Shiny pendants, shiny events, my life is like a Christmas bauble
Right, first off: chimera_fancies is having a massive Christmas sale of her pendants on Friday. Her stuff is unfailingly gorgeous - wearable fairy-tales! Go for it, says I: the sale starts at 12 noon PST. (Eight pm, for fellow Brits.)
I am painfully aware of how quiet I’ve been recently! It’s partly writer’s block, I must admit. I haven’t written regularly since I got back to uni in September, despite generally being a proponent of Write Something Every Day. At first it was simply impossible to find time; and even these last few weeks, when I’ve been able to make time for writing, I’ve just been blocked. It’s really horrible. Getting out of the habit of writing seems to have killed my muse with all the efficiency of a rock to the head.
(It’s also pretty annoying that I can generally write a hundred words or so before the block kicks in. So I open a document! I try! I feel like this could be the start of something! And then no.)
BUT. Emo is not the purpose of this post! Because I have been doin’ stuff! A lot of it seems to have gone from my head right now, but I have!
A lot of it’s been uni-focussed; there’s been LGBT campaigning, getting ready for the National Demo, and then all those classes and learning-type things it’s so easy to forget. :) I wrote a gothic short story about a haunting via Facebook and an essay about why heroines in English children’s adventure stories are so often tomboys. I have to write about my job description as LGBT Officer, which is kind of depressing, but there you go.
I had a seriously amazing Hallowe’en weekend: I went with twelve other fandom people (son_of_darkness, kabal_42, kennahijja, dora_the_nymph, wickedblonde, annephoenix, magic_at_mungos, unsymbolic, dr_ghost, amanitamuscar1a, cthonya, and inamac) to a Tudor barn in the middle of the country for three days. It was fantastic. The people were this great mix of new friends, close friends, and good friends I see far too rarely! <3 There were some absences this year, sadly, but it was relaxed ad chilled and we went on late-night walks and got drunk and dressed up and had feasts with floating candles and debated and played Murder In The Dark a LOT. Seriously, murdering games are the BEST games.
You know what else we did? We had a committee meeting about diacon_alley. Which was a little scary - I mean, the committee is made up of clever, competent people (well, I am only one of those things, but everyone else is very competent!) but it’s still unnerving to realise OH WE HAVE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS. But it was also HUGELY exciting. We talked about programming, and the Victory Ball, and how our theme of the-war-is-over! is going to play out over the course of the con. And it all just filled me with incredible squee. SUCH COOL STUFF IS GOING TO HAPPEN, YOU GUYS. INSANELY COOL STUFF.
:D :D :D IT ALL MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
So, I am pissed off because New Look have STILL NOT SENT ME MY DAMN JEANS. Aaaargh customer service fail. And now I am going to be very cold on Saturday night. On the plus side, I have a great new Ringspun dress (the website describes it as a t-shirt but that is a filthy lie) and some winter boots that are ACTUALLY WATERPROOF. I love my Converse, but their essential American-ness means that by the end of October I was in pretty dire need of some stompy boots that kept the rain out.
Why do I bring this up, you ask? Well, partly because I love clothes and my boots are great so I want to talk about them. But also because the reason I am going to bitterly wish I had jeans on this Saturday night is EPIC.
On Saturday there’s going to be a Diacon Alley trip to see the first Deathly Hallows! Anyone can come, which means YOU! It's perfect because there is a trip to see the second one included in the price of Diacon registration. About twenty of us are going and I am looking forward to it RABIDLY. Especially because after watching the film together and squealing every time something slashy happens, we’re going to Winter Wonderland!
WINTER WONDERLAND, YOU GUYS! It’s free and fantastic and I get to go with some seriously lovely people. Some of them are friends I’m excited to see again and some are NEW PEOPLE who will be fantastic, I am entirely sure, and OH THE EXCITEMENT. CANNOT TAKE IT.
Now I am going to go and read Fall of the House of Usher, because the downside of taking Gothic Lit is that sometimes you have to read American Gothic. Urgh.
I am painfully aware of how quiet I’ve been recently! It’s partly writer’s block, I must admit. I haven’t written regularly since I got back to uni in September, despite generally being a proponent of Write Something Every Day. At first it was simply impossible to find time; and even these last few weeks, when I’ve been able to make time for writing, I’ve just been blocked. It’s really horrible. Getting out of the habit of writing seems to have killed my muse with all the efficiency of a rock to the head.
(It’s also pretty annoying that I can generally write a hundred words or so before the block kicks in. So I open a document! I try! I feel like this could be the start of something! And then no.)
BUT. Emo is not the purpose of this post! Because I have been doin’ stuff! A lot of it seems to have gone from my head right now, but I have!
A lot of it’s been uni-focussed; there’s been LGBT campaigning, getting ready for the National Demo, and then all those classes and learning-type things it’s so easy to forget. :) I wrote a gothic short story about a haunting via Facebook and an essay about why heroines in English children’s adventure stories are so often tomboys. I have to write about my job description as LGBT Officer, which is kind of depressing, but there you go.
I had a seriously amazing Hallowe’en weekend: I went with twelve other fandom people (son_of_darkness, kabal_42, kennahijja, dora_the_nymph, wickedblonde, annephoenix, magic_at_mungos, unsymbolic, dr_ghost, amanitamuscar1a, cthonya, and inamac) to a Tudor barn in the middle of the country for three days. It was fantastic. The people were this great mix of new friends, close friends, and good friends I see far too rarely! <3 There were some absences this year, sadly, but it was relaxed ad chilled and we went on late-night walks and got drunk and dressed up and had feasts with floating candles and debated and played Murder In The Dark a LOT. Seriously, murdering games are the BEST games.
You know what else we did? We had a committee meeting about diacon_alley. Which was a little scary - I mean, the committee is made up of clever, competent people (well, I am only one of those things, but everyone else is very competent!) but it’s still unnerving to realise OH WE HAVE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS. But it was also HUGELY exciting. We talked about programming, and the Victory Ball, and how our theme of the-war-is-over! is going to play out over the course of the con. And it all just filled me with incredible squee. SUCH COOL STUFF IS GOING TO HAPPEN, YOU GUYS. INSANELY COOL STUFF.
:D :D :D IT ALL MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
So, I am pissed off because New Look have STILL NOT SENT ME MY DAMN JEANS. Aaaargh customer service fail. And now I am going to be very cold on Saturday night. On the plus side, I have a great new Ringspun dress (the website describes it as a t-shirt but that is a filthy lie) and some winter boots that are ACTUALLY WATERPROOF. I love my Converse, but their essential American-ness means that by the end of October I was in pretty dire need of some stompy boots that kept the rain out.
Why do I bring this up, you ask? Well, partly because I love clothes and my boots are great so I want to talk about them. But also because the reason I am going to bitterly wish I had jeans on this Saturday night is EPIC.
On Saturday there’s going to be a Diacon Alley trip to see the first Deathly Hallows! Anyone can come, which means YOU! It's perfect because there is a trip to see the second one included in the price of Diacon registration. About twenty of us are going and I am looking forward to it RABIDLY. Especially because after watching the film together and squealing every time something slashy happens, we’re going to Winter Wonderland!
WINTER WONDERLAND, YOU GUYS! It’s free and fantastic and I get to go with some seriously lovely people. Some of them are friends I’m excited to see again and some are NEW PEOPLE who will be fantastic, I am entirely sure, and OH THE EXCITEMENT. CANNOT TAKE IT.
Now I am going to go and read Fall of the House of Usher, because the downside of taking Gothic Lit is that sometimes you have to read American Gothic. Urgh.