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extra! extra: full report on my visit chez heathers and lonejaguar HERE -- I made them take the pix since I can't do cameraphone posts while I'm in Canada. we had a riotously good and HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE time. apparently I'm gaining a reputation for assigning homework at fannish rendez-vous, heh. also, they report that I'm widely considered to be COOL, at least in SVU circles -- which delights me as I had NO IDEA (I think of myself as a tremendous nerd). I always feel like such a poser in fandom because I'm a relative lj newbie and have only written a paltry few stories.

in case anyone I may meet in the future is still harboring concerns, I've been officially certified as NOT!PSYCHO by Nic and Heather -- they've been making friends through fandom for like a zillion years and are quite experienced by now. I was relieved, as I sometimes worry that I AM psycho in addition to being uncool -- but I trust their expert opinion. don't know who else in North America I'm likely to cross paths with in the near future, though (museumfreak, as I'd like to go to the Battlestar Galactica conference in Atlanta in April?), so this pretty much concludes v. 2 -- v. 3 (like v. 1) will, I hope, be in Sydney.

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I don't know how many of my readers are familiar with the 12-year-old saga of my First Love. it's not a story I tell much these days. I thought I might blog in some detail about our visit, but in the end I'm happy to just share with Tanya (who I've known even longer). suffice it to say that it was uniformly delightful, in a quiet and un-fraught way (and that, perhaps, I've finally adjusted to that). it helps that both of us have found ways to be happy. still don't know if I can ever fall out of love, or not, but that question seems irrelevant.

Tanya and I have been doing much reminiscing, and I became determined to calculate which years I'd visited Stratford (with mom, friends, or school). I looked through the past programs of the Festival, and came up with: 1990-1997 + 2000 (so I really haven't been back in 5 years, omg!).

Just found out that I'm gonna be a word -- hurrah!

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in my RPF obsession, I've mostly sidestepped the moral/ethical pro vs. con debates. the two camps seem divided from each other by their respective emphasis on and dismissal of celebrities' "realness" -- thus both, in my view, flatten the terrain of ambiguity that is, for me, the particular fascination of RPF. ( Read more... )

1. I brought seven books with me on "vacation" -- anybody want to make a bet about whether I'll actually read everything I'm supposed to in them over the course of this week? granted, two are solely for reference on the project that I was supposed to have finished already. for your reference and mine:

( the list )

2. meet Starbuck. she how she needs to have teh hott girlsex? maybe Boomer seduces her in one of her cylon-blackout moments. (have I mentioned that I like cyborgs?) or there's always the ever-neglected Cally, who is really pretty cute. or, you know, the fine art of the crossover. (I know Starbuck/Apollo was inevitable, OK, but it is rather vexing that it seems to comprise 80% of all bsg fic (the other 20% is Adama/Roslin, Boomer/Helo, hettymchet, etc.). could you be any more predictible, people?) of course, as far as I'm concerned, President Roslin is the holy grail of bsg!sex. omgsohott (girlswithglassesmmmm). (have I mentioned that I like older women?) is it wrong, on the grounds of either heterosexuality or the other operative perversions, that I want her to have sex with her fresh-faced boytoy assistant? [/Monica Lewinsky]

3. tribe.net is pretty nifty, eh? kind of like lj communities, with a somewhat different interface. I'm going to add feeds for a couple of (porn) tribes to my flist. (see dykepoly_tribe, girlporn_tribe, qparties_tribe, sexed_tribe)

4. speaking of nifty, certain people seem unduly impressed by my run-of-the-mill abilities to post to lj from my cellphone. ergo, a wee tutorial for you -- note, first of all, that you must have a paid account to use these features.

( instructions )

5. I could not even describe to you the cracktastic brilliance of the BIRTHDAYFIC michellek wrote for me. love!

( on RPF )