Lazy Thursday

[azurelunatic]

Pornolizer is boggling. I knew this already without metaquotes to remind me, but it was nice cheap amusement.

Answering support requests is crack. There are so many, and so few I'm qualified to answer, but it is addictive to look for the ones that I can answer and then answer them.

I really do need one day a week of pure downtime. No work, no errands, no meetings, just a day for me to stay in bed as long as I want and hide from the outside world. (hcolleen does not count as "outside world", as she's living with me.)

I was supposed to go in to see Turbo about my machine, but that did not happen. Ah well. I will some other time, preferably early in the morning. Or else I will just bring in the spare bloody drive and let him hang on to it for as long as needed.

I finished re-reading The Dragon Waiting. I didn't like it the first time because I didn't understand it. My mind was far too young to embrace the subtleties of it all. I liked it better the second time. I am in utter awe the third time. I think it's the third time. I'm still absorbing it. I have now the faith that it will continue to improve the more I read it.

I have discovered that the best remedy for that spindizzy "I have been inside all day and I know I should eat something but nothing appeals" is fruit. And in a pinch, frozen berries will do. I like to buy frozen berries because they are nice and cold and do not suffer too horribly if slightly thawed on the way home, and can be used to pack around things that will suffer from unfreezing.

Dear Author of WIP I'm Reading,
Unless something really funky is going on, "taking a break from fandom during the winter months" should not equal "all my stories disappear from the face of the 'net while I am Out". I was enjoying that story and hadn't had a chance to catch up with the last few updates.
Hope whatever the fuck is going on clears up,
Miss Lunatic

Dear LJ,
I know Schools has Hogwarts. Does Schools have the Jedi Academy? More to the point, does Schools have the Sith Academy? ...and Macdonald Hall?
Love,
Azz

I have been meaning to try my convertible bed in couch mode. This will mean some Mattress Follies while I get it that way. Also, there are rocks under it.

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[azurelunatic]

And by "too young", I mean I was 13 or 14, because I was in middle school, and I was not used to tracking that much plot, that much scary loyalty, that much betrayal, that much death.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

No, mostly because it's been too hard to figure out where to put it, since the Country list is site-wide, and we can't just invent a state, either. :( No, because we only list one school per fandom/fictional work etc. And not to my knowledge; fictional schools are approved "at employee discretion", which, in practice, mostly tends to be "do at least a few of us recognize this as a well-known fictional school?" and then it gets Okayed.

[azurelunatic]

For those hard-to-figure-out movie schools, I would suggest Hollywood, CA.

And alas.

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

The schools feature should totally have MacDonald Hall! *squees at fellow fan of Bruno, Boots, Cathy, Diane, Elmer, Miss Scrimmage and the Fish*

[azurelunatic]

Have you met scrimmettes and exaltedkarpoozi yet?

(I did talk to one of my buddies who helps work on Schools, but evidently it is not quite well-known enough to be a logical choice. I had plots to contaminate him, but then someone sent me off on a wild Buster Keaton chase on YouTube. I'd described it as "What would happen if Laurel, Hardy, Abbot, Costello, and all of the Stooges went to school together?", and Pau said he hoped Buster Keaton was like the groundskeeper or something, and after some research, I can confidently declare that Buster Keaton plays the part of Sydney Rampulsky with great flair.)

[rydra_wong]

An exceptionally belated comment, since I just found this post through the magic of Dreamwidth text search:

Yes, The Dragon Waiting does become better each time you re-read it. I've been re-reading it for over twenty years, so I should know. *g*

(I was searching for references to it because I'm currently writing up my READ THIS BOOK post.)

that much plot, that much scary loyalty, that much betrayal, that much death.

Yeah. That.

[azurelunatic]

I think it'll be time for a re-read soon.

[rydra_wong]

I re-read it last week, and there's still stuff I'm picking up that I didn't get before. Which may just indicate that I'm extremely slow on the uptake, but ...

[azurelunatic]

It seemed that everything he did was always so beautifully layered with complexity.

I should have liked to have known him.

[rydra_wong]

Likewise. The world was impoverished by his death.