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fifteendozentimesoliviacirce's place.nextian's got a primer here, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
girl_wonder's got a masterlist here. fifteendozentimes, lalejandra, and others.)bluestalking watching the Deep Space Nine episode "The Ascent" (aka The One Where Quark and Odo Climb A Mountain):oliviacirce is applying for an internship at her university's archives, and is being angsty about writing a cover letter. So I wrote one for her.
So,
Lemme tell you about her experience for the job. She has a motherfucking Masters of Research in Renaissance Lives and Letters, and you better fucking believe that to get that baby she kicked some archive ass. She can read more fucking alphabets for transcribing English and Latin than you can take a stick at and even those bitches at the British Library were all "woah, back up" and let her look at the physical copies of the Countess of Bedford's letters when she told them their microfiche copy was bullshit.
Fuck, the world wouldn't know about fucking stares for starlings if it weren't for this glorious badass. Now she's getting her fucking PhD, and you better fucking believe that her research foo is going to knock you all on your motherfucking asses, and that she will be all up in your primary documents before you can say "woah, Olivia banged your mom too?"
You better be giving her a stipend for all the time she's going to be in your archives. Look at this badass fucking photo she took:
oliviacirce's "Every Man"]oliviacirce gets here, I imagine she will make lots of Connor/Geoffrey jokes and then find a way to combine waffles with celery salt in order to achieve the Smallville fluff POWER COMBO. [References: Conflicts of Interest, Omiai])meloukhia. I can't even say how exciting it was to confirm that there in fact queer geeky awesome people in relatively close range to home. I am still a bit confused about the fact that we apparently spent four hours together, because it doesn't seem like it was anywhere close to that long. The weather, which started and ended the day violently, cleared up for a few hours in the afternoon, allowing us to poke around the cemetery downtown without getting soaked.
meloukhia is down in the Bay Area, there will be Colmafest 2011--I haven't been to Colma since my great grandparents were interred, and there is some excellent grave-viewing to be had there.yarngeek gave me wordsyarngeek a lot the summer I discovered the wonders of eggplant and tried to make it fit into every meal I cooked.yarngeek calls my complex relationships with dead people historical stalking. Just because I find out all sorts of details about their lives and deaths and irrational obsessions with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves [Alan Turing]. Whatever, at least it's not pop stars.weetziefae and I have pledged to post on our craft blogs once a week (and to harass each other if we don't!) so you might actually see some content there on a regular basis. For now, at least...digitalemur something like 8 months ago) and am generally excited. Yay!gabby_silang is one of many people I'm glad to have met through oliviacirce. Her fiction is always thought provoking, even if I don't know the fandom it's in.glasere_rev is one of the people who became family at MHC. She's not online much these days, but I still love her and hope she's reading this, even if she isn't updating her own journal.goodbush always posts interesting links about paganism.gwinna_flyaway my first year at MHC, and then again my sophomore year, and then finally became friends with her senior year. I'm so glad we became friends, and I wish it had happened sooner.haelix turned 30 on Friday! He is a good argument for copying people's emails off of mailing lists at concerts and then stalking them down and forcing them to be your friend. Not that I endorse that sort of behavior. I'm just saying it works, is all. (It was a Jonathan Coulton concert. And the Paul and Storm mailing list.)inkydragon has an incredibly fascinating career and blog.ithiliendweller and I used to rule the world of final exams at MHC with iron fists. She would be able to turn that into a really clever Lord of the Rings metaphor, complete with accurate Tolkien quotation. ::Evil laugh::jemmiefer. But then, everyone does. You know how it is.juliarchy has a keen sense of design, and had, I think, the classiest wedding I've ever seen (at least, according to the photos I saw.) Clearly, she's come a long way from those middle school nutcracker costumes.karlht is yet another argument for arbitrarily turning strangers into friends at public events (in this case, a Neil Gaiman reading). He makes me smile.katieftw has recently started blogging again, and I'm so glad. She's one of very few people from high school I'm in touch with, and she had fallen out of that category until recently.killerbeautiful and I are so much more in touch since the invention of Twitter. Weird how that works sometimes.kittydoll82 has awesome monster feet slippers. I miss hiding in Rooke Theatre and watching her work her lighting magic.klburche to my parents by saying "This is Kat! She's my boss!" She was upset because I didn't say she was my friend. But I thought that went without saying, because she was obviously awesome, and I'd never had a boss before. She's the most active feminist I know of my generation, which is also awesome.demonstrable once took apart a Mac SE for me so I could see the signatures of the engineering team on the inside of the case. It was fracking awesome.diadem_chi is in the process of moving up to Seattle and thus converting into one of my friends who used to live in the Bay Area. This makes me pretty sad (I would rather that she keep being a friend who lives in the Bay Area) but I'm excited that she has found such a cool house. Incidentally, if she could explain to me why her husband's IM status message has been "I want my house back" for the last month, I'd be grateful.digitalemur when I used to lurk in her office all the time. Ironically, via the power of the internet, I've gotten to know her a lot better since I left college and we became internet friends. I love her witty and interesting posts and links. And having obscure facebook conversations about Torchwood.discolympics since we graduated, which is ironic because now I know rather a lot of people who went to high school with her. ::Evil laugh.::dmp was my favorite Harry Potter fanfiction author when I was in high school, which made me excessively shy about meeting her in person when we wound up going to college together. I wish I hadn't been. Most recently she's been writing fascinating essays about race and steampunk.douxquemiel have ever had a fannish conversation in person, since our RL friendship was mediated almost entirely by Eliot House and the MHC religion department.e_4. I get wildly excited any time ze or glasser_rev venture onto the internet, and I wish them both the best.e_clare via Twitter. People have voted, and the following is certifiably true: she has New York City's most comfortable couch for a visitor to sleep on.eccentric_hat, I feel so lucky that someone as smart as she is is my friend. Recently she has taught me rather a lot about wolves, and she can always be counted on for a fun Teddy Roosevelt fact. Also, I shamelessly stole her interior decoration via crayon art scheme.ellen_franklin is another family member I acquired through oliviacirce. She's had a huge impact on not just me, but my immediate family as well--my mother is currently working on her dissertation under Ellen.emmihead first introduced me to Dinosaur Comics, and for that I sing her praises to the high heavens.emmyskier's life via a gossip chain that involves both of our mothers as intermediaries, a very sorry state of affairs for two people who live in adjoining counties. For those who want to point fingers, she is entirely to blame for my love of the grotesque.empress_elle is very far away, geographically speaking, and very close, emotionally speaking. I think we're going through a lot of the same emotional experience as we think about running away from the big corporations where we work to become the sort of lawyers who do good in the world. Man I miss her.eslafunnynunny makes me smile and want to hold a spontaneous one-song dance party in a dorm room.falxumbra, but it involves bluegrass covers of pop songs, incredible artistic talent, and my introduction to D&D.februaryfour is one year and one day older than me, and is wicked smart.fitzee become the next Tina Fae yet? Because maybe when she does I'll start watching network tv again.flame_of_kali was, once upon a time, my fencing buddy. I miss those times.wild_irises has been doing a delightful meme where she works her way through her flist and says something brief about each person. I've been enjoying it so much I thought I'd do the same. I'm working through in alphabetical order, favoring Dreamwidth username for those who have migrated over this way, and LJ username for those who are still primarily in LJ land (even if they have DW accounts). I'm condensing those with multiple journals into their primary journal, but if I skip you, let me know!alc517 is a person who I didn't get to know as well as I could have at MHC. Her blog and tweets are always highly entertaining, and I enjoy hearing about her glamorous journalistic life.amicitia6 impresses me with her dedication to the aphasia center where she works. When I was back at MHC during her graduation, I ran into her family without her, and still recognized them instantly because of the family resemblance.anarqkiki is still "one of my sophomores" in my head, and I'm pretty sure I'm still one of her firsties in hers. She was a long-term holdout on telnet, and I am in awe of her bravery as one bad thing after another happens to those she loves. Also, philosophy majors FTW!aria though oliviacirce, and I'm incredibly glad I did. I love her fannish enthusiasms, her fic, and the fact that I get to watch her women's college experience vicariously, because I miss mine so much.arniandblag are two people who I miss a whole lot, and who I wish I was still in touch with. arni was my roommate, and I love following the fiction she blogs. I used to have an excuse to see blag every time I visited eccentric_hat, and now I don't any more, which makes me sad. I guess this means I need to start reaching out to both of them myself instead of talking to them through other people.ayanamiblue doubly made it onto my radar her first year at MHC as a cool Latin person and as a cool SGA person. She was my last source for current SGA gossip, and I wish her all the best now that's she's graduated.bedbug_sintheta left LJ a long time ago, and I don't actually know what's going on in her life these days. Based on my knowledge of her, though, whatever it is... it's incredibly interesting.bigwillinhell was my fellow high school CS prankster and the first person I ever dated, even if it wasn't very successful. I'm so glad that he and Hannah found each other.blackdrago's speculation on religion fascinating. I've had a ton of great conversations with her, and wish I knew more people as thoughtful and expressive as she is on the topic of faith.camelpack is one of the few people I know of my generation who is genuinely putting herself at risk every day by being out. She lives her life with grace and dignity, and I have a huge amount of respect for her ability to cope, let alone shine.coolsashy is one of my favorite people, the perfect match for emmyskier that I didn't know existed until I met him. It's a very good feeling indeed when your best friends fall in love with someone as awesometastic as coolsashy.killerbeautiful. My patterns, they are... strong.
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