the power of now, or alternately the power of some point in the vague, near future

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I always really, really want to do nostalgic, hopeful, beautiful end-of-the-year posts like all you classy girls do, but jesus H if you all don't just prove that you can collectively and individually write about your lives in ways ten times as elegant and heart-wrenching as I could ever hope to. Basically at this point my End of 2009 post should

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My baditude only manifests when I am forced to do the requisite whine: Mac Hall? SERIOUSLY? Why don't they just play in a high school gymnasium? All the class, and my feet will be less sore at the end of the night. (Plus, it would be easier on all of Owen's hot students who will inevitably be there for me to oggle

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Indeed those are the very ones! I debated the 12k for Rocky Mountain. But then I realized that a 12k up around the Nordic Centre is actually a worse death than being mauled by a mountain lion. At least my body would give it life, you know? As opposed to freezing onto the asphalt in a hardened lump.

So the Glencoe doesn't do internet signups, eh? This woman's race report makes it seem worth it for the breakfast, though. And door prizes! Awesome!

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drgdrejhnd;rkhljrh I had no idea you were quitting fanfiction... :(

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It is something I talk about and have yet never managed to do. I see it more as a 12 month hiatus that will probably not go very well. And then by next January I will never, ever mention quitting again because I'll have it out of my system.

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i'm totally stealing most of your resolutions:

continuing to write two panic AUs until 2011 quitting fanfiction to maybe produce something that isn't;

write for OTW publish. ish. maybe. poo. whatever.

be that ridic music blogger that spin magazine talked about in their backpage this month see more shows. I like the number fifty, too.

i'm going to add, read 50 books. i am so so so bad at reading stuff that isn't fanfiction on a consistent basis, idek.

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I love these resolutions! Obviously we are great at making them. I am totes excited for your thesis to be spread far and wide for all to oggle at and be astounded by. I wanted to volunteer for AO3 because I got all excited about their methods of organization (Library! of the future!) but then realized they had that shit very, very covered and I would contribute nothing but thumbs up.

So I do not know the Spin article you speak of. But once I knew a girl who interned there. We used to do the paper together and interview rock bands and stuff, but then she decided to be a real music journalist and I... moved to Calgary. Whatttt.

If you read 50 books will you review them all on your journal? I love it when people do that. It makes me feel like scrolling through my flist is less browsing for porn and more literary ~accomplishments.

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Another resolution: quitting fan fiction.

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An army of little sad dudes! Even though we don't really write in the same fandoms anymore, I always enjoy your writing, so this makes me sad! You'll have to promise to send me some of your original fiction. I feel like that's what you should do instead of fanfic... just write me original fic long hand and mail it to me so I can keep the letters pressed in between the pages of my signed Wally Lamb book that weighs a thousand pounds. Then after you die a famous, brilliant author, I will put the letters together and publish them and make a fortune and spend the rest of my life in Fiji with hot cabana boys servicing my every need. SIGH.

Oh, and I got your christmas card when I went home for the holidays. I will email you my new address just in case my mother decides to open my mail, which wouldn't be the first time.

HEY, what happened to the yuletide fic I saw you post and then hastily... delete/privatize? NO FAST ENOUGH, PAIGERINO.

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WAIT, DID YOU JUST IMPLY YOU WERE GOING TO KILL ME OFF FOR MONEY? KAT, LET ME EMBRACE YOU WITH MY ARMS. THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU. :D :D :D

My christmas card was lame! Devoid of fictions! I felt awful, I was so freaking behind this year. But at least if she had opened it there would've been nothing deviant to be aghast at.

And I privatized it because I didn't want to spam anyone! I was going to like, wait a few days or something. But now I'll backdate it because I'm classy like that, yo. And also embarrassed, haha.

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Actually, I was implying that I would make piles of dirty money off your natural death, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll be making to Fiji a couple years earlier than expected! :P

It was a cute christmas card. I appreciated Olive's delicate artistic touch, too. God, I need to go read that fic that you sent me of Jo and Dean in the snow. SIGGGGGGGGGGH. That reminds me of the remix that is sitting in my google docs, mocking my inability to finish it.

I'm just embarrassed by my yuletide fic period. It was B-A-D. I just read yours and it was SO FREAKING GOOD. DAMN YOU, CAGE POOPER. Now I demand you post a link to it in your journal!