If you can't read the title of this post it says (dun dun dunnnnnnnn...) I went to Japan ( Read more... )

A Calendar of TalesI know there are a few Neil Gaiman fans on my flist, but this is fun/quirky even if you're not. Apparently, he asked his twitter followers a question for every month of the year (like "Why is January so dangerous?"), then used the responses to write short flashfics, which were then illustrated by deviantART users. So there are ( Read more... )

...it is not officially Winter until Saturday. Please be advised that we do not want to wake up to scenes like the one below until, say, August (and then only once, on a day where I don't have to try to get to work).


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So, the new Star Trek movie screens here in NZ (midnight session) in about 80 minutes. I might've considered going, but I have to be at work tomorrow morning at 7:45, so... yeah, no. I have Friday off work, so I might catch a session at a more civilised hour then. I've read the most spoilery reviews already; I know pretty much everything. But, ( Read more... )

Which reminds me... I still haven't bought a new calendar. And I'm not just talking about 2012. I didn't get around to buying one last year, either. The one on the wall says December 2010 (accompanied by an accusing picture of Spock who knows how illogical I amI was going to post one of those thoughtful the-year-in-review kind of posts, but I have ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything much to say except thank you muchly to all the lovely people who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. It brightened what was a very chilly, wintery day (come on, weather; it's almost Spring).

And thank you to the lovely craterdweller for the birthday present. *points to icon ( Read more... )

So apparently, some thoughtful person(s) nominated my Spock/Uhura art for an award. That's kind of nifty.


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Goodbye to what was, largely (for me, anyway), annus horribilis.

Let's hope that 2011 proves better for you, me, and the universe's inhabitants in general.

Happy New Year!

p.s. If this post contains any errors you can blame it on a combination of Posting After Midnight Syndrome and my first attempt at using the new iPad LJ app (and the inherent ( Read more... )

A few of you have been wondering how close I was to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake which wobbled much of New Zealand early on Saturday morning.

Well, it certainly woke me up (4:35am, no less) and our house creaked and groaned and swayed for about half a minute. When it was over, I commented to my mother, jeanlucbev, on whether that was a not-so-bad house ( Read more... )

...written by my brother.

Backstory:
My mum (jeanlucbev) has been house-bound recently and a friend has brought some romance novels for her to read. When my brother visited the other day, we amused ourselves very much by reading the blurbs on the back/various random passages from the books which were full of descriptions of the leading man's manliness (one ( Read more... )