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Samantha
ABOUT ME
Samantha. 19. Physics Student. Aussie. Nerd. Loves Buffy, Angel and Firefly. Worships Joss Whedon. Not very good at writing about herself... Cannot think of a name for her journal (see above).
The icons I make are free for all to use. I'd appreciate it if you'd comment and let me know if you're taking any though, because commenting makes me very, very happy :D Credit in keywords would also be very nice indeed.
Resources that I use when making icons and other things.
Join my Buffy/Angel/Firefly Icon Challenge Contest :
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| The Apocalyse, Fandoms, and Ex-Boyfriend Stalkers |
[05 Feb 2005 | 3:43pm] |
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How did it get to be this freezing? It's the middle of the Australian summer and I am sitting here in my biggest jumper and my uggs boots (edit: and also pants. I realised that the way i wrote that originally could be taken the wrong way). I'm sure this must be a sign of the apocalypse. Next thing you know there'll be fish falling out of the sky around my house.
I want a new fandom. I probably shouldn't start watching too many new shows right now considering that I'm going back to uni in a couple of weeks and I really need to concentrate this semester. But I want one all the same. I watched the premiere of Lost on Thursday, so that could possibly be my new fandom. But I haven't really formulated an opinion about it yet. I think I probably like it, but I'm going to have to wait a few episodes before I decide on a more exact opinion. What I really want to do is go buy a boxed set of dvds of some show that's been going for a while and everyone else loves but I've never watched. Like Alias, or Farscape or something. Anyone have any recommendations?
In other news: When does undying devotion become stalking? Well, not stalking exactly. I broke up with a guy about 9 months ago. We said we'd still be friends. I kinda meant it. He is a nice guy and I didn't hate him or anything, I just couldn't stand going out with him anymore for a variety of reasons. So I figured when we saw each other at uni we'd say 'Hi' maybe have a brief chat, that sort of thing. Then he sent me a text message asking if I'd like to go to the movies with him. The answer in my head was "Hell no! The reason I said I didn't want to go out with you anymore was so that I didn't have to go out with you anymore!". But I couldn't think of a way of saying that politely without simply lying. So in the end I just ignored the message, thinking he'd probably take the hint. But no. He just continued sending me text messages. Not all the time, but perhaps every few weeks or so. Sometimes he'd said emails instead. And in all this time he never once said 'Hi' to me at uni. He saw my friends quite a bit and interogated them about what I was doing and why I wasn't answering his emails. I think he must have been avoiding me. It's settled down a little bit over the past few months (can't remember exactly though - I've taken to completely ignoring any message from him now). But then a few days ago a letter from him. A hand-written letter asking why I keep ignoring him, and could I please reply and let him know if I still want to be friends. *sigh* At first I thought it was kinda sweet, and I was a little flattered that I'd had such an affect of him. I used to feel guilty about not replying but I simply could not think of a single thing to say that wouldn't be really really rude. Now it's just starting to seem almost a little creepy. Oh well, he may be a bit slow on the uptake but he's got to work it out soon enough *hopeful grin*
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[12 Jan 2005 | 6:07pm] |
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Just got back from holiday :D I went with my family to Sydney for a couple of days to see some cousins and then we went up to Noosa (near Brisbane in Queensland) for some lazing around near beaches. And since I just got my shiny new digital camera for Christmas I went kinda crazy with the photo taking. I thought I'd share a few of the prettier shots with you all.
( All the prettiness of beaches without the sand in your underpants )
And there's another 200 or so more where they came from :D A few of them would probably be useful as stock images for icon making and so on, so I might put those up later.
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| Mostly Christmas |
[29 Dec 2004 | 6:44pm] |
Now it's just getting silly how long I haven't updated this thing. So here is a post to try to get me back into an lj mood.
There really hasn't been too much happening in real life. I always try my best to make my holidays as uneventful as possible and I've been pretty successful so far. I haven't been able to spend as much time with my friends as I'd like though. They all seem to have left the country. My best friend's still around, but her boyfriend who lives in America and who she never gets to see is staying with her at the moment. So she's just a little preoccupied. A few of my friends are in various parts of south-east Asia right now. I wish they'd send an email. I have absolutely no doubt that they are perfectly alive, but I'd feel a lot better knowing that they aren't injured or anything. My other best friend was in Malaysia I think, it wasn't hit too bad, was it? I mean, relatively speaking obviously. I haven't heard it mentioned a lot but I'm not really much of a news-watcher.
But on a rather cheerier subject: Christmas! :D
The one day of the year when I am quite happy to wake up at 7:30 in the morning. I'm so lucky, my mum and dad seem to love giving me and my sister piles of presents. I'd already got my main present a few weeks before hand: a DVD drive and new hard disk for my computer. I was rather seriously running out of space before. Now I'm happily capping everything in sight :D For christmas day I think my family do things a bit differently from what most people do, I'm not really sure. Me and my sister get stockings of presents at the ends of our beds on Christmas morning, so when we wake up we take them up to my parents bedroom and unwrap them there. Then my parents take ages to get dressed and have breakfast. Then we go to the living room where we have our Christmas tree. Underneath the tree are the presents from each member of the family to each of the other members. So then we take turns unwrapping those. I'm guessing most 19 year olds don't still get stockings from Santa do they? Maybe they do... My mum says I can have a stocking as long as I still believe in Father Christmas :D Seems like a good deal to me...
Presents! I love presents! I'm so shallow.
I got lots of chocolate which I am happily eating my way through. I got a wonderful little digital camera, which I adore. I got The Sims 2 and I have been playing it almost non-stop since Christmas. I have no idea why I enjoy playing real life so much more than I enjoy living it. Maybe it's the cool clothes. I also got the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD which I still have to watch. The trouble with that one is that my sister gets terrified every time I even mention it (made sense when she was 5, now that she's 15 I just don't get it...). I got the Art of Discworld (so beautiful!) and the latest Discworld novel Going Postal. My little sister gave me the Frou Frou cd (Yay!). I gave her pretty much the same gift I did last year. She adores clothes. Any kind of clothes. So I went to the mall and hunted through those $5 bins. I ignored any items of clothing priced over $5. In the end I got her 8 tops, so she was very happy indeed. We teamed up for buying a present for my mum and dad because we never have any idea what to get them. This year I actually had an idea so we didn't have to get them books again. We've all been watching a hilarious British comedy called Coupling on the ABC, but it's showing Season 3. So we bought my parents Season 1 on DVD (along with some chocolates for each of them). We watched half of it on Boxing day and the other half the next day. So so funny. Anyway, I got a few other things but I've probably gone on about my newly aquired possessions long enough now.
Actually I need to go out soon, so I'll wrap up the whole thing. Hopefully it won't take me more than a month to post again :D I have a pretty massive build up of icons that I haven't posted so I should be putting them up soon. Just as soon as I can be bothered. Could take a while...
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| Happy Songs |
[19 Nov 2004 | 11:04pm] |
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I thought I'd share a few songs that never fail to make me smile :D
Warning: Some excessively boppy and/or cheesy songs behind the cut...
( Download Happy Songs! )
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| NaNoWriMo |
[17 Nov 2004 | 11:55pm] |
Holidays are so so nice. It hasn't even really sunk in yet that I don't have to do any uni work at all for another 3 months. I just need to linger over that thought for a moment...
... ok I'm done. Some time in the next week that thought is going to really hit me and I'm just going to be so incredibly happy. Even happier than I am now. And I'm pretty happy. Thoroughly content.
I started properly writing my NaNoWriMo novel today. Seeing as I've written only a tiny amount before today my current aim is about 3,459 words a day I think. So far today I've written 1,878 words. And I'm very proud of that. It's probably more words of fiction than I've written in around 2 years. But it's still only a little over half what I need each day to make it to 50k. I think I'm just going to change it to a personal goal of 25k and leave it at that. I think I could make 25k.
And of course part of the art of NaNo is the art of procrastination. Today I made a very boring cover for my novel. I also made a little icon from it. I was considering using the icon everywhere so that everytime I posted something I could be reminded of how I really should be writing more of my novel. But that seemed just too nasty. So I'm simply posting it here as a little reminder in years to come of my NaNo novel:
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Oh, and in case you were wondering, the novel is currently called "The Septim" but I already hate that title so it probably won't last long. And it's a very strange fantasy novel, because I always find them the most fun to write. And it currently has no plot whatsoever. 2 main characters, well they're the only characters really, and 0 plot. Plot's for later.
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| Terry Pratchett visit |
[15 Nov 2004 | 10:29pm] |
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Got the layout working :D At least I think I have... let me know if it does anything crazy. Now I need to post about something very exciting that happened last week, but that I didn't get to post about because of the nasty evil exams.
I met Terry Pratchett!!!!!
("And, all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head." -- Salzella, Maskerade)
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| 3 month holiday!!! |
[15 Nov 2004 | 8:20pm] |
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Hooray! My exams are finally over! I exist again! It really hasn't quite sunk in just yet. In honour of this momentous occasion I wanted to have a brand new brightly coloured layout. However it seems that lj hates me. So I apologise if it looks a little odd for a while. I just can not figure out what I'm doing wrong...
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[07 Nov 2004 | 10:09pm] |
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Ugh.
Sorry about not updating and not commenting and not replying to things. If I've not replied to something you said, please don't hate me. I'm just sporadically replying to a few things whenever I've got time so that noone thinks I've died.
I think I might just whinge a bit in this post. Uni is currently sucking out my brain. And all words. I keep on forgetting perfectly normal words. It's the maths, I know - it does things to you. But I think I need to practise writing things before my next exam (tomorrow 9am) or my lecturer will have no idea what I'm going on about in my answers. On the topic of my next exam - 9am?! I'm really not sure any amount of practise is going to help me write coherent sentences at that time. And on the topic of writing (I think this is going to turn out to be a rather strange stream-of-conciousness-type post) I would love to participate in NaNoWriMo, it's just exactly the sort of thing I've always wanted to do. But right now I have absolutely no time. *sigh* It'll all be over on November 16th though (BrainSuckingUni, not NaNoWriMo). I think I might have to sleep for that entire day, just to celebrate. But maybe I'll start writing on the 17th. And then try to just get to around 20 000 words by the end of November? Maybe if I'm having fun with it I can try to do the whole 50 000 by the 17th of December. I know it's not really NaNoWriMo then, but I think I'd still enjoy it. Plus I'll really need something to do with my 3 months of holiday (Woohoo!) For some reason my parents seem to think it'd be a good time to get a proper job. I just don't see it... I mean I already have a bit of a job. For which I work approximately 3 hours a week (I do maths tutoring). But at $25 an hour, just for telling kids about stuff I actually enjoy, I think it's pretty good. And I therefore see no need to get another job. Except to stop my parents nagging me about it. Wow, this is a strange post... In fact, I think I'm gonna stop it right there, otherwise I think I might just be in danger of writing about how much I like my calculator (no, it's really cool!) and that would just be sad. So time to go read the end of Jingo (why can't Vimes be real?) and then get an early night before my maths exam. At 12:30 tomorrow I'll be halfway through my exams (Yay!)
Sidenote - I just realised that the voice in my head (you know that little voice that says the things that you're thinking? No? Maybe that's just me..) has the voice of Seth Cohen (from the OC). That's really odd. This entire post is being written in my head in Seth Cohen's voice. I need sleep...
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[28 Oct 2004 | 11:43pm] |
A few more icons that have been hanging around. Some Buffy, Angel, Star Wars, Firefly, and Discworld.
( Time to wake up )
And finally some more shameless plugging for my Buffy/Angel/Firefly icon challenge community : ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) less_travelled! Join! Make Icons!
(Also plugging wes_stillness 'cause Wesley deserves more members.)
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[25 Oct 2004 | 8:55pm] |
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Wow. I am so bowled over by the response to my icon post (it's just a couple of posts below). Thankyou so much to everyone who commented! I so want to respond to everyone who commented, but I really should be doing some work, and there's only so many times I can say "Thanks so much!" without feeling like a complete idiot. But I really am very thankful to everyone who said anything!
I made another soundtrack for justpopemotion, this one's about the Angel finale (*sniff*). So go download some music here if you feel like it. I even made lyric pages for all the songs (only 7, but still...)
Finished a maths assignment today. Well, I say 'finished'. Not so much 'finished' as 'handed in'. Still, means I don't have to do any more work on it. Thats about the last of the really tricky assignments. The other couple I've got hanging around I just have to do, not think about. And then it's just exam study. And then it's 3 months holidays!!!! Yay!
I've been rereading alot of Discworld books recently. I just love those books so damn much. They're quite simply perfect. Anytime I'm feeling down I just need to pick up a Discworld book and I'll be laughing my head off in under 5 minutes. The Watch-centric ones are probably my favourite (although I love Death as well - the character, not, you know, dying). I adore Vimes. For some reasons characters whose names are Sam I will always adore. Sam Vimes is my favourite from Discworld, Sam Gamgee's my favourite from LotR, I always liked Sam from Bewitched, and Sam from Who's the Boss. And probably a whole bunch of other Sams I can't think of right now.
Ok, I'm tired now I'm gonna go watch TV. Join less_travelled!
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| Revelations |
[24 Oct 2004 | 11:37pm] |
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Oh my god!!!
I've seen ads for the TV show NCIS for ages, and I think I even watched an entire episode of it once, and it just kept on bugging me how one of the main guys looked just so familiar. All the time I just felt like I knew him so well but I couldn't work it out. Then today my sister wandered past the TV while it was on, so I asked her if she recognised him too. She said that yes, she thought she probably did. Then she said "Isn't he that guy from Dark Angel?". That was when my brain exploded. He is that guy from Dark Angel!!! I love that guy! I've never actually watched much Dark Angel because it was always on at really bad times, but I always thought I'd probably like it and I loved seeing the ads for it just for that guy. He's so cute :) But the idea of him that I have in my head for Dark Angel does not in any way even remotely correspond to the character he plays in NCIS. Maybe I'm wrong (seeing as I've never watched the show) but that's just not the impression I got...
Anyway that's probably not such a huge revelation for everyone else, but my brain's exploding here and I just had to let someone know :)
I think I need to buy some Dark Angel DVDs...
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| So many icons ... |
[23 Oct 2004 | 8:49pm] |
Some new icons, some older ones. Just putting them all together in one giant post so I can link to them easily.
Feel free to take whatever ones you like, just so long as you comment and credit :)
Resources can be found here
And just a quick completely shameless plug :
Join less_travelled! It's my brand new icon challenge community for BtVS, Angel and Firefly.
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I want the Frou Frou cd! *pout* I went into 4 cd stores yesterday trying to find it, and none of them had it. Eventually in one store I managed to find the cd case, but then the guy at the desk couldn't find the actual cd *pout some more* And one of the cd stores also sold dvds, and they had a huge shelf full of angel and buffy dvds for only $21 (Australian). So I was forced to buy Angel Season 4. I spend $42 and I still don't have my Frou Frou cd. Evil cd stores ... But the Angel DVDs are very shiny indeed. They're in those new cases that have 3 DVDs in the same case. They feel so heavy :) Somehow they just feel so much better than normal DVD cases when they're heavy. And shiny. I so want to go watch them all now, but I have maths essay (?!) due on monday, and I have no idea what a maths essay is meant to be. I should really try to work that out a bit before watching the whole of Angel season 4. Sorry this has been such a whiny child post (*stamps foot*)
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| Icons, Rob Dougan Scans, and Ramblings |
[14 Oct 2004 | 6:22pm] |
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I have been so so busy.
I just cannot believe the enormous amount of work I've been doing over the past couple of weeks. The thing that's making up most of that work is due in tomorrow (evil computing assignment - die concurrency! die!) and I can't do any more work on it tonight, so that's why I've finally got time to make a little post here :)
Before I forget here's an award I got I from wes_stillness :D
( Award )
And actually while I'm at it I may as well put up a few icons that are hanging about :
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I bought myself the coolest cd ever this week! (Give me another week and I'll probably have listened to it so much that I actually hate it - but I love it right now). I've been meaning to buy a Rob Dougan cd for about 5 years or so - even though the cd only came out about 3 years ago. Still, I'd wanted to buy one ever since hearing Clubbed to Death in The Matrix. That really is one of my favourite bits of the movie, when Neo and Morpheus are walking through a stream of people in a program to simulate the Matrix, and Morpheus is talking, and it's like he's talking in time with the music, and this is getting to be a very long sentence. But it's a great scene, and the music really makes it. So after hearing another of his songs last week (I'm Not Driving Anymore) I just had to go buy Furious Angels. And it's all so fantastic :D A little depressing at times... it all really reminds me of Wesley from Angel (not a bad thing at all), the same sort of creepy obssessiveness Wesley has from time to time. Anyhoo, I scanned some pages from the little booklet thingy in the cd case, so you may download them if you wish, and use them for anything you'd like really:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/samelfice/robdougan1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/samelfice/robdougan2.jpg
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I feel like watching Charmed. For some reason I've been watching a fair bit of Charmed recently. Seeing as I didn't watch almost all of seasons 4, 5 or 6 I've got a fair bit to catch up on. My sister's a huge fan so I always used to watch it with her (ie season 1, 2, and 3) but then after Prue died we stopped watching it quite so religiously, and I really didn't watch it much at all after seeing a bit of season 4. But Cole's just so gorgeous and hilarious, I really don't understand how anyone could try to kill that man. Every time he does something horribly evil and then just giggles, I just can't help but giggle along with him. I definitely think it lost some of it's charm (no pun intended, really) after the first few seasons though. Possibly after Prue died, but I'm not sure it's actually directly to do with that as I really don't mind Paige, and I wasn't a huge Prue fan (I didn't dislike her or anything, I just didn't really mind). But it's still fun to rewatch the old stuff.
Anyway, I think I'll finish off with an exasperated cry of "Men!", they really can be quite pathetic at times. I know not all of them are. I mean the fictional ones often seem very nice indeed. But of all the ones I've met (and who aren't actually related to me) I have a hard time thinking of one who isn't a jerk most of time. *sigh* Oh well, I'm happy with all my fictional men :)
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| More Icons and Awards |
[06 Oct 2004 | 7:11pm] |
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Another quick update to share some icons I've made since the last one :
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And to show off my pretty awards :D
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[27 Sep 2004 | 6:45pm] |
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Decided I'd better get a place to give credit to all the wonderful people who have made things which I use in my fanart/icons etc. I'll constantly be updating this post when I use new resources, and when I think of resources that I use, but have forgotten about just now :) (If I have forgotten you, or someone you know, please just comment and let me know, thanks!).
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| Girly Shopping Post |
[26 Sep 2004 | 4:07pm] |
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Oh dear god! I am so insanely happy :) I just went out shopping with my sister, and it was so great! (sorry about the exclamation marks, I'll try to watch those in future). I had to get new jeans because I got a massive hole in my old ones, and I am so terrible at buying jeans. I thought it was going to take hours. But I found some really nice ones in the first shop we went into. So that was a good start to the day. Then we went into another store and I bought 2 tops without really thinking about it at all, and they are completely not the sort of tops I would normally buy, very different. So, that was fun, now I have clothes to wear that aren't just plain grey, blue or black! Then came the really great part, when I went looking for the Star Wars DVDs (because I neeeeed my Star Wars DVDs) I came across some Angel boxed sets. At first I thought I was reading the price tag wrong, because it looked like the price for a single DVD rather than a boxed set of three. But no! Each of the boxed sets was only $22 (Australian)! (Ok, so I lied about the exclamation marks.) Previously the cheapest I had ever seen them was around $40, and normally they were more like $60 or $70. Took me about 5 minutes to calm down. I think the other people in the store thought I was a little bit weird when I was struggling over the counter with 5 Angel boxed sets. I already had S3 part 2 because it had been on sale a while ago, so I got the whole of season 1, season 2, and the first part of season 3 (they didn't have season 4). I now have all of Angel up to the end of season 3!!! (3 exclamation marks? not a good sign) Unfortunately Star Wars will have to wait til another day, when I have money again.
Sorry about the very girly shopping post :p Oh, I think I need to go hug my DVDs again.
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