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| w00t |
| 11.01.05 (5:57 am) [edit] |
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well, I just received my first ever piece of fan mail about my on going fan fiction. How about that?People not only read and reccomend the DOTE story but now they actually write to me and say they like it??? OMG that's so cool. been getting some nice comments about my writing style and the writingin general. Had a small job for one of teh in game guys to write up his character bio and he was thrilled with how it turned out. It was fun to do, especially since it needed to be tailored for someone else not just me. so I guess I will be spending our day off today starting the next chapter. Nothing like kind words and serious encouragement to keep one going. --- yeah we have a holiday today. yippieee but it's now pouring out side.... but Halloween came here in a small way, all our neighbours put out candles and halloweenie style lanterns... so it was cool. until then be excellent to each other!!! |
| Halloween on a black moon |
| 10.31.05 (6:28 am) [edit] |
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So here it is, Halloween in switzerland. They have heard of this holiday at least beacuse you can buy halloweeny stuff at the coop, not much just one rack of some deco and candles and make up, Imean it's not like shopper's drug mart where they dedicate a whole aisle plus to the celebration of pagan beliefs. However I can buy a nice pumpkin here to carve if the mood actually takes me...but this year it didn't. My what for factor shot way up and my I just don't give a flying u know what) is sort of up there too. I mean what is the fun of halloween if there is NO ONE else to share it with? I miss it. ---- The cows are back and with the cows come the flies, so my house is filled with really annoying buzzing flies. SWAT has taken on a new meaning. --- I need to do Italian homework, I am almost 40 and I still have homework does it ever frigging end? I resent this whole having to learn yet another language just to live. I do, it's bad but it's true. I don't answer the phone duringthe day anymore because it is usually some one speaking italian who gets pissy when I say I am sorry i don't. I am learning and trying but I am just not that good. so am down about the whole third or fourth language thing. --- Am down in general. I am homesick and lonely and it's a bad time. It won't last these phases never do, and I am still writing and working out the twists and turns of the plot line (is there one?) on a really funny note..... [url=] http://www.starterupsteve.com... [/url] this is what europe lacks.... unadulterated silliness. I love living in europe but I miss the ability of play. That daftness that comes only from the North American sense of silly. ---- nothing else to talk about we have a HUGE house guest atm... a spider living in MY bathroom that is really really big, hobo spider I think it is called, I don't mind, it doesn't bite often and usually the bites are not serious.....and is not poisonous but dang it's big and it comes out of the Bidet where it hides at night . *sigh* flies spiders maybe it is halloween here after all... until then be excellent to each other Boo! |
| some times... |
| 10.26.05 (11:47 am) [edit] |
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ya know when gold leaf works it's astounding and when it doesn't it's a mf pain in the ass! life is so so. Winter is coming, leaves are begining to change frost on the ground and slow slow slow. Words in my head a scroll to finish on my desk and just a house full of dust mites. can't focus. and I am stuck for the next chapter titel how's that for a bummer.... argh until then be excellent to each other.... |
| This Woman's work |
| 10.20.05 (7:34 am) [edit] |
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I have this song by Kate Bush running through my head at the moment. I heard it many years ago and loved it, of course I really like her music anyway. I think I first heard it on a compilation of hers, but I actually have it from the soundtrack of 'she's having a baby'. The scene where they play this song is terrifying, poignant and stunningly shot. Those of you who have seen it know what i am talking about those who haven't ach go rent the film if you can find it, it's good. Anyway I have this song on my itunes play list and it is playing as I write. I make these play lists to go with the chapters I am writing. I suppose it is sort of like movie music in a way, I pick songs that work well with what is going on and the characters. In case anyone cares, Merly and Thrawn's 'song' ha ha so to speak is [i]Windswept[/i] by Brian ferry. October is just over half way done now and the sun it seems has gone off to better climates. For most of this month the sky has shrouded us in its misty mystery. The mountains are either veiled in a strange still haze or completely covered in a shifting dancing fog. The drizzle permeates everything and the world is grey. The air is cold, that winter touch of coming frost. There is snow on the passes now and soon they will be closed. The cows are down in the lower pastures, and there is a small herd up behind the house, we hear their large bells all night and all day. At first it was disturbing but once I figured out what that strange clinking and clanging sound was in a way it was strangely comforting. Winter is coming and the world here is settling in for it. The scent of wood smoke infiltrates everything, lingering in the air like the wisps of stray cloud. The leaves up on the frost line have turned but down below it they are , for the most part still green. I like this time of year, this turning of season. I like the smell of damp leaves underfoot and that peppery nip of cold. That settle down time, curl up with books and warm clothes. Hot cups of tea and the promise of snow. Our life is routine at the moment. Marcus works and goes off on the business trips. I stay home and do house work, and my artwork and I write and write and write. It comes in waves. the days when I am blocked I am restless and peevish. I wander about the house like a lost ghost, words in my brain dance and tease fragments of ideas and plot. Echoes of conversations never quiet finished. Fortunately these moments do not last long and when the damn breaks I sit and I type. In between these marathon sessions of wordiness I have to make time for scrolls, big peerage scrolls. The short amount of notice I get given to do them means that no one else around will take the assignment on. I have stopped asking because it just annoys me. the I'd do it but I need three months..... doesn't work when you get three weeks. I can do a good peerage scroll in under a week, even shorter if I put in eight hour days on it. Trouble is I don't want to any more. I have been doing this for a while now, at least four years I think and I am at the bridge people sometimes cross where they ask why am I doing this? People don't care and they don't say thank-you for the work. Or one gets back handed strangely worded compliments that are hard to decipher. So one sits and reads and re reads the commentary and wonders did said person like the scroll or not??? At the request of someone I really admire and care about I am taking on the second term but I wonder if my heart is in it. Not that it matters since no one else around wants to do this job and I don't blame them. It's a big frigging pain in the ass. You rely on the communication of people who are often not terribly good at that, or people who don't care or what ever. On the other hand, I have had help from the most unexpected corners and been graced with the luck of meeting extraordinary artists who help inspire and challenge me. Been given financial aid for an office that 90% of the people don't even know exists. So it is not all gloom and doom. I am just fed up of the attitude of this kingdom the not my job, not my problem blah blah blah. Like most phases I'll get over it :) in the mean time I have chunky scrolls to deal with. It is a delicate balancing act. And I have to try not to resent the time I need to put into the scroll work which eats up my time writing. I don't get paid for either by the way but the writing is FAR more gratifying because I actually get feed back for it. Most of which has been very positive. So, it is Thursday and it s grey and wet. The world here is still and quiet. I think I will go out for a walk. I love it outside when it is like this, rain drizzle fog, like home... just like home. until then be excellent to each other. |
| I aim to misbehave.... |
| 10.13.05 (8:27 am) [edit] |
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so I am lousy at updating this thing at the moment. But what is there to say? I did not go to Munich with marcus ...why? well many reasons but mainly because party due to some lazy arsed arrangingon the other side of thefence he did not know who or how many trainees were going to be there and did not book a hotel waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aay in advance, this meant that due to there being a fair in Munich there were NO hotel rooms to be had near or around the city at that time, this meant that we would be staying WAY out in the middle of bf nowhere and that was no good for me. I hate being stuck in a hotel in the middle of nowhere. The last time we did that we had a hotel that was also a slaughter house and at 4 am the squeeeeeeeeling of little piggies being takek to their doom woke me up. No thanks. so we decided that I stay home and be happy at home and he do this work thing and that was that. he had to switch hotels half way through, but that nice thing is teh second hotel has internet acess so we can talk to each other and 'meet' in game at night which is nice. not much going on here, my days drift by mixed with a combination of house work, reading trying to remember to move my sluggish body once in a while ( I sometimes feel I am permenantly glued to this chair... not a good thing... so my trusty littel stair stepper is nearby and I get up and move it move it.... Writing is a bit of a teeth pull atm, where is this story going? hell I have no idea but the ride is sort of fun. I got a bunch of graphic novels and the Kyle katarn series from amazon the other day WOOT and now am doing research once again. :) The weather here has been grey and cool, almost cold the sky wanted to become one with the mountains but to day the sun decided it was his turn and voila SUN I can do some laundry and hang it outside yay.... air out the house a bit and so on.... Marcus comes home tomorrow YAY and then we'll see where and when we head off to next. I think theer is a short trip up to Ahnresburg planned but not sure, that will be around halloween and see what goes on... may mean some visiting to friends along the way and that is always a good thing!!! Well I have some scrolls to do and some story to write dishes and laundry and so on..... miss you all love and hugs until then be excellent to each other... |
| incoming weather |
| 10.03.05 (6:15 am) [edit] |
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The front line is just over there...it sits just over the border from Switzerland and Italy. The silver grey contrasts greatly with the black clouds and we are watching it sit. The wind shifted after yesterdays wild weather. Not sure whatthe weather will do today, but it has turned cold and grey. October has arrived with a iron coloured fist. We spent the weekend watching Firefly, and all the sci-fi movies we own, playing SWG and generally hanging out. It poured like mad all weekend, cold solid cats and dogs rain. This morning it is cold and the air smells like autumn. Today house work is high on the list, gotta get the house back into shape as next week we are once again not at home, heading up to Munich. M. gives a training and I tag along. Munich is pretty and it's a chance to get some shopping in of essentials we can't get here. It is hard to believe we have been here for almost a year, feels like a month in reality, I suppose we are never really at home long enough to feel at home. It is a strange thing. ...not much else.... been workingon the creation of a language for my SW story, ahh hell why not? It is an interesting and difficult thing to do actually but I enjoy the challenge. Thanks to WIKIPEDIA it is a lot easier to figure out linguistics terms and sort through a choice of already existing languages to use as possible templates. Keeps the mind busy I suppose. It amazes me how many verbs we use and need. That little words such as of, to with and so are VERY important. LOL We have Italian classes tonight. yay okay well gotta get my day started.... the laundry won't do itself. until then, be excellent to each other. |
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