unmentioned is the couple of times we got snow which was lovely
so it's been a while, huh?
ankle news!
i'm out of the boot and off crutches and in real shoes! by which i mean i'm in the one pair of shoes that actually fits because my ankle is still swollen. and i have a brace altho i only wear it when i leave the house. on saturday i went to the mall (!!!) with my sister and walked around for like two hours and by the end of the day my foot was tired but not sore, but most importantly i walked around on it. (it was so weird being in a mall - everyone was masked and while there were a good number of people around, it wasn't anything like a saturday in the before times, and a bunch of stores were closed. and it still felt almost normal. i haven't been in that mall for over a year.) i can do my own laundry, and i never thought i'd be excited about that. still weirdly thrilled about being able to do my own grocery shopping. still going to physical therapy, but i'm going to do that until my insurance stops paying for it. and my ankle's still stiff, so i probably need it.
apartment news!
my landlady is selling the building - she came over to tell me in person - she's eighty and the place needs work (like, a new roof) and i think she's just tired of dealing with it. a realtor came over and looked at all the units and took pictures and made notes. that was a couple weeks ago and since then... nothing. no one's come to see it. as far as i know no one has made an offer sight unseen. i have no idea what the eventual buyers will want to do with the place, or if they'll let me and the other current tenants stay for rents we can afford - the landlady is selling the building with tenants included, which sounds like selling an apartment already furnished - so i'm looking for a new apartment. it's very discouraging. i've seen three places so far - the first one was too small and the only closet was in the front room, and i don't want to put my bedroom in the front room on the first floor - altho it was a big closet, and the kitchen even had a little pantry - the second was thisclose to being perfect (it had a fireplace and a built-in china cabinet and a chandelier in the dining room and four closets altho none of them were in the bedroom, and laundry and storage in the basement) except the kitchen was unworkably small and completely useless if you want to cook anything. (the kitchen had an ironing board that folded out of the wall, which is super vintage and really cool, but also in a kitchen that small it was a terrible waste of space.) and the third had one bedroom, one closet, and two bathrooms - i'm not the only one who thinks that's stupid, right? - and was also too small. kitchen was pretty new, tho, which is always nice. but that extra bathroom would be better served as storage space.
the problem is my budget isn't all that high for the area, and i kind of need to be reasonably close to public transportation so i can get to work, so my options are limited to small places. i'm really not looking forward to sorting my shit and getting rid of stuff. other problems include the fact that it's the off season for moving so there aren't a lot of places available, covid probably means people aren't moving that much anyway, i don't know a lot of neighborhoods around greater boston so i don't know many places to look, and i can't even get rental agents to get back to me.
on the plus side, uh, i'm not getting kicked out tomorrow?
tv/movie news!
is anyone else watching resident alien? it's fun and silly and weird with a little undercurrent of serious, and then it just smacks you in the feels. also there's a very cute dog named cletus. i like it a lot. i mean, alan tudyk as an alien - what's not to love?
i watched both seasons of doom patrol even tho i was never sure how i felt about it, other than "wow, this is a surreal show" and "how ironic that matt bomer who has such a pretty face plays the guy who's covered in bandages". ultimately i liked it. it's deeply weird. i also finished the watch, which is not deeply weird but also doesn't really feel like discworld. but it's not bad. and now i'm watching the oa, which is weird in a different way but intriguing and i want to know what happened and what's going to happen, so i keep watching.
watched the little things, which i'm not sure i can say i enjoyed - i mean, it's not a happy story, and some of the plot made no sense until the end - but i did really like watching denzel washington and rami malek play against each other. and now i wonder if jared leto is going to be typecast as either the super sketchy dude or the creepy villain (or both). he's... super sketch in this movie. i didn't know what i thought of the ending so i had to read other people's thoughts. i hate it when that happens, but sometimes you need to know someone else's thoughts before you can clarify your own. not sure why it had to be set in 1990 but i got a weird kick out of the fact that no one had a cell phone, and they had to make calls from pay phones.
after the mall on saturday my sister came over (soon i'll be able to go to her place! and climb all those stairs!) and we watched the high note, and even tho i know tracee ross ellis is diana ross's kid, i always think of her as an actress and not a singer so i'm always surprised that she can sing. it was fine? lots of actors with really nice voices, plus bill pullman (who might have a nice voice but didn't get to sing). but predictable. and dakota johnson's character did some really dumb shit.
i scrapped my first idea (technically it was the second, but i didn't write anything for the first) and started over with a new plot bunny, because why should i make it easy on myself? i have more words on the new idea than i had on the old idea. i don't have much faith in my ability to cast, plan, plot, worldbuild, and finish 20k of first-draft-coherent story in two months, but i didn't last year either - altho last year i spent five months on the first draft, not two and a half - so we'll see. there might be more of an actual story to this than there was for the scrapped idea. i think. possibly.
house beautiful news!
i bought a desk before i broke my ankle and it came after i broke my ankle, and i finally put it together the beginning of this month. all it really needed was for the legs to be screwed on, but i had to wait until i could stand on both feet to pick it up. it's perfect for the space and now i don't have to sit at the dining room table to do my work any more.
there's a folder under one of the legs to stabilize the desk because my floor isn't entirely flat. that's a nasa calendar hanging on the wall. february's celestial body is europa. all these worlds are yours, except europa. attempt no landing there. because space squid.
and last, fandom news! (uncut because it's time sensitive and i'm a terrible procrastinator.)
fandom trumps hate is live - bid on fanworks/fan labor and raise money for organizations combating hate. if you want a podfic, and you know you do, i'm offering one for a fic up to 10k, any fandom (which might turn out to be a mistake), and my post is here. :D i know it's fandom trumps hate but i'll pod original fic too. and if you don't want a podfic, you have lots of other options. you also only have until 8p tomorrow night because i am nothing if not procrastinatory. ...8p est, american time. gmt -5? i think?
ankle news!
i'm out of the boot and off crutches and in real shoes! by which i mean i'm in the one pair of shoes that actually fits because my ankle is still swollen. and i have a brace altho i only wear it when i leave the house. on saturday i went to the mall (!!!) with my sister and walked around for like two hours and by the end of the day my foot was tired but not sore, but most importantly i walked around on it. (it was so weird being in a mall - everyone was masked and while there were a good number of people around, it wasn't anything like a saturday in the before times, and a bunch of stores were closed. and it still felt almost normal. i haven't been in that mall for over a year.) i can do my own laundry, and i never thought i'd be excited about that. still weirdly thrilled about being able to do my own grocery shopping. still going to physical therapy, but i'm going to do that until my insurance stops paying for it. and my ankle's still stiff, so i probably need it.
apartment news!
my landlady is selling the building - she came over to tell me in person - she's eighty and the place needs work (like, a new roof) and i think she's just tired of dealing with it. a realtor came over and looked at all the units and took pictures and made notes. that was a couple weeks ago and since then... nothing. no one's come to see it. as far as i know no one has made an offer sight unseen. i have no idea what the eventual buyers will want to do with the place, or if they'll let me and the other current tenants stay for rents we can afford - the landlady is selling the building with tenants included, which sounds like selling an apartment already furnished - so i'm looking for a new apartment. it's very discouraging. i've seen three places so far - the first one was too small and the only closet was in the front room, and i don't want to put my bedroom in the front room on the first floor - altho it was a big closet, and the kitchen even had a little pantry - the second was thisclose to being perfect (it had a fireplace and a built-in china cabinet and a chandelier in the dining room and four closets altho none of them were in the bedroom, and laundry and storage in the basement) except the kitchen was unworkably small and completely useless if you want to cook anything. (the kitchen had an ironing board that folded out of the wall, which is super vintage and really cool, but also in a kitchen that small it was a terrible waste of space.) and the third had one bedroom, one closet, and two bathrooms - i'm not the only one who thinks that's stupid, right? - and was also too small. kitchen was pretty new, tho, which is always nice. but that extra bathroom would be better served as storage space.
the problem is my budget isn't all that high for the area, and i kind of need to be reasonably close to public transportation so i can get to work, so my options are limited to small places. i'm really not looking forward to sorting my shit and getting rid of stuff. other problems include the fact that it's the off season for moving so there aren't a lot of places available, covid probably means people aren't moving that much anyway, i don't know a lot of neighborhoods around greater boston so i don't know many places to look, and i can't even get rental agents to get back to me.
on the plus side, uh, i'm not getting kicked out tomorrow?
tv/movie news!
is anyone else watching resident alien? it's fun and silly and weird with a little undercurrent of serious, and then it just smacks you in the feels. also there's a very cute dog named cletus. i like it a lot. i mean, alan tudyk as an alien - what's not to love?
i watched both seasons of doom patrol even tho i was never sure how i felt about it, other than "wow, this is a surreal show" and "how ironic that matt bomer who has such a pretty face plays the guy who's covered in bandages". ultimately i liked it. it's deeply weird. i also finished the watch, which is not deeply weird but also doesn't really feel like discworld. but it's not bad. and now i'm watching the oa, which is weird in a different way but intriguing and i want to know what happened and what's going to happen, so i keep watching.
watched the little things, which i'm not sure i can say i enjoyed - i mean, it's not a happy story, and some of the plot made no sense until the end - but i did really like watching denzel washington and rami malek play against each other. and now i wonder if jared leto is going to be typecast as either the super sketchy dude or the creepy villain (or both). he's... super sketch in this movie. i didn't know what i thought of the ending so i had to read other people's thoughts. i hate it when that happens, but sometimes you need to know someone else's thoughts before you can clarify your own. not sure why it had to be set in 1990 but i got a weird kick out of the fact that no one had a cell phone, and they had to make calls from pay phones.
after the mall on saturday my sister came over (soon i'll be able to go to her place! and climb all those stairs!) and we watched the high note, and even tho i know tracee ross ellis is diana ross's kid, i always think of her as an actress and not a singer so i'm always surprised that she can sing. it was fine? lots of actors with really nice voices, plus bill pullman (who might have a nice voice but didn't get to sing). but predictable. and dakota johnson's character did some really dumb shit.
i scrapped my first idea (technically it was the second, but i didn't write anything for the first) and started over with a new plot bunny, because why should i make it easy on myself? i have more words on the new idea than i had on the old idea. i don't have much faith in my ability to cast, plan, plot, worldbuild, and finish 20k of first-draft-coherent story in two months, but i didn't last year either - altho last year i spent five months on the first draft, not two and a half - so we'll see. there might be more of an actual story to this than there was for the scrapped idea. i think. possibly.
house beautiful news!
i bought a desk before i broke my ankle and it came after i broke my ankle, and i finally put it together the beginning of this month. all it really needed was for the legs to be screwed on, but i had to wait until i could stand on both feet to pick it up. it's perfect for the space and now i don't have to sit at the dining room table to do my work any more.
there's a folder under one of the legs to stabilize the desk because my floor isn't entirely flat. that's a nasa calendar hanging on the wall. february's celestial body is europa. all these worlds are yours, except europa. attempt no landing there. because space squid.
and last, fandom news! (uncut because it's time sensitive and i'm a terrible procrastinator.)
fandom trumps hate is live - bid on fanworks/fan labor and raise money for organizations combating hate. if you want a podfic, and you know you do, i'm offering one for a fic up to 10k, any fandom (which might turn out to be a mistake), and my post is here. :D i know it's fandom trumps hate but i'll pod original fic too. and if you don't want a podfic, you have lots of other options. you also only have until 8p tomorrow night because i am nothing if not procrastinatory. ...8p est, american time. gmt -5? i think?