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My life, in no particular order
Things that occur to me today:
~ I don't post here as much as I used to. I can't work out whether this means my life is more interesting or less interesting.
~ Work is currently going well. This fills me with dread because I worry I'm missing something. It's possible that I just got more competent, but that seems unlikely.
~ We go on holiday on the 26th. That is not even three weeks away. Woot!
~ On Wednesday evening, I managed to lock myself in an unlocked room at work. This requires talent, I feel.
~ The microwave at work does strange things to potatoes, making them hot, soft and uncooked, all at the same time.
~ I really, really don't have a clue about my own stories, and thus owe people four fics as part of the Stump the Author Meme. On the plus side, I might get my cliche bingo card done after all.
~ Collaborative writing is one of the best experiences, ever.
~ My new netbook is Simply Awesome. I have also noticed that other people's technology tends to be named, while I've just been calling mine "my baby". I have decided that this is slightly creepy, and have therefore decided to call her Sapphire instead, since she is a lovely shade of blue. Hopefully, I will eventually get a silver iPod Nano that I can call Steel. This will make me very happy.
~ So far, we have viewed 3 flats, all of which needed work doing to them. That was the good part. The bad part was that they were all 1960s/70s Best of British Design - ie small and concrete. While I don't doubt we could do good things with them, none of them really got my soul going. We are currently pursuing a Very Exciting Opportunity which I can't say anything about in a public post, and which has about a 95% chance of not happening, but. Very Exciting, and worth the work and the risk. Possibly not worth the over-excited state that I tend to work myself into, though.
~ Speaking of which, New Pills are better than Old Pills. Instead of my mid-month downer, I've had mid-month severe instability. While this has left me kind of wrung out today (when I'm feeling better), it's actually better than the downer, since I can get things done. Still waiting to see what happens when I get another two weeks down the line...
~ I need to do things for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bau_bigbang today, as well as edit a podtour of the library, answer some questions for my Staff Development Review on Monday and generally pretend to be a grown up. This is hard when you are wearing shiny red shoes and light purple tights.
~ Job-hunting is hard. I'm not sure if it's harder on me or![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
major_jim, but it's hard.
~ It is probably time for an icon shuffle. Anyone who has my icons on alerts, consider yourselves warned.
~ I need a new bike. Fond as I am of my pink and yellow baby elephant (I maintain that the paintwork is an anti-theft device), the back brakes are rubbing against the wheel and neither set work particularly well, especially in the wet.
~ On Monday, the library begins moving, relabelling and replacing 16,000 books. I can't wait to see what it looks like.
~ Responsibility is over-rated. I'm off for chocolate cake. Anyone care to join me?
~ I don't post here as much as I used to. I can't work out whether this means my life is more interesting or less interesting.
~ Work is currently going well. This fills me with dread because I worry I'm missing something. It's possible that I just got more competent, but that seems unlikely.
~ We go on holiday on the 26th. That is not even three weeks away. Woot!
~ On Wednesday evening, I managed to lock myself in an unlocked room at work. This requires talent, I feel.
~ The microwave at work does strange things to potatoes, making them hot, soft and uncooked, all at the same time.
~ I really, really don't have a clue about my own stories, and thus owe people four fics as part of the Stump the Author Meme. On the plus side, I might get my cliche bingo card done after all.
~ Collaborative writing is one of the best experiences, ever.
~ My new netbook is Simply Awesome. I have also noticed that other people's technology tends to be named, while I've just been calling mine "my baby". I have decided that this is slightly creepy, and have therefore decided to call her Sapphire instead, since she is a lovely shade of blue. Hopefully, I will eventually get a silver iPod Nano that I can call Steel. This will make me very happy.
~ So far, we have viewed 3 flats, all of which needed work doing to them. That was the good part. The bad part was that they were all 1960s/70s Best of British Design - ie small and concrete. While I don't doubt we could do good things with them, none of them really got my soul going. We are currently pursuing a Very Exciting Opportunity which I can't say anything about in a public post, and which has about a 95% chance of not happening, but. Very Exciting, and worth the work and the risk. Possibly not worth the over-excited state that I tend to work myself into, though.
~ Speaking of which, New Pills are better than Old Pills. Instead of my mid-month downer, I've had mid-month severe instability. While this has left me kind of wrung out today (when I'm feeling better), it's actually better than the downer, since I can get things done. Still waiting to see what happens when I get another two weeks down the line...
~ I need to do things for
bau_bigbang today, as well as edit a podtour of the library, answer some questions for my Staff Development Review on Monday and generally pretend to be a grown up. This is hard when you are wearing shiny red shoes and light purple tights. ~ Job-hunting is hard. I'm not sure if it's harder on me or
major_jim, but it's hard.~ It is probably time for an icon shuffle. Anyone who has my icons on alerts, consider yourselves warned.
~ I need a new bike. Fond as I am of my pink and yellow baby elephant (I maintain that the paintwork is an anti-theft device), the back brakes are rubbing against the wheel and neither set work particularly well, especially in the wet.
~ On Monday, the library begins moving, relabelling and replacing 16,000 books. I can't wait to see what it looks like.
~ Responsibility is over-rated. I'm off for chocolate cake. Anyone care to join me?
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And now, the rest of the post in no particular order:
It's good to hear that New Pills are better than Old Pills! I am sad that your baby elephant is going the way of the dodo (okay, fine, the *last* dodo. Or really, any of the intermediate ones. Just not the species. Since your bike isn't a species. /inner pedantic). I am eager (and possibly frightened) to hear how the book moving will go. Best of luck with flat-hunting!
My tech is never named-- it's simply 'my mp3 player' or 'my office computer'-- not even in capitals. I have noticed that lots of people do seem to name their tech, though. Hmmm, should I name mine? What would be amusing names?
Shiny red shoes! Light purple tights! Yay! I think this sounds like appropriate attire for editing podtours!
Yay holiday!
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The bike dying is very sad, but at least the new one should sound like a bike, not a fighter drone coming overhead...
I like the idea of naming tech - most people seem to go with fandom themes, hence mine, which also happens to match the computer!
*passes cinnamon buns* We're out of chocolate cake, but I just made these :)
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Thank you for the cinnamon buns! *noms* They are delish!
Rather than naming my tech, I tend to decorate its case/cover. So there's a bit of personality there.