you caught me lingering

Yes, I'm spamming today. But it's good spam. Or something.

There has been a call for subs issued for an essay anthology entitled She's Such A Geek. It's subject is as would be expected; to celebrate and explore all things geek-girl. As an idea I think its great, and am sincerely hoping the ways in which it could turn into a bit of a wank-fest don't eventuate.

I know a few people on the f-list who are interested in such things, so I thought I'd play link-y in case anyone has some free time and the desire to whip up something. Also, I have the initial fragments of an idea for a multiple-writer-conversational/debate-type-piece bouncing around in my head, so if anyone would possibly be interested in teaming up on such a thing (scribewraith, I'm looking at you in particular), let me know.

Jane Austen Font; via Gaimanblog.

New set of wristwarmers, which fit much more snugly than the last pair. I'm most pleased with them. I've made a similar pair for $tephen, which cover further up the hand.

As a distraction, I offer you knitting. Recently finished wrist-warmers, to be exact.





I'm planning on making the next set longer and perhaps a little more snug, but I'm quite happy with how these turned out.

Huzzah. Or somesuch.

These are freakin' awesome. McSweeny's Lists can be very hit and miss, but when it hits, dear Noodly does it hit.

Cinematic Expressions of Inner Self-Loathing If There Were No Mirrors to Smash.

I finished a scarf on the weekend. Am quite pleased with it. It's stupidly long, at twice the length of me with my arm stretched above my head (I'm about 5 foot 7 or 170cm, for the sake of scale). But it's soft and fluffy and warm. I only have a couple of close-up photos of it at the moment (not including the ones of me wearing it, wherein I look horrible). Later on I shall update with a few more. My icon is from one of the uber-close-up shots of it (tinkered with in photoshop; the actual scarf is much less yellow/orange and much more brown). The yarn is Panda Rockery, which I sadly cannot find on the Panda website, which is a shame. Still, I have my scarf, and it rocks.

Pictures can be found here.

Not Dead. Weekend was faboo. Thanks to the girls, and thanks to $ for driving us back the next day. No thanks to my stomach.

Uni is good. I think it will be a challenging Semester, but more relaxed. I feel much more confident and organised this Semester, which is nice. I think I'm a;ready infused with the vibe of 'I'm living on my own', and it's rather suiting me. Which is nothing against people I've lived with; I just think it was time for me to go back to living on my own for a while. Moving stuff this week, and whilst I'm considerably stressed I'm not going to get everything done in time and all those stresses, I'm reasonably okay with it. For me (which is a big qualifier), I'm surprisingly zen, this week. It's a nice feeling.

Also, I've decided that the walk from Uni to Taigum Shopping Centre is a reasonable one for not-too-strenuous exercise purposes. There's a bus to my new home from there, or I can get a lift with $, depending what we're doing, and it's mostly flat. That's what I do like about this area. The flat-ness. Walking in Kelvin Grove was always very hard to get myself to do, because I don't do hills. The muscles in my legs are quite unflexible, and they hate hills at the best of times.

Thankyou to the people who provided addresses. I'm actually rather surprised, but glad I'm not the only one that misses letters. I'll be getting stuck into those once I've moved.

And now, back off to finish packing up the non-furniture things.

It's funny. I've been poking around the things in my room yesterday and today, trying to work out what to take to my new house, what to put in storage and what to get rid of, and I'll keep finding my mind straying off to wander 'bout a little, just composing little snippets of letters to people on the friendslist. I love the internet's ability to transmit messages in no time at all, but I still have a definite soft spot for the humble handwritten letter. I had one or two friends at another high school when I was younger, and we'd exchange letters every few weeks/days/whenever it was convenient. They'd be these long and varied projects; the result of a few weeks of boring classes and train trips and bus trips and sitting up on the cliffs at Bondi when I should've been in school. They had everything; sketches and fic snippets and all sorts of things, with notes in the margins and scribbled out bits where teenage girls who think themselves future writers are obssessively corrective of their own grammar and spelling.

I didn't really realise it until now, but I've got a whole stash of these letters inside my head, for a whole bunch of you. Complete with those little curiosity questions that don't really have a place to be asked on LJ, for the people I don't know very well or see very often (if ever), fic snippets, ponderings, and little scribbly drawings. It's getting a bit crowded really, and I'm thinking since I've got a better handle on my time (hopefully) this semester, I might actually try and get all of this stuff down, and write letters. Because I think it'd be fun, even if I don't send them. Of course, if people are curious as to the sort of letter I'd send them, I'd be happy to.

Poll #532828 Letters!
Open to: Friends, results viewable to: None

Mailing Address, please

I can't promise on when people will get letters; it's what my brain decides it wants to do first. :)

Thanks to months of being tempted by Vanessa's posting of cool knitted stuff, I've started knitting again. Vanessa you're a horrible influence. :P

Meanwhile, OMG I'm so rusty. I'm dropping stitches left and right, but I suppose that's to be expected when one hasn't knitted in nearly a decade.

This is proving to be a most productive weekend.

I actually wrote non-uni stuff today. Original fic, even. It's here if anyone's interested in reading (feedback would be good too, if you feel so inclined).
Actually, the cues community is actually rather cool for any writers on the flist; weekly prompts, all fandoms and originals welcome. Though I may be biased cos it actually got me to write fic for the first time in at least a year. As my post says, I found it via Sandra, so kudos to her.

After putting off changing my LJ layout for a good few months because it all seemed really complex and scary, I finally spent an evening of messing about with advanced S2 customizations and such (with the help of some really useful tutorials and such).

I came up with a new LJ layout I'm really rather pleased with. The header doesn't completely line up with the main text, but I'm not really too fussed, because fixing that would involve way too much messing about with code because it's a problem with the centering in the original style.

Original photos/filtering is $tephen's, from his 24-hour comic because he's lovely and let's me mess with his creations for my own purposes.

I am quite pleased. As a result, you all get flirty!jen.
*flirt* *flirt* *flirt*
kthnxbye.