- Music:50 Foot Wave -- Hot Pink, Distorted
I was away from LJ long enough that my cookie expired. :(
We've fallen over sideways and stumbled into Dickens. I'm not sleeping enough, and I'm starting to feel old because I don't have the energy to go out and party. I'm also realizing that I'm feeling my age in a subtler, more destructive way - I don't feel pretty, so I don't feel like dressing up and going out. (Some part of me blames that whole fell-off-the-world thing that happened after xek. The rest blames the delicious free food at work that I *know* I've been eating too much of.)
Life continues apace. I keep thinking about the delayed next-chapter of Kala's story. I have a new dress to make.
...
No time to write, no time!
We've fallen over sideways and stumbled into Dickens. I'm not sleeping enough, and I'm starting to feel old because I don't have the energy to go out and party. I'm also realizing that I'm feeling my age in a subtler, more destructive way - I don't feel pretty, so I don't feel like dressing up and going out. (Some part of me blames that whole fell-off-the-world thing that happened after xek. The rest blames the delicious free food at work that I *know* I've been eating too much of.)
Life continues apace. I keep thinking about the delayed next-chapter of Kala's story. I have a new dress to make.
...
No time to write, no time!
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dnalounge update
DNA Lounge update, wherein the axe falls.
- Music:Szeki Kurva -- Stars Are Shining
This cat is triangle-shaped:
Also involving animals and triangles, the threadless hypotamoose shirt:
http://www.threadless.com/product/427/H
Also involving animals and triangles, the threadless hypotamoose shirt:
http://www.threadless.com/product/427/H
Tonight, I will be visiting "a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals". It sounds like fun.
I would describe my week but I'm not allowed to and you wouldn't believe me anyway. I'm now sitting on top of the world looking out over San francisco from a rooftop by buena vista park and contemplating the next trip. First, we must go trawl Haight for 1980s cocktail dresses.
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ernunnos, the dollar is now the currency of choice for carry trades.
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Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41
ernunnos, the dollar is now the currency of choice for carry trades.Poll #1482906
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41
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My LiveJournal blog name - valhenson - was the last major holdover from my old name, Val Henson. I got a new Social Security card, passport, and driver's license with my new name several months ago, but migrating my blog? That's hard! Or something. I finally got around to moving to a brand-spanking-new blog at WordPress:
Valerie Aurora's blog
Update your RSS reader with the above if you still want to read my blog - I won't be republishing my posts to my new blog on this LiveJournal blog.
If you're aware of any other current instances of "Val Henson" or "Valerie Henson," let me know! I obviously can't change my name on historical documents, like research papers or interviews, but if it's vaguely real-time-ish, I'd like to update it.
One web page I'm going to keep as Val Henson for historical reasons is my Val Henson is a Man joke. Several of the pages on my web site were created after the fact as vehicles for amusing pictures or graphics I had lying around. In this case, my friend Dana Sibera created a pretty damn cool picture of me with a full beard and I had to do something with it.
It's doubly wild now that I have such short hair.
Valerie Aurora's blog
Update your RSS reader with the above if you still want to read my blog - I won't be republishing my posts to my new blog on this LiveJournal blog.
If you're aware of any other current instances of "Val Henson" or "Valerie Henson," let me know! I obviously can't change my name on historical documents, like research papers or interviews, but if it's vaguely real-time-ish, I'd like to update it.
One web page I'm going to keep as Val Henson for historical reasons is my Val Henson is a Man joke. Several of the pages on my web site were created after the fact as vehicles for amusing pictures or graphics I had lying around. In this case, my friend Dana Sibera created a pretty damn cool picture of me with a full beard and I had to do something with it.
It's doubly wild now that I have such short hair.
First iPhone worm discoveredApple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley. Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself againOn each installation, the worm - written by a hacker calling themselves "ikex" - changes the lock background wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with the message: "ikee is never going to give you up".
- Music:Rick Astley vs Nine Inch Nails -- The Hand That Gives You Up
It is traditional to politely golf-clap any time a film mentions the name of said film.
*bounces around*
Bay Area Vampirism, Energy-work, and Otherkin Society (San Francisco, CA)
The Vampirism, Energy-work and Otherkin Society (VEOS) is a loosely-organized San Francisco based group. This group is open those identifying as vampire (sang or psy), donor, otherkin, and to those who wish to learn more about such topics. Other energy-workers are also welcome, so long as you have no problem with the vampiric side of energy work.This group is NOT open to role-players, recruiters of any type, or those seeking to promote any form of religion (discussion about religion is OK, preaching is not).
- Music:My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult -- The Devil Does Drugs
- Music:My First Earthquake -- Meat Pies
Wild weather! Earlier, I heard awful noises and the house was shaking a little bit. I thought it was a truck in the alley, trying to get out, and grinding on the pavement and adjacent building... but it was actually lightning and thunder. And no precipitation. So I went down stairs to investigate, watched some flashes in the sky with the housemates, and then the hail hit.
It was all very epic, like that hail storm in Santa Cruz that started DURING the Back to The Future: The Musical, during the lighting scene. But less hail than that. Only a very thin layer to immediately get washed away by the rain. (Not, like, half an inch to make everything really look like it was covered in snow.) Only this much:
Liz, I wanted to call you, but I also wanted to go outside in the foul weather.
It was all very epic, like that hail storm in Santa Cruz that started DURING the Back to The Future: The Musical, during the lighting scene. But less hail than that. Only a very thin layer to immediately get washed away by the rain. (Not, like, half an inch to make everything really look like it was covered in snow.) Only this much:
Liz, I wanted to call you, but I also wanted to go outside in the foul weather.
At the Dojo, somebody left a note on the fridge:
"Please date food."
Somebody crossed out date and wrote "marry."
Later, somebody crossed out marry and wrote, "cheat on."
Somebody else wrote along the side "+1 for marrying food."
"Please date food."
Somebody crossed out date and wrote "marry."
Later, somebody crossed out marry and wrote, "cheat on."
Somebody else wrote along the side "+1 for marrying food."
dnalounge update
DNA Lounge update, wherein it's spoooooky.
- Music:Creature Feature -- Look to the Skies
Under the yellow sodium-lit night sky, a million stars of broken glass twinkle along the edges of the freeway. I feel that once, I knew that "Bascom" was a type of fish, or a flower; but now, the lettering in Highway Gothic just means "home". In two days, I will leave Los Gatos, and I will probably never visit it again. My roots are shifting. What will "Bascom" mean then, in ten years time, on the road to Santa Cruz? It will mean a row of clairvoyants, all outdoing one another with gaudy advertising, and two years later, a closed down Chrysler garage. It means the daily pilgrimage to Wholefoods, because there's nowhere else to go, and the interminable wait for the pedestrian light to change.
I'm struggling to explain why I felt an unaccountable familiarity as I drove up I280 today. It felt more like a run to Glastonbury at night - a regular commute - a necessary slice out of my life in part-payment for moving from one place to another - more than an expedition. I think I speak the language of the San Francisco highways now.
I'm struggling to explain why I felt an unaccountable familiarity as I drove up I280 today. It felt more like a run to Glastonbury at night - a regular commute - a necessary slice out of my life in part-payment for moving from one place to another - more than an expedition. I think I speak the language of the San Francisco highways now.
- Music:Luxxury -- Understood [Darth Vader Mix]
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