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rmThis all leaves me with a dilemma on what to wear, because wow, that dress and those shoes might be a little much now. Maybe wear the dress with boots (that are flat, meaning I won't be playing 5'10"+ for the event)? Or wear the awesome boy outfit I'm wearing today? I don't know. It's not like I won't get to wear the dress again in CH when I'm hosting the awards ceremony.
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azn_jack_fiend wrote me The Sea of Sleep for retconbookwrite (I'm still finishing mine up for my recipient). It's a lovely historical for one of the better tie-in novels, The House that Jack Built, and it has some of the best historical accuracy I've seen in this fandom. Also, hello, women characters! Fic headers provide all the background info you need if you've not read the book.
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:38 pm (UTC)why yes, that is the only contribution I have this morning
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:42 pm (UTC)Any form of the "houseboat in Europe" trip sounds totally awesome. (I love boats and ships, but oddly enough don't really like the idea of cruises.)
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:44 pm (UTC)Someone on my f-list attended the vigil and said it was rainy but very moving.
I did the canal thing with my family about five years ago, in the Bourgogne region, and it was absolutely fantastic, though a little bit cramped, the way we did it (6 people in one boat).
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:45 pm (UTC)Did you guys find it hard to learn to drive the boat. We're a little taken aback by "no experience necessary, we'll show you when you get here" when neither of us even drive.
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Date: 2010-10-04 02:08 pm (UTC)European adventures, production company formation, shakes - this all sounds fabulous. :)
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Date: 2010-10-04 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 02:52 pm (UTC)My high school was full of farm boys and the sons of enlisted soldiers. Telling them "nice shirt that isn't stained" and to wear their dress jeans was a good idea and about all you could expect.
As it is, even for my HS reunion, most of the guys managed to at least put on dress slacks/khakis and at least a nice oxford shirt; many had actual suits with ties. I think you're right to want and expect a bit more.
The floating/punting/canaling sounds fun and romantic.
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Date: 2010-10-04 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:15 pm (UTC)Sailing the canals sounds neat and I would be interested to hear about the experience. I've wanted to do a cruise or something but my spouse isn't interested unless it's an interactive experience.
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:17 pm (UTC)I was really resistant to the idea of taking a cruise when we first talked about it last year, but it was a ton of fun, and we did great stuff on every island.
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:20 pm (UTC)I heard somewhere that introverted people tend to not be fashion conscious and prefer "comfortable" clothes. I can say that is generally true for me but I have found any number of outfits that I consider dressy and suits that fit my definition of comfortable. I don't wear heels as a rule. With the exception of one temp job at an investment firm (the dress code was that women had to wear skirts, flesh colored hose and shoes "showing a heel"), that has never been an issue in my work places.
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:34 pm (UTC)When you get to Switzerland, buy chocolate. Lots!
I'm nowhere near NYC, but someone on my f-list was at the vigil and posted about it. The post is locked so I won't link or relate anything highly specific, but she says it was very moving, there were lots of people, glowsticks, a singalong and messages of love and support scribbled on all the paths in chalk. It sounds like the atmosphere was amazing, despite the rain.
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Date: 2010-10-04 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 04:05 pm (UTC)I should have gone to the vigil but didn't even know about it until after the fact. Instead, I was interviewing Nick "Xander Harris" Brendon who kept talking about fans in relation to his penis. No, really.
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Date: 2010-10-04 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 04:37 pm (UTC)But then you don't get to go to France.
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Date: 2010-10-04 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 04:54 pm (UTC)You went to Stuyvesant! I bet all the Stuyvesant alums I know are not your age. I was so jealous of Stuyvesant at my tiny underfunded not-very-good all-female Catholic school on Long Island, it seemed like such a big deal then.
I look so good today it's ridiculous. (You know what's helpful? Actually having some male fashion role-models whose builds aren't that dissimilar from mine. Like, sure, Keith Olbermann wears fantastic clothes, but that don't help tiny little ol' me).
pics? :) I get all wistful about good looking male clothing which seems basically impossible with my gigantic breasts.
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Date: 2010-10-04 04:55 pm (UTC)I look so good today it's ridiculous - I just love that attitude... keep it up :D
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Date: 2010-10-04 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 05:00 pm (UTC)Susan
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Date: 2010-10-04 05:30 pm (UTC)But our 2 weeks summer vacation which is just the three of us isn't coming together as we hoped. We were hoping to do a week in Peru visiting Machu Pichu, Nazca Lines, Cuzco and a week on an Amazon cruise (because we loved our Nile cruise last year so much!)but it just isn't coming together. So I am looking for ideas.
After two years of really long flights with China and then Italy + Egypt I really am hoping for less than 10 hours on a plane plus I would like to take Thomas to South America.
All that to say I am always interested in what others do more so when I don't know what we are doing!
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