Random Dionysian Fandom Chick

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read less than 6 and force books upon them.

Please, no one keel over from shock.

You scored as Greek Pantheonic Pagan. One of the best well-known pantheons around is Greek, due to the popularity of the Greek myths. Pagans who fall into this catagory tend to follow the Mother and Father images of Zues and Hera, but it's not at all uncommon for their patron deities to be other Greek Gods or Heroes, such as Ares, Hades, Persephone, Apollo, Artemis, or Dionysis. Lusty and dramatic, the Greek Gods call to those who like epic tales and wild romance. You either already are a Greek Pantheon follower, or else you look to them often for insight. </td> Greek Pantheonic Pagan 100% Ecclectic Pagan 60% Roman Pantheonic Pagan 50% Catholic (Pagan?) 45% Egyptian Pantheonic Pagan 45% Shamanic Pagan 40% Zoroastrian Pagan 40% Eastern Pagan 20% Kabbalistic Pagan 20% Celtic Pantheonic Pagan 15% Norse Pantheonic Pagan (Asatru) 15% Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian Pagans 5% What kind of Pagan are you? created with QuizFarm.com

In other news, I'm not dead, but my computer would like to be. We're trying to go through and defragment all our harddrives and see if that helps matters any. Since both physical drives are partitioned, that may take awhile. Hopefully it'll make the computer stop making the squeaky mouse/ill-piglet noises. Ugh. So I may not be around so very much for several days (is also why I haven't been around for several days previous to this post.

Yes, I'm still working on the fics I'm writing. Promise.

So, the recent meme going around (warning - pic-heavy and not work safe per se) has me considering doing icons for several (not all, but many) of my interests. So there very well could be icon-spam from me later. Just saying. (Also have realized I need to go in and edit my interests, so badly. I added BSG-stuff on the fly, but I must add and remove other things.)

Also on my mind: NaNoWriMo 2006. In a nutshell, for those of you who don't know, the goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days (specifically the month of November). It's an international effort and many, many people join in on the insanity every year. One of the things about it though, is that it has to be something new. No working on a project you've already started writing, even if you don't count what was written previously. (Yes, I've fudged that and tossed out the whole bloody bit of scraps from a story before and started fresh with the same idea, but you're not really supposed to. I'm a bad girl. Someone should punish me. ;) (Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm in a mood.))

ANYWAY, I learned the hard way after a couple of less-than-stellar years (see 2004 and 2005 to be precise, after getting 40,000+ in 2003 on a HP fic) that I need to start planning NOW. (It's ok to write notes and such before the event. Just no actual text.)

I wanted to do something BSG-ish, of course, as that is my new obsession. And that's who's talking to me (almost non-stop, thankyouverymuch). But I didn't really have a huge arc-type story besides the fic that won't stop growing I'm currently in the middle of (which I damn well plan on finishing the rough draft of tonight because I'm getting tired of beating at it).

So I went back to that whole "this has all happened before, and it will all happen again" idea. And mythology. And history. And alternate realities. And a little thing I learned about during my foray into reading Xena/Gabrielle fic called Uber!fic.

So I'm going to write the realities of Lee and Kara. Past lives, what-ifs, alternate realities, the lot of it. A jumbled puzzle of interconnected peices of what is, what was, what shall be, and what might be, as well as what won't be. (Though don't expect total crack!fic sections, as the muses I've got lined up so far are the more ethereal dramatic types. I LOVE crack!fic - I just can't write it.) In that vein, I'm taking writing prompts. (I'll probably be fishing for them from now until at least mid-November - especially if I get stuck.)

So... What types of scenarios would you like to see alternate Lees and Karas in? Time period, situation, relationship, etc. Let me know. Chances are very, very good that you'll get your wish. 50,000 words is a lot of scenarios.

Hmm...

( UPDATED: fic-y to-do list (fic spoilers, if you care) )

UPDATED: General to-do list

1. take more ibuprofen
- repeat additional ibuprofen
2. go to work
3. update journal
4. call lab and make sure I can do blood work tomorrow morning
5. sleep
6. watch more Negima (not necessarily in that order)

And from fahye:
( meme )

So I'm actively avoiding making icons for bsg_challenge and posting instead. After avoiding posting all day. 'Cause I make sense. Sure.

( trip to my dentist - things you didn't want to know: )

And I missed work today because I was running late, and since I had to leave early yesterday for the dental appt. I was better off missing an entire day than clocking in 2 minutes late. Because that makes sense. Stupid policies. But since I was in desperate need for lots of sleep and have been running a fever of about 99 (give or take a point or eight) it works out just as well.

finally, meme, because I need cheering up (snurched from comedownstairs):


Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is readers mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. The message can be anything, it could be a love note or even fandom related etc. Feel free to comment on each other's letters. And multiple takes on one character are welcome.

1. Kara Thrace
2. Lee Adama
3. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii (the original)
4. Helo
6. John Crichton
7. Aeryn Sun
8. Vala
9. Daniel Jackson
10. Tenth Doctor
11. Rose Tyler
12. Jack Harkness
13. Tempe Brennan
14. Angela Montenegro
15. Josh Lyman
16. Sam Seaborn
17. Donna Moss
18. CJ Cregg
19. Kaylee Frye
20. Inara Serra
21. Mal Reynolds
22. River Tam
23. Tara (BTVS)

I'm gonna go paint Warhammer models.

And... apparently I answered pretty accurately, cause, uh, yeah. That would be correct.

(gakked from sabre_hawke:)

Stability results were very low which suggests you are extremely worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.

Orderliness results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment.

cause I'm not stuck at a (relatively) dead-end job with no aspirations. </sarcasm>

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

baaaa... oh look! a cliff!

trait snapshot:
open, tough, irritable, worrying, does not like to be alone, craves attention, low self control, emotionally sensitive, interacting, sad, very social, aggressive, prefer organized to unpredictable, dependent, social chameleon, suspicious, values the heart over the mind, likes large parties, outgoing, likes to make fun, likes to fit in, mildly phobic, vain, makes friends easily, enjoys leadership, clingy, rash

that's a pretty good chunk of words for me. I bet I could make a cool graphic from them. ::goes off to find fonts to download::

full chart is ( here )

I snagged this from i_am_girlfriday:  I'm tagging you--yes, you--if you're up for it. Or save it for work if your day is particularly boring!

Directions: Pick six of your favorite fandoms and answer the questions. Duh!

Six Fandoms:

1. Farscape
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Firefly
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. Anita Blake
6. Harry Potter

In case something might be spoiler-y go

 Really ungodly long TV meme gakked from i_am_girlfriday

As you can see from my answers I have a *CRAP* time catching every single ep of a series.  :(
I can also think of *SEVERAL* more shows that aren't on the list, but I was a good girl and stuck with only adding three.  It was tough though.  I finally picked three I thought other people were *least* likely to add to it.