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Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 02:30 pmI am on a boat and will be out of touch and having fun for a week! Have a good week. :)
It's funny...
Thursday, September 26th, 2013 11:07 amI used to think I was busy. I totally did not understand or appreciate what that really means. I now laugh at my former self.
But all I really want is more time to be able to catch up on reading my Java book. And to do more Java tutorials.
( school reflections )
But all I really want is more time to be able to catch up on reading my Java book. And to do more Java tutorials.
( school reflections )
State of the Sandry
Monday, July 8th, 2013 12:42 pmI never post often enough, and I know there's constantly Stuff ongoing, so I thought I'd take a moment.
( Read more... )
On the whole though, I'm happy, I'm well, and things are going just fine. And I keep being so pleased with the new house. Hopefully we will soon figure out when we want to do housewarming stuff.
( Read more... )
On the whole though, I'm happy, I'm well, and things are going just fine. And I keep being so pleased with the new house. Hopefully we will soon figure out when we want to do housewarming stuff.
From the other side of stress mountain, I would like to report
Monday, June 3rd, 2013 03:51 pmHousing situation is resolved, new apartment we've signed a lease for is great, we're all super excited about the planning and moving (and no longer having our totally unhelpful landlords)... I'm extremely pleased and excited, and I think it's going to work out wonderfully. It's not 1-1 in terms of space, but it's an entirely reasonable space, it has central air and off-street parking, free laundry on the ground floor, AND the landlord seems to be responsible. So it looks like it's going to be pretty great.
Our initial performance of Sundown happened weekend before last and went fine, with a minimum of mistakes and drama, and a maximum of audience satisfaction, as far as we could see. Very pleased with it, even though it wasn't perfect. (Stop dwelling on things, self.)
This past weekend we had a small celebration for Bethface's birthday, then got the keys to our new place, took a bunch of measurements, planned things, and I did a ton of laundry.
I am no longer sick (and got well in a very timely fashion for dress rehearsal and performance), I have had enough free time in the past week to start packing and moving some clothes over, even if nothing else as yet. So many work things have been coming together fairly successfully in the past week as well.
Basically I seem to have descended from stress mountain and on the other side turns out to be this pleasant little meadow of reasonableness and satisfaction.
So by and large, life is good, even if we're all going to be doing quite a bit of packing. :)
Our initial performance of Sundown happened weekend before last and went fine, with a minimum of mistakes and drama, and a maximum of audience satisfaction, as far as we could see. Very pleased with it, even though it wasn't perfect. (Stop dwelling on things, self.)
This past weekend we had a small celebration for Bethface's birthday, then got the keys to our new place, took a bunch of measurements, planned things, and I did a ton of laundry.
I am no longer sick (and got well in a very timely fashion for dress rehearsal and performance), I have had enough free time in the past week to start packing and moving some clothes over, even if nothing else as yet. So many work things have been coming together fairly successfully in the past week as well.
Basically I seem to have descended from stress mountain and on the other side turns out to be this pleasant little meadow of reasonableness and satisfaction.
So by and large, life is good, even if we're all going to be doing quite a bit of packing. :)
In more positive news...
Friday, May 17th, 2013 04:36 pmAfter much work by many hands, excitingly enough the Kickstarter project for Sundown (the Norse myth song cycle my a capella group, Sassafrass, has been working on for quite some time now) is live!
I think all of us are really looking forward to next weekend's premiere of the whole work at Balticon, and I'm so thankful I have a few friends I know are coming. Given that we've been working on the costuming parts across multiple cities (and that some of it is still not quite done yet), no one has seen the full set of what everyone will look like, so that will be excellent to get together.
It has already been decided that after Balticon there will be much mead. That, too, will be a good day indeed.
Happy Friday. :)
I think all of us are really looking forward to next weekend's premiere of the whole work at Balticon, and I'm so thankful I have a few friends I know are coming. Given that we've been working on the costuming parts across multiple cities (and that some of it is still not quite done yet), no one has seen the full set of what everyone will look like, so that will be excellent to get together.
It has already been decided that after Balticon there will be much mead. That, too, will be a good day indeed.
Happy Friday. :)
Hey Bostonites!
Saturday, October 20th, 2012 01:57 pmHallo fronds. Do you like Cirque du Soleil? Are you free on Friday, November 2nd? Would you like to join me in seeing Saltimbanco at Agganis Arena at 8 PM?
If so, comment or email me, as I very, very much want to go, since I adore Cirque du Soleil, and the music from this show in particular, and would love company. :)
If so, comment or email me, as I very, very much want to go, since I adore Cirque du Soleil, and the music from this show in particular, and would love company. :)
So it occurred to me...
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 06:14 pmI've been very busy in the past year or so with music, and I think I've talked now and again about that, but I don't think I have ever, ever posted any of the results of it. And they do exist, so I'm not sure why this has just never occurred to me.
Anyhow. Correcting that...
( Some info and videos from recent-ish concerts )
A lot of time is still going toward both those groups. In Sassafrass, we're working on recording a new album, which mostly is already written, but which some of us are learning music for, and others are just trying to get down good recordings of. We're going for a higher quality CD than has been made before by the group, and ye gods, it's an adventure.
In Stranger Ways, we're sort of at the step before that. We've been working on writing a concept album for most of the year now. Almost every song we intend to be on there is started, a few are finished and we've rehearsed a few times, but many more are only about halfway in, or are further along with lyrics than music, or vice versa. It's been an interesting voyage of discovery in terms of how we all write music, how we collaborate, what strengths we have, etc. For the most part, I'm really enjoying the writing, though it's always dispiriting that I can't always make the music go on demand. Anyhow, I have done so very little lyrics writing before, so this has been a real challenge, but also really an awesome growth type thing. Learnings; I can haz them.
So now you know what like 10 - 20 hours of my week has been going to for the past year and a bit.
Anyhow. Correcting that...
( Some info and videos from recent-ish concerts )
A lot of time is still going toward both those groups. In Sassafrass, we're working on recording a new album, which mostly is already written, but which some of us are learning music for, and others are just trying to get down good recordings of. We're going for a higher quality CD than has been made before by the group, and ye gods, it's an adventure.
In Stranger Ways, we're sort of at the step before that. We've been working on writing a concept album for most of the year now. Almost every song we intend to be on there is started, a few are finished and we've rehearsed a few times, but many more are only about halfway in, or are further along with lyrics than music, or vice versa. It's been an interesting voyage of discovery in terms of how we all write music, how we collaborate, what strengths we have, etc. For the most part, I'm really enjoying the writing, though it's always dispiriting that I can't always make the music go on demand. Anyhow, I have done so very little lyrics writing before, so this has been a real challenge, but also really an awesome growth type thing. Learnings; I can haz them.
So now you know what like 10 - 20 hours of my week has been going to for the past year and a bit.
Chicken or egg?
Friday, September 21st, 2012 12:19 pmAm I out of sorts because I'm not getting enough sleep, or am I not getting enough sleep because I am out of sorts?
Last night either I was in pain and failing to sleep for most of the night (in a really odd way where it felt like my abdomen was crisscrossed with a grid of ache), or I dreamed a very long dream about being in pain. When I woke up this morning, I found that deep breaths hurt just a little. I honestly can't figure out where this is coming from, and if I did in fact get enough sleep, but just slept very restlessly due to that dream.
I am confused and tired. At least it's Friday, and I should have some chance to catch up. Hopefully this is not me getting sick, as I can't even figure out, were that the case, what it is I would be sick with.
Last night either I was in pain and failing to sleep for most of the night (in a really odd way where it felt like my abdomen was crisscrossed with a grid of ache), or I dreamed a very long dream about being in pain. When I woke up this morning, I found that deep breaths hurt just a little. I honestly can't figure out where this is coming from, and if I did in fact get enough sleep, but just slept very restlessly due to that dream.
I am confused and tired. At least it's Friday, and I should have some chance to catch up. Hopefully this is not me getting sick, as I can't even figure out, were that the case, what it is I would be sick with.
Because I have been accused of trolling...
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 04:07 pmI have cut my hair off. Or a lot of it, anyhow. My housemate said not forewarning people is mean. Who knew?
I have also dyed it as purple as I could reasonably make it. A few pictures - lighting makes it anywhere from "is that pinkish?" to "that's just brown, right?"
I am going to actually make it through today, and thus if you are going to Dragon*Con, you might actually seem me with some vestiges of spoons left. If you are there, and are looking for me, now you know to look for purple instead of red. There, I helped. Totally not trolling now. :P
...so close to time off. Just waiting for this scheduled job to hopefully finish successfully so that I can leave. Time for deep breaths.
I have also dyed it as purple as I could reasonably make it. A few pictures - lighting makes it anywhere from "is that pinkish?" to "that's just brown, right?"
I am going to actually make it through today, and thus if you are going to Dragon*Con, you might actually seem me with some vestiges of spoons left. If you are there, and are looking for me, now you know to look for purple instead of red. There, I helped. Totally not trolling now. :P
...so close to time off. Just waiting for this scheduled job to hopefully finish successfully so that I can leave. Time for deep breaths.
So I'm noting this down, because it was fairly innocuous, but weird, and I often forget my dreams.
Basically in the dream, I was shopping with my mom (in some dollar store-esque type place), and she had picked up the oddest package of RAM I have ever seen. She said there was some promotion whereby it was a free sample or something, but on looking at it I dismissed it as not even functional, because instead of being a full stick, it was broken out into 1 inch square parts. Also, half the package had rainbow coloured sort of transparent bars across the top (where you'd usually hold onto as you inserted the RAM). Later it turned out that this was in fact supposed to be functional, because the pieces connected together into a full stick (and it'd be rainbow-y!) with some sort of slidey-channel type action, so I was then spending the rest of the dream wandering around trying to find the package again, while stressing about if we needed to pay for it. I kept finding other rainbow things in similar packages, but never what I wanted.
Anyhow. I woke up thinking a) any RAM you could buy for as inexpensive as that stuff supposedly was seems unlikely to be particularly quality, b) but man, it'd probably make really neat looking jewelry.
Also, why would my mom pick up RAM in the first place? Pretty certain she has no idea what that even is. Brains spew out odd things sometimes.
Basically in the dream, I was shopping with my mom (in some dollar store-esque type place), and she had picked up the oddest package of RAM I have ever seen. She said there was some promotion whereby it was a free sample or something, but on looking at it I dismissed it as not even functional, because instead of being a full stick, it was broken out into 1 inch square parts. Also, half the package had rainbow coloured sort of transparent bars across the top (where you'd usually hold onto as you inserted the RAM). Later it turned out that this was in fact supposed to be functional, because the pieces connected together into a full stick (and it'd be rainbow-y!) with some sort of slidey-channel type action, so I was then spending the rest of the dream wandering around trying to find the package again, while stressing about if we needed to pay for it. I kept finding other rainbow things in similar packages, but never what I wanted.
Anyhow. I woke up thinking a) any RAM you could buy for as inexpensive as that stuff supposedly was seems unlikely to be particularly quality, b) but man, it'd probably make really neat looking jewelry.
Also, why would my mom pick up RAM in the first place? Pretty certain she has no idea what that even is. Brains spew out odd things sometimes.
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 05:51 pmSo I was writing out this fairly sizable email to my father, (I never have time to be on the phone lately, so I wanted to catch him up on life in general) and I thought, "hey, self, you could also drop parts of this on your journal for personal reference and actually being informative to friends." So I am. :)
I've been doing okay, though amount of busy-ness in my life is aggravating. I'm getting to a point where I need to schedule things like grocery shopping and doing the laundry. (Seriously, we hadn't been shopping in I don't know how long, so we had to schedule it, and it took like two hours this past week because of how much stuff we needed.) This gets frustrating, but at least this week is a bit less packed.
( Current Life Things )
I'm beginning to think, due to how little free time I seem to have lately, about just requesting a few days off work in order to stay home and just clean up my life. My room is a hideous mess, I need to throw out any number of things and donate others, I have fallen behind on a lot of the non-work projects I want to be doing... and sleep. I know other folks who are busier than I am, and I just don't even understand how that works. I constantly feel like life is a bit out of control, and that I'm behind on everything, and I find myself, on rare occasions when I have free time, just essentially wanting to do non-stress things (like play Dragon Age again) to give my brain some sort of recovery time. Except I can't really afford to, with all the stuff I'm behind on. I'm torn between "I should commit less time to recreational things" and "why on earth would I stop doing things I enjoy?"
I guess at least I don't have to worry that I'm not living life fully enough?
Really looking forward to tomorrow evening and grilling some delicious fruits and veggies... hope other US-based folks also have a happy fourth. (Okay, the rest of you can also have a happy fourth, y'know, just with most likely 100% fewer fireworks.)
I've been doing okay, though amount of busy-ness in my life is aggravating. I'm getting to a point where I need to schedule things like grocery shopping and doing the laundry. (Seriously, we hadn't been shopping in I don't know how long, so we had to schedule it, and it took like two hours this past week because of how much stuff we needed.) This gets frustrating, but at least this week is a bit less packed.
( Current Life Things )
I'm beginning to think, due to how little free time I seem to have lately, about just requesting a few days off work in order to stay home and just clean up my life. My room is a hideous mess, I need to throw out any number of things and donate others, I have fallen behind on a lot of the non-work projects I want to be doing... and sleep. I know other folks who are busier than I am, and I just don't even understand how that works. I constantly feel like life is a bit out of control, and that I'm behind on everything, and I find myself, on rare occasions when I have free time, just essentially wanting to do non-stress things (like play Dragon Age again) to give my brain some sort of recovery time. Except I can't really afford to, with all the stuff I'm behind on. I'm torn between "I should commit less time to recreational things" and "why on earth would I stop doing things I enjoy?"
I guess at least I don't have to worry that I'm not living life fully enough?
Really looking forward to tomorrow evening and grilling some delicious fruits and veggies... hope other US-based folks also have a happy fourth. (Okay, the rest of you can also have a happy fourth, y'know, just with most likely 100% fewer fireworks.)
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Friday, June 8th, 2012 03:22 pmAny time my brain wants to stop chanting at me, "Eating all the bodiieees! Actual cannibal Shia LeBeouf!" it can absolutely feel free to do so.
(I would blame Shati, but I clearly brought this on myself.)
(I would blame Shati, but I clearly brought this on myself.)
Just putting this down somewhere...
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 12:33 pmI constantly think in the back of my mind somewhat wistfully that I wish I were doing more of certain activities.
Included amongst them:
- walking (though I do generally do this a fair bit when I'm not freezing)
- reading
- composing
- cooking
- planning (and executing (and oh dear, that is such a project management phrase)) social activities
- sewing (mostly costuming)
- visiting people (somewhat local folks, but also farther afield folks whom I do not see often enough)
I am going to try to keep some sort of notation when I'm doing these things, I think. Theoretically a journal is not a bad idea for a place to put it, and heavens knows I'm not using it for too much else...
So in that spirit:
This weekend I cooked my bastardized (vegetarian) version of chilaquiles (which I should make a note to finish more of off in the next couple days before I leave for NY).
I also read Mastiff (by Tamora Pierce) (which I need to give back to Lynne).
Yesterday I did a small amount of composition (for Stranger Ways as we work on our next album - yay :)) that should be possible to flesh out into a complete song... providing we can lyricsify it, which I am the suck at.
And I've done some walking... maybe I should start trying to carry a pedometer with me or something to work out exactly what I'm doing here.
On the less successful front... I tried to rally a bunch of us to go do a dinner out for Restaurant Week and failed abysmally. Comedically. Ridiculously.
Basic summary:
Last week:
Me (to Beth): We should Restaurant Week.
Beth: We should! Haz free times?
Me: Buh? Um. Next Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, possibly?
Beth: Wednesday could work.
Me: OK! *sends email to five people, asking about freeness on Wednesday*
Person 1: I can't do that!
Person 2: Unfortunately, I'm now sick!
Me: Wait, I actually can't do Wednesday either, now!
Beth: And me neither.
All: Uh. Victory?
*headdesk*
So yeah. In the future, I really need to cordon off some Restaurant Week time in advance and actually plan with more than just one possible day available.
Included amongst them:
- walking (though I do generally do this a fair bit when I'm not freezing)
- reading
- composing
- cooking
- planning (and executing (and oh dear, that is such a project management phrase)) social activities
- sewing (mostly costuming)
- visiting people (somewhat local folks, but also farther afield folks whom I do not see often enough)
I am going to try to keep some sort of notation when I'm doing these things, I think. Theoretically a journal is not a bad idea for a place to put it, and heavens knows I'm not using it for too much else...
So in that spirit:
This weekend I cooked my bastardized (vegetarian) version of chilaquiles (which I should make a note to finish more of off in the next couple days before I leave for NY).
I also read Mastiff (by Tamora Pierce) (which I need to give back to Lynne).
Yesterday I did a small amount of composition (for Stranger Ways as we work on our next album - yay :)) that should be possible to flesh out into a complete song... providing we can lyricsify it, which I am the suck at.
And I've done some walking... maybe I should start trying to carry a pedometer with me or something to work out exactly what I'm doing here.
On the less successful front... I tried to rally a bunch of us to go do a dinner out for Restaurant Week and failed abysmally. Comedically. Ridiculously.
Basic summary:
Last week:
Me (to Beth): We should Restaurant Week.
Beth: We should! Haz free times?
Me: Buh? Um. Next Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, possibly?
Beth: Wednesday could work.
Me: OK! *sends email to five people, asking about freeness on Wednesday*
Person 1: I can't do that!
Person 2: Unfortunately, I'm now sick!
Me: Wait, I actually can't do Wednesday either, now!
Beth: And me neither.
All: Uh. Victory?
*headdesk*
So yeah. In the future, I really need to cordon off some Restaurant Week time in advance and actually plan with more than just one possible day available.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 02:57 pmSo I am on a boat, and will be wandering the Caribbean for the next week. I know my online presence isn't usually a whole slew, but thought I would mention there will be radio silence from my end once we disembark later today.
I will be having an awesomesauce time concerting and singing and generally being ridiculous. :D
Hope you all have a lovely week while I am away... and watch for octopodes. (I hear they're back.)
I will be having an awesomesauce time concerting and singing and generally being ridiculous. :D
Hope you all have a lovely week while I am away... and watch for octopodes. (I hear they're back.)
Happy Galentine's Day!
Monday, February 13th, 2012 01:14 pmHave a happy one :)
I am very in favour of this holiday, if a little slow on the draw. I will start actually commenting on more than one of these, now that I am no longer perpetually horizontal and hacking up a lung!
Happy Galentine's Day
my thread
I am very in favour of this holiday, if a little slow on the draw. I will start actually commenting on more than one of these, now that I am no longer perpetually horizontal and hacking up a lung!
my thread
I really should do a 2011 sum-up post at some point...
Monday, January 16th, 2012 11:29 pm...but this is not it.
I did, though, want to mention that I made it through Arisia and its two concerts. ( Arisia details )
Oh, and now that Stranger Ways' new album is officially released, allow me to link our bandcamp site for it: http://strangerways.bandcamp.com/album/guilt-angst-fairy-tales
As with everything, I have a hard time not listening for flaws (and I particularly have a hard time listening to my voice), but it's really neat that there's a CD out there that I'm a part of.
I did, though, want to mention that I made it through Arisia and its two concerts. ( Arisia details )
Oh, and now that Stranger Ways' new album is officially released, allow me to link our bandcamp site for it: http://strangerways.bandcamp.com/album/guilt-angst-fairy-tales
As with everything, I have a hard time not listening for flaws (and I particularly have a hard time listening to my voice), but it's really neat that there's a CD out there that I'm a part of.
Stranger Ways CD - coming up!
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 04:47 pmI'm excited to report Stranger Ways (the band I'm in) has finalized our new CD, Guilt, Angst and Fairy Tales!
The physical CD release will happen at the Stranger Ways/Sassafrass concert we're doing at Arisia in January. (See Facebook link for details.)
In the meanwhile, check out our newly revamped website (http://www.stranger-ways.com/) and on it, a preview track from the new CD, called Resonance.
The physical CD release will happen at the Stranger Ways/Sassafrass concert we're doing at Arisia in January. (See Facebook link for details.)
In the meanwhile, check out our newly revamped website (http://www.stranger-ways.com/) and on it, a preview track from the new CD, called Resonance.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 04:19 pmHuh. With all the complaints about the new comment system, I'd been looking at LJ yesterday and wondering, "what changed? What's wrong?"
Apparently I didn't have changes hit me until very recently. And the answer is "oh, THAT. Uhh... yuck."
I guess I will attempt to be as diligent as possible about posting over here with crossposting enabled, and about trying to add people to my DW circle when I can figure out who they are.
Please feel free to circle me on DW if you like, and I will reciprocate and try to migrate over to at least using both sites in a somewhat orderly fashion, if not giving up LJ wholly at this time (because I don't want to not get updates on peoples' lives).
As an "I'm entertained" aside: I still have a paid LJ account solely because of the DDoS attack paid time extenstions. I'm not planning renewing with LJ, and I think I will get a paid account at DW shortly.
Edit: where by "shortly," I meant, "now." I think this means that in addition to other "weekend when no one is here and I sing at the top of my lungs in between playing Dragon Age" festivities I had planned, I will also work on some icon stuff. :D
Apparently I didn't have changes hit me until very recently. And the answer is "oh, THAT. Uhh... yuck."
I guess I will attempt to be as diligent as possible about posting over here with crossposting enabled, and about trying to add people to my DW circle when I can figure out who they are.
Please feel free to circle me on DW if you like, and I will reciprocate and try to migrate over to at least using both sites in a somewhat orderly fashion, if not giving up LJ wholly at this time (because I don't want to not get updates on peoples' lives).
As an "I'm entertained" aside: I still have a paid LJ account solely because of the DDoS attack paid time extenstions. I'm not planning renewing with LJ, and I think I will get a paid account at DW shortly.
Edit: where by "shortly," I meant, "now." I think this means that in addition to other "weekend when no one is here and I sing at the top of my lungs in between playing Dragon Age" festivities I had planned, I will also work on some icon stuff. :D
