Delusions of Grandeur

( First things first: I am now among, if not the gainfully employed, the usefully occupied... )

( Some self-flagellation, plus thoughts on the beginning of Castle and the end of Downton Abbey... )

I finally finished that 50-question meme from however long ago, so, here, have the second half! As a reminder, the participants are:

1. Jennifer Quantum (The Authority/Stormwatch)
2. Tyrion Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)
3. Molly Hayes (Runaways)
4. Nealan of Queenscove (Tortall universe)
5. Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
6. Thomas Raith (Dresden Files)
7. Jean Grey (X-Men)
8. Tommy Shepherd (Young Avengers)
9. Emily Roland (Temeraire)
10. Phil Coulson (The Avengers)
11. Aliera e’Kieron (Dragaera)
12. Peregrin “Pippin” Took (The Lord of the Rings)
13. Zoë Alleyne Washburne (Firefly)

( 26-50... )

Note From The Editor: 'pologies for the potentially wonky formatting/text. I've been wrestling with the bloody RTE since Sunday night, when it up and decided to disappear on me for no reason I can discern. It's back now, and thank Bob that A) bitter experience has taught me to save everything in a Word doc and B) the lovely people at LJ Support managed to rescue my draft and email it to me, so the text isn't as gone as I initially feared. For some reason, none of the HTML imported, though, so if yo see any stray bits of coding, please let me know!

( This week started out frustrating, but got better; or, huzzah for first world problems... )

( I finally found a copy of the highly recommended Temeraire-verse short story "In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks over the Wide River"... )

( In other Temeraire-related news, this week's fanart, of which a new one goes up on Naomi Novik's website every Friday, has me a bit "meh"... )

( To make up for the decidedly lackluster week, this weekend was AWESOME: hanging out with M on Friday... )

( ...more hanging out with hamsterwoman on Saturday... )

( I meant for Sunday to be a homework day, but it turned out to be primarily a Pottermore day instead... )

And last but not least: meme time! Yet another non-character one, but another sort of general fandom/RL one. We'll be back to geekier fare soon, though, never fear.

( 22 questions' worth of chocolatey* goodness (* may not contain actual chocolate)... )

( Artsy, nerdy pic (by popular request)... )
 
( Mini-fan-babble on Young Avengers... )
 
( A few more ruminations on Temeraire shipping... )
 
( I got my brother started reading ASOIAF... )
 
( Other RL doings (a few quasi-philosophical thoughts on technology, travel, and the end of my first semester at Cal...) )

I'm typing this on my brand spankin' new MacBook Pro, tentatively named Sleekerton. The data transfer process from Lila, my trust old MacBook, which I began at around 8:00 Sunday night (this being Wednesday early afternoon), finally wrapped up in the wee hours of this morning. I was initially all O.o when it looked like, after more than 48 hours of near-complete loss of Internet (neither of my laptops could be used while transferring data), that just a few settings had actually made it over, but then I made the happy mistake of re-starting Sleekerton, and when he finished rebooting, everything was here, exactly like it is on Lila! So a big thank you to Mac! Your products may be nail-bitingly delicate, perhaps-more-than-slightly overpriced, and disgustingly trendy, but when they work, they *work*!

So it turns out that two days and some change of my only window to teh Intertubez being my iPhone 4G (Skippyjon III bore up beautifully, btw) means *a lot* of backlog. Going through LJ alone took me nearly three hours today! As usual, my sincerest apologies for not being as attentive to my flist as I should; it looks like my life is calming down a little, so I should have some time to work on it soon!

( I mentioned C's and H's looming wedding in my last post... )

( My next big worry: UC... )

( In other, much lighter, news, I am now officially 21!... )

( Nerd News (GoT season 2 thoughts, and Captain America: The First Avenger)... )

( I just got back from seeing X-Men: First Class... )

I'm at my first D&D game in quite a while now, and I'd better concentrate on not getting iced by some demonic beastie or other, so I'll sign off for now. TTFN!