Saturday, December 02, 2000

I have this list of people that I want a cloned copy of, for various fun and nefarious purposes. So far, this list includes the following:

 

• Trent Reznor
• Miroslav Satan
• Russel Crowe
• Harrison Ford
• David Duchovny
• Gillian Anderson
• Vin Diesel
• Kate Winslett
• Jeff Goldblum
• Keanu Reeves (Matrix Edition)
• Matthew Perry
• Nicholas Lea (Black Leather Jacket/Krycek edition)
• Dean Haglund
• Ryan Phillipe
• James Marsters
• Seth/Sean Green (Oz/Scott Evil)
• Myself! I need at least four other me's running around...

Posted by: Shannon M.: 12:23 PM |

Ain't the internet grand? I found someone's address and phone number, and I could scare the pants off of him if I was so inclined. In fact, I'm kinda inclined. But not to scare him -- just to get in touch with him and make sure everything's as okay as it ever gets. Or just to send him a Christmas present. *Snerk* From: Le Societe D'Appreciation de Trent Reznor...

Posted by: Shannon M.: 12:25 PM |

Okay, this is just WEIRD. I have been picking blogs at random, and I get one of two things: Brits or gay guys. Or maybe both, if I keep at it long enough. It's like the time I went through a few years ago when I could walk through the library, run my hand over the books on the shelf, and pick up the one with the gay protagonist. Not that I'm complaining, but it's just....strange.

Maybe it's part of that whole Japanese/Canadian Bi-Guy Past Life thing. *Smirk*

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:00 PM |

And I should really stop ending my posts with actions. *Rolls eyes*

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:01 PM |

Okay, okay, I'll stop.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:03 PM |

Um. I don't wanna sing in The Messiah this year. I don't feel at all ready for it, and I don't want to give a piddling-to-mediocre effort for something that deserves glory and awe and reverence.

Of course, I probably just feel that way for right now, and will feel better when we get to dress rehearsal.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:04 PM |

*Whine* I need a browser that can handle Kanji... Not like I could _read_ it, but I could at least look at the pretty squiggles while looking at the pretty pictures. Gravitation

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:06 PM |

This makes my head hurt: How can you be 'in the closet' if you announce the fact on a decidedly public weblog? But, I guess if you have something that's -that- much of secret, bubbling up inside you and threatening to explode messily all over your nearest and dearest (or whatever), you have to get it out in the open _somewhere_... And it's kind of sad and sweet and weird, all at the same time. Weird because this is a real person, living somewhere, with real thoughts and feelings and concerns... Sad and sweet because... I'm strange and that's just how I see it. *Shrug*

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:07 PM |

I've been listening to Gail read 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens to the Fourth-Hour class (which has actually become somewhat less hellacious to deal with), and I've got a copy of my own that I keep meaning to start reading... But I've been trying to implement some of the ideas in my own life. For instance, there's a section called 'Baby Steps' (yes, just like What About Bob's baby steps -- minus Bob, of course), one of which is to do little things that you're fairly afraid of doing. For me, one of them is speaking my mind, using _my_ words, and not choosing the softest, gentlest way to do it. It's commenting on things online (I sent feedback to The Mad Poetess last night! I was laughing _so_ hard at the Drunk Angel sequence from 'Homeless?' in Pt. 9 that I just _had_ to tell her how much I've been loving Chocolatey Goodness... And then, after sending it, I realized that I actually loved everything she's written, to date... But I didn't send her another e-mail. If/when she replies to my Chocogood mail, I'll tell her the rest...); it's asking questions on newsgroups I haven't been part of for very long; it's basically drawing attention to myself online.

Hell, this blog is private. my Handbook one isn't, but I'm not happy with it and I want to change it.

I don't try to draw attention to myself IRL, but I get it whether I want it or not. I think I'm quiet online because I _can_ be. No one has to know that I'm reading their newsgroup. No one has to know I've subbed to the mailing list. No one has to know that I write bad, bad, BAD XF fanfic. (I wonder if Mulderella would win any BadFic awards...) I can join a community and then just sit back and watch the interactions, 'cause no one has to know I'm there. Or even if they _DO_ know I'm there -- NewIWT and VxReality both announce your arrival in the chats, but I don't have to say anything to anyone. I don't have to do anything but lurk, and I usually enjoy it.

I think that's why I love writing. I get to be omnipotent (mostly...sorta...kinda...), omniscient (when the characters will _let_ me), and no one pays attention to me. They go on about their little lives, doing their things, and I get to watch it all.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:09 PM |

Thursday, November 30, 2000

Tomorrow, I will unofficially participating in Day W/O Weblogs.

For Randall Blue, brother, uncle, and artist. I wish I'd gotten to meet him.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 9:42 PM |

I know I missed some birthdays, though I've got a distinct lack of glarage going on over here... Richard? Nicky? Aren't they both Sagittariaus? (-ttariae?) I know Neets' was the 18th...

And how odd is that, keeping tabs on the birthdays of people that don't really exist...

In Real-Life Birthday News, both of my maternal grandparents celebrated a birthday in the last week and a half or so. I'm so glad.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 9:44 PM |

Heh. You can tell I've been reading a _lot_ of odd stuff and spending time with people whose command of the English language is such that they can get away with making gerunds.

My aunt Kel was up from Seattle last week, and she was proposing a return of adding '-age' to nouns and verbs, as in 'glarage'. (Although I suppose you'd really have to hyphenate that one... It looks more like a misspelling of 'garage' without.) I've also been rereading everything at Pointy Stakes, which means I've had 'slayage' bouncing around in my skull, along with whatever other Buffyisms the author chooses to use.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 9:52 PM |

Speaking of BtVS, I can't see it up here! It's not being carried by any of my local networks, it's not yet on cable... *Whinewhine* I wanna see Oz and Xander and Willow and Spike an' Giles an' everybody...

This is exactly the way I got into watching X-Files, Due South, The Sentinel, and Starsky and Hutch. I read the slash, got hooked, and wanted to see the shows. *Snerk* It works the _other_ way with movies -- I watch them and _then_ go look for slash.

Posted by: Shannon M.: 9:53 PM |

More whining ensues... I went to school to miss -this-!? I'll probably be able to catch a re-reun, though.
Posted by: Shannon M.: 11:08 PM |

Tuesday, November 28, 2000

Early Christmas/Winter Hols prezzie: Graphospasm.
Posted by: Shannon M.: 1:30 PM |

I think I fixed _most_ of what's wrong with my Art Pages! If nothing else, I fixed a couple of the links and remembered that 23 comes between 22 and 24.
Posted by: Shannon M.: 6:09 PM |

I must have UKdar (said 'you-kaydar'). Because this is, like, the third or fourth Blog in a row that I've clicked on only to be met with nifty Brit-slang and place-names.
Posted by: Shannon M.: 6:23 PM |

Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon

Get it. Read it. Laugh.
Posted by: Shannon M.: 6:25 PM |