12 Glee Cast
50 Glee - Episode 1x09


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Hello, all! The wonderful wizefics has asked me to do some PR about the annual Holiday Recathon that happens over at that journal. We need people to come and get in the spirit of the season by reccing some great fics for fellow fans. There are a few fandoms involved, but, most importantly, we'd like to see a lot of Who fics.



Follow the link for all the info and reccing fun!

Thanks! <3

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Subject: Reinette/Ten
Title: A Star Once Picked
Rating: pg
Summary: It has been some time since he made his promise and left but still she stands at the window, gazing up at the sky, where the stars sparkle forever.


She grows older, but the stars still glisten the same in their eternity.

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⌈ Secret Post #1042 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #149.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - LOLWHAT I don't even ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

...you dream about the dancers. in my defense, i did watch a video interview of kayla and evan before bed. but man, i woke up and thought "holy crap, j9".

for real.

just thought id share with you guys.

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bear, n. [bair, bâr]
-The name for a big, furry animal that comes in black, brown, white, and a few colors in between, the modern English word bear comes from a Germanic source. Middle English bere, beran was developed from Old English bera 'bear,' which was first recorded prior to 900 CE. Old English bear - along with Old High German bero, Middle Dutch bere, and Old Norse björn - sprung from Proto-Germanic beron 'the brown one' from the prehistoric Indo-European root bher-. Interestingly, Greek arktos and Latin ursus, both meaning 'bear,' are descended from another prehistoric Indo-European root: rtko- 'bear.' This is very likely the root that English would have adopted for the name of the animal, but many hunting cultures in northern Europe believed that calling a wild animal by name was bad luck, so they replaced the official name (in their various languages) with one more descriptive. In many cases, including English, this descriptive name related to color dietary habits. Take, for example, the translations of words for bear in Irish, 'the good calf,' Welsh 'honey-pig,' Lithuanian 'the licker,' and Russian 'honey-eater.' Another surprising fact is that in Old and Middle English, the word for bear, bera '(lit.) brown animal,' was also used to name the beaver.

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Title: First Few Desperate Hours
Pairing/Characters: Roy/Hawkeye, Team Mustang
Rating: R for sex
Disclaimer: Scar feeding cats, undying humans, these characters do not belong to me...
Word Count: 5,536
Summary: Isolation breeds anxiety and some rather rash decisions. Set after chapter 62, though a little handwavy about the timeline.

Many thanks to memories_child for beta-fu.

The shortest possible checkmate takes two moves, but relies entirely on the opponent's weaknesses.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/fiction_blink_the_original_story_01

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An RTD interview from ShortList: he discusses Waters of Mars and his new-found enjoyment of spoilers.

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We've made some additions and improvements to Notes!

The Notes feature has been added to two action-taking pages:

• You can now add a Note directly on the Add a friend page - handy if you'd like to mark down where you met them or another name you know them by!
• On the Ban and unban users page (under Account -> Privacy) you can now add a Note, including to a group of users all banned at the same time (so that next year you won't need to ask yourself "hey, why did I ban these guys?")

Other changes:

• When you're viewing your existing Notes they're grayed out; click in a field to activate it to change the text (this page can be found from the header by using Profile -> Manage Notes)
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I drove my boyfriend to another city this past weekend so he could take his math subject GRE. I wanted to make it a special trip, so I hunted around for a simple, elegant, no-fuss cake to pack up and bring along. My friend sent me this recipe from Orangette's blog: Gâteau aux Noix, or French Walnut Cake.

This cake has a subtle flavor of white wine, and the toasted walnuts are absolutely delicious. If you're looking for a simple, quick cake to grab a hunk of after dinner, this is the perfect choice.



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To read more of my thoughts about this cake, view more yummy photos, or just to listen to me brood about my holiday schedule, please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!

x posted to food_porn, cooking, and bakebakebake

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Notes augmented

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New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
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5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

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A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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My dearest N;


I understand you hate your job. I also understand you hate your life. What I don't understand is why you would assume I too hate my job, & my life. That must be it...right? You only torture me & make me do all the work on our shift alone because you think that I too, must be as miserable as you at all times. Right?

Look, I'm at work for three hours before you even show up, & I do my job & some extra stuff to help the guys leave a bit early. There is no reason why I have to do your job for the next five hours, plus mine, because you're "too old for this job" & "I need a break once in a while".
Once in a while doesn't mean you SOMETIMES pull the freezer (your main job duty, that I've been doing for a while) & whip together a salad kit, then go talk to the counter girl for the next five. stinkin. hours.

Oh, & hear that buzzer?
That means the deli has an order.
Get off your rump & go make a roast beef sandwich, you crotchety old thing!!!!





Still writing you love hate notes, & probably will be until you quit/get fired,


C.