and also a news update: I'll be shipping out for Japan in August, as I did get into JET after all. :D The period from application to departure is so long that it still doesn't feel very concrete, but I imagine it'll pick up once I get my placement.

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Anyway, the point of this is recent discoveries:

I seem to be the last person to have heard of ( Read more... )

For the benefit of the two people in JE fandom with nice quiet filters flists, je_holiday signups are open again. Yes, I already signed up. I need a deadline or I'll end up going an entire year ficless, which is... bad. So you guys should, too. please (Lest you think I've forgotten about my - my fic debt, I haven't. It's going to get finished. Someday. * ( Read more... )

You may recall mention here of Mt. Redoubt, a volcano about 90 miles from Anchorage that has been on the verge of erupting for almost two months. ^^; Overnight it finally did... five times. USGS spokesman says it's probably not over yet; I really, really hope he's wrong ahaha. Fortunately the winds are in our favor and there's no ash expected to ( Read more... )

Warning: this post is all over the place. And I haven't been keeping up with my flist or comments or anything at all -- please forgive me. D:

Things I Have Been Doing:

( rl things, thinking about fic )

-- and a very happy birthday to procreational, who is extraordinarily thoughtful and caring and generally great. ♥♥♥ Thanks for putting up with me and my oft-dodgy taste in music ( Read more... )

Posting a fic and somehow leaving out an entire line of dialogue? Awesome *facepalms* At least I caught it eventually? ^^;;

To save this post from being entirely pointless, have a very small picspam from my short trip home this summer:

( my mother and I went hiking in Powerline Pass one afternoon )

( my arctic homeland )