happy new year!

[fox]

new year's yay!

it's amazing how much Norman has grown in just two days.  her mother is managing to get her to eat more at each sitting now, so she can hang in there for longer between feedings -- and, now, when she cries, others of us can often settle her down without having to make her mother feed her.  somehow?  i have a particular skill for getting her to quit crying and go to sleep!  i feel extra-special that way.  :-)  (last night, she was asleep at long last and then her great-grandmother spoke too loudly and woke her up.  it took all three of us half an hour to get her to sleep again, and out comes the great-grandmother again and almost woke her up again.  ARGH.  but, better.)  and, so cute!  i can almost not quite stand it.

in yuletide news, as you've probably seen by now, i wrote Also Ran, a bit of Chariots of Fire (Abrahams/Lindsay) for peak_in_darien.  it hasn't done as well as last year's "Fortune's Fool", but like i said before, it wasn't likely to.  :-)  it's at my site now as well.  i'm also in a position to say that my present, Guestright, was written by evilprodigy -- thanks, P!

am now watching DVDs of Firefly and having fun looking for people who might appear to be at least part Chinese (since, you know, all the language is English and Mandarin, it seems like it would make some sense is all).

Comments

[mrshamill.livejournal.com]

I should have known you'd know!! Mark and I gave each other Firefly for Christmas and he absolutely adores it. You should have heard him after watching Serenity: "That was better than pretty much any Star Trek Movie!" And he thinks that's what Enterprise should have been. Duh.

Anyway, I was just saying I need to know what language they're speaking. It's obvious they're swearing sometimes, are they? Do you know or is there a site which talks about it?

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

*sneaks in, points you over here (http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/)*

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i do know, but not because i recognize mandarin when i hear it (when i hear it spoken by north american actors, yet) -- someone (probably musesfool, but damn if i can find where) told me so, and as it happens it's also mentioned in the IMDb listing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/).

[evilprodigy.livejournal.com]

You're so very welcome. :D I'm glad you liked it! I was worried that you wouldn't.

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

What ho, just thought I'd pop over to give you a jolly big hand for the story! Bally wonderful, I thought. Loved the whole dashed thing. Spiffing. Corking. Top-hole. Creme-de-la-creme. Tip of the brim. Oojah-cum-spiff.

I think what I'm trying to say here is, THANKZ!!!!!111!!!OMGZ!!!!111!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i'm glad you liked it. :-) would it please you to know that to zero in on the Lindsay voice, i spent a lot of time thinking about Bertie Wooster, only smarter? [ggg]