dicranum

I hate that awkward phase where you start checking out a new fandom and you don't know the lingo, shorthand, and tropes for it yet. It makes it weird to search for things.

Also, after thinking about it, I have had to readapt to ST:TOS lingo probably three tines now over the past 23 years.  Though I much prefer just hitting someone's rec list and clicking on a fic than the 1980s  very long wait for a print fanzine you mailed out for from an underground fan connection you met at a comic shop!

Okay, now my facebook page is getting annoying. All my family and friends that give two poops about hockey are not suddenly The. Greatest. Hockey. Fans. Ever.    Please. I'm sure that happens to everyone!  


Well the rest of our teams have been doing squat lately, so I'll take the possible Stanley Cup, please.

FYI I am also a Sox fan, not a Cubs fan since I am a southsider it was indoctrined. I stopped watching when they went on strike the first time. (I keep saying I will with hockey, but I haven't yet!)  watched the Bulls religiously though the eighties and nineties, and once you've lived though an era like Jordan, it's all EH. My dad  now lives next to the Chicago Fire stadium, so we've been to a few games there. Superfun! I wish our country loved soccer a little more and actually called it FOOTBALL. 

I have been superbusy, been trying to read Sid's  Listening Ears without kids destroying the house so it's about 20 minutes in the evening before spousal unit is wondering what is taking me so long, HA! 

This is nuts. Heat on. Air on. Heat on again today. My sinuses hate me right now.   


And thus ends this completely pointless post.

oh, hai thar, I have just been blindsided by an unexpected canon het pairing. How long has that been for me where I find one of those and NOT when I multi-ship a character? 


It's Josh/Donna from The West Wing.  See?  Wow.  I know nothing about the fandom of that show or the ship wars or anything as I was in Stargate and Trek TOS and Harry Potter and I think the Real Ghostbusters and - what was that, back in the early 2000- possibly some X-men fic consumption at that time.

I was still buying fanzines by mail in1999. I am a slow adapter.

But anyway, this is a round-about way of saying I am now going to have to look through old-fic for this pairing. I bet it was a geocites era thing. Hmmm.


Meanwhile, do I dare hope to see a resurgence of old school Jack/Daniel fic thanks to the actors clearly enjoying their recent time hanging out with fans? I really need some plotty, hopeful, AU or positive fic capturing the vibe.

These are the times  I wish I knew how to write because I come up with a lot of stuff for Jack/Daniel Stargate, Daniel/Sam stargate and TOS Kirk/spock. I can imagine it but not articulate it with finesse.

This weather is weirding me out.  It should not be nearly 90 here during March.  I have spent the last few days doing everything I can outside though because I am stir crazy. I still want my normal spring back!

I was thinking about sprucing up the layout and adding icons, and then I decided why bother right now when I'm going to add a paid journal soon and have more options. It's kind of annoying to my eye right now though. Doesn't feel like "MINE" yet. 

I miss using a journal.  I have spent the last couple of years mostly doing drive by posts on forums, but it isn't the same.  Sometimes you just need a place to braindump and not really worry if anyone is reading or commenting or if you've contributed thoughtfully to a conversation.  Sometimes ya just need to get it out and get on with it.


Hmmm, I probably could add icons though.  

This one is draggingly slow.  I guess I was spoiled.   It takes ages to load a page and forget about images.    ARGH.  Now I'm getting, "Some gmail features failed to load due to an internet connectivity problem."  I need to see my email, please. It's been 4  days. 

Hmm, I wonder if it's the wireless router? I don't have my desktop hooked up right now and am relying on my desktop, but this router is older. 



So for those who know the chicagoland area, for the moment, I am living about 7 miles from the University of Chicago.  I have grand plans on prancing around the The Oriental Institute in my floppy Daniel hat and taking pictures.

It's a beautiful campus over there.  It's too bad they didn't have any major I was interested in and they weren't so close to home.  I have attended colleges that cost nearly as much, but were not as pretty.

I think I am an oddball anyway, because I LOVE visiting college campuses. I love to see if they've integrated their biology, horticulture, or even botany programs into the landscaping. And I love seeing the traditions and buildings and feeling the atmosphere and just how they use their space in general.   Some have little museums as part of their campuses too.  I don't have the time now, but I can fully see myself adding a day of vacation time to visit a campus in an area I'm visiting when I'm older.  

I like roadside museums too.  Love the ridiculousness of it all! 


Now I wonder if this will post or if will have to save to draft again due to slow internet?

Yea! to everyone who scribbled on my new journal! I see the communities are blooming like a great big honking flower, so that totally rocks. I think I shall stalk the people in-the-know for the fandoms and hobbies I like so I can find my niche.


I believe I shall invest in this journal a bit since I rather like there not being ads. Plus, I might make myself a second journal for very detailed nature observations. That way I can keep all the fandom stuff unlocked and accessible, but not scare the crap out of people just looking for details on a birding session.


Now I'm off to find some icons.