i don't see how that's relevant

semi-related thoughts and an invitation:

2012-05-09T05:44:28Z

would you like to come to watch doctor who with us on mondays? we have been rewatching from the beginning of new who, in order to edumacate C, who finally got sick of not knowing what we were talking about. also i will cook you dinner, if you text me by 5pm on any particular monday (not valid june 11!). i admit that, being fairly familiar with season 1, i am actually sitting in the corner working on continuum while the tv is on, but it is entertaining nonetheless.

one of the reasons i like the otw is when i email them, they reply to "emilly" and not, as many of the replies i've gotten from various hotels lately "emily". (hotel person x has NO EXCUSE cause my given name is IN MY EMAIL ADDRESS. why should i arrange to give you thousands of dollars when you don't read?)

Because of reasons, I'm working on the continuum 8 conbook. I didn't plan to, this year; i've done it twice already, and i had other things to do! and yet. in the past when i have done this, i have really liked the bit where i lay things out, and mess around in InDesign, and go over it again backwards to find typos. This year I haven't got there yet but do you know what is FAR easier? Asking for people to pay for advertising! I hated doing that in 2009 & 10. This year I'm just flinging out the emails. They say no? whatever, they lose. They say yes? yay! I don't know if it's because I have "Chair, Continuum 8" in my signature, or if it's cause it's so not the most important thing i have to get done this week, or cause I'm a grownup now? I don't know, but i'm super happy with it!

I have also delegated much of the writing i - well, i never wanted to do it, i've begun to develop a thing about writing lately - but the writing i thought i'd like to have in the book. things that are easier when your girlfriend is a writer and interested in the same subjects you need writing on: my life.

i have opinions on things unrelated to conventions! i just haven't written them out yet. maybe one day.

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read some books and want to tell you about them

2012-03-30T07:54:02Z

I have actually been reading books that are not ya and books that are not written by ladies but this looks like a theme so let's run with it for now. Not really spoilers, i don't think, but some of these books are pretty recent plus some of these reviews got quite long.

( Please ignore Vera Dietz, A S King )

( Three summers, Judith Clarke )
( Fateful, Claudia Gray )
( Dead, Actually, Kaz Delaney )

( Slide, Jill Hathaway )

( The taming of Lilah May and Lilah May's manic days, Vanessa Curtis )

( The rage of sheep, Michelle Cooper )

My conclusion: high school in books is probably not somewhere anyone wants to be, which is awkward given all these books are from my high school library.

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books for you!

2011-10-15T05:46:22Z

I am moving house and am not fond enough of the following books to move them too. but I could give them to you!

( crime, boarding school stories, sf, and random stuff )

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i am so pround i might burst

2011-09-13T05:43:37Z

this actually went down this morning before i saw any of the #yesgayya stuff. but hey! excellent timing!

i have some new books in the office, which i haven't got round to putting on display just yet, and a student was going through to see if she wanted to borrow any, and we started talking about diversity in the fiction collection blah AND THEN THIS HAPPENED
i said, "i think it's important to have books with gay and lesbian characters in--"
and she cut in with "and it's not an issue that they're gay or anything, they just are"
and i said, "yeah, because--"
and she said "there should be books with all types of people in. do you have any books with romance but not vampires, i'm tired of them."

MY WORK HERE IS DONE

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this is a post i have been writing for a week now

2011-05-13T07:24:47Z

OKAY SO:
1/ I have inexplicably* fallen out of love with Hawaii 5-0, within the (relatively long, this time) pre-titles bit, in the exact scene that usually I would have adored. (Danno can't breathe! oh noes!) I didn't even bother watching the end of the episode. Instead I have been repeatedly rewatching the episodes of Leverage with Mark Sheppard in, cause Dr Who reminded me how much I love Mark Sheppard being rude and slightly evil.
*yes, inexplicably. i loved it even though it was awful, so why should it's awfulness make me not love it?

2/ I finished that shawl I was working on during Swancon & Comedy festival*, and in an effort to use the yarn I already own, am trying, but failing, to knit self-striping socks. SOCKS, WHY SO AWKWARD? I measured my leg, and am knitting to gauge, and yet these socks are too big even for Clare.
*conceiveably i will even wash and block and photograph it, and upload said photograph, but I wouldn't hold my breath. About the photography, anyway. I might be able to block it next week.

3/ In between getting frustrated at my knitting, to a soundtrack of Leverage Associates being frustrated by evil good guys, I am also being frustrated by hotel venues. How hard could it be to just open a hotel with function space for 200 people and, you know, run the con inside my own hotel? IT COULD WORK.

4/ Twinings Lemon Scented Black Tea comes from Woolworths, not Coles. Next time we run out, we will not panic about Coles' out of stockness, because we will remember that only Woolies seem to stock it. Of course, that will be a long time in the future, because we managed to buy three packages, and one lasts long enough for us to forget where it came from...

5/ I got my very first speeding fine. Trufax: it's from the apparently-dodgy according-to-the-herald-sun but not according-to-vicroads camera on Eastlink below the Wellington Rd bridge - but if I was indeed at Wellington Road at that time on a Friday morning I probably was speeding. Cause I would also be late for work.

6/ Occasionally Clare complains about my lj being "pick on emilly's housemate story!" but then she does things like go out when she's ill and buy a life size cardboard cutout of RPattz and put it in my bed.
6b/ RPattz is quite tall.
6c/ It was surprisingly hard to convince Clare she could take the day off. If I can hear you coughing from my room, you have a nasty cough. That means you can call in sick. If I can hear you coughing from my room AND you have pus in your throat, you need to go to the doctor, you crazy person, that's pretty much what doctors are for.

7/ I got carded! at the supermarket liquor store on a Wednesday at 5pm. Best part: the whole day, people were telling me I looked tired. Surely tired means i'd look older, not younger?

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this isn't a swancon report

2011-04-29T01:07:43Z

just some notes to do with the UnderConstruction panels on Sunday - Monday's will follow soonest.
( Knowledge )
( Programming )
I have the audio files and they are partially transcribed, as well as Callistra’s tweetstream from all the panels. Hopefully when we sort out the bulletin board, we’ll be able to include all these files too, so that you can totally pretend you were there too.

To Do List:
*monday's panel notes
*finish transcribing audio recording, upload
*ditto with keepstream
*wiki updates (have started already, yay!)
*bulletin board
*upload timelines; program questionnaire
*email everyone re: having done all of the above
*rewrite this to do list to include monday's stuff
*panic re: continuum 7 book submission (this is on every to do list now. erk.)

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I'm just gonna post once a month, then

2011-04-20T08:04:55Z

Suspension of disbelief, broken: look, I realise Steve McGarrett is more of a badass then I am, but the week after you break two bones in your wrist? It still hurts. Too much to carry most of the weight of a nine year old boy. Especially when there are easier ways to carry P. Diddy's emo kid.

How long does it take me to pack for a week in Perth: fucking way too long, really. Also, lol my wardrobe: I will pack the black skirt and the red skirt; the black dress and the red dress; the black shoes and the red shoes; what shirts should I bring? Perhaps a black one and a red one?

A refrain familiar to many of you: where the fuck is the upfield train?

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what do you even do with leftover salad?

2011-03-20T11:19:11Z

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY IT WAS FUN.

(there's no leftover gingerbread. I ate it all!)

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19 March is on a saturday!

2011-02-28T11:09:44Z

PEOPLE OF THE INTERNETS!

shortly it will be my birthday! and also the first roller derby match of the year! a splendid coincidence.

part the first: a picnic! There shall be cake! possibly pie! & ridiculously sweet soft drinks and lunch-type foods. I'm thinking Central Park, cause that way, if it rains we can just come back to my house. also, directions are easy: it's right at the end of the number 5 tram route.

part the second: at about half past six, some of us will drive all the way to Keysborough, because that is where the derby is. It's the South Seas Roller Derby, in their second season. you should come! it'll be awesome! tickets are on sale here. i will even clean out my car so that human beings can fit in the back. btw you go for the charmers -- they are the purple team. and also the best.

if you consider you will be very hungry, you should rsvp in the comments or something. i mean, i usually overcater, but what if this is the one time i miscalculate? i'm prepared for you to be vegan, or gluten intolerant, but you could bring a plate anyway. also, if you don't have my number, you should tell me so, but I suspect everyone who's reading this far already does.

*if you are the interest in the roller derby, you should notice that tickets for the next three vrdl matches all go on sale 5 march.

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news you can use:

2011-02-24T11:55:16Z

If you stick to small, simple projects, you can finish a lot of knitting in six weeks. which means that i get to spend tomorrow night washing my new hat, shawl, cowl & two pairs of mitts, & weaving in the ends, and then taking some photos and maybe actually updating my otherwise really depressing ravelry projects page.

at some point i should really do the last ten centimeters of jen's vest, too. it's gotten surprisingly chilly of a morning this week.

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things that have happened today

2011-02-17T10:55:19Z

Things that are not entirely surprising: Clare's first issue of Pro Bull Rider arrived today and I suspect - going by the advertisements - that neither Clare nor I are really in the target audience. However, we will be able to use the poster of Bones, the bull who retires this month, to cover up the boring March picture in the Top Gear calendar in our bathroom.

Things that are surprising & excellent: a conversation
Clare: hey i read a book about you today! well not you, but
me: a librarian who likes science fiction?
clare: yeah, but, kind of. not really. it's on the couch there
me: oh hey! I was just about to buy Among Others!

so now i don't have to pay hardcover import price, which is what was stopping me so far.

things that are exciting:
I have an epic spreadsheet of continuum 8. it's pretty much all I am thinking about at any given moment. I probably shouldn't work on it at work though! fair warning: i am going to be repeatedly excited about continuum 8 in this journal over the next sixteen months. oh look i have a continuum icon now!

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emilly @ 2011-02-15T22:07:00

2011-02-15T11:24:07Z

So obviously most of the time I make a pretty good stereotype: I'm a librarian who knits! also I'm single & live with a cat! but today, while laying on the couch, wearing a red dress, reading romance novels* and eating fancy chocolates i started to wonder:
what's the difference between a stereotype & a cliche?

*clare brings home the mills & boons that people donate to the library, but the library won't keep because, i believe, the sexytimes are too graphic.** then we read out the good bits to unsuspecting guests***. it's a thing. For the times when we don't have a good passage prepared, there is always "the romance writers' phrasebook": truly and honestly a collection of sentences to go in romance novels. arranged by topic****.

**as a fanfic reader, not so much.

***HI CAITLIN!

****I actually can't find our copy right now, but I do recall one of the topics was color: lists of all the various synonyms for different colours. Including (as a heading) both "white" and "off-white".

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i feel you ought to know:

2011-02-07T10:51:29Z

The dutch for librarian (f) is bibliotecaressa. (m) is, i think, without the final a.
also, rabbit is konjin.

the whole class, bibliotecaressa made me giggle.

bibliotecaressa.

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so we've already watched a lot of tv this year

2011-02-06T11:32:47Z

emilly tells her workmates that she has a tivo:

emilly: hey, we got a tivo!
anna: yeah? how is it?
emilly: it has decided we are bogans. Understandable - we did tell it our highest priority is Pro Bull Riding and then Bondi Rescue - but you know. so we named it Dwayne.
anna: pro bull riding? you what?

clare tells her workmates that she has a tivo:

clare: oh yeah, dwayne's recording that for me.
sandra: your boyfriend is named dwayne?
clare: what? no! we named the tivo dwayne!
sandra: you named something dwayne? on purpose? in your own house?
clare: THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION

hmm i can have like 15 icons on a free dw account. i think i will need moar watching tv icons.

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oh hey now i remember

2011-02-01T09:27:13Z

I had things to discuss about

knitting
reading
television and
movies

a bulleted list! also known as "what i did on my summer holidays"

Apparently I had some kind of mental break and spent all of my christmas money on northern european traditional mitten knitting books. Last week I received Mostly Mittens, on Komi (Russian) patterns, yesterday Folk Knitting of Estonia; and today Selbuvotter, on the two colour norwegian type mittens, which i don't even remember buying. oops. AND YET. the only pattern i want to knit is Shetlanders, admittedly a mitten pattern, but on a way larger gauge than anything in the books. I love it to pieces and I can't believe only six people have picked it up on Ravelry.

In other news, I read a grand total of THREE NOVELS MY GOD this january. Possibly because I spent most of the time watching tv and knitting. And Trisha and Clare keep lending me more dvds -- and I have sixty more knitting patterns than I had last week -- so i doubt feb will be any more impressive.

Midnight never comes: the Queen of England makes a deal with a Faerie Queen; things go wrong (how could it possibly?!); our heroes save england.
Devilish: (re-read)A high school girl makes a deal with a demon; things go wrong (how could it possibly?!); our hero saves her friend (hmm a theme).
Raisins and Almonds: (re-read) a phryne fisher novel to read one hot afternoon.
So none of these novels were really that great. Hopefully the next books I read are more worth it.

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emilly @ 2011-02-01T19:53:00

2011-02-01T08:53:55Z

i can't remember what i had actually meant to post to dw this evening, so in lieu:

OVERHEARD IN MY KITCHEN
"Don't turn around! I'm taking off my pants!"

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i plan on eating this salad everyday until forever

2010-12-15T11:43:56Z

except that when i promised to bring a salad for work thing, i said i'd bring potato salad.

pita bread, pulled apart and put in the oven to get crunchy & brown and then ripped into bits
green chilli, spring onion chopped up small
cos lettuce ripped up
parsley & coriander chopped up small
avocado scooped out in chunks
limejuice limezest olive oil salt and pepper, as dressing.

only you do have to make it just before you want to eat it, or you know. unpleasant avocado will ensue.

TWO MORE DAYS

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emilly @ 2010-12-12T20:13:00

2010-12-12T09:26:13Z

i ripped out the green & white mittens i was working on last week, and i am trying to re-knit them with a corrugated ribbed cuff, but goddamn it is hard to a) find out how to cast corrugated ribbing on neatly or b) do it neatly. I'm not sure it's worth it, but i have cast on these mittens four times now & so fuck it. i am doing corrugated ribbing even if it's messy.

YOU WOULD THINK: that i would have some yarn with which to knit my dad a hat for christmas*. But you would be wrong. oh man, i have to go to the yarn shop! HOW WILL I COPE.

In other news: I have all the ingredients for gingerbread muffins but am too busy watching white collar season two to make them. white collar! it is lots of fun & full of snark. i watched the whole of season one last week and there are only a few episodes left before there is none left! i am now delaying the inevitable by posting to dreamwidth.

*yeah, knitted hats not really appropriate gifts for xmas. but he asked for one. plus it's very wet this year.

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i forgot the funny!

2010-12-06T08:00:57Z

While eating dinner yesterday:

Clare: ... if you have flexitime.
Me: oh flexitime. Did I tell you... oh! we need some more friends!
Clare: ?
Me: I was just about to tell you about my housemate and her boss's issue with flexitime!

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emilly @ 2010-12-06T18:36:00

2010-12-06T07:56:15Z

ok: I have arranged and paid for a replacement license; cancelled my credit card; blocked my myki. Should go round to the library & replace that card too. Need to wait for the new card number & re-arrange the direct debit & such -- hmm hope medibank doesn't come out this week!

Despite the badness I actually had a pretty good weekend, but work today was really annoying -- newsletter day, and I'm sunburnt, and the aircon doesn't really reach my office where i had to hang out all day & do the newsletter, so I really didn't have any extra brainparts to deal with anything out of the ordinary. So of course the japanese teacher gave my extension out to all the japanese teachers in melbourne in relation to free textbooks. GO AWAY THERE ARE NO FREE BOOKS LEFT. STOP RINGING AND EMAILING ALREADY. GO AWAY GO AWAY.

I acquired some white collar, because I want to read all the stories Sam Starbuck keeps writing about it, and it's very enjoyable! So that's fun, cause I was out of tv to watch.

So now i am going to put more aloe vera on my back, eat some icecream, and watch some more tv.
Oh! if anyone sees a nice little wallet with patterns of bees on, remember where you saw it? I liked having a bee on my wallet. Just a little tiny thing you can get into a jeans pocket, if you still own a pair of jeans.

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i heart sbs news.

2010-12-03T07:46:30Z

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also i have to say, your car's indicators will still work when it's raining. truly.

2010-12-01T09:56:19Z

clare charitably suggests the reason we always find someone driving really badly at the new coles is because it is, after all, the new coles, and people aren't used to the car park yet. BUT REALLY PEOPLE it's not like tooronga have a propriety design for a one way sign that is otherwise unknown in victoria.

I was very impressed, the other day, to visit tooronga and not find someone driving all the way around, looking for the exit, and then all the way around again, still trying to find the exit*, or driving up the down, or out the in, or on the wrong side of the road, nor yet parked across the entrance**. Of course it was 7am and I was the only car moving in the car park. UNTIL, while leaving, I had to wait for someone to finish backing out of the exit (into a roundabout!) because he had driven into the exit.

However. By the eggs is a button which makes a chicken noise, and by the milk a button which makes a cow noise. Small children find this nearly as amusing as Louise and I do.

*it's a small carpark
**four times, just once, five times!, twice, only once. I'm keeping count because it is SO RIDICULOUS. EVERY TIME.

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emilly @ 2010-11-29T19:52:00

2010-11-29T09:01:58Z

on saturday i walked around a fair bit wearing sandals.

i was honestly surprised at how stiff my calves were sunday, because I have walked longer, much longer, recently, without feeling it at all.

but today MY GOD I AM SO SORE. stairs are not my friend. sandals obvs not either!

but i have maple-walnut bread in 15 mins and cheese to go with and when i was rabidly cranky thursday night i bought new yarn & so i have the beginnings of extremely pretty mittens to work on. they are all green & purple & gold & blue and white.

also we have a christmas tree! cat is confused. felicity put it up while i sat on the floor, then caitlin & felicity put decorations on while i made dinner, and the whole time clare sat on the couch. hah! we sucked flick & caity in with promises of dinner & then made them do all the work.

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emilly @ 2010-11-24T22:03:00

2010-11-24T11:06:33Z

oh dear sbs. I realise that your shiny new mandarin language news program is very special, & that krudd is an excellent guest to have on such a show, but i'm not sure that krudd's appearance on another news program on your station constitutes a news item in itself!

in other news, the aircon at work is working again! just in time for the weather to break.

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ice cream cake days are here again

2010-11-16T09:00:50Z

life is good.

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