I'm still at work but not for long! It'll be 6pm soon and I can leave! Yes, not at 10pm, not a Sat, not a Sun and I can leave early for a change.

I've also told my boss that I am not work on Friday night coz I wanna have a birthday dinner with my friends.

I got my work done and I'm really tired but I'm going to see my trainer before heading home. I think I need some exercise or I'll collapse. I used to work 7 days a week over this period, but it's been some years... and I confess I'm feeling rather tired!

Also, GIP!!! Haha, there's Dante eating his favourite - strawberry sundae. I just love Devil May Cry and yes, it's a game that was adapted into Manga and anime. I have all 12 eps but am still slowly watching bit by bit.

It's been quite a while since we've seen storms like this.

Mmmmm rainy smells.

The Brave and the Bold #191 Only Angels have Wings - Batman/The Joker team up comic

Legends of the Dark Knight #50 Images - gold foil cover Batman/The Joker comic

The Joker canceled series-1975 Batman Joker #4 of 9 A gold star for The Joker

Thursday, June 26

It's awfully warm and muggy out, and the air conditioning in the Bar is having serious trouble tonight. Pat is tinkering with the controls at the same time she's on the phone about it. Apparently nobody can send a guy until tomorrow. "If only the AC would have the decency to break on a day we don't desperately need it," she says, right after she tells us we're just going to have to suck it up and deal. She sets up an oscillating fan at each end of the bar, but they don't make much of a difference.

It's still crowded, though, and we're still working hard, so we're all sweating. My Rusted Root t-shirt is damp and clinging to me, and Vince is constantly mopping his forehead with an extra bar rag. Maya has given up all pretense to propriety; after the first hour, she went to the back room, where she took off her sweat-soaked shirt, leaving a bikini top that she still had on from a brief sunbathing trip earlier in the day. It really only just barely hides any of her breasts - and as a result, she's rolling in tips. It's a little distracting watching her work this way, but that may be partly because I've seen the rest of her breasts.

"I don't know why I didn't try this a long time ago," Maya shouts as she passes behind me.

"Don't you feel exposed or anything?" I shout back.

She laughs and nods as she grabs a few bottles of Coors from the cooler. "Yeah, I do! But you get used to it!" She heads back the other way, and I watch a good three-quarters of the heads at the bar turn to follow. I'm a little surprised Pat hasn't said anything, but no more than a little surprised. It's something I came to understand very soon after I started working here nearly five years ago; sexy is good for business, and the fruits of good business are impossible to ignore no matter how much of a feminist you are before you walk in the door. Even Diane Chambers learned that one the hard way in the "Miss Boston Barmaid" competition on "Cheers," I remember with a smile.

Things slow down a little after midnight, and Vince introduces Maya and me to his friend Steve. "This is the guy who got me to stop smoking," he says.

"How'd you do that?" asks Maya.

"Mostly through hypnosis," he says.

"Really?" I try not to smirk.

"Sure," says Steve, "but it still wouldn't have worked if Vince hadn't really wanted to rid himself of his addiction."

Vince nods. "Problem is, now I'm addicted to hypnosis." We all laugh.

Maya tops off Steve's bourbon. "Can you make him do anything you want? Like, bark like a dog?"

"Well, that's not really what clinical hypnosis is about - you're talking about a party trick, this is post-hypnotic suggestion to help modify behavior after the hypnosis is over."

"So can you make him bark like a dog later?" Maya asks. I roll my eyes, and go to take orders from a loud bachelorette party group that's just come in. I glance back over, though, and I see Steve and Maya talking closely, maybe even conspiratorially.

About forty-five minutes later, Vince taps me on the shoulder. "You have to come see this." He leads me over to where Maya is pulling a pint of Sam Adams, and after she makes change for the customer, he says, "Maya, I think you're starting to burn."

She turns to him and looks at him funny. "What?"

"I said, Maya, I think you're starting to burn."

"Oh, thanks!" And while I watch, she grabs the bottle of Malibu off the shelf behind us, hands it to me, says, "Debra, would you put some on my back?" and turns around. I look at Vince, then at his friend Steve, who just smiles a little. "Seriously, Debra, I don't want to burn, get my back and shoulders, okay?" She moves her hair off her neck and around to the front, so that the only thing on her back is the string holding up her bikini top.

I'm too dumbstruck to laugh, so I shrug, pour a little of the coconut rum into one hand, and start rubbing it into my colleague's shoulders while the guys snicker.

http://lettersfrompegasus.blogspot.com/2008/07/brisbanonians.html

Like Torontonians, except for "from a warmer climate". It's winter here, which means a frigid 19 degrees celsius. The poor locals are forced to wear something called a "jumper" along with several shawls to fend off the inclement weather. How do they do it? I mean it's almost a wee bit chilly here. Better "rug up". I have one word for you, Brisbane, when it comes to winter: Winnipeg.
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*rolls eyes*
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Loving it here, meeting a lot of awesome fans and seeing another chunk of my beloved Oz. We're off to the zoo today. Hope to get some pictures of Paul McGillion feeding a croc. I'll keep you updated...

News + Spoiler
kimberlyfdr: Kate Hewlett blog update, photo session schedule for Shore Leave
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sardonicsmiley: Scar Tissue (1/4) [R]

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angelsdee: A Specialist's Seduction 1/2 (Ronon/Abby) (NCIS crossover) [NC-17]
angelsdee: A Specialist's Seduction 2/2 (Ronon/Abby) (NCIS crossover) [NC-17]
saphanibaal: The Second Day (Plantarum)

Fanfic Slash (McKay/Sheppard)
hazelthewitch: Desperate Measures - [NC17]
tarlanx: Jumping to Conclusions [R]
mcshep_match: Here Be Monsters [PG]
mcshep_match: No Light and Transient Cause [PG-13]

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soapbox_solo38: Physician of the Mind Diseased - [PG13]

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violetvision78: Ronon wallpaper
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Okay, first post here. Lets hope I don't screw up. HA

Warnings: Probably not for people with the mental maturity above 10, and there's a naked butt, but it's in a medical scenorio so... take that how you will? There are absolutely no spoilers. :D

In honor of the 4th of July but well, I'm always late. :D

OMG! Sparking buttholes, Batman!

Sorry about no preview, my brain wonked out.

I've been playing around making little felt softies or plushies and of course I had to make my dorky space heroes (and my deadly space heroes in the case of Teyla and Ronon!).

( Teaser )

Here are John and Rodney

and here are Teyla and Ronon.

Both links go to my lj. I hope this is ok to post here- strictly speaking it's not art, more like fannish crafting. If it's not appropriate mods please let me know.

Title: A Few Useful Definitions
Author: danceswithgary (danceswithgary@yahoo.com)
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 1870
Archive: Fine, just let me know
Summary: Life in the Pegasus Galaxy provides many opportunities to learn new things. Some may involve more pain than others.

http://messengerofdoom.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/i-was-honoured-and-humbled-to-meet/

http://messengerofdoom.wordpress.com/?p=936

Buffalo Big Black Bushy Beard Bill

Here are the stories for today's prompt at mcshep_match, "Walk the plank" - don't forget to vote in the polls after you read:

For the Away Team: Here Be Monsters
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard only
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Listen well, younglings, because this is not a tale for those of weak appetite. It is a story of adventure, romance, history, but most of all, it is about freedom.

And for the Home Team: No Light and Transient Cause
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard and a mention of Dex/Keller.
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Warnings: Takes place after 5x01: Search and Rescue. Small casting spoiler for season five.
Summary: Rodney McKay has an opinion on everything, including whether, in times of crisis, John Sheppard has any business risking death. Answer: no, don't be utterly stupid, what kind of ridiculous half-wit are you anyway?

Teyla (12) * Rodney (12) * John (8) * Ronon (8)  *  Elizabeth (4)  * McShep  (12)  *  Team  (4)  *   Various Other  (28)

Teaser:




( link to my lj )

Enjoy! :)
 

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/then-tomorrow-was-another-day.html

Yesterday I did a panel with Richard Price, and then I signed for (according to the newspapers)about six hundred people for five and a half hours. Normally I try very hard to be as nice to the people who've been waiting for hours as I was to the people at the beginning, but I think I may have been ordering the people at the back of the line around a bit just to make sure I finished before the Tom Stoppard talk started at seven. (I finished with 25 minutes to spare.)

The crowd was lovely, and all amazingly good-humoured given how long they were standing around.

Anyway. Five and half hours, which is about five hours and ten minutes longer than anyone else here, which meant that I was suddenly peered at suspiciously, as if revealed as some kind of odd alien being, by other writers with whom only that morning I was sharing jokes and food. I think they have now forgiven me.

[Edit to add, that was a joke, and the other authors were remarkably nice about it all. Tom Stoppard, who stopped in during the signing, thought it hilarious.]

After the Stoppard panel, which was marvellous, like a master class, (I'm typing this on the computer in the hotel lobby, and was just tapped on the shoulder by a Newspaper photographer who wanted me to come and pose for some shots, and seemed a bit baffled when I pointed out that I was working) -- one of my favourite moments was when asked how he would direct a Hamlet, and he took the (odd) question and talked about what he wants from actors, "Clarity of utterance." Then I went to dinner with one of my Brazilian publishers. I hadn't really eaten since breakfast over twelve hours earlier, and I discovered that when you are given a very large passionfruit caipirinha after a five and a half hour signing and on an empty stomach, you know it's working because your feet go numb. Possibly the feet simply went away. Luckily, my feet returned before I had to walk back to the hotel, but it was extremely odd.

Today it's the end of FLIP and the Desert Island Books panel, and I will read a bit from James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks.

I'd like to make an official announcement of a new comm, anything_ucando. Userinfo is here, and launch post is here. Basically, this is an art/vid/writing comm designed to provide a showplace for our versions of promotional materials for SGA, since Skiffy's version of advertising seems to be about a completely different show than the one we're watching. Ideally, I’d like this to become a place where people can point their friends who ask them, "What’s so great about Stargate: Atlantis, anyway?" Membership is open to all, and hope to see you there soon!


Members: 67
Posts: 5

Fandom: SGA
Title: Scar Tissue
Characters: John, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: Dark, dark, dark fic. Highly disturbing subject matter. To say anymore is to severely spoil the fic, but for those who want specifics, click this.
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Beta: mgbutterfly was along for this ride. She really deserves some happy!fic now.
Length: 40k
Summary: Sheppard’s team spends two months in the little white cells. Getting out is the easy part.