☆ Went to the cafe near my place today. It was... kind of a weirdly emotional thing. I mean, yes, it's Starbucks, and I don't actually like their coffee. But like - it's the place where, before the fire, I went almost every weekend. They always remembered my name and my order. And today, when I went in there, the barista, she remembered my name. ( Read more... )

Today kind of sucked ( Read more... )

☆ Realization: Wow, I had no idea ginger beer had so much kick. My eyes are waaaatering and I feel kind of ridiculous, haha.

☆ So, I joined Camp NaNo. I'm together in a cabin with a few folks from
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☆ Aaaaand November is over! That's a wrap! Wow, this month went by fast. I'm surprised and amazed. Where did the year go ( Read more... )

☆ I finished The Goblin Emperor and now I have a book hangover. More deets on that later, probably. (And now I can't decide what to read - because SOMEHOW, even though there are a ton of books in my room, I don't want to read... any of them ( Read more... )

☆ Write-in #3 went very well. Still kind of iffy on whether I will make friends with these people, but I sure do find that we work well together. Continuing meetups post-NaNo seems unlikely, but I'm starting to suspect that I will be spending a lot of time at the library for writing in the near future. Sounds good to me ( Read more... )

( Some personal nonsense )

☆ I went to the NaNo write-in. I did NOT chicken out! I did not get too nervous to go! ... Actually, I considered not going. But then I went. I probably won't make any friends out of this, but at this point, it's hard to be sure. (Though, some people there write/read fanfiction!! That's a good sign!) We're meeting again on Remembrance Day, so I'm ( Read more... )

☆ Feeling a lot better today. Not 100%, but good enough. Seems like not doing anything on the weekend was the best idea, even if I wish it hadn't been necessary. I mean, a little downtime is nice, but not if it's... uh. Like that. Spending all day in bed when you don't want to is the worst ( Read more... )

☆ Well, it's officially autumn now. I should see about trying to get some photos of the leaves before they're all gone. The last couple of times that I went out, I didn't have much success - my usual routes were all dug up for construction - but... we'll see. Maybe I'll find something. On another note, it's starting to get really hard to get out of ( Read more... )