Am currently reading more John Le Carre, specifically The Looking Glass War and dealing with many bureaucratic jobs of an academic nature. Also occasionally lounging and rock climbing. There's a longish X-men First Class fic in the mill that hopefully I will be able to get out soon.

Also check out rosalui's project on Societal Pressure and Women's self- ( Read more... )

Went and saw "This Means War" which is actually quite funny if you go in expecting all cliche's about "What-independent-women-who-can't-find-a-man-want" to be winked and nudged, seriously I would see it again. Other than that there is a lot of bromance and men in tailored suits handling assault rifles, which is always a big plus for me. Also Tom ( Read more... )

Started to do the year meme, stopped. Started to do the fic meme, stopped.

( Wrote a sort of essay about the year and life instead. Some personal griping and lots of rambling. )

I messed up my research project recently and thus have been MIA piecing it back together. Anyway a short thought via rondaview that I think it absolutely 100% correct.


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Just wanted to pop by and say THANK YOU to everyone who gave me such wise and patient advice, really it kept me going those last few days. Took the test on Friday and it went very well. Stress levels have definitely receded. ( Testing Particulars, should you be interested )

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The boyfriend and I broke up yesterday ( Read more... )

( List of Stories and Drabbles being worked over )

Two short links while I work on this hellish essay:

1. For those of you that don't know sn_exchange is going on. I did participate so you can head over and guess which one is mine. The ever-lovely rosalui has compiled a sort of REC LIST that I agree with (except for maybe one...)

2. ALSO bff bellicosus has put together this lovely Madara piece that I am in love with.

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Birthday passed, and am now 22. It was a fun day and I really enjoyed seeing everyone. Went home for that weekend and got the graduate school talk from family and friends. School seems...all encompassing lately. While I usually try to balance school and fandom life it just seems extra hard this semester because there are so many outlying things I ( Read more... )