Yeah, I'm pretty much done now. My primary DW account is the same name as this one. If any of you have DW accounts and you want me to friend them, please leave me a message here.

To anyone thinking about the switch and on the fence, you won't lose a pixel of your content. DW can mass-import all of your LJ content to your DW account and if you have any problems, they have the nicest support staff I've come across on the internet. They have all the "good" features LJ used to care about, and pretty much NONE of the crap that's happened in the last year (two years). I'm all for site evolution, but not at the expense of the users experience and not in spite of massive opposition. 

Let the Russians have it, I'm done.

This will be my last message here. When I get home tonight I'll be turning off all my cross-posting settings and there's a good chance I'll actually be deleting my content and journals here because I just don't want them to have any of it. I'll miss anyone here that I can't find over there. You were all great. I'm sorry I'm not sticking it out with you.  

But before I go all scorched-earth, I have tokens in this account. If there's anyone here who wants those tokens, who's staying and can actually use them, drop me a line here, they're yours. First come, first served.

So long and farewell. 

The thing about Fantastic Fest is that it is very hard to work during it. I've pretty much written off trying to make the midnight screenings so I can come home and do some work before collapsing into bed so I can get up and into the office to make my 4hrs before heading back to the festival.

I am going to be dead by Thursday.

Also, I am now two for two for years in which I have celebrity encounters by almost running them over on my way to a screening. I fail at keeping my eyes open, I guess. (In my defense, though, Angela Bettis is freaking TINY.) Also worth noting, the guy who plays Will on Criminal Minds is fucking HOT in person. I'm not sure what film of his was screening, but he was here for it and DAMN.

My mind is mush and the dryer has stopped running so I can see if I have dry clothes to wear tomorrow, so I must away.

I have no idea what you all are doing, but hugs for you all anyway!

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But I am going to give everyone one of my FAVORITE comfort food recipes. It is NOT haute-cuisine. It's just very versatile and I'll give some of my favorite options, but it's one of the go-to things I make when I'm just not feeling very motivated because I can make a lot of it and turn it into other things later.

See, I can make posts with happy things in them.

So, with that in mind, I bring you...

Bourbon Onions and Black Beans
(with choice of meat)

Ingredients:
(2) medium onions, yellow (or if you wanna be fancy, one yellow and one red, but NO SWEET Vidalia-types, this will be sweet enough)
(3) cloves garlic, minced
(2) tbsp butter
(2)-(3) Tbsp of bourbon (or whiskey) I usually have Bulleit Burbon on-hand so that's what I use.
Salt and pepper
Add'l seasoning to taste - I have a bottle of Cavender's Greek Seasoning, but you can also use a bay leaf and savory, or cumin, red pepper, and other Mexican-ish spices. Your choice of meat will have a big impact here. Generally, savory spices are going to be best to go with the sweet of the onions.
(1) can of black beans OR cook a cup and a half of black beans from scratch with a little ham or bacon to flavor
Choice of meat: Sausage (my usual choice) - 3-4 links of smoked, jalapeno, or kielbasa-style. The kinda you eat on buns at a cook-out, not for breakfast with your pancakes. (You can also take this Italian, but I... don't. The flavors just never really gelled for me with the onions and beans. Although now that I think about it, a white bean version with Italian sausage and differently-cooked onions could be interesting.)
Chicken - 2-3 skinned, boneless breasts, chopped into 1/2-in - 1 in cubes - your preference, but make sure they're uniform so they cook evenly
Ground Beef - This is GREAT if you're anticipating a more Mexican route. I've used a pre-packaged envelope of taco seasoning and this makes a great taco filler, spicy and a little sweet.

CHEATS: Ever get Papa John's? Ever have one of those garlic butter tubs leftover? Use that in place of the garlic and butter here. Hell, go nuts, use TWO. Also, the spicier the sausage, the less you have to season later.

( Hope you like onions.Collapse )

There you have it, go nuts.

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So let me tell you about this office move I'm in the middle of.

The heads of the company have been talking about moving for a long time. Which is a good thing, there wasn't enough space to begin with and because it was in a downtown space we were paying way too much for it. So moving was good. And now is pretty good because this is a slowtime for our company.

But oh, my heavens, this has been managed badly.

First off, a lot of us weren't told we were moving until the movers were at the office, taking a tally of how many crates they'd need to bring us and everyone just kind of smiled, nodded, and pointed them in the right directions. Instructions for how to pack didn't come until the day packing was supposed to begin. Due to circumstances beyond our control (there was another company doing a move and the building only had one loading/unloading dock) we lost hours of packing time and ended up staying way late to get it done.

As for me, in particular, who has a number of filing cabinets in her office, filled to overflowing this was really, really frustrating. The new space had a number of cabinets that had been left behind so we left my old ones behind. Only there were a few tense moments where no one was sure how many cabinets were there and the number kept changing, finally settling on a number that meant I would FINALLY have room for all the files I have to manage.

So the movers come amidst not one, not two, but three different e-mails regarding when we were supposed to be at the new office today (Saturday) to unpack so that we can work on Monday. (I still don't know exactly when we were supposed to be there, I just got there about 1:30ish.) Only none of us will have building access cards, only a few of us will get keys to our offices when we do arrive, and did I mention that no one really knows when we'll have phones? At least they figured out sometime on Friday that we could keep our old phone numbers, so that was good.

Anyway, I get to the new office and I'm actually pleased. They're going to knock out some walls so we'll have a large conference room and a couple of smaller ones, we have a nice-sized kitchen so people can sit together and eat (although there's no microwave or fridge yet, that's supposedly coming next week, too) and the offices for most people are really great. Everyone got new desks and chairs, there are storage rooms, it's just really nice.

And I'm not even upset about my office. It's always been a glorified file room and when I went in, i liked the way it was set up. Desk was in a place I could see the door at, cabinets lined the walls, they all matched so it didn't look like we'd assembled it off Craigslist (like my last office). For some reason there's a roll of carpet in the corner, but whatever. I start unpacking and my boss is helping. It's hot, because the A/C gets shut off at 1pm I guess, but we're gettin' it done. He's got newborn twins back home, so he'd come in early and so he left after a few of the filing cabinets were filled and the rest of the crates were arranged to make it easier for me to do the rest. Because he's a nice guy, he brought his fan over for me to use while I finished unpacking.

Or would have, if I'd been able to find a power chord.

See, when the COO made the pan to set up my office, he neglected to find out where there power outlets were and so they're all behind the filing cabinets. My desk is on the one wall completely devoid of power and internet.

Guess who gets to move everything, or run extension cables, or whatever they decide to do to fix this bright and early Monday morning? This girl. Guess who's going to have to work from home tomorrow so she doesn't miss her Monday deadlines because of this shit? This girl.

Dear, God, this move was planned poorly. You have no idea. This isn't even everything. I am so tired.

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I feel like the worst comic fan ever. I just realized that Chris Claremont was at my LCS, I was ten minutes away, and I DIDN'T STOP IN.

/fails

Damn. I had in on my calendar and everything.

In other news, last night I was having dreams where I was the Slayer (or a Slayer, I guess) who just finished fending off a horde of zombies in this old Victorian mansion. I take that back, we started at the end of the final battle before the sun came up and the zombies... went away. I guess they burned easily or something. Anyway, I remember being VERY TIRED.

I had a friend/companion/lover(?) who was part or entirely faerie (actually now that I think about it, she was a very blonde Liv Tyler with wings) and I got called to some faerie dimension to go undercover and defeat an evil... something. I was not happy, I'd just finished killing a ton of zombies with my Scooby-squad. Which included Anya. But anyway, to prove my worth, I was told to kill my friend/companion/lover. I had a scepter of some kind that had magic killer-lasers and I zapped her without blinking an eye. Literally, I just took the magic stick and BAM! Fried faerie. Then she promptly reincarnated herself (with a different haircolor, her regular brown) and killed the evil something or other I was supposed to kill.

I just sat back and chilled. I'd been killing zombies, I didn't need that shit, apparently.

At some point, there was an emotional scene with the Spike-esque requisite vampire lover I had, but I don't remember that as well. It was right after the zombie thing and before the faerie thing, and we ended up cuddling because I needed to sleep. And then there was something else about little buttons that I wore on the tank top I put on to fight the evil... something. They had X-Men related things, I think one was a Jean Grey button.

In other OTHER news, my meds still give me really vivid and weird dreams. I can live with that.

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So. Trying out that blogging thing and attempting to keep it public and my more flaily-fandom things (RP, memes, random thoughts that flit that I can't muster a full post for) and RL private things private. To that end, I made a "public" twitter acct (aka re-purposed and cleaned out one I used for work once upon a time) to go with it and my Tumblr will feed to that.

It's all under construction (especially the blog) and I'll probably be tweaking it and moving older, applicable posts to it as "flash-backs" so there will be that. Otherwise, my goal is at least a post a week on anything that trips my fancy.

tldr: I moving pieces of my psyche. You can find them BLOG, TWITTER, and TUMBLR.

Yeah, I didn't have anything more important to say than that. Sorry.

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I'm feeling like I want to get into more "regular" blogging. Like, actually writing articles instead of drive-by rantings, and I don't want to do that here. Mostly because I'd like to keep this my semi-secret, fandom, crack place. I have an old Wordpress site that I've been dicking with (originally conceived to be an online resume, but that... didn't work out), and I can port over some more of my more "public" posts from here and link to recaps from when I was a writer for TVOvermind.

But I wonder what I should I write. Go back to doing the occasional recaps? Toss up all my movie/comic/tv/book feels? Politics?

IDK - I guess I'm feeling unfulfilled with my writing and since I know I'm rubbish at regular fiction writing, smaller, article-type things might be better.

Ideas, thoughts, GTFO?

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It's been awhile since I've done a full out brain-dump after a movie, but Prometheus, I think, deserves one.

( Let's just assume spoilers, shall we? Although if you're familiar with the Alien franchise, you're unfortunately spoiled already.Collapse )

So, at this point, it's far too late to say long story short, but I will conclude with this. Prometheus is a great movie. Go see it. It's got all the elements of great sci-fi and better-than-average horror. Just don't expect to be surprised.

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 Last night's dream involved Alison Janney, William Shatner, Doctor Who, Dr. Seuss characters, a car chase, a haunted-looking hotel, and possibly cats. 

I'm not 100% sure about the cats.

Apparently my psyche's been holding onto a few things because shit was CRAZY.

In other news, my Dad finally left this week so the house in mine again. Woo-Hoo! I love him, but that was a long-ass visit.

And this might be the strangest post I've written.

Um, topic... season finales? Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii 5-0, Castle, NCIS:LA (I missed original spice), others I might be forgetting...?
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I still have all the feels.



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