Below are the most recent 13 friends' journal entries.

Friday, November 27th, 2009
missizzy	4:28p	New Montage! After finding way too many clips to download, getting frustrated over everything they didn't include, and even more irked when Windows Movie Maker refused to import some key DWTS vids, and then downloading a few clips from Kaleidescope this morning, this one was finally done, though DivShare is now taking the usual time to get it ready, though it didn't last time. Ah, now it's ready: (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
missizzy	12:12p	What I am Thankful For That there is presumably an editor looking at my novel right now, and so far they have not found any reason to reject it. That things have proceeded okay so far on my second novel, and I think it will be better than the first. That as my computer continues to die on me, I have the laptop and the external hard drive. All I'll really need to get when it breathes its last is the external CD drive. That Roger's won so far this week. That at least I have volunteer work, and that it consists of caring for cats. That no major disasters have happened so far... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
missizzy	4:18p	Got a locally-raised turkey today, and I ended up being the one to carry it! It's currently sitting in the fridge. That was when my cramps weren't bothering me too much, but now they are and the second dose of moitrin seemed to have not worked too well. Or maybe that's just because Roger's playing Andy M right now and I'm trying not to look at Twitter or I'll start having panic attacks. Even though it means missing tweets from everyone on DWTS. Now that the pros are all on Twitter, you get a whole day's worth of tweets before the show itself. Sunday morning I went to clean cat cages before the local adoption fair, where I'm starting to become familiar with the cats involved. There was a new one named "Delilah" and I had the Plain White Ts stuck in my head the rest of the morning, Current Mood: sore (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
missizzy	5:27p	Following the men on Twitter, not even trying to pretend I don't care, since with ( what just happened ) even though every logic I know tells me Johnny's in the Finale, I'm paranoid he somehow won't be. As for ( pairs and ice dance ) (Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
missizzy	3:15p	Zamboni Break #1: Post-Ladies Short Gave up on IceNetwork very early in the pairs competition, split my viewing between RadioCanada and CCTV5 streamed on a website that looked much like the one I watched the Davis Cup Karlovic-Stepanek epic on. I should have done this from the start; best viewing I've had all series. Will miss about half the CD tonight due to dinner, but at least the first half should be good(unless RadioCanada suddenly doesn't cover it, but I'm pretty sure they cover everything Bold covers. ( Though there's no way it'll match that ladies' short... ) Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Eric Clapton-My Father's Eyes (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
missizzy	6:10a	Skate Canada Alternate title: "And I grit my teeth and prepare to endure IceNetwork again..." I hope CCTV5 covers at least some of it. Or someone on TVAnts covers the ladies' competition live, even though neither Yu-Na nor Mao nor Miki are competing. Ladies: Joannie, Akiko, Laura. Actually, I have no idea what twists and turns are going to happen here, and my instinct would only whisper "Alissa," who I don't dare predict for fear of jinxing her, so I'm going with the sort of standard projection that you expect there to be some sort of deviation from. Laura Lepisto I have as the bronze medalist because the judges really do seem to like her, perhaps more than they should. Also looking foward to: C'mon, Mirai, let's do better! Pairs: Savchenko-Szolkowy, Mukhortova-Trankov, Dubé-Davison. Though I would not mind in the slightest if the latter two switched places, or even if S&S took themselves out and let someone else battle for silver and bronze at the GPF; things'll get clogged enough on the podium come Vancouver. Also looking forward to: Langlois & Hay, and whether either of the second two Canadian teams seems really in shape to take the second spot. Ice Dance: Virtue-Moir, Pechelat-Bourzat, Samuelson-Bates. Whatever suspense was in this competition withdrew along with Faiella and Scali. Also looking forward to: Weaver and Pojé doing better than they did in China, please? Nothing against Crone and Poirier, but I kind of really want these two in Vancouver. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
missizzy	8:51a	Oddly enough, throughout the normal high school rounds of classic American literature, though I read both Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie, I never read or learned much about A Streetcar Named Desire. I remember my English teacher made a list including it and some other works, and told us to choose two of them to read, and I went with two others. So I went in to see it at the Kennedy Center last night all ready to take in and be educated about this Great Work of American Literature(tm), and see Cate Blanchett perform live in the process.(I also noticed a Star Wars credit in the Stanley's bio-turns out it was the guy who played Owen Lars in the prequels. He was impressive; I didn't make the connection until I Wookiepediaed him just now.) During the first act I started to think it had become dated. It felt long and like it couldn't carry itself and that only Cate was carrying it. She was brilliant as Blanche, no debate about that from the start, and the character herself is a vivid one, though one I think would be very easy to mess up(obviously Cate did not). But the rest left me with a distinct feeling that it would have impressed audiences of the time more. I've heard since it's usually performed with cuts, and that it wasn't here. I've also heard that this production made it much more Blanche-centered than it usually is, though with Cate blowing everyone else out, it might as well have. During the first part of the second act, this continued. Then, suddenly, the plot picked up, the writing became much more powerful, Cate and Blanche both turned it up to eleven, and I understood why this really was such a Great Work of American Literature(tm). Mom was in tears during the end; I don't blame her. This morning I woke up, had breakfast, debated whether or not to blog about this, planned for my Latin homework, and finally just now went to YouTube to see some of the Dancing With the Stars results show, since I'd already streamed the dances from Monday night yesterday morning, though I didn't think much of the results; I was pretty sure Donny was going home, and one thing I'd discovered during the first half of this season is that my instincts are getting pretty good for predicting who goes. And as with when L'il Kim got tossed out last year, ( it says enough that I'm feeling the need to cut this... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
asylum_promo [ mugetsu ]	4:51a	Vagrant Story, Batman, The Joker, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed! gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i> vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. Pending/WIP. Please keep in mind that I will be retiring Vagrant Story and Gotham Gazette if no further interest is shown. And, Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker. It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans. Two important polls need to be voted on, as seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, etc. This asylum will continue to be WIP until further interest is shown. I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs. Current Mood: hungry (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
asylum_promo [ ninetieschic ]	3:41p	hi http://asylums.insanejournal.com/labyrinthfans/ For fans of either David Bowie and Jennifer Connolly and Jim Henson and Brian Froud. I am Colleen (ninetieschic) on this and Sam will probably choose some outlandish un.. no doubt lol. Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
missizzy	9:10a	So I'm sitting in the Verizon Center, having just shown mom some vids, including one of Johnny, and they're setting up for the TV broadcast of Kaleidescope, and I'm smiling tolerably through the first of the technical screwups and repeats. The skaters come onto the ice, I'm clapping and cheering, tonight's gonna be a good, good night-and then I realize Johnny isn't in the line-up. It's about the time Scott's coming out for his Big Return that it occurs to me that since the 10th, when he was still sick, the only peep out of Johnny was a single tweet on the 13th about Lady Gaga, and that such silence isn't usual for him these days, especially if it leads fans to shock disappointments. At that point I'm having nightmares about broken legs or fatal illnesses or who knows what else he would avoid announcing, and most of the performances of the first half fly over my head. My mom really likes Nancy Kerrigan and Meryl and Charlie, and Ashley does a beautiful performance with the synchro team to one of the AI Davids singing "Silent Night" live, and Viktor's a unexpected cowboy hanging around, but the thing I notice most is the extreme hyping of Brandon Mroz by Scott Hamilton. Can we say, next Great Straight Hope? Never mind that noone came to the show to see him.(To his credit, he did skate well. If only he could have managed the jumps). Around the time Alexe Gilles unexpectedly led off the second half to ye old Beyonce smash(all the singles ladies, lace your boots up!), I wonder briefly if Johnny pulled out of the show ages ago, or maybe just Saturday night/Sunday morning when he more or less qualified for the GPF, and this management was just too incompetent to announce it! Despite the obvious question of why he didn't announce either, I decided to believe this for the sake of my sanity, and enjoyed the second half more. Watching Meryl and Charlie perform the "Music of the Night" portion of their free, I instantly forgave them their choice of music this year and understood why their scores are so damn high. But oh, Ashley. You were the highlight of the night for me, and as my favorites have failed me you must be my favorite now, and cheer me up at Nationals and the Olympics after Johnny doesn't make it to Vancouver and Tanith and Ben fall to Meryl and Charlie. Even if you were skating to Miley Cyrus. Towards the end as the tech screwups began to pile up and the skating was rudely interrupted by AI kids singing unaccompanied numbers, mom and I both began waiting for the show to just end already, but a late treat was Kristi's second number, in which her soft, beautiful skating was pure magic(her first number was kind of fun too, but I was too busy fretting about the State of Johnny at the time to really enjoy it). Mom is now extremely indignant that we were part of a show that was broadcast on Fox(I admit I didn't really pay attention to which network was doing it; you just assume they're all on NBC these days), and any future televised events held in DC I will probably have to go to alone, but I don't think I would have minded nearly as much, since in skating these days you take what you get, had Johnny just been there, or even if I'd known beforehand he wasn't going to be, and I could have cheered myself better with Ashley and Meryl and Charlie. And now I wake up to the news of Andrei Lutai's little joyriding adventure.. Perhaps it's evil of me, but right now I'm glad for the laugh. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
asylum_promo [ cardiffhub_mods ]	10:38a	( Cardiff Hub: A Torchwood RPG ) (Comment on this)
missizzy	6:46a	I am starting to wish I hadn't let IceNetwork resume my subscription; again the stream is frozen and I suspect it will by and large stay that way for the rest of the year. Yesterday I finally decided I'd had enough and downloaded TVAnts, where I was able to watch the first half of the ladies free on SBS and the ice dance on CCTV5. ( Speaking of ice dance... ) Today I go into GMU, and tonight, I am seeing Johnny Weir! And Ashely Wagner! And Meryl and Charlie(though I'm kind of irritated at them for the moment, but that's not their fault. Well, except that they made it worse by skating to Phantom). Oh, and some other skaters. I spent yesterday morning downloading vids for my mom to watch on my iPod, only to discover after I'd done the converting that Brandon Mroz was in the show too, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother add a vid of him to the playlist. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
asylum_promo [ icedark_elf ]	10:15p	Here are two story/art challenge communities for any of you who like to do such things. First one is story_arc Everyone has seen the various prompt communities. This one is for the writing/drawing of story arcs, or a multi-chaptered fic/picture series. Using the prompts, you work all of them into a single universe, as series of stories or artwork that relate to each other. Or, alternatively, into a single story, each prompt being used for a single chapter. To some, that'll be easy. To others, it's a lot more challenging. You get a pick of prompts, and we welcome claims of all types. Pairings, threesomes/moresomes, single people, over all fandoms. Collaborations are welcomed, though we request that both parties join the com. The second is mix_n_make Everyone has that song that reminds them of a person, a fandom, a story or art idea just waiting to come forth. Well, here at Mix n Make, we not only share that feeling, we encourage you to make the image in your brain a reality. The goal: Make a playlist and write/draw what each song inspires of you. They can be as short as three songs, or as long as you want to make them. Not only can you share your favorite songs, but you can get those bunnies out of your brains and shared with the rest of us. Come join us, we take all fandoms and original works. (Comment on this)