I'm still here!

[kungfuwaynewho]

So, I got an email that my paid account was due to expire.  I had two choices.  Let it expire?  But that seemed a tacit acknowledgment that I would never post again.  So I had to renew, obviously.  But once I paid for a blog that I hadn't used in a year (a year?!), I realized that I absolutely had to post again, today, immediately.

(I waited like six hours to make this post, obviously.)

Soooooooooo, it's been awhile!  There are a multitude of reasons (three, maybe four) for why I quit posting for a year (A YEAR?!?), but I won't get into everything now.  Mostly because it's boring and I doubt anyone cares.  But I wanted to say hello!  I'll be endeavoring to getting back into the swing of things and maybe making things and writing things again, and checking up on my flist, and other such online fandom thingies!

I feel like I should add something of substance to this post, however, so have literally the only thing I've done in Photoshop in the past year: a teeny-bop collage of silent film star Conrad Veidt!  (My sister went through A Phase.)

Comments

[qwentoozla]

Welcome back! :)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ghanimasun]

Happy to hear youre still kickin and doing well! Hope you are able to post more on here :D

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Ha, thanks! Yeah, it was one of those things where the longer I went without posting, the more I was like, I can't post until something major happens! (Like what? No idea, heh.) And then I'd just not even think about it for a really long time. But definitely am going to be more active for sure!

[ghanimasun]

Well glad you posted now!

Also I always post when absolutely nothing happens, so you should too ;) But I understand having weird random reasons for posting or not posting sometimes :)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Okay, so when you have to read my boring posts about nothing, just remember that it's all your fault. :D

[ghanimasun]

Haha well I look forward to it then!

[cath822.livejournal.com]

OMG hi! Welcome back!

I watched the series finale of CSI this week, which I hadn't watched in years, and things happened with Sara and Grissom, and I couldn't bother to care. And I thought, "Hm. Maybe I'm a grizzled 30-something who's not into shipping anymore." Then, I saw the X-files trailer today and realized "NOPE." Yay for fandom.

I miss you guys! I was totally thinking of trying to find a way to watch The X-files with someone from the PFTT crew, but of course, it airs on Sunday nights, and I teach on 8:00 on Mondays spring semester. Sigh. Either way, I will need someone to shriek with. Maybe just electronically.

You are officially the only person I've ever known who makes teenybopper collages of German silent film stars. ASOME.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Sorry to jump in like this, but I am curious how they ended CSI. Did all the old but not dead characters show up? Where did all the characters end up?

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hi! Yeah, I downloaded the CSI finale but haven't watched yet; I quit watching waaaay back in like 2007, I think - the year of the writers' strike. Didn't watch any of the Fishburne or Danson years.

So what happened with Sara and Grissom? That will absolutely determine whether I watch at all or not.

Man, I wish I were more excited about XF. IDK, it just...hasn't felt like it's really XF yet. I'm sure that GA's ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE WIG isn't helping, because I look at her and weirdly enough, it just doesn't look like Scully to me. So I feel like I've kinda got this disconnect going on.

We'll definitely have to figure something out. I was actually thinking of PFTT not too long ago! Maybe we need to come up with something new like that. (I understand that modern people use Facebook for things like that, but I am Leslie Knope dot no dot gif when it comes to Facebook.)

Yeah...Sarah took a silent film class last spring and watched two or three movies with Veidt and just fell in love with him. It was super cute.

[cath822.livejournal.com]

Re: CSI (spoilers!)

They brought back Grissom and Catherine, but not Nick. Grissom and Sara had apparently gotten married and divorced since I stopped watching the show, but the finale had them get back together and literally sail into the sunset. Which is great, although it also implies that Sara gave up a promotion to lab director because of that, which isn't great...Anyway, the finale is decent; Lady Heather is in it, and it's a pretty standard CSI case. Nothing mind-blowing.

I'm trying to avoid focusing on the wig (yes, it's terrible) and other weird stuff, like how CSM is back even though I'm pretty sure they killed him. I'm still excited, though. Kumail Nanjiani from Silicon Valley does an X-files podcast that I listen to, that some people credit with reviving interest in the series, and he actually has a guest role in one of the episodes. It's kind of cute; his geeking out about it is contagious.

Ha, yeah, I get the Facebook objection. I've gone back and read through old board posts; I don't even remember writing some of that stuff, heh. I use FB, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram, but nothing ideal for long-form conversations. Let me know if you think of anything!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Grissom and Sara had apparently gotten married and divorced

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I'm assuming they had to figure out how to explain why Sara came back but not Grissom, and that's what they came up with? Ughhhhhh... At least they ended up together in the end, which is all I required.

Yeah, I keep meaning to listen to the X-Files Files, but I'm just not a podcast person these days - I used to listen to them all the time in school, but I don't have a "commute" anymore, so. One day! Maybe! Probably not!

Goodness, I don't even remember the URL for the old board. I had to wipe my computer a couple years back and didn't back up my bookmarks. I know it was all our names squished together, but not where it was hosted. (I'm pre-embarrassed at the thought of reading some of that old stuff.)

Tumblr is the worst. THE WORST. I've been sorta low-key into Walking Dead the past year (mostly just Carol), and just lurking it's terrible. I can't even imagine trying to participate. There is no way to have a meaningful conversation with more than one person on that site without it being a total nachtmare.

[cath822.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I was happy that they ended up together too, although I didn't care about it as much as I once did.

I really enjoy The X-Files Files; I tend to save it up for traveling. I don't watch the episodes along with him, but I did a full rewatch in 2013, so I have a pretty good recollection of most of them. Plus, he's had interesting people from the show on like writers, producers, musicians, and actors.

I have the board URL if you ever want it, but yeah, nobody posts on it anymore. Tumblr is okay if you follow the right people. It's not a great place for long-form conversation, but if you have specific pop culture interests, like Donald O'Connor, academic jokes, Rifftrax, animals talking in all caps, or sites that pair Mad Men quotes with images from Archer (it's called Sterling Archer Draper Pryce), it's fun. I have the same URL on Tumblr as I do on here.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Yes! Give me the URL!

[dref22.livejournal.com]

Hiiiii :D

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Every time I see a Heroes Reborn trailer, I think of you, not even lying. I haven't watched yet, tho - I'll squeal with you when I do. :D

[dref22.livejournal.com]

Yay I can't wait! :D It's more fun that way. :P

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Welcome back :D

And I'm interested what you did all year ;) How is the house, last time we talked you were doing the basement, I imagine you have done a lot more in the last year!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

The house is good, though the basement stuff actually juuuuuust got done, because we had all this other shit that kept happening that we had to deal with first. (Like the roof leaked! In one tiny little spot! Right above my bed!) I was planning on taking pictures this weekend, maybe, and making a post. Mostly about the old video game system installation we're putting in down there, ha.

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Oh damn, sorry to hear about your roof! Could you fix the spot or did you have to work on the whole roof?
Yes pictures please :D

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

It was just one single hole, about the size of a thumbnail. So it was just a matter of fixing that spot and replacing a single shingle. A lot easier than redoing the whole roof, for sure, but one of those things where it was like, this weekend we can't work on the basement, we've got to fix the roof. Little stuff (and not so little stuff) seemed to happen a lot. Because houses.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Since there has been squeeing about X-Files and Sara and Grissom and what not, let me be an annoying German grammar nazi and point out that "Ich bin ein süss" doesn't actually mean anything, which you probably already know. Sorry. I had to.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha. I don't even remember now what I was trying to say. I totally just typed a word in Google Translate, though.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Google translate fills the world with EVIL. It must be stopped.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I think I might have been going for sweetie. IDK.

[icepixie]

Yay, you're here! :D

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hi! How's the skating going?

[icepixie]

Skating is great! I've gotten rather good at sit spins, and am working on camel spins. Toe loop and Salchow jumps are...well, they exist, on the correct edges and everything, and now I need to start getting some height on them. I'm now learning the loop jump, and it's a mess, which is not a surprise. Scott Hamilton is giving a class on Sunday and I'm going. :D

I've only recently started to feel like I'm back to 100% after my surgeries/almost dying this summer. (Okay, my mother says I almost died. I think the reality is a little less deadly, although I did meet the criteria for sepsis and got a room in the not-quite-ICU, not-quite-regular part of the hospital for several days.) Short version, I had a hysterectomy (yay!), then three weeks later my ovary abscessed and took my appendix along with it. I had to have another surgery to cut them all out. Then the antibiotics they were pumping me full of gave me acute kidney injury (the equivalent of Stage 4 kidney disease for a couple of months; they're fine now). I was in the hospital for ten days, all told.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Scott Hamilton is giving a class on Sunday and I'm going. :D

So jealous! Wow, that is very cool.

Holllllyyyyy shit, your summer! That sounds horrific. I'm glad that you came through okay, that's terrifying! My little sister ended up with C. diff after a run of antibiotics, which really put me off of them for anything outside of most dire need; your story doesn't help!

[icepixie]

So jealous! Wow, that is very cool.

It was cool! More basic than I expected, but he had a good take on the basics. He was more srs bzns than I expected, too, although of course when he was talking about spins, he was all, "Don't start with your left arm across your chest! You're cutting off your connection with your audience!" Heh.

Holllllyyyyy shit, your summer!

This was largely my reaction. Well, that and a lot of drooling and sleeping from three solid months of pain medicine. I got to the point where 10 mg of Percoset didn't really faze me, and I could totally drive on 5 mg.

I'm glad that you came through okay

Thanks!

My little sister ended up with C. diff after a run of antibiotics

Oh, yeah, I had that too, a couple weeks after I got out of the hospital. It was kind of anticlimactic. Anything that can be dealt with on an outpatient basis and doesn't nearly kill off an organ is not that big a deal to me now.

which really put me off of them for anything outside of most dire need; your story doesn't help!

Yup. Just because the C. diff was the least of my worries doesn't mean I want it again. I'll be giving future sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. plenty of time to heal on their own before going to the employee clinic that dispenses antibiotics if you so much as sneeze.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Just because the C. diff was the least of my worries doesn't mean I want it again. I'll be giving future sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. plenty of time to heal on their own before going to the employee clinic that dispenses antibiotics if you so much as sneeze.

Oh, yeah. For me it was as simple as the fact that the last few times I'd been on antibiotics, they didn't seem to do anything. I remember being younger and feeling a huge improvement from one day to the next once I started - but lately? I'm not sure there's any point, if it's just for something relatively simple like a sinus infection (or an ear infection for me, more likely).

The only thing that makes me pause is that my dad has a compromised immune system, so sometimes I think, maybe I should err on the side of caution for his sake? It's a tough call in that regard.