2020! Can you believe it
I don't know, guys. Time keeps happening all the time. The more things happen, the more I want to share them, the less time there is to do so, the more there is to catch up on, and so the cycle goes.
I spent all of November in New York (*with an amazingly lovely weekend in Philadelphia with
merisunshine36 and Elton John! He did not know about us per se but we were there), helping the folks at the local office, in general having a much more relaxed schedule than I did just one month prior. I met friends and watched shows and got to experience the east coast sweeping from fall to winter, leaving the day of the first snowfall.
Back home, I arrived to a new position at work. After TEN YEARS (holy what) of being an account manager/customer success manager at two companies - my work experience is fairly limited - I have FINALLY transitioned to product, and am officially part of the product team. I'm a product manager with no tech experience so I'm learning slowly and giving myself time to adapt, but I have more experience than anyone on the product team about the actual business the company does and how clients use the product, so I have my strengths and am glad for both the chance to learn, and also for not being an account manager anymore, my god. Clients are - clients. *shudders*
December included Hanukkah and a lovely week of having
tanndell visit, which was a privilege and a joy, and is highly recommended to anyone who can cajole her into it. January included a company-wide trip to the Judean desert, Masada and the Dead Sea, which included some gorgeous sights I'd never been to - I finally got to see the Mar Saba monastery, founded in the 5th century, and my god, look at it. I dipped into the Dead Sea, which was FREEZING cold, and discovered the most astounding thing: you know how the single moment worse than going into cold water in the winter is coming out of cold water and into the wind? WELL. I was cold in the wind before going in the water, then I was really cold when I got into the actual water, and THEN, when I LEFT the water, I discovered I was NOT COLD AT ALL. A non-scientific explanation, but: the Dead Sea has such high salt/mineral concentration that it essentially feels like your skin is entirely covered by a thin coat of oil, and it was legit protecting me from the wind, like, I felt like I was blocking the wind off like a superpower seal, okay, I don't know. It was pretty amazing.
(**I will quantify my 'cold' assessments by saying the weather outside was 15c/59f, and the water temperature was 20c/68f. That's legitimately cold for getting wet outdoors, right? Like, not just Israeli cold? :|)
This Friday, I took some of the tourists for a Jerusalem tour (I'd looked up a bunch of stuff when I was there with
tanndell and
marina two weeks prior, so everyone was very impressed with my knowledge bwahaha). Later we went to a photography exhibition which included this photo series on the Israeli mermaid community, which I just love as a prompt and am fascinated by.
This week I turned 35! I went to work, I had choir practice, I made a cake which I think turned out good. I met friends yesterday, got some fic recs, will have dinner with family this week to mark the occasion.
I have finished Witcher, am watching Titans and Schitt's Creek and The Good Place (and FINALLY all my January shows are coming back), finished Tan France and Karamo Brown's audiobooks (yup, yes I did), and sobbed my way through the podcast Finding Fred which examines the rising nostalgia and current relevance of Fred Rogers, and makes you cry doing it.
Oh! And for
yuletide, I wrote:
Geoffrey Tennant and the Cursed Play (Gen, G, No Archive Warnings Apply, 1194 words)
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Characters: Geoffrey, Darren, David Tennant (Geoffrey/Darren...ish)
Summary:Geoffrey has to direct a production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
He is, you can imagine, thrilled.
Not that I wasn't cutting it close (CLOSE) to the deadline, but it was still the earliest I've posted a yuletide fic in years lol, and was a very fun prompt/venting opportunity. Things I need to do: write more.
Happy January! <3
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I spent all of November in New York (*with an amazingly lovely weekend in Philadelphia with
merisunshine36 and Elton John! He did not know about us per se but we were there), helping the folks at the local office, in general having a much more relaxed schedule than I did just one month prior. I met friends and watched shows and got to experience the east coast sweeping from fall to winter, leaving the day of the first snowfall.
Back home, I arrived to a new position at work. After TEN YEARS (holy what) of being an account manager/customer success manager at two companies - my work experience is fairly limited - I have FINALLY transitioned to product, and am officially part of the product team. I'm a product manager with no tech experience so I'm learning slowly and giving myself time to adapt, but I have more experience than anyone on the product team about the actual business the company does and how clients use the product, so I have my strengths and am glad for both the chance to learn, and also for not being an account manager anymore, my god. Clients are - clients. *shudders*
December included Hanukkah and a lovely week of having
tanndell visit, which was a privilege and a joy, and is highly recommended to anyone who can cajole her into it. January included a company-wide trip to the Judean desert, Masada and the Dead Sea, which included some gorgeous sights I'd never been to - I finally got to see the Mar Saba monastery, founded in the 5th century, and my god, look at it. I dipped into the Dead Sea, which was FREEZING cold, and discovered the most astounding thing: you know how the single moment worse than going into cold water in the winter is coming out of cold water and into the wind? WELL. I was cold in the wind before going in the water, then I was really cold when I got into the actual water, and THEN, when I LEFT the water, I discovered I was NOT COLD AT ALL. A non-scientific explanation, but: the Dead Sea has such high salt/mineral concentration that it essentially feels like your skin is entirely covered by a thin coat of oil, and it was legit protecting me from the wind, like, I felt like I was blocking the wind off like a superpower seal, okay, I don't know. It was pretty amazing.
(**I will quantify my 'cold' assessments by saying the weather outside was 15c/59f, and the water temperature was 20c/68f. That's legitimately cold for getting wet outdoors, right? Like, not just Israeli cold? :|)
This Friday, I took some of the tourists for a Jerusalem tour (I'd looked up a bunch of stuff when I was there with
tanndell and
marina two weeks prior, so everyone was very impressed with my knowledge bwahaha). Later we went to a photography exhibition which included this photo series on the Israeli mermaid community, which I just love as a prompt and am fascinated by.
This week I turned 35! I went to work, I had choir practice, I made a cake which I think turned out good. I met friends yesterday, got some fic recs, will have dinner with family this week to mark the occasion.
I have finished Witcher, am watching Titans and Schitt's Creek and The Good Place (and FINALLY all my January shows are coming back), finished Tan France and Karamo Brown's audiobooks (yup, yes I did), and sobbed my way through the podcast Finding Fred which examines the rising nostalgia and current relevance of Fred Rogers, and makes you cry doing it.
Oh! And for
yuletide, I wrote:
Geoffrey Tennant and the Cursed Play (Gen, G, No Archive Warnings Apply, 1194 words)
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Characters: Geoffrey, Darren, David Tennant (Geoffrey/Darren...ish)
Summary:Geoffrey has to direct a production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
He is, you can imagine, thrilled.
Not that I wasn't cutting it close (CLOSE) to the deadline, but it was still the earliest I've posted a yuletide fic in years lol, and was a very fun prompt/venting opportunity. Things I need to do: write more.
Happy January! <3
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