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lately:
-some stuff has been packed. Why is there still so much stuff that needs to be packed? This is unfair.
-listened (!!!!) to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo during various dental appointments/nightshifts/lazy afternoons at home. I've never tried audiobooks before but they are in serious danger of becoming my New Thing. It was pretty good, too, although I always kinda resent the bait-and-switch subplot of Let's Have Lots Of Sex But Still Be Just Friends, Oh Wait No. (I picked it because I feel okay about torrenting dead writers; should possibly further alleviate conscience by murdering a few voice actors).
-I keep trying to go do fun things with notJojo and then encountering fail at one end or the other. This sucks. :(
-is it just me or is Homestuck fandom completely overruning IRL lately? M and me between us have had three IRL Homestuck encounters in the last couple of weeks and M isn't even a fan. (I guess its own economics contributes to this jarring visibility; it is a massive, massive wodge of free entertainment so people who are serious about it tend to drop money on swag or on supplies to make their own swag. I've only bought music so far, because what I'd really like is something based on the mobius double reach around symbol, which I think is a beautiful piece of visual logic, but there's nothing I can buy that's based on it and I'm not sure what to do with it myself.)
I am really clumsy at pressing the IRL/fandom switch in a hurry. I've not socialised in Homestuck fandom at all except for at Dragoncon - more than enough people I know from MGS fandom read it, and I've just stuck with talking to them about it. I have remarkably little interest in writing or reading fic for it - okay, so I've read the Eyeball-Licking Fic and I think it's stunningly good, especially given that it is a PWP in which all that happens is someone licking someone else's eyeball, and Homestuck clearly has epic potential for that kind of ridic dismantlement of convention - but I don't feel any pull to join in with it in that respect. Instead I've been wanting to dress up as Sn0wman, play with physical design and reinstall Sims 2. So anyway, I don't really have a place to socialise as a Homestuck fan, I haven't met anyone via Homestuck except for hanging out at Dragoncon, and am basically a lurking creep who squees occasionally. Oh well, I have too much else to do.
-G descended into meltdown mode (due to something that had blessedly nothing to do with me, but which did serve to underline why I cannot stand her however much I superficially like her) and appears to be just now crawling out of it; temptation to sit her down with a deck and attempt to rearrange her personality has never been higher, or less reasonable. Really. Quite apart from the fact that I haven't done anything comparably dubious in an extremely long time because I really have grown out of treating people like that, there's just no reason for me to even try to awaken her about her batshittery, other than a (doubtless misplaced) feeling of publicspiritedness towards everyone else who ever meets & likes her in the future. No, I am going to move north in a month and G will never have been more than That Person I Wanted To Be Friends With At One Point But Then Started Basing My Characterisation Of La Clown On. Yet I've started keeping cards in my handbag at all times. Balls.
-We've decided to not do Thanksgiving properly and so bought a couple of pre-made pies and designated it as a Packing Shit day. We're flying back to Boston for a few days the week after to try to find a place in which we will be permitted to live, and with two dogs and only one of us likely to be lining a job up before the move I don't think we will be able to be that picky. I am going into this expecting that I will have to try to armtwist people by offering a few months' rent in advance. Must find potential places and make lots of calls about setting up viewing times, argh. :( Why are things hard.
-listened (!!!!) to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo during various dental appointments/nightshifts/lazy afternoons at home. I've never tried audiobooks before but they are in serious danger of becoming my New Thing. It was pretty good, too, although I always kinda resent the bait-and-switch subplot of Let's Have Lots Of Sex But Still Be Just Friends, Oh Wait No. (I picked it because I feel okay about torrenting dead writers; should possibly further alleviate conscience by murdering a few voice actors).
-I keep trying to go do fun things with notJojo and then encountering fail at one end or the other. This sucks. :(
-is it just me or is Homestuck fandom completely overruning IRL lately? M and me between us have had three IRL Homestuck encounters in the last couple of weeks and M isn't even a fan. (I guess its own economics contributes to this jarring visibility; it is a massive, massive wodge of free entertainment so people who are serious about it tend to drop money on swag or on supplies to make their own swag. I've only bought music so far, because what I'd really like is something based on the mobius double reach around symbol, which I think is a beautiful piece of visual logic, but there's nothing I can buy that's based on it and I'm not sure what to do with it myself.)
I am really clumsy at pressing the IRL/fandom switch in a hurry. I've not socialised in Homestuck fandom at all except for at Dragoncon - more than enough people I know from MGS fandom read it, and I've just stuck with talking to them about it. I have remarkably little interest in writing or reading fic for it - okay, so I've read the Eyeball-Licking Fic and I think it's stunningly good, especially given that it is a PWP in which all that happens is someone licking someone else's eyeball, and Homestuck clearly has epic potential for that kind of ridic dismantlement of convention - but I don't feel any pull to join in with it in that respect. Instead I've been wanting to dress up as Sn0wman, play with physical design and reinstall Sims 2. So anyway, I don't really have a place to socialise as a Homestuck fan, I haven't met anyone via Homestuck except for hanging out at Dragoncon, and am basically a lurking creep who squees occasionally. Oh well, I have too much else to do.
-G descended into meltdown mode (due to something that had blessedly nothing to do with me, but which did serve to underline why I cannot stand her however much I superficially like her) and appears to be just now crawling out of it; temptation to sit her down with a deck and attempt to rearrange her personality has never been higher, or less reasonable. Really. Quite apart from the fact that I haven't done anything comparably dubious in an extremely long time because I really have grown out of treating people like that, there's just no reason for me to even try to awaken her about her batshittery, other than a (doubtless misplaced) feeling of publicspiritedness towards everyone else who ever meets & likes her in the future. No, I am going to move north in a month and G will never have been more than That Person I Wanted To Be Friends With At One Point But Then Started Basing My Characterisation Of La Clown On. Yet I've started keeping cards in my handbag at all times. Balls.
-We've decided to not do Thanksgiving properly and so bought a couple of pre-made pies and designated it as a Packing Shit day. We're flying back to Boston for a few days the week after to try to find a place in which we will be permitted to live, and with two dogs and only one of us likely to be lining a job up before the move I don't think we will be able to be that picky. I am going into this expecting that I will have to try to armtwist people by offering a few months' rent in advance. Must find potential places and make lots of calls about setting up viewing times, argh. :( Why are things hard.
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I have never tried audio books either. A former friend of mine on LJ auditioned to be a voice actor, last I heard from her. Back before she fell off the face of the internet after getting married and having a baby. :/ I just found out about the baby via Goodreads, of all places, where she has taken to reviewing children's books. ://// But enough about me.
I hear you about the lurking thing. There are very few fandoms/communities I'm active in, and I only got into the Sanctuary fandom, despite watching it for years, because of the prospect of having a canon f/f pairing.
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It is never the wrong time to talk about you, and I think you have just demonstrated yet another reason why babies are an abomination. Marriage is also clearly suspect.
I guess I am just kinda attached to books in dead tree format? Plus audiobooks are so huge - I think the one I just listened through was getting on for 15 hours. But when I was a teenager I was a real Radio 4 kid (see also my aversion to TV), so in that sense listening to spoken word is kinda like going back home. It was the dentist who suggested I bring an audiobook and it definitely helped me get through my appointments, and I took it to my nightshifts last week too and oh wow do I wish I'd started doing that before - way more engaging than music.
I vary a lot when it comes to levels of fandom involvement - I got into Metal Gear fandom while I was still in the immigration system and I guess that is why I ended up running a comm and organising events and so on. A lot of the people I IM with these days are from MGS fandom, so in a way it's my main social space, period. Other things, I just want to lurk, or write a bit every so often and ignore people the rest of the time. Homestuck is the only thing that's ever seriously made me want to cosplay (but seriously, look at how much fun these guys are having).
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Also, I'm experiencing some guilt over my former friend, because I feel a bit judgy over what she named her baby. (Hugh, really? Hugh? I don't know why I don't like that name. It just sounds weird. Hugh.) Bah. I used to tell her she'd be a great mother one day. Guess I'll never know how that actually turns out. :(
I too prefer to hold an actual book, rather than an audio or e book. Call me old fashioned. And here I am whinging about having to pack, when a significant portion of my stuff is books and bookcases. lol hypocrisy.
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HUGH. THAT IS KINDA CRUEL. but hey, I feel like my own name is better for a pet than a person. I hope he grows into it, I guess? Drifting away from people is always sad, but I find they can be surprisingly forgiving when you come back to them. /flybynight floozy
The worst thing about audiobooks is if you have to skip back for some reason. Even if it's only by a line or two, it's an annoyance compared to HAVING A PAGE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. But, since immigration I am bad at making time and space for dead tree books. They live mostly in my ridic memory. I don't have an ebook reader but with things out there like Homestuck, and fandom, and all of the blogs - there's so much free information for me to eat, but I do miss absorbing books, so I guess there will be more audiobookness in my near future. (ngl, I am wondering if getting back to eating books all the time will help me learn how to hold a plot together myself. WHO KNOWS.)
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I've always hated the spelling of my name, tbh, and wish my parents had gone with the traditional spelling.My sil wanted to name the baby Sherman Austin before we convinced her that was cruel.And you know what, right now for some reason most of what I'm reading has been on the computer, too, fanfiction, various blogs. I haven't picked up a paper book (besides LHM) to read in months. And it was a library book *facepalm* not one of the hundred of as yet unread books I own.
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Soon after I moved to GA I remember M taking me to see one of his friends who lived in a very recently built complex with little outdoor space - I remarked that it looked kinda like a prison. All those concrete stairs. The other thing that gets me here is plastic siding...nothing with plastic siding looks real to me. I'm just not used to it, lol. (I am usually flippant about it but I love discovering all these hidden cultural prejudices, mine and everyone else's).
You know you're an LHM fan when you can gauge your mood by the distance between your LHM and your bed. I have a stack of unread books, the most pressing of which is the one Ting lent me - so why did I pick up two new ones at a second-hand shop yesterday? /facepalm See also the videogame backlog. And yet, internet forever.