State of Stuff

[girlguidejones]

• Finally starting to dig out from the post-election adrenaline crash.  Only took a week.  Not sure if it's because I was so invested, or because I'm getting old.  *L*  I think it may be mostly investment.  I wanted to write a whole post specifically about the last couple days of the campaign, but it still feels too intimate.  Is that weird?  It is, isn't it?  Suffice it to say that while the next president of the United States gave his acceptance speech that night I laid down on my sofa and sobbed.  "Sobbed" is not hyperbole.  Only treatment so far seems to be daily doses of obama_daily , which is made of awesome and has no tagging nonsense and is 100% free of Nazi-picspam.
• Speaking of politics, Bush says he may write a book.  Okay, fine, but when's he gonna read one?  The irony, it burnZ.
• Wincon:  I suck at recaps, living in terror of leaving someone out, so I never make them,  But it was of the good, with many lovely people, hot chicks, great company, crabs, penis straws, and zombies.  Yes, all of those were simultaneous, why do you ask?
• I already have a date (the lovely tjournal !) for Win!Prom, AKA winchestercon '09.  This already means it is better than my HS senior prom, where my date was in the Marines and didn't know if he would get leave or not until literally three days before.  Now if only I don't get jilted for a BNF the star quarterback sometime in the next year.
• Which reminds me to thank a lot of folks today, in honor of Veterans' Day.  Thank you to all who've served, and all of their families who've made do without their loved ones.
• Do not get drunk with gekizetsu  or poisontaster , and then proceed to offer or ask for prompts.  In the case of the former, you will get candle-roasted human flesh, and in the latter, will be called upon to write John Winchester discovering homosexuality in Vietnam.  ::headdesk::
• I ficced, (not the JW in 'Nam *shakes fist at PT*) which process was better received than I expected, given that it was long and torturous like it has not been in a while.  I refuse to give myself a pass (or even a mocking, self-duh) or lean on the excuse that it may be because an agnostic was writing about faith and angels.  *L*
• I owe feedback for my beloved chasarumba , whose amazingly fabulous Casino Royale Vid  "Skin" I have watched three times but not yet put together coherent words in praise of.  Now that I've actually been through the vidding process with her, it has changed the whole dynamic of giving her feedback.  Which is not to excuse the absence of, but rather making it a little surreal for some reason.  Nevertheless, it is fantastic, so Bond-fans, get thee to her site, asap.
• I owe snippets or some evidence that I am acutally *appreciating* the awesome prompts that nwhepcat keeps sending me by mail.  She is going all-out, and I have...uh, not so much.  R, I will catch up some day, I swear.  Do not despair of me!
• Heading out to brynwulf 's place next weekend for a fangirl Gastro-con, wherein we will be cooking and eating and drinking and possibly saying inappropriate things from time to time.  Stay tuned.  Southwest sent me four free drink coupons for our "anniversary", so I may be pre-inebriated when I arrive.  Pffft.  No one will mind, right?
• I've missed quite a bit over these last few weeks...birthdays I can't remember, and fic that I may have missed.  This is your SELF-PIMP PASS!  Tell me/show me/link me to anything you wished I would have noticed, commented on, or want feedback on.  Seriously!
• ETA:  I am a little *buzzah?* at the profile page furor, but then, the emptiness of mine own indicates its value to me.  *L*
• SON OF ETA:  Does anyone know why when you edit a RT post you get all the stupid things???  (see above) More importantly, does anyone know how to NOT get them?  *grrr*