And in the meantime...

[annathepiper]

+0: Having just finished up Chapter 11 of Lament, I can now turn my attention to making a hardcore sweep through the rest of Faerie Blood's third draft. I have worked it out; if I give all the chapters up through 21 six days each, and five days each to 22 and 23, I should be able to finish the draft by the time the estimated reply date from Luna rolls around. I hope I'll be up to the task!

-1: Yesterday, I noticed that the Cadbury eggs have hit the stores. Those evil little bombs of chocolatey, creamy goodness are a clear and present danger to my weight loss resolve. Fortunately for me, spazzkat has selflessly volunteered to fling himself between me and any Cadbury eggs that cross my path.

+2: Paul came over both yesterday and the day before to hang out with solarbird and me. We didn't do anything too terribly exciting, just hanging out and watching TV and playing video games. But hey. Sometimes low-key weekends are just fine.

He happened to pop over in the middle of my re-watching some of the Firefly episodes ("Out of Gas", "Shindig", and "Our Mrs. Reynolds"), and I was most gratified that he laughed out loud at several bits even if he didn't care for the camera work.

+3: Furthering my Firefly mood, I had a lovely chat with mamishka speculating on what's to come with the movie--it seems Meems has unearthed two tasty little bit of news: 1) there is a three-movie contract involved with this flick, and 2) this first movie is going to be set six months after the last episode, "Objects in Space".


I'm hoping that this means that if they go ahead and deal with Inara's resolve to leave Serenity, the movie plot can fast-forward to whatever scenario has her cross their path again. Because that will, of course, be the interesting part of any separation of the cast. ;)


+4: We also watched the DVD Dara and I have of the theatrical cut of the original Battlestar Galactica, just because I was in the mood. And after watching that, I am absolutely inclined to agree with llachglin's assertion that the new BG is the old one minus the cheese. Or as Dara put it, it's like they did a Google search for '"Battlestar Galactica" -crap'. ;) However, it was interesting to be able to refresh my memory about stuff the original series did--and I did notice one small detail in the original that the old one does not appear to have brought over: i.e., in the original, the different colonies have divergent enough cultures that they have different languages. We see a woman speaking 'Geminese' on one of the fleet ships.

It was amusing, too, to see the original referring to interplanetary cultures as 'nations'.

+4.5: And, we re-watched the first episode of the new series, "33", and watched "Water" for the first time as well. Paul's gotten interested enough that he'll probably be following the series now, though he's not yet caught up on all the episodes that have broadcast so far. Dara and I still need to watch "Litmus", which is on our Tivo.

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[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

-1: Yesterday, I noticed that the Cadbury eggs have hit the stores. Those evil little bombs of chocolatey, creamy goodness are a clear and present danger to my weight loss resolve. Fortunately for me, spazzkat has selflessly volunteered to fling himself between me and any Cadbury eggs that cross my path.

Cadbury eggs.... YUMMMM... though the original creme ones make me sick anymore... :-\

[annathepiper]

The pure chocolate ones are equally evil, and the ones with the caramel centers almost as much. ;) Me, I shall have to avoid them all for a while.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

yea.. me too... I need to lose a few pounds and I'm not succeeding very well..

[annathepiper]

"Eat less, exercise more" seems to be working pretty well for me. As does "drink less soda and drink more water and don't get too wacky with the snacks". :) It's not being particularly fast in terms of weight loss, but that's actually a good thing.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

I hardly eat at all, really... most days when I'm not working, I don't eat until sometime late in the evening... sorta a habit I got into a while back before I married someone who made me eat, and therefore, fattened me up (I used to be a slender 125-130 lbs, and with my long hair could be easily mistaken for a girl from the back... now... I am fat... bleh... oh to be 130 or even 135lb again) once in a while, though, I'll splurge, and eat more than i should

[annathepiper]

Hardly eating can be almost as bad for your metabolism as eating too much. Your system will get into "starvation mode" and retain everything you feed it, pretty much. You really ought to eat regular meals. They don't have to be big ones; heck, most days, my breakfast is simply a granola/yogurt bar and a glass of water.

Quality is also as important as quantity; if you make at least a little effort to make sure your meals are healthful, it'll be better for you in the long run. :)

But ultimately, it boils down to burning more calories than you consume, if you want to lose weight. If you're not eating much right now, then start exercising more.

[solarbird]

maybe you could have um um um um CAPTAIN Inara on a DIFFERENT ship and maybe also you can have novels about her ship too and then she can have movies when the rest of the cast is all too old and decrepit to go galavanting around the galaxy!

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, I noticed that the Cadbury eggs have hit the stores. Those evil little bombs of chocolatey, creamy goodness are a clear and present danger to my weight loss resolve.
They're yummy but I find I can generally get by with eating just one per season (for tradition, y'know?).

The things that get me are those chocolate oranges that you bang on the table and they separate into tidy little slices. They used to only appear around Christmas but I've noticed that you can find them year 'round now. The dark chocolate version can hurt me bad!

HH

[annathepiper]

Ooh, yeah, those chocolate oranges are incredibly evil, too. So are their raspberry cousins!

Mmmmmm dark chocolate orange mmmmm....

DAMMIT. No chocolate for me till I fix the treadmill!

your original works on Faerie

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

You don't know me from a hole in the wall. I came across your page through an LJ link from the Daoine Sidhe, one of my interests. If you need a beta reader in the future, I'd be happy to volunteer. I am a writer by trade who hopes to one day sit down and write my own urban fantasy novel. I've done a lot of writing in the Trek and Alias fanfic worlds, but those days are gone. Anyway, I love the Sidhe and have taken one of my Alias crossover stories with plans to turn it into an original novel.

OK, bye. Drop me a line if you need a beta.

Elizabeth

Re: your original works on Faerie

[annathepiper]

Heya, and glad to make your acquaintance. :)

As it happens, I just recently put out a call to other folks who have been doing beta reading for me, asking for people to start beta reading for me again. I'm happy to take on new readers, sure; if you'd like to chat with me more about it in email, feel free to wing me a note to piper at murkworks dot net.