stuff

Poking the new Sarah (Chuck) outfit (see chucktv.net for photos). According to boy who sits next to me, her shoes are converse. I considered getting cheap lookalikes and painting them, but it turns out ebay has orange converse for about £15 (which is cheaper than buying the fakes + paint cost). The fun thing will be looking for white cropped jeans. I can probs get the vest printed up no trouble, and will have to badger the printing shop about how much they'd charge for just the printing on your own item for the apron.

The important question now is whether I suit orange.

(I have vague dread of it being like Princess Bride, where I got the 'eurgh, that shade of red and cut *really* doesn't suit you' and I replied 'yeah, well, it didn't suit the original actress either.')

:facepalm: self, you really should be looking at costumes for the bloody BSG con in December, not the con next year.

I really shouldn't idly surf bedlamsbard's narnia fic late at night. I re-read Ere Yet We let Loose the Legions (Golden age narnia/LOTR) where Eomer's bunch end up in Narnia whilst fleeing the Uruk-Hai and Peter decides 'fuck it, let's join the fight' and now? Now I want to see Peter meeting Aragorn. All those who think they'd have to be kept at different ends of the hall by Legolas and Edmund, raise your hands... AUGH. Fuck *off*, bunnies.

Listening to the Sunset Boulevard tracks from ALW's birthday. :wails: WHY THE FUCK WAS I NOT INTO MUSICALS IN MY TEENS/EARLY TWENTIES? :pokes ALW: re-stage it, you know you want to. and hire Maria Friedman. (if the woman reduced people to tears with her rendition of 'As If We Never Said Goodbye' at a concert, I'm all for trying her for the role. And just checked the youtube vs. the radio2 record - the radio's completely flattened it out. Note to self : track down all the youtube bits of the concert, rip them, then figure out how to rip the mp3s because they're far better quality) The Barrowman could probably be convinced if he stops doing the rather more...stupid tv shows. Ruthie, consider yourself ear-marked for Norma when you're a couple of decades older. And will you two stop having so much chemistry? The 'awwwww's are very, very audible on the youtubes.

work and modding

This afternoon work went to hell in a handbasket. From computer and programs periodically siezing up to getting interrupted every five minutes to the point that it would take me several minutes to figure out what I *had* been doing. Still, nothing compared to Lissy - first day back from holiday, morning was fine and happy for all that it was catching up with masses of work, and then came the afternoon. Where she discovered that the bloke who'd been supposed to be doing work had left it riddled with errors (which meant it wouldn't upload), can't contact him as he's in hospital, her sector of the workflow well and truly and buggered up, and workflow themselves somehow did something that screwed up completely. I was solving every one else's work quickly and calmly. whenever it was mine, the computer went 'screw you'.

Came home, watered plants, put food away, and dived into comm management. Headache averted.

Doing the blinky of realisation that if it wasn't for ruling half the comms, I would be a near-silent Robin Hood fan. Looking at the occasional icon post. Never reading the fic. commenting on the ep reaction posts but that's it.

sitting on my hands and biting my tongue over the thedarkisrising comm. I hate the layout. I hate the white text on dark. I hate the mood theme. Ages ago I asked the mod if I could go through and tag everything. She said yes, so I did. Then discovered when a spammer hit that I could delete posts. It's a low-traffic, very well-behaved community so the most I ever do is tag things. Looked at my privileges - and it turns out she gave me maintainer. Which freaked me out slightly. Essentially I can do *anything* to that comm. I am not allowed to do anything to it, it's not my comm, it's not my comm, the owner is still a member even if she's completely absent. I presume a lot of you heard about that thing over in SPN where a mod got banned from her own community by two people who decided they could run it better. I just want to go in and change the layout. NOT ALLOWED.