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My mom had tickets to the ballet -- we saw the Oregon Ballet Theatre's performances of "Through Eden's Gates", "Just", and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue".

"Through Eden's Gates" was a delightful look back at ballet's relationship with vaudeville (including a magic act!). "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was hilarious and wonderful.

"Just", however, simply took my breath away. The name of the choreographer is Trey McIntyre and if you ever get the chance to see this piece somewhere, take it. It's an examination of the beauty of form and movement. The staging and costuming was minimalist, allowing the audience to fully experience the strength and grace that the four dancers were displaying. I've often felt that there is nothing that does a man's body better than ballet -- in this particular ballet, this was very clearly shown. All four of the dancers were amazing, but there was one in particular -- Artur Sultanov -- who was just... spectacular.

The forces of good have triumphed over the forces of... not very nice!

My ability to access my livejournal and email was... hindered when I discovered that my passwords had stopped working. I had to go to class, so everything got put on hold for a bit. Luckily, when I got home, I remembered that my original email address that I validated the account with was not the current one and was able to request a password reset from that older email address (which y'all may remember -- butterfly_in_motion@hotmail.com).

Nothing on my journal ~~was~~ appears to have changed except for the new email that the person added. Perhaps they simply didn't have time to make changes. Regardless of the reasons, I'm really happy about that and have deleted their email and their ability to use either that address or butterflydm as ways of getting my new password.

I may or may not be able to recover butterflydm@gmail.com, so I'm also using butterflyforreal@gmail.com for now. I will keep y'all apprised of the situation.

Edit: And now gmail has finished investigating my report of my email being snagged and returned access to me so that I can reset the password and such things on butterflydm. Sweet.

Current Mood: annoyed

So, the Doctor Who Series 4 premiere inspired me to go out and find lots of icons and I can now say that I have an icon for each version of the Doctor. Woo! Anyway, I thought I'd share my new icons with y'all so that you recognize me when I pop around.

( my new icons! Spoilers through 4x01 of DW and 2x13 of TW )

Current Mood: happy

School is going well -- there are two classes where I know I'm getting A's, two others where I'm pretty sure I'm getting B's, and one class where the teacher has failed to mention that letter grades exist (he just says that we get 'credit' for everything we turn in). More details possibly to follow in my school filter.

Fandom-wise, Stargate: Atlantis ( spoilers through Season Four's 'Harmony' )

. The next two episodes of Torchwood ( spoilers through 'To the Last Man' ). Then, last night, Smallville and Supernatural returned.

( spoilers for Smallville 7x10 -- Persona )

( spoilers for Supernatural 3x09 -- Malleus Maleficarum )

Current Mood: thoughtful

Classes are going well, thinking about classes is eating up all my time (partly because when choosing between writing my own entries and reading y'all's, I will choose reading), but I did manage to watch and enjoy last Friday's shows (Numb3rs, Stargate: Atlantis, and Psych) plus the Sarah Connor Chronicles (conclusion: good and quite intriguing).

In the interests of my vids getting better -- here's my comment in the Great Vidding Truth Meme. If there's something you've been dying to say about my vids but were hesitant to say to my face, feel free to be anonymous over there. Concrit is a good thing.

Second day of a brand-new year (for people following the Gregorian calendar). Tomorrow, I'm going to my student orientation for the Art Institute. Very exciting.

All in all, I'm looking forward to the year 2008 CE. I'm going to be in school and am genuinely thrilled about the notion of attending classes in a way I haven't felt since, oh, I was sixteen. I'm feeling much more confident in myself and my own worthiness as a person. When I do feel sad or depressed, it takes much less time to cycle out of those feelings than it used to, and my happiness and contentment lasts longer.

On the fannish side of things, I've been enjoying the majority of my television shows this year and I'm firmly on the side of the writers in the current strike. What they do, they do both for themselves and for the rest of the creative parts of television. I hope they stand strong.

I'm looking forward to both new Torchwood and new Doctor Who and what spoilers I've heard have only made me more excited.

The last new movie I saw in 2007 was Sweeney Todd, which was brilliant. Revenge and obsession and the dangers of only seeing the surface beauty. Highly recommended, though very bloody and grim (lots of morbid humor, though). Sort of a study in what not to do to achieve happiness (on all sides -- Sweeney, Judge Turpin, and Mrs. Lovett all acted in ways that doomed the hope of their future).

We celebrated half of Christmas on Sunday, with my dad (and his wife G and her family) plus my brother and his girlfriend C. Today, I'm going over to do Christmas with my mom's side of my family (plus my brother and C).

Gift of the moment: Music and Lyrics from jic, if only because I watched it with her that same day and we just adored it. Hugh Grant is sexy and hilarious, Drew Barrymore is funny and adorable, and the love story worked really well.

I'm hoping to have a chance to watch Voyage of the Damned when I get back from today's Christmas. If not, I might not get to see it until Thursday (I have a long day at work on Wednesday). I'm really looking forward to watching it.

Oh, and it's beginning to snow.

Current Mood: happy

Sorry for the radio silence.

As previously mentioned, I got around to watching the two most recent Harry Potter films and then felt a deep urge to immerse myself in Harry/Draco fic (of which is there a whole freaking lot, I tell you). HP is kinda an odd-out fandom for me -- it's the only fandom where I ship enemies, rather than friends. Though I flirt with thinking that Harry and Hermione would be adorable together (I liked R/Hr up until she attacked him with birds and then that ship was dead for me), I really only read H/D.

So, that's what I've been doing the past week or so. Also, I just finished wrapping up all my gifts and sent out holiday cards (New Year's cards, really) to a handful of people -- out-of-town family members and just a couple of fannish people. This great accomplishment means that I may actually request addresses next year so that I can send more people cards, as it was quite nice to do that.

I saw The Golden Compass and Nicole Kidman was delightfully slinky and I adored her and the rather interesting world that she, Lyra, and the rest all inhabited. I just saw Enchanted today and thought it was beautiful, funny, and quite touching (with more lovely familiar faces than just my beloved James Marsden... who I've decided is definitely an actor that I will go see a movie for. He's brilliant at living inside the skin of his characters). It explored fairy tales and 'true love' and real love and was... thought-provoking as well. I've been thinking, ever since I got home. I may post about the subject at some point in the future.

I'm rather immensely excited about the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, S2 of Torchwood, and S4 of Doctor Who. I'm spoiled enough to wish that they could all be airing immediately.

Doctor Who: I'm so glad that

the_spdn and

oh_she_knows exist. The amount of hatred in a lot of DW fandom for Rosefen is so overwhelming spiteful and bitter that it's nice to have places to go where there isn't any nastiness (I've always managed to avoid the most poisonous of fandom wars before -- I joined Stargate fandom after the Daniel-Sam wars were pretty much over and started watching due South after the Ray wars had calmed down, and I was a Buffy/Xander 'shipper in BtVS, so missed the Angel-Spike wars as well -- so this is my first real experience with this sort of thing).

( casting spoilers for Season Four )

Harry Potter: I finally watched the Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix movies. I'd been avoiding them because of the Ferret Scene. Which, in the book, always makes me want to cry and throw my copy at the wall (have not yet done this). ( movie spoilers )

I've completed making my holiday plans and will able to spend a day each with my dad (and the family he married into) and my mom (and her side of our family). I've also planned to see three movies this month (as gifts to myself and

jic) -- The Golden Compass, Enchanted, and Sweeney Todd.

I start school up in the beginning of January and I'm more excited by the day.

For the most part, yesterday was actually quite boring. I went to work, was there for about ten hours, and then I went home.

Once I got home, several very sweet people here told me 'happy birthday'.

Then my uncle called to ask that I come visit him (in Hawaii). So, my mom and I are planning on going near the end of January, details to be worked out further when I know my school schedule.

( casting spoilers for season four of Doctor Who )

Current Mood: happy

I'm not a big Thanksgiving person. Mostly, this is probably because I'm a much bigger "it's (almost) my birthday" person and my birthday is on the 26th (this year, it's four days after Thanksgiving). Also, ritual sacrifice with pie. Plus, the biggest thing that Thanksgiving had going for it was turkey. The day is much less interesting now that I'm vegetarian (I suppose I could have a tofurkey, but I didn't stop eating meat so that I could eat fake meat). Otherwise, my feelings towards Thanksgiving are similar as my feelings towards Valentine's day -- every day should be a day to be thankful/show the people you love that you care for them.

Now, my birthday (which is next Monday) is pretty exciting for me because I'm going to be twenty-five. Twenty-five always felt like it would/should be a milestone for me. Turns out that it kinda is. As some of you already know, I've been accepted into the Art Institute of Portland and will be starting in January. I'll be going for a BFA in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics (i.e. special effects). I'm really looking forward to it.

Anyway, I'm going to my dad's tomorrow for Thanksgiving and I'm planning on making cookies and baking a loaf of bread for the dinner. Good times, plus ensuring that I have stuff to eat (my family is aware that I'm vegetarian, but occasionally seem to forget what this actually means).

Current Mood: accomplished

If I could only take one movie with me on a desert island (we're assuming that this is a very well-equipped island that comes with a tv/dvd set that has its own infinite source of power that I could, if I were brilliant like the Doctor, turn into a means to escape said island), it would probably be Clue (If I could only take one movie series, then the choice is much harder and, also, it would be the Lord of the Rings, partly because it's so long and thus would kill more time and partly because... dude, I love that movie). Clue is such a fantastic, brilliant, funny movie. I adore every frame. And it amuses me so much that such a great movie is based on a board game (much as it amuses me that such great movies as PotC are based on a Disney ride).

If I could only take one television series, it would be Buffy (but if I could also take a British series, I'd add Doctor Who... all of Doctor Who both new and old, which I would finally have time to watch -- maybe even the audios, despite me not being a 'radio' sort of person).

For books... if I could only take one book, it would be... hmm. Now that is a hard one. There are so many books that I really adore to pieces. If I could only take one book series, it'd be Discworld, no doubt about it.

Single book, though... hmm. Not sure about that one.

If anyone was wondering where I went (aside from working and starting that search for a new job), I have successfully put my vids into dvd format! I have a sample dvd set done and everything (too many vids to put on one 4.7 disc, had to use two). It was kinda thrilling, to see all my stuff up on the tv. Even the older mpg files turned out okay (like Hallelujah and Someone Else's Prayer).

And now I'm leaving for California and won't be back until Sunday.

So, my streak of not answering comments is... likely to continue. On the plus side, I'm going to see family members that I don't get to see all that often (and will, thus, try to pimp into Stargate and Doctor Who).

Note: Posting things when one has a continuous stretch of work is possibly not the best idea ever (because I wanted to make up time for not working Monday and Tuesday, I volunteered to work this last weekend, which means I'm in the middle of a ten-day workweek). Because even when I'm not working, I'm just catching up on reading my flist (forget commenting or posting!).

Things that I want to write about that I haven't had time to post yet: stuff about the recent Doctor Who episodes, VVC vids recommendations; mentioning that I'm going down to California for a family reunion from the 5th to the 9th; thoughts on the spoilers for SGA, SPN, and SV; thoughts on having watched the first episodes of Heroes, Dexter, and Entourage; thoughts on The Beauty Myth (which I've been reading at work and I've never read it before, which feels like such a lack now that I am reading it). So, I may be posting a whole lot Fri-Sun (I get off at 2:30 on Friday... because I start at 6:30... because I am insane). Be warned.

Current Mood: awake

I shall be spending most of today traveling (it's the time changes that get to you!), but by the end of the day, I should be in Chicago. Squee!

So, I've been thinking seriously about a career change. Well, a career acquirement, really, since I've never really considered 'food service' to be a job that I wanted to still have in five-ten years (and I've been there for four+, which is definitely long enough to show stability as a worker).

I was paid to do a slideshow to the national anthem for a conference my mom was putting on and it went rather well. I... really love vidding, so I'm thinking some kind of job in the field of audio-visual manipulation.

Part of the problem (the scary part) is that I've never really looked for a job that I wanted before. I went and got a job because I needed one, but that's different. So, I checked some books out of the library (including 'Fearless Career Change') and shall investigate. And if there is any advice one of the lovely people on my flist could give me, I would welcome it.

Current Mood: thoughtful

This upcoming Saturday, I'm going with my roomie, my mom, and a friend to Portland's Can't Stop the Serenity charity showing of the movie Serenity. I went last year and it was wonderful. Seeing the movie, knowing that money is going to Equality Now, and feeling the warm glow of Browncoat love.

Also, I went through the Pride parade on the way to my dad's this Sunday. God, I felt like leaping out of the MAX and watching that, instead. I need to try to do Pride next year, because I really want to go.

The cooling fan on my laptop is starting to break down. Woe is me. I have, however, already ordered the necessary part, so that'll hopefully resolve in a positive way.

For all of my cheery attitude about S3 of Doctor Who, it is telling that the only episodes that I particularly want to rewatch are Human Nature/Family of Blood. ( general spoiler for S3 )

I still miss Rose, every minute I watch the show. You know, if anyone was wondering.

I should get to sleep soon, as I'm waking up at eight in the morning. As it is, I'll only be getting five hours of sleep.

On the plus side, I've finished up that DW story I was working on and have sent it off to be beta-read. Almost 15,000 words of reunion fic. Possibly posting it will make me feel better about about not seeing Billie Piper's name in the credits each week. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal.

Current Mood: tired

I'm at my dad's, so I haven't seen the new Who yet, but we went out shopping and I noticed a pair of Converse All Stars that were the right size and picked them up.

Also,

jic, I was wondering when the Doctor had Rose start using the controls on the TARDIS -- well, she's holding down levers in The Unquiet Dead, her third episode.

One thing that I would have hoped we'd have all learned from Torchwood is that adding sex to things does not actually mean that the maturity level has risen.

The presence of sex or sexual vibes doesn't mean that the people involved are automatically more grown-up. Sex is not a reliable gauge of maturity. I was reading porn when I was thirteen and writing it at sixteen (I'm twenty-four now, though, oh fandom police). Sexual thoughts are not a reliable measure of a person's maturity level. Having a high proportion of the stories in a fandom/pairing flat-out porn is generally not a sign of how mature and grown-up the pairing/fandom is. Please stop waving your porn in my face and telling me that it means your pairing is more mature. More sex-based is not the same as more mature.

Please do not take this as an indication that I dislike explicit sex in stories. I would say that the vast majority of the fic that I read has some in it. I'm very fond of it, especially when it's in-character and flows from the story. But more sexual does not equal more grown-up. And sex is not the only point of a relationship (speaking as someone currently in a fulfilling relationship that contains absolutely no sex at all -- they exist.).

Sorry, folks. Just felt the need to vent a bit. And, as the subject line indicates, my annoyance is based on things I've read outside my flist. It's just one of those camel-straw-back situations. I'm going to go read some fic now (it'll most likely have sex in it). My next post will probably be about Human Nature (I'm looking forward to the episode so much, probably too much, I may be overselling it to myself... but it looks so great in the trailers!).

I spent yesterday with my mom and grandma, and we celebrated both Mother's Day and my grandma's birthday (she's ninety-two).

Anyway, we went to Ten Thousand Villages, which is a fair-trade store that has some really beautiful things, had lunch at the Everett Street Bistro (I had the Grand Marnier French Toast, which was fascinating), went to the Lawrence art gallery (right now featuring two really neat artists who live in Oregon -- Yiqian Shu, who was raised in China and has been painting since the age of seven and has been declared an Oregon Treasure; and Hans Schiebold, who escaped from the Nazis as a child and who paints every day from eight to three. They each have a unique way of painting -- Yiqian Shu's paintings luminesce like none I've ever seen and Hans Schiebold's are incredibly deeply textured, so much so that they look completely different close up and far away) and went shopping at Savvy Plus and then just hung out for a while at my mom's (she showed us this really cool tea she'd picked the last time she went traveling).

All in all, a really good day.

I really love my mom and my grandma. My grandma is the strongest person that I have ever known. She's an artist, she's well-traveled, and she's incredibly tough. My mom is possibly the nicest person that I know, with more love in her heart than I can describe, and I inherited a great deal of my fannish nature from her.

I love them both dearly and am so honored to have them in my life.

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This Year's Model of Humanity

in a state of continuous evolution

Personal: A Ballet Recommendation

(no subject)

GIPx20

Update: has it really been half a month since I posted? (Life, TV)

Anonymous vidding feedback; slight update

a footstep on new snow

Personal: Update (Christmas)

Various: Harry Potter, Golden Compass, Enchanted

Various: Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and a couple of personal notes

Doctor Who and Birthdays and Family

Personal: Thanksgiving, my birthday, variousness

Random: Desert Island Stuff

Personal: Visiting Family (also: vids, yay!)

(no subject)

VividCon 2007: Preshow (also personal stuff)

Firefly: Can't Stop the Serenity

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Doctor shoes!

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Personal: Mother's Day

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