To anyone who doesn't know it, my boss is insane. She brought in donut holes today and have been living of them and coffee all day. Yay for sugar highs. She has now calmed down due to some salad and some financial stuff that needed doing.  I have spent the day moving things from last fiscal year to the drawers we keep them in (We go from 07-08 to 08-09 on the 1st of July). It is weird to think that I have been at work for seven weeks already. And I have only 5 left. I have also been setting up a little bit of a budget for myself for the fall. So far I have monthly income (Norwegian and TAing, but I am not sure for how many hours yet) which I estimate to be somewhere between 200- 500 USD. Expenses are a bit more fluid, I have cell phone, payday sushi, other food, pathfinder, game informer and onecard (ie. Laundery and campus center cafe food), but I also want a monthly music, game(split into rpgs and xbox games) and craft budget. But there are also expenses that come only once, like my dA subscription and SSFFS and fencing. I guess it can wait until I have my funds from Lanekassa.

On the joy side, I have a four day weekend coming up. I think I'll spend  it reading rpgs and preparing for what ever, possibly doing some writing (I want to finish my Assassin's Creed fanfic and get cracking on my other writing, a bunch of my characters are also demanding to have their character histories written). I also want to play more Oblivion. It is so fun. I also want to make my GM's binder. But the only thing that is holding me from that is that the more crap I get over the summer the more crap I have to fins somewhere to store for the last two weeks. *sigh* Ah well

Author:tigerlofu

Story: Round Robin 07:

Rating: NC-17
Configurations: M/m
Warnings: Slavery, captivity, sexual use of a slave, bad language, magic, disobedient thoughts and porn
Word Count: 3565 - and then some
Summary: A young man moves to a new town and finds himself sold into slavery due to circumstances beyond his control. The underworld that he enters in is far different from the normal, ordinary world that he grew up in, and he has to find his way in this new world, adrift from everything he’s ever known.
Feedback: please.
Notes: Under the limit I know, but tons of friends came over this weekend and I had to be host like for parts of it. Also, unbeated.


Round Robin 01: Introduction. by </a></b></a>me_ya_ri
Round Robin 02: Affinities. by </a></b></a>maculategiraffe
Round Robin 03: Home, Sweet Home. by </a></b></a>shadowsonthesun
Round Robin 04: First Night. by </a></b></a>inoru_no_hoshi
Round Robin 05: Rock of Ages. by </a></b></a></a></a></b></a></div>libertas_atis

 

Comments will come later

 Our new dog..6 weeks old, two weeks and she can move home

Been playing a lot of oblivion, mainly yesterday. Did quite a lot of the thief guild quests. Now I am going to level up one more level and then head back to the main quest.

But Oblivion is not what this entry is about. I want to GM D&D, probably 3.5, possibly Pathfinder Beta rules. But what rule system I am going to use is mainly my problem right? As I am the one who have to learn the rules.

I have tons and tons of ideas to use and I am looking forward to this. I really want to make an epic campaign, and by epic I mean long running. Mm wonder if there is any interest...

On the 6th or so of June I started keeping track of my writing in. My word count is almost at 10 000 words, that is counting the bit I did before. I have also done 49 LJ entires. If I counted correctly. I am really happy about this. That is a lot more than expected. Yay

Teleport...

I live roughly 5000 km away from home. You have any idea how nice it would be not to spend those 12-24 hours traveling (each way) to get home

from pilomuli
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed, listed below.

01. Bold the books you have read
02. Italicise those you intend to read
03. Underline the books you've seen a film version of
04. Place books that you have started but never finished in round brackets
05. Place books that you read in school in square brackets



16/100 not too bad

First of all, for the sake of my flist friends who are not interested in the things that go on in my head, all posts that contain fiction or is about my fiction will have writing in the title, this way you are free to skip them.

Secondly I am in the middle of tons of projects, here is a list:
Round Robin- my turn: Need to get up to date on where the story is(gosh I am so so bad) and then plot and write
Everybody Knows - FF7 fanfic: have around 500 words, and plot for the rest, just need to write it
Untitled Assassin's Creed fanfic: got about 300 words to go before I am at the minimum for the promt, though this is going great and might be expanded into something multi chapter
Savin' Me - Chapter 4: Not started and little to none ideas floating around for it
M-A-T-R-E-iarchy - Traveling Journals: Idea formed itself today at lunch, will begin writing for this soon. This is a different project than my others and the idea is to introduce a society through the eyes of a foreign correspondent.

And I still have DEE to think about...

Gosh... This is a lot

from kepodQuestions from her too

Leave a comment if you want 5 questions from me to answer, and extend the offer to others if you feel like it.

1. When you are 35, what sort of family do you hope to have?
A nice appartment with pets and friends close by. That is the kind of family I want, I do not forsee any kids or anything else anytime soon. I do not approve of marrying too young so.

2. Suppose you have to pick only one vowel sound to be able to pronounce. It's not such a terrible situation because you can still pronounce consonants, and you can still write any vowels you need. Which vowel do you keep?
E, it is the most common letter in the english language. My personal favorite is o though, so I am not sure, probably e.

3. The History Channel offers you the chance to participate in a reality show in which a group of individuals must replicate the lifestyle of a certain cultural time period. You and some others will live in a period residence, wear appropriate attire, and cook your own food using the ingredients and methods of the time. The show will last for one year. What era would you opt to emulate?
Oh, can I please?  This is actually something I have wanted to do for a long while. Either Rome 100BC-100AD or the viking age.

4. You are a Character. What is your signature mode of transportation?
Depends on what kind of character I am, but I guess something fast and cool like a motor bike or a helicopter

5. What would you most want to change about the curriculum at each of the schools you have attended? What creates the best learning environment?
For the norwegian school system I would change the always wait for the slowest student in the class
For RCN I would change when we did TOK and EEs or possibly add another year for people who did not feel that their english was up for the IB, giving them a pre IB year
For Smith, longer semesters and making the various majors more equal (I am thinking about the insane course load in Engineering)

For those of you who read Norwegian  (that might  not be a lot) this post spawns from this little article and the following discussion.

For everyone else a summary:
The Norwegian Editor of Elle, Signy Fardal,  wrote an editorial on how much the pressure young women are feeling when it comes to looks and especially weight. 'Very few of us women are 100% satisfied with our bodies' (my translation). In the same editorial she writes 'but I wouldn't say no to Jenifer Lopez body' (again, my translation). Then they give us a hundred something pages, or is it two hundred now, of articles and ads and interviews that just reinforce the idea that we women are not supposed to be satisfied with our bodies. The author of the article I liked goes through one magazine and talks what the message it gives is. He concludes with saying to Ms. Fardal that to find the answer to why young women feel this much pressure she does not have to move far beyond her own desk.

And now my rant:
The discussion following this article brings up an interesting point, actually two interesting points. The first is that women who oppress them selvs are beneficial to men, at this point I would like to point out that from context I think this point was written by a man. This way men can stay in control without having to do much work for it. This was specifically pointed out to be about dominating men, which the commentor made it sound like most guys are. A few points on this. First of all, I do not think all guys are dominating, or at least aware of it. However, most men are raised, at least in Norway and I believe this to be true for many cultures, to be domniant, to speak loudest, expect attention first and demand their rights. Women are raised to wait. This is true in Norwegian schools (multiple studies have been done, I have read a few) and later reflect in our social interaction. So yes, maybe men are the most dominant of us. I do also agree that men who like to be in charge, in the workspace, in a relationship or in any social group, will in most cases find it easier to control women than other men. Why? Because women are taught to wait. Sit around and do your job without a fuss and then one day you'll get a raise, a smile and pat on the back or you know, prince Charming will come by and sweep you up in his arms. Women sit around and get picked up, they get married. It is so ingrained in us that it even is in our language. Women are not the active participants, things happen to them. *  It has been this way for a long long time. And in my eyes the 'women magazines', like Elle, are just another weapon to keep us women where we are, waiting.

Second point the discussion brings up, 'kvinne er kvinne verst' or in English 'Woman is woman's worst enemy'. This was a concept I first ran into in  a book by Jean Sasson about women in Saudi, specifically the books about Princess Sultana. Sultana talks about female genital mutilation, and how the worst people to convince to stop is not men, but other women. The concept is here too. Myself, I weigh far more than I should, and I have for as long as I can remember. I got bullied for it all the way through high school. Comments and looks. Very very few of those were made by guys. The guys did not have to, the girls did it fine on their own. Combined with girly magazines, articles on how to loose weight (yes, I found them in magazines meant for 12-14 year olds) and the constant search for clothes stores that carry clothing in my size (I am still not sure what is the most humiliating, not finding anything that fits you even in the xl or xxl racks or having to go to a clothing store for larger sizes), I still struggle with the way I look. I close to never look at myself in a mirror without clothing on (I have learned to dress smart so you don't really see my shame), I hate trying on clothes in stores because 90% of the time they will be the largest size in there and still not fit and well over half the time someone compliment the way I look (and I am not thinking about eyes or hair here, because those are the things I am happy with, but more my general looks) I think they are just saying it to make me feel better about myself (which, by the way, if that is the reason for it ever, don't say it, it is more humiliating than being told I am ugly). Now those of you who know me in person, and a lot of you here, know I don't take crap from anyone, or if I do it is a rare occurance.  I also no longer get hurt or even annoyed at comments like ''you're fat'' or ''Don't sit so close to the edge, the plane might tip'' (that last one was on a Boeing 747) anymore. But that have taken a lot of hardening of my skin to get there. It will take a lot longer before I am happy with what I see in the mirror everyday, if ever. My point is, the ones I hold responsible for this are for the most part not men. They are women of all ages, who through the years some way or another have reminded me that to be attractive you have to be thin. I hate this image and I find it horrifying that more and more men are subject to the same thing. [Edit: Something I forgot the first time around] I have female friends who, when I tell them I go to an all women's college, say ''I would not be able to survive. Women are one of the most evil, scheming creatures out there''. I tend to agree. And for some reason we seem to prefer to play against our own team in a manner of speaking. To me this is sad. [/end Edit]

[Edit: Conclusions are good]
I realized as I walked to lunch that I had not added an conclusion here. So here is what I think. We live in a world that is all about first impressions and looks is very important for first impressions. Add this to a world where one half of the population have been oppressed through the ages, you have a wonderful cocktail. I do not think the world will change anytime soon, but as with anything else where we want to change the world I think it is one little step at the time, one little gesture. How about we women all together just stop talking shit about each other and let the men for once do the work?

[/end Edit]


Now, just as a side note, because some of you might know that I have been very concious of my weight and workouts and what I eat these last few weeks. Yes I am trying to loose weight. I would be lying if I said it wasn't partly because of my looks, but it is not my main reasons. I am 5'6'' and weight 225 pounds. With a little math you can see that that is a BMI of 36 something. The obesity range starts at 30. I have two major weight related things in my family, diabetes and heart problems. For my own health I need to loose weight. My hope is being down to 200 by the end of summer and down to 180 by christmas. That puts my BMI at 29, which is much better, still not good, but better.

ok, end rant now.




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*I know this to be true for Norwegian and English, but I am curious about other, especially non-indo-european, languages. If you speak other languages please answer this one question. In your language do women 'marry' or do they 'get married'? In other words, are they active or passive?  I am also curious about made up languages, Hope, Constance or Kayleigh, could you help me with this?

Tday was a fun, very....let's just say it was a day full of do and don'ts in the future. Which of course is just the sort of day i like. I admit it I might have gotten hooked too.. Damned...

Writing is going well.. I am working on two projects at the same time and they are coming along nicely, there are two other projects on my mind as well that I need to work on.

So yeah, having fun, now onwards to comics

I got introduced to LJ through the SSFFS community here. I wanted to be a part of it and created an account for it. Before that I had my blogger account which contained over one year of blogging for me. I kept it and mostly forgot about my lj until someone mentioned that I should post there too. So started a almost two year period of cross posting everything, that I just ended. For the last few months I have been intending on switching back to only one online journal. However I could not decide which to keep or to start a wordpress one (I happen to have an account there too). Finally last week I decided to stay here on lj, mainly due to the amazing people I have met here and communities I am a part of. 

Today I woke up at 5 am by the thunderstorm that was here. It was really amazing and I listened to the rest of it as I tried to return to sleepy land. Then the birds started singing when it was over. I managed to fall asleep at 6.30.

Now I am drinking coffee and enjoying myself

First I read this, then this . And now I want to hit someone.

20 left.. And they want harder control measures. What the FUCK have the wolf ever done to you? Last person who was killed by a wolf in Norway was a girl in 1800. (form here). And Farmers get reimbursed for livestock lost to predators. So the fuss is largely about people fearing for their children's safety.

IDIOTS!


((Hey Al Mualim, could I borrow Altaïr for one small task? ))

Today have been a nice day, it started at lunch. The Panini I had was really good, they had made a smashing pesto. Then I was really in the mood for BBQ which was what dinner was, and the corn was amazing. Then Becca and I headed to the Brewery for beer, and man that was good beer. We had a starter tray with 6oz of 4 different kinds of beer and we both found stuff we really liked. Over all it was really good beer. much better than I have had in a long while. Then again it has been half a year.

Mm I feel so much more content with life when my days involve good food and drinks

So. I dreamt I was in my bed in Lawrence, and looked out the window, there were some sort of railings outside my window. And a nice lawn like the one on the other side of the house, I face the parking lot. And in the middle of the lawn a drain. In my dream 3 maybe 4 squirrels came out of the drain, lifted up the lawn like it was a carpet and ran underneath. They were soon followed by two foxes. After a brief chase (all under the lawn carpet) the foxes caught two squirrels and began eating while the other two tried to get the foxes to let them go. At this point I turned to find my camera, but had the wrong lens in for capturing a nice shot of this. Then I woke up..

One of my more surreal dreams

Remember that cleaning of the room I was talking about, yep. It is now done. So is repotting my plants and everything. I have a new rug and it is fussy and blue, Talia, I have the rest of the cookie monster on my floor. The room is now looking a lot more like a space you want to live in. The only thing I need to do is change the bulb on my lamp.

Oh. One thing because I think people will like:
 
This is the new puppy we are getting. She will become paler when she grows up a little to turn into this


We are thinking about a D name and it is a female. Any ideas of names