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[cleolinda]

Today's horoscope: Your attention span could use a boost. Try to focus on just one thing. Well, YES. Besides name-checking my blog, my horoscope is completely right, because the M15M manuscript is due January 3rd. Yeah. Pray for me.



So, uh, guys? I didn't write the Lost recap last night. Because I kinda, uh, woke up this morning drooling on the couch in front of the VCR. I think I passed out sometime after Mercutio was like, "Bitch, I don't WANNA go south." Yeah. So... that'll be forthcoming today.

Corrections: I added this to the original entry, but I forgot to finish the UPS Shipping Charge of Horror story. We did not actually spend $568 to ship a box to Croatia. In fact, if it had come to that, we just wouldn't have shipped it, because... no. We actually took it to USPS and got them to send it for $60, which was less than my mother had originally been expecting anyway. So that ended well.

(OMG. The Galadriel bust was my early birthday present, right? Well, Vladimir's Christmas present for me arrived early yesterday. You know what it was? It was ANDURIL. A SWORD. A SWORD THAT'S ALMOST TALLER THAN I AM. OMG.)

Speaking of mail, and Christmas, and stuff--I feel bad giving y'all a mailing address for me and then being like, "But I can't possibly afford to send all y'all cards, suckers!" That's terrible. So what we're going to do instead is--if you want a card, or rather a... multimedia Christmas greeting... from me, give me your email down there. Again: private, no one will see it but me.

[Poll #401081]


P.S. Mom is tallying up the fundraising to date. We'll have an updated total tonight.

ETA 12/10/04 3 pm: Mom says we're up to about $1904, including things in the mail that haven't reached Sapphire yet, but not including donations only mentioned in the comments (like anonymous/non-LJ people), which I'll have to check against the master list and add in later.

Comments

[rossywar.livejournal.com]

shut the fuck up!! a SWORD!!!

I wanna swwooooorrrrd...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude, that was *my* reaction. I think I'm jealous of myself.

[marciamarcia.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you're still coming to the HRC meeting can I possibly talk you into allowing me to borrow your VHS of LOST in exchange for a drink or something?

People keep telling me that I need to see this one. And thus, I must.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'll make sure I hold onto it, then. (Isn't the meeting next Wednesday? Fortunately they're just rerunning old Lost eps for a couple of weeks, so we won't miss anything.)

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Nice sword! ::drools::

[la-sonnambula.livejournal.com]

Hee! You have Vladimir's sword.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[perardua.livejournal.com]

OMG I want a sword!

Except my friends and family all know that I can't be trusted with one

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, my family thinks we're both nuts.

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

I sent a follow-up comment to what you wrote last night in my LJ, I hope you got it. But as I can see you're really busy, don't worry about it. I'll manage! lol

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I did--thanks. Good luck with the paper!

[butindreams.livejournal.com]

so. jealous.

i want that sword. muchly. but yay for you! :)

[luindilwen.livejournal.com]

Aww, your icon is pretttyyy.

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

Aw YAY for multimedia Christmas greetings!

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

yuki_onna did a Lost recap in your stead ;0 Perhaps you can link it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I saw! Well, I saw that she did one--I didn't read it, because--well, you know how I am about reading other people's stuff while I'm still trying to write. But I'll definitely link to hers at the beginning of mine.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Though I felt kinda cheesy leavin' my email and whatnot. I'll just never make a true fan of somebody. *sigh*

I suspect if I met my favorite actress or, more likely, author, on a street, I'd just say, "Hi, how are you?"

Perhaps I'm 'squee-averse'.

Yarha, Or Fanship Resistant

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think of it as a "fan" thing--just that I'm blessed with more friends online than I really know what to do with, but I want to do some kind of something for them anyway. Besides, if I ever met anyone famous, I'd probably gawk at them from behind something just be like, "Hey." *nod* *move on*

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Speakin' of your Jan 3 deadline, I'm reminded of the late Douglas Adams:

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Yarha, Lion of the Dead

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

HEREHERE! I'm quite excited for the forthcoming Hitchhikers' Film.. although it may be awful, and if so it will be SPLENDIDLY awful... If you are an Adams fan, find the original BBC miniseries of Hitchhikers and some cheap vodka, trust me!

Good luch with your deadline, I'm sure you'll make it because you seem to love what you're doing, as opposed to horid term papers.

[leucocrystal]

Isn't it great having a sword? You just feel so... nifty.

For example, I got the sword I ordered in the mail a few days ago -- it's a replica of The Bride's Hattori Hanzo katana, and it rocks, yo. Not to mention, some of our living room furniture looks kinda shrine-ish, so we set it on top of one of the tables, and it looks awesome.

Swords, w00t!.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo. See, I need to commiserate with some other girls who own swords. I can't even figure out how to mount mine on its plaque, which at least would be a good way to get it on the wall and out of the box.

Also? If I ever think I hear an intruder downstairs, I will be armed with more than a curling iron next time. I'm not saying I would actually try to stab someone with a freakin' sword that won't even hold an edge, but wouldn't you run if you were a burglar and you saw some girl coming down the stairs with a sword as big as she is?

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

forgot "omgwtfasword!" anywho

YAY MOM! Thanks for the tallying. Tally like the wind, but I must resist adding "tally-ho" LOL

[marialima.livejournal.com]

...because the M15M manuscript is due January 3rd.

Sending you many writing vibes. I so empathize. My own manuscript isn't due until spring, but I'm struggling. 25,000 words does not a novel make. sigh.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yow--what's yours about? (You can be extremely vague. God knows I never know what to say when people ask me.)

[are-there-stars.livejournal.com]

HOLY JESUS LOOK AT THAT SWORD. Lucky! But, really, Vladimir must be the most awesome friend in the entire world. It would've been so cute if he had gotten you the Evenstar! XD

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I know. I remember last Christmas reading in another LJer's journal about how he got the Evenstar replica for his wife, and how it was a really big emotional thing for them. I think it says a lot about us that our idea of an awesome gift is a sword.

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

almost $2000 in donations is so awesome. I've seen several mentions of doing their shopping on amazon.com through their link, too, and I intend to do that myself next week. Thanks a lot for keeping track of this.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Mom says we're up to about $1904, including things in the mail that haven't reached Sapphire yet, but not including donations only mentioned in the comments (like anonymous/non-LJ people)

Hot fat! That's wonderful. Yays.

[elbales]

Nearly two grand, yar. Nifty.

BTW, Cleo, you're nifty too.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. :)

[orlisheart.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, you got ANDURIL??! Rawk!
That is an amazing present. Just wow!

[ulicqel-droma.livejournal.com]

ANDURIL??? OMG SO JEALOUS. >.

[luindilwen.livejournal.com]

A Galadriel Bust AND the-broken-and-remade sword of the Numenor-dudes? So jealous!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG ANDURIL!
Vladimir rocks!
(of course we knew that)

Off topic - which Dandy Warhols song was it that was featured on Veronica Mars? I had You Were the Last High stuck in my head (during my final today (!!!))and it made me wonder.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

"We Used to Be Friends" is what they play in the opening credits.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering if you would know were I could find a good picture of the Gondor tree-and-stars-and-crown emblem (crest?) from LotR, or if you know of anywhere that's selling a poster or a pillow or anything with that image on it. Also, how do you get a LJ username? I've never used a live journal before, and only came upon yours looking for Lost recaps (yours rock, btw), so I had to post this anonymously.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Sword!!!

("If they outlaw guns, can we use swords?" - one of my all-time favorite bumper stickers)

[takekammuri.livejournal.com]

I want to know but one thing. DOES IT ACTUALLY CUT SHIT? Like, could you get all killative on their ass if, say... GEORGIA! decided to invade?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It doesn't hold an edge. Curiously, Arwen's sword does...