sundries

[rm]

- It's raining.

- I'm about to have what I'm going to have to start terming a "Ianto day" -- i.e., solving lots of weird problems that surely someone must have the expertise to deal with, but lacking that information, it's probably just more efficient for me to deal with it myself.

- Oh I do love when people from London call, and they have to spell things. I'm not really a huge accent whore, but it's so cute when they say "zed."

- If I am v. v. lucky, I may make it to fencing again tomorrow. I am really happy with it again. Maybe I just needed to be praised for not loving it so purely anymore.

- Now it's lightning.

- My father managed at home alone yesterday, my mother says, although she had to make all his meals and so forth before she left for work. They are going to the internist today, and hopefully some of the issues, like the medication that essentially makes him unable to remain awake, will get resolved.

- Reading Almost Perfect. It's pretty delightful. Patty, reading over my shoulder, said "I've read that on fanfiction.net!" Speaking of fanfiction -- the first chapter is "Five Rare Times That Ianto Jones Swears" -- geez, that format is in the tie-in novels now? Seriously. Also, must resist temptation to read funny bits aloud to Patty -- not only is it not her fandom, the world doesn't need to give me excuses to do the Jack voice.

- OMG, the election is making me So Tense. So Tense. We've been invited to an election night party I hope we make, but I'm all verklempt, knowing, somehow, I'm likely to cry no matter how it turns out. Politics will break your heart, and I'm not ready.

- Kali heads to Chicago this week to give a DW-related paper. Eventhough it will be cold and vile there, I hope I can convince her to visit Millenium Park, since it speaks so loud to me, and is totally where and how I learned how to write about Jack's childhood.

- So few people are as happy as you think they are.

- I have a lot of emails to catch up on.

- Oh London, call me again!

Comments

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

I believe my drinking game will be take one drink every time a state turns red. optional: entire glass.

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

"Ianto Day." Catchy. I could apply that to last Saturday when I ended up (in a dress) covered in lint, fixing the dryer at work because I was the fool who Googled the problem, rather than wait two days for a repair person.

"Five Rare Times That Ianto Jones Swears" --The writers really DO stalk LJ looking for ideas! I'm waiting on the first TW novel to come in a brown paper wrapper.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have a terrible mission now, which is to recreate your icon as a photo with me and my partner (she's blond and curly, and I just bought the coat).

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Suddenly having terrible urges to drive up to Chicago.

Also, where did you get Almost Perfect? I thought it wasn't out until November?

Regarding the election, all I need is a special glass and a new jar of olives and I'm ready for my spacecraft to explode. Celebratory drinks are as yet undetermined. And, like you, I am tense. Freaked-out tense. OTOH? Barack Obama? In my town on Thursday. So going. *excited*

[rm.livejournal.com]

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I posted a lot pictures from the park all over when I came back from that trip. It's kept open pretty late at night, and it was weirdly temperate when we were there, and we all just kept going at night and running around barefoot and watching kids play, and it was just perfect.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ug, rain. And wind. And cold.

Agreed on "zed" - I realized I was going native when I started to think of it as "zee" recently. Weird the reactions Americans have to English accents and usages.

As I was saying to a friend in NYC, voters are more freaked out by the prospect of 11/4 than by that of 10/31. (The New Yorker's latest cover riffed on that quite effectively.) Hang in there!

Millennium Park is the space-agey one with the Anish Kapoor shiny bean sculpture, right? Rather appropriate for Time Agents, yes. Though I hear that Grant Park is the place to be on election night - Team Obama is hosting a rally for all comers.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's the stage with the lattice network over the lawn that utterly, utterly did me in though. I was there for a Harry Potter conference and spent pretty much every moment I wasn't giving a paper sitting out there.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Well, that's all 3 books and a calendar ordered, then...

And you're really not helping me fight off this urge to go to Chi-town.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I love calling London, too, if only to hear the "purr-purr" as the number is being dialled and connected.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Have you been before? It's really wonderful. It's getting cold now, so I'd say don't, unless you want to drive us this weekend and harass Kali.

Anyway -- madness in Chicago:

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I'm a complete nervous wreck about this election. I'm going to cry on November 5 too--with relief.

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

I'll race you!

But--- I think that it was Russia who wore brown, so by donning a Russian greatcoat my German Grandmother will no doubt smack me upside the head, and my Flying Tiger Grandfather's ashes may just come together Terminator-style so he could come back from the dead and do the same(it is Halloween after all).

If I get a hot blonde of my own, however, it'll be worth it!

(you lucky bastard)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, I figure once I replace my camera, we can pull the color out of the shot and read in more muted/different tones and make it any bloody countries we want.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I try to suppress most of my anglophilic tendencies, but I do love it when my British friend describes his job as "just a dogsbody, really".

[capulet-rose.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see you complete your mission then. Every time I see this icon I get all, I don't know how to describe it, but 'oh that's just bloody gorgeous!' was what I thought when I first saw it. Go-- do it justice!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I had a very pleasant anglophilic conversation recently with an American about the joys of Radio 4's Afternoon Play, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and University Challenge.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

I think the weather should be fine for a park visit-60's and clear-partly cloudy. We just have to make sure we're bundled!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay. Cool. I am making this your mission. I know she'll be tired and crazy. Go To This Place. I am not kidding.

[starkyld.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I too am likely to cry no matter how the election turns out. I feel you on the tension there.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I was kinda disappointed, I must admit, that Ianto doesn't swear more than that. I'm not sure why, though.

Oh London, call me again!

London sez, only if you promise to do Jack voice.

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

I love zed too. And all our servers have z in them and when I speak to Canadian peeps they call it zed and it has just worn off on me and I call it zed now at work.

My favorite Canadian story is about on of their kids getting really pissed at Sesame street for calling it Z and screaming at the TV.