Posting meme: places I'd like to go
Jan. 4th, 2019 08:39 pmAll posting topics here! Suggest more questions in the comments here or on that entry.
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yunitsa asked, "What's a place you'd definitely like to visit in the next couple of years?" I'm actually going to list three because I travel for different reasons so it's hard to narrow down just one.
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Thank you, this was a good question. <3
yunitsa asked, "What's a place you'd definitely like to visit in the next couple of years?" I'm actually going to list three because I travel for different reasons so it's hard to narrow down just one. ( Answer )
Thank you, this was a good question. <3
Happy perineum?
Dec. 30th, 2018 11:13 amAccording to Kate Beckinsale's instagram, another meaning of the word "perineum" is "the time between Christmas and New Year." The dictionaries disagree but I cannot get it out of my head anyway. Happy perineum!
Yuletide
Due to reasons* I defaulted on Yuletide, so I feel guilty announcing that I received THREE really amazing Yuletide fics. I enthusiastically rec all of them.
*personal failings
build a bridge to the stars (The Course of Honour)
(Have you all read The Course of Honour by Avoliot? It's an original fic about arranged marriage in space between what I always describe as a labradoodle and a traumatized cat. It's so good.) Anyway, this is a little post-story slice of life fic where Jainan and Kiem go to Thea and Jainan is invited to lecture about his work and Kiem is lovely and supportive. It's incredibly sweet.
Then I also got two Savonn/Emaris fics for The Magpie Ballads by Vale Aida:
The Robin that Sings in Winter
It's a fic where they're SNOWED IN and Emaris is pretty sure Savonn did it on purpose, even though he doesn't understand why (it's because Savonn wants to seduce him). The voices are so so true to the characters, and it's one of my favorite tropes. I love it so much.
heart full of roses, future full of thorns
A fic where Emaris goes to visit Savonn and Dervain in Astorre, after the books, and is furious to discover that instead of laying low, Savonn is acting in bombastic productions in the theater that everybody goes to. In retrospect, he could have guessed that. It's great because Emaris is basically like "I don't know what I expected" and Savonn just wants to kiss him.
Basically no one has read these books, by the way, and I highly recommend them as a very slightly lighter take on The Lymond Chronicles, where the lead and the lead's love interest have extremely Lymondesque labyrinthine minds and there is m/m and f/f and a whole bunch of political intrigue and complicated friendships and betrayal. Savonn is our Lymond #1, who is tragically and dramatically in love with Dervain, who is a mind-reader and an assassin and the man who killed his father. They are two halves of the same soul, but they have vowed to kill each other and are very dramatic about it. Then there's Savonn's squire, Emaris, who is lovely and innocent and tries to keep Savonn out of trouble with little success and is my FAVORITE, and also another trio of characters who are involved in a related bit different bit of politics, and a rad f/f pairing, and BETRAYAL and FORGIVENESS. It's a LOT and I love it.
I'm in Florida for the holidays. It's warm!
Yuletide
Due to reasons* I defaulted on Yuletide, so I feel guilty announcing that I received THREE really amazing Yuletide fics. I enthusiastically rec all of them.
*personal failings
build a bridge to the stars (The Course of Honour)
(Have you all read The Course of Honour by Avoliot? It's an original fic about arranged marriage in space between what I always describe as a labradoodle and a traumatized cat. It's so good.) Anyway, this is a little post-story slice of life fic where Jainan and Kiem go to Thea and Jainan is invited to lecture about his work and Kiem is lovely and supportive. It's incredibly sweet.
Then I also got two Savonn/Emaris fics for The Magpie Ballads by Vale Aida:
The Robin that Sings in Winter
It's a fic where they're SNOWED IN and Emaris is pretty sure Savonn did it on purpose, even though he doesn't understand why (it's because Savonn wants to seduce him). The voices are so so true to the characters, and it's one of my favorite tropes. I love it so much.
heart full of roses, future full of thorns
A fic where Emaris goes to visit Savonn and Dervain in Astorre, after the books, and is furious to discover that instead of laying low, Savonn is acting in bombastic productions in the theater that everybody goes to. In retrospect, he could have guessed that. It's great because Emaris is basically like "I don't know what I expected" and Savonn just wants to kiss him.
Basically no one has read these books, by the way, and I highly recommend them as a very slightly lighter take on The Lymond Chronicles, where the lead and the lead's love interest have extremely Lymondesque labyrinthine minds and there is m/m and f/f and a whole bunch of political intrigue and complicated friendships and betrayal. Savonn is our Lymond #1, who is tragically and dramatically in love with Dervain, who is a mind-reader and an assassin and the man who killed his father. They are two halves of the same soul, but they have vowed to kill each other and are very dramatic about it. Then there's Savonn's squire, Emaris, who is lovely and innocent and tries to keep Savonn out of trouble with little success and is my FAVORITE, and also another trio of characters who are involved in a related bit different bit of politics, and a rad f/f pairing, and BETRAYAL and FORGIVENESS. It's a LOT and I love it.
I'm in Florida for the holidays. It's warm!
Don't ever change, don't ever worry
Dec. 10th, 2018 10:51 amThree things, mixed bag:
1. A ticket to a Rufus Wainwright concert fell in my lap recently, so I went to see him on Saturday. I've
actually never seen him live and I haven't listened to his music in about ten years, so I wasn't quite sure what it would be like. And it was amazing?? He's incredible live. Really funny ("Leonard Cohen listened to one of my songs on repeat once, so basically he was obsessed with me").
It's his 20-year anniversary tour of his first album, so he did a lot of songs from that, and then they also performed Poses in its entirety. Also, they did Going to a Town with Rufus making the most amazing face on "I'm so tired of America." Did I mention that I was sitting in the third row and could see everything? It really was fantastic.
2. My office had a holiday party at Penn Social and in the middle of a conversation I suddenly noticed that the mural on the wall depicted Bill Clinton spanking a naked Monica Lewinsky and short-circuited my brain. Wow, that is inappropriate.
3. I got a Nintendo Switch for my birthday and now I'm 100% obsessed with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It's also kind of sucking up all of my free time, to the extent that I defaulted on Yuletide today because I just completely got out of the Doing Things mindset in favor of the Finding all the Shrines mindset. Not good.
I feel like this entry is not very Good but it's better than not posting an entry at all?
1. A ticket to a Rufus Wainwright concert fell in my lap recently, so I went to see him on Saturday. I've
actually never seen him live and I haven't listened to his music in about ten years, so I wasn't quite sure what it would be like. And it was amazing?? He's incredible live. Really funny ("Leonard Cohen listened to one of my songs on repeat once, so basically he was obsessed with me").
It's his 20-year anniversary tour of his first album, so he did a lot of songs from that, and then they also performed Poses in its entirety. Also, they did Going to a Town with Rufus making the most amazing face on "I'm so tired of America." Did I mention that I was sitting in the third row and could see everything? It really was fantastic.
2. My office had a holiday party at Penn Social and in the middle of a conversation I suddenly noticed that the mural on the wall depicted Bill Clinton spanking a naked Monica Lewinsky and short-circuited my brain. Wow, that is inappropriate.
3. I got a Nintendo Switch for my birthday and now I'm 100% obsessed with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It's also kind of sucking up all of my free time, to the extent that I defaulted on Yuletide today because I just completely got out of the Doing Things mindset in favor of the Finding all the Shrines mindset. Not good.
I feel like this entry is not very Good but it's better than not posting an entry at all?
Things I could put on Twitter
Dec. 6th, 2018 10:29 amBut in the spirit of trying to use DW again, I will put here.
* Went to a client meeting yesterday, at which the investment advisor said the 800-point drop in the Dow Jones on Tuesday was because of robo-traded funds that automatically dumped stocks when they saw an indicator that often signals a coming recession but in this case really did not. Gotta love AI.
I started investing outside of my 401(k) this year, too, so this whole market roller coaster is just a little bit stressful.
* At the same meeting, two people were trading their hiring woes and how it's hard to hire an old-school millennial who will work 12-hour days. I was standing right there. To be fair, I don't work 12-hour days either, because fuck that.
* On a similar note, we had a company-wide actuarial professional development meeting last week and they were telling us about this incredible scheme companies are trying to get the IRS to approve that will tie retirement plan contributions to student loan repayments that their employees make. This is intended to address the fact that millennials don't save enough for retirement and also change jobs for "small increases in compensation." My colleague and I were just making faces at each other the entire time. I mean, you COULD try to change the tax code, sure, or you could just... pay people more. Wild.
Anyway, how are you guys?
* Went to a client meeting yesterday, at which the investment advisor said the 800-point drop in the Dow Jones on Tuesday was because of robo-traded funds that automatically dumped stocks when they saw an indicator that often signals a coming recession but in this case really did not. Gotta love AI.
I started investing outside of my 401(k) this year, too, so this whole market roller coaster is just a little bit stressful.
* At the same meeting, two people were trading their hiring woes and how it's hard to hire an old-school millennial who will work 12-hour days. I was standing right there. To be fair, I don't work 12-hour days either, because fuck that.
* On a similar note, we had a company-wide actuarial professional development meeting last week and they were telling us about this incredible scheme companies are trying to get the IRS to approve that will tie retirement plan contributions to student loan repayments that their employees make. This is intended to address the fact that millennials don't save enough for retirement and also change jobs for "small increases in compensation." My colleague and I were just making faces at each other the entire time. I mean, you COULD try to change the tax code, sure, or you could just... pay people more. Wild.
Anyway, how are you guys?
