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And there went August.
Aug. 28th, 2009 07:07 pm+
Fics this week seem to have gone over well. I was surprised and pleased by reactions to the Amber/Wilson because Wilson felt so ill-defined to me as I was writing and it focused on the kink rather than on them, but characterization of him and her and them seems to have still come through. And the SGA anthropomorficlet got laughs.
I can make a Bingo if I finish this WIP. But it's stuck. Needs to get unstuck by Monday. And I'm gone tomorrow, Sunday and possibly part of Monday.
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Feeling kind of sick. I don't know if it's an oncoming cold, the weather -- tropical depression coasting by, storms predicted tonight -- stress, or the lingering cleanser fumes in this apartment, but my sinuses and jaw and the lymph nodes in my neck are all swollen and/or stiff. Making me sleepy and blah. So, blah.
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synn is coming to visit after Labor Day. Only for two days and a few hours, but we'll make the most of them.
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Flying up to NY tomorrow and driving back to DC on Sunday morning; long story short, fetching some things for this half-empty apartment. Wishing I had scheduled the flight for next weekend, the long weekend, so I could see my old coworker-friend and the fangirls while I'm there. I miss them. I miss the eggs Benedict and mimosa brunches, the plays and slash parties, the conversations withno_detective that always push my thinking to new places, even the crazy talk about mpreg and pundits.
I'm missing a lot of things lately. It looks like I'm going to be down here for at least another few months, which is not exactly what I wanted, and I only know my coworkers and the Laundrys. (One classmate was here for the summer but she's gone now.) I miss interacting with a group of friends at school. I misscatilinarian, and I miss maddy_harrigan, who I still can't believe is getting married ♥. Even when I sign online, I miss my LJ friends. Comments and conversations have been way down lately on non-fic stuff from the people I think of as the core of my friends-list. People are drifting away, to new fandoms or to their own offline lives or just to one another. It's my own fault for waiting so long to post about things that they turn into lists that don't have any depth to them, and for not having commented much on everyone else's journals for the better part of a year. But I still miss you.
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Weekend trips to Boston (graduation) and Texas (work thing) locked in for October. I'm looking forward to Texas; hopefully I'll get to see my favorite cousin in the world, who lives about an hour from where we're going. Boston, on the other hand, probably will be bittersweet. If I have a job I like by then, then it'll be better.
I've got the travel bug back. Didn't go anywhere in August, not even a subway ride into DC, with job searching and angst taking up most of my free time. Not that that's entirely solved yet, but I want to go somewhere. Next weekend I have three days and no plans. (See above re: wishing I'd done NY then.) Ha - I don't suppose anyone wants a visitor?
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May have found a place to get a haircut. (Totally interesting, yeah?) I have longish curly hair that could be really nice except I don't know how to style or take care of it properly, so when it doesn't dry right or the conditioner and gel don't work or it's humid, I throw it in a ponytail and it's flat on top and I look stupid and even more like I'm still in high school. This place in DC specializes in curly hair and seems to know what it's doing, even if on Yelp -- being Yelp -- a handful of the passionate reviews are negative, people crying that they'll never set foot in this place again because it ruined their hair. I just don't think another annual trim at Supercuts will be enough this time.
Fics this week seem to have gone over well. I was surprised and pleased by reactions to the Amber/Wilson because Wilson felt so ill-defined to me as I was writing and it focused on the kink rather than on them, but characterization of him and her and them seems to have still come through. And the SGA anthropomorficlet got laughs.
I can make a Bingo if I finish this WIP. But it's stuck. Needs to get unstuck by Monday. And I'm gone tomorrow, Sunday and possibly part of Monday.
-
Feeling kind of sick. I don't know if it's an oncoming cold, the weather -- tropical depression coasting by, storms predicted tonight -- stress, or the lingering cleanser fumes in this apartment, but my sinuses and jaw and the lymph nodes in my neck are all swollen and/or stiff. Making me sleepy and blah. So, blah.
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synn is coming to visit after Labor Day. Only for two days and a few hours, but we'll make the most of them.-
Flying up to NY tomorrow and driving back to DC on Sunday morning; long story short, fetching some things for this half-empty apartment. Wishing I had scheduled the flight for next weekend, the long weekend, so I could see my old coworker-friend and the fangirls while I'm there. I miss them. I miss the eggs Benedict and mimosa brunches, the plays and slash parties, the conversations with
no_detective that always push my thinking to new places, even the crazy talk about mpreg and pundits.I'm missing a lot of things lately. It looks like I'm going to be down here for at least another few months, which is not exactly what I wanted, and I only know my coworkers and the Laundrys. (One classmate was here for the summer but she's gone now.) I miss interacting with a group of friends at school. I miss
catilinarian, and I miss maddy_harrigan, who I still can't believe is getting married ♥. Even when I sign online, I miss my LJ friends. Comments and conversations have been way down lately on non-fic stuff from the people I think of as the core of my friends-list. People are drifting away, to new fandoms or to their own offline lives or just to one another. It's my own fault for waiting so long to post about things that they turn into lists that don't have any depth to them, and for not having commented much on everyone else's journals for the better part of a year. But I still miss you.+
Weekend trips to Boston (graduation) and Texas (work thing) locked in for October. I'm looking forward to Texas; hopefully I'll get to see my favorite cousin in the world, who lives about an hour from where we're going. Boston, on the other hand, probably will be bittersweet. If I have a job I like by then, then it'll be better.
I've got the travel bug back. Didn't go anywhere in August, not even a subway ride into DC, with job searching and angst taking up most of my free time. Not that that's entirely solved yet, but I want to go somewhere. Next weekend I have three days and no plans. (See above re: wishing I'd done NY then.) Ha - I don't suppose anyone wants a visitor?
?
May have found a place to get a haircut. (Totally interesting, yeah?) I have longish curly hair that could be really nice except I don't know how to style or take care of it properly, so when it doesn't dry right or the conditioner and gel don't work or it's humid, I throw it in a ponytail and it's flat on top and I look stupid and even more like I'm still in high school. This place in DC specializes in curly hair and seems to know what it's doing, even if on Yelp -- being Yelp -- a handful of the passionate reviews are negative, people crying that they'll never set foot in this place again because it ruined their hair. I just don't think another annual trim at Supercuts will be enough this time.
