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Soujin ([personal profile] psalm_onethirtyone) wrote2009-12-30 03:40 pm

"And She Feeds You Tea and Oranges..."

It’s a little hard to sum up everything that’s going on right now, but I can give it a good try, or at least make a bulletpoint list of the important items, which may work just as well.

--My granddad will probably be dead within the next month. We thought it would be more than that, but he’s sicker than everyone thought. He’s in hospice care, and I know they are going to make him as comfortable as a person can be until he dies. It really is the dying that’s harder than the death--if I thought he would live the same amount of time and die on the same day but without any of the pain I think it would be almost easy to acknowledge. It’s just that he hurts so much, and all the time.

--The good news is that that’s the only really bad news. Otherwise, Christmas was kind of quiet. Will has decided he wants to be a dentist, which is really weird to me, but he’s got two more years before he’s even in college, so. I just find the dentist part surreal, since Will is a very, very handsome boy who keeps a coffin in his room and plays guitar in a rock band.

--I got my ears pierced as a present to me, which is sort of exciting. I have little stars in my ears! It only hurt a lot! I am totally going to forget to turn them every night, and I am going to rely on [livejournal.com profile] the_chloroplast to help me know how to do this right.

--Sherlock Holmes was utterly crazy and totally wonderful, and I loved it. Also, Maria has a celebrity crush on Robert Downey Jr., which is really really funny. I think we’re going to watch it again on New Year’s unless there is something better coming out, which I doubt.

--We watched the Star Trek episode where Kirk gets body switched with Dr. Lester last night, and somehow I’ve promised to write Maria Spock/Kirkette. That episode is just crazy, though, because it’s the most incredibly brilliant plot idea and they totally didn’t realise what they had in their hands, I think. The mutiny aspects are played up and the absolutely gorgeous unspoken Kirk-Spock interaction is just treated as mundane, which is really isn’t. Also the loyalty of the crew to Kirk, and also how badass Kirk is as a woman--a lot more badass than he is as a man, actually, but it’s really cool. I can also see how the episode could be perceived as incredibly misogynistic, and I was wondering where anybody else has seen it--particularly [livejournal.com profile] greyswandir. Because I want to know what other people got out of it. But I really loved it, and now I owe Maria fic, which is terrible, and it is going to be terrible.

--I’m going to post my Yuletide fic here as soon as I can, but I’m really reassured because my recipient liked it a lot, and that makes me feel really good. I was hoping she would. >_> I might actually creep on her and friend her after the reveal. I wonder if that’s bad manners.

--I also wrote Galahad/Sagramore, for some reason, but I’m not actually planning to post that unless there is some demand for baffling religious imagery and Galahad’s extremely weird relationships with people.

--I’m actually writing all this at two-thirty in the morning, even though I’m posting it now. There are kittens scratching on my door. I am going to kill them. Mabon walked through my paint to-day while I was working in my crafting area, and the Tribble is the cutest, cuddliest looking poof of fur, but when you try to pet her she glares at you and walks away.

--It's no longer two-thirty in the morning, and I have discovered, on the way to the library, that my car's speedometre and odometre no longer work. Also, he does not want to shift into first gear, and is making a very weird dripping noise when I drive. O_o This is really not the time, Car. Much as ilu.

--I swear to God I’m working on people’s Twelfth Night stuff!

--I am still on dialup and do not dare to try to inspect what has been going on in my flist during my absence, so you tell me! How was your holidays? My hopes are for the best--although it’s freezing, there is an almost full moon outside, and it is very beautiful

[identity profile] mhari.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
unless there is some demand for baffling religious imagery and Galahad’s extremely weird relationships with people.

*demands these things*

*also, hugs*
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[personal profile] raanve 2009-12-30 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Seconded all around, actually.
erinpuff: (Hugs (DoctorDonna))

[personal profile] erinpuff 2009-12-30 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry to hear about your granddad. :( I'll pray for you all.

My holidays:

-I finished my last paper at like three in the morning on the 17th, got two and a half hours of sleep, left for the airport, flew to PA. I'm thankful that the snow came *after* that; a lot of my friends had their travel plans ruined.
-The snow cancelled church on the 20th, which was disappointing.
-I got good grades and my professor really liked that paper that nearly killed me, which is such a relief.
-I basically sat around and watched TV shows on my computer. And didn't think about school.
-My return travel plans were screwed up twice, but it worked out. Originally my parents were going to drive me back so I could bring all my stuff and go on a big grocery run and so on, but my dad crashed his car a few weeks ago (no one was hurt) and it's still being repaired, so he got plane tickets for me and him, with the idea being that he would rent a car and I could still do a big grocery run and stuff... but then he got the flu, so I had to come back by myself (yesterday). I can't really complain, because all this is more of a disruption to my dad's life than to mine!
-I've got a week and a half before the spring semester starts, and I intend to do as little as possible.

[identity profile] snowyofthenight.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it just bugs me that what's-her-face lady makes such a shitty captain. I had high hopes it would be like "look! all she needed was a chance to prove herself and be given the respect a man accords and she was great!" But actually she really did just suck as a captain.

But I would so read that fic. XD

[identity profile] holyschist.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It really is the dying that’s harder than the death

It really is. But hospice care is good. And *hugs you*

You know there is demand for weird Galahad/Sagramore.

I'm pretty sure making new friends is part of the YT AWESOMENESS.

[identity profile] perculious.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I might actually creep on her and friend her after the reveal. I wonder if that’s bad manners.

I hope not, because I'm planning to as well.

Your life seems hectic. Everyone says getting your ears pierced doesn't hurt, but that's because they did it so long ago they don't remember.

My holidays were quite nice, but lonely.

I am so sorry about your grandfather, darling. ♥

[identity profile] softerthansound.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry about your grandfather. I hope he stops being in pain soon. ♥

Also: I got your card and it made me smile so hard. Hope your holidays were lovely and that your New Year's will be even better.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much. I hope so too.

<3! The same to you, my dear heart.

[identity profile] starpolish.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry about your grandad.

Re: your ears (so a much lighter note). o.O Don't turn them! If you got them done with a gun, eek. Be very careful, but really the best thing for healing piercings is to leave them alone. If you do feel like you need to "clean" them, use sea salt solution, not soap, and don't turn them. That gets icky germs into the healing area and gets any cleaner on the inside, which actually makes healing take longer and causes itchiness.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. XD

It is, kind of! Also, yes, ears not hurting is a LIE.

Were you by yourself? We should try maybe to get together while I'm home, although you're about an hour and a half away from me now, I think. O_o

♥ thanks.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
The lady who pierced them said I have to turn them twice a day and use the solution she gave me to wash them every day! Idk! And she did do them with a gun; it was at a shop in the mall.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
<3333 I have a deep respect for and trust of hospice nurses, not least because my mother is one.

Posted. Ha.

Okay. XD Good to know.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. I know. That would have been cooler. But at least they didn't try to blame it on her being a woman--they established that she was a bad captain because she was a loon, and not because she was a woman. I thought it would have been worthwhile to explore how the whole thing kind of exposed some of Starfleet's really unfair policies, but sadly they missed that opportunity.

>_>

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. <333

I'm glad you got good grades! Christmas Eve there was freezing rain and incredibly high winds in Tennessee so we didn't get to go to Midnight Mass, unfortunately. Also, you're back at school already? Ugh. Anyway, I hope your dad's feeling better!

So you get to go back early and then sort of chill out at your school?

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Done, my lady, done.

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Posted, so help me God.

*loves*
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[personal profile] erinpuff 2009-12-31 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Just chilling out in my apartment, actually, but I will have to go down to campus for meetings and a piano exam a few times next week (I should start practicing for that, uhhhh). And to start returning this massive pile of library books. D: I could have stayed in PA longer, but traveling takes so much out of me that I wanted to make sure I'll have fully recovered before I have to do any thinking. :p (Also, I want to be able to watch Friday's Doctor Who episode on my big monitor! and by myself in case I cry, which I certainly will.)

[identity profile] snowyofthenight.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's true, but they did make the choice of making her a woman and not just some loony man.

:D

[identity profile] perculious.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
This is why I sort of appreciated it when I asked Macrina if getting my nose pierced was going to hurt and she just said "Yes, a lot." D:

No, but only one of my sisters was home. :( I would totally love to see you if we could find someplace halfway between us to meet. I'm leaving Jan. 4 though!

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, really! But at least it didn't hurt much more than a finger stick, which I am starting to get really, really used to.

Aww, that's too bad. Oh man, really? I'm not going back until the 4th. Anyway, how far are you from Harrisburg?

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
But the advantage of her being a woman is that we get Kirkette. >_>

[identity profile] snowyofthenight.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sooo true. :D (and once you start thinking about it there are SO MANY TOS crew members who would be so excellent upon passing through the super techonobabble genderswitch ray I made up just now... I can't imagine Bones, for example, being too terribly pleased)

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles and loves*

[identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Omg, ladymccoy would be so awesome.

[identity profile] starpolish.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, those kind of shops aren't really the best for piercings. I'm not saying your ears will fall off or anything (that's where I got my first holes done), but they aren't really trained well and often give bad advice. Piercings are one of my huge interests, I even toyed with the idea of becoming a professional piercer before (the kind that works in a tattoo studio and goes to conventions, not at a store in the mall) so I get twitchy when I hear about people rotating their new piercings. <.

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