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May. 21st, 2007

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I've been tagged by [personal profile] aoife_hime...
 
8 random facts about me:
 
 
I have a (small) collection of really, really dreadful films, courtesy of various TV/movie crushes - the absolute worst of which is Susan's Plan (feat. Michael Biehn). Fortunately for me, most of Richard Dean Anderson's oeuvre is unavailable to buy in the UK.
 
I had green tea flavour ice cream last weekend, and it was lovely.
 
My oldest and most loved toy is a stuffed dog called Sammy, who came free with tokens from Andrex. He looks unbelievably depressed, despite his extensive wardrobe.
 
I should soon have broadband at home, woohoo!
 
I grew up - for my first ten years, anyhow - in a hundred-year-old house in the middle of a wood. This sounds more romantic if I phrase it that way than it was in actuality. (But it was a little romantic!)
 
We had a housemate at college who used to 'borrow' our stuff, repeatedly and without asking. In retaliation, we topped up my ketchup with an entire bottle of tabasco sauce, made some bath foam out of washing-up liquid, water, and PVA glue, and filled an empty shower gel container with Squeezy Cheese. None of these belonged to him, and he never asked if he could use them, so any resulting discomfort was entirely his own lookout.
 
I adore a quiz show called 'Eggheads'. It's set at about the level I can yell at the TV, "But that's so easy! How can you possibly not know that?!?", thus making me feel brainy.
 
My favourite perfume is Be Delicious, by Donna Karen. I was attracted initially by the bottle, which is shaped like an apple. It's pretty much the first perfume I've ever consistently worn.
 
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Also, I will not now be moving to Oxford in June. Chiz chiz, it's the sensible choice, so we have to sign up for another 12 months at the place we're currently renting (with no break clause) - but next year... Yes. More time to plan, find work there, sort various and sundry other things out... all that practical stuff. Ah well. (Means I can go sign up for the  [profile] sjficathon  now, though!)

edit: Thought I wish I hadn't just had (when mentally working out how I might describe MacGyver): if Jack and Sam had a son, he might well have grown up to be Mac (if you ignore the whole timeline thing). Science, and fishing, and hockey, and bad jokes, and inability to leave a problem alone, and love of being outdoors...

Urgh. Badfic ideas, attacking my brain.

Comments

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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 12:42 pm (UTC)
Means I can go sign up for the sjficathon now, though!

Have you learned nothing?!?!?! :)

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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 12:56 pm (UTC)
Apparently not, no. *g* And if your example is anything to go by, the fact that I normally find writing Sam/Jack easy and natural won't help me a jot. But heigh-ho.

Also, I've been completely ignoring my Stargate remix story, and that's going to bite me in the ass very shortly, I suspect.
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:56 pm (UTC)
And if your example is anything to go by, the fact that I normally find writing Sam/Jack easy and natural won't help me a jot.

Sad, in'it?

*sigh*
I need to stop avoiding and sit down and WRITE. I'm just stuck and my brain insists on writing chronologically.

Remix doesn't scare me - I got bitted by an idea the second I looked at my person's stories and I think I'll actually be okay there. Of course, those are probably going to be famous last words.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:11 pm (UTC)
I'm petrified of my remix. The person I'm remixing is far too darn talented and intelligent. And I'll remix it into something silly and fluffy, argh... Ah well.

I need to stop replying to lj posts and write. *g* Also, I have a whole load of stuff with Jack in, and it's not essential, and I'm thinking of cutting it out, but then I'll be left with... not very much.

*headdesk*
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 04:21 pm (UTC)
The remix will be fine! really!

me too. me too.
*stares at story*
*runs away screaming*
(only, not so much about Jack)
[identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 12:45 pm (UTC)
Green tea ice cream is awesome. I had it at a gourmet ice cream shop that has since closed down and I haven't been able to find it since.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 12:58 pm (UTC)
Ooh, someone else who's had it! I'd never even thought of green tea ice cream before. I'd've expected green tea sorbet, if anything. I got it in Oxford - they made it locally, and it was a lot nicer than I thought it might be. I wish I'd tried some of the other flavours, too, though - Pimms, perhaps, or 'Oxford Blue', whatever that entailed (possibly blueberries, judging by the colour).

Yum.
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[personal profile] triskellian wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:53 pm (UTC)
Assuming this is George & Davies/Danvers you're talking about, Oxford Blue is indeed blueberry. Although there's also a cheese called Oxford Blue, which is mouldy as you might expect (but G&Ds don't make it into ice cream for some reason...)

Mmm, green tea ice cream :-) It's one of my favourites.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:59 pm (UTC)
That's the one. Heh. I walked past the shop and then walked back, lured in by their 'homemade ice cream' sign. I'm such a sucker. Have you tried the Pimms one? Is it nice?

And I bought green cheese (with pesto in) from the Covered Market. I love shopping in Oxford.
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[personal profile] triskellian wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:06 pm (UTC)
Going into G&Ds does not a sucker make ;-) I've not had the Pimms one, but (if you like the thing it's made of) all G&Ds ice cream is good ice cream. And they stay open till midnight, which was the Best Thing Evar when I first arrived in Oxford. Oh! And did you see the flavour petition? There's a big ring binder that people write suggestions in, and there's usually a petition flavour available...

And, mmm, covered market cheese. From the cheese stall or from Palm's Deli? (Both glorious, in their different ways.)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:16 pm (UTC)
From the cheese stall. Haven't tried it yet, but it's a lovely shade of green.

Oh, I want to move to Oxford nooooooooooooooow! Ice cream shops open until midnight?!? *wails* I did see something about a flavour petition, but couldn't work out what it was. Brain wasn't fully functional after a) waffle breakfast, b) vast Ploughman's lunch, c) viewing flat, d) much shopping and walking with dad and boyfriend talking in either ear. :)
[identity profile] vickyocean.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:02 pm (UTC)
Yay for the sjficathon. I look forward to your fic. For some very strange reason I'm having a tough time coming up with prompts to submit. My plot bunnies don't seem to want to leave me, despite the fact that they're not getting any attention lately.

Green tea ice cream is tasty especially fried. I recently had green tea cheesecake. It was strange. It wasn't bad but it wasn't terribly good either.

BTW, you seem very evil in a good way. I shall bear some of your tricks in mind with my cousin (who is my roommate). I have to hide my laundrey detergent in the recesses of my closet so she doesn't use it all. And if I have any tasty treats like cookies or cukecakes I also have to hide them away in my room somewhere.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:12 pm (UTC)
For some very strange reason I'm having a tough time coming up with prompts to submit.

Oy, yes. Prompts are a struggle to think up on demand. I forgot about that aspect... hmm... *thinks*

Fried green tea ice cream? ...There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in my philosophy, or words to that effect. Wow. *g*

And, evil, yes. *g* But he richly deserved it. His crimes were many, and I've listed just one (I can't bring myself to talk about his unspeakable washing-up habits, or the Toilet Roll Issue). He, of course, took a different view of the matter. Living with people who 'borrow' your stuff is hugely annoying, partly because you feel so petty bringing it up. This was the most satisfying way of dealing with it.

He used up all the glue-scented bath foam, hahahahaha.
[identity profile] vickyocean.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:03 pm (UTC)
Fried ice cream is like a staple in japanese restaurants over here. I've yet to quite figure out exactly how it's done. I have to be careful with it though because I have a dental implant. I bite down on something hot and then it's suddenly cold, the titanium screw attached to the tooth heats up and cools down quicker than my other teeth. It's very... startling.

Ah, a wiki explaining fried ice cream:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:18 pm (UTC)
Interesting... I thought of it as a purely Scottish thing (they deep-fry... well, pretty much anything). Deep-fried pizza, Mars Bars, etc. This sounds rather nice. And explains the green tea connection.
[identity profile] vickyocean.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 24th, 2007 06:26 pm (UTC)
Y'know I was quite perplexed at the fried Mars Bars they had a Scottish Games I went to last year. It makes a lot more sense now.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 25th, 2007 08:38 am (UTC)
Deep-fried everything. Don't know why, but it's become part of Scottish culture.

I've always been intrigued by the Mars Bar idea, but it sounds lethal. "How can we make a Mars Bar even less healthy?" "Oh, come on, that's not possible." "No, no, I'm sure it could be done..."
[identity profile] triciabyrne1978.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 01:54 pm (UTC)
ACK! You people will have me signing up regardless of the move in no time.

As for the Mac being Sam/Jack's son bad!fic bunnies... is it bad that my first thought was... well they DID travel in time... and Mac WAS raised mostly by his 'grandfather'.

*headdesk*

I got your email btw, and will be making edits/changes later today. TY!
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:06 pm (UTC)
Heh. But, really, don't do it if the timing is bad - I was possibly going to move at around that time, and I think it would have killed me. *has headache just thinking about it* Maybe you could ask for Sam/Jack prompts after you've moved, instead? I'm sure I could come up with a few requests... *g*

And, argh, I was trying to ignore the whole 1969 thing. Trying, I tell ya. I'm not going to write it! I'm NOT!!!!! (But that doesn't fit in with Mac's age. Then again, the time travel was a little bumpy...)

And, cool! Glad it turned up. :) Feel free to ignore any and all suggestions I've made. Oh, and if that's the one you were worrying about the angst content of, I shouldn't worry - it was only the tiniest bit of angst, I doubt it'd upset the prompter.
[identity profile] triciabyrne1978.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 04:32 pm (UTC)
Ah, yes, that was the angst-anxiety fic. But I swear, EVERYTHING I touch lately turns to some form of angst.

TY!

And there have been other examples of them traveling in time. And how do we know that they got the Moebius jump right the first time... they could have done a babystep before the BIG leap. Maybe blown a fuse or something before they... well, um... anyway....
[identity profile] aoife-hime.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:03 pm (UTC)
Oh I love green tea ice cream! And as for those tricks... I have to say they're genius. Pure genius. Thankfully, I've never had a problem with roommates stealing things... yet... O_O
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:24 pm (UTC)
*steeples fingers in Evil Genius manner* Bwahahahahaaaa!!!

To be fair, there were three of us, and we thought about it for a long time. He pissed us off for quite a while before we Struck.

Some roommates suck. Some, however, are a delight, and I made some lifelong friendships in that house. Some people I might have liked if I didn't have to live with them. On the whole, men are worse by a factor of several billion. And people who claim to have given up smoking will turn out to be complete liars.

And, how come everyone has heard of green tea ice cream except me? Why have I missed out until now?!? It's a conspiracy.
[identity profile] aoife-hime.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:34 pm (UTC)
Well, so far I've only had one roommate for two years' worth of college. We live together just fine, which is great, but... there was an incident... we were on opposite sides... it was stressful. I have to laugh, though, because I know she's living in a triple next year and one of the people she's sharing with is a guy. And this guy is even more high maintenance than most girls.

I can't wait to hear stories.

As for the ice cream, there are two sort-of gourmet ice cream shops close to my school and both of them have green tea ice cream. It makes a refreshing switch from Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ^_^
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 02:55 pm (UTC)
I feel I've been missing out. :D

I've always wanted to know whether my ex-flatmate used the Squeezy Cheese shower gel. It still makes me chuckle. In an evil way. *g* Those were self-inflicting punishments, and fit the crime beautifully - but it can be exhausting to get into all that stuff. Being at war with someone you live with is horrible - you can't get away from it. But, then, if we hadn't done that, I'd have felt angry and resentful about the rotten time we had with this guy. He cheated on his girlfriend, too, fully expecting us to keep his secret for him. Scumbag. Ugh.
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 03:00 pm (UTC)
Poor Pepper, stuck with badfic idea...it could be a really fun one-shot.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 03:05 pm (UTC)
FICATHON STUFF! MUST WRITE FICATHON STUFF!

*collapses in heap*
[identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 03:01 pm (UTC)
Icon!

At school, my roommates and I have great fun watching the show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" because we get to play along and then cackle at the people who, it turns out, are actually not smarter than a fifth grader.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 21st, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)
Heeheehee, yes, it's fun to do that. I get highly critical of some of the dumbasses who appear on Eggheads.

Not so funny when I did an lj quiz about being able to pass... I forget what grade. 11th, maybe. I barely scraped through. But then, in my defence, there were a lot of questions about American stuff that I didn't know. And I don't remember most of the maths and science stuff I knew in school. I've had no reason to keep it in my brain.

(Icon words: annerb.)
[identity profile] moonshayde.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 22nd, 2007 10:58 am (UTC)
Crap. Mac as Sam and Jack's son is so creepy and so spot on. I feel like the universe has just imploded on me.

*rocks back and forth*
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 22nd, 2007 11:09 am (UTC)
I have had further thoughts on that, and plan to post them separately, when I have a moment. Mostly to get them the hell out of my brain. *shudders*

It's horrible! My brain is under attack! *g*
[identity profile] shinysilvergrl.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2007 04:20 am (UTC)
hm.
Wasn't his first name "Angus"? How would you explain either of them coming up with that one? lol.

And hey, I have very near that same screencap as an icon too, I think. lemme find it.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2007 02:03 pm (UTC)
Re: hm.
Hah! Funny. We're icon twins.

I think they came up with Angus because... I have no idea why they would do that, actually. That's just plain cruel. But it's all a horrible idea anyhow, so I'm not going to write it. *g*
[identity profile] shinysilvergrl.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2007 04:56 am (UTC)
Re: hm.
Oh come on, you know you want to. ;)

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