ETA:  Originally posted on 05 May 08, 01:54, I've wonk-dated this entry to keep it at the top of the queue.  Pay it no mind. 

Just scroll down to see the rest of my journal.  

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since this post is at the top of every fic thread queue, it will appear as if you haven't moved anywhere after clicking on your chosen link. 

Have faith.  Scroll down.  The fic will be there. 

All my fic has come home.  

I can't tell you how good it feels to have it all properly tagged, in chronological order, and in one place (can't, because I fear some concerned internet citizen will call the men in white after me).  Matters of sanity aside, I will continue posting at the community fromtheblack, but from now on you can also find my fic here on my LJ.  

I've got three different timelines in my Rina Fic,  under three different tags to avoid spoiling those who don't want to be spoiled.  

To wit:

Rina Fic: Origins--Her origins, from 2509 at the start of Convictions of Honor to 2513
The Drakkar Tour--Her first civilian tour shipside (See?  A spoiler already!), running 2513 to 19 Dec 2518.
The Culloden Chronicles-- From 19 Dec 2518 onwards, cribbed directly from my husband's Serenity RPG campaign, where I'm the campaign archivist as well as a PC.

ETA 2.0:  And because there is no Rina without Mike, he's getting his own set of fic threads, the first of which is below:

Mike Fic:  Back of Beyond--Mike's adolescent years on the Rim

As you can see, I'm tagging this entry with all my tags, since this info concerns all the tags.  The Drakkar Tour will see a fic entry soon, as will the next installment in the Rina Fic narrative:  my work with The Mathematics of War, Part One is almost finished.

I expect to gin up distinctive icons for each tag category, so you can see at a glance which fic is where in the timeline.  That's because I'm a visually-oriented person and would rather have a graphics marker I can easily see, instead of scrolling down and squinting at the tag designation attached at the bottom of the entry.

Thanks everyone for your patience as I get my head and my fic organized. 

ETA 3.0:   And to make matters more complicated, QMX (www.quantummechanix.com) has released the offical Map of the Verse...and all the planets and moons in my fic will have to be rejiggered.  *sigh*   Expect more tweaks as I incorporate the changes.

I finally got a clue and realized I could be promoting something big using my LJ.    In other words: 

                                                                  

If you've never heard of Can't Stop The Serenity, go here to their main website: www.cantstoptheserenity.com  There you find a link to Joss Whedon's favorite charity, Equality Now.  (http://www.equalitynow.org/ ) and learn a little about how all this started. 

ETA: Raleigh has their own CSTS website.  See it here.

Just what is a CSTS screening?  In short, fans of Firefly and their friends and supporters of the charity get together for one night of fun and entertainment, see Serenity on the big screen and raffle for prizes and souveniers, with proceeds going to Equality Now and other deserving charities.  This year, I volunteered to be coordinator for Raleigh's CSTS and it's barely a month away. 

So without further delay, the info:

Event: Raleigh CSTS 2009
Dates: 28 and 29 June 2009
Time: Doors open 6PM, movie starts 7:30PM
Venue: Raleighwood Cinema Grill
             6609 Falls of Neuse Rd
             Raleigh NC

Tickets,teeshirts, patches and commemorative pins and posters will be available soon on our event website.  Interested inquires can contact me by PM til then. 

ETA: The website is up and running.  See it here.

All proceeds after reasonable expenses are going to Equality Now and this year, 10% will go to benefit another Firefly favorite, Kids Need To Read, a literacy charity founded by PJ Haarsma and Nathan Fillion.

Raleighwood is a fantastic venue--see here at: http://www.raleighwoodmovies.com/about.php --and the manager at Raleighwood has been absolutely amazing in her support of our cause and us fans.  I hope to give Raleighwood a great turnout this year in appreciation for all she's done for us.  I really cannot say enough of Raleighwood's generosity...or their hot fudge brownie sundae!  Eating one of those, surrounded by Browncoats watching Serenity--It's next best thing to heaven. 

If you are in the area, do check this event out!  If you're not in my area of North Carolina, check the list of participating cities and affiliate events at the CSTS main website (link given above) and see who's closest to you.  From June til about August, fans around the world will be holding CSTS screenings and there may be one near you--even several!  Last year I attended Charlotte and both nights in Raleigh back-to-back over a three day weekend.  I was wiped at the end of it, but it was worth every second. 

(Apologies for not hiding this behind a cut, but it's too important to hide.)

Stay shiny and I hope to see y'all at the screening!

I did the usual thing this morning--hustled the kids into the car and peeled out of my driveway to take them to school, dropped them off, and peeled back.  Since it's after trash day, I strode down the driveway to wheel our garbage can off the curb....and nearly stepped on a snake sunning himself on the concrete.

I have to say, that was one lucky snake: it missed getting run over by my car not once, but twice.  To say nothing of being stepped on by my own oblivious self. 

I took some pictures of it in situ and in the box we found for it, and emailed/called our friends for an ID.  It's a copperhead, a baby, about maybe 15-16 inches and as thick around as my index finger.  For those who are interested, see the pic behind the cut.  For those who aren't, you know what to do.


( See the snake here... )


It was cold, in the 30s (Fahrenheit), and the snake was very sluggish, and easily coaxed into a cardboard box.  It's sitting on my deck now, taped up to prevent its escape.  My husband will take it to a State Park near our house and release it there.  I'm just glad I didn't actually step on it.  I don't hate snakes, generally speaking, and am not out to kill this one.  And not all snakes give me the jeebs--for instance, garter snakes and black racers are pretty cute, especially when they're small--but  I have two cats and two kids.  My kids and my cats trump any hazardous wildlife that might slither or crawl or creep onto my property, so the snake is going to have to look for dinner elsewhere.

At the moment I'm safe indoors sitting at the kitchen table, and am ready to be transported into the rough and tumble universe of fic writing spaceships and clandestine capers and blowing shit up.    I think I've had enough of the wild kingdom for the day.

It's been some time since I'd last posted anything of significance and though I confess I have some reservations of airing my complaint on such a public forum, I would like my Flist to chime in on this one.  My daughter has a science fiction book report due in less than two weeks and while I was completely on-board having her make a brochure (fancified by the name "tri-fold") about the book, the additional requirement of making a model of the technological gadget that drove the plot really torqued me off. 

REALLY.  TORQUED.  ME.  THE.  FUCK.  OFF.

So I composed an email to her teacher expressing my concern.   You can read it behind the cut.

( The names have been changed to protect the innocent and to cover my irate ass... )

Educators seem concerned that kids today focus only on the superficial and the trashy, or have little liking or understanding of deeper themes in life.  Is it any surprise, when it's project requirements like this that reinforce what they decry.  The longer I live, the more I become disatisified with our schools and the way we educate our children.  I expect if I stick with it, I'll end up giving my kids a valuable education through my ranting alone, to say nothing of pulling books off my shelf and saying to them: "Read this, instead."

Of course, I may be going overboard on this.  (Ask anyone who knows me, it's a distinct possibility....)  What I'd like from my Flist is your opinion on whether I was wrong or right or somewhere in between with my argument.  Fire away.  By putting it on a public forum, I know I'm in for some flak.  But even flak can be instructive, however, and in that vein, I am willing to learn.

Color me slow.  I know my friend Kim has.  When I told her about this 'new' band I'd discovered through my husband on New Year's Eve, she just grinned and said she'd been wondering when I'd get around to them.  She'd already twigged they'd be the perfect fit for me, being the music fiend-image junkie-gadgeteer that I am.  She was right.  Perfect fit? Are they ever!

Who are they?  Abney Park, of course.  And right now, they are the brightest blip on my radar.  OMG!  Brightest!   For anyone who hasn't heard of them and would like to know what they're like, here's a fab YouTube video of them.  The length of the video states it's 15 minutes long--but don't let that fool you.  The song itself is maybe 5 minutes and the balance is nothing but a black screen added to counteract the video compression YouTube automatically imposes.  It's supposed to make the picture and the sound better.  Watch the video and see for yourself.

What gets me exicted about this band more than the visuals and the steampunk gadgetry--though they're pretty damned awesome of themselves--is the music.  I've been missing the layered music of the 80s for some time now, and the synth they have going has all the symphonic intruments as well as sound effects.  It just goes to show:  everything old is new again and while I cannot consider the 1980s old, I can say I am grateful that something of the 80s sound has come back.  And having it come back in a steampunk band is just extra cherries on the sundae.

Anyone who knows me will tell you I've been uncharacteristically restrained in gushing over Abney Park in this post.  It's only because I'm worn out from all the fangirly squeeing I've done about them since New Year's Eve. 

Go watch their YouTube video.  See for yourself.  If you like it, feel free to comment.  If you don't like it...well, use your best judgement on the commenting.  LOL.  But whatever you do, go give them a try. 


ETA: 

From the B-Duh! Department of Retractions:  Journal User has already recced the subject of this post.  See initial post two entries down the queue.

Sorry everyone.  Just one more instance of my fannish enthusiasm making me stupider than usual.

My friend and fellow Serenity gamer has a web comic out and I'm here to recc it.  He wrote and directed it and his friend Keith drew, inked and colored it--all digitally and it's now online.  I was fortunate enough to read the script for the first 11 pages or so and I liked the story enough that when Jay told me this morning (read: five minutes ago) that it was up, I immediately pinged him back that I'd recc it here.

It's fantasy, it's a quest, it's a rescue mission, it's got magic.  It's got two hot women and ... heck.  Just read it for yourself.  Based on what I've seen, it's about a PG-13.  Use your best judgement for viewing at work--there's a bathtub scene about 6 pages in. 

So, without further ado:  GO SEE IT!  READ IT!  Tell him what you think.  And when you do, tell Jay I sent ya.  ^_^

The link: http://mysteriesofthearcana.com/

Happy New Year everybody!

And as luck would have it, I found an AWESOME new band yesterday.   Imaginative.  Musical.  Steampunk.

See and listen and judge for yourself.  The links:

http://www.abneypark.com/  --Their website, with music and merchandise and kick-ass artwork
http://www.myspace.com/abneypark -- Their MySpace page with music on tap to listen to and more awesome artwork
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Abney+Park&search_type=&aq=f --YouTube search results.  Their LIve at the Edison vids are just amazing.

What?  You're still reading this?  Go!  Check them out!  And Happy New Year!

Today was lovely.  I got to sleep at a decent hour and woke at a decent hour.  The kids were happy with their presents, we parents were happy with ours.  Then it was off to Nana's to attend extra present openings there...and everyone liked everything.  For once, I got a low-key enjoyable Christmas.

Wow.

And some time to listen to game music soundtracks on YouTube.  Talk about getting extra cherries on your sundae.

I hope everyone's Christmas is as nice and may the rest of the holidays remain that way.

Happy Holidays, everybody!

Firefly. 

As if that's going to be a surprise to anyone who knows me.  LOL.

...but only things left by those who hustle.



I'll fess up:  I held off getting a paid LJ account for years.  I didn't want to spend any money, I said.  I could use that money on art supplies, I said.  I would forget to send my payments on time and lose everything I've posted, I said.

Not enough user pics, I said.

So when LJ announced it would have a Permanent Account sale, I was on it like white on rice.  I waited to buy it.  I daydreamed what I would do with it.  I made plans to write more fic so I can use more pics.  I was disappointed when the sale was moved back to December instead of opening in November.  BUT today the sale began and I am now the owner of a Permanent Account.  

No more ads.  No more worrying about payments I might forget.  And more userpics.

Lots and lots of userpics.


And also lots of editing:  the lack of ads threw the spacing of my entries off and since I've included images with all my fic, I've got a ton of posts to go back and rejigger.

LOL.  You can't have rainbows without a little rain, and right now all I see are rainbows.   ^_^



   

Swiped from starletsonata .  If interested, see her post of it here.  What follows is a cut and paste of the meme from her post, with my answers inserted in their proper places.  And where applicable, I wasn't as frugal as she was with the answers.  LOL.

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
Star Wars. (I stopped keeping count after 150.)  The Fifth Element.  Aliens.  Alien.  The Terminator.  The Terminator 2.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Conan the Barbarian.  The Incredibles.  Toy Story.  Wizard of Oz.  Lady and the Tramp.  Yellow Submarine.  Tombstone (oh, yeah!) .  Ghostbusters.  Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan....  Crikey, I could be at this this all night.  Suffice it to say, I watched cable obsessively during the 1980s, since it was the only thing to do where I grew up, and my movie-watching habits have only grown worse from the 90s onward once I married my movie-buff husband.   I'm so glad I'm married to him. *luvs!*

2. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the cinema.
Again, I'd be at it all night., but aside from Star Wars, I would have to say the top three are:  The Incredibles, Aliens and Terminator 2.  If I nailed it to a movie seen multiple times in the last two months it would have to be Beverly Hills Chihuahua.  Remember how I said I'm glad I married my husband?  I now have two kids who think chihuahuas are the awesomest animals in the world. (Me? Not so much.  I'm a cat person.)

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.
Actors (in no particular order and by no means exclusively): Jason Statham, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, or Nathan Fillion
Actresses (ditto): Sandra Bullock, Mila Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez or Olga Kurylenko

4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie.
Actor (not limited to): Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or anyone who made a living from being stupid on screen.
Actress (ditto): Lisa Kudrow, Cameron Diaz, or anyone who made a living from being stupid on screen.
...Because I really can't stomach stupid.  The aggravaton makes me ill.


5. Name a movie that you can quote from.
Aliens.

6. Name a movie musical that you know all the lyrics to all the songs.
None at the moment, but there was a brief time when I could sing everything from Fiddler on the Roof .

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.
Beauty and the Beast (1990s Disney version)

8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.
Amelie

9. Name a movie that you own.
Only one?  Wahhhh!  Okay, okay....Serenity, Collectors' Edition

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.
Gregory Hines/Reba McIntyre

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?
Oh, geez!  That's been a while....um....Dirty Mary Crazy Larry?  Or was it 80 Steps to Jonah at the on-base Camp Lejeune drive-in.  It's been a while since I've gone, LOL.

12. Ever made out in a movie?
starletsonata  couldn't have said it better:  "I  pay to see a movie because I want to watch it.   not suck face."

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t gotten around to it.
There's tons.  One of them is: Apocalypse Now

14. Ever walked out of a movie?
No.  But I came close after the first ten minutes of Krull ... and I stayed only because my ride wanted to see the rest of it.

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the cinema.
There's tons.  One of them is: The Empire Strikes Back (the last pull-away shot before they jump to hyperspace and roll the credits....)

16. Popcorn?
No thanks.  My kids love it though, and I end up holding it while sitting between them so they don't fight over it.  Grah.

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?
My husband goes twice a month/every two weeks and I go with him because I generally like what he likes.  Besides, it's fun to hold his hand in the dark.

18. What’s the last movie you saw in the cinema?
Bolt!  With my kids on the weekend before Thanksgiving.

19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
Adventure/action/sci-fi/spy/espionage flicks.  I like them singly but I like them even better if I can get them all rolled into one.  Way.  Better.

20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the cinema?
Walt Disney's Cinderella, in Taipei, Taiwan, with English subtitles.  I was three and a half.

21. What movie do you wish you had never seen?
Krull.  It was truly putrid.

22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?
Vampire's Kiss, starring Nicolas Cage and Jennifer Beals.  The night I saw it became a romantic anniversary I celebrate with my husband, even now after 16 years.

23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, starring Jameson Parker and Lisa Blount.  Lame-fest, I know, but it scared the Jaysus out of me.  It was the first movie of that genre I'd ever seen and I had to go shake off the creeps afterward by having a warm chocolate chip cookie at the local Hardies.  Of course, chocolate chip cookies made it possible for me to go home that night, but I still had trouble sleeping some days later.  Like I said.  Lame... but Jaysus!


24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen?
Once I saw a porn video on fast forward with the sound off.  I laughed so hard I nearly died, making it the first and last time I viewed porn.  That once was enough.

And I'd like to add to the meme--though I'm not sure if it's allowed, I'm going to do it anyway:

25.  Guilty Pleasure Movie
While You Were Sleeping.  Because it's funny without being mean to anybody.  These days, that's rare.

As those who know me will attest (usually with an eye roll), I'm a die-hard Firefly fan.  Serenity fiend.  Browncoat Otaku. 

Yes sir.  And not shy about letting everybody know about it.  So of course, when Andy Gore at Quantum Mechanix (http://www.quantummechanix.com) solicited comments on their product, I stepped right up and commented.  That led to the occasional flurry of emails between us in the past year or two and I thought nothing of sending him a pic of the 12th Air Cav patch that I'd purchased from them.  It looked so snazzy ironed on one of my caps I just had to share.

The upshot?  He liked it so much he asked me if he could post it to the Air Cav Patch gallery of pics.  Permission thus granted, he not only posted it with a byline with my name, which was very gentlemanly of him to do, he added the URL for my LJ....Which blows gentlemanly out of the frikkin' water!

Whoa. 

And since what goes around comes around, here's the link to QMX and the Air Cav patch. 

http://store.quantummechanix.com/12th-Cavalry-Shoulder-Patch_p_8-43.html


For those just curious to see the pic, here it is:



Thanks, Andy! 

Got this from ladyprivy  and am responding, so..... 

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.

2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.

3. Include these instructions, and share the love.


                                                                


There you go--although I am interested if the t-shirt theme continues in the responses....

It took finding rj_anderson</lj> 's Photo Meme on my flist to realize I R Doin It Rong when I posted my pic as a comment to starletsonata</lj> 's response to it and so--Ooh, shiny thing!

Oh, and the rules:

The Rules:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

*Deep Breath*

Okay. 

Found out how to delete the damn things.  It seems www.actionext.com uses non-Unicode code to embed their players and since LJ converted to Unicode a little while ago, it didn't recognize the non-Unicode in the pertinent entries.  So of course, I couldn't delete them until I converted my LJ site to Unicode.  Thank goodness that encoding.bml addy made converting one-click easy.  Easy enough that even an idiot like me could get it right on the first try.

Now I need to tell the help desk I solved it. 

Please let me apologize again for any inconvenience this has caused everyone and know this is not going to happen again.  I'll just BUY the damned music and be done with it.

*Deep Sigh*

And now I can return to our regularly programmed show.    I've had quite enough excitement, thanks 

A-aaaaannnnnnd!  I figured out how to turn the damn things off.  I just needed to see my main LJ page and actually eyeball the two entries the music service made for me.  So I clicked the little stop button and blessed silence ensued.

I'm deleting both these entries to take them off my friends' flists, with sincerest apologies to everyone.

In saving two playlists I'd made on an online music browser, I've somehow embedded it to my LJ and can't find the damn playlists to turn the things off.  So, now I have music off two lists playing continuously at once.  I've already sent in a query to LJ and I hope they will find the problem and fix it for me.  In the meantime, I apologize most humbly to everyone on my flist and to any chance visitors for the inconvenience, and beg your patience until this is solved. 

I'm not a fan of anime, much to several friends' dismay.  However, I do like Ghost in the Shell.   As luck would have it, AbbyShot Clothiers is offering Major Kusanagi's Leather Shrug at a fantastic price.  Mind, I've been lusting over this item for over a year.  I drooled over the pics on their website.  I swiped the pics.  I revisited the pics.  And now, against all expectations, my better half said "Yes", I could buy it.

SQUEEEE!

Here's a taste:


I'm already dreaming up what to wear underneath this beauty when I show it to my husband.  OR I could just dispense with clothing altogether.... ;D

 As my friends know, I'm a Firefly fan and this coming year, I'm going to show just how much of a fan I am:  I'm coordinating the 2009 Can't Stop The Serenity Charity Screening in Raleigh.  It's not til June, but I'm gathering volunteers even now and lining up sponsors and getting my ducks in a row.  So far we've got very little past the talking stage, but today my QMX order came in and 4 gorgeous lithographs will go to Dragon*Con with an area Browncoat, there to be signed by Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin and I'm crossing my fingers we'll get Nathan Fillion's signature on them as well.  Way shiny item we can raffle off for the Equality Now charity come June. 

So I will be reccing the screening from time to time here on my LJ.  To read about the Charity Screenings, go here.   When I get the website dedicated to the Raleigh 2009 screening up and running, I'll post the link here.  Yikes.  There's so much to do, I hope I can get it all done before next June.  

Wish me luck, everyone.  I'm going to need it.

starletsonata showed me how to use my PrtSc button in conjunction with Photoshop and Image Ready and now I think I'm ready to get into trouble have fun with it.

I found a great YouTube fan video for Firefly and just fell in love with the pics on it.  See the vid here, at RickiesGal YouTube site.  I'm giving her credit for the raw images I've swiped for the contest.  Most of them are from the DVD box set but at least one is a promo shot (from a press kit, perhaps?) and too yummy to ignore.  


The contest:

I need some snappy, pithy or even snarky captions for these pics so I can make icons or banners out of them.  Please submit what you think would make a good caption and I'll pick the one most full of win.  I'll post one or two or a few images at a time, then post the completed icon or banner as an ETA before going on to the next set of images.  I hope to make this a regular thing, but we'll see how this first run goes. If you want more, keep the comments and caption submissions coming and I will do my best to accomodate.  ^_^


The prize:

The winning submission will be made up into an icon or a banner and posted to my LJ.  Winner gets credit for the caption and bragging rights for the win.  ^_^  Since I expect people will want to use the icons and banners once they are up, and because I don't know how to disable right-clicking, I'll just ask that credit be given where credit is due.  

Thanks in advance for participating and now on with the first set of pics.





And one that might qualify as NSFW...but was too sweet an image to refuse.


Thanks in advance, everyone, and I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Hello.  My name is Maer and I'm an image junkie...  

Basically, I collect images and drool over them and sometimes actually do something with them.  But mostly I collect them.   The suspense of the hunting, the thrill of the acquisition, the dampness of the drooling ... well, you get the idea.

Anyway, to facilitate my quest for images, a few years ago I signed up for Dover Publications' email samplers.  Twice a week I get free sample images from their 9000+ titles, copyright free.  Sweet.  My pic files are measured in Gigabytes.   No lie.  Gigs.  If you're interested in subscribing to the samplers, go here.

It's an election year where I live and this year, Dover has released a new addition to their paper dolls line:  Paper dolls of the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.   I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really.  I dislike the idea of reducing politics to paper toys, but I also appreciate how easy a paper doll is to burn in effigy....say, if you end up being disappointed in the coming election, for instance.  Ridiculous or sad, either way, I've saved the images and duly filed them.  

I know there are friends on my flist who love fashion and paper dolls (lizbee, may I pretty please have your current snail addy so I can send you that package?  No, I haven't forgotten my promise.) and so I thought this deserved mentioning.  If you'd rather just window shop, see the pics behind the cut.


I'd like to add here that by posting this entry I am in no way endorsing one candidate over another and any assumptions to that effect are purely the fault of the viewer.  (Can we spell CYA?)  

Friend and fellow Browncoat  phyrelight    posted this meme to her LJ and I answered it.  I also promised I'd post it here, so she could answer back.   If anyone else is interested, please feel free to do the same.  If you'd like to do so at her LJ, see the meme and its respondants here.

She posted:   

If you're on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... you're on my list, so I want to know you better!

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A.

02) What was your dream growing up?
A.

03) What talent do you wish you had?
A.

04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A.

05) Favorite vegetable?
A.

06) What was the last book you read?
A.

07) What zodiac sign are you?
A.

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A.

09) Worst Habit?
A.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A.

16) Do you have any pets?
A.

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A.

23) Ever been arrested?
A.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A.

26) Would you ever hug a perfect stranger?
A.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A.

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A.

34) Do you have "one of those faces" (i.e. you look horribly familiar to everyone)?
A.

35) Do you believe in God?
A.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A.


Have fun!  Ciao!

 

 

Okay, having just watched Act III of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, I thought this sketch was appropriate.



Anyway, that's it for me.  I'm turning in.


 

 Last summer I managed to figure out how to animate GIF files using Image Ready, made a few banners for a Firefly board I'm in...and then I forgot the trick.  I still have the banners, so I thought why not show them here?


starletsonata  if you could remind me of the trick, I'd really appreciate it.  ^____^