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01) Thanks to everyone who sent me a Valentine's Day heart on the LJ! <3 (A month ago, I know). Also a blanket thanks to people who have read my big bang -- that story basically took over like half of my brain for the entire time I was writing it. All the books I read were for primary or background research, etc. So the response has been really heartening, that people care enough to read an admittedly difficult story.
02) Real life has been mostly work, more work, and then some work.
03) When I'm not working, I appear to be spending my time at concerts or drinking in museums, which I'm not complaining about.
04) I'm like 90% with your incredibly overdue auction fic,
wintersjuly.
05)
jeannedecarnin, yours is at like 45%. I'm on try two, so hopefully I will actually be able to give you something you deserve for your bid and all the time I've kept you waiting. :/
06) Work sent me to SXSWi this year and it was a total blast. Loved meeting up with
i_m_pk, and spending about 5 days in Austin. It was weird, though -- I only lived there for a summer but kept getting hit by waves of nostalgia. I got to see my parents for about five hours since United totally fucked over both my flight into Austin and my flight back to DC, so that was nice but also homesickness inducing. Every time I think I'm over Texas I realize I'm not, basically.
07) I saw Hunger Games at midnight opening night (we brought some bread in honor of Peeta). It was super fun, and a really solid adaptation. B/B+, for sure; I found myself having Peeta-feelings that I definitely didn't have while reading the first book. But the tidal wave of racism over the casting of Rue/Thresh/Cinna, as documented by a series of Jezebel posts has uh. I don't know. It's upset me a lot more than I expected -- I think I'm used to seeing race-related media criticism or race-related political commentary but rarely do all these things converge in a way that make me concerned about the ability of people to empathize with me on a basic human level. Heartsick, maybe -- the sheer anger and entitlement over characters of color existing is uh. Crushing, in some respects. I think it's just hard to look at; I sort of wish I hadn't found that Tumblr or read the subsequent Jez posts, maybe?
08) My wallet appears to have been lost or stolen at the movies on Sunday, where I saw John Carter of Mars (accidentally in 3D). Unsure as to why it's being totally destroyed in the box office -- I found it genuinely enjoyable and way less offensive than I was expecting, as it's essentially a Thank-God-the-White-Man-Came story. But it's the first one in space, goddammit. Anyway, I have more thoughts about race and that movie and casting but I don't know if LJ is the venue for it -- I might be opening up a critical review blog in the next few weeks where I can basically talk about shit I hate without causing all my Anglo friends in real life to hate me. Blurgh feelings.
09) Fibro is still fibro and the sudden cold snap today has rendered me pretty much unable to sit up today. This puts an unfortunate crimp in my plans to exercise every day until I go on my very first Big Girl Vacation to Hawaii~~~ in April. Also it increases my already present anxiety about having a huge flare up while on vacation. I was definitely rocking a cane for about half my time in Austin but I don't know how well I can navigate sand or volcanoes and shit. Also annoyed that I probably won't have a driver's license in time for the trip -- being that tool with a passport, whooo. Things about my passport: definitely have had airport security ask to see a second photo ID because my picture is so bad. :|
10) I just felt like I needed to round this out. Maybe I'll eat a cookie and pass out.
11) I can't get the cuts to work on Dreamwidth OR Livejournal. Sorry team.
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