WHEEEEEeeeeee...
Friday, 2 December 2005 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keaalu JEE-sus, a few days offline and I have 100 messages in my devWatch thinger, including about 60 images/stuff. *geh* Mind you, about 30 of them are from “The OddworldClub”, so they probably don’t count.
Anyway, I have a BIG bit of updateage, with real-life stuffs and arty stuffs and fictional stuffs, so I’ll bung it all behind a cut so I don’t go and gum up people’s friends-pages.
I made a sale, WOOHOO!
Seriously, it’s rather exciting. :) Some time ago I arranged with the Somersham wing that I could sell some of my beadwork through the reception, with the proviso that some of the proceeds went to them, and I said “sure, no problem” and got it all together and on the shelf and displayed alongside the scarves and cards and things they also sell, and I’ve sold four in three days. :) Sure, it’s not many, but hey, I didn’t think I’d sell any – and I’m happy because it means I have an outlet for them. Otherwise, I’d be making them, and they be just gathering dust on my sideboard. So yay! Beadyness. And I’m starting to cover my costs, at last, too, rather than just buying beads and not selling anything I make.
A friends from work and I decided we were going to try yoga, the other night – among the usual useless pointless emails (“we have lost two staplers from the doctor’s office on the Medical Admissions Unit”, or “a dictaphone has gone walkies from Doctor Parkinson’s secretary’s office, please return it”) was one from Human Resources announcing some places available on the yoga course, and we went “yeah!”
It’s an odd experience, I have to say – well, not so much odd as unexpected. You know where you have a preconceived idea of what something’s going to be like, and it’s nothing like it? Well, like that. It was good fun, but it was very different – it wasn’t half as heavy on the strange poses as you’d imagine after watching TV documentaries and such, and there was a lot of relaxation and breath training. Whether it was because there were a few beginners there, I don’t know, but I think I’m going to go next week. :) I have to say, it’s a bit surreal to have bits of your body ache that you didn’t realise it was possible to make ache; the fronts of my upper arms were tender, the day after. :P
Been working on my creatures again – Wednesday before last, there was the first episode of “Life in the Undergrowth” on BBC TV, and I went “WAA-AAY Velvet worm!” So I now have a species based on velvet worms in my universe. And after researching them a bit on the internet, I discovered Marella, which are a species of Cambrian-era “lace crab”, and decided that I want one of them in there somewhere, too. (Strangely, I’ve never seen any programmes about Cambrian and Devonian life etc, and was researching it a bit to see if there were any cool animals I could amalgamate into my fiction, and guess what they’re going to show on BBC1 next week? A new 3-part series called “Walking with Monsters”, about Cambrian and Devonian life etc. This sort of surreality always happens to me *grr* - I decide on something I want to do and that I haven’t seen before etc, and someone beats me to the punch by a day or two! GRR.)
I have a few species profiles uploaded, at least, now, two animals and two peoples (below). I’m working on another few – three I need to ink, colour and annotate (DuSkai, DuPhee (“cuttlepuppies”) and Iirits), but I’m waiting for good light to colour them in, and a load I need to work more on. Anyway, here’s the four I’ve finished up so far:
Animals
Eccusa – the Kiravai equivalent of an antelope or a horse, but with a jointed snout to make grazing easier.
Imi – a family of related species/breeds used as pets or guard dogs, most “species” having been created by GM technology. Imi are the Kiravai equivalent of cats (Gii-le are the “dogs” of the Kiravai world), although the word “Imi” is a more like “cat family” than “domestic cat” – where we have the cat family, and give the individual members their own name, like tigers and lions, the “imi family” get a suffix to define the breeds/species, so “Imi” is like “Felis” or “Panthera” and “Imi’sauri” is akin to “lion” etc.
Imi’sau = the undomesticated species.
Imi’sauri = the “brute” species – large, heavyset, but usually gentle and used as babysitters or “guide dogs”.
Imi’sa = slimmer and faster than imi’sauri, but not significantly taller, these are the guards and racers etc.
Imi’ee = “ee” is an affectionate diminutive, which implies small, cute and endearing – although the imi’ee have sharp teeth and can inflict a nasty bite. Often used as living neckwarmers in cold climates.
People
Ondrai – a telepathic, empathic deerlike sapient species.
Nyen – a sapient species created entirely by genetic engineering.
Still working on the Aha-soomeh (a sort of eelish-lizardy flying creature which spends 80% of its life airborne, native to the Ondra homeworld), the Marella-variant, the Yil (which I need to actually find in my sketchbooks. Geh), the Slirrag (which looks groovy :) ), and the Aureans (originally a desert subspecies of Vul, but evolved into their own species), and I need to join together all the little Kiravai pics into one sheet.
If all goes to plan, I’m going to get some of my site updates done at the weekend, (I know, I’ve been saying that for a fortnight) including a revamp of the Dauntless section, but… we’ll see how it goes. :P I need to update the species, and the list of titles, and I need to update the chapters I have online, too, as I’m updating the first two of RtA. And lastly, I have yet another idea for a story – “Sundiver”, which will be canon and part of the “proper” timeline, although I need to make the plot more involving of the other cast (Ivy has a role, but not the others).
Tomorrow I start my life as a locum, as well. It’s a bit scary – not because I’ve never worked in a community pharmacy before, because I’ve been a dispenser for years (summer work and term-time, for the Co-Op and Sainsbury’s), but the difference this time is that I’m going to be (essentially) in charge. *eeps* It’ll be a whole different ballgame – no horrible noisy thing clipped to my hip (my bleep), no need to navigate around dear sweet mad old ladies, no need to Spirigel my hands until they’re falling to pieces, and no need to whine “you can’t have that it’s not in the formulary”… but I won’t have anyone else about to be able to ask question of. And no doctors to “can you just adjust this, we don’t have this medicine but we have (blah), is that okay? Thanks…” But hey, think of the money. Community pharmacists rake it in – but then, if I was that bothered about the money, I’d go work for community on a permanent basis. I happen to like my job at the hospital, so there. :P
Anyway, I have a BIG bit of updateage, with real-life stuffs and arty stuffs and fictional stuffs, so I’ll bung it all behind a cut so I don’t go and gum up people’s friends-pages.
I made a sale, WOOHOO!
Seriously, it’s rather exciting. :) Some time ago I arranged with the Somersham wing that I could sell some of my beadwork through the reception, with the proviso that some of the proceeds went to them, and I said “sure, no problem” and got it all together and on the shelf and displayed alongside the scarves and cards and things they also sell, and I’ve sold four in three days. :) Sure, it’s not many, but hey, I didn’t think I’d sell any – and I’m happy because it means I have an outlet for them. Otherwise, I’d be making them, and they be just gathering dust on my sideboard. So yay! Beadyness. And I’m starting to cover my costs, at last, too, rather than just buying beads and not selling anything I make.
A friends from work and I decided we were going to try yoga, the other night – among the usual useless pointless emails (“we have lost two staplers from the doctor’s office on the Medical Admissions Unit”, or “a dictaphone has gone walkies from Doctor Parkinson’s secretary’s office, please return it”) was one from Human Resources announcing some places available on the yoga course, and we went “yeah!”
It’s an odd experience, I have to say – well, not so much odd as unexpected. You know where you have a preconceived idea of what something’s going to be like, and it’s nothing like it? Well, like that. It was good fun, but it was very different – it wasn’t half as heavy on the strange poses as you’d imagine after watching TV documentaries and such, and there was a lot of relaxation and breath training. Whether it was because there were a few beginners there, I don’t know, but I think I’m going to go next week. :) I have to say, it’s a bit surreal to have bits of your body ache that you didn’t realise it was possible to make ache; the fronts of my upper arms were tender, the day after. :P
Been working on my creatures again – Wednesday before last, there was the first episode of “Life in the Undergrowth” on BBC TV, and I went “WAA-AAY Velvet worm!” So I now have a species based on velvet worms in my universe. And after researching them a bit on the internet, I discovered Marella, which are a species of Cambrian-era “lace crab”, and decided that I want one of them in there somewhere, too. (Strangely, I’ve never seen any programmes about Cambrian and Devonian life etc, and was researching it a bit to see if there were any cool animals I could amalgamate into my fiction, and guess what they’re going to show on BBC1 next week? A new 3-part series called “Walking with Monsters”, about Cambrian and Devonian life etc. This sort of surreality always happens to me *grr* - I decide on something I want to do and that I haven’t seen before etc, and someone beats me to the punch by a day or two! GRR.)
I have a few species profiles uploaded, at least, now, two animals and two peoples (below). I’m working on another few – three I need to ink, colour and annotate (DuSkai, DuPhee (“cuttlepuppies”) and Iirits), but I’m waiting for good light to colour them in, and a load I need to work more on. Anyway, here’s the four I’ve finished up so far:
Animals
Eccusa – the Kiravai equivalent of an antelope or a horse, but with a jointed snout to make grazing easier.
Imi – a family of related species/breeds used as pets or guard dogs, most “species” having been created by GM technology. Imi are the Kiravai equivalent of cats (Gii-le are the “dogs” of the Kiravai world), although the word “Imi” is a more like “cat family” than “domestic cat” – where we have the cat family, and give the individual members their own name, like tigers and lions, the “imi family” get a suffix to define the breeds/species, so “Imi” is like “Felis” or “Panthera” and “Imi’sauri” is akin to “lion” etc.
Imi’sau = the undomesticated species.
Imi’sauri = the “brute” species – large, heavyset, but usually gentle and used as babysitters or “guide dogs”.
Imi’sa = slimmer and faster than imi’sauri, but not significantly taller, these are the guards and racers etc.
Imi’ee = “ee” is an affectionate diminutive, which implies small, cute and endearing – although the imi’ee have sharp teeth and can inflict a nasty bite. Often used as living neckwarmers in cold climates.
People
Ondrai – a telepathic, empathic deerlike sapient species.
Nyen – a sapient species created entirely by genetic engineering.
Still working on the Aha-soomeh (a sort of eelish-lizardy flying creature which spends 80% of its life airborne, native to the Ondra homeworld), the Marella-variant, the Yil (which I need to actually find in my sketchbooks. Geh), the Slirrag (which looks groovy :) ), and the Aureans (originally a desert subspecies of Vul, but evolved into their own species), and I need to join together all the little Kiravai pics into one sheet.
If all goes to plan, I’m going to get some of my site updates done at the weekend, (I know, I’ve been saying that for a fortnight) including a revamp of the Dauntless section, but… we’ll see how it goes. :P I need to update the species, and the list of titles, and I need to update the chapters I have online, too, as I’m updating the first two of RtA. And lastly, I have yet another idea for a story – “Sundiver”, which will be canon and part of the “proper” timeline, although I need to make the plot more involving of the other cast (Ivy has a role, but not the others).
Tomorrow I start my life as a locum, as well. It’s a bit scary – not because I’ve never worked in a community pharmacy before, because I’ve been a dispenser for years (summer work and term-time, for the Co-Op and Sainsbury’s), but the difference this time is that I’m going to be (essentially) in charge. *eeps* It’ll be a whole different ballgame – no horrible noisy thing clipped to my hip (my bleep), no need to navigate around dear sweet mad old ladies, no need to Spirigel my hands until they’re falling to pieces, and no need to whine “you can’t have that it’s not in the formulary”… but I won’t have anyone else about to be able to ask question of. And no doctors to “can you just adjust this, we don’t have this medicine but we have (blah), is that okay? Thanks…” But hey, think of the money. Community pharmacists rake it in – but then, if I was that bothered about the money, I’d go work for community on a permanent basis. I happen to like my job at the hospital, so there. :P
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Date: 2 Dec 2005 10:16 pm (UTC)I absolutely must see "“Walking with Monsters". Devonian period = lovelovelove. Alas, I haven't got the BBC. I hope someone puts up a torrent of it...
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Date: 2 Dec 2005 10:37 pm (UTC)"For example, "Sundiver"-- that's the title of a Brin novel."
- is it? Aw, damn. And I had such a funky idea for it too. *wah* I'll upload some notes sometime, anyway, maybe get some opinions.
I'm sure something like the Discovery Channel will buy WwM, they seem to buy up everything else like Walking with Dinos and Beasts and Cavemen and that lot. I only get my standard 5 channels, so I'm grateful for what I get. ;)
(PS DOCTOR WHO ON AT CHRISTMAS, OHYAY.)
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Date: 3 Dec 2005 08:01 pm (UTC)Hmm... for some reason, the Eccusa look like they've been influenced by Sligs a little (mouth shape and all). Even without the squid-like mouth tentacle things. The Imi - I'm not sure how they'd function as guardians; I can't see any way they'd cause damage, or scare someone off. They just don't seem to have any predatory traits to them... The Ondrai seem to be the only race you haven't given ear piercings. Not sure what to say about the forth.
Keaalu in charge, or close enough to count... that should be interesting. And money's usually good. Besides, if something goes wrong, you can always blame it on the employees - That's half the point of having subordinates. I'm joking, by the way. I think.
One of these days, I'll have to see an episode of Dr. Who...
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Date: 4 Dec 2005 02:43 pm (UTC)"Besides, if something goes wrong, you can always blame it on the employees - That's half the point of having subordinates."
- heh, unfortunately being "in charge" in this case means you've checked everything and agreed it's okay to go. *eek* Went all right, just out of interest, even though I had the regulation weirdo want to ask me questions. ("Is there mercury in Omega-3 fish oil? I saw on the internet there's mercury in fish blablabla..." None of my answers ("How would I know? To sell it they have to prove it's safe to use, why don't you ask the manufacturer, no I'm not going back to the hospital to research it I don't have time for that, ASK THE GODDAMN MANUFACTURER") were good enough to get him to shut up, so one of my colleagues "rescued" me by saying I saw needed in the office. :P)
Doctor Who rules. Daleks! (Although they're gone now.)