Small people with shiny shoes
So... happy September! Since this appears to be my first post this month. (Shush, I know it's half over.) School is back in, of course, and I now live around the corner from a junior school (elementary/grade school) so I see lots and lots of kids in uniforms. As opposed to lots and lots of just-barely-not-kids in jeans and hoodies headed for the university. *g* Public schools here require uniforms, so there are a lot of wee, uber-shiny shoes around to go with the white shirt/trousers or skirt/tie/blazer thing.
Work is going well. Busy, and doing a fair bit of training and the like. I'll actually be attending a 2-day thing in London in about a week and a half. Happily, this coincides with feels_like_fire and jou's trip, so I will get to spend some time with them, w00t. The funny part is that I had already decided to take the day prior off and putter around the city, since the train there and back would be covered and I'd need to go up the night before anyway, and now I actually have people to putter with!
Otherwise, things are good. Housemates are all very nice. I've now seen the two boy!As often enough to be able to distinguish between them, lol. There appears to be a romance brewing between S1 and AK, my hallmate, which I don't really mind so long as everyone's adult about it, but at the same time, there is something ridiculously depressing (not to mention annoying) about hearing hushed giggles and kissing outside your bedroom door at four o'clock in the morning, know what I'm saying? But she and I get along fine, and amazingly enough, our bathroom routines don't clash, plus we're both about the same for keeping it clean, so if giggly kissing when I'm supposed to be asleep anyway is my only complaint, I think I'm ahead of the game.
And beyond that, my brain's pretty much been eaten by the Est. There's been an influx of new muns and pups that's kind of kicked everything into motion again - including the full complement of the core ST: XI cast, for those of you into that - so it's been a lot of fun and I'm doing a lot of writing. Just, you know, not in an area that most of you are remotely interested in. *g* Maybe I'll feel like writing more Green Day after I see them next month. Right now, that doesn't even seem real; we bought the tickets so long ago.
Regarding eljay, I started reading again just last week and I am amnesty-ing myself on any form of catch-up, so if you posted about something important between around July 20th and Labour Day and didn't also say anything personally to me, I don't know about it. I do know I missed a few birthdays, so a happy belated to angela_o, stargazerdavid, truelovepooh, and undoubtedly more that I'm forgetting - hope you all had fabulous days.
Work is going well. Busy, and doing a fair bit of training and the like. I'll actually be attending a 2-day thing in London in about a week and a half. Happily, this coincides with feels_like_fire and jou's trip, so I will get to spend some time with them, w00t. The funny part is that I had already decided to take the day prior off and putter around the city, since the train there and back would be covered and I'd need to go up the night before anyway, and now I actually have people to putter with!
Otherwise, things are good. Housemates are all very nice. I've now seen the two boy!As often enough to be able to distinguish between them, lol. There appears to be a romance brewing between S1 and AK, my hallmate, which I don't really mind so long as everyone's adult about it, but at the same time, there is something ridiculously depressing (not to mention annoying) about hearing hushed giggles and kissing outside your bedroom door at four o'clock in the morning, know what I'm saying? But she and I get along fine, and amazingly enough, our bathroom routines don't clash, plus we're both about the same for keeping it clean, so if giggly kissing when I'm supposed to be asleep anyway is my only complaint, I think I'm ahead of the game.
And beyond that, my brain's pretty much been eaten by the Est. There's been an influx of new muns and pups that's kind of kicked everything into motion again - including the full complement of the core ST: XI cast, for those of you into that - so it's been a lot of fun and I'm doing a lot of writing. Just, you know, not in an area that most of you are remotely interested in. *g* Maybe I'll feel like writing more Green Day after I see them next month. Right now, that doesn't even seem real; we bought the tickets so long ago.
Regarding eljay, I started reading again just last week and I am amnesty-ing myself on any form of catch-up, so if you posted about something important between around July 20th and Labour Day and didn't also say anything personally to me, I don't know about it. I do know I missed a few birthdays, so a happy belated to angela_o, stargazerdavid, truelovepooh, and undoubtedly more that I'm forgetting - hope you all had fabulous days.