sunday evening l&o marathon, as usual

[pocky_slash]

Internet, I am cold, cranky, and bored. Why aren't you warming me up, un-cranky-ing me, or entertaining me? As readers of my blog, this isn't just your right, but your duty!

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Or not.

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Hey there, internet! There are like, a million things I am behind on blogging about. Here are some of them:

• Pumpkin picking
  
• Katy gig
  
• Talley's Folly
  

Comments

[ruffwriter]

Whee, writingchatthingy ficlets! And of course I would read your original stuff - your characters are so much love, seriously. ♥

And that haunted yard thing sounds like so much fun! I haven't gotten to do something like that in so long. That kid sounds utterly hilarious.

[pocky_slash]

Aw, thanks :D I feel bad, because I am still only halfway through The Imperial Guard, not because I'm not loving it, but because I'm really easily distracted by naps and teevee.

Re: haunted yard tour: It's actually a thing that my uncle does every year in his yard. It drives my aunt crazy, but it's really intense and a lot of fun. I try to go every year and drag my friends with me XD

[ruffwriter]

... now see I wasn't actually aware that you'd read any of Imperial Guard so I'll take a moment to go ashgkdghoiughrfg

Okay done. XD

But really, don't feel bad at all! ♥ It sounds bad/horribly pessimistic of me, but I don't actually expect people to read what I post, so when they do, it's a "WHAT REALLY?!" moment. So even when people read a little, it makes me happy~

And good luck with the GREs! It sounds like a total suckfest. D: But I am sure you will own.

[brienze]

RE: the cost of getting into grad school... you have to look forward to earning the lowest-paying graduate degree out there. If I were you I'd honestly try to leverage all the goodwill you have at your bookstore to going more corporate there, as a children's buyer or marketer or something. You can commute to NYC, and the alternative is a lifetime of OMG things costing an entire paycheck.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news and all. I know three people who have their MLS... two work for corporations, doing classification stuff not terribly different from the job of a technical writer, and the other works for George Mason Uni. She makes half what the others do, and they're not extraordinarily well paid.

[pocky_slash]

I appreciate the concern, but I kind of went into it knowing that I'd never make my fortune :D But literacy and libraries are something I believe in and it's something I think I could be good at, so I'm in it for the long haul, it seems.

[pocky_slash]

oh, don't worry about being soapboxy. I've made my decision, if only because I've already requested my transcripts, although finding teacher recommendations is going to be hard because everyone is leaving the freaking school ::shakes fist::.

::cough:: Anyway, I'm really not looking forward to the GRE. I need to, you know, relearn math. Just. All of math. The little 'x' means multiplication, right?

But, I mean, it's crazy. I guess the SAT cost money too? But I was like, sixteen then and my parents were paying for it so I didn't care. Oh man. Taking out a loan is going to be good times, too.

[pocky_slash]

::shakes fist:: Get off of my lawn, you delusional riff-raff!

[suchthefangirl]

The Abe Lincoln kid cracked me up. I can so hear him in my head.

My brother and friends used to go all out for Halloween, we were one of those houses that had neighbors complaining. It was awesome. They finally moved us to a community center. Ahh, the good old days.

This year Daughter Number One is planning on dressing up in Joker make-up and costume, and when someone says something about her being the Joker, she intends to inform them, "no, I am a 2008 Comic-Con attendee." (this might not be funny to you, but it is very funny to us. I have never seen so many Jokers in one place, and all different incarnations were represented. Oy.)