Beth Winter

Just got home :) Budapest yay. Vampires SQUEE. Especially since one Von Krolock is a total fan of the Warsaw production to the point of copying the faces Lukasz made, and the other... the other is a bouncy fluffy baby Von Krolock who looks and sounds like Máté Kamarás's younger cousin.

And yes, I have boots. Only second act of the second Von Krolock for some reason, but nice clear boots :> Reviews upcoming.

Longer review later, once I've seen it again (and maybe a third time) and can type it when not on a rickety kitchen chair wedged onto the patio because it's the only place the net's working. Suffice it to say, I have a very wide grin on my face.

Tanz der Vampire is still magic. Even in Hungarian.

Six days before getting on a plane to Budapest is probably a bad time for me to panic about not being able to speak a word of Hungarian, or even pronounce it without consulting a guide. Technically I know we can get by easily between English, German, French and Russian, but my brain is flailing in travel-induced panic.

Otherwise, I got friended by a crowd of people I don't know, again. It's not that I mind people viewing my public posts, but dropping me a note would be nice. As would telling me whether you want me to friend back - locked posts tend to be Real Life ramblings and file-sharing.

*looks at last entry* Meep. All those... serious things. To counteract it, musicals meme swiped from musicallover6.

( All about musicals )

I was wondering what to write in my anniversarial, thousandth post on Livejournal. Good on Six Apart for dropping a topic into my lap.

I remember Time Before LJ. I had a blog, first on Pitas, then on my own domain. Interaction was via blog comments and shoutouts in your own entries, mailing lists and forums. Everyone else had a blog, but somewhere in early 2003 I noticed that everyone else was also, slowly, getting accounts on Livejournal.

I hated the service, for the clumsy way it looked, the lack of customisation and the way its one appealing feature - friendslock, the ability to get your post to the people you wanted to see it and yet not to the internet at large - required you to take the plunge and get an account yourself. I caved in in April 2003, and since then I haven't changed the title. I still call my LJ the way I used to call all of LJ: The Pit of Hell.

(Re-reading my blog, I realised I got my LJ invite from beckerbell. Should I be thankful, my dear, or kill you? ;))

The privacy and social networking features are why I'll probably stay here until it lacks the social momentum warranting them - until enough of my f-list moves elsewhere. Since I'm multi-fandom, that's unlikely to happen soon.

For those moving to GreatestJournal, I'm Extenuation over there. The account is used for RP, but if you're moving, please friend me and I'll friend back - because I don't want to lose track of people, and I want to keep reading my entire f-list, not just the people who stay here.

Dear Pit of Hell: happy 1000 posts.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - meh. It felt like a series of disjointed illustrations. Good ones, mind you, but there was absolutely no plot to it. ( Details )

In other news, my older cat managed to scratch my younger cat in a way that left poor Lestat with a forming boil on his front paw and fever upwards of 40 C. Guess who'll have to get him to the vet's for antibiotic injections each morning through the next week :/

I finished this one in three hours (took me four for HBP). Overall verdict is approving, with certain reservations.

( Spoilers within, brief )

All in all, a nice bit of escapism in a period devoid of it. As if it wasn't enough that last week had Weather From Hell and I'm busy enough at work to make me beat my head against a wall, now I'm also worrying about people :S

For those who noted, health is decidedly better, and even the persistent cough is going away :) But I've worked extra-hard this week in order to get Monday off.

Good things: I have my computer back, de-virused and all secured up. I am off for three days at the lakes, back on Monday night.

Bad things: I will be 25 on Saturday. Bleargh.

As if the winter harddrive trouble weren't enough, on Saturday I managed to catch a virus on my home computer. Easy enough to get rid of - except for the fact that the bloody thing was so badly written, it managed to corrupt the partition table of all things. Looks like my only option is complete data backup, reformat and reinstall; I'm waiting to find out whether it'll be possible to accomplish free of charge or if I'll have to shell out for a commercial service.

So until further notice, no access to most of my graphics, software, or audio collection :/ I've got a backup of the fics etc, thankfully, but that's it.

I want better technical karma. And health-wise, because this would be easier to take if I were not tripping over my own feet.

*eyedart* Week without posting = nothing interesting, I guess. I'm supposed to be writing stuff for springkink, but I've run into a slight snag in the form of mid-grade fever and infection. Off work till Wednesday, technically, but am planning to go back earlier. Don't need to be fully bouncy to do work, and we're rather busy.

I've noticed that once again, quite a few people friended me without any comment at all. I'm always bemused when it happens - it's kind of like being stared at on the train. Flattering, but with a dose of WTF to it.

(Of course, if any of those lurkers care to comment and explain, I'll be more than flattered. Especially if they want to be friended back.)