Lifeguards '08 (minus a few people... these are the ones who showed up for the staff party at press time)

We are rainbow compatible. Unintentionally. Whoa.





In other news, I have a slightly awful sunburn. It's the worst on my forehead and the back of my neck. Thank you, Mountain Creek.

I'll tell you what's been happening to me lately, if you promise not to laugh, unless you can understand why I'm freaked out and enjoying it at the same time.

Everytime I let my mind wander and think about Rose or fandom something or if some random thought pops into my head I turn around and the street I'm entering is Rosewood or the radio begins to mention the Olympic fans doing something.

And the episode of Middleman this week was about Vlad the Impaler. So guess which castle the Ghost Hunters are investigating? Vlad the Impalers.

Lol.

• 10:38 I'm at uni, lalala, everybody knows I'm at uni. This is a post, lalala, everybody knows this is a post. @usagiko, kill me. #
• 22:48 Oh boy, time for bed! Time for a SLEEP IN =DDD #

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Spending time with friends at the movies and parties and sleep overs and finding my Story Person on vacation.

I'm watching Ghost Hunters! It freaks me out but I love to watch it. Hmm, it's a bit like how I still get scared, but I want people to tell me about scary movies.

I'm such a fan of my oddities.

And actually, I'm writing, so that's good.

my first day of my last semester was today. twas not good.
- the muslin didn't arrive. therefore I did not get to sew it/staple it/starch/prime it. SO BEHIND ALREADY.
- our colors aren't bright enough to get the vibrancy that Jeni wants, so we had to special order some. I only have two colors mixed. FAIL.
- I have over $100 worth of art supplies to buy for my BEGINNERS art class. plus, it is a three hour class that expects you to do 6 hours a week outside of class work. FAIL.
- I got my period so I am cranky >:|

++ I took a shower when I got home and that made me feel a little better. This also could be because I listened to my grunge mix while I showered. Love the angst! Makes me feel better.

To make me smile (and any one else who didn't have a good day) here is some pretty:



( nomnom michael phelps )

:is sick: Fucking Thai food. :wants someone to be nice to her, whinges:

Also, I want a copy of The Sims 2 so I could make all of my FList and stick us in a house together and play Big Brother. That's be sweet. :D Yeah, there's an LP like that going on right now on SA and it's lolarious.

-Luce

Today is the birthday of H.P. Lovecraft!

I've posted several things about Lovecraft in the past. Here are a couple of posts that may still be of interest:
* Pictures of My Tour of Lovecraftian Providence
* Neil Gaiman's Writings Inspired by Lovecraft's work

Some of my favorite Lovecraft sites include the following:
* The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
* Index of The Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
* H.P. Lovecraft’s Library
* The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
* "H.P. Lovecraft" by S.T. Joshi


And in other news...

* Congratulations to this year's worthy winners of The Mythopoeic Awards!

* Last Sunday the Hickory Daily Record ran "Welcome to LRU," an article about the transition of Lenoir-Rhyne College to Lenoir-Rhyne University. This is the school where my husband is Provost; the change, which will be official this Saturday, is the biggest in the institution's 117-year history.

* Also this Saturday is "Are We Alone?," a talk and reception at the Catawba Science Center and Planetarium featuring Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute in California and Chair of the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Group. It should be a fascinating evening! I'm looking forward to attending. If anyone is in the area and interested, I hope you'll check out the event.


"In a rear vestry room beside the apse Blake found a rotting desk and ceiling-high shelves of mildewed, disintegrating books. Here for the first time he received a positive shock of objective horror, for the titles of those books told him much. They were the black, forbidden things which most sane people have never even heard of, or have heard of only in furtive, timorous whispers; the banned and dreaded repositories of equivocal secret and immemorial formulae which have trickled down the stream of time from the days of man's youth, and the dim, fabulous days before man was. He had himself read many of them - a Latin version of the abhorred Necronomicon, the sinister Liber Ivonis, the infamous Cultes des Goules of Comte d'Erlette, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Junzt, and old Ludvig Prinn's hellish De Vermis Mysteriis. But there were others he had known merely by reputation or not at all - the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the Book of Dzyan, and a crumbling volume of wholly unidentifiable characters yet with certain symbols and diagrams shuddering recognizable to the occult student. Clearly, the lingering local rumours had not lied. This place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe."
- from The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft

1. It's been a weird couple of days. But what bugs me the most is that my brother still doesn't think before he speaks. I mean, he knows I've been looking for my Chucks forever and said he was going to buy them for me for my birthday, but had to tell me I looked weird wearing them.

*headdesk at the fail*

That's family though. I guess I should be glad he's being honest. (He has always had the color coordination/fashion thing down and I was wearing things that clashed. But I hate that I have the need to justify it.)

2. I saw a commerical for the Sarah Connor Chronicles DVDs today. And I plan on watching the show when it comes back anyway. I may have to buy them. Hee.

3. School starts in two weeks. *whimpers* Please stay summer. Please?

Instead of me talking about MYSELF I want you guys to say something about me that would let other people who don't know me get to know what I am like.

♥

OH EM GEE

This, ladies and gents (I don't think I have any gents on my FList....), is an awesome day.

Dr. Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show.


This is the best day ever.

-Luce

ETA: Um. On a sidenote.... I'm sorry for all the Dan fans. I don't understand the Dan Love, but I respect it. I'm sorry, you guys.

This is an amazing article (which is recieving a lot of negative comments)... but I thought it was spot on so I figured I'd post it here. This is the first three paragraphs of it.

Look, I don't know much about gymnastics, but I do know that landing a vault on two feet is better than landing one on two knees. Olympic gymnastics judges evidently disagree with me, as they awarded China's Cheng Fei a bronze medal yesterday even after she fell on her vault landing. American Alicia Sacramone finished fourth despite, you know, not falling.

And today, 12-year old 16-year old Chinese gymnast He Kexin won gold over Nastia Liukin based on an obscure tiebreaking rule. The two received the same score from the judges, but He won a tiebreak because an Australian judge apparently was watching a different competition.

Every judging break seems to have gone China's way during these Olympics. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, I just think that judges are humans who are influenced by big names, fans and other external factors. Oh, and they're also terrible. Judged events will always be viewed with skepticism by those who lose for this reason, particularly those who lose to a member of the home delegation.


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Sweet Jesus, I love Tim Omundson. He writes the Lassiter blog on the Psych website and I just.... don't have enough love for this.

He thinks he's more Scully than Mulder and calls the IT guys idiot savants, referring to them as his own Lone Gunmen. And he has them mess with his laptop so iTunes will stop miscategorizing his songs. And he's a stickler for getting his music legally.

Can we have Tim O. write an episode? Please? I would die of pure joy.

-Luce

I just watched the first episode of Dexter since Mum rented the DVD on a whim.

Holy shit. Michael Hall will always be the nice, kinda unhinged gay guy on Six Feet Under to me (with the awesome cop boyfriend) but... God, Dexter is fascinating. I'm totally disgusted by what he is, but he's so damn compelling and his inner monologue is so amiable... It's all so confusing. :so very torn:

I think I really need to grab the book. (I think it was a book first, right?)

And, talking to Mum about it, I realized that Dexter is basically Shawn Spencer, but more fucked up. Which makes me want crossover fic. Someone must have already written it though.

-Luce

Spoilers for The Middleman!

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