How To Contain Your Excitement: An Ineffective Tutorial
Here is the latest in a proud tradition of LiveJournal entries that start with me saying, "Oh it has been so long since I've made an entry." In the interest of time, we'll just skip the bit where I make excuses and get onto the good stuff (such as it is). ^_^
There are a lot of exciting things going on right now, which is cool, but kind of scrambles my brains all the same. For one thing, I'm off to London in exactly *looks at calendar* nineteen days. Fuckity fuck, I didn't even actually realize it was that soon! This time I'll have a companion on my transatlantic crossing-- the lovely littleotter73, of course. We'll be meeting in Newark and taking our flight to Heathrow together. We've rented what appears to be an awesome apartment in Camden Town with other fandom buddies il_mio_capitano and catchoo152. I've not had the pleasure of meeting these two in person, so I'm really looking forward to it! It's going to be, like, a fandom reality series where we all live together and write drunken fan fiction. Hmm... that actually sounds pretty good. *writes pilot episode*
Also in London are several of my friends, including one of my besties and a former college roommate. With all these people to visit, I'll need to pack lots of clothes and shoes. I already refilled my Oyster card and made sure there's still some juice in my UK mobile phone. The Otter keeps threatening to perpetrate grievous bodily harm against my shoe collection when I fail to do important stuff like read her drabbles or work on my own fic updates instead of posting derpy Life on Mars screen caps to tumblr. But I can't really complain; it's not like she doesn't humor me. Like a true friend, she simply participates in my obsessions-- we just finished watching all of Life on Mars together. We watched both series of Mad Dogs, too. This is in addition to our weekly Downton Abbey viewing parties... and she wonders why I have no time for fic updates?! Isn't life just full of these Catch 22 situations? But yes. London in less than three weeks. Sosososososo excited!
Speaking of fic... I'm a little late in mentioning it, but I won an award! YAY! Well, actually I didn't win. I was the runner up in the 'Best NC-17- Het' category at the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards with Brits Do It Better. I still feel like I won, though, so that's the important thing:
Thanks to whoever nominated and/or voted for me-- I was incredibly honored to be included, and shocked that I ended up placing! Congratulations to everyone else that won, too. ^_^
In other news, I may be changing jobs very very soon. I've had two successful phone interviews, and an in-person final is scheduled for next Wednesday. If all goes to plan, when I return from London I'll be flying to Chicago or Salt Lake City for training, and by the middle of April I'll be part of a small team opening a new store for Carhartt-- only their sixth in the country! Wish me luck, because I'm really hoping this works out.
What else... well, I've been cheating on Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom with Life on Mars fandom. That's nothing new, though. Not gonna lie-- I'm slightly in love with LoM fandom. it's full of people who are at least as fabulously insane as I am! The common denominator is that everyone seems to want me to pay more attention to my LJ duties, so here I am. *hugs everyone from every fandom* <3
As usual, me containing my excitement ends up looking like me puking words all over the LJ page. Oh well, think about it this way-- at least I don't make entries very often! ^_~
There are a lot of exciting things going on right now, which is cool, but kind of scrambles my brains all the same. For one thing, I'm off to London in exactly *looks at calendar* nineteen days. Fuckity fuck, I didn't even actually realize it was that soon! This time I'll have a companion on my transatlantic crossing-- the lovely littleotter73, of course. We'll be meeting in Newark and taking our flight to Heathrow together. We've rented what appears to be an awesome apartment in Camden Town with other fandom buddies il_mio_capitano and catchoo152. I've not had the pleasure of meeting these two in person, so I'm really looking forward to it! It's going to be, like, a fandom reality series where we all live together and write drunken fan fiction. Hmm... that actually sounds pretty good. *writes pilot episode*
Also in London are several of my friends, including one of my besties and a former college roommate. With all these people to visit, I'll need to pack lots of clothes and shoes. I already refilled my Oyster card and made sure there's still some juice in my UK mobile phone. The Otter keeps threatening to perpetrate grievous bodily harm against my shoe collection when I fail to do important stuff like read her drabbles or work on my own fic updates instead of posting derpy Life on Mars screen caps to tumblr. But I can't really complain; it's not like she doesn't humor me. Like a true friend, she simply participates in my obsessions-- we just finished watching all of Life on Mars together. We watched both series of Mad Dogs, too. This is in addition to our weekly Downton Abbey viewing parties... and she wonders why I have no time for fic updates?! Isn't life just full of these Catch 22 situations? But yes. London in less than three weeks. Sosososososo excited!
Speaking of fic... I'm a little late in mentioning it, but I won an award! YAY! Well, actually I didn't win. I was the runner up in the 'Best NC-17- Het' category at the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards with Brits Do It Better. I still feel like I won, though, so that's the important thing:
Thanks to whoever nominated and/or voted for me-- I was incredibly honored to be included, and shocked that I ended up placing! Congratulations to everyone else that won, too. ^_^
In other news, I may be changing jobs very very soon. I've had two successful phone interviews, and an in-person final is scheduled for next Wednesday. If all goes to plan, when I return from London I'll be flying to Chicago or Salt Lake City for training, and by the middle of April I'll be part of a small team opening a new store for Carhartt-- only their sixth in the country! Wish me luck, because I'm really hoping this works out.
What else... well, I've been cheating on Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom with Life on Mars fandom. That's nothing new, though. Not gonna lie-- I'm slightly in love with LoM fandom. it's full of people who are at least as fabulously insane as I am! The common denominator is that everyone seems to want me to pay more attention to my LJ duties, so here I am. *hugs everyone from every fandom* <3
As usual, me containing my excitement ends up looking like me puking words all over the LJ page. Oh well, think about it this way-- at least I don't make entries very often! ^_~