I guess I was on unplanned fandom hiatus for about a week, all told. I was going to try to catch up with LJ today, but I'm just not going to make it back that far. I was busy with some life stuff and also making merry with my girls laurashapiro & kestrelsan. They are the grooviest and we had a fabulous time. :)


Birthdays I missed: kormantic & goldie! Sorry, sweeties! Love and apologies to you. Also, I missed Inui and Yanagi's birthdays. I have no fic to make up for this. Hell, I didn't even send my Sadaharu & Renji Sims out on a Dream Date. I am a Bad Fan.


I bought some eq so I can start doing some weight training. I have Smart Girls Do Dumbells, which looks like a good place to start. Have you used it before? Any advice about weight training in general? I have some neoprene weights (I'll start with 2 lbs), gloves, a mat, and a mirror to scope myself out in. No stretchy workout clothes though. I'm hoping my pyjamas will do for now.


How many chances do you give a spider before you send it to spider heaven? A rather long-legged spider was crawling over the table beside my recliner today as I was marathoning South Park S7. I let it be, as I am a gentle soul. (Also, I'm afraid of spiders.) It disappeared and I hoped it had gone to seek a better life somewhere, to make a name for itself in the big city. Later on, I was back in my chair, still absorbed in the delightful adventures of Butters and Cartman (and those other guys they hang around with), when the FRACKING SPIDER CRAWLED ON MY ARM. I screamed in a way that should have made my neighbours call 911 (callous bastards) and somehow managed to beat the spider off my arm and scramble out of my recliner without dropping my laptop. Still, I did not try to kill the spider, feeling that it must now understand that it was unwelcome and would take the hint and move along to terrorize someone else, like maybe those uncaring neighbours. To give it time to reflect, I went out to the mall. But when I got back, the spider was on the arm of my chair. Clearly, the spider was trying to steal my identity and take over my fabulous life. So I got a flyswatter and killed it.

Now it's raining.


♥ to you. Yes, you.

* I've managed to get rid of most the things in my life that were making me a humongous stressball. This is good. Really good.

* I haven't heard back about the job I applied for. Not sure if they don't want me or if it's one of those things where they take forever to sort through the apps.

* I have got referrals to a couple of other jobs, though. I don't think I can really take something else right now as I still have contract projects to work off, but it's good to know there are jobs out there. I have some really great contacts and references, so I know I'll find something good in time. I just don't think now is the right time to go full-out job-hunting.

* I've had no brain for fandom for about a month and it's made me sad. I hope I can focus more now.

* I think I've forgotten how to write fanfic. This is bad as I haven't actually started my spring_fluff story yet, though I think I've basically worked out what it will be. I might try to write something short to kick-start my ficbrain, so if you see some sappy cliché InuKai in this space sometime soon, please be kind.

* I'm in the process of giving up caffeine. I have mixed feelings about this, but I'm certainly a lot less anxious. At least I'm not giving up beer.

* I am finally catching up with the Bleach anime. Filler, I won't lose to you!

* I have some cheese. ♥

∞ So busy with work right now. I can see a wormhole ahead, I'm working so fast on everything. At least I think that's what that bright light is. Also, Elvis is there.

∞ Last night, I dreamt I had a mullet. I was never so glad to wake up. "You'd look hot in a mullet," the Boy said when I told him about. "But you look hotter without one."

∞ Butters/Cartman has been upgraded from a joke ship to a real ship. I'm taking screencaps for a gallery. I think I need a cute ship name for them. Like Butterstick.

∞ I wish I were drunk and writing some InuKai porn/fluff/angst/anything. That would be like a boozy hug I give myself. ♥

∞ If you heard any rumours about me luring fangirls into my basement with candy, they are most likely false. But Lil and I are getting married in a lovely May wedding.

∞ If you could have Margaret Atwood write some fanfic for you, what would you ask for? Or Terry Pratchett? Or Jane Austen?

∞ I LOVE YOU ALL.

The rising of the sun, the running of the deer,
All merry people rise and greet the turning of the year.

Every year on the winter solstice, I worry that the sun won't actually rise the next day and we will live in darkness forever. So, I'll probably spam you with posts today, just in case.

Thing 1: I have stopped washing my hair. Now, you might think that this is the result of some sort of seasonal depression where I never change out of my pyjamas and forgo any attempts at basic personal hygiene. But you would be wrong. My pyjamas are just comfortable, that's all. And I finally realised that my hair looks like shit if I wash it every day. Even on day 2 it looks all fluffy and horrible. I wonder if I can just not wash it at all ever again. How often do you wash your hair?

Thing 2: I watched Part 1 of the new Garo special. I liked it a lot, very stylish, like the show always was. However, there was a big flaw. I mean, besides Kouga's leather pants. How do they get him into those things? There must be baby powder involved. ( Woe! ) On the other hand, Zero's leather pants were quite pleasing and, god, Rei is looking fine. ( Yay! )

Thing 3: I like cheese.

We had a big snowfall over the weekend and early Monday morning I walked to the mall to get some coffee and some groceries. While getting the coffee, I suddenly felt very sick (I'm fine now -- no worries), one of those "Am I going to be able to even walk home?" moments. So I got out to the parking lot and tried to figure out the best way to get through the foot of snow and slush while funny in the head and nearly doubled over.

The guy who was ploughing the snow saw me picking my way through and made me a special trail right across the parking lot! ♥ It made me very happy.

And on Sunday, which I realise is chronologically earlier and so should probably have been first, but just go with it, events got cancelled due to the snowfall and my partner and I spent the afternoon sitting on the couch eating popcorn and watching Corner Gas. It was the most restful, perfect time.

In the evening, I wanted to write some sort of InuKai snippet and so I put on some music and got out my laptop and tried to think of something. I just kept staring at the picture of them on my desktop and realised that what I really wanted for them was an afternoon like we'd just had: restful, fun, together. And there's no story in that. But it was nice to think about.

Right now, it feels like half my friends list is filled with rage over one thing or another and I wish I could do something to defuse that for you. But me, I'm mellow. Because people are nice.

Happy Halloween! I've got nothing for you. Because I am busy like a busy bee who has too much contract work to do in too little time plus fanfic deadlines and a visit to its parents looming in the not-too-distant future. A bee that is somewhat stressed, though still cheerful, possibly due to the amount of caffeine consumed in the last 24 hours. Bzzzzzzzzz!

I don't know if you dressed up today or not. I did. As a tool.

♦ My glasses make me look like a tool. This is because today was the day that the optical place called me up and told me to bring in my oh-so-cool Inui-esque frames (with the secret black racing flames, as lj user kormantic calls them) so they could ship them off to the place that makes the oh-so-expensive Nikon lenses that are my only option and which set me back a cool $600+, and that place is not in town, so I am making do with my old frames which are kind of a combination between Tezuka and Harry Potter, combining the least attractive features of each. I look ten years older. Also, I can barely see.

♦ My hair makes me look like a tool. I am in the process of trending my look from "butch tech geek girl" to "cool designer geek girl" with a side of "respectable business person" thrown in. So, I'm keeping my labret but wearing less clothes that are purchased in the Zellers Men's Department (though still roughly the same amount of clothes over-all) and growing my hair from a short sticky-up cut to a chin-length bob (which I've had before and which looks pretty good on me). But right now I have in-between hair. I have "middle-aged woman" hair. And the Tezuka-Potter glasses do not complement it at all.

♦ My trenchcoat makes me look like a tool. I pulled it out the back of the closet today to wear to a client meeting instead of my black hooded raincoat. Never again. That trenchcoat? Has shoulder pads.

But I'll get my cool glasses back soon, my hair will grow out eventually, and I'll never wear that coat again. And my ass is looking pretty good these days, so that's something.

I gave my notice at work today: 2 weeks and 1 day. It's time to get out of there.

I have Plans about what's next. Currently they do not involve posting here to say "everybody send me a dollar OMG so I can finish all my fanfic". We'll see how it goes. :)

One of my paper trays is making a weird noise. I hope there's not a giant bug in there.

* pint of dark lager

* raspberry gelato

Whatever gets you through the day, you know?

In other news, this is possibly my most boring entry ever. It makes me want to look back through my journal and find the top 5 boring entries and have you vote on which is really the most boring.

But it would bore me even more to read back that far. So, you'll just have to make do with the current level of boring and take my word for it that it's pretty near the top. Unless you want to go back through the archive yourself and nominate a more boring entry than this one. There could be a prize for the most boring entry found.

Also: Starbuck is hot.

Today was the day when I had to dress up to make a presentation and also the day when I had to crawl around getting computers ready and also the day when I had a fracking migraine and couldn't take any drugs because I had to make a presentation but I got through it all and now today is the day when I am at home and have drugs and a blankie and pizza is on its way.

I think I'll watch Planet of the Apes. I've always had a crush on Dr Zira.

I'm feeling odd today. Off-balance. Not dizzy, but like I'm always falling over. Actually, it feels a lot like this when I'm drunk, only I've had coffee this morning, not Scotch. I keep thinking, I need a reboot.

I wonder how you reboot a person. I suppose a night's sleep might do it, but that's all I can think of. It would be so much handier to be an android and just restart. I could even have a cool start-up chime. And be able to crush cars with my bare hands.

it would be nice to crush things, some days.

In possibly related news, I recently found out that I'm anaemic. Which completely explains why I had been so tired, beat-up, and short of breath for the last few months. I'm on iron supplements, but I've only been taking them for about a week, so I haven't noticed an amazing difference yet.

I bet androids don't get anaemic.

This post seems fairly content-less. I'm trying to be more personal from time to time, since I think I come across as aloof and inaccessible (and possibly scary) and I'd really rather not be. But I feel boring when I do this. Maybe I'm just not emo enough! And it's hard for me to share things about myself.

Actually, though, I think that's one reason I seem to post bits of fic when I have a migraine. I feel lousy and I want some love to make me feel better, but I can't just say, Hey, I'm sick, I need some love! So if I post fic, even really weird fic, I'll get a few comments and feel loved and feel better. (The other reason is that the drugs make me think strange, strange things and the Migraine Pixies make me write them down and post them.)

I bet androids don't get migraines and have trouble opening up to others. But I bet they can't drink Scotch either.