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[meej]

- LAUNDRY oh god how can I be out of clean socks HOW
- five posts for PW and four for BoP
- work out!
- vacuum around the cat box, why are cats such orful little pie-fillings WHY
- watch Ladyhawke.

So I had my six-month review at aprontiems (really more like a 10.5 month review, we are slightly behind at our store). Bossmans says I am awesome. I TOTALLY AM. I got a raise! I plan to use this money to buy a plane ticket for to see my high school BFF get married in June. I take my vacations around the celebrations of others. Meanwhile, my brother and sister are in Thailand (what), thence Bali (what). They are staying at a Holiday Inn (WHAT).

I bellowed "WHAT THE HELL, SOUTHWEST ASIA TOUR???" at my mother over the telephone when I was informed of this. She said reasonably that if I kept up with the facebooks I would know about this already. It's a sorry day when I have to learn that Boy and Bee are OUT OF THE FLIPPIN HEMISPHERE on the FACEBOOKS.

Last night I got to play realtime RP with some grown-ups. Greyspell told a story to a death knight and saw his garden. It's a DEATH KNIGHT's GARDEN. There is something very wrong with this picture! It was fun; the guppy tried to help by sitting on my lap and beating her tiny hands against the keyboard. This did not help Greyspell's reputation as an uptight upright erudite stillness-smith to have random strings of gibberish and spacebar-jumping. Gup so cute. <3

I am trying to write, but my brain is stupid. I keep mixing up bits of metallurgy and glass-crafting with political subplots, and I keep thinking that if I were Guy Gavriel Kay I could come up with some lovely conceit to liken Thalassian/Horde politics with stained glass, BUT NO, IT JUST SITS THERE LUMPENLY LIKE GLASSBLOWERS' HICCUPS.

I read a book called Liar by Justine Larbalastier. I am still thinking about it. It is one of those where I cannot say definitively that I liked it, but I read the entire thing in one day and I'm STILL thinking about it. A good choice. I may reread to see if I actually enjoy it as opposed to being jump-started by it.

Comments

[thez]

OMG my parents also tried to use Facebook as the primary means of family communication, and it made me the saddest. :\ Eventually they figured out that I wasn't having any of it and went back to keeping me updated via email and phone/text.

OMG CATS ARE SO TOTALLY PIE FILLINGS

OMG I knew you would get a raise. It was never in any doubt.

OMG AS BULLET POINTS OMG!

[meej]

YEAH SERIOUSLY, one of the reasons I do not enjoy the facebooks is that I think it makes people think they are absolved of actually communicating with others. Which: bullcrap to you, sir! I SAID BULLCRAP.

YOU ARE THE BEST ZEE OMG <3 your apron: still a hit!

[randombees]

Congrats on work success! :D

I would not mind reading a story with allusions to stained glass. I may also give Liar a try, because your reaction to it is so interesting.

So uh, what does a death knight's garden look like?

[meej]

THANKS NOTADESK I feel pretty good about it! :D

I am trying to craft the story, because it is a conceit of mine that Greyspell worked with glass a lot because he couldn't deal with metal or wood for a pact. Also, glass is pretty.

LIAR IS GOOD, TRY IT

Well, right now it just looks like a tilled plot; it's in Northrend so nothing's bloomed yet!

[thehunter]

IT JUST SITS THERE LUMPENLY LIKE GLASSBLOWERS' HICCUPS.

You win forever.

And congratulations on the raise! It is true; you are awesome.

Also, with regard to orful little pie-fillings, I just got a call informing me that ours is being put on VALIUM. Which is good, I suppose, because we're told it will make her less neurotic and more interested in food, but still. Nothing like receiving independent confirmation that our cat is totally crazypants. :|

[meej]

:D THANKS, FELT GOOD SAYIN IT! Glassblowing fascinates me, it is so useful allaphorically!

Mm, tangible reward for hard work! My puritanical roots are TINGLING with gratification.

... VALIUM-CAT Am I a bad person for giggling just a little?

[metonymy]

I thought Liar was really, really interesting! I would also like to reread. I think that's one that I stayed up too late reading, which I thought I would grow out of as a habit. NOPE.

To hell with Facebook. I am thinking about deleting mine and various people find this to be a HORRIFIC SUGGESTION. urgh.

Yay raise! And visits!

LADYHAWKE. My wondertwin refers to my sister as I-sa-beau just like the creepy bishop in that movie.

[meej]

MY ICON IS TO MATCH YOUR ICON, that is a great screen-grab.

Ha ha it is never too late to stay up with a story, elsewise your brain won't wind down enough to let you go to sleep! Fact.

Pfft, the facebooks aren't the boss of you! YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT. Also consider that if you let go of the facebooks, that is MORE TIME to read booksen or write letters! :D

CREEPY BISHOPS ARE ALWAYS GOOD FOR A LARF

[nobara]

Yaaaay you read Liar! I feel like a good book-giver! And double-yay because that is the exact same reaction I had! I read it in one day and went, "What the what huuuuhhh" (or something to that effect), and I still occasionally think about it a year later. Also not sure how much I "liked" it and considering a reread yeaaaah.

I don't know what just happened except that I typed a lot of words.



I was at school for 10 hours today. And it was 90 degrees outside. I am tired. :(

More words! Typing!

[thistlechaser]

MEEP! I hadn't logged on to Haken since our scene, so I'm totally bad and missed the IC mail!

Then I had a THOUGHT.

Wanna do it through email instead? I'm so rarely on Horde anymore, and on Haken even less (no dailies or transmutes to ever do on him), I worry about missing your mail again!

Or maybe blog comments!

[meej]

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA, emailz is radz!

I AM SENDING YOU AN EMAIL RIGHT NOW