Maru's Mun Journal

Ahh it was a good day, and there was so much, and I am so pleasantly tired from it, I can just enumerate it all quickly:

• Woke up early, had good thread with the Nocturnal Americans
• Yay plot is really coalescing and getting underway -- to think this was started as a mere stopgap measure!
• Cats majorly cute!
• Eeeeeeee Supernatural! But why is heaven's waiting room so rococo? Also, WTG, Bobby!
• Left on time, came to the station, no trains -- people somewhere on the rails! Gah, why didn't they just flatten the idiots, they were ASKING for a Darwin Award!
• Caught a tram to the Underground station, texted the Nazgul I was coming
• Caught the Underground, where there is no net
• Was majorly late, but when I arrived at the cinema, my ticket was waiting for me at the box office where the Nazgul had deposited it (clever Nazgul!) as I hoped she would
• Went in, found the Nazgul
• Watched the last commercial, then the movie started
• Loved the movie -- review under spoiler cut to follow tomorrow!
• EEEEEEEE Hikaru Sulu's collapsible katana was the coolest thing EVAH! And against a Romulan with an honest-to-god  battle axe!
• Trains ran again when I went home
• Bought mozzarella, made me the most luscious mozza-tomato-basil salad for dinner
• Had more nice thread, including Captain Jack Harkness
• Cats still majorly cute
• More tomorrow!

Good night!

That is not a black background, that's a transparency. You can add your own background, or whatever background the site you use him on may have...

So, here are the newest pictures. Lots of cute stuff: the little lady, the luckdragon, the kitty...


Svava the cat in her new lair

( Go for the cute!! )

In other news: I have no meat! Not a single item of meat fit for human consumption in the place. I need to buy some tomorrow.

That comes from schmooping with the kitty all day instead of doing the shopping. And from RPing a thread of 111 tags in Morningstar Manor, (Link superfluous, as it is f-locked. Because. Erm. Yes. That's the rule in MM for that kind of thread.)

nazgul_nr_5  and I just watched 'Riddick', because her father (an uber-geek like she) had recommended it.

There was talk of some prophecy, and the Nazgul took umbrage to that, being as she was reminded of 'Star Wars' too much.

Consequently, thus spake the Nazgul: "I'll prophesy something as well, now: the next prophet gets their face bashed in!"

Now I've got that digital camera, I can't stop taking pictures...

Yesterday, I took some of my friend nazgul_nr_5 wearing her new Jedi outfit, which she needed to get it certified by the semi-official Star Wars costuming group. Apparently, there is such a thing - George Lucas understands fandom, it seems, quite unlike She Who Must Not Be Named and then some...

Anyway, during that photo session, I captured a few impressions of what Jedi Knights do while off duty...

( Ever wanted to see a Jedi in socks? )

My for-pay job's fair booth (well, beautiful giant red-and-white contraption, really) from the Systems computer trade fair  was on TV for a few seconds last night. Neither my boss nor the pinscher was at all visible, though. They'd said the TV team had spent an hour filming there yesterday.-

In other news: can somebody please extrude the popular three-letter acronym "TMI" for me? Vee? Wiebke? Anyone? I have an idea what it might mean, but no idea what it actually translates to.

In any case, I think what I'm going to say is tantamount to perpetrating a TMI, so I'll put it behind a cut in case of the very, very outside chance that I actually ended up on the flist of some male person. Do I know anybody male? Huh. I'm not sure about supiluliumas, but the rest of you most prolly isn't.

( Teh cut to protect Supi-if-male and any others from squicky things )

"Systems" today, with the Nazgul. We need new cotton bags. And Thomas the Metropolitan has told me of a brilliant new software we absolutely need to see, although I think he was mostly impressed by the young man who was telling him about it, heh!

And tomorrow, Nightwish concert in Nuremberg, with the Nazgul as well. We only have seats, no arena cards, but we don't want to enter the fray this time, really. It's not Apo, after all. These people don't know us, so why should we defy death and pogo-dancing kiddies to be in the first row?

Coffee is a wonderful stuff. Truly.

I'll take a moment to sing its praises, then, as I am waiting for it to fully kick in so I can go on working. After three hours of concentration, I found my fingers motionless on the keyboard, and my face yawning.

That may be a result of lying in the grass of a public square and watching "Pirates of the Caribbean" under the stars till one at night. nazgul_nr_5 and I were suffering a lot, though, because that was the first time we had to see the dubbed German version. The translators should be taken out and shot. Especially the one who had decided to translate "Savvy?" as "Alles klar soweit?" - wiebke and woelfle will know how horrible that is. We groaned every time it was repeated. Nobody will ever be allowed to say "Alles klar soweit?" to me again without getting a very rude answer. "Why is the rum gone?" was translated as "Warum ist der Rum weg?", which has a certain something. The running gags with the "opportune moment" and the "effects" got completely bungled and were as gone as the rum.

Still, it was fun to watch it on a huge screen in the fresh evening air, with real actual moonlight overhead, sitting on a picnic blanket on the lawn and having some sort of picnic. In fact, my tiredness may have something to do with the rum with coke we had very artfully smuggled inside; you really couldn't call it coke with rum. The Nazgul had made it; it was a very Nazgulish brew. She called it cough syrup.-

Or I might be tired because I went to bed at two, to sleep still a bit later after thinking at length about even more things I am going to draw, and started out again at six in the morning. I had thought I would be able to take the morning off or at least be late, but databases spontaneously wanted re-organising, which has to happen before everybody else arrives. So here I was, re-organising damn databases, and almost dropping off my perch.

Luckily, Our Mithreth herself made the coffee today, and it fulfills all the clichés there are about coffee being black as death and strong as love - sweet as sin optional, and I opt out, thank you. Not out of sin, if there is such a thing, but out of sweet coffee.

That coffee of hers has a mind of its own. It picks you up and kicks you around until you plead for mercy and are as awake as you can get. You should never try it while being drunk, because it would sober you up and push you right out on the other side of sobriety where no sane person can go and stay sane. Knurd, you know, as Terry Pratchett calls it.

Luckily, I wasn't even overhung, just tired - and the Black Brew has worked its magic on me now, so I can continue with my work. If the damn pinscher finally consents to give me a final version of the text I have to spam unsuspecting customers with. One of these days, I will become guilty of cruelty against pinschers...

This is the day, the remarkable day, that I thought would never come, when pigs flew and - the Nazgul got an LJ!!!

nazgul_nr_5

Yesterday, with the help of half a bottle of Madeira, the Nazgul managed to calculate the following for me: given that the discworld_rpg has eaten 100% of my brain, I am now, due to my distribution of characters in said RPG, 0.4 or two-fifth of a vampire.

Owing to that fact, I have now (midnight) turned in my review of "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" to Areion where it will be coming up sometime tomorrow (Tuesday; technically today) and will proceed to finish the translation for japanologist before posting Teppic's next post and then sleeping a bit before the Morning Session.

I did tugelbend today for quite a while, though. So I will probably be all right.

Also, the Nazgul will look into animating songsets. And she so needs an LJ...

I've got visitors for a week - the Nazgul's fledgling Fell Beasts, deceptively masquerading as budgies. But they're the Nazgul's, and they're mean and loud, so they're very probably Fell Beasts.

They're fell enough, anyway. It don't put it beyond them to take off a man's head even now. Or at least someone's finger.

The Nazgul swears she'll get her own LJ, especially after commenting anonymously to an entry of tahira_saki 's last night - the Nazgul so sees the need for it. She even has a proper Nazgulish icon already.

It remains to be seen how many months she will take until she actually does it.