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.