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My tolerance for a wide variety of personalities is really low. I just do not like that many people and the ones I don't like, I really really really don't like. There are a few, on the cusp, but not many and a few extenuating circumstances, but not many. I am just not a loving, accepting person.

Dinner with Harriet was not painful but sure was not enjoyable (except the shrimp was very good). But, I am understanding the rhythm of her annoyances. When she disagrees with something, she pretends she doesn't understand. She added 3 items to the agenda which were covered absolutely and completely at the last meeting. It's just that she does not approve of the decision. Get over it, old lady. But, she had a lovely time and wants to do dinner more often. Her sister is moving here soon, so hopefully, that will prevent many more dinners.

The volleyball people who annoy me, really worked on me this morning. I only said Shut The Fuck Up and Get Out Of The Pool Now, in my head.

Last night, Jim Across The Hall came over with the contents of the package he had received. He did not know what it was for or what to do with it. It was a package of 12 new Hanes Tighty Whities. This morning, he came over with the same package and we had the same conversation. I'm pretty sure he's going to throw them away. "I don't know what they are for!"

Today is the other Jim's birthday and there will be cake at Elbow Coffee. It's special cake - we had it last year - and it's delicious. So I'm looking forward to that.

Then, my plan is to go pick up lunch from downstairs and come back up here and shut the door. Probably I'll get another tighty whities showing but I'm ok with that. I'm done with everyone else.

Love, the Mean Old Bitch in 3402.

fflo

mallorys_camera

The chicken gurlZ have started laying!

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And I am 90% certain that the constant dull ache in my shoulder is a well-known side effect of statins (and the reason why they have such a bad rap) and 10% certain that it is a mysterious cancer that appeared suddenly out of nowhere & will kill me in six months (so I better clean the Patrizia-torium and finish the novel.)

Since it does not seem to be resolving, I will call the cardiologist on Monday.

People with thyroid conditions seem to be particularly prone to statin side effects & I have Hashimoto's. Not even sure I would call the ache pain—it's more a thereness that never goes away, that I'm always conscious of, & that therefore messes with my efforts to lose consciousness (i.e. fall asleep).

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Meanwhile, I went to a Schlock office every day last week and am on the schedule every day for the next week.

I hesitate to call this "work"—though I am being paid to go into the office. Mostly, I sit there and try to hide the fact that I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by pretending to do tax case studies. I display dense tracts on the monitors of the computer assigned to me about depreciation & passive income. See? I am studying! I want to be the best little tax preparer you've ever seen!

Sometimes, I answer phones. Sometimes, I make phone calls: Hey, former Schlock client! Don't you want to spend $250 on something it would take you five minutes to do for free-eee-eeee? Sometimes, I do actual tax returns, and those are always fun.

It all reminds me of that time in the first grade when I got busted by my first-grade teacher for reading Tom Sawyer under the table. "Patty! Put that book away and read your primer!" she'd scold.

This is seasonal work. Come April 15, I remind myself, there will be no further call for your services until next January. You are a farmer! Harvest those tax returns while you may!

I make myself as innocuous and invisible as I can. I even let them call me "Pat"! Who gives a shit? I wouldn't recognize most of the other people in these offices if I passed them in the street. What do I care if they recognize me?

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If I were more gifted at compartmentalization, I'd work on the novel while I'm at the Schlock office.

But doing nothing eight hours a day is exhausting. When I get back to the casa once my shifts are done, all I want to do is throw fuel in my stomach & watch mindless television. So, I'm not writing then.

I'm still working out what I want to do with the next section of the novel, though. Initially, I thought the next section of the novel would be about sex, but ironically, neither real-life Daria nor real-life Flavia was having sex with Brian at the time he died. Of course, what I'm writing is fiction, not real-life.

Anyway, sometime this week, I will be interviewing (and recording!) real-life Daria at some length. Yes, I will be debriefing her about her relationship with Brian. But I also want to know what it felt like to come to the U.S. from Mexico City at age 11, what it feels like to be able to do simultaneous translation, like how do you keep from getting the languages all mixed up in your head?

kalloway

I feel like I'm having more and more days where I would like to wander off and become an ornamental hermit.

That is probably also a post on its own... This is, thus far, a weekend of feeling very old/turning to dust and blowing away, and general enshittification annoyances.

Beyond that, I have finished the Destiny Astray as far as I'm going to for now. Absolute nightmare, would build again in an instant. Though I suppose I'd much prefer to be able to afford the ridiculously difficult-to-get official version of the kit and build that. (I remain tickled that the not-actually-wrong translated name of the bootleg kit translated back as Heresy of Fate. So I suppose I should be calling it that.)

I will have to get some photos posted because while building it absolutely sucked, it looks gorgeous and absolutely passes the two-foot rule.

I am going to make good on my promise to build a bunch of 30MM kits for the next little bit...

There are no fewer than four gunpla/plamo contests with deadlines in March. One of which I am definitely committed to (Redacted III), another I strongly intend to do (30ML), and the others are if I have a brilliant and fast idea that I can knock out quickly and easily.

I have a lot of other projects I need to get (back) to, but at this point I just need to get myself together to get to the nerd show today and do that. One thing at a time...

(Please go vote in my poll if you haven't.)

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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hannah

Based on the size and the chirps, I'm pretty sure the bird I saw perched on the rooftop structure earlier today was a peregrine falcon. I didn't have anything to take a picture, and I didn't see it fly off to be able to check the silhouette, so I'm only working off what I got from the ground across the street.

It was hard to miss. At least, I found it hard to miss. There wasn't enough noise to drown out the chirps, which were distinctive enough I knew something had to be around. I deliberately stopped a little while to look at it, in case anyone walking by would stop to see what I was looking at, or ask me what I'd noticed. There weren't many people, and of the people that came, neither of them bothered. I don't know what was on their minds.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: nothing now

cornerofmadness

Five years ago today I fell. I nearly lost my leg. I was in the hospital/care home for months. It was horrible. Care homes are awful. It seemed like I'd be there forever. But there was still hope.

I taught my classes online from my bed. I helped interview for a new professor from that same bed.

And I had THIS community. You made that time better by checking in with me. You sent me gifts. You sent me stories. The Prodigal Son community made this most amazing art out of one of my stories and I took it back and forth to the hospital every time I had to return for more surgeries because I was afraid the care home would lose it and it was precious to me (It's in my office on top of the file cabinet today).

I'm not sure you know how much you meant to me as I learned to walk again. As I went through all this pain (If you want a visual, go look at the pictures Lindsey Vonn has been posting of her leg and external fixator, my leg looked exactly like that). And I feel sad that one of my biggest supporters,

spikedluv isn't here to read this. But so many others did so much and more, especially

evil_little_dog. It meant everything and I appreciate all of you. Thank you.

I'm doing good. I hike when I can. I'm not in terrible pain for the most part but the leg is weak and the nerve pain I do have is not fun. But I'm here. This is not stopping me.

And today I realized that not only is it a bad day for me two of my favorite celebrities died on the 27th, Leonard Nimoy and Mister Rogers.

In better news...

Tried the new coffee shop in Point Pleasant. this one isn't near the mothman centric stuff. There is one there that I go to that is...okay. I'd love to say let me watch your shop for a weekend and you go to a coffee conference because even McDonalds gets more adventuresome than you. This one had a great menu but too many cold drinks (especially for winter) I liked it but it's out of the way. A student found me there. figures.

AND the on-campus Mennonite coffee shop has mushroom coffee. I was afraid to know how much it was and they named the mixed drink with it the muddy puddle....

Came home to the news of someone I went to school with losing everything when some monster burned ALL of his beehives (he makes his living with the wax/honey etc), 60 hives, tens of thousands of bees, all gone. People suck.

Sigh.

But I did write and since I'm not ready for it to be on AO3 as it's part of a longer work, I'm just putting it here. Wrote it for

spikesgirl58's 6 word challenge.

( story under here )

Fannish 50 recs

Claimed Torchwood

No Time To Spare FAKE

10 Seconds Hazbin Hotel comic

Going to Visit Uncle Mer Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

The Healing Power of Touch Stargate Atlantis

Suited Torchwood

Good Boy Hazbin Hotel

Points Given, Points Taken Hazbin Hotel

Three Times The Trouble Hazbin Hotel

the greatest adventure (what lies ahead) Merlin

Punishment Torchwood

Oh Boy, You're Too Young To Burn (It'll be alright) Hazbin Hotel

A Guard on my Heart - Universe Explanations The Owl House

Letting Hope In Hazbin Hotel

God Sends Meat And The Devils Send Cooks Hazbin Hotel

There's No Aftercare in Hell Hazbin Hotel

Color Palette 9-1-1

Status Quo Hazbin Hotel

and, sometimes, she actually puts down her phone Hazbin Hotel

Down To Earth Hazbin Hotel

Confidence Is Sexy Hazbin Hotel

If A World Was Ending, You'd Come Over, Right?
Doctor Who

the arrows point in a circle, and it never ends Hazbin Hotel

our forever fall RWBY

Renewed Liaison Les liaisons dangereuses | Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos

There My Heart Forever Lies The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series

in the darkness with you 镇魂 | Guardian

Audio Quality Hazbin Hotel

Feverish The Professionals

with bells and brays
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

The Good (?) Doctor Teen Wolf

Your Perfect Doll Hazbin Hotel

The Truth Exposed Stargate Atlantis

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Death in Paradise

days_unfolding

I also applied to volunteer for the Urbana Park District.

My Apple Watch found my iPhone. That was useful.

Overslept until 8 AM. Hustled my butt into the shower because I want to go to the bank at lunchtime. Oliver and Lily attended my shower.

I bought some Birdie and Louie cat food for Zara. I hope that she likes it. She's been picking at her food.

It looks like the police was doing a welfare check on my elderly neighbor. I hope that he's okay.

Got the dogs in. I just need to feed the cats at lunchtime, and then I can run to the bank (done). I also got two rolls of quarters in case I need to go to the laundromat, although I really want to get the washer fixed this weekend.

Received the gate for Zara's room.

I found an end table on Amazon that’s cheap and I like better than the Facebook Marketplace one. I just need to check the chair to see if I should get brown or black. Actually I bought the brown one to match the bookcases.

Well hmmm. I found a lamp and a washable rug on Amazon, so I won’t need to buy the ones on Facebook Marketplace. I just need to buy the clock. Oh, and the nail gun.

Holy cow. I’ve made over $8000 on stocks, and I haven’t been investing that long.

Oy. Someone (Bella, I’m looking at you) stole and ate my apple fritter. I was scolding her about that when she stole a hot pad that I put under my food. Sneaky, cheeky dog.

My singing lesson went well. My teacher is a great combination of exacting and fun. It’s funny that I get a case of the “don’t wannas” before my singing lesson and choir, but I really enjoy the singing once I start. Well, I get a case of the “don’t wannas” about almost everything besides eating and sleeping.

I need a drill and am trying to decide whether to get a used one or not.

I previously bought a dry-erase board for the refrigerator, but I kept on knocking it down and its frame came off. I ordered a thin dry-erase surface, and that looks like it’ll work better. And I also ordered a thin dry-erase calendar for the fridge. I’ll use it to track the time that I’m spending on the house.

Fed us all. I'm trying to decide whether to research more stocks or just go to bed.

susandennis

I could not get that toasted uncrustable out of my head so I decided to have it for lunch today after all - or at least try it and put the idea out of my misery.

From freezer - 3 on my toaster - to me. Chef's Fucking Kiss!! It's my new thing. Never again will I eat a raw Uncrustable. Toasted for me from now on and that also solves the problem of I want one, but they are all frozen.

This is big. Very big. This was grape jelly. I think there's a honey one in the bottom of the freezer, that would be maybe even better!!!!

Laundry done and put away. Pockets sewn on two robes that were slated for the bin because their pockets were not useable. They are not really robes - they are long zipper hoodies. Really old but since they are used to walk through the parking garage to the pool, I don't care.

Jim Across The Hall got his haircut and a shave this morning and he was so excited, he rang my doorbell to show me. It does look nice.

It's the other Jim's birthday tomorrow and his girlfriend is baking a cake - it's the same cake he has every year and he brought it to elbow coffee last year and it was soooooooo good. So tomorrow we are having cake!

susandennis

I swam. I am laundering. I have a short list of todo's for today.

I added a phone pocket to my swim robe yesterday and added it way too low. Now I need to take it off and try again - moving it up. Pepperage Farm used to have a thin sliced bread that was really good and, apparently, they no longer do or our stores don't carry it. So yesterday I got a package of those thin bagel tops. I tried one toasted this morning. That's a big nope. Maybe not toasted? But, speaking of toasted, in an MLB commercial yesterday, I saw an interview with a player who loves Uncrustables and recommends putting them in the toaster. That's absolutely going to get tied here.

But, probably not today.

I'm meeting Harriet for dinner tonight in the dining room. She wants to go over the agenda for the next Food and Beverage meeting. I'm not sure I can take her for a whole dinner but I guess we will see! Plus, I like to 'do' the dining room once in a while but I don't really have the whatever to initiate a meet so this is the easy way.

I just went down an Instagram rabbit hole and ended up at a crochet sweater pattern. I do not need to make a sweater. I don't even wear sweaters. Ok, I 'saved' it but didn't buy it.

Ok. The laundry is done and now wants to be put away. So Post!

maju

I was woken out of a deep sleep by the cat batting something around near/under my bed at about 2 am. Grrr. This morning I discovered a pingpong ball near the bed, so I promptly stashed it in a basket full of musical instruments (which the girls never use any more) where the cat will never find it. Violet was also woken up by the cat in the early hours and had trouble going back to sleep, so she was not happy this morning.

Sometime during the last couple of days when Violet has been using my computer to write in a Google document, the " and @ keys somehow got reversed. I meant to try to fix it yesterday but I forgot, so last night when she was trying to write and found it was still happening she took the computer to her father to see if he could do something about it, as I was brushing my teeth at the time. For some reason, up until then the problem had not been happening for me, but after my son in law thought he'd fixed it, it had spread to my ongoing Google doc in which I'm writing right now. I was very annoyed by this, but after I'd done a fair amount of poking around on the internet to try to find some help I decided to just try changing the computer's keyboard language. All the information I had found had suggested that to fix this problem you need to switch *to* US English, but my computer was already set to US English so I changed it to Australian English and viola! The problem disappeared. (I checked both in Violet's document and in mine.)

beatrice_otter

I never actually posted my Yuletide fic here, and it's almost March. Way behind. But anyway, I had fun with it, so enjoy!

Title: What Abigail And Ione Did That January
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Rivers of London
Characters: Abigail Kamara/Ione Seaton, Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant
Written For: Chrome in Yuletide 2025
Summary: Ione comes down for a visit after Christmas. But a quiet visit is not in the cards when there is a missing persons case to be solved.

I am standing in Euston Station, and it's even worse of a madhouse than I expected it to be. But I'm so excited I'm not even bothered by the crush of tourists with roller bags who seem determined to run me over as they dash to catch their trains. Ione is coming, and though we've talked on the phone almost every day, it's been months since we said goodbye in Scotland.

I want to know if she smells as good as I remember. I want to know if her skin feels as good as I remember. I'm almost afraid I've built her up, in my head, to such a peak of perfection, that I'll be disappointed to see her again and find she's just a girl.

( But if I were going to let my fear control me, I wouldn't be a wizard now. I'd never have survived the house on Hampstead Heath, or the Robinette kidnapping, or the wyvern up in Glasgow. And I'd never have gotten to kiss Ione. )

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posted
2 (66.7%)

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1 (33.3%)

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0 (0.0%)

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1 (33.3%)

Discussion: what are you working on this weekend?

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It's time to sign up for the January WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of March.

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The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.

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Week 1: 1st to 7th

linaewen
Week 2: 8th to 14th

glitteringstars
Week 3: 15th to 21st
Week 4: 22nd to 28th
Week 5: 29th to 4th

linaewen

selenak

In which we find out the writers of this show must really like both Thornton Wilder and the last two seasons of Angel: The Series while having issues with one particular Voyager episode, or rather its aftermath. Also, at last, at last, SOMEONE is back an my screen!

( Spoilers take back a key nitpick from last week and are an Angel fan anyway )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Bamberg

nanila in

awesomeers

cornerofmadness

My building at work is collapsing on one side not only are we working to fix that we hope to have money to renno some of the labs. It was a 2 hour meeting with the architect today and that was hopeful plus they teased the idea of other money for equipment and brought up the virtual cadaver table. I have the paperwork for those but they're 100K so let's fix the building first.

I thought my writer's zoom was today but no one was there. Wondering why. Sad I didn't get that. Did I just do it by myself? you know I didn't.

I forgot to share my books yesterday so here are Feb's reads

Cooking with Monsters fantasy LGBT graphic novel

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Urban Fantasy

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation dystopic near future SF

When the Moon Hits Your Eye near future SF

Heavy Vinyl Complete Collection LGBT graphic novel

Rebecca Gothic classic

Dark Life YA near future SF

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: beat bobby flay

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