a++ would smuggle into space again

I don't know when I got so lucky; I think it must have happened when I wasn't looking.

Today Becky gave me a Red Right Ankle songset and Aria and Sares made magnificent crack, the ultimate fandom crossover that we've been discussing since April and that I am pointedly insisting that they post somewhere more visible, and Sares recorded music and Aria drew me Meligot and Juilliard and Heidi wrote me Ramseyfic and Anna wrote me pirates and Roderick getting laid which she also has to post somewhere more visible.

In Advanced Composition we're writing fiction first, and I have a short story sort of unfurling itself, and it almost has nothing to do with No Man's Land at all (which is a first in the past while) except for that the main character is named Sophia and moves a lot. Oops.

I finished another icon_roulette set on time, and worked up the best into a massive iconpost.

And -- and best, I think, my dean of students who I barely know told me that because I'd worked so well within the system all these years (...what?) and because she likes science fiction and wants me to rec William Gibson to her (...what?) and because she likes me (...what?!) I will be able to do some sort of cheating Independent Study in the spring. On Heidi's brilliant, brilliant ideas about science fiction (the angle I'm taking is genre fiction as an indication of American culture and supremacy).

This is what eighteen is like? I like it here.

At very very very long last, the Legionnaire's Lament songset. About a year, almost exactly actually, in the making. Hence the variable quality.

1. Buy Legionnaire's Lament off iTunes.

2. Listen once, laughing hysterically at the frigidaire.

3. Press play again.

4. ( Click the link and sing along. )

I had a strange experience yesterday, which makes me think that I am probably spending too much time around Getty: on the cover of a book.

Well, obviously it was the whole picture, not just the icon (made by deutscheami), but still. Harper's original hat-icon was on some other book, too. I'm starting to recognise stock imagery. I think I may be going maaaaad.

Looked like a good book?

ALSO THE LIT AP DID NOT KILL ME. OVER AND OUT.

It's meme time! And a fun one, too. Post here and I'll make you an icon of one of your interests. I get to choose which one. And I promise I'll pick a decent one. ;D One icon per person, and I reserve the right to cancel requests if I get too many. Which I doubt I will. But still.

The LJ-interest paint meme, for those of us without paint; gaked from mllereddeath. ^^

Twenty-one minimals + six ... other.



(The icon for the post also comes from this set.)

say to the silent earth: i flow (this way)

For minimal_icons. Eeeeee.

( ten.comfort.icons )

I was trying to add tribal paint to a normal picture. I kind of like the effect.

( an icon, and a photo it's based off of )

... this is pretty much a GIP, and much love to doubleohicons.

(Beethoven icon is ... feeeear.)

I figured out how to play the main line of it on the piano, but only one-handed, so it loses some of its effect. Must figure out the supporting chords in time for March.

(Although it did lead to this phone conversation:
EMMA: *absently playing the piano* Can you hear that?
ARIA: ... no?
EMMA: *ups the volume*
ARIA: *long protracted silence*
EMMA: *beams*
ARIA: ... whyyy?)

Icons! In honour of pirate day. ... Even though they have nothing to do with pirates. Well, one of them mentions a brigadier. Text-based icons from the Decemberists, Elliott Smith, and Shrek.

Sample:


( to a lone concertina they drank in cantinas )

You rule, kentraine, insanely much.

Heee.

Actually squealing with joy. Still.

WHY ARE MY FRIENDS SO COOL