A Swinger of Birches

NO IDEA where this came from.

2008-07-17T04:23:21Z

It was in the pitch black that they came. Desperate they were and desperation would see them through the rest of this night. They approached the ends of the cave where the forbidden trails were marked. They ignored the signs and one of them managed to disable the alarms with a single glancing blow. They were not to be stopped.

They were a pair of determined and desperate men, men with a single last ray of hope left to them. One small glimmer of light before they were completely lost to sorrow and perdition.

"Are you ready?"

"Are you?"

They entered the Deeps, side by side. They didn't have much time. Soon the alarm would sound and the guards would come. It mattered not. If this failed, they were already dead. They quickly and with the seamless efficacy of two who had worked together a very long time, set up what they would need for this.

One of them nodded to the other, it was all prepared. Now to do what none had done before. They quickly sketched out their will and one of them started the ritual chant. The other kept the beat until he saw his companion's nod.

"Call her name. Bring her back."

The man repeated her name over and over again in time to the chant by his companion as they stared at opposite ends of the bier. Slowly a queer sort of light started to fill the cavern, building more and more until it seemed to explode with a flash. Both men threw up elbows to shield their eyes. When the light faded down to a manageable level, they both half stared in shock at the body lying on the bier.

A lot has happened in a really short time.

2008-07-15T20:06:46Z

Dad got here safe and sound.

Aunt Elaine passed away last night. Which was really strange because two weeks ago, she was fine. Heck up to five days ago, she was fine.

Now she's gone and...I grew up with her kids and yeah, I knew them really well. The eldest is deployed (Marine Core), the next two boys are in college/going into college and the two youngest (both girls) are at home. Their dad now works for mine and yeah...

We're taking a bit of a beating, but we're pushing through as best we can.

Today

2008-07-15T02:44:45Z

Work and Driving practice...

Also Erin, me, pizza, and season one of the West Wing - *grins* This has been one of the only good parts.

Also Dad comes in tomorrow and *sigh* one of my aunts is really really ill. Also I have been having IBS episodes.

Not Fun.

Work is repetitious...so I'm spamming LJ

2008-07-11T16:04:10Z

Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso

*snortlaugh* That would make life a heck of a lot more interesting.

Time Zones post for my own sanity

2008-07-11T15:43:13Z

Time right now: 11:30am.

Parents/Sibling-heathen times - Standard Time: GMT-3 Daylight Saving Time: GMT-2 (Daylight Savings Time: 00h 16 October 2008 until 00h 19 February 2009) Time right now: 12:30pm

Anna and Ali: Central Time - Central Standard Time (CST) = GMT-6 Central Daylight Time (CDT) = GMT-5 (Daylight Saving Time: Sunday 9 March 2008 until Sunday 2 November 2008) Time right now: 10:30am

Grandparents(Colo): Mountain Standard Time (MST) = GMT-7 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) = GMT-6 (Daylight Savings Time: Sunday 9 March 2008 until Sunday 2 November 2008) Time right now: 9:30am

Caitlin: Pacific Standard Time (PST) = GMT-8 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) = GMT-7 (Daylight Saving Time: Sunday 9 March 2008 until Sunday 2 November 2008) Time right now: 8:30am

Josh (for now): South Korea Time = GMT+9 No Daylight Savings time. Time right now: 00:30 am.

Sean (for now): Thailand Time = GMT+7 No Daylight Savings time. Time right now: 22:30 pm

Chris: Eastern European Time (EET) Standard Time = GMT+2 Summer Time = GMT+3 (SUMMER TIME (Daylight Saving Time) until: 01:00 GMT Sunday 26 October 2008)
Time right now: 18:30 pm

(I think that's everyone...)

Ficlet for vorquellyn

2008-07-11T15:23:32Z

Bedtime! Neal/Odessa (from that other other AU)

Odessa slipped into bed with a happy sigh. It'd been an interesting day and she was quite tired. She fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow. Neal smiled as he tiptoed in later that evening. His wife was cute all curled up on her side, sound asleep like that. He slid underneath the covers, trying not to wake her. She sleepily turned over and wrapped an arm around him. "Hi you," she sleepily murmured. He tenderly brushed some hair out of her face with one hand, "Hi. I was trying not to wake you up." He buried his nose in her hair, smelling her floral shampoo. She snuggled further into him. "'m glad you're home." She told him with a kiss before slipping back to sleep. "Me too," he whispered as he drifted off, a smile on his face and his wife curled up in his arms.

booknerdguru @ 2008-07-10T17:06:00

2008-07-10T21:05:20Z

He had both legs up curled up on the small window seat, scowling at the outside. They'd just come back from dinner with her parents and her mother had ambushed him. There'd been talk about settling down and children and making an honest woman out of Dess. He'd not handled it well, flailing and grasping at anything he could think to use to get the woman to stop talking.

Odessa's brother had rescued him. Apparently he liked him, no idea why. Something about making his sister smile. Marcus had just been grateful to get away. Her mother was scary and she often had him flailing for answers, which made him feel out of control and shaky. He hated those feelings.

Dess came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him. "I'm sorry. I should have been there, but Dad was showing me something." Marcus just leaned into her not saying a thing. He didn't have to, she already knew how he felt.

First two ficlets for vorquellyn

2008-07-08T18:15:38Z

He snickered to himself as they ran away from the scene. It was open warfare between the two greek societies and it'd been his idea to put a time delay on the ink bomb. Give them a chance to be seen somewhere else, good for alibis. Their fraternity was also holding a costume party, so it'd be no trouble at all to go from the dark clothes they'd worn to help conceal themselves to their costumes. This would definitely get back at them for the prank they’d pulled last week. The really brilliant thing about it? The ink stained. His crew had all worn gloves to handle and assemble the ink bombs. They’d be wearing the ink for a week if not more.

He was in an interesting situation. If interesting could really be used to define this. He was locked out of his apartment. He also was wearing nothing but his birthday suit as his son would have referred to it. Neal’d been traveling for a symposium type thing and the guys at his office had invited him out for drinks. He’d figured it couldn’t hurt and it’d keep him from moping around the apartment. The symposium was only for a week and it’d been two days since Neal’d left, but he was already missing his partner. Sleeping in the bed without him felt odd. He wasn’t fond of it. So he’d gone out with the guys. And there had been drinking and friendly inter-office dares…and tequila. He’d never had a good relationship with tequila, which was why he was here with no keys and no wallet and no clothes. He was sure that all three of those things were in one of the designated driver’s cars, but he’d yet to determine which one. He’d just wanted to get in and drown himself in a shower. He’d been beating his head lightly against the door when he’d remembered that their neighbors had been given a spare key.
He knocked on the door and Odessa answered. With a long look at him, she finally looked him in the eye and asked him with a perfectly straight face, “Can I get you something?” He was blushing, he could feel it. “Just the spare key thanks, I’m going to go drown myself in the shower.” She turned and handed it to him. “You have fun with that.” He let himself in and mentally thanked her for waiting until the door was closed to start laughing.
He was never going to live this down.

'Nother Drabble/Ficlet for adsartha

2008-07-07T23:16:11Z

Inexperienced!Macha - 220 words

Macha was all for getting carried away in the heat of passion, but this was semi-ridiculous. It really was.
She was getting slightly nervous about tonight. Tonight was the night that she and Nick were finally going to see if moving their relationship to the next level would work out. Actually it should have been a while ago, on her birthday day, but she'd been otherwise detained, literally.

Her mother hen of a boyfriend (what'd he do? Take lessons from Ali while she was gone?) had also insisted they wait until she was sure she was totally physically okay. Lately though, every time they'd started to get comfortable and thing were moving along at a decent pace, someone or thing interrupted them and killed the mood. Every. Single. Time.

So they had actually made plans tonight. Dinner, a late movie, and then since his mom was at a conference type thing for work (Peter was there too, which had Shiloh acting slightly odd), they were going to seal the deal then.

This was nothing that she hadn't done before, in a different body, her mind whispered, but she ignored it. She'd done this before, many dozens of hundreds of thousands of times, so why by Danu's name was she *nervous*?

She just didn't get it.

Drabble-ficlet for adsartha

2008-07-07T14:26:49Z

Who wanted Longwinded!Ali and then mentioned something about the proposal. *grins*

"Tell me why we're here again?" Bea asked her sister.

"Because Ali needed our help, I don't know," Shiloh replied, poking her sister. "He sounded really frantic on the phone." She craned her head, looking for the dark- haired Dagda.

Bea poked her twin back and pointed to where Ali was approaching them, "What'd he do to his hair?" Shiloh bit back a laugh, "Ran his fingers through it more than a few times probably."

"I need you to listen to this and tell me if it's crap." Ali explained, he saw both girls nod, taking a deep breath, he started. "When I first saw you in the restaurant that night, something about you spoke to me. You looked glorious and the surprised look in your eyes intrigued me. We got to talking and I will admit to playing the part of charming restauranteur at first, but you looked like you needed someone to talk to, so I stuck around, and then you flirted back. You flirted back and it intrigued me further and then the blueberries thing was just a wild guess, but it was a lucky one...I hadn't actually expected you to come home with me, but you did and I...I can honestly say that from the moment I saw you walking into the restaurant, I knew you'd rock my world and you have."

Bea poked her sister and mouthed "blueberry thing" with a quizzical look on her face. Shiloh waved her off, she wanted to listen more. Ali continued, eyes staring off in the distance, "I suppose what I'm really getting at is..." He dropped to one knee, "I cannot promise you that it will be an easy walk for us, I can't promise that we won't fight and occasionally want to strangle the other person. I guarantee there will be hard days and tough times. I guarantee that at some point one of us will want out of this thing. But I also know that right now if I don't ask you to be mine, I will regret it for the next six lifetimes. Because I know that no matter how screwed up things may get, you're the one I want to come home to." He pulled out the ring box. "Marie McCullough, will you marry me?" He stayed like that for a moment before jumping up and running a hand through his hair. "So what'd you think?"

Shiloh grinned, "I like it." Bea shook her head, "Longwinded, but other than that, pretty cool. You sure you want to do this? Marriage is the last legal form of slavery, you know." Ali and Shiloh just shot her bemused looks. Bea shrugged, "I'm just saying."

DrabbleMeme!

2008-07-07T12:56:47Z

The Drabble Meme
Pick (or suggest) a facet of a character I write and I'll write a fic or a drabble based on her and your muse (if you so please). You can pick your top three and I'll write you at least one.

Here is Blaise's List - List!

and Wash's - List!

And as for the other characters residing in my skull...if you have a specific one you want to see...comment with the fandom and the character of mine you'd like to see (and the character you'd like them to interact with).

Here are the facets:
1. Playful!
2. Murderous!
3. Flailing!
4. Incarcerated!
5. Deviant!
6. Ill!
7. Intoxicated!
8. Wildly Inappropriate!
9. Eloquent!
10. Cooking!
11. Naked!
12. Bitchy!
13. Inexperienced!
14. Young!
15. Long-winded!
16. Bedtime!
17. Jealous!
18. Inquisitive!
19. Confused!
20. Arrogant!
21. Angry!
22. Loving!
23. Working!
24. Needs-a-Hug!
25. Choose-your-own!

"Welcome to Tennessee - Patron State of Shooting Stuff!"

2008-07-06T04:41:38Z

So what did I do today?

I had driving practice with LadyBoss. I drove the entirety of 695, aka the Baltimore Beltway as well as driving on some really *FUN* Baltimore back-country roads ( alison_sky you would be proud of me). There and back.

Back was also in the dark to practice Nighttime driving - *grins*

We hit up Target as part of the errands we ran. LadyBoss got curtains and bedthings. I got Shooter (DVD), finally my own set of UNO Cards (favorite card game aside from Poker and Spoons), some new makeup (which I bought umprompted and because I wanted to- don't fall dead of a heart attack, little sis), and some other small toiletries.

And then to home to finish up the Powerpoint for service tomorrow morning and rewatching the Alison Sky Memorial Copy of Shooter for the...161'st time (I think).

Happy Independence Day!!!

2008-07-04T16:58:34Z

Happy Fourth of July to all the Americans and Ex-pat's on my FList.

Our country ain't perfect but she's ours and I'm kinda proud to be a part of this nation.

We're still here. 232 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, we are Still Here.

That's pretty special.

So happy Independence Day everyone!!!

And yes, all the 1776 songs are currently replaying in my head, e_chan, why do you ask?

Back in the Saddle

2008-07-02T02:07:38Z

I have made it back to MD.

Darned if I am not already seriously missing TN.

It was really awesome to meet gelsey in person though. She's as awesome in real life as she is here on LJ. *grins*

Now on to the family drama, school drama, and life drama (and making my fibro specialist's head implode when I gleefully tell him what I did this weekend!)

Catching up on RPs and life and we are now starting out engines to work out all the problems and also make money at work.

Zoom, zoom!

I really hate change

2008-06-30T16:55:46Z

But seeing as I am both a military brat and a missionary kid...this *really* should not be news. To a certain extent, it's not either.

Shall I tell you what has prompted my latest reassertion of the fact that I truly loathe change? Well, it's a fun story.

Okay, so two years ago come this November, I was dragged to a write-in by a friend. I'd never been to any before now even having done Nano for two years (foreign country, natch), so I was a little nervous, but also excited. I had been living in the country for six months now and I was starting to come more and more out of the culture shock borne OMG This Place Is Scary and I Shall Hide Most of Me Until I Am Certain I Shall Not Be Eaten type of phase. It was fun and I got very little writing done. Now why does this particularly matter to June 2008?

Well because it was at this write-in that I met both analise and alison_sky. I met analise first and then encouraged her to drag her roommate down here. All three of us had that Well I Just Met You But I Can Already Tell You Are People of a Like Mind moment. It was glorious and hilarious and I have never been as glad to go as I was then.

We three bonded quickly and it used to be true that I spent more weekends at their place than I did at my own for the longest time.

We continued the friendship and alison_sky and I discovered a whole wealth of common subjects we adored (or mutually hated...). We were mutually corrupting influences to each other.

This kept going until 2008 when she knew she needed a new job and she started looking. Through a long process she settled on moving to Nashville in order to be closer to what she wanted to do. So since she is one of my best friends and I have the mad packing skillz, I agreed to go with her down to Nashville. So we drove down along with one of our other mutual friends scifantasy and the car trip was long and hilarious in bits.

So here we are in Nashville (which I adore because I adore the South. Sweet tea, grits, and MoonPies, oh YES) and we have moved her in and the place she's staying is gorgeous and both scifantasy and I knew the second we walked in that she was going to thrive here. All her things are now in the apartment and she has some good old friends here to help if she needs it. She's got three interviews, which is just brilliant and it looks like things really are on the up and up for her. Which makes me so happy and relieved that I just cannot fully express it.

My best friend is a force of nature sometimes, sassy and dynamic and she's a survivor. She'll be fine. She's going to take Nashville by storm, I just know it.

Tomorrow I'm going back to good old MD, with my own special crockpot of issues and a big Ali-shaped hole in my MD life. But while I am going to miss her something fierce (yes I *know* that there are these new fangled thing such as phones and internet - kinda not the same as actually having the person around) and it is goign to take some adjusting to get used to not being able to pick up the phone and go "Ali, I'm bored. Let's go out."

I'll deal with it. Cause I'm also a survivor and since I plan to come down to Nashville for spring break, I'm going to focus in on that and work my butt off to make it happen.

There ends my story for the moment.

My best friend, Ali has moved to Nashville and tomorrow I've got to go back to my weirdcrazyterrifying life without her.

So while I may hate change, this one is one that will be vastly better for her (I can see the change already - she's got a lighter spirit about her) and so I'm not going to begrudge her this happiness.

Cause I love her and she totally deserves this change. I admire her for taking a chance and committing to moving before knowing if she's got a job. Lack of security is scary and while she knows that, she's also not letting it stop her.

Which is pretty darn cool in my book.

SUCCESS!!!

2008-06-29T18:08:56Z

We have successfully unpacked and moved all of alison_sky's stuff into her new apartment. Before and after pics to be forthcoming...

Right now scifantasy and I are taking a well needed (and deserved) break. *grins*

Live from Nashville

2008-06-29T05:59:47Z

We made it!!!!!

No one died/was grievously injured in the packing up or the hauling to ( except for a brief ferret flirtation with destiny).

We are now going to sleepish.

Possibly...

When we can stop laughing like loons.

Moving!!!!!!

2008-06-28T05:07:10Z

Finally finished the all of the packing.

Going to die now...

This shall be the general icon for...

2008-06-27T13:59:22Z

alison_sky
e_chan
stereotype_vamp
analise
kittydesade
kel_trina
liveandie
gelsey
synecdochic
ivorygates
aikakone
adsartha

There are more I know...but I'm lazy... *grins* Enablers, the whole lot of you!

Pain.

2008-06-26T18:48:15Z

Localized pain that it is 17 inches length wise and 4 inches height wise that's both in my front and my back.

SO the word of the day is OW

Book Meme (gacked from vorquellyn )

2008-06-26T14:57:21Z

The Big Read thinks that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

Is it bad, d'yuou think that I saw this list and immediately thought of 40+ books that I personally thought should have also been on here?

Where are my beloved Edgar Rice Burroughs? My Upton Sinclair? The rest of my favorite Alcott books? Dumas wrote more than just these books listed here (including a fabulous one on the Borgias). Where is Machiavelli's the Prince??? Or Sun Tzu?

...

Where's Sophocles? Where is Homer? Malory and TH White should also be on here.

... I'm just saying...

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I haven't read much of the poetry but I've read most of the plays)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (And Through the Looking Glass)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Occasionally while I work...

2008-06-24T18:50:40Z

Every now and then one of the many voices/muses/characters in my head will surface to bug/remind/say hello to me etc.

[I also have the really bad problem of soaking up muses like a sponge, the characters in my head are numerous and they keep growing - I swear there's a sign on my forehead that says: Vacancy - All characters welcome.]

Today in the middle of opening a new case for my LadyBoss, these two gems arose.

"We're not lying, we're prevaricating! There's a difference!"
"Which is?"
"More syllables."

"Can I have Sam's arse for salsa dancing?"
"Just his arse? Sure!"
"Toby!!"

Let me just take a moment to say that I have NO EARTHLY CLUE who Sam, Toby, and Random Person #3 are.

*headdesk*

What!? What!?!

2008-06-17T14:58:13Z

Wizard's First Rule the Miniseries

What? *blinks*

I can't believe that they are doing a mini series on Terry Goodkind's first Sword of Truth book, Wizard's First Rule. Having read the book several times, I'm wary of what they might do to it or how certain things in the book will translate to the screen.

Also the mini-series? Being done by ABC/Disney. This has me even more worried. While Richard in the first book is not bad, these are not books I'd recommend to someone under the age of 15. My sister and I joked as we were reading the series (given to us by a dear old friend) that Richard (the main character) was essentially "an older darker version of Rand al'Thor." If you know anything about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, that's pretty telling in and of itself.

But yeah...I love the series, don't get me wrong. But they aren't what I'd consider kid material or even young adult material. Which makes me seriously worried about ABC/Disney's involvement with it.

Also? Being directed by Sam Raimi which while Spiderman 1 was good...well I haven't seen a lot of his stuff that I'd call really excellent. The two actors they have cast as the two leads also look nothing they'd been described at least as far as I remember them being described in the book.

The latest press release - taken from Here

Sam Raimi's 'Wizard's' lands leads
Craig Horner, Bridget Regan to star in syndicated series

By Kimberly Nordyke

May 21, 2008, 01:00 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- Craig Horner and Bridget Regan have been tapped to star in Sam Raimi's syndicated series "Wizard's First Rule," which launches in the fall.

The scripted series, an hourlong weekly from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, is based on Terry Goodkind's book "Wizard's First Rule" and epic fantasy series "The Sword of Truth."

Horner will star as woodsman Richard Cypher, who transforms into a magical leader and joins with a mysterious woman named Kahlan (Regan) to stop a bloodthirsty, sinister tyrant.

Horner, an Australia native, recently co-starred on the Australian series "Blue Water High." Regan recently co-starred in the Broadway comedy "Is He Dead?"

"Wizard's" has been cleared in 95% of the country for its fall launch. Production on the 22 episodes begins this month in New Zealand.

Raimi is executive producing with Robert Tapert, Joshua Donen, Ned Nalle and John Shiban.

Meme from interfection

2008-06-16T19:36:51Z

Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

My replies as chosen by interfection

social experiments
I'm interested in what people will do and how they're conditioned to do some things and not do others. It's disquieting sometimes, but also
jareth/sarah Labyrinth OTP!!!! Because the dynamic between the two of them is incredible. Because she screws with his head just as much as he screws with hers.
machiavelli Because I love the Prince (it made me giggle with how much sense it makes) and because everyone should be made to read it at least once. Machiavelli was a canny ole son of a gun.
speculative fiction Because it's fascinating and there are no real rules other than the ones you take with you.
ancient architecture Because it's a visible memory of the past. Because I think the ancient masters were on to something with their creativity and their ideas.
tuatha de danaan The children of Danu, part of Celtic Mythology. Wicked cool race of deities.
colin firth Because he's hot and British and delicious and his confused look is SO adorable.

Also, he's Mr. Darcy. 'Nuff Said.

Everything you ever wanted to know...or not

2008-06-16T18:45:26Z

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute! Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER?since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

1. First Name: Bethany, after a cousin and a Great-Aunt who spoke Elvish (and also died of an aneurysm). This was after they'd gone through names like Hadassah, Patience, Desiree, and Beth...

2. Age: 21, and there are days I act it and there are days I don't. Mostly it has to do with the people around me at the moment.

3. Location: Downtown Historic Annapolis, MD. Home to the Naval Academy and one of the Historic places of the American Revolution. Also known as the Sailing Capital of the World and a drinking town with a sailing problem.

4. Occupation: Which one? I have several including In-Neighborhood IT person, Executive Assistant, Wonder!Babysitter, and PowerpointGal. Also Full Time History Major (cause we're y'know the Chosen People of God).

5. Partner? Single currently, no matter what e_chan would tell you. Single and content with it.

6. Kids: Um, do siblings count? Cause if not, then no.

7. Brothers/Sisters: 2, two sisters, one brother, 19, 15, and almost 9 respectively.

8. Pets: 2 cats (Khufu the Siamese and Paz *cough*Osama*cough* the Calico) 1 dog (Ceramic the Black Lab)

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:

1. Working Lots in order to pay for school.
2. Finish doing the housekeeping type stuff
3. trip to Nashville with alison_sky and scifantasy

10. Where and for what did you go to school? Anne Arundel Community College - Gen. Studies. UMBC (University of Maryland: Baltimore County) - History Major.

11. Parents: Mom and Dad, Southern Baptist Missionaries in Brasil. Currently living in Rio.

12. Who are some of your closest friends? alison_sky and e_chan My braintwin(s) are vorquellyn and adsartha. Also big shout outs to analise and fearthebandgeek and masteradana.