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aurora_novarum). A nice thing to do on a Friday. 1. RDA's acting in General Hospital. See the wonderful vid on surreallis's recent post. Dear lord but he was awful - and yet, still adorable. (See also Cold Lazarus for an object lesson in why practice is a Very Good Thing.)
2. Posts of glee. Go and add more glee!
3. Making my own tea blend, which I am definitely going to do soon. You see, there's a shop in Covent Garden where you can choose the tea types (lapsang, Assam, etc), add in other flavourings (rose petals, dried oranges, and the like), spritz it with a spray of orange oil, lemon oil, mint oil, etc - and then, you know, buy it, take it home, and make tea with it.
4. Tickets to and a room at Dragon*Con. (Now all I need to get are the flights...)
5. Vegetarian haggis for dinner tonight. Yes.
6. The warm, fuzzy feeling that someone, somewhere is saying nice things about me, when I get a sudden rash of 'Favorite Story' / 'Favorite Author' notifications from ff.net, out of the blue.
7. My Stargate mug, with colour-change Gate - so that when you fill it with hot water, the silhouettes of SG-1 disappear into the wormhole.
8. Glittery purple bracelets.
9. New String Theory!
10. Going to the British Museum at lunchtime. Aside from all the pretties, it's such a very nice space. The light in the Great Court is so comfortable on the eyes, and I love the stairs, broad and just the right height, stone worn soft from all the visitors. And it gave me an idea – see below.
surreallis's recent post. Dear lord but he was awful - and yet, still adorable. (See also Cold Lazarus for an object lesson in why practice is a Very Good Thing.) 2. Posts of glee. Go and add more glee!
3. Making my own tea blend, which I am definitely going to do soon. You see, there's a shop in Covent Garden where you can choose the tea types (lapsang, Assam, etc), add in other flavourings (rose petals, dried oranges, and the like), spritz it with a spray of orange oil, lemon oil, mint oil, etc - and then, you know, buy it, take it home, and make tea with it.
4. Tickets to and a room at Dragon*Con. (Now all I need to get are the flights...)
5. Vegetarian haggis for dinner tonight. Yes.
6. The warm, fuzzy feeling that someone, somewhere is saying nice things about me, when I get a sudden rash of 'Favorite Story' / 'Favorite Author' notifications from ff.net, out of the blue.
7. My Stargate mug, with colour-change Gate - so that when you fill it with hot water, the silhouettes of SG-1 disappear into the wormhole.
8. Glittery purple bracelets.
9. New String Theory!
10. Going to the British Museum at lunchtime. Aside from all the pretties, it's such a very nice space. The light in the Great Court is so comfortable on the eyes, and I love the stairs, broad and just the right height, stone worn soft from all the visitors. And it gave me an idea – see below.
Okay, my idea: I'd like to go to the British Museum more often, because it's just around the corner, plus I really ought to step away from my desk for my hour's lunchbreak, if I can. So I was thinking, to
Take a look at the museum's rooms here: Ground floor , Lower floor , Upper floor ...and pick a room number (or just choose a random number between 1 – 94). Comment with the number, and your preference of pairing or gen (bearing in mind that I've only watched half of season 1 of Atlantis, and haven't seen season 10 of SG-1). I will then go to that room, and write at least 100 words of fic based on something I see in there.
Whaddya think?
ETA: Okay, thank you! No more prompts for the moment, although I may reopen it for prompts again in the future. I'd love to have done a fic for every room in the whole museum, some day...
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Vegetarian haggis for dinner tonight. Yes.
*blink*
seriously? Okay, when I had regular haggis it tasted like severely overspiced lamb. Is the vegetarian better?
Your mug sounds awesome and the British museum is very awesome and if I was anywhere near you I'd totally join you for lunchtime explorations!
(plus, nifty plan, yo)
I love my mug. I have to stop and watch it changing, every time. :) Ah, wish you could come with me to the British Museum, that'd be fun. And YAY DRAGON*CON! *glees*
It's just too obvious.
Now I REALLY want you to have Sam and Daniel take Claire and Ben to the British museum and the Rosetta stone and and and....
*misses our crazy little universe*
I think I'm damn jealous that you can walk to the British Museum from where you work, that's what I think! You need to do this, if only so I can live vicariously through your visits because one visit is most certainly not enough!!!
And as far as your drabble meme thing, I pick Ground Floor room 17 (because that was one of my FAVORITE rooms from what I remember, and nostalgia is a good thing), and 2nd Floor rooms 92-94 (because I never got there and I'm kicking myself for obvious reasons).
*grumbles* 92-94 are absolutely the furthest point in the museum, you know.
;) (Really, ooh, nice choices - I have been there before, and they're lovely rooms.)
You know you want to see Japan... you know I want to see Japan-themed stories...
After looking at those maps, I've come to find I actually saw a good portion of the museum in my one go. Which would explain just why I was so tired and hungry when I left that day!
I do love the British museum to bits, a lot of the stuff on the walls is from there. I've made the promise to hit up the Smithsonian Muesuems more, esp as they are free.
To celebrating geekdom!
Man, I've got to get on the whole Dragon Con thing...
YES. YOU SHOULD. *g*
I fully intend to go to Dragon Con again - I just have to plan for it and all that lovely stuff. It's just currently on my "not a priority but should be" list.
*glees*
And it is months away - I expect it's not actually hugely urgent that you plan it Right Now OMG.
*sputters*
Vegetarian Haggis???
now YOU are one of the 10 things that make me happy!
So, you might also be amused to hear about the vegetarian caviar I saw, once.
(No, to my eternal regret, I didn't try it.)
Hmmm...
Room 13, please. Sam/Jack. :-)
I ♥ my Stargate mug. It never fails to make me happy. They disappear! Through the wormhole! *is easily entertained*
Museums are fun and edumacational. (Looking at this post, anyone would be justified in expecting my favourite character to be Daniel...)
Vegetarian haggis? Really? Sounds a lot more appetizing than the real thing, though.
If it's not too much trouble, Sam & Daniel, Room 1 (Enlightenment) please? That would be so very cool!
Thanks!
Yup - really vegetarian haggis. I maintain that vegetarian caviar is a weirder idea. :)
Heh - Enlightenment, will do! If it's the room I think it is, it's displays within what is mostly a library - very Daniel. Well, okay, the whole place is very Daniel...
You should see RDA in the episode of Fact of Life where he plays Tootie's uncle. There's a teeny weeny bit of over acting. Plus he look like a wookie next to the very short Tootie.
Yay DragonCon! I'm already excited!
:)
I think I've seen that on YouTube somewhere. I didn't click on it, because I was too scared of what "Richard Dean Anderson Facts Of Life" might entail. Now I know it's a TV programme, though...
I'm having little waves of DragonCon glee today. :)
And I so want your Stargate mug.
It's just possible I'll never really grow up.
Can be Sam/Teal'c...was thinking Jack might see something that says it's Ishtar and say it's Ish'ta, maybe Sam winces...
OR
Since Mesopotamia is now Irag...some sort of bad memories for Jack and/or Sam?
(or both)
:D
of naked statuesinspires me. ;)*is incredibly jealous that you can visit so often*
Hmmm, my favourite number is 3 - but it seems that's a Special Exhibition room and thus may not actually have anything in it at the moment.
*crosses fingers just in case*
If not, I'd love to see room 9: Assyria - Nineveh
SG-1, Gen
You can do whatever you like and I'll be thrilled!
(It was a really cool mini exhibition - they'd made a replica of the cat that people were allowed to touch. I felt like Daniel. *g*)
And um, I'll go with Daniel and Sam. :-) (do I really have to specify ship or no ship? ;-)
And I think I can probably work out the ship / no ship thing... *g*
Could you do me a fiction. Pretty Pretty Please?
Room 33 - China, India, South Asia and Southeast Asia
Can you please use this (http://www.sxli.net/Pix/UK/London/BritMuseum/LdBritMuseum_1036.JPG/) as your inspiration. Its two Kwan Yins. I wrote this (http://quarryquest.livejournal.com/391915.html#cutid1/) about the curious link between Oma Desala and the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
If you can't find them in that room there are definitely a whole load in the Age of Englightenment exhibition in the Kings Library. They are next to a load of Egyptian stuff I have also had a bash at translating.
p.s. My imagination always provides me with a glowy Ascended Daniel (who then descends and turns up in his ascended!sweater) when I wander into the Great Court. We have had a number of interesting conversations when I have visited (and I wrote my first fic in the fandom set there too).
p.p.s. If you go there in your lunchtime we ought to meet up sometime and talk Stargate. I'm only up the road in Maida Vale ...
Heh, yes - I can completely see Daniel in the Great Court. Although one might get snow blind.
And, that might be nice, sometime.