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    Sunday, November 15th, 2009
    yokes
         		10:09p
    gnat23
         		3:30p
    Singletrack mind
     Ah, the joy that is life: much going on, little I seem to be able to get it into words. The end of the year approacheth so quickly! I feel like I'm already getting ready for the impending calendar flip, the next year looks to be so jam-packed that reservations need to start happening now. And yet there are more immediate things like picking Ace up from the airport, Christmas gifts, and I suppose riding my bike a bit while the weather tries to figure out what to do.

    Right now taking over my brain-processing is bike racing and Project Impending Sabbatical.

    Racing is still a ton of fun. The single-speed is still retardedly difficult, yet I still insist on trying to be a badass despite my sometimes low placement. It's a pity my heart-rate monitor is busted... my first race averaged (averaged!) 179bpm for 30 minutes, and I've definitely been pushing myself harder since then. Of course, the other side of my brain is begging for a break: I've been hitting my theoretical edge for almost an entire year, and I've had some amazing gains and accomplishments... but after my body reacted rather violently post-race yesterday, I am starting to look forward to even a hint of an off-season. Then the next race approaches ("A mud pit? I am SO THERE!") and I get bouncy and nervous and excited again. I don't know if racing is always this fun, or if it's just a consequence of my particular breed. All I can think right now after a race is: man, I gotta get faster.

    Then there's the other thing. I work at Genentech, and one of the perks that has been around is that after working here for six years, you earn a six-week paid sabbatical. Get outta town! I have been looking forward to this for so long, and yet when the time came to solidify the dates, it seemed unreal. If everything works as I want it to, I'm going to spend my spring cycling through the Andalucian region of Spain, hiking the coast of Italy around Cinque Terra, sailing down the Egyptian Nile in a felucca, and making my way around Jordan without offending too many people.

    I can't stop daydreaming about it already. I'm trying to scheme how to build an Indiana Jones style map with the red flight-path.



    Ace and I bottled our second batch of beer (two more weeks before drinking, wah!) just as he left for his own adventures around the globe until Thanksgiving. I didn't even plan for anything to do while he's gone. Except for a bike race with a mud pit. Hrm!
    Saturday, November 14th, 2009
    abluegirl
         		11:14a
    lolscientology

    Also, dig my cross-over icon. :D

    Current Mood: amused
    fangirl715
         		10:34a
    Friday, November 13th, 2009
    abluegirl
         		11:13a
    To be filed under "Things That Make Me Feel Old": the realization that one of my all time favorite albums, The Stone Roses debut album, is now 20 years old.

    OMG. :(

    Current Mood: indescribable
    abluegirl
         		10:21a
    Diaries of Other Vampires
     Television Without Pity sometimes has really fun photo galleries. I found today's to be especially funny: it is a spoof of vampire diaries, detailing the inner workings of various fictious vampires minds.

    Here is Angel's, for example:

    Dear Diary,
    You may notice that my handwriting is a little funny today, and that is because I have been turned into a puppet. It's a long story, involving demons living in a kids' television program, but the short of it is that I will eventually be fine. The demons are dead, and the spell will wear off. Spike has been the worst about it, calling me "wee puppet man," but on the bright side I have been able to have some nice talks with Nina, a nice werewolf girl I met. Granted, she almost mauled me that one time, but I do resemble a chew toy, so I can't really blame her. And compared to my past relationships -- getting stabbed through the chest by one, getting cheated on with my own son by another -- a little light mauling is practically foreplay.


    You can check out the rest here, if you are interested. :)
    Thursday, November 12th, 2009
    zodmicrobe
         		9:07p
    Long late update
     So it's been quite a summer.

    PORNOGRAPHY: A THRILLER has screened at festivals in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Halifax, Palm Springs, Portland, Tampa, Atlanta, Dallas, Fresno, Montreal, Chicago, Washington D.C., Long Island and Rio De Janiero. We will very likely be coming out on DVD & VOD next year in the US and France as well as small theatrical runs in the UK and Germany in addition.

    I'm still getting contracts together and creating added-value deliverables. Will be for a few weeks still.

    But it's all finally coming to a close in the next few weeks/months, and I'm happy to say that I still love the movie dearly, and it looks like a lot of other people do too.

    I'm looking forward to 2010, clearing my decks, and motoring forward on the next thing...
    yokes
         		7:10p
    Polacolor-4x5

    Polacolor-4x5065
    Originally uploaded by smlgphotos.

    yokes
         		3:35p
    Me and the new camera


    Originally uploaded by A.K.L.M.

    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
    sandmansister
         		12:14p
    Posted using TxtLJ
    Having a fragile-on-the-inside, wibbly sort of day. Forecast includes high probability of tears. Best to stay clear until it blows over.
    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    fangirl715
         		10:23p
    Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
    fangirl715
         		3:40p
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