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Monday, March 19th, 2012 10:02 pm
It has been an awesome weekend of fannish goodness.  As reported previously, I saw Salmon Fishing In The Yemen with [livejournal.com profile] econopodder and met up with [livejournal.com profile] knitress thereafter.  Then on Sunday evening I met friend and reader C and it was just lovely and so civilized.    Ironically, as it turns out [livejournal.com profile] harmony_lover was in the restaurant next door!  I met [livejournal.com profile] harmony_lover today for lunch.  I've had a terrific few days talking life, liberties (and those who would eliminate them), and fanfiction.  This is truly the best part of bonding over fic -- the lovely people you meet along the way!

In other news, we leave in less than two weeks for Italy!!!  AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.  I bought new walking shoes and promptly destroyed my heels (not good).  We are going to Rome and Florence with short stops in Siena, Pisa, and San Gimigiano. 

I'm in the final painful throes of the NBB editing -- [livejournal.com profile] autumnia has done an amazing job on the beta.  I can't even see the typos at this point.  If I think about it too hard, I start angsting all over the place.  So I will stop.  Angsting that is. 

Also, errr, if I'm super, super productive I may try to do some sort of an update before the NBB is released.  Maybe. Also, I posted the first three chapters of AW over on AO3.  I know some people like that e-reader function, so I'll get that up.  Anything is better than correcting my endless comma errors. 

Oh, sorry, and another thing!  Theoretically, if Edmund were to have a Tarot reading, what might represent Morgan?  How might that present?  Any thoughts on that? 
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012 11:05 pm
So the OFFs (Old Fandom Friends) and I have admired the considerable assets of ODAE (Obi-Wan Dressed as Ewan Mcgregor) for many years.  Salmon Fishing in the Yemen hit [livejournal.com profile] econopodder 's ODAE-radar and she decided we HAD to see it.  [livejournal.com profile] knitress was going to come but there was a ticket snafu alas and [livejournal.com profile] lexsara was waiting for a refrigerator so it was just me and [livejournal.com profile] econopodder in the theater (I did not see anyone confirmed by the Senate or elected by popular mandate which is unusual in this particular theater).  But the three of us got coffee afterward and I told my OFFs about what a depraved reprobate I am. 

But, back to ODAE, reflecting that we all are getting along in the years, no longer struts his Jedi stuff and doesn't go Fully Monty any more (which he used to be counted upon to do reliably (Velvet Goldmine, Pillowbook) but really this is just a delightful film.  Granted it is not QDAL (Qui Gon Dressed as Liam Neeson) with Wolves but instead we get Obi-Wan with fish. As Qui-Gon said, "there's always a bigger fish" which just had to be said, even if not relevant.



In other VERY exciting news, I get to meet TWO New Fandom Friends over the next two days. I'm very excited.