I have been remiss in not posting much at all, especially about non-fandom life, which is kind of... important to make friends, I guess?

( Serious ramble ahead )

Apologies for being gone from the long-form fan networks for so long! I've been sporadically on Twitter but that's all until this week ( Read more... )

I've read a lot of articles about dealing with procrastination and none of them have been very helpful. I also read Getting Things Done a few years ago, which my coworkers raved about but I didn't find helpful at the time. I've also sampled productivity blogs, but they usually seem to make it worse. The mindset that one has to be as useful and ( Read more... )

Like most people, I learned to wash my clothes from my parents. My mom separates colors militantly (light, dark, bright, red), washes all her clothes in cold water, and hangs almost all her clothes to dry ( Read more... )

People ask me all the time: "I haven't seen you in a while. What have you been up to ( Read more... )

So I marched in the pride parade for the first time this year, in the "Queer Geek" float. We had a sweet huge disco ball D20, but that's not the point. I wore a TOS Starfleet science officer dress (I'm in the middle to the right of Clark Kent), and I got tons of Vulcan salutes back from the sidelines, but that is also not what I want to talk about ( Read more... )

I need to break up with both of my partners. I've never been good at this. I don't even... I think the last time I remember deciding to end a relationship and then having to break it to the person, who thought everything was fine, was... when I was 12.

Definitely the prettiest city of the trip. Went to Edinburgh Castle and learned that the site has been continuously occupied for 3000 years, although most of the buildings are pretty new. I spent a lot of the time considering it as an inspiration for Hogwarts ( Read more... )

At this point I already can't remember anything about what we did in Inverness except that the hotel there had the a) Tartan carpet and b) the most uncomfortable mattress I have ever slept on. I folded a towel and put it over the part of the mattress under my upper body to save my ribs from the springs poking them.

We drove out to the Isle of Skye and around it. There are a few farms, but it's very wild there, and mostly devoid of trees except where they've been planted in farms. We headed back over the bridge, which the proprietor of our B&B in Fort William told us used to be a toll bridge and people protested for years by not paying and being arrested until ( Read more... )