Happy Fat Thursday, y'all
Feb. 23rd, 2006 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
When you're on a diet, Fat Thursday sucks. So I coped by switching my allotted two 200-300 calorie meals to two rose-jam filling donuts and eating a faworek instead of the protein bar :>
I really don't understand how people can eat donuts that don't have rose-jam filling and candied orange peel on top, you know.
In other news, work killed me dead and Gerald Tarrant administered the coup de grace by deciding he doesn't feel like plodding through his conversation with Narilka again, but instead wants the first-time story I promised I'd write for him. Got a 1000 words of it done today, and they haven't even laid eyes on each other yet. Anyone want to take a very pushy muse off my hands?
I really don't understand how people can eat donuts that don't have rose-jam filling and candied orange peel on top, you know.
In other news, work killed me dead and Gerald Tarrant administered the coup de grace by deciding he doesn't feel like plodding through his conversation with Narilka again, but instead wants the first-time story I promised I'd write for him. Got a 1000 words of it done today, and they haven't even laid eyes on each other yet. Anyone want to take a very pushy muse off my hands?
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 11:17 am (UTC)Honestly. It's like Dracula and Dooku and Anakin and Boromir and Lucius and Alucard and Kraven and Lucifer all rolled into one, with an extra helping of hubris and stand-offishness. What can I do but push his boyfriend at him to make it all better?
(And the boyfriend is part Van Helsing, part Han Solo and most of the time a paladin. Does not help things.)
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:19 am (UTC)Curses.
*buys all three books for 15 quid*
*waves a fist* I will get you for this, evil wench!
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:45 am (UTC)>:D >:D >:DYou'll thank me yet. Or, you know, money back. After the Female Parental Unit is done with them, my editions might not hold together anymore - she keeps clutching them because she does not like Gerald and yet she has to love him because he's her type, too :>
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:48 am (UTC)(And sometimes, online shopping is insane - I'm only paying 7 quid for the books, but 8 for postage *boggles*)
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:52 am (UTC)git.Knowing him, he'll probably evolve a new and improved race of plotbunnies, too ~_~
(Agh. No way you could have gotten them cheaper? I think Amazon does that free UK delivery over 15 quid deal - same money, a few more books...)
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:57 am (UTC)Oh! Also, can you drop me a line with where to send your Shadows book to? ;) And would you object to having a couple of episodes of StarGate so you see the pretty I intend to force on you? :D
(As for getting them cheaper, I flailed about on all my favourite online stores and that was the best deal I could get. To get them on Amazon would have been 8 quid each and that was the second-hand editions. I also looked in every book shop and second hand shop in my town, to see if there was a vague chance they were stocked, but apparently, no :-S So, on the whole, it isn't too bad for 3 brand spanking new books. And definitely alot cheaper than importing them :))
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:06 pm (UTC)You're still using the darkfyre81 addy, right? Mail sent :)
(Proof again that Amazon.co.uk sucks, and not only for charging something like 18 pounds per delivery to Poland. I got them at Amazon.de for 7 euro each, brand new.)
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:11 pm (UTC)And yep, that would be my main address because I'm a lazy cow and having msn pop up mail arrivals for me saves me the effort of... well, opening the account unnecessarily :D
(Amazon can sometimes, but not very often, be fabulous for sales etc. I have just found abebooks.co.uk - yay for second-hand and imported book shops online :D I think I've just found where my salary is about to be redirected to)
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:24 pm (UTC)I just have my mail client automatically check every 15 minutes, and usually click on "get messages" more often anyway if I know I'm getting LJ comments...
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 11:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 11:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 11:58 am (UTC)I don't know, there's something to be said for Bavarian cream and chocolate. Or raspberry. Yum.
Although the cinnamon confectioner's sugar donut will also always remain a favorite. :)
That and my initial reaction was ROSE-jam?!(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 12:15 pm (UTC)And rose jam's one of the most decadent things on earth. Actual rose petals and rosewater... damn, why am I on a diet again? :S :S :S
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:08 pm (UTC)Is that like the UK's Shrove Tuesday?
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:21 pm (UTC)Shrove Tuesday, on the other hand, is called "Ostatki" (roughly, Last Day or Remains) and is the last occasion to party before Ash Wednesday.
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:51 pm (UTC)But nonetheless a happy Thursday to you! I shall now celebrate it by eating a teaspoon of rose marmalade, yup :D
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:53 pm (UTC)...damn, I miss rose marmalade :S :S :S
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:59 pm (UTC)As for diets... I was never good at keeping them. Me bad!
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Date: 2006-02-23 09:27 pm (UTC)I've been on Herbalife nearly five weeks now, and it's usually fairly painless, but it's just not done to go through Fat Thursday without doughnuts. Bad luck for the whole year, I think ;)
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Date: 2006-02-23 01:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 09:27 pm (UTC)~_~
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 09:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-24 09:49 am (UTC)(And I was dying to post a title for a drabble there, but titles are the bane of my fanfiction life... I can't even come up with them for my own fics, let alone nonexistent fics. ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-24 10:05 am (UTC)Untitled, then, but give me a prompt?
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:09 pm (UTC)There are far too many tempting prompts, really. But... Damien, Gerald, ship either to or back from the Eastern Continent? Surely they must have had a way to pass the time...
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:26 pm (UTC)Quick canon question: what is Novatlantis exactly? The ocean, an isle thereon, the continent? I kind of got confused there...
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-23 09:29 pm (UTC)I've been writing longer recently as well.....
Date: 2006-02-23 03:58 pm (UTC)*hugs*
Chris
Re: I've been writing longer recently as well.....
Date: 2006-02-23 09:29 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-02-23 09:36 pm (UTC)Good luck with the fic! *ispersonally stuck on a confrontation involving Sands, El, Lori & one pissed off ofc of a CIA agent*
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:44 pm (UTC)