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Aargh. I need to find some way to make that intuitive because I still feel like I'm switching around the aspects, and I can't tell whether or not I actually did or not. And after a while of going back and forth my brain just hurts. Practice, I suppose. slow, laborious practice.

Might not be around as much today, on account of I need to go over setting up and taking down for Maryland with people. I don't know how long that will take but I know I'll be away from the desk for a while. Oogh, the more I think about this the more I just want to hermit in my house. Stupid damn conventions. I mean, I should be fine as long as I remember my con-kit and don't freak out too much, and I've got hanging out with Mom a day or so before and a couple days after, but still ugh. This is not what I wanted to be doing for Beltane.

On the plus side? The writing groove is sort of back. And not the ridiculous shitton of words I've been racking up from playing with the new pup, just, writing in general. Managing a few different projects in my head even if I've developed much less enthusiasm for The Miracle and way more for Don't Dress Your Cat In An Apron. Yes, I really did call a fic that and yes, it refers to what you think it does. Probably. If you listened to the same records I did.

Need to finish getting Dragon*Con crap together. And figure out what day The Losers is going to happen, because apparently we have game on Saturday? I can't tell if we do or not, people have been ridiculous about letting us know whether or not they can make a regular damn game. Need to get organized, argh. So much crap to do, so little time. And half of that is probably writing and reading crap. I really, really need to get started on re-reading stuff for big bangs. The original shit I can do, no problem, especially now that I've gotten done with outlines. The fandom based stuff... bigger problem. Oogh. I guess, though, for now it's stick to the schedule and do it that way. And get to bed goddamn earlier!

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And then I double check to make sure that all of that actually is in the past tense, which is what I was supposed to be reviewing. Yay!

Packing for Maryland apparently happens today. Reviewing set-up and take-down happens tomorrow. And one work problem that I was kind of nervous about got solved today, so, yay! Except, accidentally I'm pretty sure threw away my iPod Touch, BOO. It's now in a dumpster at the foot of the building and no, I am not playing forensic tech on CSI and going through all that garbage. Uh. No. Still changing my passwords on my email just in case, but that's all the sensitive information I really have on my iPod. Phone numbers and addresses are, for the most part, either in gdocs or in my address book. My hard copy one. That's in my desk at home. What paranoia, where?

And all my apps are in iTunes which is on my computer, so, there's that, but, yeah. I guess this is a sign from my subconscious or Goddess or someone to go ahead and get a frikkin' new iPod already. Which, there. Now ordered, should be here Friday with my accessories kit that actually was pretty cheap for the amount of crap you got (chargers, cases, one with an armband). One case alone costs as much as that whole kit. Now, we'll see how good quality the cases and chargers and stuff are, but. I also may have ordered the first season of Fringe because it's still cheap on Amazon, oops. All in all, not even over my budget for what I was going to spend on it earlier in the year, so, that's yay. The fact that I have to buy a new one at all is ew. Which I don't actually have to. I'm just used to having a personal soundtrack, ever since they were tapes. But. I can, sort of? So I am. And did. And blah.

On the plus side, it also means I can start running and checking my workouts and such, since I don't have to hold the headphones in that one position and give my hand horrible cramps.

Right. Back to... something. Packing some more for Maryland, most likely. Hopefully I'll get downstairs or back to making up my CS post and my to-do list for the next couple of weeks at some point in the future.

Also, Jackie Earle Haley 'dude'-saying montage is utter hilarity. Seriously, dude.

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Right. Let's try this this way. I am remembering my German, so I will do my German.

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( Ali's German (now w/help!) )

Oogh. Okay, that actually worked pretty well, now I have the rest of the night to do writing/editing stuff. Or writing stuff, if I so choose.

So. Oogh again. I think I have stuff for the The Losers set up, which is to say we leave, eh, sort of early in the morning, find the used bookstore Of Doom in Knoxville (I still can't remember where the hell it is, but I'm sure google knows) and raid it, find a place to have lunch, find a movie theatre. Go back probably relatively late, I think, but probably with lots of goodies and memories of pretty pretty people making big big booms.

I have the Maryland trip sort of organized in my head; for those of you in Maryland it's at the Howard County fairgrounds not this weekend but the next weekend. I'll actually be working, so I won't be able to really hang out. Next visit! And after the festival, back to DC to spend time with the family and my grandpa. It'll be fun. And it'll be interesting. I intend to drag as many stories out of them as I can.

And now, kicking back, relaxing, writing, and hopefully eventually reading Night Watch. The Sergei Lukyanenko one, not the Terry Pratchett one.