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[prpl_pen]

Happy birthday takewing & (a little early) parsnip_chan!!!
If you give me a character/pairing & prompt, I'll do my best to write you a birthday drabble. ♥ I hope your birthdays are awesome!

Talking about animelist the other night with Bri and Meg got me thinking about trying to catalogue my books again, too. I used to use a site to do that, but the interface was

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[danbi]

Good luck on that job! I think you can do it, and it'll be fun to move out where there's more access to things. It's definitely convenient, ahahaha.

I like having you as a writing buddy, too - I just wish I were more reliable. I think I have to really sit down and sort out what kinds of things I want to be active with and what isn't a priority, because I'm juggling too many things and...yeah, I end up doing things, but not as much as the standards I set for myself. And I have a writing assignment for my class that I almost totally forgot about. Urgh. But having you there is definitely helping. :D

Oooh, writing longfic sounds fun!

[prpl_pen]

Heh, thanks. It'd be working with MI/DD patients, too, which is something I'd like to be doing. Not that I don't love my old people, but...yeah.

I need to be more reliable, too. Sometimes it just kind of completely slips my mind. Oops. Still, I really like talking with you about that kind of stuff when we do, and knowing you are around helps motivate me a lot just in itself. I hear you on trying to juggle too many things, though. I mean, the things I try to juggle tend to all be sort of unimportant, but. Eh. Sometimes I think about when I was a full-time college student with 2 jobs and yet I still somehow managed to feel like I had more free time than I do know. Which...I mean, I think I just was better about budgeting it, so I got more bang for my buck. As it were.

Yeah; I haven't really down much long stuff in the way of fanfic, so I think it'll be fun too. And it'll be a change from the usual short stuff I've written the past few years.

[danbi]

I don't know what MI/DD means. ://

Yeah, same here. Lots of things do, because I've never before made an effort. I've never had anyone I know be interested in the writing partner thing! About fanfic, at least. I like talking, too - and I love motivating! The things I'm trying to juggle are for the most part things online. RL needs more balance too, but not as much as here. Hahahhaa, I never felt like I had time in college, even though I slacked off a lot that last quarter. BUT YOU CAN DO IT. And I will e-mail you back. <3

I miss writing long fanfic. I didn't do it often, but it's an awesome experience because you actually get to see something DEVELOP instead of just splotching a scene into a ficlet. More rewarding. alsnfls why am I not doing this.

[prpl_pen]

Mentally impaired and developmentally disabled/delayed.

I'd say the things I'm juggling my time on are a mix of internet and rl things, but like I said before, nothing really important. More like, "oh, should I read a book, or answer my email, or play a video game tonight?" Tough choices like that, haha. In a way it feels dumb, but the fact remains that I have various recreational things I want to do and I can't do them all at the same time. Yeah, that's the thing that confuses me about when I was in college. I was still fairly internet-addicted then, and had homework and projects and papers and stuff, and two jobs, and the clubs and organizations I was in, and just random hanging out with friends...it felt busy, but in looking back at it, I feel like I still somehow managed to have more free time to do random shit, as opposed to now. It's probably more a question of the quality of time, rather than the quantity, though. I slept even less then, too, haha

[danbi]

Oh. Thanks for explaining, Jessie!

No, no - that's exactly the thing I face! Like "watch OP, reading manga, RP, chat, write?" Because I can't do all of them at the same time. I've tried and it's just not possible [plus my hands hurt afterwards from tensing up while I'm typing]. I think in that setting too, there was a system set up - things that were due, classes to go to, etc. Whereas after school, we form our own hours and all that. As for sleep...our bodies can take more damage when we're younger. ...I sound like an old person, but you probably get what I mean.

Yeah, see, that's the kind of stuff I really MISS writing. I remember a few years ago, I was writing my fic for santa_smex and while I shouldn't have done it all in one day, I was surprised and elated to see at how it was developing. These days, I'm still waiting for my writing to END, rather than expand, because it's like...it feels unfinished otherwise. And that bugs me and makes me feel like I'm doing nothing...which shouldn't be a big deal, since I am currently

[prpl_pen]

I guess I could have just said "retarded" but that's generally frowned upon. >.>

Ahh, okay! Haha, Briii, our lives are so haaard! That's a good point about the structure and stuff too. I think that sort of thing makes it easier to work out a workable routine, or something. And yeah, I get what you mean. I used to sleep like 3-4 hours a night every night and I just can't do that anymore without wanting to die after a few days. Now I usually get 4-6. \o/

It's nice, and a change of pace. I actually read over some o-o-older fanfics of mine (from like ten years ago, seriously), and was surprised by how much I liked them. And was like, "wow, I wrote this?" They were less of the vignette sort of thing and very much stories.