the last two weeks, in brief
My parents visited for a week, which was both stressful and delightful. I think I'm almost done wedding planning, or at least the part with signing contracts. oh God help.
Then we threw our birthday party, which was awesome - I like throwing parties, and I like my friends, and having those things combine is always best.
Then I had
seventhe and vrazdova, with guest appearances by
goldmare and
tuberose, for an exceptionally amazing weekend in which we drank copious amounts of wine and vodka and rum and beer*, played 20+ hours of FF9 each, may or may not have accidentally three or four shared writing projects (spoilers: we did; the planning threads are in my inbox now), flopped in giant cuddlepiles, and generally were delighted nerds who held a grownup slumber party and didn't get out of PJs for multiple days. It was perfection.
* So let's talk about me and Sev and Vrazdova and booze. Last year I took 2 handles of hard liquor (one rum, one vodka), a six-pack of beer, and a bottle of raspberry lambic to ACen. All were unopened. I came home with NONE OF THOSE THINGS and we had bar drinks too. tl;dr I'm a lush when Sev is around. It's kind of hilarious actually.
Then I discovered two new romance authors and consequently blew like $75 worth of Amazon gift credit on claiming ALL THE BOOKS and that didn't even get me ALL of them, but it's enough to be going on with, even at the speed I read. My shame pile is mocking me, which is hilarious because prior to this little spree, I had cleared my "Unread Fanfic" Kindle pile from seventy-*mumble* down to thirty; this is especially impressive, perhaps, when one realizes that in order to get on my Kindle in the first place, a fic is usually at least 10K words. In related news, I had forgotten how excellent Avengers fic could be; ditto Mass Effect; my love for Fenris/Hawke is fierce and undying.
And now I am contemplating NaNoWriMo and what Im going to do for it. Trilogy Book III sounds enticing, if only because then I'd have a complete set I could pitch to an agent. On the other hand, Assassin Adventures And Shenanigans is really compelling also. (Self, the answer definitely isn't "write both." Your hands will never forgive you, not to mention your brain, not to mention that the voices of these two stories are fully incompatible.)
So that's me. How are you?
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Then we threw our birthday party, which was awesome - I like throwing parties, and I like my friends, and having those things combine is always best.
Then I had
seventhe and vrazdova, with guest appearances by
goldmare and
tuberose, for an exceptionally amazing weekend in which we drank copious amounts of wine and vodka and rum and beer*, played 20+ hours of FF9 each, may or may not have accidentally three or four shared writing projects (spoilers: we did; the planning threads are in my inbox now), flopped in giant cuddlepiles, and generally were delighted nerds who held a grownup slumber party and didn't get out of PJs for multiple days. It was perfection.
* So let's talk about me and Sev and Vrazdova and booze. Last year I took 2 handles of hard liquor (one rum, one vodka), a six-pack of beer, and a bottle of raspberry lambic to ACen. All were unopened. I came home with NONE OF THOSE THINGS and we had bar drinks too. tl;dr I'm a lush when Sev is around. It's kind of hilarious actually.
Then I discovered two new romance authors and consequently blew like $75 worth of Amazon gift credit on claiming ALL THE BOOKS and that didn't even get me ALL of them, but it's enough to be going on with, even at the speed I read. My shame pile is mocking me, which is hilarious because prior to this little spree, I had cleared my "Unread Fanfic" Kindle pile from seventy-*mumble* down to thirty; this is especially impressive, perhaps, when one realizes that in order to get on my Kindle in the first place, a fic is usually at least 10K words. In related news, I had forgotten how excellent Avengers fic could be; ditto Mass Effect; my love for Fenris/Hawke is fierce and undying.
And now I am contemplating NaNoWriMo and what Im going to do for it. Trilogy Book III sounds enticing, if only because then I'd have a complete set I could pitch to an agent. On the other hand, Assassin Adventures And Shenanigans is really compelling also. (Self, the answer definitely isn't "write both." Your hands will never forgive you, not to mention your brain, not to mention that the voices of these two stories are fully incompatible.)
So that's me. How are you?
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1079171.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.