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It is indeed fortuitous when the day you choose to buy an iced coffee, the nice woman behind the Starbucks counter offers you some kind of fancy new kind for free. I don't remember what it was, but it is quite tasty.
Also, I totally spent about ten minutes telling my therapist how I can only make Emily and Moire have a happy ending in an alternate continuity, although that may be effected by Lauren being the narrator in the main continuity, but anyway as it's going right now they're totally going to drag each other down because they keep being drawn back together, and if everything Emily's done so far hasn't turned Moire off yet I don't know what will because she really does love her, it's just Emily and hence utterly unsuitable, and Moire does sort of deserve to have something nice happen to her, and even though I considered getting her and Lauren together because I find that cute Lauren's straighter than Nixon and always going to end up with Miacah and I prefer them as friends anyway, so maybe I should resurrect Jenny from where ever she buggers off to after Federation service, except then I was considering maybe axing Jenny altogether because she never had much function other than to narrate and even though a Moire-Tom-Micah-Lauren group seems a little off-kilter they are all much stronger characters, so maybe I should port Tavi over from Mnon Trei 'verse, but then again she has Ayuda and even though I don't want to introduce a character for the sole reason of being a love interest, Linny's still on the shelf, and -
Well, what can I say. It's obviously important to me. :P
Also while walking down the street thinking, as I am wont to do, I realized that Rau, Efan, Gareth, and Tiffany (and Shona by extension) don't actually serve any narrative function right now. Rau and Efan don't even have any business in the story, except I guess I (and thus Tegri) felt guilty leaving them all on their own. Uh, I guess Maxine is around because of Rau, and Maxine is useful? I also need to decide if Efan is actually mentally ill or not. Ehh, it's so much easier when they're on other worlds and I can fuck around with metaphysics and make all this stuff ambiguous.
Some of this could be solved by porting the whole thing into Mnon Trei, but somehow... I am drawn back to the Riverbank setting, tangled and problematic as it is.
ETA:
So, I may be getting a credit card (I have one of those pre-approved dealies). I can begin building up a credit history and racking up debt like a good American consumer! In anticipation of being able to (OMG) buy things online, I went to investigate the DVD of A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. Because, you know, it's me and that movie sent me into an apoplexy of fangirlism.
It goes for over a hundred dollars on Amazon. Used.
You have got to be kidding me. Not even I am willing to pay that much. And I am willing to pay an awful lot for things pertaining to that subject.
ETA II:
I got a B+ on my SSCI midterm. A bit disappointed, but given that here, B means "good work and solid understanding of the material" - you earn your fucking As - and this professor has a rep for being hardcore, I am none the less feeling pretty good.
Also, I totally spent about ten minutes telling my therapist how I can only make Emily and Moire have a happy ending in an alternate continuity, although that may be effected by Lauren being the narrator in the main continuity, but anyway as it's going right now they're totally going to drag each other down because they keep being drawn back together, and if everything Emily's done so far hasn't turned Moire off yet I don't know what will because she really does love her, it's just Emily and hence utterly unsuitable, and Moire does sort of deserve to have something nice happen to her, and even though I considered getting her and Lauren together because I find that cute Lauren's straighter than Nixon and always going to end up with Miacah and I prefer them as friends anyway, so maybe I should resurrect Jenny from where ever she buggers off to after Federation service, except then I was considering maybe axing Jenny altogether because she never had much function other than to narrate and even though a Moire-Tom-Micah-Lauren group seems a little off-kilter they are all much stronger characters, so maybe I should port Tavi over from Mnon Trei 'verse, but then again she has Ayuda and even though I don't want to introduce a character for the sole reason of being a love interest, Linny's still on the shelf, and -
Well, what can I say. It's obviously important to me. :P
Also while walking down the street thinking, as I am wont to do, I realized that Rau, Efan, Gareth, and Tiffany (and Shona by extension) don't actually serve any narrative function right now. Rau and Efan don't even have any business in the story, except I guess I (and thus Tegri) felt guilty leaving them all on their own. Uh, I guess Maxine is around because of Rau, and Maxine is useful? I also need to decide if Efan is actually mentally ill or not. Ehh, it's so much easier when they're on other worlds and I can fuck around with metaphysics and make all this stuff ambiguous.
Some of this could be solved by porting the whole thing into Mnon Trei, but somehow... I am drawn back to the Riverbank setting, tangled and problematic as it is.
ETA:
So, I may be getting a credit card (I have one of those pre-approved dealies). I can begin building up a credit history and racking up debt like a good American consumer! In anticipation of being able to (OMG) buy things online, I went to investigate the DVD of A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. Because, you know, it's me and that movie sent me into an apoplexy of fangirlism.
It goes for over a hundred dollars on Amazon. Used.
You have got to be kidding me. Not even I am willing to pay that much. And I am willing to pay an awful lot for things pertaining to that subject.
ETA II:
I got a B+ on my SSCI midterm. A bit disappointed, but given that here, B means "good work and solid understanding of the material" - you earn your fucking As - and this professor has a rep for being hardcore, I am none the less feeling pretty good.