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03:20 ♪ She used to just stand there and smile / And her eyes would go all sort of far away / And stay like that for quite a while ♪ #
09:09 Afghan Pumpkin Bolani for breakfast: www.bolaniandsauce.com/html/Bolanis.html #
13:58 Thinking that @tutordennis's roasted red pepper looks questionable: twitpic.com/12k8b #
18:16 Rocking out to the Beowulf soundtrack. #
20:19 Baking gingerbread. House smells marvelous. #
20:56 'Thrown Away' Dog Saves Little Girl's Life: tinyurl.com/8ru8r4 #
23:34 Happy tummy from @tutordennis's portabello and exotic mushrooms with stewed tomatoes and tarragon over barley and brown rice. #
23:47 Received very kind words from @rumhud, whose work I've admired for some time. Cheers! #

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12:41 A whirlwind day of pre-surgery appts at Kaiser. #
17:01 Snacking at Herbivore in Berkeley. Mmm, espresso milkshake. #
22:34 Heading out to shake a tailfeather at the G of D. (My last feather-shaking opportunity before my jaw-breaking antics this Fri!) #

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14:45 ♪♫ Early dawning / Sunday morning / It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago ♪♫ #
16:56 Just returned from shopping spree at Whole Foods for plenty of post-surgery blendables: www.flickr.com/photos/nullalux/2562457117 #
00:27 Lovely dinner party w/ @karenbynight and @princeofwands. Decadent food prepared by @tutordennis, wine and fruit brandy, gourmet chocolate. #

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17:55 Last night's festivities were quite fine, and in excellent company. Karaoke seriously rocked the house. V. happy birthday to vito_excalibur! #
17:57 Today, very pleasant brunch with the Girl, et al. Looking forward to the fiery performance at the Crucible tonight. #
23:11 Fire ballet: utterly fabulous. It's like ballet, but with fire. Brilliant! #

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10:48 Sipping tea and cuddling with the Philosopher. #
12:24 The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing To Say On Every Dubious Occasion tinyurl.com/96lvgt #
12:28 @bookwoman84: I reserve the right to go as a Dissolute Aeronaut Rake next Halloween. #
13:14 @tenacious_snail: There's a door in our basement that opens onto a wall. Also a butler's pantry from family room to foyer for no reason. :) #
13:54 What's in the box? #
14:06 All of my skills are fairly impractical. I wonder what twisted scenario could possibly require folding an origami panda to save one's life. #
15:03 Karaoke in Japantown with friends tonight; considering hitting Clockwork SF afterwards: www.flickr.com/photos/nullalux/3176702001/ #
16:39 Watching the moon rise. #
16:54 The Bearded Clamporium, a treasury of vajayjay art: tinyurl.com/8lw4wf :P(|) #
17:11 DO WANT. The Crucible's 10th Anniversary Fire Ballet Fundraiser is Dracul: Prince of Fire www.thecrucible.org/ballet/dracul.html #

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Many thanks to

goldenmean for taking me to see Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage last night. There's really nothing like a live rock orchestra to envigorate a seminar on ancient Anglo-Saxon epic, particularly when the scholars start turning into the monsters (as they often did in my fever-addled undergrad years, soaking in the wine-dark sea):

Also, fire is pretty, and I am ever a moth. The Crucible's 10th Anniversary Fire Ballet Fundraiser is Dracul: Prince of Fire:

And MC Frontalot's Goth Girls, as it's been the earworm of the day:

Tonight, karaoke in one of the private rooms at the Do-Re-Mi in Japantown, and a cameo at Clockwork's SF debut.

Current Mood: geeking on the computron
Current Location: soul stuck somewhere between the kettle and pot
Current Music: Ummmm, hello! I was wondering: how goth is my frock?

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17:34 O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! #
21:13 At Berkeley Rep, seeing Beowulf, the musical. Is awesome. #
01:37 @rhiannonstone: Indeed! Apparently it was slightly different this time, but no less amazing. www.shotgunplayers.org/beowulfroda.htm #
02:23 Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes manipulated to look like model photographs: tiltshiftmaker.com #
02:40 Bed please. Thank you. #

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10:01 Wednesday, ho. #

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10:25 MAKE: TV! Think, create and make (avail on direct download drm-free HD, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, blip, BitTorrent): makezine.com/tv/ #
14:12 And if you want me, you can find me, left of center, off of the strip: tinyurl.com/75m3ya #
19:35 Didymous loves, then dentist. Lo, my teeth are sealed (and ready for surgery). #
19:36 When Dr called me a masochist, I blushed; mistaking my confusion, she hastily explained that I seem to have a rather high pain tolerance. :) #
22:27 Also went to ye olde x-ray shoppe before dinner, to take pics of my pretty pretty bones: www.flickr.com/photos/nullalux/tags/1609/ #
01:04 Folks from Damnation (a Ps3 game) interviewed me a while back about the steampunk genre: tinyurl.com/84xovd #

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The good folks at the Codemasters Ps3 Qore game Damnation interviewed me a while back about the genre of steampunk. Here is December's Episode 7, in which they air a clip we filmed at SteamPowered 2008. (It's 6:47 long; I come in at 4:40, but they pan over my contraptions throughout. Keep an eye out for other notables, including

sorceryandglue's Holly Conrad and Weta Workshop's Greg Broadmore.)

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: the Sanctuary
Current Music: Fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk

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I tend to do most of my atoning in the Spring, but a new calendar year is as good a time as any for reflection. Thus:

In 2008,

chalepa_ta_kala resolves to...

Give treacle to

miss_delphine.
Overcome my secret fear of ghosts.
Stop editing with

goldenmean.
Go to massage every Sunday.
Learn to play the compassion.
Find a new hedwig.
Eat more leaves.

Hm. Just added to list: Back up LiveJournal archives.

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Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Location: and if you want me, you can find me
Current Music: somewhere inside of us, we must be similar, if not the same

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08:17 Rocking the nerdcore on the way to ortho. #
14:08 Getting new brace bling was awesome! Or wait, what's that other thing? Oh yeah: NOT. Ah well; the 10-day countdown until surgery has begun! #
18:25 Ask USDA to facilitate veg school lunch options in those schools where at least 5% of parents request it: tinyurl.com/lunch4change #
18:36 What time is it? Zeppelin! xkcd.com/73/ What floor do you need? Zeppelin! xkcd.com/288/ #

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15:42 My new massage therapist is a match made in heaven. He hurts me sooo good. *bliss* #
00:13 Simply splendid evening of performances at 7d, followed by a sing-along with @veevi on guitar. Good peeps. #

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03:22 It's a good day...for SCIENCE! #
13:45 It's not a proper party until you have to bathe the bunny the next morning. Wait, what? #

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09:53 Falling asleep with someone reading to you is one of the most wonderful things in the world. #
20:38 At ortho this afternoon, found out I get surgical hooks installed Mon. Good times. #
20:40 I like to dress steamgoth to the nines, then smile all day because I'm wearing Hello Kitty panties. #
22:11 This portable optical mouse with scroll button makes using my lappy worlds easier on my wrist. I also have a new owlish laptop skin! #
22:13 @shoutingboy: Remember, if at first you don't succeed...you fail. Recalculating... #
22:45 @MizLit: Adorable collar! What are you going to order for your custom one? #
22:54 I get all glowy when the GPS says 'Now arriving at HOME.' #

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04:37 Yummy! (And the dinner was good too.) www.flickr.com/photos/nullalux/3152481697/ #
13:19 Tea and dark chocolate w/ oak-roasted espresso and cardamom. www.jadechocolates.com/page/chocbars #
21:09 Epic nap and dinner with Rabbit. #

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09:53 Poaching pears, which makes it sound as though I'm hunting them illegally. Excited about NYE party tonight. #
11:55 Peppermint mocha and bagel with Hoi Didymoi. #
19:16 2008 was good to me in many ways, and I'm looking forward to 2009. Also, party! #
00:45 That @princeofwands makes a mean gumbo. #
01:20 Ringing in the calendar with the Twilight Zone marathon: www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3 #

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Cheers, my dears!

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Location: i' the burn, frae mornin' sun till dine
Current Music: should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?

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09:00 Victory! @tutordennis: 1, plumbing: 0. Pipes tremble at his approach. #
09:07 @TotusMel: Wore my new tatted slave cuffs to go dancing last night; they were magical! tinyurl.com/happinessinslavery #
15:17 @glueandglitter: Hee. How come no one made a cake that looked like a rat head with glowing eyes for MY birthday? tinyurl.com/ratcake #
22:08 The Twitter Happiness score for nullalux is: 547: Very happy. happytweets.com (Neat computational linguistics social experiment.) #
23:03 Interesting choices for NY Daily News list of 20 scariest horror movies of all time: tinyurl.com/20scariest #
00:16 O most profane coxcomb! A most enjoyable massage; now reading Love's Labour's Lost... Thy grace, being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. #

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10:00 Sweet! @tutordennis just stopped by work to say hi and bring me a gingersnap latte and pumpkin scone. #
10:12 RT @birdchick: A friend got a thoughtful teratoma tumor pillow for Christmas tinyurl.com/7z8uyw (scroll down a bit) #
13:52 New corset has been picked up. There will be stomping and flailing tonight, oh yes there will. www.deathguild.com/ #
13:55 @Jetgalicious: Hardware stores are total pr0n for me. #
14:21 @adnagam: I dearly love the Anatomy Coloring Book! Good fun. tinyurl.com/83avyb #
14:25 @eorchard: Now I must make a real-life top hat with eyes coming out the top. You're a visionary, my friend! tinyurl.com/eyesinhat #
02:35 So nice. #

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