Er, hi? Take 2.
My last post was in May. Yipes.
So, stuff! And also things:
New job! Cool new job with good $$ and some fun coworkers. Definitely a long-term thing given what they want me to do. Downside: I have to dress up pretty much every day (I'm running through panty hose at an alarming rate. Please let it be fall so I can wear boots and long skirts now) and a long commute. But! I'm getting paid enough that I will be able to move into an apartment of my own this fall. HUZZAH! I miss my stuff, you guys. SO MUCH. I will never ever take being able to shower whenever I want for granted again. (I'm so not designed for cohabitation.)
I'm having some severe and epic mood swings. As usual with my brain, once the whole "career" part of my life got dealt with, my mind started to obsess about all the other parts of my life that are lacking in accomplishment and scream "Failure!" I'm starting to think it's tied to my hormones, though, as I've noticed the last two months that once my period is over, my mood seems to even out. I downloaded an app to track some of this stuff, so hopefully that will help.
Semi-related to that, I deleted a few of my longer fanfics from the internet (or at least everywhere I could remember posting them to). I already went through one and filed off the serial numbers. I'm not sure any of them could be expanded into a full-length novel, but I'm thinking I could put them up as novellas or short stories for sale to start developing a pro writer identity sometime in the next six months.
I have an actual novel that is about 125K and... 2/3rds of the way done? Finishing it got put aside while I was finishing school and frantically job hunting. I made a deal with myself that once I had a draft of that, I could get started on creating a website and all the stuff in the previous paragraph. I'm honestly not sure if that's a carrot or a disincentive. :\
Media-wise, loving "Musketeers" which is horrible on historical accuracy, filled with goofy plots, but has several very hot British men (Athos and Aramis. D'Artangan doesn't do it for me, though I loved the actor in "Snowpiercer") who frequently get soaking wet. And two intelligent, passionate female characters with actual backstory and interests (well, Milady is evil because she's Milady, but evil interests still count!). It's fluffy and goofy and doesn't require me to think, which is a bonus.
SYTYCD has been much better this year than last. Valerie has been my fav from the beginning, although in my heart of hearts I know she's probably not as good as some of the other girls. She's probably going to make it into the finale, which is all I ask. I'm just psyched that both tap dancers made it this far this year!
John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" is awesome too. Kind of filling the gap in commentary left by Keith Olbermann's ego.
I saw "Guardians of the Galaxy" and it was okay? Don't get me wrong, I loved Groot and I go watch the dancing baby!Groot video once a day. But otherwise, I was just whelmed. I was afraid it would be worse in terms of how it dealt with the female characters, so there's that.
Saw "Lucy" which I enjoyed. Just remember it's a weird, pseudoscience science fiction movie with some action sequences, not an action movie with scifi overtones. It's like an episode of Cosmos with some "homage to the Matrix" bits.
So, yeah. I realized the other day that this is the first August I haven't been depressed since about 2001? Because I'm neither teaching nor attending classes, so I'm not contending with school starting at all. I could actually go away over Labor Day! I'm not, but I could! This whole "go to work, go home and stop thinking about work" thing is pretty much what I wanted when I went back for my MLIS, so that's of the good.
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So, stuff! And also things:
New job! Cool new job with good $$ and some fun coworkers. Definitely a long-term thing given what they want me to do. Downside: I have to dress up pretty much every day (I'm running through panty hose at an alarming rate. Please let it be fall so I can wear boots and long skirts now) and a long commute. But! I'm getting paid enough that I will be able to move into an apartment of my own this fall. HUZZAH! I miss my stuff, you guys. SO MUCH. I will never ever take being able to shower whenever I want for granted again. (I'm so not designed for cohabitation.)
I'm having some severe and epic mood swings. As usual with my brain, once the whole "career" part of my life got dealt with, my mind started to obsess about all the other parts of my life that are lacking in accomplishment and scream "Failure!" I'm starting to think it's tied to my hormones, though, as I've noticed the last two months that once my period is over, my mood seems to even out. I downloaded an app to track some of this stuff, so hopefully that will help.
Semi-related to that, I deleted a few of my longer fanfics from the internet (or at least everywhere I could remember posting them to). I already went through one and filed off the serial numbers. I'm not sure any of them could be expanded into a full-length novel, but I'm thinking I could put them up as novellas or short stories for sale to start developing a pro writer identity sometime in the next six months.
I have an actual novel that is about 125K and... 2/3rds of the way done? Finishing it got put aside while I was finishing school and frantically job hunting. I made a deal with myself that once I had a draft of that, I could get started on creating a website and all the stuff in the previous paragraph. I'm honestly not sure if that's a carrot or a disincentive. :\
Media-wise, loving "Musketeers" which is horrible on historical accuracy, filled with goofy plots, but has several very hot British men (Athos and Aramis. D'Artangan doesn't do it for me, though I loved the actor in "Snowpiercer") who frequently get soaking wet. And two intelligent, passionate female characters with actual backstory and interests (well, Milady is evil because she's Milady, but evil interests still count!). It's fluffy and goofy and doesn't require me to think, which is a bonus.
SYTYCD has been much better this year than last. Valerie has been my fav from the beginning, although in my heart of hearts I know she's probably not as good as some of the other girls. She's probably going to make it into the finale, which is all I ask. I'm just psyched that both tap dancers made it this far this year!
John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" is awesome too. Kind of filling the gap in commentary left by Keith Olbermann's ego.
I saw "Guardians of the Galaxy" and it was okay? Don't get me wrong, I loved Groot and I go watch the dancing baby!Groot video once a day. But otherwise, I was just whelmed. I was afraid it would be worse in terms of how it dealt with the female characters, so there's that.
Saw "Lucy" which I enjoyed. Just remember it's a weird, pseudoscience science fiction movie with some action sequences, not an action movie with scifi overtones. It's like an episode of Cosmos with some "homage to the Matrix" bits.
So, yeah. I realized the other day that this is the first August I haven't been depressed since about 2001? Because I'm neither teaching nor attending classes, so I'm not contending with school starting at all. I could actually go away over Labor Day! I'm not, but I could! This whole "go to work, go home and stop thinking about work" thing is pretty much what I wanted when I went back for my MLIS, so that's of the good.
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