oncejadedtwicesnarked

So C and I have been playing somewhat obsessively with duolingo! (I am learning Portuguese and brushing up on French, except I've done more Portuguese than French thanks to new-language excitement.) Our conclusion: duolingo is awesome, but a freaking trip.

( chickens and dolphins and sharks, oh my )

*My favorite so far: "Mark all correct translations: She is a good woman." -- option 3: "She is a good pineapple."

Crossposts: http://glass-icarus.livejournal.com/347458.html

marina

Yesterday was... a thing that happened, and I am so extremely exhausted today, again :/

But during lunch I went out and enjoyed my university's Student Day. Basically a giant party the Student Union throws once a year on campus, and all classes are cancelled. There's tons of stalls, street food and concerts from leading israeli artists.

So, HaDag Nahash were performing at lunch. I've mentioned seeing them at Student Day 2011. I love their music so much, and they played some old stuff and some new and I sat on the grass, in the shade, and enjoyed the breeze and got myself a glass of champagne and a hamborger and just... spent 40 minutes taking everything in. It felt like sticking my head into a tub of medicine for all the things that ailed me. Just... music and food and nature and fresh air. *Happy sigh*

I've shared their music before but really, I can never have it posted enough times on my journal. As they tend to be extremely political in their songs I won't even try to translate or explain the meaning, I'll just leave these here and are you not to want to dance your ass off when you hear the beat.

At 7pm Ivri Lider, the dude who did this amazing cover of "I Kissed A Girl" is going to perform, and I plan on seeing him with

cesy and

shedonit.

Crossposts: http://sabrina-il.livejournal.com/1383310.html

marina

I currently have 103 works archived on the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 103 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

IDK what I'm weirded out by more, the fact that I've apparently posted 142k on AO3 all in all or that everyone else who's doing this meme seems to have way more stories than I do! I didn't know so many of my friends had written so many stories :D

Crossposts: http://sabrina-il.livejournal.com/1382925.html

jhameia

So I wasn't very hands-on this year therefore am not sure quite what's going on with the dinner.

HOWEVER, Tempest and I have decided that if we can't swing getting a restaurant and whatnot (we pretty much took up 2/3rd of the hotel restaurant last year! \^o^/) then we will AT LEAST have an ad hoc pizza party, either in one of the party rooms or in the Solitaire room itself. WE WILL LET YOU KNOW! Text me if you want me to text you as soon as details are confirmed ^_^

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Tempest has just told me that our party will be in ROOM 627 :D During the Friday dinner block!

We will be handing out flyers on Friday to invite people!!!

We've also determined that people are allowed to bring food into the Solitaire room so we encourage folks to gather there for mealtimes because some days you want to pool all the noms together in a POC space of awesome :D

Hope that helps!!! Sorry we're so disorganized this year D:

delux_vivens

delux_vivens

details coming in still but here's an on the spot recap from a witness... rapper "boyadee".

(man look. boyadee? i. um. ok.)

jhameia

Sometime at 4am tomorrow morning, I catch a ride to LAX so I can fly to WisCon!

I arrive around 3.47pm in Madison.

I have no dinner plans as yet. In fact, my only plans are as follows:

Friday: I volunteer for the Gathering's Clothing Swap, and there will be the WisCon POC Dinner, then at night for the Carl Brandon Party set up.

Uhm. After that, I'm on no panels, and will be flitting around or just parked in the Safer Space. And partying!

I'm bringing The Heroic Trio, The Executioners, 14 Amazons, and The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake. I won't have a computer but maybe someone will be game for a Chinese movie night.

I will be rooming with the excellent Ay-Leen the Peacemaker, woohoo!

I fly out Monday 7.30pm.

My phone number is 951-892-4189 if anybody needs a person to hang out with!

See you theeeeeeeeeere <3 <3 <3 <3

delux_vivens

anything ppl want me to post about?

(besides nekkid men. ahem.)

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crossedwires

by Li-Young Lee

In sixth grade Mrs. Walker
slapped the back of my head
and made me stand in the corner
for not knowing the difference
between persimmon and precision.
How to choose

( persimmons )

colorblue

I'm going to be at Wiscon this year (my first convention ever. not quite sure what to expect!) Let me know if you're also going?

marina

1. Scifi author Kameron Hurley keeps writing articles the titles of which seem so enormously appealing? Because they're all about writing matriarchies and stepping away from Western history as the basis of everything and writing women and brutality and war and needless to say ALL OF THESE ARE MY INTERESTS but it's like... after two books I think were genuinely very good (though not unflawed) she wrote the latest part of her trilogy in a way that was utterly terrible and full of racist/sexist/etc fail and I... I just can't take her writing about these issues seriously anymore. Even though she'd likely have interesting things to say regardless? I just can't bring myself to read any non-fiction she's written about how not to fail. IDK. I'm more willing to buy her next book if it looks promising than I am to read a 1000 word essay on writing.

2. Work is work, today, and so of course I went on tumblr and searched for "science bros". Among many NSFW and delightfully intimate images, this one has cheered me up the most (SFW). I don't even know. (Also, made me think of

thingswithwings's fic, of course.)

3. Other delightful things, I keep stumbling upon this in an open tab and smiling - junior hockey players kiss after a win. What makes this truly delightful is how utterly unapologetic they were about it afterwards. Not that I want to write about the way culture constructs masculinity around violence - sports, the military - and how every single "tough guy" occupation is actually an occupation where you have an unbelievable level of intimacy with your (same-gender) coworkers and the cultural work that goes into "normalizing" that intimacy and distancing itself from anything romantic and sexual when the spectrum of human feelings is really not that black and white... oh wow can you tell I'm back in academia? Took a semester but apparently my sociologist brain is back in high gear.

4. God, the past few days have been like waking up from a crash. The last 2 weeks were basically heavy cortisol intake and it's taking my body a while to recover. Every day I'm a bit less tired, but everything is still kind of overwhelming. My mom, whose birthday it is today, has also decided that this week is Mourning Over How Not Alike She And I Are week so every day I've called her she's been super distant and/or started crying on the phone, refusing to tell me what's wrong because "if I don't understand then she can't explain to me". I just. I'm far away, there's nothing I can do, if I don't call her daily she gets upset, when I do call she cries and refuses to tell me what's up, my dad says she's been fine at home so clearly it's something specifically to do with me and I just. I am so tired of playing this game and especially double, super tired considering my goal for this week is to make it through without hopping back on the stress train.

Crossposts: http://sabrina-il.livejournal.com/1382781.html

jhameia

( Under cut in case anybody cares because spoilers ahoy )

crossedwires

-Butawhiteman Cantbekhan is the best rendition of Cumberbatch's name that I have seen so far.

-Andre Braugher's new show looks like Frank Pembleton's worst nightmare. :/

-HLOTS BUNNIES! So wrong and so cute. If I knew how to do this, I would have these photographed bunnies re-enact HLOTS scenes.

-Frank Pembleton, I ♥ you.

-What's the likelihood of John Cho getting fired from Star Trek with all the whitewashing he's calling out? “I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet. Which, by the way, is also the title of my autobiography.”

-Star Trek: Into Whiteness. (I can't vouch for the comments.)

It wasn’t perfect in the 60s when Ricardo Montalbán was cast to play Khan (a character explicitly described in the episode script of Space Seed as being Sikh, from the Northern regions of India). But considering all of the barriers to representation that Roddenberry faced from the television networks, having a brown-skinned man play a brown character was a hard-won victory. It’s disappointing and demoralizing that with the commercial power of Star Trek in his hands, JJ Abrams chose not to honour the original spirit of the show, or the symbolic heft of the Khan character, but to wield the whitewash brush for … what? The hopes that casting Benedict Cumberbatch would draw in a few more box office returns? It’s doubly disappointing when you consider that Abrams was a creator of the television show Lost, which had so many well-rounded and beloved characters of colour in it.

Add to this the secrecy prior to release around Cumberbatch’s role in the film, and what seems like a casting move that would typically be defended by cries of “best actor for the job, not racism” becomes something more cunning, more malicious. Yes, the obfuscation creates intrigue around and interest in the role, but it also prevents advocacy groups like Racebending.com from building campaigns to protest the whitewashing.

-There's this Elementary article has been linked a lot. It’s a nice overview of the series, with spoilers. There are two bits in it that I ( disagree with. )

Current Mood: indescribable

delux_vivens

What happened when West Coast Asian Americans were forcefully removed to the Jim Crow era South?

Current Mood: curious

delux_vivens

fat and attractive

If you would like to offer me a "substantial amount" to stop wearing your brand so my association won't "cause significant damage to your image", don't hesitate to email me. I respect you as a business man, and my agent and I would be happy to contribute in furthering your established success.

Current Mood: impressed

marina

So, after two weeks of endless stress, I spent Friday studying 11am-9:30pm to finish my goddamn paper, then spent Saturday at my parents', alternatively participating in drama I REALLY DID NOT NEED and going to the beach. \\\\\\\\\o///////// THE BEACH WAS MAJESTIC AND WONDERFUL. I wore my new bathing suit and it was awesome. Just. OMG, amazing life choices: going to the beach.

After that I had lunch with my folks and then drove back to Tel Aviv to watch the Hawks/Wings game with

roga at the new sports bar that we'd never been to before. It was pretty much completely empty except one Red Wings fan and one dude in a Hossa shirt. Again to my surprise, once ascertaining that neither of us was from Chicago, the other hockey fans pretty much ignored us. IDK! I'm still trying to figure out how sports fandom works IRL. Maybe it's weird to be too friendly with people you don't know who are at the bar to cheer for the same team as you? IDEK.

I was wearing my Ovi shirt and as we exited the bar some dude shouted "Hey, NICE OVECHKIN SHIRT!" at me and I turned around and went "thank you!" and it was delightful.

After the game I went to pick

cesy up at the airport.

On Sunday I decided to skip work, for multiple reasons, and instead went to enjoy a morning at the Tel Aviv port with snacks and

cesy before heading over to uni to hand in my stupid paper. I'd waited this long because I couldn't find the guidelines for submitting academic papers for this particular faculty (I'd never taken classes there before and this was a special occasion), so I waited for the admin offices to be open, but of course THEY HAVE NO GUIDELINES because WTF. First time in my life that a faculty does not have ANY SORT OF GUIDELINES for how to submit academic papers that are less than a thesis.

So, whatever, I went to buy a binder and print out the paper all of which took about an hour, handed it in, and then realized it's my mom's birthday in 3 days and I don't have a present for her. So, RUSHED OVER TO THE MALL to get her the present I've been thinking of, then went back and hung out with

cesy and

roga for the rest of the day. We watched Mystery, Alaska! IDEK, Russel Crowe, IDEK.

This morning I'm back at work: meetings and then skipping class to work on a presentation I have for another class (that is also today). Next week? I have another presentation. THIS GODDAMN SEMESTER. It's nearly exam season and I've been drowning in work this entire fucking time.

I'm probably not going to have much computer time this week, so just FYI. Replies to emails will probably take longer than usual. Though, if any Israeli fangirls are reading this: Friday's meetup is being arranged, that is a priority and I'll be sending emails as soon as I have logistics figured out.

Things I want to do today: watch Game of Thrones, hang out, lounge on the beach. Things I will actually do today: work, work, study, work, study.

Crossposts: http://sabrina-il.livejournal.com/1382436.html

qian

I finished the second draft of the novel! I am full of glee. It's clocked in at around 105,000 words, which astounds me. And having got it done now means I have Monday and Tuesday evening to pack and sort myself out before flying off, so yay!

Things I will do now I have finished the second draft:
- Go to Wiscon
- Read books totally unrelated to Regency England
- Restart Operation Friendship! I have RSVPed for a karaoke night for a sort of Asian-themed meetup group the weekend after I'm back from the US. YES GOOD.
- Run spellcheck!
- Line-edit!
- Proofread!
- Start a new, hopefully regular exercise thing, since I stopped Bikram yoga at the end of April, and haven't really done anything else since
- Dance around in glee!
- Villette space minuet??? Something new, anyway!

I'll also be spending a couple of days around Wiscon in Chicago, so if anyone is there and wants to meet up, let me know!

Crossposts: http://qian.livejournal.com/103002.html

glass_icarus

Earlier this week I went to Bookoff and read the first two volumes of Rurouni Kenshin. They were cute, but so far I am not extremely enthused, just interested enough to keep reading when I get a chance. I am in the mood for moar manga/anime series right now, so any recommendations/reminders for those &/or fluffy books would be welcome!

Also, I've decided to start Duolingo now that I'm freeeeeee, haha. I know a bunch of you have mentioned you're on it, but remind me? :) ♥

Crossposts: http://glass-icarus.livejournal.com/346993.html

qian

I'm not very good at doing this meme regularly. /o\ And I have also fallen shockingly behind on the weekly reading meme!* Everything is to be laid at the door of the novel -- I have two chapters to finish before I may go off to Chicago and Wiscon with a clear conscience.

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9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?

I will pass on this question! Firstly because I can't think of anyone, secondly because even if I could think of anyone I would probably be wrong. I am a very bad matchmaker.

*I am reading Gwyneth Jones's Divine Endurance, which so far I like, but I'm mostly pretending that the map at the front of the book doesn't exist, and that all the action is taking place on some other Peninsula entirely. For those who do not know the book, she has set her dystopian authoritarian future-world on Malaya. (Sabah and Sarawak and Kalimantan get the appellation "desert island".) But it doesn't really feel local so it is confusing -- and a bit annoying, TBH; you sort of think she could have used some other peninsula, instead of appropriating your own.

Crossposts: http://qian.livejournal.com/102900.html

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(For some California local definition of 'morning'!)

About 30 minutes ago one of our databases (sb-db03) locked up and stopped serving traffic. This was an active database, so the site quickly stopped when it could no longer serve requests. Alas.

I have failed us over to a backup database and now everything should be working again.

I'm not sure yet what happened to db03, but am currently investigating and will update this post if I come up with a root cause for the problem. Edit: It's back up and doesn't have any visible problems. Disks are fine, data's intact, etc. The graphs and logs show nothing. We'll have to keep an eye on it and see if it manifests further issues.

Sorry for the trouble, please let me know if you still see any problems!

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A Ruin in Progress

Disgruntled dusty brown on demand. Tired of your shit.

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ela é um bom abacaxi*

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Quick Announcement re: POC Safer Space & Dinner

and the latest from thug kitchen.

so. woolwich.

WisCon plans!

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quick note...

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so i went to watch a sexually transmitted infectious disease

butawhiteman cantbekhan

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in which abercrombie and fitch get dragged. hard.

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Second draft: DONE

random fandom time again!

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