Athene's Musings

I don't drink coffee and it seems like these days I just sleep in instead of eating a tasty breakfast but honestly I would love it if I were to be given breakfast in bed (or even for my hubby to make me breakfast at all).  Hmmm... a food I'd travel for?  I can't think of any off the top of my head.

I found this one day while I was searching for pictures of the honeymoon suite to reference while working on my current fic. it was used on lunchboxes in 1978.

Yes and this will be cut for adult content when it's appropriate (there's technically a couple of things that I regret)

1) In fifth grade I received a note from someone who looking back I claimed as a friend of mine saying "He really liked me."  I let the girls in my class goad me into going over (in front of the class) to talk to him.  I remember going over to him, crouching down next to him and him recoiling. I don't remember what he said nor what I said and I think I purposefully started putting a gap between us (at least I remember going out of my way to avoid him in class in sixth grade).

2) In sixth grade I hit a bully over the head with my flute (which was still in it's case at the time).  I had had enough of his goading and turned on him and hit him.  The bad thing was that it was the same day as the band concert that evening.  When I got to the concert I was already worried that I was going to get in trouble for hitting him but only found the kids shunning and actively trying to get me to be physical again (hit them maybe?  I don't know).  I ended up in tears (I could barely go onto the stage without crying.  I guess I composed myself enough to play but after that I broke down backstage).  I don't think I got in trouble for it but to this day I honestly believe I should have been at least given detention for what I did.

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This is actually pretty relevant to me considering my high school reunion is getting ready to happen (a good portion of the people in my grade and middle school days stayed at Bayless until they graduated so I bet some of them remember these... or maybe I just flew way under everyone's radar.

I wish I knew how to imbed youtube vids on Livejournal.  This one is really neat.  It's to "Return to Innocence" and it's about the House of El.  www.youtube.com/watch

I've found myself in a bit of a writer's block when it came to Reeveverse Lois when it came to writing a story that I'm working on.  You see the basic jist of the story (for those on my friends list who haven't heard this) is based around Superman: II the Donner Cut.  At the end of the story (I doubt it's going to be much of a spoiler) Superman turns back tim so that he can correct his errors.  The only problem with the "Lois" issue is that I noticed that Lois already was thinking about the idea that Clark was Superman at the end of Superman the Movie.  This meant that she could plausibly done the coloring thing without directly looking at his stance.  Because of this my Clark was thinking he was home free and when he found out he wasn't he convinced her not to try and do the tricks to get him to admit he is Superman.  Instead Clark is trying to get her to see all the angle of being involved with Superman before she does (all the while finding himself more attracted to Lois).  My ReeveverseLois!muse isn't cooperating with my Clark though.  She doesn't want to look at the issues of being involved with Superman (and she's still fairly convinced that Clark IS Superman because he's never outright stated that he wasn't and she figures he's fishing first before taking the big leap). 

There's a bit more to this story than that but I'm not going to spoil it too much more than that.  Any advice?

If I could live forever at a specific age I think it would have liked to have been 23.  I had just moved into my own place and loved my job even if it didn't really pay enough for anything more than me living on my own with no children and no car.  I was able to get around without trouble and fully enjoyed both my independence and my life.  If my memories stopped at that age though I would not want to.  For one thing long-term that would affect how I did my job.  Things change in science all the time and my job at the Saint Louis Science Center would have been hard to do had I not known about certain advancements that always happened in the scientific field.  I wouldn't have been able to follow lunchtable discussions and been lost.  I would not have liked it.  If I lost my memories as well I wouldn't decide to "freeze" my age.

I don't know if this script was legit in terms of it having been the one Singer pitched to the WB execs but it so it would have been both great and upsetting all in one go. ( Read more... ).

*editted to correct the link...oops...*

Athenesolon is what I used to call myself on a website which was kind of an RPG game that was based around ancient Rome, Greece and other ancient cities (Egypt, Machu Picchu, etc.).  When you registered you got to pick your first name and at the time Athena had been taken and I knew the old way of spelling Athena was Athene so I went with Athenae.  Then for the family name there were a list of ancient people within that city were were prominent.  I chose Solon because I knew that he is seen as the founder of the athenian form of democracy.  I later learned in my historiography class that he's also seen as an interesting case when it comes to history and how we perceive said history. 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon

it has absolutely changed how people form relationships.  In the past you might meet someone in a more casual setting and you would be able to read their body language before you got up the courage to introduce yourself.  You might be able to tell if they are very outgoing or more shy for example.  Those sorts of things don't come up on a relationship profile unless someone is cognizant of those things and actually posts it on their profile (and then things like "shy" usually are seen as a bad thing on those sorts of profiles).  It has definitely helped along the superficial emphasis but not necessarily in terms of looks.  As for financial status it depends on what sort relationship pages you use.  The ones for a certain income set of course but ones like Match or Chemistry or Eharmony I wouldnt' say that would be the case

 

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I don't remember when I got it.  I was barely two at the time but I was told many a time about how I chose it.  I had a light brown Gund Snuffles bear like this one.  She was about 10 inches tall and so extremely fuzzy when I first had her.  Aunt Helen and mom used to tell me that when i was just short of two years old we were out and about and I walked up to them with the bear in my arms.  Aunt Helen asked if i wanted the bear and I just nodded my head.  I used to take her on every single vacation we went on.  As my head was so small and we tended to drive everywhere I would almost always use her as a pillow. 

Snuffles was latter renamed Snuffy and went from a "she" to a "he" in honor of Sesame Street's Snuffy the Snuffalupagus.  As I grew older "he" went back to "She" when I realized that I didn't want a boy in bed (go figure I was only nine or ten at the time).  She became so well loved that eventually the stuffing started to fall out and her velveteen nose first was rubbed clean into a white and then fell off.  When I was around twelve or so mom took the bear, opened her up, re-stuffed her and sewed a red heart button in place of her nose. 

She was by was the one toy I kept going back to time after time after time.  Even when I had to regularly faze out most of my other stuffed toys I kept her and her "daughter" (a six inch Snuffles of the same color I named Alice after Snuffy the snuffalupugus' little sister).  When I went off to college however I had a crises.  Did I take Snuffy who had been with me since I was two but so tattered she was bare in spots or did I take the smaller one.  No matter which one I decided to take I knew I wasn't going to sleep with either one in my bed, instead she would have a place of honor on my bookshelf.  In the end I too Alice, kind of like me leaving my mom and family to go away to college; Alice was leaving her mom for a new experience.  I still have both of them but currently they are locked away so that the moths can't get to them.  It's kinda anticlimatic but for the time being that's the way it's going to be until I have a child of my own to share my love (and favorite toy) with.

When it starts to get snowy I like to sit inside and relax by the fire but after it's stopped and the powder is on the ground I'll pack myself into my cuddleduds and fuzzy sweater so that I can take a hike in the gorgeous snow. If it's icy I have a harder time of it though. If it's sleet mixed with snow I'm resigned to staying indoors because of the hill just below our house. I actually don't tend to get crazy or anything when we have a sustained amount of time indoor because that just means I can put on some music and dance...plus it gives me an incentive to get the house nice and clean. :D

Wow. Perhaps hindsight is 20/20. Perhaps it was just a matter of the first writer having the perfect idea and the replacement writer couldn't come up with anything that was better. Or perhaps it was a matter of the vision being so different between directors that they just ended of being two totally different movies. No matter how you look at the Donner Cut I have to say that overall it is my favorite of the two versions.

I loved that they went with the screen test version of the revelation over Lester's storyline. The dynamic is definitely more real (although you can tell that they are feeling things out in terms of their interactions between each other). Clark has a very real sense of fear that you can really hear that is not played out in the Niagara Falls scenes in the Lester Cut (although it's about his secret being revealed instead of the fear of getting hurt). You also get the impression that he's not trying to overly impress her in the meal scenes at the Fortress. He's more natural here, not flying all over the world to get everything for her. The interactions between Lois and Kal-El are also very different, more natural. I especially disliked in the Lester version that she goes to get changed into something silky; something meant for seduction. There's no hint of that here. I somehow think that if Clark had stayed human for more than a few months they would have found themselves in a very dysfunctional relationship which would have tore these two apart in the Lester Version. There doesn't seem to be the same sort of dynamic in the Donner cut. They never go into it but I suspect it's because she sees a lot of the good qualities of Clark in him and recognizing the fact that he's more than what he plays at as "Office Clark." All of the little moments which the Donner Cut has (from her filling in the lines of the newspaper to the little moments in between lend them a different dynamic which leads me to the altered conclusion.

The biggest issue with their relationship in the Lester version is that it is based around her attraction to his power rather than to his personality. Clark Kent is in many ways part of his personality. It may have been the disguise but it is based around who he is as a person. The way he goes back up to the kid and tries to get him down from the railing so he doesn’t have to come back as Superman is proof of that. I think that this is part of who he is as a character. Some of what he is as Superman bleeds through to his human persona. The question then is: are those things enough for Lois to be interested in Clark Kent? The answer prior to her revelation seems to be in the negative.

Oh definitely Belle from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". I think we would get along like two peas in a pod. He love of fantasy and books in general is such an open door and something tells me that she would love to see my personal library (although I have to wonder how open she would be to my romance novels *is a little embarrassed by them but not by much). I would love to help her tell off Gaston and the "triplets."

The first things I used to do on the internet were really extremely simple stuff. Reserve books for me to pick up at my local library and renew them mostly. The Compaq laptop (almost three times as thick as the standard computer today) was mostly used for either word processing or the library. It was given to us by a church friend of ours who worked with computers for a living. I had atrocious handwriting at the time and found that I never could get my schoolwork done in time... especially anything which required me to write more than a paragraph. It wasn't that I didn't like to write I just was never that great at translating my thoughts into words on paper when it came to school assignments. Sometime in fifth grade my teacher decided that it would be acceptable for me to turn in my assignments type-written the next day as opposed to in class only. It did mean, however that I was expected to check my assignments for grammar issues. Anything that was not correctly spelled got points taken off. It made sense really, when you consider how little time it takes to turn on the spell-checker.

The next computer my family had was one which my dad's job t the time gave him. It had a screen that actually showed REAL pictures, not some picture made up of slashes and letters. On that one I used to regularly get on a site called "AncientSites." It was a forum and webpage which was focused on history, particularly that of ancient Greece and Rome. On that site we were given a list of last names based upon real people in the city which you decided to "reside" I chose to live in Greece for my first avatar and called myself "Athenae Solon." That site went down permanently sometime in the mid-1990s to make was for a new one called "AncientWorlds." Unfortunately it didn't really work as well for me as the old site did and I slowly drifted away.

Dinner with Diane
>Rating: PG
Author: Athenebelle/athenesolon (Christina Cody)
Spoilers: “Versus the Seduction” and “versus the Breakup”
Author’s note: I seem to really enjoy taking secondary characters in series that I like and find them time to converse about the main characters. It’s really neat to take a character who only occasionally interacts with the main ones and see what their point of view is. I am one of those people who actually LIKES General Beckman, I get the idea that at work she’s all business but at home she’s friendly and open around family and her few close friends. The way Gen. Beckman reacted to Roan told me that there was at least a close friendship between them and this was my way of expanding on that view as well as getting a peek at their opinion of what’s going on between Chuck and Sarah. This story is unbetad so all errors are mine. Feel free to comment if there’s a glaring issue with the story…or you really liked it.




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I don't have a full thoughtful answer to this one but I definitely believe that no book should be banned from ANY library. It doesn't matter if it's a high school library or a regular library. But then again I'm just a book geek and learned to much from reading...so much more than classes.

P.S. Yes I know that means that explicit books could potentially end up on school shelves but in high school were you really that innocent? I know I wasn't (even though I wasn't even physically active with others).

I was wanting to learn to play the flute. I loved the way it looked and sounded and I wanted to be able to play it so someday I could join the school marching band. This was in Fifth grade. That Christmas I said that if it was the only gift I received i wanted a flute. I didn't care about any of the other gifts it was the only thing on my mind. For some reason I always ended up waking up WAY earlier than the rest of my family on Christmas morning. When i was little I would use that time to open all of my presents. Mom and Dad put a stop to that right quick. After that I would take the gifts and organize them according to who they were for and arrange them in pretty, organized piles. On my twelfth Christmas (it was also the year I started to dance on point and I learned that when I was twelve so I know I was that old) I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep. So as every year I went out to the living room and organized the piles. There was one gift which was long, slightly roundish but flat. I was nearly shaking with excitement over what I thought it was. Mom came out front. I guess she had heard me or something and suggested I open it. The case was a browned leather, nearly beat up from use but definitely well loved. I opened the case to find a Gemeinhardt flute, separated into three parts. The flute showed some tarnishing from age but definitely well cared for. On top of the flute was a small note written on a rectangle of wrapping paper. The note said something to the effect that this flute was a loan of sorts from a friend and was signed "Santa"). I think that was the last year I thought of Santa as someone other than Mom and Dad. I think they burst that bubble that year. That flute stood me in good stead for the next three years before I was asked to give it back (which we end went and replaced with a flute of the same type). I later found out that the person who had allowed me to use the flute was a friend of my grandpa's who was a professional flutist. Eventually I had to give that flute back to him but it was many years afterwards and I don't think I was ever able to tell him how grateful I was to have the opportunity to learn on his instrument.

Lately I've been going back a rewatching old shows which are occasionally on different online stations.  Here's what I'm watching and why.

"Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman"
Why I'm watching:  It was one of the few science fiction shows that I could watch "live" growing up.  It was on Sunday nights and was one of the shows which mom, dad and co would watch.  I loved this show because of the strong woman with a career (Lois) seemed put together on the outside but also had a romantic heart (falling for "the kind alpha male").  In addition Clark seemed to have a sort of crush on her but didn't let it get in the way of doing their job, both his real life and his life saving people.  Despite all the issues and problems between them they worked so hard to find a way to make their relationship thrive.  Lois and Clark (at least of this series of them) were for me the idyllic relationship.  They were never perfect but they were so in synch despite those issues that they were dynamite together and worked to make their relationship work.  They and Mr. and Mrs. Kent were the TV symbols of a "Perfect" marriage in the time period when I was beginning to determine what I wanted in a relationship.

It was one of the first shows where I recognized a pairing as essential to the story and in fact a pairing I rooted for.  It was in a time where computers weren't as common as they are now and the internet didn't have a strong force in renewals and bringing shippers together. 

If I didn't believe in marriage then I wouldn't have gotten married over three years ago.  As for the cheating aspect I don't think either party is more prone to cheating.  It depends upon opportunities created by the couples activities together (or lack thereof).