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I felt a little guilty that I did that birthday meme on Friday. I hope people didn't think I was being a big doofus or anything. Thanks so much for all the warm birthday greetings that people gave me today. I also got some nice presents! Check out the pretty artwork that [livejournal.com profile] rexluscus drew--[livejournal.com profile] ook made it into an icon for me, which was great! On [livejournal.com profile] bronze_ribbons there is Passover porn. (Okay, not so much porn, but really Passover! Severus Snape whips egg whites! Hah!) There is also a totally classic [livejournal.com profile] busaikko Snupin porn ficlet from her R & D storyline. It's both funny and hot (and soooo dirty that you'd better not click on it if you are underage.) [livejournal.com profile] stoicstella made me one of her trademark birthday cards--it has both a rhyming poem and little drawings.

If I get any more writing or art goodies I'll link them here.

My husband invited our friends out for a meal at the Vietnamese vegan restaurant. It was just a few people but we had a really great time. We drank some champagne. Okay, not very much--most of my friends don't drink. I got very slightly tipsy on half a glass, and my friend joined me in singing "I get a kick out of you" in the restaurant.

Today I finally used the private yoga lesson that my husband got for my birthday last year. I'm going to try to make a committment to practice yoga on the days that my son is at preschoolcare. (I still don't know what to call it.) Once I finish this dawdling here on the computer, I'm going to finish kashering our kitchen for Passover. (I've scraped the kasha out of the bottom of the freezer, so I'm not too behind!)

My husband is thinking that for this birthday he'll give me a writing workshop. He hasn't been totally comfortable with the fan fiction stuff. I think it's at least partly because he's kind of shy and reserved, and the porn part shocks him, and so he doesn't want to read it. Even so, he's been supportive of my writing again after all this time. (He did read the first chapter of Heart's Obligations, which was nice.) I don't think I can use genre fiction in a writing workshop, and instead I'll have to show more of my own vision, which is a bit scary.

Date: 2006-04-10 06:55 pm (UTC)
kaleidoskope: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kaleidoskope
Happy birthday! Give me a prompt and I'll do a drawble for you.

Date: 2006-04-10 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Oooh! You've made me an offer that I cannot refuse!

Lily, Severus and Remus were studying for Advanced Arithmancy in sixth year. They wound up in a three-way makeout session. Nothing heavy, just a girl and two boys kissing and touching.

How's that?

Date: 2006-04-11 08:12 am (UTC)
kaleidoskope: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kaleidoskope
Omgyes! That's a great request - exactly the type of thing I'm going to love to draw.

Date: 2006-04-10 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stoicstella.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday, Here is your card Goodness the day got away from me, I was going to post this first thing. I hope the rest of your day is wonderful.

Date: 2006-04-10 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thrihyrne.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday!!! :D :D

:::tosses brightly colored confetti:::

Date: 2006-04-10 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melusinahp.livejournal.com
That's funny, my husband will only read the porny parts of my writing.

I say you go for the writing workshop.

Date: 2006-04-10 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waterbird.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday! Yoga, writing workshops and vegan Vietnamese. Sounds like you are celebrating in style. Enjoy!

Date: 2006-04-10 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Thanks! I am liking my funky fortieth. My son is home and looking over my shoulder, and he is happy to see your icon again.

Date: 2006-04-10 09:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sigune.livejournal.com
Happy birthday! :D

I'm so sorry I have no art for you... I'm busy with the Lumos paper... Maybe one day I'll be able to make it up to you :).

Date: 2006-04-10 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
I am happy to hear about the Lumos paper! I hope to get to read it. Thanks for the good wishes.

Date: 2006-04-10 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] almost-clara.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday!

If you like icons - something for Snape's Escape?

Image

Date: 2006-04-10 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Wow, is that beautiful! Thank you so much!

Date: 2006-04-10 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_lore/
Hey, happy birthday to you! *hugs* Hope it's a fabulous day!

love, lore

Date: 2006-04-10 09:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
thanks, sweetie.

Date: 2006-04-10 09:50 pm (UTC)
ext_50422: (Default)
From: [identity profile] rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday! ^_^

Hope you have (had?) a fabulous day.

*chuckles* My boyfriend hasn't even noticed I write fan fiction yet, let alone read any of the pornier bits.

Date: 2006-04-10 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
thanks!

I tell my husband everything, and somethings that he doesn't want to hear. I was rereading a post from November, when I decided to write a story with gay Orthodox Jewish characters and he was like, "I don't want to know about ritual fringes kink. At all."

Date: 2006-04-10 09:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] busaikko
Happy birthday! Nothing blatant about the meme at all! (says busaikko, who told the whole Snape/Lupin ship chat that it was her birthday--now, that was shameless!)

Your dinner sounded wonderful--Vietnamese vegan, mm! And a writing workshop wuld be really good, I think, and I don't see why they'd be against genre fiction (fan fiction, yes, there might be legal issues with that, but genre? How does one even draw a line these days?)

Have a great year, darling!

Date: 2006-04-10 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
I haven't actually written any fiction that isn't fan fic. At least, not for the last, like, twenty years. I got frightened by a tongue sandwich nasty creative writing course in college. When I said genre fiction, I meant fan fic, which is to me a very strictly genred form. (One which I have violated repeatedly, bwa ha ha ha, with my insistence on anatomical labeling and historical fiction!)

I don't know if I have to have anything written before I take the workshop. I will look. at what they have on their website.

Date: 2006-04-11 07:59 am (UTC)
busaikko: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Default)
From: [personal profile] busaikko
I think that there must be all flavours of writing courses available if you live in a big city full of intellectuals (*controls raging jealousy*). You might even ask what the teacher's opinion of fan fiction is: I'd think that anyone scornful you'd want to avoid. Many 'real' authors have got starts writing fan fiction and 'zines--I'd imagine that transitioning from ff to original fiction is a pretty big field. I've known people on LJ who've used fan fiction as writing samples for jobs. Whyever not?

I adore your icon, BTW!

Date: 2006-04-11 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevedra.livejournal.com
Just popping by to wish you a very merry birthday!

Date: 2006-04-11 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Thanks so much!

Date: 2006-04-11 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zeltkaiserin.livejournal.com
a very happy birthday, indeed!

(and may all your matzah go down easy and all your charoset be sweet.)

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