I may not be the biggest BAMF in the room at any given time, but I certainly try to be in the top three.

I've been in the theatre for over twenty years as a little bit of everything. Yes, I have welded upside down from a second story set in nothing but gauzy underwear half hour before a show opened. I prefer to keep my hair purple. And I run very quickly in four inch heels.

All the students are making me insane today. What's that? You did a crazy thing and you've been caught doing the crazy thing? And you're now blaming me for your crazy thing because you refused to listen when I told you that crazy thing wasn't actually possible?

Of course I'm going to say it is my fault when it isn't so you don't have to pay a huge fine, kid. Why are you even asking me this? Also, give me back my favorite pen.

You can cry at me all you want. My heart is a stone. Also, call me a bitch again while you cry. That will move me to help you more!

I'm breaking in the shot glasses again tonight. Repeatedly. Also, sushi. SUSHI. I'm ordering that. Om nom nom.

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I was down with a head cold all weekend. I slept the sleep of the snotty. I have yet to make it to freaking Arisia, after three freaking years in Boston. ONE DAY. ONE DAAAAAY!

But, that meant I watched all the TV shows. I watched almost three seasons of Parks and Recreation, which I never marathon tv shows that much in one sitting. I love Leslie Knope. She cracks me the fuck up. I love the entire show, and I keep being surprised how freaking perfect it is. "You're American television! IS THIS EVEN ALLOWED?" It and Community are so lovely! MAKE MORE TV LIKE THIS, TV NETWORKS.

I still haven't caught up on Homeland, Closer, Hell on Wheels. I MUST DO THAT. I accidentally started watching Grimm, and I like it. It's different! Next, Once Upon a Time! And all the kdramas. And more BBC. And rewatching Babylon 5 because I just got myself seasons 1 & 2, and it is required!

And Kindle books! I love my freaking ereader! I never thought I would, but I do. I read it all the damn time. I eat up trashy, popcorn books, and then I devour loads of space opera and memoirs. Right now, I'm reading Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor, and I LOVE IT. It isn't scandalous or gossipy, but an honest and very amusing look into a servant's life in Britain. The author cracks me up the whole time! I highly recommend it to everyone, if you like any sort of nonfiction or the period at all.

I'm glad I like reading nonfiction again! I used to read so much of it constantly for university, I never read it for my own pleasure. SCORE GOOD BOOKS!

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So, I wrote this around 12pm today and never got to post it because my work was crazy. HAS A POST. Full of crazy!

I want to marry all of them.

"Heather, that's wrong."

Don't tell me it's wrong! YOUR FACE IS WRONG.

I am mad about this movie! I am dragging EVERYONE I CAN to the movies with me opening weekend.

Besides the fact it hits all my Iron Tropes (tough action woman, explosions, awesome female characters, violence, spy thriller, Cold War vs 21st century politics), it is staring Gina Carano, one of my favorite MMA fighters, and she doesn't wear a catsuit.

Most of the publicity has focused on the male stars and rising stars in the cast, and I have seen very little about the fact that Gina is currently one of the greatest fighters in the world (She is not the best. That is Brazilian Cristiane "the Cyborg" Santos that many MMA fans consider "boring" because she knocks out her opponents in less than 3 minutes. ...and she got banned for steroid use. Oh, Cyborg.). Gina is awesome. I have a special fondness for her, besides the fact she is brutal in the cage, because she has refused to be forced into a "sex pot" image. There is nothing wrong with being sexy (I mean, this is ME that is writing this!!). It pisses me off that many female fighters are given no choice in their public image in the name that female sports are boring and only get airplay if there is an element of sex. And that is why I'm being so gunho about this movie: the lead actress does her own stunts and doesn't wear latex as armor. There seems to be a real attempt at realism here, and I'm wicked fucking excited to see it. If the plot makes ANY sense, I'll be so fucking happy, I won't have fucking words.

So, I want ALL OF YOU to see it as well! Let's get this thing to make money!!!

EDIT: It comes out January 20th! What, you wanted the IMPORTANT information provided to you? You've got to work for that!

Moving Day from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo.

I adore this! It cracks me the hell up. Turns the trope on its head: child moves to new home and discoveries fairies in her garden! Except their bastards that want to kill her. Child with blow torch vs rude fairies. You are all shocked that I love this.

It's judging me time, internet! You're all going "but, we're always judging you, Feather. That's what friends do!" I KNOW, my dear internet! But, I'm going to give you an extra special reason today. :D!

I don't know why I suddenly started reading Labyrinth fanfic. I think I misclicked something on A03, and it just happened. I think I've been in need of some crack and fantasy, and then I kept being so happy when I found something that wasn't creepy, I would keep clicking more and more ("Omg, you don't have the Goblin King perving on teenage Sarah! You aged her up before the perving happened! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU, FIC WRITER!"). I said this aloud and was properly mocked, but I as still SO PROUD of ficwriters when they didn't walk that long, scary road! I kept my bar low, and I found success!

Then, I found this fic! Which is actually GOOD FIC, and I had to share it!

Her Kingdom As Great (21157 words) by MarbleGlove
Fandom: Labyrinth (1986)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sarah Williams/Jareth
Characters: Sarah Williams, Jareth (Labyrinth)
Summary:

What's said is said, and Sarah said, "My Will is as Strong as Yours and my Kingdom as Great." And then, of course, she lied. A series of one-shots.

Sarah is an equal! There is meta commentary about how teenage perving is wrong and just because you're a goblin king doesn't mean you get to do that, and then the whole conversation of how fae have no concept there is a stage between baby and adult. Sarah makes her own kingdom through art and her own magic and starts to rule it and it is hard and. I had flaily hands!

I came away from this wishing that Sarah could have a bazooka. If she had to blow up an alien fleet, it would have been my perfect fanfic!

Do not let the pairing tag fool you, it is good and entertaining! You should read it! And then judge me (but after reading it).

I had been wanting some space opera lately, so when I was gifted with a Kindle this Christmas, I snatched Leviathan Wakes on several friends' recommendations. I devoured it in 3 days, and I came away pleased and interested in the next part of the trilogy.


( SPOILERS )

I like it and recommend it to people! You should try it! ...even though I wrote all of the above with criticisms. You can give something you like concrit. But, I did like the book. It was one of the more modern space operas I've read, if that makes sense. A great deal of scifi gets stuck in this very particular idea of "this is what scifi future looks like", and it was nice to get something different, as a reader.

It is yuletide reveal time! :D!

I wrote half of the Better Off Ted this yuletide.

Let's Do the Timewrap Again! (We Make That, Too) (6689 words) by wickedtrue
Fandom: Better Off Ted
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Veronica Palmer, Ted Crisp, Linda Zwordling, Lem Hewitt, Phil Myman, Dr. Bhamba
Summary:

"Here at Veridian Dynamics, we have declared war...on the passage of time."

"You know those tachyon particles we made after that last Star Trek marathon?" Phil asked.

"Who could forget? I relived my youthful jealousy of Wil Wheaton and his fine sweaters and undeveloped relationship with a young Ashley Judd." Lem was getting sidetracked.

"You made up Star Trek stuff? Again?" Ted tried to get them back on track. "Didn't we have a long talk about this after that time you transported Debbie's plant partially into the wall?"

This was wicked fun episode fic to write! I was convinced I was Ruining Yuletide for my person because I could not slip in the Veronica/Ted she was asking for, so I had to write her another fic. IT WAS THE ONLY WAY.

Cold Today, a Rose Tomorrow (293 words) by wickedtrue
Fandom: Better Off Ted
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ted Crisp/Veronica Palmer
Characters: Ted Crisp, Veronica Palmer, Rose Crisp
Summary:

"I love you, little Rose. Now, would you like me to tell you the story about the mighty razor-backed fawn that single-handedly saved all the other fawns from the evil hunters with her mighty machine gun tank?"

:D I might love Veronica a bit.


I have to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to Gen, Becca, and Pho (and Gwen for making the offer to help) for their 11th hour betas and feedback. Y'ALL ARE AWESOME.

You should also check out the fic I got: two awesome Portal character pieces that are AWESOME and Charlie the Unicorn creepy. READ THEM. DOOO IT!

Now, more Star Wars watching before more Portal 2. Hurrah holiday!

Previous post made private. It had been much more open than I had planned and then I sort of flailed into the ether for bit. It's not you, it's me! Cat's out of the box, so to speak, but I like to give myself the illusion that I've totally made the world forget everything they could have seen.



I have no plans for New Years, and man, that's exciting. I'm so tired.

What do I want 2012 to be like? Not a disaster movie. That's all I'm going for here. Everything else, I'll make up as I go along. 28, here I come!

My nephew keeps headbutting me and asking if the fireplace has any food for him because he is starving. I think someone might want pie.

I made out like a beast, this yuletide! I finished my stuff late last night and I'm wicked proud of them. I woke up to THREE yuletide stories today! :O! AND THEY ARE AWESOME!!


Covalent Bonds (1261 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Portal (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cave Johnson, Caroline
Summary:

In 1968, the United States Senate holds an investigative hearing on Aperture Science’s culpability in the alleged missing astronauts at their Enrichment Center facility. Cave Johnson and his assistant Caroline are in attendance.

This made me CRACK UP. Cave Johnson is DONE HERE, Senate Committee. You get Caroline's personality in this very understated way, and it was AWESOME. This is awesome fic!! I was so happy!



Test Subject Starter Kit (1146 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Portal (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chell (Portal)
Summary:

The Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day is the perfect time to have her tested.

Another Portal fice and IT IS SO AWESOME, TOO. It is Chell during Bring Your Daughter To Work Day at Aperture Science, and it is creepy and AWESOME, and Chell never says a word. But you get so much of her. This is such a great, great one!!!



Charlie and The Power of Love (1077 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Charlie the Unicorn (Web Cartoon)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Charlie/starfish
Characters: Charlie the Unicorn, Pink, Blue, Starfish
Summary:

STARFISH LOVE YOU!

And Charlie the Unicorn fic!!! Starfish wants to be with you forever, and it is CREEPY and I LOVE IT. Also, Charlie finally "wins". Ahahaha!!


You must READ THEM ALL. DO IT!!

Hey, LJ.

How you doing?

Not so good, huh? Yeah, I heard about that.

You know, I've wanted to talk to you about that whole updated comment system. Now, I don't want you to think I'm trying to gang up on you. We've been through some times together, LJ. Remember that time we stayed up until 6am writing space adventures and porn? Yeah, it was only yesterday. The memories.

We've known each other 10 years now, though. I think that means something. Don't you, LJ? I think that gives me a little wiggle room to give it you in all honesty. But, you see, I can't. Because I can't make any new comments in any of my browsers. Did your developer put an image instead of an actual usable button for "post a comment"? I've heard of that happening before!

I finally found a place to leave feedback, so I left some for you. May be you can get on that, get an update for me? (You did one update, but it still has not fixed the problem) I'd love to tell people that I like their entries!

But, I've got to say, LJ, until you can fix this issue, I've turned off auto-renewal on my subscription. I've given you money through many years; like I said, we've been through some times. I never minded. I wanted to support you! But, I'm gonna hold off for a while. Let you figure things out. May be see some other blogging services.

Hope you work it out, LJ. Until then, I'm gonna be doing some custom style sheets for my other blog.

IS IT FRIDAY AFTERNOON YET?

BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE.

THEN, I AM ON VACATION.



I'LL BE THE BEST AT VACATION.



Don't talk to me about yuletide, FALALALALALALA!!!!




STILL BEST AT VACATION.

I totally missed doing a fit update this Sunday. There were friends visiting, and I got distracted! Post later!

I saw Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy this weekend! It was AWESOME. There were some changes from the book, if you have read it, but I was very pleased. I was holding a friend's hand (we switched to holding just two fingers before one of us injured the other), both of squeezing like mad when ever a Plot Point happened that was SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER but you didn't know that until the very end. I HIGHLY recommend it to people, even if you're not a huge thriller fan. The setting details are AWESOME, even if I was thrown out of the film whenever I saw blond Benedict Cumberbatch with his strange comb over, fluff hair.

I also saw the new Muppet movie, and I teared up a bit when I saw Kermit posing with Jim Henson. It was very cute, and there were multiple times the theater started singing along with the movie (this was almost entirely adults, mind you).

I am working on Yuletide. Ahaha, Yuletide! I love my prompt, and I like my story. I just uploaded the draft of scenes 1 - 3 to AO3, and I'll try to get the entire draft tonight (once I finish). And then, TREATS. I apparently do not have family obligations until Christmas Day, so HURRAH. I have PLANS. :D!

I keep having these headaches and sleep issues. My little phone android app has concerns about my sleep patterns and suggests I sleep more. Thanks, smart phone. Thanks.

No, for a short walk! And may be a snack.

I'm going to try and do this flip over to dreamwidth. Let's see how that goes!

Another update! I continue to be mad in love with people that post their exercise routines to youtube. My abs continue to hate me, and winter doesn't want me to ever go for walks. I was still bit of a lazy ass and didn't do my push ups and triceps as much as I should have. Nor as much cardio. Gotta get on that!

Pat hooked me up with Fitocracy, and I really like it! It pleases my gamer geek as I "level up" and earn points for exercising. AW YEAH, WHO'S LEVEL 4?

Sunday:
It was Dr. varadia's birthday, so no walking that day for CAKE.
week 2, day 1: 80 tricep dips

Monday:
walk 1 mile
10 min yoga
week 2, day 2: 107 crunches

Tuesday:
I WAS LAZY. Also, it was raining something horrible, so I didn't want to walk anywhere.
Just .5m walk to the bus after work.

Wednesday:
Same thing as Tuesday.
.5m walk to bus
week 2, day 1: 67 push ups

Thursday:
1.5m walk
week 2, day 3: 121 crunches

Friday:
It was our holiday party at work and I can't really leave, so I took a longer walk home before getting on the bus: .8m walk. And then I went to bed!

Saturday:
I went crazy to try to make up for a lazy week. You'd think I'd learn not to do this shit, right? WRONG.

Walked .6m to the market and back with a gallon of milk on one shoulder and a bottle of soda on the other (THE ESSENTIALS! okay, and ice cream and bread. Essentials? :D?)

dumbell strength and cardio burn
I don't do a lot of weight training, so I've been trying to improve that. I did this at my own pace with 10lb weights, and it felt really good. My biceps feel it today, but it hasn't been that bad. I think it helps I've been doing a lot of push ups on and off for the last two months.

10min jumping jack work out
Don't let this thing fool you! It is BRUTAL. I was fine the whole time I was doing it, just cruising along with my audiobook as I jumped and shimmied. 10 minutes after I sat down, my thighs let me know I'm a bastard. Whoops!


Sunday:

...I got up at 2pm after staying up until 5am researching sculpting techniques for a life cast I want to do after Christmas. >_> I was proud of myself for talking a shower and putting on pants. GO ME!

Also, my thighs hate me.

I was excited when more than one of the graduate students at work grabbed me at the holiday party and said they had noticed I had been losing weight. Yoga Girl, whom I like, and my super sweet girl from Kenya both high fived me and it felt great since I don't notice it, even though I KNOW I've lost 20lbs since the summer. There is still more to go next year before I'm in my place I'd prefer to be, but I really do like my body a lot more right now than I have. I'm Christina Hendricks, not a beached whale, is what I keep telling myself.

NEXT WEEK GOALS:

Do more push ups and tricep dips! More strength training! YOU CAN DO IT, SELF. 5 more pounds to go before December 31st!!

I'm getting back, for serious, on the exercise train. I'm going to try to make myself be honest in more than my calendar to keep me going. I'm going to try to aim to make myself update during the weekend about the week. May be? LET'S TRY!

All this week, I've made sure to go for a walk during lunch. I walk, at least, a mile each day. Normally, it is closer to 2. Scoreboard time!

Monday: 2.5m walk

Tuesday: No walkies, I was out sick. But, still made myself do my other exercises.
week 1, day 3: 73 tricep dips
week 1, day 2: 52 push ups

Wednesday: 2m walk (...I forgot to go to the bank, started back to work, and had to go back ;_;)

Thursday: 1.5m
week 2, day 1: 92 crunches

Friday: 1m walk

Saturday: 20 cardio on the stationary bike while catching up on my anime
10 min yoga routine (I LOVE YOUTUBE)
week 1, day 3: 59 push ups

I think I'm going to try to add the yoga in a couple days a week, to see if that helps or hinders. The goal: lose the last 8 pounds to reach my yearly goal before Dec 31st. I WILL FUCKING WIN, DAMN IT.

Let's actually write about what's going on in my life, shall we?


The move is official, now! How it is official? I put up art in the living room, that's how! The new apartment (moved to the bigger apartment in our building, for those new to show) is wonderful. It suits the three of us much better, gives us room to house visiting friends, and has a much larger kitchen where we're not bumping into each other and failing at tetris to house all our cooking supplies. Our new neighbors are AWESOME. You don't realize how bad it is until you have neighbors that do normal things like take out the garbage or don't play loud music until 4am, and you're amazed!

Also, the cats love the stairs. I think the pudgy bowling ball might have even lost lost weight chasing the other moron up and down the stairs. Though, they have taken to unrolling toilet paper rolls. ;_; This is a new trick they did not need to learn. At least it is only in one bathroom (WHYYY did you learn this trick?!?!).

And on Thursday, we will have movers finally get the last couch into the house proper and we can begin to properly set up the guest room. It won't be just a land where the books not in bookcases are exiled (SO MANY books). And then, there will be an Ikea trip to get all the sewing space set up properly. ADVENTURE!!!

I like decorating. It makes me happy. It's like picking out shoes, but it is shoes for my house! BEST THING EVER.

I have been so good about buying no new clothes or things the last two months. It sucks (so many things I want to buy!), but as my jeans have shown me, when on a losing weight spree is not the best time to drop a lot of money on clothes. I'll go crazy again in the fall. BOOTS! I need to replace my favorite boot wedges because the Boston winter was rather unkind to them.

I am being good with my exercise regiment! The weight is S-L-O-W-L-Y coming off. It sucks, but I WILL WIN. I now have extra incentive to loss to my goal because I am going to the sexy french maid from Clue with several other super sexy ladies, and I must actually live up to the sexy name! I WILL DO THIS THING.

I've started doing yoga through Yogaglo. That was an eye openner! I didn't realize how bad my knees had gotten until I realized I had to take a break doing crescents, not because it hurt to stretch but my knees where pissed at me. I've got a bruise! :O!!! But yoga and tricep dips and push ups and crunches and cardio. I WILL WIN THIS BATTLE.

I'm feeling a little... I won't call it home sick but more nostalgic. I'm listening to loads of country music and just missing certain things from my younger years. I think with all the family upheaval and all that's happened, I miss the simpler times. I just want to jump in my old, little red sports car and disappear down some backroad for days, laying out on the hood and smoking through a pack of ciggies.

I have a show I'm stage managing. If you're in the Boston area, you should come see it! It's a cute radio play series. I'll be in tech all week because performances are this weekend. Woooo!


Is it nap time yet? That'd be awesome, if it was nap time.

Roommates and I did some apartment viewings yesterday and FELL IN LOVE with an apartment. Sadly, our offer was not accepted. All well! That's life!

When I told our landlord that we had made a bid on another apartment, he sighed deeply at me over the phone said they had just started eviction proceedings on our orges upstairs, as Gen kindly refers to them. We were informed by a house guest yesterday that they like to have very, very loud sex in the mid-morning. I am ALL FOR people having loads of sex, but I and my house guests don't need to be an unwilling third parties to it! This is not a threesome I want to be part of!

We'll see if the landlord is actually getting these people evicted once we let him know we did not get that particular apartment. Man, I hope so! No matter if we are here or not, these people need to go!

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Switching gears, there is now a new way to tell if I'm not feeling well! If I don't even have the energy to use the curling iron or hot air brush for my hair, I am not well. If I have not put on my make up and glitter, and do not plan on doing it once I get to the office, I am not well. Oh, self. It cracks me up how much of a stereotype of myself I am.

I think I got either the plague from the students or the pollen is attacking EVERYTHING. I am just stuffy and extra tired. Ug! Damn it! I have Anime Boston to attend! I have guests! I HAVE THINGS TO DO, THERE IS NO TIME FOR ILLNESS.

May be I'll take off next Monday and just sleep? That kind of sounds AWESOME, but I don't know if I can dare take a day off. So much work to do. And I've got this paralyzing fear right now that I'm being an utter failure at my job and must WORK HARDER WORK HARDER to prove myself. ...I don't know why I'm thinking that, I just AM. The internet understands. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be talking like this when I have many friends that do not have jobs. I remember that, dudes. KEEP STRONG.

Lord, I want a nap. A big, big nap. The nap of naps, if you will.

RIGHT!

I'm rolling up my sleeves, internet, and I'm am CRACKING OPEN this publishing thing! I have a short story that I want to get published, and I'm on the hunt!

My goal for the year: get a short story published before my 27th birthday. Doesn't have to be paying! I'm just going to prove that I can!

Wow, is it hard to just find an anthology that isn't invite only. I knew this, but I'm still amazed by it. I just want to submit to you, publishing or web mags! Why you gotta hide yourselves on the internet?

Yes, I know why. I understand entirely why you are hiding, places that might take a story. I'll just have to work harder and stalk more people!

I really like dreamwidth. I think I've pretty much migrated since livejournal is always down when I try to check it the last few weeks. Damn hackers. (I love you, hackers! But why the livejournal? It's geeks and porn!)

I have broken my weight loss plateau, internet!!! There has been this number on the scale that I just could not get past, no matter how hard I worked, no matter how good I was about eating healthy. I don't know why it has made such a huge difference, but adding in 1.5m walk during lunch 4-6 days a week on top of what I've been doing FINALLY broke the plateau. :D!!!

Work is demanding, but I enjoy it. It is getting toward that end of the semester where your cool starts to slip, and you know the students can see how much you want really lose your temper at them when they say something they know is not appropriate (I have never lost my temper, but I have come close over the last few weeks) but are demanding that thing any way.

You know you are getting old when you think things like, "how did I ever make it through those years without anyone strangling me?". I'm surprised no one did that to me because I was a little shit at 17. I'm a little shit now, but I try to say "thank you for not murdering me in my sleep!" to my friends and loved ones!

Stuff and things. I am stepping up my writing. I finished an original piece, edits and all, and really shocked myself with how long it was in the end. Go me! Apparently, I love writing short stories! What a lovely thing to discover.

This weekend I walked EVERYWHERE. It was so nice out! Spring has finally come to Boston! Hello, Spring! Don't leave me again!

I have logged 13 miles in walking and biking since Weds. EXCELLENT! I may not be able to jog because of my knee and ankle, but I can still do an excellent light walk and biking.

I also totally got a bike. This bike, to be exact. It is AWESOME. My bum is rather sore today since I rode for over an hour yesterday, and I haven't been in a bike since...wow, six or seven years? :O! I poke along, but I'm happy! Now, I get to figure out how to make a bike lock work and get a helmet from a friend (that will then be spray painted SHINY, which is totally a color!).

I totally feel like a real Bostonian now. I own a bike, and I try to walk everywhere I can. This summer, I will WIN. And then I won't be a whiny shit every time I visit NYC and DC and go "can't we take the subwaaaaaay?". Also: buy this freaking carry-on roller, self! The shoulder bag plus purse combo is done. It is worth the investment, much like the bike!

I also FINALLY bought this dress that I've been pining over at Anthropologie. It was on final sale and finally back in my size. SNATCH! Come to me, my pretty!

Stuff and things! Upstairs neighbors continue to be "the orges upstairs" as one roommate calls them. They have no taken to playing music constantly, but as they have MOVED the music source, it is no longer a bother. The energy these people put into being purposefully annoying! It's kind of amazing. Also, amusing.