, John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen, writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
Best Editor Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Editor Long Form: David G. Hartwell
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Semiprozine: Weird Tales, edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal
Best Fan Writer: Cheryl Morgan
Best Fanzine: Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): David Anthony Durham |
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| And now for the good moment from Steppin' Out. |
[Aug. 8th, 2009|03:44 am] |
I gave a small donation to the breast cancer run, because my Mom had died from it. I was turning to walk on when an entrant stopped me. She handed me a permanent marker and had me sign Mom's name, Jean Fisher,
to the back of her shirt. She will wear the shirt during the run this fall. I was profoundly moved that she would do that for me. Because of having gout, I cannot run, myself. Turned around and gave them more money. She asked me, wait, did I want to enter the raffle?
I told her, no, I had plenty of stuff. That's not what I need. Then I pointed to Mom's name on her left shoulder.
*That's* what I need, I told her. And walked on before I cried too much. Safe at home, I let myself cry now. Yet they are good tears. Best memory of Steppin' Out, ever. |
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| 40 years of Star Trek filk, by me :) |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|06:42 pm] |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKRTU1qsYA
Big thanks to Jerry, who made the graphic and put it into mp4 format for me. Take a bow, Jerry! :)
And for sheer geekiness, I bet I'm the only person, so far, who has ever written a quadrilingual
filksong in English, Spanish, Farsi and Klingon! Grant you, not *much* Farsi or Klingon, a word
each, but I'm making best use of what I've learned, up to now. *grin* Hope you like it. |
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| Iran update 7-5-09 |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|12:05 pm] |
The news is bad. Reports of sexual abuse of students in the prisons.
http://www.permanentrevolution.net/entry/2741
Reports of people being hung for drug charges. And the government,
who has supposedly held some of these people for up to 5 years,
chooses to hang them now on July 4.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8134654.stm
There are discreditation campaigns claiming that Neda is alive,
meanwhile Tehran Bureau carries the story of Neda's young man,
in his own grieving words.
http://tehranbureau.com/neda/
There is also this site, with pictures of some of the other people
who have been killed.
http://www.iranian-heroes.org/#
This coming Thursday, 18 Tir/ July 9th, another protest is being planned.
http://tehranbureau.com/significance-18-tir/
I look at the young man holding up the bloody t-shirt in the 18 Tir picture,
and think of my friend, who is out of touch now. And I pray for his
survival. That could be his picture, for all I know. I say prayers for whoever it is,
and also for all those who wore the blood stained tshirts. And for my friend,
his family, and the soul of his brother.
Night chants go on from the rooftops, like this, one friend of mine reports.
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=99938615748&h=ULRaO&u=4tYUR&ref=nf
At least I have heard from two other friends, and they survive.
I pray that they make it through all this, somehow. |
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| prior to Anthrocon |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|08:09 pm] |
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Amazing how quiet it gets around here, just before Anthrocon. Have fun storming the castle, everybody going! |
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| Be one with the rock *grin* |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|02:27 am] |
My new friend Kez got 2 sodalite rocks from me. She likes to name things, so she's named them Leonard and
Nimoy. Works for me. *beaming up smile* |
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| So the doc wants to send me for an ultrasound... |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|04:48 pm] |
And the blasted thing is $700. And me with no insurance. And any insurance that I could get would have a $3000
deductible.
He's talking gallbladder problems. Everybody I know who's had gallbladder has had major nausea. I have zero nausea. I'm thinking kidney complications instead.
It was the substitute practitioner at the after hours clinic on Friday that prescribed it. So I'm getting a second opinion this Friday from my regular practitioner. That's the soonest they could get me in to see her.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay $700 for a test that he says, "May not be conclusive." Argh.
I can cope with $700 to fix the problem, but $700 for a test that may be off the mark? No. |
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| Thoughts on the eating of bugs, inspired by Cerise |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|02:45 am] |
Cerise has chowed down on a termite or two,
And swallowed a worm on a dare.
it made me remember this poem that I read
So now I will quote it, down there. *grin*
Eat-It-All Elaine
By Kay Starbird
..
I went away last August
to summer camp in Maine,
And there I met a camper
called Eat-It-All Elaine.
..
Although Elaine was quiet,
She liked to cause a stir
By acting out the nickname
Her classmates gave to her.
..
The day of our arrival
At Camp Number 3
When girls kept on coming over
to greet Elaine and me.
..
She took a piece of Kleenex
and calmly chewed it up,
then strolled outside the cabin
And ate the buttercup.
..
Elaine from that day forward
Was always in command,
On hikes, she'd eat some birch-bark
On swims, she'd eat some sand.
..
At meals she'd swallow prune-pits
And never have a pain,
While everyone around her
Would giggle, "Oh Elaine!"
..
One morning, berry-picking,
a bug was in her pail,
And though we thought for certain
her appetite would fail
Elaine said, "hmm, a stinkbug,"
And while we murmured, "ooooh,"
She ate her pail of berries
And ate the stinkbug too.
..
The night of Final banquet,
When Counselors were handing
Awards to different children
Whom they believed outstanding,
..
To every _thinking_ person
At that summer camp in Maine
The Most Outstanding Camper
Was Eat-it-all Elaine! |
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