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Oct. 11th, 2010 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWell, I'm exhausted, how about you?
No, seriously. I am full up on emotional trauma, both describing mind and hearing about others'. Bullying because of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, culture, skin color, hair color, ornamentation, decoration, choice of friends, choice of reading material, or which end you eat your egg from. I do not want to read any more blog posts that make me cry, I do not want to read about any more beatings, rapes, forcible... anything. Even in fiction. I'm done for the moment. And since it's too much to hope that people will sit the fuck down and stop fucking hating on each other for a while, I'm just taking a hiatus from the news in general for a couple of days. Information overload. Unless it's a cute kitty picture with a caption on it, I don't want to know.
(Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one. I mean it, folks. The Jag has very little energy left.)
Happy things. I finished the first draft of the damn Desert novel, which means I'm back to hanging around online and doing things in the semi-normal routine. Except Russian this morning, because I'm still fucking exhausted from, well, everything. Japanese and German should go up as per usual, though, and random other stuff. I'm working on a bunch of short stories. I discovered/re-discovered over the last few days that I am way, way out of practice with writing fantasy fiction. I can do urban fantasy; anything that has the backbone of a pre-existing world I can do. Fantasy fiction where I have to make all that shit up? HARD.
So, heh, of course I'm doing that for Nano this year. When have I ever made things easier on myself. I suppose the plus side here is that it's a world I made up years ago, so there's a lot of stuff there
Other happy stuff. They're working on getting the miners from Chile out at the beginning of this week. That'll be good, I'm still worrying a bit about them, but everyone seems hopeful. Yay successful rescues!
I'm doing a couple unprecedented things at work, mostly involving responsibilities with purchase orders. That's cool! I also have to work on the blog posts, which is less cool but also kind of cool. It's more the "yay! work I have to slog through and do but, new work and new responsibilities!" and less the "THIS IS SO AWESOME." I also finished spinning the bamboo over the weekend, which was very very cool. It didn't turn out consistent thickness at all, but it's good practice, I'm getting better, and I don't have to have those samples immediately. And now I have pretty pretty bamboo yarn. That I need to set and soak, but, tonight or tomorrow night.
I have t-shirts for tie-dye experiments. And I need to post all the pictures ever. Pictures from Dragon Con, of my tie-dye, and of the bigass cricket I found in the house the other day. Big as a nickel in the body. We evicted it, because it's warming back up again and because the cats would eat it if it stayed in. Handsome fella, though.
More positive things. I baked cookies over the weekend, because the boy and I were craving cookies, and I taught him how to evaluate an oven before you just set the cookies and the timer and forget about them. We had a fun adventure with charcoal briquette cookies. I got to read Fables, a whole bunch of it thanks tosarcastic_kitty, which was fun and engrossing reading and new to me, which is a whole other level of fun. I now ship Snow and Wolf so hard. And the puppies thing made me think of my own werewolf who's going to be having puppies soon.
So, there's a bunch of happy things. Oh, and I've been indulging in a bit of RP fluff involving Cassie from Push and Murdock from A-Team. There is hugging and cuddling, flying paper airplanes, curling up in trashbags, general lunacy (it's Murdock, if you know anything about the A-Team you know what to expect) and all in all, good fun innocent happy pretendy fun time games. Which is definitely what the doctor ordered right about now.
No, seriously. I am full up on emotional trauma, both describing mind and hearing about others'. Bullying because of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, culture, skin color, hair color, ornamentation, decoration, choice of friends, choice of reading material, or which end you eat your egg from. I do not want to read any more blog posts that make me cry, I do not want to read about any more beatings, rapes, forcible... anything. Even in fiction. I'm done for the moment. And since it's too much to hope that people will sit the fuck down and stop fucking hating on each other for a while, I'm just taking a hiatus from the news in general for a couple of days. Information overload. Unless it's a cute kitty picture with a caption on it, I don't want to know.
(Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one. I mean it, folks. The Jag has very little energy left.)
Happy things. I finished the first draft of the damn Desert novel, which means I'm back to hanging around online and doing things in the semi-normal routine. Except Russian this morning, because I'm still fucking exhausted from, well, everything. Japanese and German should go up as per usual, though, and random other stuff. I'm working on a bunch of short stories. I discovered/re-discovered over the last few days that I am way, way out of practice with writing fantasy fiction. I can do urban fantasy; anything that has the backbone of a pre-existing world I can do. Fantasy fiction where I have to make all that shit up? HARD.
So, heh, of course I'm doing that for Nano this year. When have I ever made things easier on myself. I suppose the plus side here is that it's a world I made up years ago, so there's a lot of stuff there
Other happy stuff. They're working on getting the miners from Chile out at the beginning of this week. That'll be good, I'm still worrying a bit about them, but everyone seems hopeful. Yay successful rescues!
I'm doing a couple unprecedented things at work, mostly involving responsibilities with purchase orders. That's cool! I also have to work on the blog posts, which is less cool but also kind of cool. It's more the "yay! work I have to slog through and do but, new work and new responsibilities!" and less the "THIS IS SO AWESOME." I also finished spinning the bamboo over the weekend, which was very very cool. It didn't turn out consistent thickness at all, but it's good practice, I'm getting better, and I don't have to have those samples immediately. And now I have pretty pretty bamboo yarn. That I need to set and soak, but, tonight or tomorrow night.
I have t-shirts for tie-dye experiments. And I need to post all the pictures ever. Pictures from Dragon Con, of my tie-dye, and of the bigass cricket I found in the house the other day. Big as a nickel in the body. We evicted it, because it's warming back up again and because the cats would eat it if it stayed in. Handsome fella, though.
More positive things. I baked cookies over the weekend, because the boy and I were craving cookies, and I taught him how to evaluate an oven before you just set the cookies and the timer and forget about them. We had a fun adventure with charcoal briquette cookies. I got to read Fables, a whole bunch of it thanks to
sarcastic_kitty, which was fun and engrossing reading and new to me, which is a whole other level of fun. I now ship Snow and Wolf so hard. And the puppies thing made me think of my own werewolf who's going to be having puppies soon.So, there's a bunch of happy things. Oh, and I've been indulging in a bit of RP fluff involving Cassie from Push and Murdock from A-Team. There is hugging and cuddling, flying paper airplanes, curling up in trashbags, general lunacy (it's Murdock, if you know anything about the A-Team you know what to expect) and all in all, good fun innocent happy pretendy fun time games. Which is definitely what the doctor ordered right about now.