Random thoughts

[cleolinda]

Wow, I feel like shit. I've been saying that a lot lately, haven't I?

Happy birthday to bob_jiggity!

I keep dreaming about my late grandfather. Not sure what that's about. The dreams are entirely harmless, I was pretty close to him, he seems fine--I'm just not sure why he's showing up all of a sudden.

My silverjewelryclub.com purchases have started rolling in, and they're actually pretty nice. Although, when people tell you they're smaller than they look? Believe them. In fact, the pendants might should be a little smaller, even. The chains are nice, though, and I needed some good chains anyway (I don't like anything shorter than 20", for some reason).





Getting sort of interested in chakras, which isn't helping the jewelry buying. Basically, I view astrology and that kind of thing as 1) fun and 2) interesting metaphors to help you visualize what's actually going on and work on self-improvement. Like, nominally I'm a Sagittarius, but I've always wondered why a good bit of the free-wheeling profile doesn't fit me. Then I find out that I have a Virgo ascendant. So now, whenever I get overly perfectionist, for example, I like to joke that "my Virgo is acting up." And I keep that in mind and try to work around it.

So I'm looking at chakras, and I'm realizing that they're basically a series of metaphors for aspects of our lives. Like, "all the other chakras depend on the health of the first chakra, the root chakra" = "if you're not physically healthy, it's going to be hard to work on anything more psychological until you get that in order." And... I think I'm not doing so well on that first chakra. But somehow, "I want to work on my root chakra" sounds more optimistic and more pro-active and generally less baggage-ridden than "I need to exercise more and lose weight and be more confident in person." You know? The "chakra" version doesn't carry all this societal baggage with it. It sounds more like you're doing it for something deep within yourself that isn't even about whether other people notice or not. And therefore you're also not setting yourself up to fail with all these fears and expectations. I like that. So, one of the first things I bought for myself was a little garnet pendant (root = red). I don't know if gemstones actually have "powers," but I do believe in the effects of color on the mind, as a visual stimulus if nothing else, and garnets will remind me to work on it.

So: how do I "stimulate" my "root" (SHUT UP)? "Physical exercise and restful sleeps, gardening, pottery and clay. Red food & drink. Red gemstones, red clothing, bathing in red, etc. Using red oils such as ylang ylang or sandalwood essential oils." Bathing in... Countess Bathory? Is that you?

On the upside: Oils? Hoooooo boy, do I have a lot of those lying around.



Just a couple of notes: I have been given the link to the weird British Calvin Klein-esque Lostaways-dancing ad many, many times. Also the Sawyer Song. Rest assured that I am no longer in need of those links.

More Lost stuff: Visit the Hanso Foundation and Dharma Industries. Bonus: The Dharma Initiative orientation film.

Aieeee! A screencap comparison of the Dharma Initiative Drs. DeGroot and The Others: "We're gonna have to take the boy."

Jennifer Garner's hed would have been pastede on yay!

Officials Probe NYC Subway Terror Threat.

Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu. (Greaaaaaat.)

t4_flirt: "linkspam request...super-addicting helicopter game i found in my husband's games folder last night."

A 2003 piece Anderson Cooper wrote about his brother's suicide.

Author expelled after calling Harry Potter gay:

Reverend Graham Taylor, who penned the novel "Shadowmancer" which, like the tales of the famous boy wizard created by J.K. Rowling, centers on witchcraft and battling evil, got his marching orders after teachers accused him of homophobia.

"As for Harry Potter, well, he's not the only gay in the village," Taylor told children at Penair School in Truro, southwest England, referring to a catchphrase from the popular British comedy TV show "Little Britain."

He also said villains in Rowling's blockbuster series were "wimps" and called TV "crap" compared to books.

Teachers stopped Taylor's talk and asked him to leave.

German Potter fan 'threatens to kill':

The stress of standing in line to buy the German edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince proved too much for a man in Germany, who ran amok and threatened to kill people unless he got a book, police said on Tuesday.

The unnamed 24-year-old man stormed into a book shop in the Hanover railway station and absconded with six copies of the German-language edition, which went on sale nationwide on Saturday.

Finding it hard to carry the books while running, he dashed into another shop on the railway concourse and pushed shoppers aside to demand a shopping bag from a sales clerk. He punched a customer in the face when admonished for being rude.

Russell? Is that you?


George Washington U. First Year Writing Course: "Get a Life!: ‘Shippers, Slashers, and Other Media Fans": "And what about those troublesome fans who use some preexisting story as the springboard for their own stories or art: are they authors in their own right, or thieves, or pathetic parasites? How do we compare a fan novella drawing on characters from the Harry Potter universe to such a work as Jean Rhys's critically-acclaimed Wide Sargasso Sea, which rewords the characters of Jane Eyre? [...] Every student will also become a participant-observer of an internet fan fiction community (e.g., Full Metal Alchemist or Lord of the Rings); this primary research will form the basis for both 1) an analytical essay on community expectations and 2) a large final project: a bound, thematic portfolio, comprising both scholarly and creative writing, that documents the semester's engagement with writing, revision, and fan fiction communities."

Yeah... you might want to be on the lookout for new comm members asking odd questions.


Pamie (of TWOP and Pamie.com) got a TV writing gig. Pamie's TV writing gig... does not seem to be going so well: "If you remember nothing about this column, remember this: 'Hot Properties' is stupid and annoying. Wait, I'm not done yet: The only thing more stupid and annoying than 'Hot Properties' is 'Freddie.'"



Oh, and I forgot to mention: I set up rosehannah lo these many moons ago as a Black Ribbon journal. If I do end up doing anything NaNoWriMoish with it, all that will go there. I'll probably friends-lock it, so you'll need to join it, as it's a community and not just a single-user journal, so friending it alone won't give you access. (Why a community? Same reason as m15m: allows more users to friend/join.)



  

Comments

About your grandfather...

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

He's probably popping in because he heard about your book.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

I really like that piece third from the left...

[itshardtosay.livejournal.com]

I hate copter. I hate it! Having said that, it IS terribly addictive and I WON'T admit to playing it for hours on end.

[starlights-1.livejournal.com]

That Lost screen-cap is super-eerie. I guess they would want Walt because of his psychic abilities? Although I don't know if I could call his Shining-moment with Shannon psychic.

*makes hissing noises at first year students treating fan fiction writers, etc, like zoo animals that need to be studied*

[starlights-1.livejournal.com]

Although I don't know if I could call his Shining-moment with Shannon psychic.

I wanted to add that it seems like it goes above and beyond psychicness.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

If there were any justice, Anderson Cooper would be the next mad mod media god. He was awesome with Juju Chang during the early-early mornings on ABC under the "nobody's really watching us" mindset....

[historyblitz.livejournal.com]

*points at your icon*


*laughs ass off*

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Oooh, chakra stuff. :-) I'm not much into that (yet, anyway... lol) but I do love looking into astrology-- full-on Libra here. :-D I do have a subscription to the One Spirit book club, and I know that their gift section offers some chakra-related jewelry and wall hangings and stuff. onespirit.com is the URL, I think.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to your Black Ribbon LJ.

::joined::

more importantly ...

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Very sorry you feel like shit. So often.

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

You know, if you hadn't typed "SHUT UP" after "stimulate" and "root" I probably wouldn't have laughed. Maybe.

[edda.livejournal.com]

*icon squee*

[claypulsive.livejournal.com]

Your linkspam makes my life complete.

Now, I've seen this Sawyer song, but can anyone hook a sister up with a link to that Calvin-Kleiny-Lost-a-majigger?

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the UK promo where they're all dancing among plane wreckage?

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

Im glad to see I wasnt the only one who thought "Holy SHIT, DeGroots=1st Aquatic Others Division!"

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Can't say I'm upset by the Pamie news; she always came off as snobby to me in her recaps.

Merci for the providing the link to the Dharma People/Others thing. Creep-y.

[sweetestillness.livejournal.com]

Agreed on both counts.

[spidey-88.livejournal.com]

The silver things are definitely smaller in person than they look online. I received the two things I ordered today and they were both tiny and much more delicate than they had looked online.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

[info]t4_flirt: "linkspam request...super-addicting helicopter game i found in my husband's games folder last night."

I hate you. :p

[lolathehated.livejournal.com]

so the silver jewelry thing is legit? they look gorgeous. :)


and omg, the others. wow.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm wearing my garnet pendant right now. I have to say, the jewelry really is tiny compared to what you see in the pictures, which is actually *better*--more subtle and wearable. Just--if you can resize the picture down to 80-85 pixels tall before you buy, it'll give you a better idea of what you're actually buying. I've found that the MUST BUY urge abates when I do that. Which means that I can save my money for the pieces I *really* want. ; )

[achipiquonque.livejournal.com]

I never got into astrology, although I did read an extensive description of my sign (Capricorn) and laughed myself breathless. My roommate then asked me to look up her sign (I think it's Saggitarius, too) and it was humorously inaccurate as well. According to that description, I'm nothing like a Capricorn should be.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, silverjewelryclub. Would you say that they're worth $6, even though they're small? (I know, I know, $6, but I'm cheap.)

And yay, I was wondering about rosehannah :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, for $6? Hell yeah. I love my little pendants. I have some links I need to post for y'all--the unofficial "catalogue" someone compiled, plus a tentative schedule of what order things are being offered. If you can look at that (and then resize the pictures of the things you like), it eases the MUST BUY urge down to a manageable level. : )

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh- compared to the jewellry I wear (if you can call it that, it's mostly fake) those things are HUGE.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not too keen on that writing course. I think I'd have a shitfit if my professor required me to "study fandom" and "mock it accordingly."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not above mocking fandom, but it seems more honest to mock it from the inside, in a self-deprecating way: "I am part of fandom, and I mock what WE do." To treat people (no matter how wacky they are) like lab rats is just shitty, really.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

omg...that copter game...i tried it once and was like "omg...its so stupid and could possibly be easy but i CANT STOP PLAYING IT" and so....i continue...

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

Just an FYI: the dharmaindustries.com site has been picked apart by the Lost fanboys at Something Awful (to the point of reverse-engineering the flash file, which, damn) and it does absolutely nothing. The WHOIS info on the domain strongly suggests that it's a fan-made site.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

""Social unrest occurs," the plan states. "Public anxiety heightens mistrust of government, diminishing compliance with public health advisories."

From the article about flu epidemic readiness - Social unrest occurs...boy, 3 words, and does it ever understate what might happen.

*stocks up on canned goods*

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I like that second silver thing from the left. As far as, er, stimulating the root goes, anything that makes you feel better is a positive thing in my book, so long as people don't give up on modern medicine. I like the pretty crystals, especially Hematite and Amethyst.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

The Sawyer song?

..I live under a rock. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. But it sounds hawt, and I will gladly be the slave of anyone who hooks a homegirl up with a link. :o)

Sawyer song!

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

Here ya go. (http://www.freewebs.com/lostfoundation/sawyersong.html) Now if you'll please sign this paper with your blood... :D

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Thanks loads, Bush, for not helping us battle a possible epidemic of a deadly flu. No, it's okay, I can see you have other things to do. Oh, wait, you don't.....
That DeGroot/Others comparison is eerie. And I don't even use that word very much.
And I love that first pair of earings.