Not Dead Yet! (and Fic - "Galatea")

[melayneseahawk]

Wow, it's been ages since I posted something of substance.

Break is, sadly, over, but fun while it lasted. Spent a good part of it setting up the new laptop (hereby called Fifth*) after moving everything onto it from the old one (hereby called Harlan*). Vista is evil, but I can deal, and so far it's doing what I want. Harlan presumably got mailed back to the mothership today, and they should be giving us money back. And then I'm paying for the rest...so my mother will stop trying to take the poor thing away. :(

Rest of break was spent doing tea with Mum, visiting the Folger with Da, and pestering the brat. Tea = awesome, Folger = slightly disappointing, brat = the usual. Wish break had been longer, I guess, but more time at home would have been deadly.

Interesting thing on Sunday, though, before I went back to school. Evil shul has commissioned three new Torah scrolls, since the ones they have are apparently no longer kosher because they're faded and falling apart. The first two scrolls were paid for by individual families, but the third is being paid for by the whole congregation, $18** a letter. And, because mitzvah*** 613 (the last one, natch) is to create a Torah, the scribe is coming to the shul a couple of days so that everyone can trace the letters they bought into the scroll, thus letting us complete said miztvah. Family bought two letters, and we went to the shul on Sunday to write them in. It was kind of cool, actually. Da took lots of pictures, naturally (for his class :P).

And now, some amusing things!



Fun metaquotes about dorm life and rules geeks should follow.

Oh, and there was fic, too (and it's original fic!):

written for the Slashers Dionysia 2007, under the category of satyr play.

This fic includes an f/f relationship and my usual brand of fast-and-loose mythology (of the Greek kind only this time). You don't like, don't read. You've been warned.

Thanks to triannamaxwell and velvetcherri for the beta.

“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before,” Eros bitched, right wing twitching idly.

(Galatea | PG-13 | 1300 words | complete)

Feedback is better than chocolate.

* 2 geek points if you get one of those references, 4 if you get both, 10 if you can guess the name of my iPod based on the two names you've been given
** 18 is a significant number in Judaism, as well as multiples of it; each Hebrew letter has a numerical value assigned, and the letters that spell 18 spell read "life" when read as a word
*** a good deed; there are 613 listed in the Torah (Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy)

Wow, I should come with subtitles.

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Um, not that I can think of, but I could be wrong.

Earth has three gates, I thought: the Giza one, the Russian one, and Antarctica. As I remember, they're still using the one on loan from the Russians.

[theemdash]

Actually, there are only two. The SGC had both the Giza Gate and the Antartic Gate until "Small Victories" when SG-1 beamed the Giza Gate aboard Thor's ship to escape the Replicators. That 'gate went into the ocean. They thought that 'gate was destroyed, but the Russians picked it up and the SGC kept using the Antartic Gate. The SGC wound up blowing up the Antartic Gate and then we got the Giza Gate on loan from the Russians. :D

I admit that I had to look up the tracking.

No new question? ;)

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* That was dizzying.

Um...What gives Cassie psychic powers in "Rite of Passage"?

[theemdash]

Yes. Our fandom is not easy.

Genetic manipulation by Nirrti.

Name two of the four cadets SG-1 trained in "Proving Ground." (Or all four, if you can.)

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Hailey and Satterfield, I'm forgetting the boys.

Speaking of Hailey, when is her first appearance?

[theemdash]

Elliot and Groggin (who I refer to as "cannon fodder" since he kept getting shot by everything)

Hailey first showed up in "Prodigy" when Sam went to lecture at the AF Academy.

My brain is sucking: How many minutes will a Stargate stay engaged under normal circumstances?

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

38!

Give me two examples of when it stayed engaged beyond that point (incident or ep).