Below are the most recent 14 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
the_shoshanna	1:40p	oh, Canada! Northern exposure: Canada to unveil a porn channel Thursday, August 21, 2008 By Samantha Bennett, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Got two words for you this week: Canadian porn. I don't think I need to write anything else. I'll just let you think about that, and I can log off and head home early. Sometimes the universe hands you a lovely gift with a big bow on it, which makes a nice change from all the days the universe jumps out from behind something and stabs you in the head with a railroad spike. And she just gets funnier and funnier. (Thanks to storm_grant!) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
the_shoshanna	9:25p	thoughts on a couple of VVC vids I didn't go to the Also Premiering show, and all the rest of the weekend people were telling me, "You have to see aycheb's Scarlet Ribbons." I just watched it on the con DVD, and it made me cry. I love it utterly. ( Here's the comment I just left for the vidder ) I also rewatched obsessive24's "Climbing Up the Walls" (which I don't think is online yet), which was among the most fascinating, most want-to-rewatch-on-frame-by-frame of the vids I saw all weekend. ( Some thoughts on that one. ) Fandom makes me so happy. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
the_shoshanna	9:30a	post-con morning conversation me: Hey, reality-check me. Geoff: Mm? me: It's Tuesday. Geoff: Yes. me: And we're leaving Thursday. Geoff: Yes. me: ... *faceplant* Geoff: *amused pity* (Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
the_shoshanna	9:57p	being home is joy, too Some delay due to thunderstorms in Montreal (not Chicago!), but home safe and getting my feet rubbed. OMG fandom is JOY. (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
the_shoshanna	6:16p	VIVIDCON IS JOY. and on day five of a three-day con, that's all I got. But seriously, it's all I need. (Comment on this)
bethbethbeth	4:39p	Don't do it, Severus! Don't agree! (thanks to snapecast, from whom this photo was swiped) ( Welcome to Spinner's End - spoilers for HBP ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 15th, 2008
bethbethbeth	2:15p	Snapely Holidays Banner Waving Okay, so assignments have gone out for some fests already (I know!), and signups are currently open for such things as the Harry/Draco Exchange and the Snape/Lupin Exchange, with signups for Smutty Claus (the big HP het exchange, now back on LJ) starting soon. However, as one of the Snape cheerleader squad, I'd like to make an extra nudge in the direction of Snapely Holidays over on IJ - and new this year for all your Snape-ficcing needs (slash, het, and gen). Don't know why Snape/Black isn't getting enough love these days? Think Snape/McGonagall is the kind of cross-gen that really makes sense? Meant to sign up for Snarry Holidays, but missed the deadline? Already signing up for the SS/HG Exchange or Snupin Santa, but can't get enough of your favorite pairing? Still waiting for that serious, plotty Snape/Flitwick story? (oh, wait...that's me *g*) Signups for snapelyholidays will be starting August 22. Join the community (here) to be a participant or a watcher. Snape needs you! (22 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
the_shoshanna	10:06a	in which Shoshanna wins Dumbass of the Year Wow. I thought I was a dumbass four days ago, when I asked par_avion if she was coming to VividCon (as elynross said to me this morning, "You'll recognize her; she'll be wearing a concom button," and I was all I know, I know, I'm a dumbass). But this morning I walked away with the medal. When I put my right contact lens in this morning, it started burning, and I thought it would settle down after a moment like such things usually do, so I started to put the left one in, but the pain got worse and worse and finally I couldn't take it any more, but I still had the left lens in my hands and I was getting flustered because of the my eye! my eye! pain, so I managed to take the lens out and get them both put away and the pain subsided, and I figured I'd give my eye a few minutes to settle down before trying again. So after ten minutes or so I went to put my lenses in again, and I couldn't find the right one. I thought I'd put them both back in the case, and the left one was there, but the right one wasn't. And I couldn't find it anywhere. So I figured crap, I must have been so flustered I thought I put it in the case but accidentally washed it down the sink when I washed my hands, I'm a dumbass. Fortunately I travel with a spare pair, so I put in the right lens from that pair. But it wasn't sitting right, and my vision was all blurry in that eye, and now I have no spare if I screw this one up, aiee, and I was all cranky about it at breakfast and wondering if I should call Geoff and have him overnight me another pair (which God knows how much that would cost, international overnight) just in case, and bah. But I just came back to the room and took the lens out to rinse it off and try to reseat it properly, and -- I had both lenses in my eye. I never actually took the first one out. But the pain had stopped! So now my vision is better and I again have a spare right lens, and I have also walked away with the gold on this one, y'all. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
bethbethbeth	7:01p	Terminus, post 1.5 The con was great. Okay, there were things about the con proper that weren't precisely great(  but I'm listing them under the cut to keep the whining separate from the squee ) Okay, now that the complaining critiquing is out of the way, let me just say that the part of the con experience that involved people was fantastic, and truly, that's the most important part of any con. Have you already forgotten who you saw? There's a great Terminus Friending Meme to help with that. My own Name Check is below. If we spent time together and somehow I forgot to add you to the list, please let me know, because I really want a permanent record! ( so many fans, so little time to squee! ) Note: Any comments about programming - formal or otherwise - are going to have to wait for another post. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	2:42p	OMGVVC! I am at the VividCon hotel! It's very odd being here with no other fans in sight; the even-earlier-in-than-me roommate is off sightseeing. I think I will see if morgandawn and xlorp are in their room and up for visitors -- after I go across the street and get some food. We're all the way at the end of a hall and my iBook can't find a wireless signal here. If the other roomies' computers can't see one either, I'm sure we will be able to calmly and rationally share the single Ethernet cable and remain friends. Right? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
bethbethbeth	5:36p	Home! It's traditional in post-con reports to list the many and varied ways that the travel gods tried to sabotage things, but for once, I'm going to have to break with tradition. Heading to Terminus (well, really heading to the midwest to visit my family) the flight was...exactly on time. And heading home from Terminus, the flight was...exactly on time. Pretty amazing. *** In other news, this is my six year LJ anniversary (yes, I know this is being posted on IJ, but still *G*)...and it's also lunaris1013's birthday! Happy birthday, my dear. 19 again? My birthday was last week - and I was out of town on a pre-Terminus family visit - so if I forgot to thank anybody for their lovely birthday wishes or lovely birthday cards or lovely Twilight-esque (*g*) birthday fic (regan_v) or lovely virtual b'day gifts (spike7451 and blushing_rose), please let me know! *** Real con report to follow... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
cmshaw	12:11a	awesome batgirl is awesome i find comfort in the knowledge that ( this is canon somewhere out there in the multiverse. ) Current Mood: recumbent (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
the_shoshanna	6:53p	anybody want some iBook RAM? I just upgraded my G4 iBook from 768 MB to 1.25 GB; since it came with 256 MB built-in and only has one expansion slot, this means that I replaced the 512 MB chip I had originally put in with a 1 GB chip. Which now means that I have a spare 512 MB chip for an old computer; my friend who does Mac consulting and got me the new chip cheap basically laughed at me when I asked if he'd like the old one. I mean, anyone who still has an iBook has got to be running it with at least this much memory added already. But just in case: anybody want it? I can always try Freecycle, but I'd love to see it go to someone I know, or in my wider circle. (It has stickers saying "OWC2700DDRS512M" and "DDR333 CL2.5 512MB," and it works in a G4 iBook. That's about all I can tell you.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
the_shoshanna	4:34p	I don't have the right icon for this, so I used the closest one I have Geoff has been reading The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Bear, and he just handed it to me open to page 171 and said "You have to read this." It's a Napoleon/Illya slash story. ETA: Elizabeth Bear popped by the discussion in my LJ! (1 Comment |Comment on this)