The Sci Fi Catholic Yak Module
Heretics in space:
"Cap'n, Iconoclasts off the starboard bow!
Fire Mk II Polyphonite torpedoes! Flank speed!"
*whew*... While the rest of you seem to be so busy writing new fanfiction that you aren't even posting, Smiter has finished the first draft of a major project for work. I'm so tired I couldn't even remember the word "gutter" today, and came up with "roof-bucket" instead. (See, it's that jocular Klingon muse, every time!)
Sometimes I long to be merely an overworked graduate student again...
Actually, I'm too busy writing you a movie review, revising a short story, and scripting a comic book to post today. (The movie review should be ready tomorrow.) I wrote the fan fiction quite a while ago. Heck, I wasn't even Catholic yet when I wrote this thing.
I guess I'll put up something quick in the meantime.
Ah yes, too be a grad student again, back when archaeology looked glamorous...
I too had major work projects this week...I am much fatigued..plus need to get caught up on my Carmelite homework for our meeting this Sunday...plus First Friday and First Saturday.... and St JOC you have to read in very tiny nibbles...much puzzled German Shepherd looks..or Scooby Doo...
Yeah...I have not had the experience of being an overwork grad student..but I have had the experience of being a severely overworked non-trad engineering student--when you go back to school over the age of 30 you just can't survive on coffee, cigarettes, ramen noodles, and 3 hours of sleep a night...the ol body automatically goes into reject mode...
Deej says: "Ah yes, to be a grad student again, back when archaeology looked glamorous..."
Glamor, yeah. How come Harrison Ford never makes movies about my profession?
Aramis adds that "he who smites well makes his own glamor." Really? And does that come with adulatory babes? But I don't smite with a sword...
For those of you who like "superhero" comic..
I present to you---
The League of Software Engineers
Tadaah
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/cros...7/12/
index.html
This week I had to give two MAJOR presentations at work, one Tuesday one Thursday.. wouldn't ya know BOTH mornings my especially NASTY little Heidi Fleise muse shows up when I am getting dressed.... cmon..you need a BIT more color to your face.. and a brighter lipstick..and a little cleavage never hurt anyone...and what's with the frumpy suit?? No one would ever think you were HOT going out dressed like THAT?? Well Heidi I have an important meeting--I'm not supposed to look HOT.. She just kinds of rolls her eyes and sighs--whatever am I going to do with you?? You're going to be in a room with all these sexy men, and you're looking like my great-grama..look right over here to the 4 inch spike heel boots..just put them on for a few minutes, just to see how they make you feel...
She's my only female muse that I can think of..and usually not a good influence...maybe she's tag-teaming with a little demon trying to lead me astray..
American military dress uniforms need... a little something. More epaulettes, maybe? Platform boots? Definitely heroically moulded breastplates! And, I hope, more horsehair crests.
I wasn't able to download the visuals on the link above. What kind of uniforms do these League of Software Engineers (what kind of engine is a "software?") wear? Do they come with capes in colors to match the spikey boots?
Smiter--American military dress uniforms...yes..I'll agree with you on that one.. I was in the US Air Force in the 80's and 90's and there was more than a few times I was confused for a flight attendant :/ If I remember my military history the powers that be didn't want flashy uniforms like the French or the German SS or plastered with medals like the Russians..they wanted a more subdued look.
Now the US Marine Corps have flashy dress uniforms. Look them up on Wikipedia for some diagrams.
Sorry you couldn't access the file..I'm not a computer nerd so no help from me....however one guy DOES have a cape...almost Batman-like. If you're a fan of Marvel comics you'd like these guys... the software guys in my dept had the magazine out and I though of all my friends here...
Maybe someone out there can help Smiter with the graphics??
Hey, the link opened this time. (Do these buttons on this mousey-thing do anything? Duh!) Yeah, cool cape. And, wow! What boots! I thought "seven league boots" meant something else, but these appear to mean "inside leg."
So... are those *dress* uniforms? Or does this League have an even greater degree of sartorial assault for special occasions?
I looked up the Marine Evening Dress uniforms. I agree they're sharp, but still lacking in the florid epaulettes and horsehair crest department. I do, however, like the "boatcloak". I also note this helpful tip:
"Umbrellas and purses may be worn or carried by female Marines when appropriate if they are black and plain."
Is it permitted also that the plain black umbrella conceal a deadly stilletto, or possibly a good, solid, smiterly mace? Or is that considered "out of uniform?"
Well--I cannot speak for the Marines--but us Women AF members had a similiar regulation concerning purses and umbrellas, and we could secret whatever we wanted in them, just as long as the functionality was not impeded and it was not blatently obvious. In the purses that I had there was definitely room to conceal a whole range of personal protection devices. Also our umbrellas could either be the small ones that you could slip into the pocket of an overcoat, or the large ones that are practically walking sticks (I don't know the correct terminology for across the pond).. Opens up a whole range of possibilities....hehehe 
And I will admit I didn't wear my dress uniform much (we called them "Blues")... I was a maintenance troop and spent most of my time either looking like a tree or a pile of sand.
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