Quick update...

[mijan]

I'm back from Arisia (geek convention in Boston), and I had a blast.  As always.  I love cons.  I love the people, the discussions, the randomness, the geekery, the excitement, the energy, the experience... all of it.  Arisia is an amazing convention, and if anyone feels like traveling for anything smaller than Dragon*Con, then Arisia is the regional convention to attend.  SO. MUCH. FUN.  I absolutely love it every time.

What I don't love is feeling like I've been hit by a steam roller. 

I went into Arisia already feeling a bit under the weather.  Not sick like a cold, but sick like dizzy and fatigued and faintly icky.  Now, I seem to have a very mild head cold on top of already feeling icky.  Feels like I've been kicked in the gut by a horse.  Vision is oddly blurry.  And gods, I just want to lie down.  But I'm at work, and I still have more work to do.

So now, I'm going to go play with radioactive waste.  WOO-freakin'-HOO.  And then I'm going to try to complete another training module for general HAZMAT qualification renewal.  And then I'm going to go home and collapse.  But I can't really collapse... for two reasons.

#1.  I'm going to ANOTHER convention this weekend, and I need to wash, dry, fold, and re-pack all of my costumes.

#2.  It's my wife's birthday, and I am determined to do SOMETHING for it. 

So, in summary:  Arisia was awesome.  I am *ded*.  I will post in detail about Arisia when I am not!*ded*.  Also, happy birthday DeForest Kelley - you are missed.  And Happy Birthday fiona_fawkes  - I love you, hun.

Comments

[vixys.livejournal.com]

LotR in 90 seconds. I like it. :D Anyone get it on video, do you know?

Hell, you come over, and I'll invite you. Or something. I don't know how these things work. :D *wallows in her ignorance*

Also, Freeeeeeeench. I miss French. Except I had a bitch of a teacher my last year, so yeah. Hmm. ♥

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... yes, it's on video, but I don't have the video yet. The official vid comes out in a couple of months, but I'm still hunting for it online.

Yay for invitation! :D Everyone loves Frodo, right?

Ick... bitchy teachers can ruin it for anyone. But YAY FRENCH!

[vixys.livejournal.com]

You must link me to it when you find the vid - because that sounds so shiiiiiiiiiny! :D

Yes, everyone does love Frodo. Even Sauron, really. :D Also, you have read the books, right? I assume you have, because you're not exactly the halfway sort of fandomer, but still. I have to check. Welcome to my crazy world. And don't feel disrespected! Please? *tries not to be so strange*

Year 10, I had an awesome teacher - she never actually taught us anything, but we just seemed to absorb the language, and so we all got A*s in our end of year exams. The next year, the teacher was not so good. She was the only teacher I've ever been so snarky to that I was sent out of the class.

Fun times. :D ♥

[mijan.livejournal.com]

I promise, as soon as I find a vid, it'll be posted.

Yes, I've read the books... but I'll admit... I don't like Tolkien's writing style. I love the stories, but I dislike his style of story-telling. His dialogue is flat. In other words, almost all of his characters sound like his other characters, with the exceptions of Smeagol, Samwise, and Gimli. I actually think the movies brought the world to life better than the books, even though I was irked at the changes they made.

Heee... I'd love to have seen how snarky you were in class.

[vixys.livejournal.com]

... I kinda agree with you on that, which makes me feel slightly strange. I absolutely adore Tolkien (first read the books at the tender age of seven), but I think I admire him more for his worldbuilding and the complexities of the storylines more than his writing style. Idk. He was an awesome man.

To be honest, I don't really mind the changes movies make. I mean, it's going to happen, so I just kinda ignore it now - but yeah, the whole paths of the dead bit in the RotK film kinda irks me. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. AND WHERE ARE ELLADAN AND ELROHIR??

*breathes* Anyway. :D ♥

(There was much snark. And for the next week, I got the majority of my class coming up to me and congratulating me. Nobody really liked her. :D *facepalm*)

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Don't let it make you feel strange or guilty. Plain and simple, the LotR movie trilogy was PHENOMENAL, and Tolkein's writing was... very academic. Not difficult to read, but not a smooth literary style for pleasure reading. But his world-building skills were amazing. You can be a fan and still be honest about an author's shortcomings. I apply the same thing to JKRowling.

The changes they made for the movie weren't too bad, I'll admit. Some of them made me wonder why they did it though.

Heeee... now I REALLY wish I'd seen it. I've pulled a few stunts with obnoxious teachers myself. It's fun.

[vixys.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess. In some circles having Tolkien and JKR in the same sentence might be anathema, but whatever. The comparison is apt. (I hate JKR's writing, but I lovelovelove her characters. Even Harry, although he gets on my nerves sometimes. :D)

Sometimes I feel sorry for that teacher, to be honest. I mean, she treated us (in top-set French) like we were five, but still - she was trying, and we kinda... made it hard for her. Idk. *has a guilty conscience* ♥

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Heh, we screwed with my English teacher that way. For some reason, this knucklehead kept claiming our Honors English class, so that I had him for THREE FUCKING YEARS in a row. I mean, nice guy and all, but SERIOUSLY. So by 11th grade (junior year, I was 16), we'd had enough... but I had him wrapped around my little finger. Oh, the shit I pulled... but I was his top student, and he adored me. :d

Almost ready with photos.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Okay, the cosplay pics are up now!
http://mijan.livejournal.com/158232.html

Tell me what you think.

♥