So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

It's a while ago, but I'I believe I've read most of wilde's plays and attended two (including Salomé with the music of Richard Strauss - which makes it an opera, of course). I've read a number of his short stories and poems. And lastly, I own the biopic 'Wilde'.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

I really meant this as a comment, but it won't do any harm here at page 4, I guess...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So, let's see if I can actually count...
Apparently, I can, since rcfinch just got us on Page 4.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Page 4 \o/
and it looks like we are well on the way to 600 comments :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, we are doing great this year. :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

We have reached 600 comments, on the 4th page! And on that note, I shall sign off, hang up my laundry and go to bed. Back to work tomorrow! (I did end up taking today completely 'off', just doing house-hold chores, like mowing the lawn, gathering up the leaves that had piled up in the front yard, and doing the laundry.)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Goodnight!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good night to those at CET who have to work tomorrow!
Welcome to those on the other half of the globe!

I've put up the alerts to a triple update in my most recent journal entry (two entries above this), just in case someone feels like having some Dr Who, some Sherlock, some Babylon 5 or some Star Trek: Voyager, or any hair-raising combination thereof. :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

PSA to anyone having the mysteriously reverting icon problem -- if you click More Options and then set the icon there, it doesn't seem to disappear on posting.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Over 650 comments!

And to give this thread a topic: current reading?

At the moment I'm reading the Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters - I think I'm on the 6th one now and enjoying them. Amelia is a great character and I really like the mixture of the archaeology and random mysteries - and the narrative voice.
I'm also intermittently rereading the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, as my partner has decide he wants to read them, and he kept asking me questions. I'm not sure when I last read most of them, but they are still fun, although I am very glad to be reading them spread out, as all the angst.

I'm also looking at the Yuletide tagset and trying to decide what I should read from it to help get a head start on what I might be assigned, but there are so many choices.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

We've beaten last year already!

I'm currently still ploughing through my bookmarks from last year's Yuletide, trying to pick out my recs set before sign ups open. I'm down from 150 to 11 to reread and some 15 more I'm undecided over, but many of the remainder are novellas.

I've got a big pile of books on my long-unread heap (which is well over a hundred books now); some of them are Yuletide perennials so I might try to get my brain in gear for one of them -- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Stardust or Cloud Atlas perhaps.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've just got home from work, less than an hour ago, and am a bit drained. But it was a useful day. I managed to commandeer one of the computers in the teachers' room, and in the three otherwise completely useless hours I have to rot there between shifts, I typed up the nearly finished 14th part of Kansas 2. Go me!

Not that i'd have a rat's chance to gain back the once steady following of that story - a ten-year-hiatus is simply too long - but getting it on tha roll again is fun. Despite the idiots I have to block regularly. I've written seven chapters in a row, usually ten to twelve pages each, and I am determined to bring it to the end (which would mean Chapter 54, according to plan. Even if I will get nothing but grief for my efforts. I love this story. Somebody has to, right? :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be paid to type in fanfiction ;) How easy is it to commandeer a computer?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

So, 667 comments -- can we get to 750 today, do you think?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

We can certainly try!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Jenn asked about current reading, what about current watching? I've almost given up watching live television (never convenient and so much of it is garbage) and at the moment we're watching Lewis DVDs, what was supposed to be the final season but they seem to be doing just one more...

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Current tv: Doctor Who (although not really feeling very into it) and Only Connect (which is a very fun quiz).
Rewatching: Yes, Minister - which as ever remains very topical

There are several things I really should catch up on: Sherlock, BBC Musketeers, etc. The pvr is fairly full of stuff, not to mention dvds, and I don't even remember what is there. Hopefully now my partner has finished and handed in his MA dissertation, we will get round to catching up or deleting things.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So would anybody be interested in a Christmas Card exchange? I could put up an entry at the beginning of Advent, and we could join up. Only hand-made cards would count, even if it's only a pencil-drawn fishbone, claiming to be a pine tree. *g*

Of course, I'd send you guys a card anyway, like every other year, I just think it would be fun. And then we could discuss techniques and our headway with the project (or the lack thereof) and have fun.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it could be a lot of fun (and impetus to actually getting cards made - nothing like deadlines for motivation).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, and BTW, the DW importer is still acting up. One day it is willing to import my comments, on the other way it isn't. Right now, the first 516 comments are safely imported, but today I couldn't get through the rests. *sighs*

I don't dare to delete the emails with the comments, in case we need to put them back again, like two years ago, and keep prying that LJ should behave this time.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Hopefully it won't crash again.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And, unless someone beats me while I'm typing this, this is supposed to be Comment 700!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

You beat me! Does the dance of the 700 comments! We are truly awesome.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This should be a comment, actually, but I'm aiming for Page 5, so... I'm also thinking of re-watching some Stargate or Atlantis. I love both shows. Although I absolutely despise Stargate: Universe. I was never happier about a show getting cancelled.

BTW, have any of you watched "Sanctuary"? The one with Amanda Tapping in the lead role?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned in a comment higher up, I currently have Stargate SG-1 piling up on my PVR; I tend to watch the episodes in big batches, when I feel strong enough to ignore the silly Carter/O'Neill love-plot. That just never made sense to me, and I find it especially annoying when Carter finds someone to be with and it then gets sabotaged just so that she can hang around and make moon-eyes at O'Neill, which he mostly seems to be encouraging to stroke his own ego.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else here a Twin Peaks fan? Apparently Lynch has just announced that he & Frost are doing a third 25 years on series.

That's the best bit of television news I've heard in years -- must get a TP icon!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Not my cup of tea, sorry. I never got past the first ever episode. Of course, the reason might be that I find Kyle Mclachlan so incredibly boring that I could never watch anything he appeared in. Hell I even fell asleep on Dune, and that film featured Sting and Patrick Stewart!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have to head to bed now -- should really have done it a while ago, but there are so many interesting conversations I wanted to chip in on! -- since I have a 9am lecture to give tomorrow morning. My students really are a good bunch; last week they had already started showing up at ten to nine, when I arrived in the lecture theatre, despite the fact that the lectures are meant to start at five past whatever hour they are scheduled at...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Hope your lecture goes well!

[sammydragoncat]

Finally home! First chance I have had to check in at the party today! Wow, already at 723 comments, now I have to catch up.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I've missed the evening party in Europe, as it's nearly bedtime for me on the US East Coast... sigh...
Wishing everyone a good night's sleep, for tomorrow, we party on!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

But maybe I can post a little something more, as it looks like we're almost up to a new page...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

And it would be such a shame...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...to miss a new page...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...by only a few posts,...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...now wouldn't it?

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

So let's see...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...if I can...