Thoughts on the Journey

Today has been a good day so far. I actually got to work early and its grey and kind of pretty with all the lovely leaves falling. My discussion section was basically everyone bitching about how the expectations and grading for the 500 assignment were incredibly confusing, our poor GSI tried hard but honestly this course is just stupidly organized. The information's interesting and I think I can see one place I messed up so I will do better on the next assignment that's due this coming Wednesday, also I won't do it the night before.

There's an SI Halloween party tonight but I'm not sure about going to it. I think I'll go to my friend's party tomorrow and tonight put either Sameth or Jane in Milliways. Also I bought a microphone for my computer and I'm going to record a booktalk for Hexwood since more people should read this book and its a class assignment.

Oh and a wonderful addendum to things in general, thanks to the mailing list I'm on for YA librarians and teachers, I won a copy of a new book.

Tomorrow I will be pooka myself and enjoy Halloween but tonight I will enjoy Milliween on its first day. I love so much how a good holiday in Milliways can stretch on for days. Its very like how my family is in terms of birthdays and holidays, because usually our schedules are busy so its hard to have everyone there for everything. So you get birthday months and Christmas over a few weeks, its wonderful and one of those great things about Milliways, its hard to miss out on something since its all very flexible.

Also I'm going to do the fandom meme that's floating around. Last seen on doihearawaltz and bookelfe.

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/whatever that you have been dorkily in love with at some point or other. (This is a randomly chosen and by no means complete list, as you all know very well.)

2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item. (Some of these will be total gimmes, I am well aware! I am not exactly unpredictable . . .)

3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

1-Supernatural-Dean guessed by alchemistseraph
2-Princess Tutu-Duck guessed by alas_a_llama
3-Band of Brothers
4-Discworld
5-Harry Potter
6-Codex Alera
7-Robin Hood-Will Scarlett guessed by sotto_voice
8-The Abhorsen Chronicles-Sameth guessed by alas_a_llama
9-Vorkosignan Books
10-Chrestomanci Chronicles-Christopher Chant guessed by bookelfe
11-The Dalemark Quartet
12-Newsies
13-Aubrey-Maturin series
14-The Chronicles of Narnia-Tumnus guessed by sotto_voice
15-The Magid Series
16-Merlin(New BBC one)
17-Buffy the Vampire Slayer-Xander guessed by alas_a_llama
18-Shakespeare's Comedies
19-Lord of the Rings
20-Iliad and the Odyssey

That list took longer to put together than I expected.

Reply to this post and I'll give you five words I associate with you. They may be serious or may be funny. This is from neenie and its a nice distraction since even though I think Michigan now has all my stuff I'm still all tied up in knots.

Tomorrow I'm going to volunteer at the library and then maybe go see Star Trek again. Then Friday I'll head up north to spend the weekend with bookelfe and probably rushin_doll along with lots of other fun things. My hope is that I will know about Michigan by my birthday which is June 8th, I want someone magically here to give me a back rub. Now onto the five words.

Irish I'm Irish on both sides of my family, my mother's family from Cork and we're not quite sure about my dad's since Fitzgeralds are all over Ireland. I've been to Ireland a couple of times now and its one of my favorite places in the world since its beautiful and it just feels comfortable to me. I like the idea of being connected with the word Irish.

New Zealand The three years I spent in New Zealand were a fantastic mixture of being independent for the first time in my life and almost losing it when I tried to work on my thesis. I miss it a lot especially Wellington because it was my idea of a perfect city, not terribly big, utterly walkable and right on the water. Its crazy writing this because I know that there's a lot I can say about New Zealand but I'm not quite sure where to start, it felt like home for a time and whenever I see anything about it anywhere, there's an ache.

Robin Hood I think Robin Hood was my first fandom since in elementary school, I wrote fanfiction about Will and the other men and the first story I ever told was of Will's hanging. I like to think of myself as hopeful and there's something wonderfully hopeful about the Robin Hood legend. A lot of why I love it can be traced to the N C Wyeth illustrations which created an image of a world that I wanted to go to. I grew up near a forest too and there's an incredible magic to Sherwood and the sense of old magic close by.

RP I started RPing at summer camp when I was about twelve, in this amazing game run by an Austrian guy who looked kind of like an orc, he was tall with this wonderful face. He forced us to think about character first and my half elf Bard Gwyn started at level 5 since I created a wonderful background story for her. There was also a point where he took away our character sheets and just forced us to really talk everything out. I completely fell in love since at that point I'd been doing acting and performing in various forms and this let me use a whole other type of imagination. My sophomore year of high school, my boyfriend started a Vampire Larp that went on for ages with some good and bad but I discovered White Wolf and Changeling so that by the time I went to college, I ran my own Larp. I miss Larping a lot because you can improv and dress up both of which I adore. Danii pulled me into Milliways by talking about it a lot and at first I wasn't sure who I was going to play but there was an aha moment and I started with Will. RP on LJ has made me so happy and gotten me writing again though also missing other types of RP, tabletop and Larp since the people at Milliways and the other games are just so fantastic.

Quakerism Both of my parents converted to Quakerism before I was born so I was really raised in the Swarthmore Meeting and it was a wonderful place for me. I love Quakerism because really at the heart of is we can all talk to God and there is God within us all. At the moment I'm not a full member of a meeting but I do want to be and I still identify myself as Quaker. I like how its such a wonderfully open and understanding community with not a lot of excess things attached to it. Though when I've been in places like Greece, I adore learning and enjoying the beauty and power of something like Greek Orthodoxy but I do see myself as a Quaker.

I'm reposting the drabbles that were requested for this meme since I enjoyed writing them. My mom was just asking me about the GRE study which got rid of my good feeling for finishing something. I will do my studying but for now, this is what I wrote.

( Tell Me a Story )

I just spotted this meme over on vivien529 and I like its so I'm going to do it.

Its really cold and snowy here and I only went outside to try and dig out my car before giving up, the cold won. My list is slightly random since I'm just going off of the favorites that comes to mind.

1. Post a list of fandoms.
2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each fandom.
3. When guessed, bold the fandom, enter in who got it and a sentence about why you like the character/person.

1-Robin Hood: Will, oh I've always loved Will because of his loyalty and his temper and how he's always struggling to do all he can for Robin and Seraph knows me for this one.
2-Talespin
3-Harry Potter Ron has always been my favorite because he's trying so hard to make his own way while still being a good friend. I love his and Hermione's romance and friendship because it feels so real and painful. fightingthecage got this one.
4-Chronicles of Narnia Tumnus, because he's far more complicated than he seems and is doing what he can for his home even though he wishes he could do more. Seraph got this one too.
5-Lord of the Rings Faramir, I adored Faramir in the books, partly due to the kind of Robin Hood resonance but also he's a poet and just a good man. Then I fell in love with him again in the movies, he and Eowyn are my ship for the series-Seraph got this one too.
6-Supernatural Dean, because he's the big brother and he reminds me of my older brother in the way that he'll do whatever it takes for Sam. Also I love his tough guy act and just want to hug him a lot. Seraph also got this one.
7-The West Wing
8-3:10 to Yuma
9-Band of Brothers
10-Pushing Daisies

Life is looking good, one of my mother's friends from college is coming over for lunch, I somehow got up at 10:30 am after going to sleep sometime after 4 am because wordsthatfail and dynastessa are just that awesome.

Then woke up to find out that my new laptop has shipped and might even be here tomorrow which makes me so amazingly happy, I thought I might have to wait until the end of the week for it.

Also here is a fun meme from alas_a_llama:

Association Meme

Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this to your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( New Zealand, America, Greek Classics, Libraries and Robin Hood Stories. )

Band of Brothers is playing on the History Channel, guys, this makes me happy even though I now have the dvd, its just that wonderful feeling of yeah other people get how great this is.

arkadyevna Little John arrived today and he's wonderful, thank you so much. I also discovered that Slumdog Millionaire is playing at my nearby theater so I might go see that this weekend. Life is good.