Strange Day
Today just seems to keep being weird for me, though I am accomplishing stuff. The movers are settled, so now I can focus on starting to sort and clean my place and arranging to shut off various services. My body is being awful and I don't know why. My ankle's been hurting quite badly and when I went to get lunch, I had a point where I thought I might faint. I ended up not able to eat my sandwich and instead had some yogurt which helped. I've no idea what happened and plan on sleeping a lot when I get home tonight.
I ended up writing a fill over on
marvelousladies, which is awesome, everyone should go play there. The story I wrote is Get Your Claws In, a Peggy, Natasha fic from the prompt: Any: Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. Later I'll post it on Ao3, but I'm happy with how it turned out.
Since I'm still feeling a bit worn out and work is quiet, I'm going to do a few more rounds of the 5 topics/question meme.
Comment to this post saying "FIVE!" and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!
(I don't really care if you say "FIVE" or let me know some other way. Just for the record.)
From
in_the_blue
1. libraries
2. travel
I'm from a family that has always loved to travel. When I was eighteen months old, my parents took me to Morocco and we were constantly on the move. Everyone in my family has spent some time living in another country or visiting for a long period of time. At the moment, one of my brothers lives in France and he and his wife have bought a barn in Burgundy, so they're in for the long haul. My other brother is constantly taking his children traveling, which is great. Having the chance to experience new places, new foods has really made me part of the person I am today. Everything looks a little different once you've gotten a chance to see how your part of the world looks to someone else. Its not always easy, some of my time in New Zealand was hard and on my semester abroad to Athens, I hated my roommates but loved Greece. I haven't been driving very long, but I've fallen in love with road trips, I love the freedom of just going somewhere. I've always been a walker and some of that same quiet and thoughtfulness that happens when you're walking also comes when driving. There's so much of the world and the US I want to see and people I want to connect with.
3. job hunting
4. your very favorite fictional character
Will Scarlett, always Will, who I fell in love with when I first read Paul Creswick's Robin Hood, the story was beautiful and I loved the N.C. Wyeth illustrations. The Will I love is a combination of many Wills from a huge variety of sources but he's mine now. The very first time that I told a story to an audience at a talent show, it was about him. When I was doing a research project, I did it on Pyle and Creswick's books, when I had an awful night in Wellington after watching Atonement, I wrote about Will, when I started at Milliways, he was who I began with. He's my touchstone and I hope that I have a measure of his loyalty, bravery and a touch of his temper.
5. where you see yourself in ten years
Next round is from
muji
1. Why librarian.
This one gets its own answer because its kind of tucked into the other one I did before. Libraries are where I keep coming back to throughout my life, they've always been the safe places for me. I know that I can enter any public library around the world and I will find a quiet space to sit, free internet and like minded people. I want to help create those places for kids, for them to know that they can come to me and I'll help them navigate books and life and creativity. Growing up it was librarians who gave me the courage to try reading books I wouldn't have normally tried and who were simply there for me.
2. Living in Michigan
Michigan is this weird combination of rather like where I grew up and completely different. I'll find myself feeling used to it and then something happens and I realize, no, this is not either of the coasts. Ann Arbor reminds me a lot of both the west coast and Swarthmore and parts of Philly, I think all college towns especially liberal ones have a vaguely similar vibe. Though the school spirit here always surprises me, on game days, Ann Arbor goes blue and yellow, there's a guy who dresses up as an amazing Wolverine. I wish I'd grabbed a picture of him, but it always gives me a little culture shock. The roads are also kind of familiar, Philadelphia is a mess of suburbs and twisting streets but if you keep going you'll hit beautiful Lancaster county. The thing about Michigan is that, the country comes up a lot sooner and the highways and streets are even more confusing. I've gotten lost more times living here than I think I have anywhere else in the world. Its a beautiful and strange part of the country and I've enjoyed my three years here.
3. Other countries.
I've lived in France, Athens and New Zealand, which were all completely different experiences. New Zealand was the most comfortable for me though the life stuff there was the hardest but New Zealand was someplace I felt at home. Wellington especially, I loved Dunedin, but Wellington is a place I would move back to in a heartbeat. I fit there. Athens, I never quite felt at home, part of that was I hated the people I was living with and where I was living. I had more nightmares in that apartment than anywhere else. My roommate wouldn't let me read late, the bed was horrible and our room was incredibly dark. Three of my roommates knew each other since they went to the same school and I just never really figured out how to be successfully social in Athens. I ended up rather shy, but the upside was that got me out of the house. I walked all over Athens, I went to islands on my own and lost myself, it was wonderful but Athens always felt a little apart from me. My time in France was a month long program though I've traveled there with my family and I want to go back to Europe so much.
4. Romance.
I'm a serial monogamist, I first heard this phrase attached to one of my brothers and realized oh yes, that's me. Most of my relationships have been in the two year to four years range with one blip of three weeks. I love having the time to really have someone in your life enough that you get to know each other. I miss terribly being a part of a something, but I feel like I somehow lost some of my confidence. In Ann Arbor, I've kept thinking, I should go out and try OKCupid or things like that but it never quite happened. All the library guys I've had little crushes on ended up in relationships or I somehow couldn't figure out the next step. In high school, I was braver and took the lead a lot, I want to find that again. I miss having someone in my life, but it might be a case of I'm not ready yet.
5. The appropriate condiments on a hot dog.
Ketchup and possibly chili and cheese. I'm rather simple in my tastes.
This entry is also posted at http://ceitfianna.dreamwidth.org/345204.html. Please comment wherever you'd like.
I ended up writing a fill over on
marvelousladies, which is awesome, everyone should go play there. The story I wrote is Get Your Claws In, a Peggy, Natasha fic from the prompt: Any: Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. Later I'll post it on Ao3, but I'm happy with how it turned out.
Since I'm still feeling a bit worn out and work is quiet, I'm going to do a few more rounds of the 5 topics/question meme.
Comment to this post saying "FIVE!" and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!
(I don't really care if you say "FIVE" or let me know some other way. Just for the record.)
From
in_the_blue
1. libraries
2. travel
I'm from a family that has always loved to travel. When I was eighteen months old, my parents took me to Morocco and we were constantly on the move. Everyone in my family has spent some time living in another country or visiting for a long period of time. At the moment, one of my brothers lives in France and he and his wife have bought a barn in Burgundy, so they're in for the long haul. My other brother is constantly taking his children traveling, which is great. Having the chance to experience new places, new foods has really made me part of the person I am today. Everything looks a little different once you've gotten a chance to see how your part of the world looks to someone else. Its not always easy, some of my time in New Zealand was hard and on my semester abroad to Athens, I hated my roommates but loved Greece. I haven't been driving very long, but I've fallen in love with road trips, I love the freedom of just going somewhere. I've always been a walker and some of that same quiet and thoughtfulness that happens when you're walking also comes when driving. There's so much of the world and the US I want to see and people I want to connect with.
3. job hunting
4. your very favorite fictional character
Will Scarlett, always Will, who I fell in love with when I first read Paul Creswick's Robin Hood, the story was beautiful and I loved the N.C. Wyeth illustrations. The Will I love is a combination of many Wills from a huge variety of sources but he's mine now. The very first time that I told a story to an audience at a talent show, it was about him. When I was doing a research project, I did it on Pyle and Creswick's books, when I had an awful night in Wellington after watching Atonement, I wrote about Will, when I started at Milliways, he was who I began with. He's my touchstone and I hope that I have a measure of his loyalty, bravery and a touch of his temper.
5. where you see yourself in ten years
Next round is from
muji
1. Why librarian.
This one gets its own answer because its kind of tucked into the other one I did before. Libraries are where I keep coming back to throughout my life, they've always been the safe places for me. I know that I can enter any public library around the world and I will find a quiet space to sit, free internet and like minded people. I want to help create those places for kids, for them to know that they can come to me and I'll help them navigate books and life and creativity. Growing up it was librarians who gave me the courage to try reading books I wouldn't have normally tried and who were simply there for me.
2. Living in Michigan
Michigan is this weird combination of rather like where I grew up and completely different. I'll find myself feeling used to it and then something happens and I realize, no, this is not either of the coasts. Ann Arbor reminds me a lot of both the west coast and Swarthmore and parts of Philly, I think all college towns especially liberal ones have a vaguely similar vibe. Though the school spirit here always surprises me, on game days, Ann Arbor goes blue and yellow, there's a guy who dresses up as an amazing Wolverine. I wish I'd grabbed a picture of him, but it always gives me a little culture shock. The roads are also kind of familiar, Philadelphia is a mess of suburbs and twisting streets but if you keep going you'll hit beautiful Lancaster county. The thing about Michigan is that, the country comes up a lot sooner and the highways and streets are even more confusing. I've gotten lost more times living here than I think I have anywhere else in the world. Its a beautiful and strange part of the country and I've enjoyed my three years here.
3. Other countries.
I've lived in France, Athens and New Zealand, which were all completely different experiences. New Zealand was the most comfortable for me though the life stuff there was the hardest but New Zealand was someplace I felt at home. Wellington especially, I loved Dunedin, but Wellington is a place I would move back to in a heartbeat. I fit there. Athens, I never quite felt at home, part of that was I hated the people I was living with and where I was living. I had more nightmares in that apartment than anywhere else. My roommate wouldn't let me read late, the bed was horrible and our room was incredibly dark. Three of my roommates knew each other since they went to the same school and I just never really figured out how to be successfully social in Athens. I ended up rather shy, but the upside was that got me out of the house. I walked all over Athens, I went to islands on my own and lost myself, it was wonderful but Athens always felt a little apart from me. My time in France was a month long program though I've traveled there with my family and I want to go back to Europe so much.
4. Romance.
I'm a serial monogamist, I first heard this phrase attached to one of my brothers and realized oh yes, that's me. Most of my relationships have been in the two year to four years range with one blip of three weeks. I love having the time to really have someone in your life enough that you get to know each other. I miss terribly being a part of a something, but I feel like I somehow lost some of my confidence. In Ann Arbor, I've kept thinking, I should go out and try OKCupid or things like that but it never quite happened. All the library guys I've had little crushes on ended up in relationships or I somehow couldn't figure out the next step. In high school, I was braver and took the lead a lot, I want to find that again. I miss having someone in my life, but it might be a case of I'm not ready yet.
5. The appropriate condiments on a hot dog.
Ketchup and possibly chili and cheese. I'm rather simple in my tastes.
This entry is also posted at http://ceitfianna.dreamwidth.org/345204.html. Please comment wherever you'd like.