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edenfallingSo! An update.
1. I have met all my immediate neighbors, i.e., the people who also live in my new building. For the time being, I shall refer to them as Upstairs Neighbors R and A (and their dog, Jeeves), who live directly above me; Upstairs Neighbors K and N (and their two small sons, C and A), who live on a vertical diagonal to me; and Downstairs Neighbors L and M, who live across the foyer from me.
Downstairs Neighbors L and M had a potluck dinner for friends and neighbors on Sunday night, which was still on when I got home from closing the store, so I stopped by, met a bunch of people whose names and faces I will almost certainly not remember, and had some very tasty vegetarian lasagna.
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2. Let me tell you about my new apartment. I am in a building which I suspect was once a duplex -- you see, the two halves have different address numbers. I have the south ground floor apartment, which has both a front and back door, but I don't yet have a key to the front door, so I am only using the back. I technically 'own' the driveway, but since I don't have a car, I have told Upstairs Neighbors R and A that they can park there. Out back, I have a miniature deck (of sorts).
The back door opens into my kitchen, which is quite large and has what I would term a breakfast nook. The bathroom is off the kitchen. Heading east (toward the front of the house), you pass through what would be a large squar archway but which is mostly blocked by a half-height wall, and enter the living room. This currently has a bare wood floor, and two GIANT floor-to-ceiling windows, which I have covered with twin-size bedsheets as temporary curtains. (They fit perfectly. Seriously, these are BIG windows.)
The southwest corner of the living room has the doorway to my (tiny) bedroom, which is along the outside wall, beside the kitchen. The east wall of the living room has two doors; the southern one goes to my computer room, while the northern one goes to what would be my entry foyer if I used the front door, but which is basically acting as a storage room (bookcases, some shelving units, etc.). The bedroom and both front rooms each have a moderate-size closet. They also each have one more GIANT window, though these, fortunately, had curtains already in place.
I have placed my short folding open-backed bookcases in front of the living room windows and loaded them up with houseplants. I can do that instead of putting books on every available shelf (and also the tops of the more normal bookcases) because the previous tenants left a huge bookcase in the living room, and I told my new landlady that I would love to keep and use it.
(This makes ten bookcases in my possession, if you were wondering. Two in each front room, five in the living room, and a contraption built out of two wooden shoestands which I am in the process of permanently fastening together with mending plates. I grant you, these bookcases are not all the same size -- the shoestand shelving unit has two and a half shelves, four have three shelves, one has four shelves, one has five and a half shelves, and the new huge one has six shelves -- but still, that's a lot of bookcases. And I like it that way. I live by the principle that one can never have too many bookcases. *grin*)
So anyway, that's where I live now.
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3. I did some research tonight on the Lands End Trail in San Francisco, and while the road maps and pictures were very helpful, and I now know that it's permissible to bring dogs on the trail, I still don't know if you're allowed to have a picnic there. Possibly this information is available on a higher level website that explains the rules for San Francisco parks in general? I am going to try googling some more, but if you know California rules about food in parks, please tell me!
This is for my ongoing attempt to write a Spock-POV fic about grief management. The damn story just will not stop growing, though a couple nights ago I made an outline in self-defense, so at least I am not flailing totally in the dark anymore. First it was going to be kind of restrained, intellectual hurt/comfort between Spock and Uhura. Then it got even more intellectual and picked up a long introductory scene with report and psychological evaluations and stuff. Then Kirk stuck his nose in. Then I got interested in playing with Vulcan culture, and mourning rituals, and ways to channel emotions within carefully delineated guidelines and forms so as to not lose oneself past recall. Then Uhura decided to reminisce about her childhood and her idealization of Starfleet, and stuff like that.
...
I don't even know anymore. But I do know I am going to include the Sutro Baths, decayed nearly to nothing but a few centuries of erosion, corrosion, and the determined efforts of plant life to reclaim the coast. I like the mental image of tidal pools, seabirds, sharp-edged grasses, and here and there, a rusted spike of iron or a crumbling, nearly-buried line of concrete. I find the desolation appealing.
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4. I do not think I will be remixing any of my remixee's shipfic -- I would have to reformulate the story way too much (basically going back years and decades to lay groundwork for the established relationship in present-day story time) -- but I have gained a better sense of how she characterizes one of the members of that pairing, and of some of her background world-building. (And I must say, I like that world-building exceedingly! I want to take it home and pet it and call it George... *silly grin*) So that's definitely useful. I am leaning more and more toward working with one of the first two stories that jumped out at me, but I am still undecided about which one.
Ah well. I hereby declare that I will decide by Saturday, and start brainstorming and outlining immediately thereafter. *nods firmly* Deadlines are good. Feel free to poke me if I miss this one.
(On that subject, the story is due on July 12. I would like to have the rough draft done a week before that -- say, Sunday July 5 -- so as to have time to get it thoroughly betaed. Definitely poke me if I miss that deadline!)
1. I have met all my immediate neighbors, i.e., the people who also live in my new building. For the time being, I shall refer to them as Upstairs Neighbors R and A (and their dog, Jeeves), who live directly above me; Upstairs Neighbors K and N (and their two small sons, C and A), who live on a vertical diagonal to me; and Downstairs Neighbors L and M, who live across the foyer from me.
Downstairs Neighbors L and M had a potluck dinner for friends and neighbors on Sunday night, which was still on when I got home from closing the store, so I stopped by, met a bunch of people whose names and faces I will almost certainly not remember, and had some very tasty vegetarian lasagna.
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2. Let me tell you about my new apartment. I am in a building which I suspect was once a duplex -- you see, the two halves have different address numbers. I have the south ground floor apartment, which has both a front and back door, but I don't yet have a key to the front door, so I am only using the back. I technically 'own' the driveway, but since I don't have a car, I have told Upstairs Neighbors R and A that they can park there. Out back, I have a miniature deck (of sorts).
The back door opens into my kitchen, which is quite large and has what I would term a breakfast nook. The bathroom is off the kitchen. Heading east (toward the front of the house), you pass through what would be a large squar archway but which is mostly blocked by a half-height wall, and enter the living room. This currently has a bare wood floor, and two GIANT floor-to-ceiling windows, which I have covered with twin-size bedsheets as temporary curtains. (They fit perfectly. Seriously, these are BIG windows.)
The southwest corner of the living room has the doorway to my (tiny) bedroom, which is along the outside wall, beside the kitchen. The east wall of the living room has two doors; the southern one goes to my computer room, while the northern one goes to what would be my entry foyer if I used the front door, but which is basically acting as a storage room (bookcases, some shelving units, etc.). The bedroom and both front rooms each have a moderate-size closet. They also each have one more GIANT window, though these, fortunately, had curtains already in place.
I have placed my short folding open-backed bookcases in front of the living room windows and loaded them up with houseplants. I can do that instead of putting books on every available shelf (and also the tops of the more normal bookcases) because the previous tenants left a huge bookcase in the living room, and I told my new landlady that I would love to keep and use it.
(This makes ten bookcases in my possession, if you were wondering. Two in each front room, five in the living room, and a contraption built out of two wooden shoestands which I am in the process of permanently fastening together with mending plates. I grant you, these bookcases are not all the same size -- the shoestand shelving unit has two and a half shelves, four have three shelves, one has four shelves, one has five and a half shelves, and the new huge one has six shelves -- but still, that's a lot of bookcases. And I like it that way. I live by the principle that one can never have too many bookcases. *grin*)
So anyway, that's where I live now.
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3. I did some research tonight on the Lands End Trail in San Francisco, and while the road maps and pictures were very helpful, and I now know that it's permissible to bring dogs on the trail, I still don't know if you're allowed to have a picnic there. Possibly this information is available on a higher level website that explains the rules for San Francisco parks in general? I am going to try googling some more, but if you know California rules about food in parks, please tell me!
This is for my ongoing attempt to write a Spock-POV fic about grief management. The damn story just will not stop growing, though a couple nights ago I made an outline in self-defense, so at least I am not flailing totally in the dark anymore. First it was going to be kind of restrained, intellectual hurt/comfort between Spock and Uhura. Then it got even more intellectual and picked up a long introductory scene with report and psychological evaluations and stuff. Then Kirk stuck his nose in. Then I got interested in playing with Vulcan culture, and mourning rituals, and ways to channel emotions within carefully delineated guidelines and forms so as to not lose oneself past recall. Then Uhura decided to reminisce about her childhood and her idealization of Starfleet, and stuff like that.
...
I don't even know anymore. But I do know I am going to include the Sutro Baths, decayed nearly to nothing but a few centuries of erosion, corrosion, and the determined efforts of plant life to reclaim the coast. I like the mental image of tidal pools, seabirds, sharp-edged grasses, and here and there, a rusted spike of iron or a crumbling, nearly-buried line of concrete. I find the desolation appealing.
---------------
4. I do not think I will be remixing any of my remixee's shipfic -- I would have to reformulate the story way too much (basically going back years and decades to lay groundwork for the established relationship in present-day story time) -- but I have gained a better sense of how she characterizes one of the members of that pairing, and of some of her background world-building. (And I must say, I like that world-building exceedingly! I want to take it home and pet it and call it George... *silly grin*) So that's definitely useful. I am leaning more and more toward working with one of the first two stories that jumped out at me, but I am still undecided about which one.
Ah well. I hereby declare that I will decide by Saturday, and start brainstorming and outlining immediately thereafter. *nods firmly* Deadlines are good. Feel free to poke me if I miss this one.
(On that subject, the story is due on July 12. I would like to have the rough draft done a week before that -- say, Sunday July 5 -- so as to have time to get it thoroughly betaed. Definitely poke me if I miss that deadline!)
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Date: 2009-06-18 10:33 pm (UTC)Generally speaking, if everything you bring in leaves with you, you're fine.
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