Busy weekend review
Jun. 20th, 2005 12:21 pm+0: First and foremost, everybody say hi to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
technoshaman, who has joined my Friends list over this past weekend. He's local to me, another person in the far-flung crowd surrounding Writer's Weekend, and a fellow geek. He likes Babylon 5, which as far as I'm concerned is a stellar recommendation for any geek. ;)
+1: Second up, HAPPY BIRTHDAYlyricae! Hope you got that thing I told you was coming from solarbird, spazzkat, and me! ;)
+2: Friday night, Dara, Paul, and I did sushi (courtesy of Paul; THANK YOU, PAUL! ^_^) and the subtitled version of Howl's Moving Castle. We were in unified agreement that the biggest appeal of that movie was the unmitigated hotness that is Howl, though the plot was sort of shaky in comparison with other Miyazaki films. It wasn't nearly as cool as Spirited Away, but then, few things are. Still, overall, an enjoyable way to spend an evening! The most interesting and unusual part of the movie experience, though, was not the film itself--it was this guy at the theater who was trying out some prototype vending machines for selling CDs and DVDs. He was letting people come up and play with his machines just to try them out, and every 30th person or so got to win a free DVD. Dara turned out to be one of the winners, so we got ourselves a free copy of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
+3: Saturday evening,jessicac, her sister Sadie, kathrynt, and llachglin all came over to MurkNorth for a huge marathon session of Monkey Ball 2. Kathryn and I did not partake of the video game goodness, but that was fine; she was knitting, and I was writing, and we wound up having a huge brainstormy sort of chat as I have previously mentioned under my Writing filter. It was incredibly helpful to me, and now Kathryn wants to read this chapter when I'm done with it. Go me! I admired her knitting in the meantime--a complicated-looking, Celticky, cable-y sort of pattern she was trying out to prepare for knitting a sweater for Erik.
+4: Sunday afternoon, spearheaded by the lovely and talentedmamishka and Jessica, we had ourselves a nice little surprise birthday party for the aforementioned lyricae--just a nice little tea-and-conversation gathering at Jessica's place. Lots of fun all around, and we all admired Cheryl's lovely dress, of a beautiful cool, summery, yellow-and-sort-of-honeydew green shade. Dara, Paul, Kathryn, and Erik rounded out the rest of the gathering, and we yakked about roadtrips, the deserts of Arizona, the adventures Jessica, Mimi, and Kathryn all had with the Cult of Cthulu down at Orycon, and many other fun topics as well!
+/-5: Once we got home from the birthday party, I finally filled out my form for the class action lawsuit against Apple for iPod battery failures. Since I have a third-generation iPod purchased before May 2004 which experienced battery failure within a year to a year and a half of purchase (wherein 'battery failure' is defined for the lawsuit's purpose as continuous play time of four hours or less), I am absolutely part of the class mentioned in this suit. I got a claim form in the mail, and I've gone ahead and filled it out to send it in. I had to find my credit card statement that showed the purchase of the iPod on it from 2003, and I checked off the box requesting to be given a new battery (or, at Apple's discretion, a new iPod). I'd be happy with a new battery, at least. The iPod I have is perfectly functional as long as the stupid battery works.
+/-6: This morning, I dreamed that I got a rejection letter from Evan Fogelman in email. This is not actually implausible, given that in the letter I sent him along with my partial for Faerie Blood, I invited him to reply by email if he so preferred. The weird part of the dream-rejection, though, was him seeming to think that I was still on the first draft of my novel--at least in what little I saw of the Outlook preview of the email message. Which is also weird--what I remember of the dream is just seeing that little snippet of Outlook's message preview. I don't remember reading the actual message itself.
+7: Whoot! I've gone a whole week without a rejection from either of the agents yet! ;) And closing in on a month without a rejection from Luna!
Days without a rejection from Luna: 25
Days without a rejection from agents: 7
technoshaman, who has joined my Friends list over this past weekend. He's local to me, another person in the far-flung crowd surrounding Writer's Weekend, and a fellow geek. He likes Babylon 5, which as far as I'm concerned is a stellar recommendation for any geek. ;)+1: Second up, HAPPY BIRTHDAY
lyricae! Hope you got that thing I told you was coming from solarbird, spazzkat, and me! ;)+2: Friday night, Dara, Paul, and I did sushi (courtesy of Paul; THANK YOU, PAUL! ^_^) and the subtitled version of Howl's Moving Castle. We were in unified agreement that the biggest appeal of that movie was the unmitigated hotness that is Howl, though the plot was sort of shaky in comparison with other Miyazaki films. It wasn't nearly as cool as Spirited Away, but then, few things are. Still, overall, an enjoyable way to spend an evening! The most interesting and unusual part of the movie experience, though, was not the film itself--it was this guy at the theater who was trying out some prototype vending machines for selling CDs and DVDs. He was letting people come up and play with his machines just to try them out, and every 30th person or so got to win a free DVD. Dara turned out to be one of the winners, so we got ourselves a free copy of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
+3: Saturday evening,
jessicac, her sister Sadie, kathrynt, and llachglin all came over to MurkNorth for a huge marathon session of Monkey Ball 2. Kathryn and I did not partake of the video game goodness, but that was fine; she was knitting, and I was writing, and we wound up having a huge brainstormy sort of chat as I have previously mentioned under my Writing filter. It was incredibly helpful to me, and now Kathryn wants to read this chapter when I'm done with it. Go me! I admired her knitting in the meantime--a complicated-looking, Celticky, cable-y sort of pattern she was trying out to prepare for knitting a sweater for Erik.+4: Sunday afternoon, spearheaded by the lovely and talented
mamishka and Jessica, we had ourselves a nice little surprise birthday party for the aforementioned lyricae--just a nice little tea-and-conversation gathering at Jessica's place. Lots of fun all around, and we all admired Cheryl's lovely dress, of a beautiful cool, summery, yellow-and-sort-of-honeydew green shade. Dara, Paul, Kathryn, and Erik rounded out the rest of the gathering, and we yakked about roadtrips, the deserts of Arizona, the adventures Jessica, Mimi, and Kathryn all had with the Cult of Cthulu down at Orycon, and many other fun topics as well!+/-5: Once we got home from the birthday party, I finally filled out my form for the class action lawsuit against Apple for iPod battery failures. Since I have a third-generation iPod purchased before May 2004 which experienced battery failure within a year to a year and a half of purchase (wherein 'battery failure' is defined for the lawsuit's purpose as continuous play time of four hours or less), I am absolutely part of the class mentioned in this suit. I got a claim form in the mail, and I've gone ahead and filled it out to send it in. I had to find my credit card statement that showed the purchase of the iPod on it from 2003, and I checked off the box requesting to be given a new battery (or, at Apple's discretion, a new iPod). I'd be happy with a new battery, at least. The iPod I have is perfectly functional as long as the stupid battery works.
+/-6: This morning, I dreamed that I got a rejection letter from Evan Fogelman in email. This is not actually implausible, given that in the letter I sent him along with my partial for Faerie Blood, I invited him to reply by email if he so preferred. The weird part of the dream-rejection, though, was him seeming to think that I was still on the first draft of my novel--at least in what little I saw of the Outlook preview of the email message. Which is also weird--what I remember of the dream is just seeing that little snippet of Outlook's message preview. I don't remember reading the actual message itself.
+7: Whoot! I've gone a whole week without a rejection from either of the agents yet! ;) And closing in on a month without a rejection from Luna!
Days without a rejection from Luna: 25
Days without a rejection from agents: 7
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