Today really was Good Friday
Apr. 6th, 2007 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunchofgrapesWhat a great day today has been!
I met my boss/good friend and her daughter for breakfast this morning at this hole-in-the-wall place called The Virgina Kitchen. The food is soooo good! Got into work around 11am and wandered over to the other building to grab a soda from the little store and what do I see? Sport & Fitness Health Club is doing a promo and they had free chair massage. The chair was wide open so I jumped on it. Because I was the first person and the only person so far, I got about 10 minutes compared to the regular 5. Awesome! I was so relaxed, I was babbling all the way back to my building because I was so dang relaxed. I get back to my office and what do I find? The HR fairy had been by and escorted out our completely useless Admin. I knew we were going to fire her but I didn't know it would be that quickly. We must have really had all our reasons well-documented because legal has to sign off on the terms and they scrutinize everything.
It was nice and quiet so I got lots of stuff done plus I read this hilarious recount of my friend, N's trip home from Cleveland. I know it wasn't hilarious at the time but N, you're right. It did make for a great story and I'm happy to know you and your friend got home safe and sound.
Around 4 I decided I'd run over to the Apple store and get that Sonic Impact I've been wanting for my iPod. It plays the videos on a 7" screen and is nice and compact for plane travel. I also bought a small JBL speaker thingy for my iPod that I can use at work. I had bought the big Bose speaker thing but that was just a little too big for the office. I'd blast away my co-workers. This little JBL will too but it doesn't take up as much space so I can put it on my desk. Anyway, now for the best part. I decided that once I left Apple, I'd call in a carryout order from Maggiano's (great Italian and best cheesecake ever). So I called the order in from the car then drove over to the other mall (Tyson's Corner is mall heaven) and picked it up. Chicken Farfalle and strawberry cheesecake. YUM! Plus they threw in a loaf of crusty bread. I love Maggiano's.
Yup, it's definitely been a Good Friday. And to make it even better, I'm going to re-watch last night's CSI so I can enjoy all the awesome Brass again. Brass is made of awesome!
I met my boss/good friend and her daughter for breakfast this morning at this hole-in-the-wall place called The Virgina Kitchen. The food is soooo good! Got into work around 11am and wandered over to the other building to grab a soda from the little store and what do I see? Sport & Fitness Health Club is doing a promo and they had free chair massage. The chair was wide open so I jumped on it. Because I was the first person and the only person so far, I got about 10 minutes compared to the regular 5. Awesome! I was so relaxed, I was babbling all the way back to my building because I was so dang relaxed. I get back to my office and what do I find? The HR fairy had been by and escorted out our completely useless Admin. I knew we were going to fire her but I didn't know it would be that quickly. We must have really had all our reasons well-documented because legal has to sign off on the terms and they scrutinize everything.
It was nice and quiet so I got lots of stuff done plus I read this hilarious recount of my friend, N's trip home from Cleveland. I know it wasn't hilarious at the time but N, you're right. It did make for a great story and I'm happy to know you and your friend got home safe and sound.
Around 4 I decided I'd run over to the Apple store and get that Sonic Impact I've been wanting for my iPod. It plays the videos on a 7" screen and is nice and compact for plane travel. I also bought a small JBL speaker thingy for my iPod that I can use at work. I had bought the big Bose speaker thing but that was just a little too big for the office. I'd blast away my co-workers. This little JBL will too but it doesn't take up as much space so I can put it on my desk. Anyway, now for the best part. I decided that once I left Apple, I'd call in a carryout order from Maggiano's (great Italian and best cheesecake ever). So I called the order in from the car then drove over to the other mall (Tyson's Corner is mall heaven) and picked it up. Chicken Farfalle and strawberry cheesecake. YUM! Plus they threw in a loaf of crusty bread. I love Maggiano's.
Yup, it's definitely been a Good Friday. And to make it even better, I'm going to re-watch last night's CSI so I can enjoy all the awesome Brass again. Brass is made of awesome!
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Date: 2007-04-09 04:02 pm (UTC)So when I was writing this one that voice, to me, warbled between Brass and some caricature of a mobster and it just didn't feel right. And that radio interview with PG really threw a spanner in it. His voice was sooo different from any of the other ones I'd heard him do, that I really was unsure. If you know what I mean.
But wow, your feedback is amazing and totally not what I was thinking. And of course now the wheels are turning again. But anyway, thanks so much for your awesome feedback.
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Date: 2007-04-10 02:49 am (UTC)I have to say you underestimate yourself here. You really do have a good grip on his voice and I can honestly say I've never come across a fic of yours yet where I couldn't "hear" his voice. In this last one, it really came through.
And that radio interview with PG really threw a spanner in it. His voice was sooo different from any of the other ones I'd heard him do, that I really was unsure.
Wanna really get confused, check these out.
http://www.cedvoices.com/audiofiles/Guilfoyle_Paul_com.mp3
http://www.cedvoices.com/audiofiles/Guilfoyle_Paul_ani.mp3
When I write Brass, the voice I always get in my head is the one he uses at the end of "Ellie"--when he's by the fountain. Maybe it's not the voice so much as the diction.
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Date: 2007-04-10 02:40 pm (UTC)When I write Brass, the voice I always get in my head is the one he uses at the end of "Ellie"--when he's by the fountain.
That could be my problem, I don't have a specific voice for him, it's all over the board.
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Date: 2007-04-12 01:50 am (UTC)I'm really good at Google-Fu and I often look up Paul stuff when I'm supposed to be writing. Actually, though, I can't take credit for finding these.
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Date: 2007-04-11 11:26 pm (UTC)When I read fan fic I hear the gruffer voice of the character Jim Brass as portaryed in CSI, I think Paul G has a softer Boston accent, so keep the voice your hear of him with Ellie by the Fountain..thats exactly how I " hear " him when I read Jim Brass.
Love your stories you are writing great stuff!!