The Tradëscan Codex

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

For those of you recognizing that the proportion of memetic content to non-memetic content (which, if we're being technical about the actual meaning of "memetics," is an oxymoron) has grown, this is because . . . er, uh . . . this is because I am conducting a super-secret experiment in memetics.

Yes, I am an experimental memeticist, and you are my guinea pigs. So, erm, stay tuned anyway?

In case you don't believe that, I promise that there will be real content eventually. I have a lot of different fics in a lot of different fandoms planned; I just never seem to have any energy or time to write any of them. Not to mention re-applying to grad schools or searching for better jobs than the summer job I have now, neither activity being one that I've really done as much or as well as I should.

So that pictorial LJ interests collage meme thing, with the tags not even pretending to be represented by the pictures with which they are paired:

( My Interests Collage! )

ETA:I particularly like how it translates Mac/Madison as a Fleetwood Mac album. But that's okay; I like Fleetwood Mac (I'm pretty sure?).

And, Summer. Tina. Juliet. Michelle. Iyari. Amanda, Eliza, Jewel, Miranda, Amy, Elizabeth. (Not to mention Aly, Sarah, Cynthia, Kate, Kristen, and whoever that woman who plays Discord is.) Guh. Just guh. (As Ari would say, actors are paid to be pretty.)

ETA2: And, upon googling Kristen to make sure I spelled her name correctly (I did), I have learned that she will be starring in the animated film Flatland: The Movie. How cool is that?

Statler and Waldorf deliver the meta once again. Not quite as slashy this time, though.

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I really love this icon. Summer is just so . . . "guh," and I like the red-against-black-and-white. The "problematizing desire" River/Kaylee one's not bad either. (I figured I needed "desire" icons after the recent meta.

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If it weren't for 'thons I wouldn't be writing fic at all, since I have so much schoolwork ("thesis? what thesis?"), but I do miss working on my chaptered fic. To Live in Hearts, I'm thinking about you.

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I gave a couple of (female) students rides home from a class dinner on Thursday, and it wasn't until I was exiting my car that I realized I let the conversation be about me the entire time. I shrugged it off--I already have a girlfriend (and wouldnn't have been interrested in those girls anyway), and I'm graduating in a little more than a month, so who cares if my social skills are horrible?--but one wonders how I got a girlfriend in the first place. (Answer: Geeks don't date the same way mundanes do.)

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Wrote my first Veronica Mars fanfic over the weeked, Veronica/Mac/Lilly. Is that my first threesome? I think so, although since Lilly's a ghost I'm not sure it actually counts. Oh, right--there was the Joss/River/Ari, but I don't think that counts either. Been thinking about threesomes I could write, such as Wes/Faith/Buffy (which I have a plot for and everything, even), Buffy/Giles/Cordelia, or Veronica/Mac/Cassidy. But I want to finish To Live in Hearts first, and that won't happen until after I'm done the thesis. And I've been planning to write Amy/Rack/Drusilla forever. (Well, since last summer.)

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Silent retreat this weekend at a not-really-local monastery. I'm going to bring some books which hover in the grey area between schoolwork (which is forbidden) and devotional literature (which is encouraged). I have a lot of books from the thesis research on the role of mysticism in analytic philosophy--Russell and Wittgenstein, mainly. Or maybe I'll bring the St. Augustine to reread or finally get around to reading the Thomas Merton. Any suggestions?