your words in my memory are like music to me

[iseult_variante]

Wow, I really didn't mean to have an LJ hiatus, but um.  Hi?  It was a busy summer, and then every time I tried to come back to LJ there was some kind of wankpocalypse, which tends to put me in lurker mode.  Heh.  OK, so this posting thing, I think I remember how it goes.  Maybe I should warm up with a numbered list?

1. Oh GOD, the inadvertent hiatus = defaulting on two fic challenges.  Bad me!  I feel slightly less guilty as they were challenges and not exchanges, but I feel more guilty for feeling less guilty, so the net guilt remains the same.  Woo?  At any rate, I am resolved to finish the fics.  RESOLVED!  (They are fics for doitillegally and spn_xx, if you are interested in applying pokey sticks.)
2. There seem to be new people who have friended me?  Hi, new people!  Please introduce yourselves so that I know where you came from?  Er.
3. Re: some of the wankery - in the event of the Great Migration, I would be iseult_variante at insanejournal and greatestjournal, although those will remain blank until the time comes.  I can't seem to get a journalfen account?  Really, though, I fall into the "Won't the problems be similar at other service providers?" and "I'm waiting to see what fanarchive comes up with" groups.
4. Re: the rest of the wankery - oh, fandom.  *pets while facepalming*  (Although some of the meta was really interesting, where it stayed civil.  Mmm, meta.)
   
5. Oh, and I spent a good chunk of the inadvertent hiatus lurking in bandom.  The only person who is going to understand this is
   teaspoon, I think.  There is SO MUCH shiny there, people.  It is of MAXIMUM ADORKABLE.
   
6. I just friended a bunch of bandom-types and also vidders.  Hello, other new people, if you have found your way here!
7. babybrother_variante is all grown up and moved to Tdot.  AUGH.  On the upside, I will be down that way at the end of the month to see his new place, it's looking like.  Torontonian LJers, yay!  (
   starfishchick, I won't have to sleep on your futon!)
   
8. Watching me read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would probably have been pretty hilarious, as I went through the following reactions, in order:  disbelief, sniffling and blinking really hard, gaping, blinking even harder, putting the book down and blinking harder than I have ever blinked before (accompanied by shaky breathing), weeping at the open book while making sounds like grief-filtered vocal Paul Gross arms, hugging the book.  Overall, I liked it.  :)
9. The coolest thing I did this summer, for certain definitions of "cool" - I went to social psychology summer camp, people.  SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SUMMER CAMP FTW!
10. ... and now I am back into the major swing of school.  I've finished all of the requirements for my PhD except, like, actually dissertating, which I have about 20 months to do before my funding runs out.  SWEET.  On the downside, my timing with respect to getting publications in time to apply for post-docs and jobs is really, really bad.  Fnar.  Dear research projects, I know that I am somewhat made of win for having so many of you, but it would be really awesome if some of you could spit out some bow-tying, i-dotting and t-crossing results so that I can write you up.  Thanks!
11. I like eleven.  It's not my favourite number (5!) but it is pretty awesome.