Closing in on the end
Oct. 21st, 2004 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowOkay, here's where I make a tiny, tiny show of support for the Blue and White, and then cancel myself out.
I am... a Yankees fan. Since birth. It's part of my genetic makeup. From my dad, I got many things - crazy hair, a smart mouth, a love of esoteric knowledge, the deep seeded need to listen to music at volume 11, a yen for singers who can best be described as nasal, a working knowledge of ST:TOS and scifi related things, a love for Robert Parker, John Coltrane and Farscape. I also got the Yankee love, and we put this into practice. Summer days meant drills - batting, catching, fielding grounders, lobbing the ball to third, and then when it finally came down to it, after I'd expressed my intention to be the first woman to play in the major leagues and then decided that I wasn't willing to slide on home, he bought me a Yankees cap, we soaked it in water, and I wear it to this day. It smells funny, but I love it.
My team has lost more World Series playoffs than any other team has ever been in. Oh, and obviously, they've won more of them as well.
They're the team of legendary players, of history making days and plays.
That being said, I'm so damned happy for the Red Sox. Being a Red Sox fan is a life time commitment, never leaves the heart or the blood. They made history, they played amazing ball, and I've got no resentment against them for kicking Blue and White ass, and going to the show.
(I'm a sucker for the underdog. Bounced off the wall a few years ago when the Diamondbacks beat my team, because they were new, and untested, and wanted it so damned much that they played their hearts out. I feel the same way about the Red Sox. The curse has been lifted, and the Babe will sleep better for it).
Number two, I still have a few uncredited Aeryn icons in my user pics, here. I want to say that they're either![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reblog or whitelight1, so ladies, let me know, will you?
Number three, go here, and revel in the Farscape love. It's just hysterical, and true, and made me laugh and nod.
Number four, took four projects to Kinkos. I'm waiting for the phone call to tell me how they've (or alternately I've) screwed up. It's inevitable at this point, and it's a wonder I have any hair left after using Quark.
Number five, I have drinks with a friend of mine every Thursday, along with several other women she knows. It's sort of a writer/artist gathering of women who want to support each others efforts. People bring poems, music they've composed, visual art, prose, stuff like that to casually share, and I said I'd bring something, but I feel like I don't have anything to be shared for public consumption. Maybe the Odysseus piece, maybe the John Donne piece from Valentine's day with a few alterations, but other than that I'm drawing a blank. Such a tough call. I'm so proud of some of the things I've written this year, and yet I feel like they're not shareable beyond this space. Sigh. I know that's a typical feeling, and maybe I should go back through my entries and see if anything else stands out for me.
Number six, my mother sent me these (the colored ones). I so love my mom, who has only recently discovered online shopping and shipping:) Now I just need a short skirt and thick tights:)
I am... a Yankees fan. Since birth. It's part of my genetic makeup. From my dad, I got many things - crazy hair, a smart mouth, a love of esoteric knowledge, the deep seeded need to listen to music at volume 11, a yen for singers who can best be described as nasal, a working knowledge of ST:TOS and scifi related things, a love for Robert Parker, John Coltrane and Farscape. I also got the Yankee love, and we put this into practice. Summer days meant drills - batting, catching, fielding grounders, lobbing the ball to third, and then when it finally came down to it, after I'd expressed my intention to be the first woman to play in the major leagues and then decided that I wasn't willing to slide on home, he bought me a Yankees cap, we soaked it in water, and I wear it to this day. It smells funny, but I love it.
My team has lost more World Series playoffs than any other team has ever been in. Oh, and obviously, they've won more of them as well.
They're the team of legendary players, of history making days and plays.
That being said, I'm so damned happy for the Red Sox. Being a Red Sox fan is a life time commitment, never leaves the heart or the blood. They made history, they played amazing ball, and I've got no resentment against them for kicking Blue and White ass, and going to the show.
(I'm a sucker for the underdog. Bounced off the wall a few years ago when the Diamondbacks beat my team, because they were new, and untested, and wanted it so damned much that they played their hearts out. I feel the same way about the Red Sox. The curse has been lifted, and the Babe will sleep better for it).
Number two, I still have a few uncredited Aeryn icons in my user pics, here. I want to say that they're either
reblog or whitelight1, so ladies, let me know, will you? Number three, go here, and revel in the Farscape love. It's just hysterical, and true, and made me laugh and nod.
Number four, took four projects to Kinkos. I'm waiting for the phone call to tell me how they've (or alternately I've) screwed up. It's inevitable at this point, and it's a wonder I have any hair left after using Quark.
Number five, I have drinks with a friend of mine every Thursday, along with several other women she knows. It's sort of a writer/artist gathering of women who want to support each others efforts. People bring poems, music they've composed, visual art, prose, stuff like that to casually share, and I said I'd bring something, but I feel like I don't have anything to be shared for public consumption. Maybe the Odysseus piece, maybe the John Donne piece from Valentine's day with a few alterations, but other than that I'm drawing a blank. Such a tough call. I'm so proud of some of the things I've written this year, and yet I feel like they're not shareable beyond this space. Sigh. I know that's a typical feeling, and maybe I should go back through my entries and see if anything else stands out for me.
Number six, my mother sent me these (the colored ones). I so love my mom, who has only recently discovered online shopping and shipping:) Now I just need a short skirt and thick tights:)
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:33 pm (UTC)Nope, you've got me credited perfectly fine. Those look like the good work of
Sigh. I know that's a typical feeling, and maybe I should go back through my entries and see if anything else stands out for me.
Heh, you're doing better than me. I've got poetry and original fic that I keep in notebooks that I don't even post here. Just something that scares the crap out of me, I guess, public posting of something entirely my own.
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:48 pm (UTC)And, cool on the icons. I thought they were rebs, but I gotta that fantastic slew of Aeryn icons from the two of you and I know that I jumbled to credit on some of them.
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Date: 2004-10-29 06:20 am (UTC)it makes me go "wheee!" that someone besides me is using my icons :D
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Date: 2004-10-31 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 07:37 pm (UTC)You should bring the Odysseus piece.
And those boots scare me, hon. *g*
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:43 pm (UTC)But the Curse won't *really* be lifted until they win the damned World Series. True, very true. However, I think they've gotten enough momentum going to have a better than decent shot, and I'll definitely be rooting for them. They did good, just so damned good:) Y'all should be proud:)
You should bring the Odysseus piece.
Hee - it cracks me up that fic for The Odyssey seems acceptable, while fic for my show just isn't:) But, also, the context of The Odyssey is pretty much part of Western canon, and therefore explainable:)
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:43 pm (UTC)Being a Red Sox fan is a life time commitment, never leaves the heart or the blood.
Yeah, it’s kind of like malaria. Or some other horrible disease … I’ve been waiting since 1986, when I was a freshman in college and foolishly thought they’d win the Series then…
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:52 pm (UTC)Hee - that's true, but that's part of the fun, loathing the other teams fans as much, if not more than, the other team:) (Although, I don't at all loathe Red Sox fans. I simply feel for them. Deeply. But part of that is being a long time Cubs fan as well. You have to have a lot of heart, and the ability to constantly bounce back from disappointment when you love the Cubbies).
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:06 pm (UTC)*Brynn's head explodes*
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:59 pm (UTC)Honestly, though, seeing as you were actually raised a Yankees fan, in the age-old tradition of sentences that start with "I'm a baseball fan because when I was little, my dad [fill in the blank]", I can actually see how you could be both a Cubs and a Yanks fan without tearing the fabric of reality. It's the bandwagon-jumping, we're-America's-team, obnoxious, ignorant Yankees fans with their astonishingly overdeveloped sense of entitlement who make me want to kill kill kill.
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:25 pm (UTC)You gotta want it, you gotta work for it. They got complacent, and they deserved to have their asses kicked:)
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:05 pm (UTC)Word on both counts! :)
I am terrified of saying, doing, or even thinking anything to jinx this... but it is interesting to note this year's Sox seem to be overcoming a few of the things that have contributed to Sox downfalls in the past: injury (Dom DiMaggio's hammy in 1946), inability to come back after a tough loss (1986), Jeter (every year since the dawn of time, seemingly)... interesting.
The possibility of Clemens pitching at Fenway in the World Series? Dude. Just... dude.
The visuals get better and better
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:22 pm (UTC)as am I. Perhaps that's why I still root for the Canucks after all this time. Why do I stubbornly hold to the belief that a Canadian team will win Lord Stanley?! erm... taking my rant elsewhere now...
Number three, go here, and revel in the Farscape love
That was awesome! Really spells out how it's the Best.There.Is.
my mother sent me these (the colored ones).
Those are so cute! I think I had a pair when I was 7!
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 10:35 pm (UTC)ok, i'm old enough to remember the impossible dream and i even met carl yazstremski that year...went with a friend and her parents and stood i line *forever*. what was i 9 or 10? not sure. either way, i've struggled and sworn to give up on them...but i always end up wishing and hoping. such is the life of a red sox fan. your respect of the experience is appreciated. and i am very sleepy after staying up way too late.
loved the link to that post on farscape love. bwahaha! good luck with the kinko's projects. i strikes me that the experience of kinkos may closely resemble the experience of being a red sox fan. heh.
ps. your writing is very fine, just so you know. ;)
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Date: 2004-10-21 10:44 pm (UTC)Hee - except with the Red Sox, there's always hope. Kinko's is the epitome of defeat looming large.
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Date: 2004-10-21 11:00 pm (UTC)and the epitome of looming defeat: that's the joy of modern technology? *sends good sucessful technology thoughts*
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Date: 2004-10-21 11:58 pm (UTC)ooH! You should, you really really should! What FAB barn boots they would be. Stylin' and practical and FUN! Now I want a pair for the barn....
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Date: 2004-10-22 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 12:06 am (UTC)::ponder::
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Date: 2004-10-22 12:31 am (UTC)ps. i'm visualling a pair to match a horse. *veg*
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Date: 2004-10-22 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 07:18 pm (UTC)those boots would shine through just about anything. although i will share with you my absolute relief that i'm not having to clean up after them in the winter. visualize a cold january night doing chores. *shudders*
;)
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Date: 2004-10-21 11:15 pm (UTC)But I was rooting for the Red Sox, these last three games. It's been a week of great highs and lows and highs again. :)
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Date: 2004-10-21 11:29 pm (UTC)Watching afternoon games and then Star Trek with him in the summers is a great memory for me.