My life, let me show you it.

[geoviki]

I spent the morning at my daughter's university graduation ceremony. We'd just gotten through the speechifying and had started in on the reading of names. She, luckily, was fifth (out of about 1500 or so), and they managed to get through the School of Education when the wind finally became unbearable. They brought things to a merciful end with a hasty "And the rest of you lot, you're all graduated, too," and sent us off. So, one child down, one to go. Unless we yield to irresistible temptation and drown him in a pond. Some days, I'd bet on the pond.

Thursday, I did a unique and speshul-snowflaky thing. A good friend of mine is the high school choir director at Golden (home of Coors beer, FYI), and it's the end of the school year. The natives are getting restless, in other words. So I worked up a 90-minute presentation on cover songs for the choir and the orchestra. They seemed to really get into it - I hit the high points (Nine Inch Nails, 50 Cent) and the low (Mrs Miller). They especially like Weird Al, apparently, and do not recognize The Rolling Stones at all. What are they teaching these kids nowadays??!

The schedule for Terminus is out! Who is giving a roundtable on Albus Severus/Scorpius?? Me! Who is giving said roundtable on the very last hour of the very last day?? Guessed it in one! I was concerned earlier this week about having enough space for all you slashers. Suddenly that worry has evaporated. I think the 2 or 3 of us left on Sunday at 4:00 will just head off to the bar and be done with it.

I'm still really into X Japan and Miyavi. I may commit bandfic. Let the mass defriending begin.

Comments

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i'm staying until monday and i adore albus/scorpius :D

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Great! Because I only signed up to boost the slash ratio, and I don't know a whole lot about a/s, really. My secret plan is to have everyone else do all the talking. Oops, the secret's out....

[stinaleigh.livejournal.com]

I'll be joining you at that panel. At least my plan is to stay through Monday and I'll probably be interested in that one.

eta: But moving the panel to the bar sounds like a plan too.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I know that I'm usually fried by the end of any conference, so I'll forgive anyone who feels that way too. But it'll be nice to have someone show up and help decide which bar to go to. ;-)

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, grad-mom!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Yay! And today her college announced a 10% increase in tuition...and it doesn't matter to me anymore. :-)

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Who is giving a roundtable on Albus Severus/Scorpius?

You should write an AS/S fic then. Otherwise, what sort of roundtable lead are you? *winks*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I'm the kind of leader...who delegates! I don't know a whole lot about the ship yet, so I was going to prod the audience into doing all the work.

I have read some, though, and they were all brilliant so far.

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Well, write one after the round table then :D

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

There's nothing else I'd rather do on Sunday at 4pm than attend your panel. :)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Well, if I didn't have to be there myself, I'm wondering if I'd show up, so no hard feelings if you change your mind.

[cordelia_v]

Heh. You'll have to be much more creative if you want to get me to defriend you. :-)

I like hearing about details like this. And congratulations to your daughter!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I was trying so hard to keep up regular posting about myself, and I'd let myself lapse.

Yay, graduation! And she already has a teaching job lined up, so she's all relaxed and happy today.

[mayflo.livejournal.com]

I'm still really into X Japan and Miyavi. I may commit bandfic.

HOZAAAHHHHH!!!!!! *throws confetti* BRAVO!! *cries of teh happy*

GIP!!! :'D

Still not delved deep enough but I can feel AS/S is my next OTP in line. *g*

[mayflo.livejournal.com]

Ah, if I'm even partially involved in your bandfic bunnieh, then I gladly take the blame. *is guilty as charged*

And am proud of it. *G*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are, I have to admit. It'll take a while to work around my brain, though. And you will be the only one who will read it.

Hey, I love that icon - I saw it on one of the J-Rock comms. So you haven't found the owner? I'd love to use it, too.

[mayflo.livejournal.com]

*wide grin*

Ooh, but I don't think I'll be the only one cos I'll pimp it on the Y/M comm ;)

And yeah, haven't figured out who made the cute icon I stole :/

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

congrats
thanks for the update -all very exciting

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It's been a busy week, for sure. Now I'm indulging in well-deserved Mother's Day time-wasting. I made sure I did all the laundry yesterday so I could veg today.

[romaine24.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few of us that will be around *g* and it sounds like a great way to spend Sunday afternoon. Now I have to go look at the rest of the schedule.

Congrats on the graduate! I'll be in a walker when I see my youngest graduate. *sigh*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Great! There will be die-hard slashers left, then. My little heart fell when I saw the time I'd been assigned, but I wasn't surprised in the least, becasue somehow I expected the universe to do something like that. (Nah, I know it was just random). Could be worse, though: it could have been early in the morning....

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

Splendid!

X Japan and Miyavi, eh? Hmm.

::googles::

Huh! 'Kay.

On a very faintly related note - have you read/watched Death Note? Because it is OMG Made Of Win!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Hey, you! Long time no see....er, hear? Read? I was just 10 minutes ago thinking of you because I was reading one of the HD_Worldcup fics that was set in your former stomping grounds, Egypt. :-)

No, I haven't got(ten) into Death Note, but I think I should. I've been really hooked into the relatively unknown mangakas so far. Tell me more...

And I will share Miyavi with you:

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

Squee!

Death Note is a great big plotty story about what happens when a very dilligent and brilliant student (Light Yagami) happens upon the power to kill anyone in the world by writing their name in a magical notebook (belonging to a Death God only he, as the holder of the notebook, can see) whilst picturing their face. He decides to change the entire world for the better using this tool - to murder criminals and evil-doers, and thus make people afraid to commit crimes. Which sounds good, almost...apart from the whole MASS MURDER element. Hmm.

Meanwhile, pitted against Light, is the equally brilliant, wildly eccentric (totally fucking adorable) 'L', the world's greatest detective. Who is determined to bring the mass murderer (who quickly becomes known as 'Kira', and acquires a massive cult following) to justice - and who just happens to be a scant handful of years older than Light.

What unfolds is an awesome, thrilling, convoluted and plotty (not to mention SLASHY LIKE WOAH) battle of wits and wills, as L tries to pin the murders on his Number 1 suspect, Light, and Light tries to outsmart (and kill) L in order to bring about his Utopian vision of a new world order.

There are oral fixations. There are handcuffs. There are twisty twists and turns and heartbreak and pathos and OMGWTF moments, and lashings of irony and slash slash slash coming out the wazoo. It is Made Of Awesome. It made me cry. It made me commit fic for the first time in months and months and months. I am at this very moment, in fact, wearing a Death Note wrist watch, and using a Death Note bag - for yea verily, I am a big geeky fangirl!

[karen-jk.livejournal.com]

pandarus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

::waves, sheepishly::

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I just Wiki'd it, and there's both manga and anime, so which should I go for first? And where do I get hold of it?

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

Weee!

I say Go Manga, Choose Manga! (I'm working my way through the anime at the moment, but in, you know, JAPANESE, which I don't actually speak. But the anime is possibly even more slashy than the manga, actually. Hmm. Apparently it airs on Adult Swim?)

The Manga is published by TokyoPop & I guess it's available in the manga section of All Good Book Stores, hopefully - it's v. well known.

And it has occurred to me that, as someone with a fondness for Draco, you're probably going to like Mello (who crops up later on in the story) really quite a fair bit.

::bounces::

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

This is Mello, bless his fucked up little chocolate-eating, leather-wearing, genius badass self.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

how fabulous is that? thanks so for putting the vid in.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I think he's just the cutest thing.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the graduation and even more on the Terminus panel. I wish I could be heading to Terminus this year - I was very taken with Chicago last year - but no likelihood, alas.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Awww. I can't convince you? It's been ...God, 30 years since I've been to Chicago (I don't count being trapped at O'Hare Airport). I'm told on very good authority that Chicago is very close to Denver. ;-)

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

i'll be there!

and congrats to your daughter (and you for the fine raising that helped get her to this point).

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

You amaze me! You haven't missed a con in years, and it's such a haul for you to make it over here. Yay!

[verdenia.livejournal.com]

Grats to the daughter [and you!], I'll be at the AS/S group, and Cool! on the cover songs presentation.