tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008You had plenty money 1922I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that wayburntcopper2013-01-12T16:25:03Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:730762notes on ... changing fashions, maybe?2013-01-12T15:55:37Z2013-01-12T16:25:03Zcontemplativepublic0everyone knows fashion changes really fast these days. some trends last longer than others. However, what's interesting is noting the really long lasting permanent ones. Best way is probably tv and train carriages and platforms.<br /><br />tv: due to it being filmed several months before, it can be trendy but not so trendy that it's out of date by the time it hits. Often it has to develop its own trends.<br /><br />train carriages and platforms: all human life is here. It's not like buses - you have rich, poor, unemployed, tourists, workers, schoolkids, mums, people making short journeys and long journeys. people dressed in all kinds of fashions and styles.<br /><br />So the main trend I've noticed? piercings and tattoos. In years gone by, people used to remove their piercings to go to work due to dress codes, still incredibly narrow. A shop I worked at for all of two days in the mid-90s had rules on how many piercings you could wear in your ears, and a strong implication that you were only allowed nose piercings if you were indian or pakistani. lip and eyebrow piercings? right out.<br /><br />These days, you only have to turn your head to see someone in a suit, or the female equivalent of a suit, with a bunch of piercings. upper age range normally being late 30s. The average american show (much slower moving and conservative than british ones) have the girl from IT in a very carefully turned out immaculate white shirt and pencil skirt with 1950s makeup, but with a bar through her ear cartilage and a lip piercing.<br /><br />Tattoos? glance at their feet and wrists. Everyone just has them. no big deal.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=730762" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:729654deviance from 'normal' human mode2012-12-31T00:08:17Z2012-12-31T00:08:17Zcuriouspublic3given all the variation in humans, pondering how much we perceive ourselves as varying from the perceived average. (which is an incredibly odd concept as it is) For instance, from what I've been told over the years, I have:<br /><br />short toes<br />wide feet with narrow heels<br />short, small waist<br />wide shoulders<br />tiny back (well, rib cage, given my bra band size)<br />wide hips<br />short, stocky legs<br />big head, or at least hat size.<br /><br />I'm short for this part of Britain. 5'3. Hourglass figure. Which accounts for some of my bits being considered wide/short. I've always had more muscle (the stockiness) than would be expected for someone of my height, so I weigh more too. (I've varied between 10 and 10 and a half stone since puberty, only ever dipping below when I was running five times a week for about a month, and I expect the weight would go back up if I'd kept it up and gained more muscle, since my weight never varied when I was swimming 1k every morning at school for years, not including PE lessons)<br /><br />The couple of bits of me that are *definitely* not on the 'perceived normal' variation scale are my hands and eyes - hands are child size and proportioned, eyes have pupils that are stuck on 'wide'. (they don't close down very much in bright light, meaning artificial light on during daylight is irritating and slightly painful, I have great night vision, and I have to actively concentrate to see 3D. I always wonder how much my pupils would fuck with the Voight-Kamp test in Bladerunner.)<br /><br />Be interesting to find someone who was exactly average. Anyone got a bit of them that's apparently average?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=729654" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:35629oh, hello shoulders...2009-11-12T13:31:43Z2009-11-12T13:31:43ZYou're timeless to me - Christopher Walkencalmpublic0Gah. lost a day's nano to going to bed about an hour after I got home. Due to that and getting pummeled by the masseur, now feeling considerably better. It's so nice to be able to move my shoulders. (she kept making comments about 'next time, acupuncture!' as she put major pain on my hipbones. Fuck. off. I'm quite happy to have needles stuck in me for medical and decoration reasons, but not for a purpose that has been proved that it doesn't matter *where* you stick the needles) Still, working from home so theoretically should be able to catch up a bit and plot some more today.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=35629" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:26338In Gremlin world, Mogwai Chooses You.2009-09-23T12:39:16Z2009-09-23T12:39:16ZJay-Z and Rihanna - Run this townrestlesspublic2so far, have not attempted to savage any passers by or work colleagues out of hunger, so at least the special k is filling me up.<br /><br />Yesterday, there came the wail from IT of 'everyone getting this message, disconnect from the network and run your virus scan NOW' ... which turned out to include half our team. Then told everyone else to run it anyway. So that was somewhat amusing. The virus whatsit got rid of it on the infected computers, but it turns out everyone else had a couple of trojans lurking in user profiles that weren't their own, which tended to raise the cry of 'who the hell is joss01?'<br /><br />This tourist guide to the tube speaks the truth. <a href="http://londonist.com/2009/09/the_ultimate_uncluttered_tube_map.php">you will need no other map, tourist people</a>.<br /><br />Oh good god. I've just seen an ad for American Apparel, advertising '25 different one piece bodysuits available now'. WHY? Why would anyone want to resurrect these incredibly uncomfortable things? The poppers would come undone when you least expected it, or stuck, or would take ages to do up. And why do you feel the need to wear one of these anyway? What advantages does it have over a bog standard top?<br /><br />Went hunting for old notebooks to find the notes on the nano ideas. On finding them, have got the upstairs downstairs notes (which was 1920s, not edwardian as I'd previously thought and a lot soppier - good god, valet boy, you were a *doormat*) and the psycho exploring officer (who is too bloody normal and what, precisely, is with this plot/character development? Plus some weird details which make no sense unless you knew the universe I was working on in another completely unrelated story.). can't find the girl who disguises herself as a boy to go soldiering, but am pretty sure I can remember how that one went. Slightly peeved that I don't have it since I remember there was some decent dialogue in those notes. What is odd is that I can find my recent notebooks, I can find my old notebooks, but not the ones from a year ago. Middle period of the last few years missing. Suspect there is an Eater of Notebooks. Like the Eater of Socks, but more into spiral bound cheap wood pulp than cotton and wool.<br /><br />Looking at the 80s mining strike circle village one... gah, it looks a great idea, but I think falling back on the ones where I have some idea of the characters would be best this time. Because at least then I can write the dialogue. So, toss-up between 1920s upstairs downstairs, psycho girl chucked into the exploring officers, or girl disguising herself <br /><br />Got back yesterday in time to be amused by mum hyperventilating a bit - she's doing the Macmillan Coffee morning thing on friday and had just got advance warning that the local Pathfinders group had got wind of it. The person who used to organise such things died a bit ago, so when they heard about it, they went 'ooo, they're starting again!'. Which ups her numbers by about, oh, 30 or 40 people.... food is not a problem (baking has been pretty much non-stop). It's the tea, coffee and crockery. Cue frantic ringing of the neighbours and pathetic bleating for spare mugs.<br /><br />Trying to decide whether this Jay-Z/Rihanna track is bad or not. Chorus is decent, the first bit's good, it just goes on for-fucking ever and what was good starts to get really tired. Fuck it. This is not worth my attention, give me the latest Madonna and Mika and Chipmunk, for I must BOUNCE.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=26338" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:25974Feel free to laugh at me.2009-09-21T13:18:30Z2012-01-08T23:26:03ZFlorence and the Machinediscontentpublic10Convention hotpants diet day 1. Stopped snacking last week, jogging at weekends is up to 3 fields, now trying the special k 2-weeker to get rid of the summer podge. If you hear me constantly moaning about being starving, ignore me.<br /><br />nano ideas did come up, after the panic, and what research I'd have to do : <br /><br />1) Alistair/Joe. it's like Notting hill but with spy life in the background.<br />2) Jafar-Eustace, VotD time, continuation of the 'verse where the Pevensies stayed. er. er. er.<br />3) Circle village - early 80s mining village cut with the first years of settlement, possibly some Roman. Vague horror-ish? - settlement times for northumberland, when mining started, and some on the 80s strikes<br />4) pirates?<br />5) smuggling saga between stairs edwardian? - lifeboats, upstairs-downstairs, that photographer couple on indeedsir<br />6) cornish exploring officer psycho girl? - 18th/19th c, exploring officers, girls employed by the army. places of training.<br />7) girl in Wellington's army - see above, but with added girls who disguised themselves as blokes.<br /><br />1) Alistair is a werewolf in MI7, the Weird Happenings branch. Joe is a rather famous american movie star. They hit it off and have a habit of shagging when Joe is in the country. Less angst than Notting Hill, with added spy life in the background.<br />2) Jafar is the scholar son the Tisroc married off to Edmund, thinking that an alliance with the legendary nutjobs who rule narnia again is good, and an alliance with the favoured of a god (Bacchus) even more so. (no concerns about issue since the general opinion is that succession will pass down through Peter and Susan/Caspian) Add Eustace. mostly a 'gaaaah, they're fucking nuts!'<br />3) Circle village verse, intercut between a mining town in Northumberland during the 80s' strikes and the settlement of the village, so you get the reactions of present day of the coppers and Union versus scenes of 'oh fucking hell we have *elves*?' (Blame Billy Elliot)<br />4) Pirates. Um, no, there is no plot for this one...<br />5) upstairs downstairs romance between the second son of a rich cornish family and the valet of relatives who come to visit them on occasion. Add in that the cornish lot have the rep for being dodgy due to being smugglers (well, *duh*) and the son's on lifeboats for bits of drama.<br />6) One of the daughters of a naval family turns out to be a psycho. They do a deal with Wellington to channel her tendencies into being an assassin exploring officer. Add the regiment of soldiers that often gets stuck with her.<br />7) Girl disguises herself to go off and be a soldier. Ends up in the Rifles. And of course she sodding well seduces her cute Irish captain, what do you take me for?<br /><br />Opinions? Ideas? which one sounds most viable for a novel or interesting?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=25974" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:24865PK tech girl2009-09-10T18:50:27Z2009-09-11T10:54:05ZFlorence and the Machinechipperpublic5PK tech girl<br /><br />Not as such. only in the fact that I'm blonde. Been watching more Farscape. Pondering buying S3 & 4. And it's quite odd watching a series by random out of order eps as the whim strikes you. two eps of S2 here. 1 ep of S1 there.<br /><br />Turns out I do have a ticket for Mission Starfury. Now to get around to the hotel thing.<br /><br />Went sorting through the envelopes of photos I have from ... about five or six cons' worth. eeep. Now pondering whether I may have too many photos of Mark Sheppard. I've been told it's impossible to have too many of Nathan Fillion or Christina Hendricks, but the question is whether this holds true for Mark Sheppard. (and now wondering whether it's worth braving the stage door scrum on tuesday for Cage aux Folles. Admittedly I'd like one with Simon Burke.) Been informed by Pooks that I *will* be dressing up for Rocky Horror on Thursday, but I seriously have nothing even remotely suitable beyond a pair of fishnets and some ankle boots. I have nothing sparkly or boa-like.<br /><br />Pondering what's realistic for losing weight before Hub 3. (about six weeks' time.) Due to camping and too much dessert, am now at that inconvenient size 13 rather than a 12, which means hotpants are a tad worrisome. I've been completely unsuccessful in motivating my arse out the door after work for jogging, but have started jogging at weekends. Made a start on the resolution to have no desserts at lunchtime at work. Going to test willpower against having seconds of dinner. And no, self, you would not be able to cope on the Special K diet.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=24865" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:21045post-blegh2009-08-20T09:44:49Z2009-08-20T09:44:49Zpublic0ended up going home early as i'd tried to struggle on as i got gradually sicker - started with headache, on into woozy and vaguely nauseous. Hoped it would get better with lazing in park at lunch, it did slightly, but the wooziness returned half an hour, so i informed co-workers 'Off to sick bay to have a fainting fit, back in half an hour'. It did get better (complete with being so bloody bored that I started tapping out the percussion of Ring of Fire and Prokofiev's Troika, and the office manager poking her head in because she could see feet through the open door) but returned again with the headache and the screen starting to blur. Tis a tad difficult to proofread when you can't see the words.<br /><br />Staggered home on hot tube and then collapsed on couch to sleep/doze intermittently before retiring to bed post-dinner. Suspect since it came two days after end of period, it's me old mucker that I used to get monthly.<br /><br />In ongoing notation, it turns out that I lose at least two pounds of water retention/whatever it is after my period. Noting this is at least vaguely interesting to self, and will see what happens post-camping, since that'll be a strange regime of probably high calorie but also quite a bit of exercise rather'n sitting on arse all day.<br /><br />Working from home and it's pissing it down. I have laundry, sky gods!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=21045" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:19508I've decided I want a pair of scales everywhere I go.2009-08-12T10:40:51Z2009-08-12T10:40:51Z Fake your way to the top - Eddie Murphycheerfulpublic5I've had a pair of scales in the bathroom my whole life, so weighing self in the morning has been automatic and probably led to me being *very* realistic about my weight - I weigh more than I look due to my build, aka hello to the leg muscles, consistently been between 10 and 10 and a half stone since puberty at 10, no matter what height or size I was. The only time I've been below that was when I dipped below 10 stone last autumn when I was jogging for an hour 2-3 times a week and an hour and a half each weekend, which was on top of my 4-mile walk commute.<br /><br />I know for a fact that weight varies during the day due to water intake and meals, and if you're female you vary over the month due to your cycle. So what I'm curious about is precisely how much. Like, is there a major difference between directly after breakfast and directly after lunch? How much water weight did I lose on the two mile walk in the afternoon vs. the morning walk? Beginning of the period vs. end?<br /><br />Gah. Does anyone know any sure-fire ways to make you sit up straight aside from wearing a corset or waist cincher? Bloody office chairs make it far too easy to slouch. And as we know, bad posture = back pain (and with me, the knock-on of shoulder and wrist pain)<br /><br />listening to the 2-CD version of the Dreamgirls soundtrack. And once again, it really does prove that aside from a couple of tracks (oh the joy of the different remixes), there is normally a *reason* why most soundtracks are cut down to 1 CD.<br /><br />ah, youtube. reminding me that a track is *not* as good as I remember, thus saving me from hunting it down in my cd collection.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=19508" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:12658Save me from diet bores2009-07-06T11:57:54Z2009-07-06T11:57:54ZSaturdays - Workworkingpublic12:eyeroll: save me from crash dieters who don't believe that your body weight and shape changes as you get older. And when you try to point out that it does and there's probably a reason why you can't shift those inches, you're told you're not being sympathetic. Never mind that she's been pretty consistently an 8-10 for a year since she left uni.<br /><br />'I'm not snacking, I'm exercising, I'm eating salad and soup and it's still not going!' (she's now going on the Atkins. Suggesting that she might as well do any diet that is less calories than your supposed to be intake was shot down and wailed at. As was my suggestion that if she's really that desperate, she should go on the drink and piss diet.)<br /><br />Seriously. It's so bloody boring when they start calorie-obsessing. I'm constantly told to shut up when I point out that I don't calorie count and eat what the hell I want because this is clearly being smug, rubbing it in and not helping. Even when I point out why I can do this : there's this magical thing called exercise. My route home involves approx 4 miles of walking that I have no choice about. (They also say that I have a great figure with no problems, even when I point out that I'm a 12 and they're 10s. And yes, I'd like my stomach podge and some of my thighs and arse to go. It'll go gradually if I increase the jogging and didn't eat chocolate. Which I'm realistic in accepting is not likely to happen anytime in the near future.)<br /><br />And before you ask, yes, these are the kind of people who'll debate the merits of diet coke vs. coke zero because coke zero has half a calorie less... and then go eat crisps or cake-type snacks. And ice cream. And yes, miss Atkins appears to forget that she has been eating crisps and ice cream this past week. Suspect pointing this out would elicit screaming, though.<br /><br />You may have heard this rant before.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=12658" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:10067stuff2009-06-22T14:25:25Z2009-06-22T14:25:25Zmaster and commandersorepublic2:pokes womb: so far today, you have only been twinging and vaguely achey, thus not needing the heatpads. You may live.<br /><br />According to Ri, someone she met at a party is involved in the casting of <i>Going Postal</i>. Moist is apparently an unknown, but Adora Belle Dearheart is down to Michelle Ryan, Claire Foy, and someone she can't remember. Foy apparently tested better but I've only seen her play scared bunny/wet (George's gf in Being Human pilot, Little Dorrit). Personally preferring Michelle Ryan for ability to play Random's alter-ego.<br /><br />Craving Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Princess Diaries 2 fic. Priscilla, I've found four bits on yuletide. Want more. Not sure where to get it. PD2... I suspect there's half a tonne on the Pit o' Voles, but I have allergies. and am really bloody lazy - sifting for that one fic per page that doesn't have exclamation marks, Please R&R or mary sues in the subject is more than fangirlkind was meant to bear.<br /><br />Pubmeet peeps buttonholing me to ask what's going on with Alex. Me 'I don't bloody know!'. Suspect them of living vicariously through gossip.<br /><br /><a href="http://s3fm.co.uk/permanentbedtime">http://s3fm.co.uk/permanentbedtime</a> - Shipping forecast and the end music for Radio 4. you are feeling verrrrrry relaxed. Slightly dangerous for work-time.<br /><br />Someone stuck up a photo on facebook of me in Ursula Andress outfit from a 007 night a few years ago. Would be interested to see what I'd look like now in it, since I've been doing the jogging.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=10067" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:9394But it makes for great night vision2009-06-16T22:36:55Z2009-06-16T22:36:55Zcuriouspublic1in fiction, it's very common to describe someone's eyes 'going dark' during arousal/stimulation/blood loss/loopiness/drugs/etc, because of how most people's pupils expand in these situations.<br /><br />So, as an owner of permanently wide pupils (no, really - in utterly bright light, my pupils shrink to normal people's 'wide'. Normally, it's thin ring of iris colour around bloody great pupils.) does this mean i look permanently stimulated or about to head off the deep end?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=9394" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:3664notice and eurovision2009-05-18T10:48:10Z2009-05-18T10:48:10Zjade - it's my timeuncomfortablepublic1note to all hoopy froods : you have 1 week to locate your towel. <a href="http://towelday.org">http://towelday.org</a> . it will also be the Glorious 25th of May, the foundation of the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road, so wear your lilac with pride. All zombies must bring their own shovels.<br /><br />...sod. First bloody day of my period, as far as I know. And I forgot my sodding mooncup. Had to beg a sanitary pad off Shely and am hoping like hell it doesn't start. Gah. How the fuck did I used to wear these things? Uncomfortable scale = high.<br /><br />Watched Eurovision on extremely jerky internet version of iplayer because apparently it registers as content that you need a code for on Virgin cable. bastards. kept getting static images. Graham Norton appears to have the sufficient bitchy qualities necessary for commentator. A worthy successor to Sir Terry. Norway? he looked like Zac Efron and the song was yawn-worthy. Meh. Also, we so did not deserve 5th place - song *boring*, though admittedly the Leona Lewis clone scrubs up nicely and has a good voice. Which begs the question of why they didn't just send the original. Admittedly not as freaky as Denmark's Stars in Their Eyes Ronon Keating impersonator, but he at least had a decent song.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=3664" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:2806today and trek last night2009-05-14T18:18:47Z2009-05-14T18:18:47Zcreationist junk debunked #1restlesspublic4smear test went fine. They have replaced the giant metal thing that looks like a torture device with long thin thermometer-like things which amazingly go in really bloody easily. Thank the FSM for common sense.<br /><br />Spent rest of day working from home. Which, before the smear test, involved half an hour of installing a new client program to connect to work. But once installed and re-booted, link was secure, fast, and easy to log into. Boring, a bit sleepy, the usual slow loading of pdfs, and... my boss sending me an email asking if he could filch the banana on my desk since he'd missed lunch. I poined out that he was taking his chances since it'd been green yesterday. Not sure why he couldn't just cross the road and go to the sandwich shops opposite.<br /><br />Saw Trek last night. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://burntcopper.dreamwidth.org/2806.html#cutid1">WHEEEEEEE!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=2806" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:245008:1581tech fail and sushi2009-05-11T14:24:19Z2009-05-11T14:24:19Zpensivepublic2work computers all screwed and refusing to respond. amazingly, normally happens on monday morning.... Got an email that apparently it's half of Europe for our company. Which is impressive. Now working intermittently but better than this morning.<br /><br />Due to ongoing computer loading problems, IT bloke is threatening to wipe my harddrive tomorrow. defragging in hopes that that fixes it.<br /><br />Girls went out for Yo Sushi blue plate special mondays. Note to self, when ordering off the menu, you only need one dish. chicken dumpling udon is not just going to be extra gyoza. But oh, the seafood rice was niiiice. Have converted Rachel to sushi. which left me going '....okay, so I'm the only doesn't actually like it that much' (my basic response to sushi is 'yeah, i can eat it, but meh')<br /><br />Booked smear test after putting it off for a month. :wails: don't wanna go! bloke next to me after I'd grumbled that blokes should get prostate exams said that he didn't want someone's fingers up his jacksie. I pointed out that it wasn't some cold metal thing, so he admitted defeat.<br /><br />Gah. pollen casings all down clothes and in eyelashes. scratchy as hell.<br /><br />Saw the State of Play film. V. good. Helen Mirren, is, of course awesome and that's one good cast. (the only problem is the Orange bloke is in it in a minor serious role and... I cannot take him seriously when he does the intense look.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=burntcopper&ditemid=1581" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments