falling beyond shadows

Stolen from jessybxx :

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. Also, pass it along in your own journal because it's more amusing that way.

( Here's mine... )

Fun stuff! 

Stolen from jessybxx :

1) Have your music library ready.
2) Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name.
3) Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4) Post up your results.
5) BONUS POINTS: Upload your mix (whether it's individual songs or a .zip of all the songs) and include the mix in your post.
6) MORE BONUS POINTS: Add the line around the 1:10 mark of at least five songs.

No reason why I picked these, just that they were the first songs I clicked on after reaching the right letter.  And boy, am I glad I have a bunch of songs starting with "A".  :)

(J) Journey to the Past - Aaliyah (Anastasia Soundtrack)
(A) All Fall Down - OneRepublic
(L) Lonely Soldier Boy - Michael Bradley (Robotech Soundtrack)
(A) As Long As You're Mine - Idina Menzel & Norbert Leo Butz(Wicked Musical)
(N) Never Ending Story - Limahl
(A) Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross

And since I had time, I did the line at 1:10 of each of the songs also:

(J) Arms will open wide...
(A) Take a breath, take a step, meet me down below.
(L) You're out here on your own, lonely soldier boy.
(A) I'll make every last moment last, as long as you're mine.
(N) Dream a dream, and what you see will be.
(A) Best that you can do is fall in love.

They came out rather coherently... almost like telling a little story.  How intriguing!  :)

Anyway, here's the zip file of the songs if anyone is interested.  Enjoy!

Stolen from jessybxx :

Your result for The Sexual HELL Test...

HELL LEVEL 1

Raw score: 48%

Take The Sexual HELL Test at HelloQuizzy

Overheard conversation between a couple of European post-docs:  "This US election is just too important to be voted on!"

Um... wow.  Just... wow.

If anyone is in the Boston area and don't have anything planned for Halloween, check out the Post-Meridian Radio Players' annual Tomes of Terror production. PMRP produces radio dramas (think A Prairie Home Companion), and this Halloween, we will be performing three exciting plays for you! I'll just post our official spiel here--come check us out!

What was that? The squeak of a book cart behind you? The hint of a laugh at your expense? No, it couldn't be...

Nor can that be the smell of old tomes being shelved and stacked for you. BUT IT IS! Three tales of terror and woe are shaking off their cobwebs and wish to return to the world of the living. Your world...

Huddle there in your false safety. For when October draws to an end Tomes of Terror III arrives!

First you will see the horrific Halloween jokes and pranks of Baby Snooks!
Then you will see the gothic terror as a simple fox hunt destroys lives in Reynardine!
Finally you will witness the vicious slaughter and uncontrollable terror of The Tell-Tale Heart!

The scares return, this year, for four performances, only! Wednesday, October 29th, Thursday, October 30th, Friday, October 31st and Saturday, November 1st at the Unity Church of God in Somerville, MA.

Find out more at http://www.pmrp.org

PMRP Tomes of Terror III: October 29 - November 1, 7:30 PM

Yep, I'm back.  While I'm not missing the weather (around 34 degrees Celsius, which is in the 90s for those of us in the States), I miss the food in Taiwan already.  Long trip, but fruitful, as I actually got some work done on the plane trip(s).  Yay me.

I was surprised to find that I actually had very little black clothing in my closet.  When I was in grad school, it seemed as if all I ever wore was black.  Perhaps it was a reflection of my mood--I was getting therapy for clinical depression back then.  But I'm just amazed that I've been buying such colorful clothes since then.

Sadly, this doesn't help when one actually needs black clothes for a funeral.

Shopping is such a hassle now.  I don't know why; I used to love going shopping.  Now, it's like pulling teeth.  So time consuming.  But I did manage to get through the mall and get a few black outfits. 

My aunt would have loved going shopping with me.

I just got a call from Citibank.  Apparently, someone got ahold of my credit card number and charged over $2000 at a travel agency, with another $1300 charge elsewhere.  Needless to say, I did not authorize these charges and this account will be closed.

WTF.  I am fairly troubled by the fact that this is the card I keep for "backup" purposes--most of my charges are done with a different card.  In fact, aside from a few automatic recurring charges (like my Blockbuster and my webhosting monthly fees), the last time I actually physically used the card was back in June, when I was in Europe.  And yes, the card is still in my wallet.

I am just very glad that the credit card company caught these charges, or I would have been very confused and/or terrified when I checked my statement next month.

So I've been thinking about writing an actual Doctor Who fic, and not just random drabbles. Which would be an interesting endeavor--despite having devoured each and every episode of the new Who series, I don't know if I could do the characters justice in my portrayal. Especially after reading some of the other authors out there in this fandom. But forge ahead I shall... one can't ever improve without trying, eh?

My original thought was to write about the Doctor and Rose on an adventure and meeting up with Elizabeth Bathory. An uncommon enough subject, I thought, and one that no one else would think of! And in fact, the only reason I know of the name is from watching Ghost Hunters International on the SciFi channel (I love me some paranormal stuff). Imagine my shock and disbelief when I saw someone post a story to time_and_chips with a summary about the Doctor and Rose going to 17th century Hungary and meeting the Bloody Countess. Well, pooh.

I have the beginnings of an idea for another story in my head now. I can tell you right now that I'll be mightily displeased and may descend into paranoia if someone posts a story with the same basic plot next week...

In other news, I'm working on tonight's drabble. Slight smut (oh my!), of which I have not attempted to write before. Would have had it written and posted yesterday, but my cousin's aunt invited me over to dinner... and I never say no to free food. ^_~

So this drabble-a-day thing I started is probably not going to be so much "-a-day" as it is "-every-few-days". Writing the 100 words is fine, and I dare say, easy... but the actual thinking of something to write is killing me. And while it gets me into the practice of writing daily for Nanowrimo (50,000 words in a month... egads, what have I signed myself up for?!?!), I'll be working off of a story outline for that, which means all the brainstorming I need to do should be done by the the time I actually start writing.  Knock on wood.  :P