HAP-py new year

DISCLAIMER: This was writen at 1am on too much caffiene.

Well! And so it is 2006. I really wanted to go to Dave and Karens and/or Shay & Fe's parties but Fate (and me not grasping at oppurtunities quick enough) intervened, and I ushered in the new year with a group of Live Action Vampire Roleplayers and engineering Phds I didn't know from Adam. Which was ok, I geuss.

Some things I intend to do this year (prefereably this month) which you, my minions, can help with:

• Hang out with people I really like(*). If you're not sure this means you, offer me lifts and it will :)
• Get some red fishnets. This means giving someone else the not-quite-red pinkish fishnets mum got me for xmas. Any takers? Largest size.Though I may decided to keep them when I'm more lucid.
• Get my ears pierced. Any recomendations for places to get it done? I'm just going for bog-standard lobes.
• Give stuff away. Some sort of people-swapping-stuff-they-don't-want remains-to-charity day(**) sounds cool but complicated. Not sure I can be bothered.
• Set a date for the darn wedding.
• Throw (low-key) party for my set of units. (Inspired by my friend Alex Nayef who did this for her large set of units, as well as inviting all her friends and family. It was cool)
• Part of me like's Alex N's mum's idea of a non-fiction book club (stuff like "Guns Germs and Steel" which coincidentally is on telly on Monday) but I have been BURNED on the whole book club thing. So maybe not. Burned I tells you!
• Rasberries soaked in peach schnapps. Given how nice rasberries in vodka is (had at party) and I hate vodka and love peach schnapps.

Watched final season of Angel. Was ok, rather predictable (with one or two exceptions ;)) and did indeed have a somewhat crappy ending. Better than the last episode ever of Farscape, though. Cam showed me the last 5 minutes and..gee. Also the loose ends from season 4 (angel again) which had bugged me were tied up.

Finally, I'm sure Sheldon doesn't read this, but hopefully at least one of Margaret or Lily does: I checked, and the only ingredient of garlic powder is...powdered garlic. Hah! (This stems from me saying I sprinkle it on stuff when I crave that fast food taste and them saying it's probably just as unhealthy and not really made from garlic) Nerr!

(*)Since I kind of like pretty much everyone :)
(**)a la Mrs Schlock Mercenary(***), though I was thinking it before.
(***)The description isn't archived or I'd link it. Wife of guy who does Schlock Mercenbary does something like that every month.

The Circle is complete

Well! Thanks to Phlebas expressing enthusiasm over my last update I felt inspired to draw the last two panels of the page I was working on, and now.... Chapter One of A Circle Of Stars is complete! Woohoo!

Yes, 21 pages over five months isn't exactly lightening speed, but it's more than I've done before so I'm happy. I still need to fix up some inconsistencies (Velasco's coat gains a fluffy trim somewhere between pages 16 and 18, for example) but eh. I'm not sure I'll ever do Chapter Two, since while I have several pages of scripts written out, they refuse to coalesce into a plot per se. Maybe I'll draw them up anyway.

I'm actually feeling pretty cruddy today. I got complacent about the times I've eaten cheese at parties and not felt bad the next day so ate a bunch at lilysea's afternoon tea and now my throat's gone all swollen. Noone to blame but myself...

Also, Cam's parents gave us an electric organ, yay! I'm having heaps of fun playing chords to songs I like very badly.

Bah Humbug

I've had an ok christmas, though as anyone who has witnessed will attest it is not wise to make me eat a meal late. I get cranky and am less prone to pretend I like candles. (Candles! Again with the candles! Why?) Also my mum (bless her soul) managed to get all three things she bought off the gift registry just a little bit wrong, which I stopped being annoyed about the moment I remembered she got me a big day out ticket for my birthday :) Also Classic FM played an Oscar Wilde story which made me cry becuase I'm a big sook. Anyway! Enough festive angst, time for a festive comic!!

Finally, for anyone not on my friends list here is my first attempt at an animated icon gif. I've decided it's perhaps a bit impolitic for it's intended use.

It's not supposed to be about terrorism or anything topical, by the way, it's just a pun. Also, anyone else who expresses surprise at me having a mean sense of humour gets me imagining me hitting them on the head repeatedly. (Yeah, that'll show 'em. heh heh heh)

EDIT: FINALLY! Have put up next three pages of ACOS. Also updated cast page and created "deleted scenes" section. Sleep now.

Zonked ramblings

Yesterday was Raes birthday, and in celebration the cactus flowered. Today, it's purpose finished, it committed suicide:

Also in celebration, there was a very cool, very shiny party. Though I must remember that while I have huge chunky ankles I have moderately tiny wrists and should take this into account when making bracelets for people. Also, I am going to have to take things more easily next weekend when I (hopefully) go to 5 parties in four days because I feel like crap. (Thus I cannot be bothered retaking the photo) Finally, thanks to Liz I now realise I am on the first page of Google Image results for "origami sun". Why? Oh well.

Big Big Day Out Table Day

I have put all the bands at the big day out in a table based on how much I think I'll like them. Given the extreme annoyingness of the actual big day out website I thought people might like to use it themselves. No judging me by my choices though, I haven't heard much of most of these bands and was getting pretty sick of the whole process by the time I finished.

Oh yeah, I'm going to the big day out, did I mention that? Yay for my parents :) Oh, and I eventually decided on Turing, though I seriously pondered Tesla (but I don't understand electricity, to my eternal shame) or Lovelace (but it sounds kind of girly).

Bizarre Aria

I've been meaning to take a photo of this since we moved in 4 years ago, but it's just far enough away that I can never be bothered walking there with a camera.

Also, made a page about doing a Phd in which I intend to put all the stuff I wish someone had told me, or at least as much as I can be bothered before I get bored of the idea :)

Did I mention my paper got published at last?

I am finding the influx of Very Delayed lj replies kind of disconcerting. And do I respond to them or not?

To clear my good name

I'm going to be a leader at the Siemens science school this summer and need to choose a scientist to be the name of my group. I'm thinking Newton (well known, easy to pronounce, did important maths) but am a little paranoid there's some much cooler name I'm not thinking of, can anyone think of one? The other group names are:

• Carson
• Darwin
• Dr Karl (pfft)
• Einstein
• Franklin
• Hawking
• Mendel

EDIT: We're doing all sorts of science, I just chose a mathematitian out of loyalty to my calling :)

Will the madness ever stop?

Well, thanks to the ever wonderful Cam I have a comics blog. Yes, that is three blog type things I have now (four if you count the lj-feed) but I got sick of how crappy comics look in this blog but still wanted to be able to add comments. I actually made it a little while ago but waited till I drew something new. It's annoying, I really want to finish a circle of stars but I've been all headachey and un-draw-y which makes it tricky. Anyway, any time I add a new comic (and given that I could only find 22 comics online drawn over eleven years this shouldn't be that often) I'll mention it here. In case anyone is panicing at the possibility of missing one of my Great Artistic Expressions :)

Also, "Brothers Grimm" was...flawed but interesting. Enjoyable if you go in expecting large sections of it to be incredibly crap, but probably really annoying if you don't.