I want my LJ back
So I haven't really posted to LJ in years, apart from the odd 4am angst-laden post that gets totally locked down sooner rather than later.
I don't even pay for LJ any more (and can totally live with just six user pics, honest) so I shouldn't really be noticing how the LJ downtime fuckola is disrupting my perfectly ordered life.
But it is. Dammit, I'm back addicted to LJ and I only have the Klaine fandom to blame.
It's possibly, maybe, even urging me to write again which is slightly odd considering I've not felt any urge to write a fic for three, four years? I'm not even sure what the last fic I wrote was... possibly R+, probably F1. I has NO CLUE!
And while it would be even easier to slide out a little cute fic in the SJM fandom, my brain keeps throwing Kurt and Blaine at me and for some reason wants me to have one of them live in Edinburgh and then find a way to resolve that in a way that doesn't involve gratuitous kilt wearing (although in one scene of brain-fic there is a wedding, and what's a Scottish wedding without hot men in kilts?)
But back to real life - what's been happening lately?
My big three highlights of the last month:
* One of my oldest LJ/fandom friends wee_me came to stay a few weeks ago and it's kind of incredible that we've known each other for 10 years now. I can still remember waiting at Manchester Airport for her and Aafke to arrive for our epic road trip to Scotland and the fact that mere mentions of cardboard David and the Twynholm GP can still make us laugh like kids is awesome.
* I had to do a portfolio for a work qualification which in my usual style I left to completely the last minute and was such a whiny bitch about. It was all about analysing my management style and left me with the distinct impression I should be in a completely different job.
Poor glitterburn had to constantly put up with my bad moods about it, my procrastination and sheer refusal to write anything down, and on top of that also had to beta the whole damn thing (I know she betas for 90% of my flist too, but trust me betaing fanfic has to be more fun that betaing a shit-load of management jargon: forcefield analysis and Egan's Theory, anyone?)
But her patience, nice nagging, and attention to semi-colons totally paid off for me, because I got the results back yesterday and I passed (with distinction!)
The distinction thing is rather awesome because it was a) totally unexpected, and b) the only other person I know who got distinction on this thing in the past is my boss and his portfolio had a Sun Tzu Art of War management quotes heading every damn section.
* I work for one of the biggest names in my industry and yesterday I got to ring the shortlist for our traineeship programme and tell them they had interviews (including one candidate who is flying in from Germany just for the day!)
The utter surprise and joy I was getting on the end of the phone was incredible. I know it's a horrible time to be looking for work, but the gratitude that was being flung my way was really heartening and made me feel a lot better about my job and what I'm doing.
I'm so lucky that when I'm feeling jaded and just plain old it doesn't take all that much to bring me out of my funk.
I don't even pay for LJ any more (and can totally live with just six user pics, honest) so I shouldn't really be noticing how the LJ downtime fuckola is disrupting my perfectly ordered life.
But it is. Dammit, I'm back addicted to LJ and I only have the Klaine fandom to blame.
It's possibly, maybe, even urging me to write again which is slightly odd considering I've not felt any urge to write a fic for three, four years? I'm not even sure what the last fic I wrote was... possibly R+, probably F1. I has NO CLUE!
And while it would be even easier to slide out a little cute fic in the SJM fandom, my brain keeps throwing Kurt and Blaine at me and for some reason wants me to have one of them live in Edinburgh and then find a way to resolve that in a way that doesn't involve gratuitous kilt wearing (although in one scene of brain-fic there is a wedding, and what's a Scottish wedding without hot men in kilts?)
But back to real life - what's been happening lately?
My big three highlights of the last month:
* One of my oldest LJ/fandom friends wee_me came to stay a few weeks ago and it's kind of incredible that we've known each other for 10 years now. I can still remember waiting at Manchester Airport for her and Aafke to arrive for our epic road trip to Scotland and the fact that mere mentions of cardboard David and the Twynholm GP can still make us laugh like kids is awesome.
* I had to do a portfolio for a work qualification which in my usual style I left to completely the last minute and was such a whiny bitch about. It was all about analysing my management style and left me with the distinct impression I should be in a completely different job.
Poor glitterburn had to constantly put up with my bad moods about it, my procrastination and sheer refusal to write anything down, and on top of that also had to beta the whole damn thing (I know she betas for 90% of my flist too, but trust me betaing fanfic has to be more fun that betaing a shit-load of management jargon: forcefield analysis and Egan's Theory, anyone?)
But her patience, nice nagging, and attention to semi-colons totally paid off for me, because I got the results back yesterday and I passed (with distinction!)
The distinction thing is rather awesome because it was a) totally unexpected, and b) the only other person I know who got distinction on this thing in the past is my boss and his portfolio had a Sun Tzu Art of War management quotes heading every damn section.
* I work for one of the biggest names in my industry and yesterday I got to ring the shortlist for our traineeship programme and tell them they had interviews (including one candidate who is flying in from Germany just for the day!)
The utter surprise and joy I was getting on the end of the phone was incredible. I know it's a horrible time to be looking for work, but the gratitude that was being flung my way was really heartening and made me feel a lot better about my job and what I'm doing.
I'm so lucky that when I'm feeling jaded and just plain old it doesn't take all that much to bring me out of my funk.