I haven't done a meme in years, I kinda miss them, and this one's short. Borrowed from 
scribblemoose.
A - Age: 31
B - Birthday: September
C - Crush: dozens, but at this particular moment? In real life: JJ Feild. In fictional life: Oliver Queen in all incarnations.
D - Do you dance?: Nope, and it's one of the greatest tragedies of my life *sob* I can't hear/recognize or hold rhythm.
E - Easiest person to talk to: My brother and A.
F - Favourite colour(s): ALL of them. I used to like earth colors the most, and dressed mostly in black and brown and green and beige... but in the last couple of years it's like a rainbow exploded in my wardrobe and in my flat in general. TBH I like it much better this way.
G - Glitter or neon: Neither, unless we're talking nailpolish, then glitter please.
H - Hair colour: Dirty blonde/dull brown, depending on the season.
I - Ice Cream: My local chain of ice cream shops makes the best all-natural flavours. Mmmm carrot ice cream.
J - Job: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires.
K - Kickboxing or Karate: Meh.
L - Los Angeles is: my favourite submarine class :D
M - Movie: I'll go with "most recently watched" - the new Robocop. I liked it more than I'd thought I would.
N - Number of Siblings: One brother.
O - One Phobia: A mild case of pyrophobia. I'm okay with open flames, but I dread hidden fires I can't see or predict. I recently found that our local fire dept has an online database of current interventions, so that helps calm me down when I'm away from home and get into a panicky "what if I something happened, what if my flat burned down" mode.
P - Part of your personality?: I fret.
Q - Quote: I don't like quotes
R - Reason to smile: I just ate a jam doughnut and there's a bottle of wine waiting for me, nom nom nom.
S - Season: I love winter. Unfortunately it seems my area was one of the few in the country that didn't get any winter this year. It snowed maybe once, for half a day. It makes me feel restless.
T - Time for bed: Preferably on the same day I wake up, but I rarely manage to get to bed before midnight.
U - U love someone?: My family. Don't really know love other than familial.
V - Vegetable you hate: Aubergine.
W - Worst Habits: I worry too much. I procrastinate too much. The two are actually unrelated.
Y - Year you were born: 1982
Z - Zoo Animal: Otters.
scribblemoose.A - Age: 31
B - Birthday: September
C - Crush: dozens, but at this particular moment? In real life: JJ Feild. In fictional life: Oliver Queen in all incarnations.
D - Do you dance?: Nope, and it's one of the greatest tragedies of my life *sob* I can't hear/recognize or hold rhythm.
E - Easiest person to talk to: My brother and A.
F - Favourite colour(s): ALL of them. I used to like earth colors the most, and dressed mostly in black and brown and green and beige... but in the last couple of years it's like a rainbow exploded in my wardrobe and in my flat in general. TBH I like it much better this way.
G - Glitter or neon: Neither, unless we're talking nailpolish, then glitter please.
H - Hair colour: Dirty blonde/dull brown, depending on the season.
I - Ice Cream: My local chain of ice cream shops makes the best all-natural flavours. Mmmm carrot ice cream.
J - Job: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires.
K - Kickboxing or Karate: Meh.
L - Los Angeles is: my favourite submarine class :D
M - Movie: I'll go with "most recently watched" - the new Robocop. I liked it more than I'd thought I would.
N - Number of Siblings: One brother.
O - One Phobia: A mild case of pyrophobia. I'm okay with open flames, but I dread hidden fires I can't see or predict. I recently found that our local fire dept has an online database of current interventions, so that helps calm me down when I'm away from home and get into a panicky "what if I something happened, what if my flat burned down" mode.
P - Part of your personality?: I fret.
Q - Quote: I don't like quotes
R - Reason to smile: I just ate a jam doughnut and there's a bottle of wine waiting for me, nom nom nom.
S - Season: I love winter. Unfortunately it seems my area was one of the few in the country that didn't get any winter this year. It snowed maybe once, for half a day. It makes me feel restless.
T - Time for bed: Preferably on the same day I wake up, but I rarely manage to get to bed before midnight.
U - U love someone?: My family. Don't really know love other than familial.
V - Vegetable you hate: Aubergine.
W - Worst Habits: I worry too much. I procrastinate too much. The two are actually unrelated.
Y - Year you were born: 1982
Z - Zoo Animal: Otters.
Good news of the day for me(*) is that, after a year of absence, my favourite taxi driver that I have a massive crush on came back to the taxi corporation I use daily(**). Why yes, I'm a 31-year-old woman hopelessly crushing on a possibly 50-year-old driver /o\ But he's so nice, has a deep sexy voice, a good taste in music, and his political views aren't actually crazy (I find most taxi drivers are sort of... weird). Despite his age he dyes his hair blond and wears it spiky (and looks good with it, dammit), so he's what I imagine a retired Ray Kowalski could have been!
*) It's bad news for him, actually. He had a steady job with regular hours, but he was made reduntant, and to top it off he totalled his car - a lovely silver Mercedes with a tiny Jolly Roger on the antenna! - so, as he said to me, he was lucky to have friends at the corp who took him back and sold (or loaned, I didn't quite get it) him an old but serviceable car.
**) A remedy for anxiety, exhaustion and depression that I put a lot of thought into, and it's been totally worth the money. I don't move around town a lot, mostly to work (I carpool from work) and it's way more convenient and less stressful than public transport, actually pretty cheap in my town compared to others, and way cheaper (and less stressful) than renewing my driving licence and buying/using a car.
*) It's bad news for him, actually. He had a steady job with regular hours, but he was made reduntant, and to top it off he totalled his car - a lovely silver Mercedes with a tiny Jolly Roger on the antenna! - so, as he said to me, he was lucky to have friends at the corp who took him back and sold (or loaned, I didn't quite get it) him an old but serviceable car.
**) A remedy for anxiety, exhaustion and depression that I put a lot of thought into, and it's been totally worth the money. I don't move around town a lot, mostly to work (I carpool from work) and it's way more convenient and less stressful than public transport, actually pretty cheap in my town compared to others, and way cheaper (and less stressful) than renewing my driving licence and buying/using a car.
- Current Mood:
dirty
Copied from an anon meme a.k.a. the last place on LJ that actually lives.
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I'm rewatching all of Smallville - actually I'm mainlining it as if my life depended on it - and I just googled "when does Jonathan Kent die" because I can't stand his sanctimonios shit anymore. Fortunately, as I'm at the end of season four, it'll be soon. (ETA: he finally died but he keeps coming back. WHY?!).
I'm surprised at how differently I see the show this time round. Ten years ago Chloe was my favourite character, I loved Lex, Lana and the Kents, and didn't like Lois. I shipped Lex/Chloe and Lex/Lana.
This time? The Kent family relationships seem so unhealthy (when Martha asked Jonathan for permission to work outside the farm I was this close to throwing something at the screen). I hate, hate, hate Jonathan. He and Martha are so intrusive, their style of parenting is so heavy-handed and smothering, they are so thight-knit and stuck in their small cirklejerk, just watching it makes me feel suffocated.
But! I stan for Lionel so much it scares me. I find him and his voice so unbelievably hot, and I want to ship him with everyone, especially Chloe.
Lex is fine, his voice is as fantastic as I remember, but he's too much of a woobie, and the plotlines are ridiculous.
I loathed Chloe for three seasons (though I sort-of like her now), Lana bores me to death, and I can't get enough of Lois. I might be in love with Erica Durance. I want a Lionel and Lois show.
(Huh, I just realized how much aural-oriented I am. This is why I couldn't get into Tom Hardy: why I love his looks, his voice is so not what I expected.)
I've never seen all of Smallville actually. At the beginning I relied on TV broadcasts, sporadic downloads in horrible quality and postage-stamp size (early 2000s, yay), I might have even absorbed some episodes as transcripts. Then I watched regularly for some time, then sporadically, seen some episodes only because James Marsters was in them (while in my Buffy phase), and I can't remember the point where I finally stopped watching. Might have been season six or seven? Maybe eight, but still, I've got a few seasons yet to go that are not quite new to me. I wonder how I'll feel about Ollie when he shows up, given that now I love Arrow - Stephen Amell is it for me.
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I'm rewatching all of Smallville - actually I'm mainlining it as if my life depended on it - and I just googled "when does Jonathan Kent die" because I can't stand his sanctimonios shit anymore. Fortunately, as I'm at the end of season four, it'll be soon. (ETA: he finally died but he keeps coming back. WHY?!).
I'm surprised at how differently I see the show this time round. Ten years ago Chloe was my favourite character, I loved Lex, Lana and the Kents, and didn't like Lois. I shipped Lex/Chloe and Lex/Lana.
This time? The Kent family relationships seem so unhealthy (when Martha asked Jonathan for permission to work outside the farm I was this close to throwing something at the screen). I hate, hate, hate Jonathan. He and Martha are so intrusive, their style of parenting is so heavy-handed and smothering, they are so thight-knit and stuck in their small cirklejerk, just watching it makes me feel suffocated.
But! I stan for Lionel so much it scares me. I find him and his voice so unbelievably hot, and I want to ship him with everyone, especially Chloe.
Lex is fine, his voice is as fantastic as I remember, but he's too much of a woobie, and the plotlines are ridiculous.
I loathed Chloe for three seasons (though I sort-of like her now), Lana bores me to death, and I can't get enough of Lois. I might be in love with Erica Durance. I want a Lionel and Lois show.
(Huh, I just realized how much aural-oriented I am. This is why I couldn't get into Tom Hardy: why I love his looks, his voice is so not what I expected.)
I've never seen all of Smallville actually. At the beginning I relied on TV broadcasts, sporadic downloads in horrible quality and postage-stamp size (early 2000s, yay), I might have even absorbed some episodes as transcripts. Then I watched regularly for some time, then sporadically, seen some episodes only because James Marsters was in them (while in my Buffy phase), and I can't remember the point where I finally stopped watching. Might have been season six or seven? Maybe eight, but still, I've got a few seasons yet to go that are not quite new to me. I wonder how I'll feel about Ollie when he shows up, given that now I love Arrow - Stephen Amell is it for me.
Today I had my third ultrasound in the span of a year, and the alien currently inhabiting my right breast was yet again deemed to be Not Cancer. Next ultrasound is scheduled for February; if the alien grows, it might become A Thing That Should Be Removed Under Local Anaesthetic but, to be honest, Not Cancer is all I care about.
Well, I also care about and am grateful for the fact that private ultrasound practices exist, and that their prices is something I can afford, so I don't have to wait months for an appointment covered by the Polish equivalent of NHS. Especially since I was supposed to have the alien checked out in September, but life happened, and then it was never a good time to do it (you know, that 100% typical stupid thing, when you think that not going to a doctor is good because at least you won't have to deal with any bad news) and suddenly it was December. But it's done now, finally.
Seriously, if you can (afford to) do it, go get your important bits checked out, sooner rather than later. Breast ultrasound is painless, and for young women it's the most effective way of detecting cancer and other abnormalities. Self-exams are important, too, but if your breasts are 'lumpy' by design, like mine are, ultrasound is the only way to be sure.
Well, I also care about and am grateful for the fact that private ultrasound practices exist, and that their prices is something I can afford, so I don't have to wait months for an appointment covered by the Polish equivalent of NHS. Especially since I was supposed to have the alien checked out in September, but life happened, and then it was never a good time to do it (you know, that 100% typical stupid thing, when you think that not going to a doctor is good because at least you won't have to deal with any bad news) and suddenly it was December. But it's done now, finally.
Seriously, if you can (afford to) do it, go get your important bits checked out, sooner rather than later. Breast ultrasound is painless, and for young women it's the most effective way of detecting cancer and other abnormalities. Self-exams are important, too, but if your breasts are 'lumpy' by design, like mine are, ultrasound is the only way to be sure.
In an attempt to revive this thing, a post. In points, because it's easier this way :P
1. I sent the first batch of Christmas cards today \o/ including cards tomcalex22, moogle_tey and viridian5 (priority post, so they better arrive this year, dammit, not some time in February).
2. Anyone else up for a card? I didn't send any last year, so this year I want to make up for that :)
3. I've been thinking about why I haven't been posting much here. Apart from the usual excuses of work, family commitments, intermittent worsening of depression and/or lack of any energy whatsoever, the main reason seems to be that with each passing year I can feel my English regressing, so it's getting harder to put my thoughts into words. When I look at the posts I wrote in college, it's like a completely different, much more fluent person wrote them. It's not that surprising - I haven't had a real conversation in English in years, haven't had to write essays, stories or theses in English, and only translated from English to Polish - but it is extremely frustrating and discouraging.
All the language learning theories turn out to be true: output/production/interaction really is more important that input/comprehension. I may consume 95% of text, video and music in English, but ask me to say a few words about myself, and I'll stammer and stumble like an FCE student.
4. Perhaps this is yet another reason why I should post more :)
5. (this point is more random) USS Dallas is going to be decomissioned soon and it's making me sad, all the sadder when I think of Tom Clancy. (2013 has been an awful year; Paul Walker omg ;_; ). I do hope it'll be made a part of a museum because that ship is legendary.
1. I sent the first batch of Christmas cards today \o/ including cards to
mcalex22, moogle_tey and viridian5 (priority post, so they better arrive this year, dammit, not some time in February). 2. Anyone else up for a card? I didn't send any last year, so this year I want to make up for that :)
3. I've been thinking about why I haven't been posting much here. Apart from the usual excuses of work, family commitments, intermittent worsening of depression and/or lack of any energy whatsoever, the main reason seems to be that with each passing year I can feel my English regressing, so it's getting harder to put my thoughts into words. When I look at the posts I wrote in college, it's like a completely different, much more fluent person wrote them. It's not that surprising - I haven't had a real conversation in English in years, haven't had to write essays, stories or theses in English, and only translated from English to Polish - but it is extremely frustrating and discouraging.
All the language learning theories turn out to be true: output/production/interaction really is more important that input/comprehension. I may consume 95% of text, video and music in English, but ask me to say a few words about myself, and I'll stammer and stumble like an FCE student.
4. Perhaps this is yet another reason why I should post more :)
5. (this point is more random) USS Dallas is going to be decomissioned soon and it's making me sad, all the sadder when I think of Tom Clancy. (2013 has been an awful year; Paul Walker omg ;_; ). I do hope it'll be made a part of a museum because that ship is legendary.
- Current Mood:
optimistic
Today is the day I've figured out the password to my router! \o/ after writing it down wrong almost a year ago /o\
I know I could have had it reset to factory settings, but I didn't have the correct settings written down, and with my ISP nothing is ever easy to set up.
Now I can finally change the wifi password! And have a SSID more meaningful than random letters and numbers! And set up my new wireless printer-scanner! Wheeeee!
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In other news, Haven! OMG!!! So much (OT3) love!
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So many exclamation points! :D
I know I could have had it reset to factory settings, but I didn't have the correct settings written down, and with my ISP nothing is ever easy to set up.
Now I can finally change the wifi password! And have a SSID more meaningful than random letters and numbers! And set up my new wireless printer-scanner! Wheeeee!
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In other news, Haven! OMG!!! So much (OT3) love!
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So many exclamation points! :D
http://www.helpage.org/newsroom/press-room/press-releases/aid-agencies-call-for-halt-to-recurring-demolitions-of-water-cisterns-in-area-c/
Aid agencies call for halt to recurring demolitions of water cisterns in Area C
19 December 2012
Aid agencies are calling for an immediate end to demolitions of water cisterns belonging to Palestinian communities in the West Bank, which have been on steady increase in the past year. The recurring demolitions present a clear breach of International Humanitarian Law and undermine the sustainability of the communities that depend on them for survival.
The year 2012 ends with a somber record - just in its first 10 months, Israeli armed forces have destroyed 36 rainwater cisterns used by the Palestinian communities in the Area C of the West Bank, affecting over 1600 people, an increase from 34 cisterns destroyed in 2011. The communities whose cisterns were destroyed live unconnected to the water network and are forced to rely on rain harvesting and/or water purchases from vendors. Most of the communities that have been subject to demolition of cisterns reside in the vicinity of Israeli settlements and unauthorized outposts that enjoy a regular water supply.
Aid agencies are dismayed by what appears to be a continuous targeted destruction and consciously slanted distribution of one of the most scarce and most vital natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory. As an object "essential for the survival of the population", according to International Humanitarian Law, water cisterns have special protection and hence should never be destroyed based on administrative reasons.
The destruction of essential water infrastructure in Area C is in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law and Israel's obligations as an Occupying Power, and is undermining the very existence of Palestinian communities in this region. Many among the destroyed cisterns have in the past years been rehabilitated with European Union (EU) and other donors' funds, in projects implemented by various members of AIDA (the Association of International Development Organizations) - testifying to the international community's understanding of the vital importance of these infrastructures for the survival of Palestinian communities in Area C. AIDA offers its unconditional support to all its members doing this vital work and calls upon the international community to ensure that demolitions of water cisterns are halted immediately, and to take concrete steps to ensure aid agencies can continue to assist vulnerable Palestinians unhindered and without interference.
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I knew this was happening, but I didn't realize things were so bad. Some of my money went towards restoring those water cisterns, since I donate to PAH. Fuck you, Israel, they're goddamned WATER CISTERNS.
Aid agencies call for halt to recurring demolitions of water cisterns in Area C
19 December 2012
Aid agencies are calling for an immediate end to demolitions of water cisterns belonging to Palestinian communities in the West Bank, which have been on steady increase in the past year. The recurring demolitions present a clear breach of International Humanitarian Law and undermine the sustainability of the communities that depend on them for survival.
The year 2012 ends with a somber record - just in its first 10 months, Israeli armed forces have destroyed 36 rainwater cisterns used by the Palestinian communities in the Area C of the West Bank, affecting over 1600 people, an increase from 34 cisterns destroyed in 2011. The communities whose cisterns were destroyed live unconnected to the water network and are forced to rely on rain harvesting and/or water purchases from vendors. Most of the communities that have been subject to demolition of cisterns reside in the vicinity of Israeli settlements and unauthorized outposts that enjoy a regular water supply.
Aid agencies are dismayed by what appears to be a continuous targeted destruction and consciously slanted distribution of one of the most scarce and most vital natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory. As an object "essential for the survival of the population", according to International Humanitarian Law, water cisterns have special protection and hence should never be destroyed based on administrative reasons.
The destruction of essential water infrastructure in Area C is in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law and Israel's obligations as an Occupying Power, and is undermining the very existence of Palestinian communities in this region. Many among the destroyed cisterns have in the past years been rehabilitated with European Union (EU) and other donors' funds, in projects implemented by various members of AIDA (the Association of International Development Organizations) - testifying to the international community's understanding of the vital importance of these infrastructures for the survival of Palestinian communities in Area C. AIDA offers its unconditional support to all its members doing this vital work and calls upon the international community to ensure that demolitions of water cisterns are halted immediately, and to take concrete steps to ensure aid agencies can continue to assist vulnerable Palestinians unhindered and without interference.
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I knew this was happening, but I didn't realize things were so bad. Some of my money went towards restoring those water cisterns, since I donate to PAH. Fuck you, Israel, they're goddamned WATER CISTERNS.
- Current Mood:
angry
I hope everyone's had a good Christmas/free time. Mine was pretty okay :) especially since I'm off work till the end of the week.
I've been at my parents' since Dec 22, and yesterday I popped back home just for 5 minutes, literally, to grab a small gift for my brother's girlfriend.
While I was home I checked my mailbox - and there was a lovely card fromviridian5 waiting for me. Thank you so much! but I'm ashamed to say that I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SEND CARDS THIS YEAR (*face, meet palm*). I'm sorry ;_;
December was a shit month as both my parents got ill for 2+ weeks, only partly ovelapping, and I was at work alone (due to father being ill), then after work I always had to bring them food and supplies (due to mother being ill) and I was so, so exhausted. Were it not for online shopping I doubt I'd have managed any gift buying. Again, I'm sorry. I'll try to do better next year.
I've been overeating all week and, oy, it's time for another feast. My family's favourite way fo spend New Year's Eve: lots of specially prepared food, good wine and awful television :D I hope you all are spending the evening in your favourite way, too.
I [want to] believe that 2013 will be a good year for all of us *hugs all around*
I've been at my parents' since Dec 22, and yesterday I popped back home just for 5 minutes, literally, to grab a small gift for my brother's girlfriend.
While I was home I checked my mailbox - and there was a lovely card from
viridian5 waiting for me. Thank you so much! but I'm ashamed to say that I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SEND CARDS THIS YEAR (*face, meet palm*). I'm sorry ;_;December was a shit month as both my parents got ill for 2+ weeks, only partly ovelapping, and I was at work alone (due to father being ill), then after work I always had to bring them food and supplies (due to mother being ill) and I was so, so exhausted. Were it not for online shopping I doubt I'd have managed any gift buying. Again, I'm sorry. I'll try to do better next year.
I've been overeating all week and, oy, it's time for another feast. My family's favourite way fo spend New Year's Eve: lots of specially prepared food, good wine and awful television :D I hope you all are spending the evening in your favourite way, too.
I [want to] believe that 2013 will be a good year for all of us *hugs all around*
- Current Mood:
okay
Since I did so well updating this thing after months of inactivity, here's another post.
What I've been doing for the last three months: trying to amass a small collection of not-so-basic bricks so that I can make cool stuff. Let me tell you, it's not that easy when you a) have relatively little spare money anyway, b) live in Europe where sets are somehow more expensive than in the US (wtf, TLG), c) live in a relatively poor European country, d) all of the above. Nevertheless I'm finally getting close to the point when I can move past the original sets (though I love love love the Creator sets especially ♥) and get to building my own stuff.
Ahem.
:D
Now I'm just waiting for a package with a brown head for Teal'c and then I'll be turning mummies and Egyptians into Jaffa and Goa'ulds. I already have a sarcophagus and some snakes :D
What I've been doing for the last three months: trying to amass a small collection of not-so-basic bricks so that I can make cool stuff. Let me tell you, it's not that easy when you a) have relatively little spare money anyway, b) live in Europe where sets are somehow more expensive than in the US (wtf, TLG), c) live in a relatively poor European country, d) all of the above. Nevertheless I'm finally getting close to the point when I can move past the original sets (though I love love love the Creator sets especially ♥) and get to building my own stuff.
Ahem.
:D
Now I'm just waiting for a package with a brown head for Teal'c and then I'll be turning mummies and Egyptians into Jaffa and Goa'ulds. I already have a sarcophagus and some snakes :D
*** haven't decided yet if I want to renew my mebership - the OTW is so fucked up as an org - but then again I do most of my reading on AO3, and I'd like to see that project alive and well for at least few more years, so I might give them money just for that.
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