Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
quaint_twilight	2:14p	嵐の夜 A Stormy Night Original Japanese text from Kuwabara Mizuna's official site. Sensei wrote four "petit novels" for her site's third anniversary in 2007 based on Divine Red, ILEGENES, Schwarz Heart and Mirage of Blaze. I decided to translate the ones for DR and MoB. Japanese to English translation by me. ( A Story Night - Divine Red ) ( A Story Night - Mirage of Blaze ) Current Mood: hungry (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
petronia	4:19p	Success! Uploaded my Yuletide story! Rather, uploaded it yesterday, ran to a dinner party, came back home and did housework, slept, got up and made a PROPER CURRY, ate, and am now blogging while waiting for the dryer to do its thing, as there's no point in starting on the like twenty SSBB stories sitting in my inbox when I'm leaving the house again in 1/2 hr. orz It's a marker of how breakdown-inducing these community challenges are, that my natural misguided optimism only wins out enough to sign me up for them one year out of three. XD; This round was the smoothest-sailing thus far, in that I finished a whole three hours before deadline and while a couple of sections could have stood another edit the thing was basically DONE as opposed to missing chunks or otherwise soul-destroying. (sub_divided was a hero, of course.) Not sure I'll go back for more next year, though; December is not a good time of year for two weeks to disappear into the writerly void. Speaking of SSBB, I think I might need a pinch hitter for the cover pic. o_o;; The artist in question is reliable; her computer situation is not, and therein lies the rub. Next up: cheapo movie night has come around again, which means it's time to review last week's (Disney princess meta). EDIT -- luckykitty, your card arrived! It's adorable. ♥ My first one this year~ XD (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
calibans_rage	1:59a	Tempus fugit It's scary how fast time flies and amazing how distance / time / new friends / lovers don't change some things. Iloveyouguys. Current Mood: nostalgic (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
petronia	4:34a	Annals of writers dying from tetanus, I mean for their art It is a good thing Yuletide is more than half done as today a printout of selfsame Yuletide damaged me severely when I reached into my purse just as I left the house and its corner drove into my nailbed argh, what does it look like to passing drivers when a girl is hopping up and down with her middle finger stuck in a snowbank. For such a minor injury it is DEBILITATING as my typing is at 1/3-speed and I cannot wash my hair or play with T's cat or cook until the tip of this finger can take pressure again. And I have a whole list of things I want to cook this December, from sushi to Hainan chicken rice to Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon. Real life, don't force me to make a "bizarre injuries 2009" tag. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
petronia	3:04p	Interrupting yr afternoon with a brief moment of flail David Byrne just now, via mailing list: "[some stuff about releasing a record, but whatev] In the meantime, I have decided to rebrand myself, inspired by Philip Morris changing their name to Altria, Blackwater to Xe, and the train I'm riding on right now that calls itself Acela - none of which mean anything, but they are cleverly evocative. When I decide on the magic word, you'll be the first to know." I have studied the above trend in b-school marketing class and believe I'm supposed to consider it clever, but can I just say that I hate how these companies are polluting the high fantasy worldbuilding namespace!!! Srsly guys haven't you done enough harm in the world, now you gotta take the geeks on too! (Not you, David Byrne, you can be an Eddings character if you want.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
petronia	8:43p	The late 90s: bigger, bolder, and brighter 1) Legend of the Seeker: no one ever mentioned that Sam Raimi was producing a TV adaptation of Terry Goodkind's books... at least, not until naanima like two weeks ago. WHAT I DON'T EVEN ETCETCETC This and Robert Jordan were my first online fandoms! Back when everything happened via Usenet and private mailing lists! The Goodkind ML taught me the meaning of the word "spoiler" when I uhh jumped the gun on a who-killed-Dumbledore moment before everyone had finished reading. Or it may have been my BFF at the time, I no longer remember. (The same one I watched Star Trek with. We later fell out of touch; I went into anime and she into Buffy.) In fact I still own the first books in guise of souvenir from another friend who moved off the continent a decade ago, but whom I still hear about via mutual circles. And who is visiting Montreal next week, apparently, so this may or may not be a harbinger of epicness. As with Jordan, Goodkind was one of those cases where in the interim between books coming out I uhh sort of grew critical taste, but the TV series has merits. XD 2) Lilith Fair 2010: this is, literally, the ONE SINGLE SOLITARY THING I've always been pissed off at missing during the 90s, because they never played Montreal and I couldn't blow town by myself. Well, now that has changed. I guess this whole "shiz I was into age 17 coming back: exciting" aspect of pop culture today means I am OFFICIALLY OLD etc. (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
petronia	7:30p	Mononoke FST Today's not!Advent thingy. Requested by woodburner back in, I believe, 2007; better two years late than never. XD;; I originally had some Japanese paper with which I meant to make origami packaging for the CD, so here is a digital version of sorts. Mononoke: The Fan Soundtrack Fuka Vincente - Tempura Soul David Bowie - Beauty and the Beast Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart (Familjen Remix) Laika - Black Cat Bone DJ Krush with Shinichi Kinoshita - Beyond Raging Waves Gorillaz - Ghost Train Nick Cave - O Children Florence + The Machine - Blinding Hajime Chitose - Kono machi Total Time: 40 minutes Keepin' it short: one track per story arc, roughly, plus the Medicine Seller, plus Kayo, plus intro - but in listening rather than chronological order. (Who knows what the chronological order of the arcs is anyway?) It is all about funky shamisen cutz~♥ I'm pretty sure the one was off moebius_rex and the other from jantalaimon, even after all this time. (6 Comments |Comment on this)