| And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight |
[23 Dec 2009|03:35pm] |
The dloc has hit with full force, just in time for me to miss the last day of work and to be ill over the holidays, during which I'm seeing my mother who has a chest infection and J's grandparents who've had their own health issues this year. Perfect. One year, I'd like to go the whole of the holidays without getting sick, if no one minds too much.
Since all I have done since I last posted is work and feel ill, this is really just me signing off for the holidays. Due to the demise of my netbook (have I mentioned that? Once or twice maybe?), I won't be online much for the next week. Catch you on the flipside and have a good one.
P.S. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) yuletide writer and sga_santa writer, I will comment when I get back, I promise! Thank you in advance :D
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| Let it snow. Please? |
[22 Dec 2009|01:48pm] |
+ I got snowed on last night! This makes me stupid happy, since I love snow. Yes, I know all the problems, and I know that a bunch of you hate it, but for me, when it snows I'm seven years old again and staying with my grandparents because school's closed. I'm warm and safe and happy, and since I've lived in London my whole life, this is the first time I've ever seen snow. It won't snow properly in London again until I've moved to Oxford, so this is my strongest childhood memory of snow. Every time I get snowed on, it takes me right back there.
- Am sick. The cough is getting worse and is now bringing a cold with it. Normally, I get the sniffle then the cough, so I'm officially designating this my dloc, since clearly it is backwards.
+ I'm using the automatic URL uploader to shift my stories onto AO3. It's working pretty well, although you still have to do a lot of editing once they're there. But it's much easier to copy and paste a URL than a whole story, I think. And it gets most of the details right, so overall, I'm pretty impressed. The interesting part is going to be once I start uploading my series - I'm fairly sure I tag/group them somehow, so hopefully that will work well.
- Still have a whole afternoon to get through, with many books and no motivation whatsoever. Woot /o\
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| What I did on my Weekend |
[21 Dec 2009|09:44am] |
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Good Monday all. How's everyone doing? Good weekend? Not a lot to report from mine, unless last minute Christmas shopping counts. Oxford was surprisingly pleasant late Saturday afternoon - not too busy, and everyone seemed to be in a good mood, which is always nice. Full reports under the cuts ;)
~ ( So I'm not going to get my Yuletide fic done )
~ ( I pretty much didn't stop squeeing all the way through the Strictly Come Dancing Final )
~( Like last year, I still don't feel very Christmassy )
~ ( There are times when eBay is awesome )
~ My netbook is dead. I...don't want to talk about it *sniff*
And since my desk looks like an explosion in a filing cabinet, I should probably go and do some work now. Or get coffee. One of those is more important than the other. Hope everyone's doing okay out there. All set for the holidays?
ETA: I just managed to cut myself on a biscuit box. I'm telling you, that takes skill *facepalm*
ETA2: Dear workman setting off the fire alarm, if you're going to keep doing that, the least you could do is *actually* set fire to something. It's certainly cold enough today to warrant it, and I have a pile of papers that I've just *ahem* filed in the bin that you could use...
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[19 Dec 2009|11:13am] |
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Okay, I'll be back properly later, honest, to actually read all the tabs I have open, BUT! I had to run in and tell y'all:
We sold the eBook reader! I have no idea how he did it, but J managed to sell it, 6 days before Christmas, and is out posting it now. Woot! This means I'm getting an iPod Touch, which I've wanted since I first saw them and started drooling. By selling before Christmas, we got a good price for the Reader, and by buying after Christmas, I should get a good price on the Touch.
After 4 years of rage-inducing incompatibility (the Creative software sucks, and it only talks grudgingly to Winamp or MediaPlayer on our computer), I'm going to have an MP3 player with proper software!
This is especially brilliant since my Netbook is DED and it looks like it's going to take a while to get it up and running again. That's usually the story of my life. Winning something, then being able to sell it quickly and buy something I really, really want? That's never the story of my life. I think that's what's more exciting than actually having the Touch - something has gone right! Now all we need is for the postman to deliver the rest of our Christmas presents for other people...
Woot! *twirls*
Okay, I'll leave everyone alone to get on with their Saturdays now.
*bounces off*
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| To quote Z, you'd think I'd have a point, wouldn't you? |
[18 Dec 2009|02:38pm] |
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It's a bit of an up and down kind of day, which is mostly due to my stomach being nowhere near settled yet. I have pills from the doctor and will probably have to look at what I eat somewhat - cut back on caffeine and up the veggies, neither of which are particularly inviting prospects but never mind.
There should probably be other news at this point, but mostly right now I am trying to get through the post-lunch slump without dozing off and wondering if I can eke out my work to last a whole three and a half days to the end of the year.
After last night's singing at the train station (in aid of OxPAT and raising quite a bit from bemused commuters), I've decided not to tackle tomorrow's two sessions as well. One of the things that can set off my stomach thing, according to the doctor, is stress, and I've definitely been feeling that lately. Oddly, I don't actually have anything to be stressed about - work is fine, we're all sorted for Christmas, we're going on holiday etc etc, and yet my stomach is churning both literally and metaphorically. A weekend with nothing on and a chance to work through lists instead of writing yet more (I'm get out of control on this front. Again) is probably what I need.
It's been a long year, and a short year, all at once, and I'm desperate for the break to catch my breath and take stock a little. One of the things I learned about myself this year is that as an extrovert I suck at knowing what I'm thinking, or doing any kind of introspection at all, and in the last few months, I've figured out that I need to get back to my writing, as that's my best outlet for all the mess in my head. That and journaling, but I figure the stories are more entertaining to you guys than listening to me moaning ;)
So am finally looking forward to a relaxing weekend. What about everyone else? Y'all going to be around for a while, or is everyone heading off for the holidays?
ETA: You know, it would be really helpful if someone could decide exactly where in the country Oxford is. Our airport is in London (I kid you not), we get our news in the South region (which includes the Isle of Wight, which is quite a long way away), sometimes we're in the South East or the Midlands, and on one memorable occasion, we were in the South West region for mapping purposes. I want to know if we're going to get snow! *pouts*
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| The only other option is an impression of a headless chicken |
[17 Dec 2009|09:22am] |
After a day off yesterday for a stomach bug that I'm still not over, I feel like I have to get a week's worth of work done in one day. Except I don't have one day, because I'm out at a meeting this morning, then singing carols at lunchtime. So it looks like my one day is tomorrow, when I have 3 things in the diary already. Thirty-six hour days would be really useful at this point.
ION:
~ My stomach is fine until I give it food, at which point it decides it doesn't like me any more. This should be interesting, since I have a habit of fainting if I skip meals (or when I don't. It's a thing). On the flip side, I'm definitely going to my Slimming World group next week, although I don't recommend this as a long-term weight-loss strategy.
~ I won something! I've known about it since Monday, but didn't want to say anything in case it wasn't real. Because I never win things. Ever. Except this time, I really did! It's a Sony Pocket Reader, and is very small, sleek and shiny. Right now, I don't think I'm going to keep it - what I *really* want is an iPod touch, since I get all my books for free from Bookmooch and the library, and don't really want to start paying for them! Hopefully selling the Reader should offset the cost of that. But still. I won something!
~ Last night, we finally got ourselves into gear and booked a holiday for January. So from the 5th to the 9th, we will be in Morocco \o/ We're staying in the same place as last year, and managed to get a small discount on the stay, as well as bagging cheap flights. It's mostly to get some sunshine, rather than do anything specific, although we did have a list of things that we didn't get to, so we're going to work our way through that. I was a little unsure about the whole thing, but now it's booked, I'm definitely sure it was the right decision. Sunshine!
~ I had to drop out of sga_santa thanks to this wretched bug. Since the Yuletide deadline is pretty close and I haven't written a word yet, looks like I might be 4 for 4 on fic failure this year. Go me /o\
~ Assuming I don't pass out in the middle of the carol service, there may be more later. If I do, hope everyone has a good day and I'll catch up soon ;)
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[16 Dec 2009|03:31pm] |
Dear Successful Historical Novelist,
Please, please, please stop with the epithets. Seriously, if this was a fanfiction rather than a library book, I'd be taking a red pen to it. You gave your characters perfectly good names, and the story flows a whole lot better when you use them.
I'm sick here. Please to not be upsetting my stomach more than it already is.
No love
Me
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| *blows dust off journal* |
[15 Dec 2009|12:24pm] |
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Is there anyone still out there? LJ's been pretty quiet, and I've been even quieter, although I have been lurking in various journals over the last week.
So what have I been doing, since I haven't been here?
~ Last Wednesday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miss_zedem and I had a nice day out in Bristol, which isn't somewhere I'd thought of visiting before (it just happens to be more or less halfway between us) but I'd go to again. Lovely, lovely day.
~ From Friday lunchtime to Sunday evening I did 7 lots of singing, which was fun if exhausting.( I feel like I'm still hungover from it! )
~ I have been crocheting more than I knew was possible, although that's partly because crochet grows at a brilliant speed. It's definitely a craft for impatient people! I have 4 projects on the go right now, and I think they'll all get done by Christmas if my fingers hold out. And I thought writing by hand made my muscles cramp *ow ow ow*
~ I had a few days off last week and wandered round Oxford looking at the lights, the Christmas tree and the giant Menorah on Broad Street. It has lightbulbs rather than flames, but it's ten feet high, which probably makes up for that! Will try to get a picture of both at some point when the city isn't shrouded in fog.
~ I dropped out of reel_torchwood and the Podbang at amplificathon, due to lack of time and creativity, ( and am trying not to feel too guilty and useless about it )
Speaking of writing, is there anyone who could give me a super-quick typo-check on an SGA fic this evening? I won't have time for major editing, but I'd feel better if someone else made sure I haven't committed too many crimes against the English language!
The journal-silence has been down to a combination of the ridiculous busy-ness chronicled above and a continuing mental wobble, in which I convince myself that no one wants to hear what I have to say anyway, that writing in my journal is making a fuss about nothing and that if I enjoy it, I shouldn't do it. ...yeah, those last two don't even make sense to me. IDEK. I'm rather bleary and still slightly ill at the moment, so it's hard to know what I think, if I'm honest. But whatever it is, I'm fairly sure more coffee will make it better.
And just 6.5 work days to go before 2.5 weeks off \o/ It's going to be a busy holiday season, but as long as people let me sleep as well, it should be a good one :)
How's everyone doing out there? Hanging on okay?
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