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rose_griffes) wrote2007-02-18 09:29 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2007-02-18 09:29 pm
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Random evening post before bedtime
I love that song "All Creatures of Our God and King" in the hymnbook at church. Since I'm currently in charge of picking music for our sacrament meetings we sang it today. Lyrics by Francis of Assisi--cool! Music by Ralph Vaughn Williams--awesome! And the real reason I love the song--it has some of the best alto lines in any hymn we commonly sing. It's interesting, melodic and about nature! Okay, I'll stop gushing now.
eta: can't decide if I should sing with the choir in Handel's Messiah this year. Rehearsals every Sunday between now and Easter--hard to commit. Singing it--amazing. So much better than just listening to it. Oh, for anyone who is thinking we sing the whole thing--nope. Just the more Easter-y parts, just over an hour's worth of music with the orchestra and solos included. /eta
Two thoughts semi-related to the badfic I posted earlier.
One: I posted it before church this morning on purpose, so I could get it out of my brain. It seems to have helped. I actually had an idea for the (third and final! hear that muse? final!) on-Earth fic that ties together some of the stuff I've already written. And none of it involves clothing or Kara/Leoben.
Two: Just out of curiosity I went to fanfiction.net and looked up Harry Potter stuff. I wasn't planning on reading any, I was just interested to see if it was any good. So I randomly did a search there by the character Fleur delaCour. Oh my. I didn't even read any of the stories, just looking at the posted summaries was... enlightening. Here are a few summaries:
title: Harry Potter and the Ship of Dreams. HarryFleur.One of my first fanfics.What would happen if Harry Potter and his new bride Fleur DelacourPotter were on the Titanic, and what if the Titanic was a ship for magical people only? What would happen if the ship hit the iceberg? Many Deaths.
hee!
title: true love. After the war harry still feels incomplete. Is the answer to his problem the unfullied part of his life.
unfullied?
title: Hand in Hand. Confusion and depression often walk hand in hand. Nonslash, Harry is depressed after Sirius's death, the beginning of book six. Written in a new, stranger format.
Erm... what does stranger format mean? Am I supposed to be enticed by this?
There was a point to this... Oh yeah, that now I don't feel nearly as guilty for my shamelessly self-indulgent stupid fic. It's still stupid and self-indulgent, but now I can feel superior and smug about it anyway. Yes, I cackle with glee that my stupid and self-indulgent idea doesn't suck as much as someone else's.
*headdesk again for the umpteenth time today*
*ouch*
eta: can't decide if I should sing with the choir in Handel's Messiah this year. Rehearsals every Sunday between now and Easter--hard to commit. Singing it--amazing. So much better than just listening to it. Oh, for anyone who is thinking we sing the whole thing--nope. Just the more Easter-y parts, just over an hour's worth of music with the orchestra and solos included. /eta
Two thoughts semi-related to the badfic I posted earlier.
One: I posted it before church this morning on purpose, so I could get it out of my brain. It seems to have helped. I actually had an idea for the (third and final! hear that muse? final!) on-Earth fic that ties together some of the stuff I've already written. And none of it involves clothing or Kara/Leoben.
Two: Just out of curiosity I went to fanfiction.net and looked up Harry Potter stuff. I wasn't planning on reading any, I was just interested to see if it was any good. So I randomly did a search there by the character Fleur delaCour. Oh my. I didn't even read any of the stories, just looking at the posted summaries was... enlightening. Here are a few summaries:
title: Harry Potter and the Ship of Dreams. HarryFleur.One of my first fanfics.What would happen if Harry Potter and his new bride Fleur DelacourPotter were on the Titanic, and what if the Titanic was a ship for magical people only? What would happen if the ship hit the iceberg? Many Deaths.
hee!
title: true love. After the war harry still feels incomplete. Is the answer to his problem the unfullied part of his life.
unfullied?
title: Hand in Hand. Confusion and depression often walk hand in hand. Nonslash, Harry is depressed after Sirius's death, the beginning of book six. Written in a new, stranger format.
Erm... what does stranger format mean? Am I supposed to be enticed by this?
There was a point to this... Oh yeah, that now I don't feel nearly as guilty for my shamelessly self-indulgent stupid fic. It's still stupid and self-indulgent, but now I can feel superior and smug about it anyway. Yes, I cackle with glee that my stupid and self-indulgent idea doesn't suck as much as someone else's.
*headdesk again for the umpteenth time today*
*ouch*
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I have to admit that writing it made me laugh, but now I'm scared to think about what that says about me. Oh well. The muse and I are moving on to better things, I hope.
like that HP/BSG crossover in which Harry is older, falls in love with a mysteriously mute Starbuck and together they travel through a wormhole back in time to Rome to prevent Caesar from taking over England
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Just my little defensive rationalization for you, there. *g*
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So when I'm put on trial for writing badfic maybe you can plea-bargain my sentence down from the death penalty to life without notepad, eh?
I have some issues with those "makeover" shows, mostly because all the girls seem to wind up wearing really uncomfortable crap that's girly and fluffy in order to be "in style."
Yeah, I surprised myself by enjoying WNTW. I haven't seen a complete episode of any other makeover show. I think the first episode I saw of WNTW had someone with a body type similar to mine and when I saw how much better the shapes of clothes were for her figure I was hooked... it remained the main reason I watched, looking for how clothing shapes affect how we perceive the figure.
I really do dress better now--something reasonably important to me since I have an audience of high-school students. I don't need their approval but I'm aware that the really "weird" teachers have a harder time reaching the students, so I try to look professional and reasonably attractive without dressing too much like the kids. One of my earliest posts on LJ mentioned my students' reaction to a teacher who came to school without makeup... what was interesting to me was that the strongest reaction came from a male student who didn't strike me as the type to even notice such a detail.
Wow, that's a long enough comment. Think I'll stop now.