So this is the New Year
Jan. 3rd, 2006 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhOnly in Amherst would the men working on your basement reconstruction be listening to Strangeways Here We Come. There is something decidedly surreal, but in a very welcome way, about hearing a man singing along to "Girlfriend in a Coma" while he's tearing down a non-loadbearing wall.
Well, the holiday is sort of over because everyone is back at work today, including all of us here at the House of Black. Welcome for me as I've had a tough time working since Dad died, a tough time being alone in the way you need to be in order to do work, so easing back into work by being with other people is probably just what the doctor ordered. While Holly and Ruby wrote and Cassie edited and Kelly read a manuscript I read articles about parlors and felt rather accomplished. Odd that some of the footnotes in those articles referred to books that I read back in my undergraduate days; I guess I'm coming more full circle than I'd thought.
This weekend's houseparty was fun as well. 16 people hanging about for a nice long weekend of coffee and tea drinking and tapity tapping on laptops and petting the animals and calling Amherst restaurants and asking them nicely to seat all of us was pretty groovy, as was getting quality hang out time with the people themselves. It was all so cozy and lovely and just exactly the right amount of time. Oh, and in regard to some questions that came up: LOTR lost to A Beautiful Mind in 01 and Chicago in 02. Scorsese has been nominated 5 times: lost in 80 to Redford (Raging Bull/Ordinary People), in 88 to Barry Levinson (Last Temptation/Rain Man), in 90 to Costner (Good Fellas/Plays with Camera), in 02 to Polanski (Gangs of NY/Pianist) and in 04 to Eastwood (Aviator/$MM Baby). So, twice to first time actor/directors and once to an actor/director by then of long standing; more of a trend pre-02 which was when I'd heard of it.
I'm not much for new year's resolutions. I tend to take stock on my birthday because it's a new year in my life, and the late summer feels like new beginnings to one used to an academic year. But I have decided to change my LJ colors again, to something a little crisper and cleaner. I could never get a background cream pale enough, so out goes the fall orangey brown and in comes purple for the late winter. I reckon I'll just work my way around the color wheel. Speaking of color wheels, this is my favorite HTML color reference because it's organized in a way I can work with.
Well, the holiday is sort of over because everyone is back at work today, including all of us here at the House of Black. Welcome for me as I've had a tough time working since Dad died, a tough time being alone in the way you need to be in order to do work, so easing back into work by being with other people is probably just what the doctor ordered. While Holly and Ruby wrote and Cassie edited and Kelly read a manuscript I read articles about parlors and felt rather accomplished. Odd that some of the footnotes in those articles referred to books that I read back in my undergraduate days; I guess I'm coming more full circle than I'd thought.
This weekend's houseparty was fun as well. 16 people hanging about for a nice long weekend of coffee and tea drinking and tapity tapping on laptops and petting the animals and calling Amherst restaurants and asking them nicely to seat all of us was pretty groovy, as was getting quality hang out time with the people themselves. It was all so cozy and lovely and just exactly the right amount of time. Oh, and in regard to some questions that came up: LOTR lost to A Beautiful Mind in 01 and Chicago in 02. Scorsese has been nominated 5 times: lost in 80 to Redford (Raging Bull/Ordinary People), in 88 to Barry Levinson (Last Temptation/Rain Man), in 90 to Costner (Good Fellas/Plays with Camera), in 02 to Polanski (Gangs of NY/Pianist) and in 04 to Eastwood (Aviator/$MM Baby). So, twice to first time actor/directors and once to an actor/director by then of long standing; more of a trend pre-02 which was when I'd heard of it.
I'm not much for new year's resolutions. I tend to take stock on my birthday because it's a new year in my life, and the late summer feels like new beginnings to one used to an academic year. But I have decided to change my LJ colors again, to something a little crisper and cleaner. I could never get a background cream pale enough, so out goes the fall orangey brown and in comes purple for the late winter. I reckon I'll just work my way around the color wheel. Speaking of color wheels, this is my favorite HTML color reference because it's organized in a way I can work with.
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Date: 2006-01-03 04:14 pm (UTC)For colors on LJ, I usually go into photoshop and use the eyedropper tool (on whatever grphic I'm using) to pull out the colors (or at least the color family) I want. Once I adjust to my liking, I use the handy dandy HTML code provided to set up my colors on LJ. V. nice. And I'm sure you could work it to do what you want even if you didn't have a graphic to pull from.
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Date: 2006-01-03 04:50 pm (UTC)