All about meeeeeeeee

Did you miss me? Did you? Considering I only had to skip=80 to catch up with everyone, I'm thinking that there wasn't anyone around to miss me! But at least you left the place standing, so that's something.

The exhibition was a bit of a wash-out in the morning, but got interesting in the afternoon. If you've never seen Turning the Pages then open that link in another tab NOW so that you can explore. Seriously, I can't think of a single person around here who wouldn't enjoy it, and the things they're planning to add next year? Wow. This is as close as most of us are ever going to get to seeing a Leonardo da Vinci notebook or illuminated Haggadah up close. Just incredible.

My biggest disappointment of the day was not managing to get one of the free stuffed pigs that the British Library stand were giving away. Since I'd told my husband I'd get him one, I popped into John Lewis in the evening and bought him one. It has incredibly long legs and weighted feet so that it stands up! I got so distracted/excited by this, that I forgot I'd already bought my work secret santa present in M&S and bought a second one in JL *facepalm* All this shopping goes straight to my head.

Of course, going to the JL website (to try to find you a pig picture), I've just seen that they have a 20% off sale on Radley bags until Saturday. I love Radley bags *whimpers*

Otherwise, things about me take the usual list form:

- I went to the doctor this morning for other things, but also because I appeared to be growing scales on my face. You can't see them unless you look really hard, but they've been a little bit itchy, and more than a little disconcerting. Apparently it's eczema (which I guess I should learn to spell), which isn't a huge surprise, but it does mean that a)it's going to be tricky to get rid of and b)there's no telling when it will come and go. Grrr.

- My manager and I are being taken out to lunch by a book supplier today. My first business lunch!

- I have further proof that my flist is the awesomest thing in the history of awesome, since crystalshard sent me a beautiful pair of sparkly earrings and a silky jewellery roll. Thank you! They're lovely!

- I had dinner with an old, old friend last night, and it was brilliant. We've been through a lot together, but lost touch a little, and it's liking meeting her all over again. I think we like each other even better this time round, and I feel as though I'm getting a little piece of my past back.

- I really, really need to do the Christmas shopping thing. Meep!

- My sga_santa story collapsed. Again. While my Yuletide one is getting sorted, thanks to some timely intervention from the flist (thanks, guys!), I don't seem to be able to get the SGA one sorted in my head. And with miss_zedem not able to get on Yahoo much either, I feel like I'm missing the other half of my brain, and it's the half that has the good ideas... I'll think of something, but I'm at the flail stage where I'm convinced I just need to give up. That's not going to happen, but this bit's always a struggle. Worth it, but a struggle. At least part of the problem is my usual 'shape' issue. ( Cut for odder-than-usual writer-babble )

As I think I've already said, I'm not really doing holiday cards this year - if you put a wishlist up, or I already have your address, and I manage to get organised enough, I hope to send you something, but I'm not doing a big shout-out for addresses yet. This is because I will be doing one in January for Morocco postcards, and if I attempt to do both, I might just bankrupt myself buying stamps. But I've skimmed everyone's wishlists, and do hope to make a post office trip soon...

Otherwise, things I want to do today/tomorrow apart from work-type-stuff:
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Do I owe anyone anything? I get the feeling I do but can't quite remember. Please yell at me if I've forgotten (at jadesfire2808[at]gmail.com if you don't want to embarrass me in public ;)).

Ooh - fajrdrako, did you get my email? Gmail's been erratic lately, so just checking.

How's everyone doing? Good days yesterday? What did you get up to without me?

Bring tissues. Lots of them

Apologies for spamming today but. Fannish folks, if you haven't read the following article, click the link below and have a look.

Dances with Penguins.

I didn't know tv_elf but as in all fannish circles, she was a friend of a friend. The article is about her, and all of us and encapsulates completely my experience of fandom.

As a demonstration of this, I picked up the link from cryptictac, having been directed there by topaz_eyes for

The Fandom Appreciation Meme: My Thread

Clicking the link will take you to my thread on the post, but take the time to scroll through all the comments. There are lots of people jumping in to share appreciation for folks they don't know, and for me, that's one of the real joys of fandom. I met a whole bunch of you through memes like this.

Go on. Have a click. You never know who might be out there.