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( Gaeilge )

Oh Irish. Why are you so weird. I mean, as always, weird is relative and in this case means "structured in a way I'm not used to." Thus, oh Irish (language), why are you so weird.

Also it is ridiculously humid out, and somehow I can't seem to connect to the weather website. The fuck is up with this morning.

Of course it's all fun and games until I get in to work and it's chaos and noise. And yet somehow? Still managed to get out today's Gods and Monsters on time. Or, well, I will because it's all in and scheduled now. Because who's awesome? I'm awesome. So, yes, that's that done, and I picked up the ridiculous number of fixtures and hooks and tools and things we inherited from Grandpa this morning, along with what might be a couple hundred feet of phone cable for my new Tetsuo arm. Along with yardage of fabric for Tetsuo's cape cloak thingie, yardage of nylon webbing for Huntress's belt and clips to go with, and more tailor's chalk because apparently I don't have any anymore. Or if I do it's hiding very well, since I just dug through most of my craft boxes. I say dug through rather than cleaned out because I didn't sort it very well, but I still would have remembered tailor's chalk, it goes in the portable kit.

So, yes, my brain is still churning along with the "make ALL the costumes!" tangent. But on the plus side my pants are hemmed and all my immediate writing deadlines are taken care of, which gives me some time to do some of that costuming when I'm not at work. Or, depending on what the costume bits are, even when I am at work. We'll see.

Why no, I'm not excited about Dragon*Con at all. Why would you say that. Oh! Tonks is also going to be at Dragon*Con. Just in case anyone wanted to know that. I gotta go calm my brain down from squee mode into organize things mode.

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( Русский язык )

Fucking Russian goddammit. Today's been weirdly not so much busy but chaotic. And that Russian's definitely going to need to be memorized or something, but hell, it's worth memorizing. If I can remember that in a crisis it might help someone to hear a (poorly pronounced) familiar language.

I'm having one of those weird days or moments where I want to costume all the things, and yet I went on tumblr and looked at the Huntress tag there and am simultaneously having a fit of augh everyone's costume is better than mine! And, okay, in at least one of those photos it's professionally retouched and in one of them it's taken by a professional photographer, but argh! Not to mention the fact that I'm at the lowest weight I've been in in maybe four years or so? And I'd like to drop another five pounds before Dragon*Con, and I've been doing some more toning exercises as prep and so I really hope that not only do I look good because my costumes are good, but I also look good because I am looking good and healthy, too. Yes, here I'm using 'good' to mean 'fit, muscled, toned', maybe not big budget movie I spent six hours a day for four months training to do this, but good. So, yeah. There is simultaneous freaking out and enthusiasm. I'm not sure my emotions can keep up with this.

On the plus side, for Huntress I'm also doing the full bodysuit one rather than the cut-out leotard one. I might someday have the courage to do the cut-out leotard one, but it is not this day nor this Dragon*Con. ... I take that back, I will totally someday have the courage to do the cut-out leotard one, I just don't have the damn time.

I am, however, I have to say, pleased with the way the scheduling for my costuming seems to have worked out. The bulk of everything should be done in the next 10 days or so, at which point I'll re-evaluate what I have as far as costume pieces, check things off on the list, etc. If I can just keep from putting things off out of panic, I'll be great. It's that putting things off out of panic that gets me every year, really. Here's to this year being different.