and I decided you'd look well on me
First, some facts about Real Life, which is a thing that happens, I guess.
So despite the fact that I have exams in a week and a half and some forty pages of essays to write in between now and then, I decided to come home for Memorial Day weekend (we will not mention that I've had this plan all year, and that my mother decided a couple weeks ago that it would be a good weekend to visit my sister and her baby in Denver) (we will also not mention that that's probably fair, because her baby was born less than a week ago, and it is my mother's first grandchild). It's nice to be home! I have missed my large bed, and my dogs (a little), and the empty but loud streets of Detroit.
I have not missed the lack of air conditioning, or the fact that I do not have three dining halls and a market at my disposal whenever I'm hungry (which is always). I have not missed the dangerousness of living here, either, as evidenced by the fact that my friend and I have been home for one day and already this morning her car window got smashed and her backpack stolen, including all study materials, her passport, her wallet, and her laptop. To be fair, though, Detroit is not any less safe than Chicago, but still. In Chicago, at least, we have a police force that... cares. The police here in Detroit, when she filed the report, told her quite bluntly that her case was not and would never be a priority and that it was useless for her to even call them.
A+ Detroit. Keep it classy.
I'm holding out hope that the rest of the weekend goes more smoothly. I managed to replace my license from when I lost it, oh... two months ago now, and I'll get to replace my class ring hopefully tomorrow. My step-dad got us tickets to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival that's happening this weekend, which will be fun despite the fact that I have precisely zero feelings about electronic music. The people-watching is incredibly entertaining, though, and they have carnival food. Carnival food! I'm excited for funnel cake.
And now some fandom stuff, which is way more exciting!
I am officially writing four different 1D things right now, including a mall!AU, where all the boys work in a mall and have shenanigans and feelings, a piece where Zayn has a tattoo kink, the sequel to The Quiet Things, and.... what is currently being called The Epic, and, if it ... becomes what I want it to become, will follow the boys from the X-Factor to now/a little in the future, and basically be them figuring out that they all love each other in a different way than they were really prepared to. It's OT5, and I have officially written words in the google doc for it, so it's legit. Hopefully.
FOR this epic, mockturtletale did the most fantastic thing ever, which was write me a huge timeline of the boys's adventure, and you guys can find it HERE and should check it out immediately. She put it together incredibly quickly (and on like 60 hours without sleep), but despite this it is incredibly informative, incredibly impressive, and simply glorious. If you're writing anything in the 1D fandom and you're not sure what's happening canonically at the point you want to write about, NOW YOU CAN KNOW. It's wonderful. You should all go bow down to her and send her Harry/Zayn photos, which she can wake up to later, because she finally fell asleep.
So in conclusion: Real Life is a thing, I finally have a drivers license again, One Direction continues to ruin my life and I am writing a lot about it, and Clo is the best always. Things are pretty status quo!
So despite the fact that I have exams in a week and a half and some forty pages of essays to write in between now and then, I decided to come home for Memorial Day weekend (we will not mention that I've had this plan all year, and that my mother decided a couple weeks ago that it would be a good weekend to visit my sister and her baby in Denver) (we will also not mention that that's probably fair, because her baby was born less than a week ago, and it is my mother's first grandchild). It's nice to be home! I have missed my large bed, and my dogs (a little), and the empty but loud streets of Detroit.
I have not missed the lack of air conditioning, or the fact that I do not have three dining halls and a market at my disposal whenever I'm hungry (which is always). I have not missed the dangerousness of living here, either, as evidenced by the fact that my friend and I have been home for one day and already this morning her car window got smashed and her backpack stolen, including all study materials, her passport, her wallet, and her laptop. To be fair, though, Detroit is not any less safe than Chicago, but still. In Chicago, at least, we have a police force that... cares. The police here in Detroit, when she filed the report, told her quite bluntly that her case was not and would never be a priority and that it was useless for her to even call them.
A+ Detroit. Keep it classy.
I'm holding out hope that the rest of the weekend goes more smoothly. I managed to replace my license from when I lost it, oh... two months ago now, and I'll get to replace my class ring hopefully tomorrow. My step-dad got us tickets to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival that's happening this weekend, which will be fun despite the fact that I have precisely zero feelings about electronic music. The people-watching is incredibly entertaining, though, and they have carnival food. Carnival food! I'm excited for funnel cake.
And now some fandom stuff, which is way more exciting!
I am officially writing four different 1D things right now, including a mall!AU, where all the boys work in a mall and have shenanigans and feelings, a piece where Zayn has a tattoo kink, the sequel to The Quiet Things, and.... what is currently being called The Epic, and, if it ... becomes what I want it to become, will follow the boys from the X-Factor to now/a little in the future, and basically be them figuring out that they all love each other in a different way than they were really prepared to. It's OT5, and I have officially written words in the google doc for it, so it's legit. Hopefully.
FOR this epic, mockturtletale did the most fantastic thing ever, which was write me a huge timeline of the boys's adventure, and you guys can find it HERE and should check it out immediately. She put it together incredibly quickly (and on like 60 hours without sleep), but despite this it is incredibly informative, incredibly impressive, and simply glorious. If you're writing anything in the 1D fandom and you're not sure what's happening canonically at the point you want to write about, NOW YOU CAN KNOW. It's wonderful. You should all go bow down to her and send her Harry/Zayn photos, which she can wake up to later, because she finally fell asleep.
So in conclusion: Real Life is a thing, I finally have a drivers license again, One Direction continues to ruin my life and I am writing a lot about it, and Clo is the best always. Things are pretty status quo!