Corner of Bourbon & Division

Not much to report over here at Casa!Phnee. It's still work-sleep-gym and forays into fandom. Aren't you glad you asked? ;)

I have been getting a lot of weird headaches this summer, and I'll be damned if I can figure out why. They're not-quite-migraines, not-quite-tension-headaches. I spend a lot of the time feeling queasy, and really? I would rather take blinding pain over queasy any day. I *hate* that. No, really, I do.

I have decided that the cats are maybe bulimic or something. Never have I seen so much cat puke as in the last few weeks. I'm trying to figure out which gods I pissed off, that this has become my life. They've puked on the bed twice this summer.

In a more random, Phnee-is-an-emo-princess news, almost everyone I know is married and having babies, and I am feeling a wee bit left behind in the domestic bliss department. I am thrilled for my friends, but the selfish, emo princess part of me is whining "But why can't I have that too?!?" To which the more practical part of me always answers: "Maybe if you weren't doing the work-sleep-gym thing and actually had a social life, that wouldn't be a problem."

In short: MEOW!

Anyway, move along, nothing to see here. These aren't the droids you are looking for. ;)

I have a post about work to write, but it needs to go under f-lock (because, y'know, work), and it's probably going to be even more emo and angsty than this post, and right now I'm going to go in search of something to maybe try to get rid of this headache.

Happy trails, y'all!

Wow. Three posts in as many days!

Don't have much to say, alas. Doing a lot of thinking these days (never a good sign), and eventually I'll be able to parse it all in my head. I think a lot of my handy obsession with SPN these past six months has been to keep myself from thinking too much and freaking out.

Now that summer's on its way I think I can get it all sorted out.

I wouldn't expect anything too long-winded out of me just yet, but I'm getting there. :)

So, yeah.

I lost sight of the face of the planet a long time ago. I think I fell off months ago. Can't even see it in the distance.

A couple of people have pinged, and the short version is: I'm okay.

No idea what this is. Not super depressed, not anything terrible. Just... out of touch. Hermiting. And every time I think about the sheer volume of stuff I need to catch up on, it seems even more overwhelming.

So, uh, mostly this is me saying "Not dealing, can't make me."

Yeah, I know. I suck. Sorry.

I kind of miss human company, but at the same time I rather think that hanging out with me would suck prodigiously for anyone else involved.

The only thing I get remotely excited about these days is Supernatural, which is really fucking sad when you think about it (I try not to think about it too hard).

Oh, I caved and joined Twitter, not that I update that any more than LJ. If you want, over there I'm @ratherastory.

That's it.

I miss my weekends.

There was a Cute Girl From Vermont who expressed interest, then backed off as though I had scalded her when I mentioned that, due to the Olympics, my schedule was FUBAR until the end of March. I can't blame her, but I'm disappointed.

Meow.


Work switched my schedule around this weekend so I'd be working days instead of nights, so I have to miss maya_banana's baby shower tomorrow, which SUCKS.

My father wanted to take me and my mother to the theatre sometime soon, too, but between my schedule and the paucity of available tickets, we can't all go at the same time. It would have worked if I was free on weekends, ironically, but since I don't have any free weekends for the next forseeable EVER, I guess that's right out.

Sometimes I have to remind myself very forcefully of why I like this job.

I have no idea what happened to me in Ottawa. It can't have been that earth-shattering, because I mostly remember finding my course kind of boring. ;)

I'm here, but still feeling oddly disconnected. I've been reading a lot, though, which is a nice change. I kind of had to give up on the tons of reading I like to do in favour of all the other things in my life like knitting and gardening and seeing friends. Maybe my brain just decided it was time to go back to books for a while.

I just made my way through a re-read of all the Dresden Files, except the last two which I haven't obtained yet. I actually kept an eye out for what someone told me were editing discrepancies, but I think that the person who told me about them is mistaken: the text is ambiguous, but not contradictory. However, the books are riddled with typos in some places, which was a bit annoying.

I'm now mostly through the second novel of the Téméraire series by Naomi Novik, and am enjoying them tremendously. I preemptively got all the books so I wouldn't have to wait in-between readings. Not that I have trouble with instant gratification, no. I have a stack of books to read, and so I don't foresee any lack there.

It's a bit early for hibernation instincts to be kicking in. I think I may just have ended up being over-socialized during my course, surrounded as I was by fifteen or so relative strangers all week with whom I had to make nice in spite of various personality issues. It was fun, but also exhausting.

Okay. Gotta go take a shower and get cracking.

Later, everyone!

It seems like the list of Stuff To Do just never ends.

I will climb back up on the face of the planet tomorrow, everyone. Promise.

Using a B5 icon, just because. It has nothing to do with anything, I just like it and don't get to use it as much as I'd like.

Met a New Person yesterday. She's lots of fun, has a cat and is a gamer geek, and we spent the entire day chattering excitedly about cats, gaming and sci fi. For the record, she's not a New Person™ in the romantic sense of the word, but seems to fit in nicely as a potential new friend. She came over for dinner when it was obvious we hadn't finished chatting, and she helped me cook, which is something she does professionally. Rock!

More later.

Not much to report, other than work has eaten my time, my life, and possibly my brain.

My apologies to those of you who are still waiting to hear from me on various matters. If I'm lucky I'll get to them this weekend, if not it'll go to Monday.

*sigh*

We're supposed to be getting 2-6 n00bs soon, and after that it'll be another 3-4 months until they're fully operational. Then maybe I'll get a break.

I will be back as of tonight with regular and proper posting. I will be catching up on BTP as well. Right now I have metric assloads of stuff to do (slightly less than a metric fuckton, for those of you who are paying attention), so I won't be around until tonight.

Be safe and play nice!

Not dead, just not posty. I go through phases when I don't post much, as any of my long-term friends will know. Those new to this LJ, do not despair, for eventually I will come back. Probably next week, as I plan to document what I can about my new job without compromising national security and all that.

I have done something weird to my right shoulder. It feels like a knot under the shoulder blade. I'm hoping it will be gone by tomorrow. Nothing terrible, but annoying because it interferes somewhat with typing.

NaNoWriMo has ground to a halt for me since last Wednesday, when I stopped at 40k. I figure that I can manage 10k before the end of November without too much trouble, and I don't plan on nearly killing myself the way I did last year.

I refrained from posting a long extra paragraph in my last post justifying why I put up a Remembrance Day post every year. I don't like to think that I live in a society where I have to justify doing such a thing, or explaining my motivations in great detail, the way many seem to feel compelled to do. This is mostly irrelevant, but it's been bugging me, so I'm writing it here.

The icky sinus thing turned into an icky chest thing, but appears to have run its course in exactly one week's time. All things considered, I think I got off lucky. Maybe spending an entire day in bed with tea and hot soup and Kraft Dinner and watching MacGyver had something to do with it too. Usually I suffer stoically through my colds and stagger through the days at work all hopped up on Advil (or whatever), and thus the cold drags on for two weeks and claims my voice for most of it. So being on vacation seems to have worked out well for me in that regard.

This week, there will be cleaning. It was supposed to be last week, but I got sidelined by a minor plague. See above. So there will be cleaning, and then shopping for the wherewithal to make food that I can freeze and then reheat for my first few weeks at work. I suspect most of my brain's CPU will be taken up absorbing all the new information at work. I'm quite excited. :)

There'S other stuff, too, but I will save some of it for a later post and the rest isn't worth mentioning.

Life is pretty good over here, all told. How is everyone else doing?

Life is too hectic to blog about. I shall try to remedy this eventually.

I am neglecting people, partly through my own fault, partly because I only really have weekends in which I can see 90% of all of you.

Do me a favour? If you think I've neglected you, can you leave me a comment? I'm so scatterbrained lately that I tend to remember that I need to call/email/visit someone only when I'm far away from phones and email, and then I invariably forget when I get home.

So, comment here, PLEASE. I will therefore have (theoretically) everything in one place, which will make it easier for me to remember when I'm home and in a position to do something about it.

Thanks!