I really, really need hugs.

Also, links to happy things?

For instance: adorable baby polar bear sees snow for the first time! I love the little squeaks he makes! ♥

Also, I feel terrible that I am only ever around to whine anymore. I'm really hoping to do a quick podfic this weekend, though, and then I will have something to post that is not whining. I got a sweet new mic for Christmas, so I am determined to get back into recording!

*hugs*

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help i ventured onto tumblr again this week and keep staying up way past my bedtime.... o_o

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Happy Christmas to all of you who celebrate and a Happy Tuesday to everyone!

♥

(Got The Avengers finally, yessss! \o/ Also some other cool stuffs. :D )

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lavvyan kindly sent me some panda love (♥!), so I figured I should probably verify that I am, in fact, still alive over here.

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So, um, yeah.

Oh, since I last posted at the end of May (*insert guilty conscience here*), I haven't told y'all that I successfully obtained my level-up to Librarian II in June. Which was ... rather anti-climactic for all the blood, sweat, and tears put into it. (So... rather like when I handed in my undergrad thesis.)

And in not-yet-happened exciting news, I am going to Germany in November! I've bought my (tragically expensive) tickets and everything! :D This will be my third trip to Deutschland, making it my most-travelled-to country. Which I never would have guessed when I first started travelling abroad in 2003, but I'm totally okay with it. ♥

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It's tea time! For this party, we'll just hang out and share whatever makes you squee lately.

The Rules:
* Good manners are a must. So naturally no harshing anyone's squee. (This goes without saying among Polite Society, of course, but one ought always to cover one's bases, as it were.)
* Any new topic should be posted as a new comment thread with a clearly labeled subject for ease of browsing through all the threads.
* "Squee" is here defined as anything that makes you happy. This can take whatever form you like: links, recs, pics, anecdotes, whatever!
* The more the merrier! If you want to point people in this direction, you are certainly welcome to.
* Most important: have fun & share the squee!

But first, some random questions:

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Tea party on Sunday! The plan is pretty much just to squee about things for a while. My life is sadly lacking in squee lately. I will probably open it around 10am US Eastern time (other times).

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I hope you can stop by for a bit! :)

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Okay, so I got a nasty head cold last week, which is why the tea party never materialized. (Seriously, my head was full of snot. It was gross. But on the bright side, it was just a cold and not any of the other weird plagues my coworkers had.)

I have a bunch of things to do this weekend, but NEXT weekend, we are HAVING a tea party! *determined* I made a lame graphic, so it's official. *g*

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I hope you all have a fabulous weekend! *huggles* ♥

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Hallo! So, clearly I still need to work on this posting regularly thing again, some more. :/ I dunno, 2012 has been kicking my butt. Or, well, I guess I've been having a hard time catching my breath since last autumn. Basically, I feel like I fail at life lately (where life = not work). Stresssss. I am trying to take better care of myself, but it is hard. /o\

Oh, but I did manage to snag a day in D.C. with the delightful taiteilija in March! :D It was so lovely to see her again (and odd to realize it'd been two and a half years!).

Also, May is a good month for a tea party! (Any month is a good month for a tea party, of course, but you get the idea.) The spring semester is over this week, so perhaps next weekend. Any thoughts on a theme?

In other news, I watched some SGA vids a couple weeks ago and I hadn't realized how much I missed their wee faces! So then I watched Echoes and it is still the best ever. ♥ Also, then I went through my 3-year-old wips folder and now I kind of want to finish stuff. Oh, to have more time in which to do things.

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My heart!

(Yes, I am totally behind-the-times, but what else is new?)

Also caught up on Downton Abbey this week. (I decided TV was more important than doing homework for work. Which, you know, is what normal people think all the time.)

BBC is a drug. Short bouts of ecstasy and then loooong, agonizing bouts of withdrawal. Oh, the price one pays for television that is actually good.

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Happy Valentine's Day, my lovelies!

(Um, yeah, still alive over here. And I miss you all terribly. Which probably doesn't mean much given that I haven't been around in five months(!). But I promise there will be more of me in future! I am no less crazybusy, but I am determined! I need friends and fannishness and my one safe space on the internets. ♥ you all.)

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