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Five things about me this morning:
1) I woke up at 5:50 am. (This? Is not standard Q behavior.)
2) I'm drinking hot cider. (Thank you, Keurig.)
3) I'm psyched it seems no longer to be air-conditioning weather here in QBurg. (Open windows FTW. [Except for the bedroom one, the screen on which the USS Badger clawed a random escape hole in two years ago and which will not again get opened enough to permit him egress until I have repaired that damage.])
4) I have what I estimate to be six hours of work to do today and probably twice that many makes I'd far rather be working on. (I can't bring myself to characterize my crochet/kumihimo/etc as art, but for some reason "craft" strikes me as belittling - I think because it's the word that's traditionally been used for women's artistic endeavors to suggest they're somehow Less Than. Hence, "makes.") (Also: ask me some time about the reports I ran recently on my firm's client/time database and what they show about the hours I put in and the number of cases I close. Unless you're Spuffyduds, in which case, don't :-).)
5) I'm writing in my online journal/s again for the first time in months. (Hi. Good morning/afternoon/evening. I haven't talked to y'all in some time, but you've all been in my thoughts.)
1) I woke up at 5:50 am. (This? Is not standard Q behavior.)
2) I'm drinking hot cider. (Thank you, Keurig.)
3) I'm psyched it seems no longer to be air-conditioning weather here in QBurg. (Open windows FTW. [Except for the bedroom one, the screen on which the USS Badger clawed a random escape hole in two years ago and which will not again get opened enough to permit him egress until I have repaired that damage.])
4) I have what I estimate to be six hours of work to do today and probably twice that many makes I'd far rather be working on. (I can't bring myself to characterize my crochet/kumihimo/etc as art, but for some reason "craft" strikes me as belittling - I think because it's the word that's traditionally been used for women's artistic endeavors to suggest they're somehow Less Than. Hence, "makes.") (Also: ask me some time about the reports I ran recently on my firm's client/time database and what they show about the hours I put in and the number of cases I close. Unless you're Spuffyduds, in which case, don't :-).)
5) I'm writing in my online journal/s again for the first time in months. (Hi. Good morning/afternoon/evening. I haven't talked to y'all in some time, but you've all been in my thoughts.)
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I woke up at 5:30am this morning and then had a large "NOPE" reaction and told myself stories until I fell back asleep.
Fall has come for real here already. It's been cold enough that I stopped having all my windows open all the time. ;)
I'd ask about your hours and cases, but I have a feeling that hearing the numbers will make me want to die just from hearing them.
I hope to see more of you soon! Q: are you going to make it to BP?
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Strangely, my reaction was less "nope" and more "... well, okay then." Go figure. Clearly I need to hire you for the stories, eh?
Fall ftw. My second-favorite season. (Even though La Mama died during it. Cannot believe it's been almost five years since she left. Some days it's timeless; some days it's yesterday, y'know?)
With regard to the case numbers: no dying, you. I forbid it.
With regard to BP: HOMG HOMG I TRULY HOPE SO!
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These days they are mostly about werewolves and dragons. Not in the same story. (Now I am wondering about werewolves & dragons. Would they fight each other?)
I like the quiet that comes with fall. It's settling in for winter, that feeling of vanitas as the leaves turn gold and read and all visible nature turns to sleep. It makes me want to cling more to the people I love, y'know? <333 (Yeah. *snuggles*)
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I think werewolves and dragons might pal up, actually. Werewolves could catch the small prey that dragons would be too large to chase properly and would also have an easier time stealing things from the local villages that made good prey accompaniments (whole-wheat bread, stone-ground mustard, a virgin or two). Dragons could handle the cooking tasks when required and be the bank for the enterprise. I sense a story or three here ...
Mmmm, fall. I miss the light SO much - SAD makes it hard to see daylight disappearing - but I am all for the snuggles (and you put it so beautifully!)
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I'd love to hear more about the point #4 and you and work. How is that going?
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With regard to point #4 and me and work: do you want to hear more about makes or work or both/and? (I have. um. Things To Say about my workload. Some of my chosen family find my anger on that front to be something they do not need in their lives. Don't want to do that to you.)
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(Oh, you are lovely. ::holding you in my heart right back::)
With regards to point 4—thanks for the pointer to your post. I did mean work, so I'm glad to get a sense of what you're dealing with. Oh, it's so angry-making; it's just infuriating to know that not only are you having to deal with this, but that the situation exists in the first place. I hear a similar story from my mother; she works in a low-income health clinic in rural New York state, and her patients are largely poverty-stricken immigrants, and she's just—miserable and demoralized by the situation she sees. She's done it for about a decade, and is quitting in December; no matter how great the need, and how great her desire to keep doing the work, she just can't anymore.
Anyway, I feel like quoting that tumblr post that's going around—"I'm trying to empathize but I think I just made it all about me!" *g* I was definitely aiming for the former rather than the latter.
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We have gone straight from the first summer since 2006 to deepest autumn. It's 3pm and we've got the central heating on. Brrrrr.
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... what happened to the summers of '07-12? *worries*
*also: crochets wrap for you & Mr L*
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*snuggles with wrap and Mr L*
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So no accompanying season of Doom, then?
(Strangely, I was thinking of you just today in a ficcish context - the pairings I wrote for you for midsummer ... ye gods, 2009? 2010? from ReGenesis and DVN slipped into my mind and hung out a while.)
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...nope, that's all.
*tacklehugs again*
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It's awesome go-back-bed weather, buy I also have many works (as in cases to review/close) to accomplish. Would much rather be snuggling. It's all kinds of rainy-gloomy here, except for this one little bright spot where you are.
Must conspire for some fangrrl time.
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OMG it so is. I want SLEEEEEEEEEEEP. (And time to read and orange juice and those yummy Terra chips, too.)
I miss you, darlin'. I want this plan of which you speak. When when when?
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End of October, maybe? I can't do anything before the end of this month, and I'm out of the country for a week in mid-October with my sis, which ups the ante on getting Spouse to go along with a fangrrl pajama party. Of course, the last time we tried this I ended up in the ER. Funny now, if not then. :-p
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Mostly, though: *hugs*