Another month that was, by volume, really intensely about work! But I ate a lot of delightful things, some of which were work-related and some of which were not. (At my workplace's Winter Celebration my friend and I agreed that it really said something about how very sad we were that we were SO, SO happy at the Winter Celebration, and had been long ( Read more... )

What even WAS this month? I have no idea, and I have no idea where it went. I spent most of it [THESE ENTRIES AREN'T ABOUT WORK], well. Okay, then. Here are my non-work highlights!

Linkin Park: Linkin Park put out a new album, and linked up with some indie record stories to host listening parties (a full playthrough of the album a week before its ( Read more... )

You'll never guess what October was like. In a rare turn of events it was, you guessed it, chock full!! In reality, I spent the vast majority of this month just working 7 days a week, well beyond the 9 to 5 window. But I got to take four days off (Thursday-Saturday two weeks ago and this past Saturday). But let's, as usual, ignore that and my ( Read more... )

May was another incredibly full month, where you look back to where it started and it seems inconceivable that it all happened in the same month. I'm going to leave out all the work stuff.

Cars: At the end of April I took my car in for some caliper noise--100 miles later, while driving on the Interstate, I heard something clatter through my LF ( Read more... )

Did it take five tries to figure out how to type additional text onto this pre-made entry using the new post editor? Yes, yes it did.


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My planner for 2022 included a section to list out things you were grateful for each month and week, and I loved going back through these this evening. For posterity:

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For spn_summergen this year, my gifter wrote me TWO fics based on two of my prompts!! One for the challenge itself and another as a bonus chaster after. What a generous and creative spirit! Please go tell them what a gem they are:

There Is a Light (That Never Goes Out) by hootiepgh ( Read more... )

I was going through this journal trying to find a photograph I knew I'd taken of a birthday cake I'd made for my favorite Bleach character, and ended up going through all the entries in my Archive that had "Bleach" in the title. (This was before LJ had a tagging system, or at least before it became more of a convention on this platform ( Read more... )

As is typical of me, a person incapable of merely "liking" a thing and completely duty-bound to be all-consumingly obsessed with a thing or bust, my Bleach anime-watching sessions with my bff inevitably led to "read 15 years' worth of serialized manga in three days ( Read more... )

When I first started this Livejournal, it was to follow a few friends I'd met through fandom. I didn't quite understand the utility of the journal at first, because my entree into online fandom was through webdesign--so we all had our own sites, maintained our own link lists and affiliates, etc. "Social media" as a concept wasn't a thing yet, so ( Read more... )