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Sorry I've been kind of absent--my brother-in-law has been here and I've been busy with 3-D-world-type interactions. It's been great having him here, but now his plane is zipping back to San Diego.

My f'list has been having an awful time (and I mean seriously awful--an unexpected job contract non-renewel not long ago, and then in the last couple of days, an unexpected job loss and an impending death). I'm afraid I'm not much help to anyone currently, but I'm thinking of you.

Dear Mr. Eccleston:

Hi, kind of a fan here. First saw you in the remake of Gone in 60, had one of those "oh hey it's that GUY" moments a few years later when the first series of the new Doctor Who came along, etc., you know the drill, heard it before.

So, uh... what happened, man? I mean... I know Doctor Who can be hard on its stars' subsequent careers - IIRC, that's why you bailed on it after one year, in fact, 'cause you were worried about the Moss of Rassilon growing on you, as it were - but jeez, if you were so hard up for work that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra seemed like your best bet, I'd gladly have let you crash on my couch for a while until you got back on your feet. I'm just sayin'.

Yrs. aye,
--G .

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"I'm going to make you very unhappy."

Thanksgiving was great - this was the first actual vacation I've had since July 2006. (All other trips have been for convention work.) Beautiful weather, good food, quiet walks on the beach. Mom and Dad generously flew us out, put us up, and fed us; we're still ages away from being able to do something like that ourselves. :/

Late last night we came home to a traumatized cat, a dead car battery, a house full of dog hair and junk, and a notice from the IRS saying "yeah, you know that $1400 refund you got in 2008? Oops, our bad, We need you to pay that back within three weeks. Happy holidays."

Back to reality.

I usually feign agnosticism just to be polite. The postings on “God as an imaginary friend for adults” are like that. God represented as your personal friend and advisor, however, is still a mere representation, and vulnerable to the old “are you talking with God or the Devil?” objection.

A person I met a few years ago, with a background in the Brazilian UDV (União de Vegetal, a Christian sect that uses psychedelic tea in its religious practice) encouraged me to be more open about my own experiences with religion and psychedelic drugs. I declined. Trip reports tend to be banal. Mine in particular bore me. Imagination seems to be the difficulty. Images are not the thing itself, and tend to be peculiar to the person who describes them, which in my case means boring, and in the case of others... well, take for example the Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila, sculpted so memorably by Bernini:



The angel seems to be laughing. I think that's Bernini's joke on the saint, a wink at this tale of angelic penetration told by a sex-starved nun. On the other hand, the context provided by the sculptor, the radiant light from above, the “witnesses” to the vision and so forth, tell us Bernini thought that there was more to this than an erotic dream.

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Sooooo booooored

Fakework is sooooo booooooring

I'm researching search engine optimization. I should just work on some fic... not like I'm getting paid.

Week home was good. I keep wanting to not come back here. Need the big compy though. Need to make a website within this month... And there's gonna be like 90 parties...

A lot going on, but nothing happening.

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True story. This actually happened like a month ago, but I've been so busy >_<

My car is a Ford Escort. It looks like a VW Bettle here (can't draw cars, lol.)

(after making a crack about the musical Mamma Mia)

"Sorry, some of you may be fans of Mamma Mia. I dunno, I dunno. I tried to like it. For me it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture. You know? It hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship."

Rating: G
Spoilers: None.
Character/Pairing: Spock/Uhura
Author's Note: November Drabblefest Item #30. THE END OF THE ROOOOOOAD. Nyota finally gets her curry. Title from "Country of the Future" by Mirah. I am never writing a drabble again holy shit.
Summary: Spock cannot fade into a crowd.

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"I feel sorry for James Blunt. He has to wake up every morning and go, 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt.'"
- Bill Bailey

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皆さん、かんしゃいのお休みはどうでしたか？私はロング・アイランドに行って、家族とかんしゃいをしました。あいかわらず、食べすぎたが、私は21歳だから、飲むすぎました。^^; やはり、食事はおいしくて、晩ご飯の後私たちは「Sideways」というすばらしい映画を見ました。

私はまたニューヨークに行って、コロンビア大学の学生の親友に会うつもりでした。残念ながら、地下鉄に、私は道をまよってしまったので、親友は私に助けさせられました。私はハーレムに行ってしまって、宿無し（やどなし, homeless person）に怒鳴られました。本当にこわかったです！ニューヨークは時々こわい所ですね．．．

とにかく、親友は私に見つけて、一緒に観光しました。ユニオンスクエアに行って、すごく気に入れました。＾＾親友はくつを買いたがったから、色々なくつ屋に行きました。後で、ユニクロという店に行きました。ユニクロは本当の日本店です。夏休みの日本旅行時は、ユニクロに行きました。私はほそいから、アメリカの洋服がたいてい悪いフィットです。ですから、ユニクロでいいフィットのジャケットを買うとうれしいでした。

残念ながら、休みの間に、病気になってしまいました。今インフルエンザがあって死のうと思いますさようなら