places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I've been told better late than never. (So sorry for the delay, seriously.)

I didn't write any particular details because I procrastinated and had no time, so I'll be writing a bit why I like each fandom here, and hope you find it, and it's helpful.

I've been writing in these letters every time, optional details are optional! I love gifts, and I love getting my yuletide story on Christmas, but the part I like the most is sharing the experience with you, whomever you are, even in the fuzzy way of not-speaking-to-each-other-at-all-because-secrecy. I want you to enjoy yuletide. I offer prompts in case it's helpful, but if it's not, just throw all that out of the window and write the story of your heart! I really like surprises, and I love fiction in general.

(I love the fandoms in different ways, which will be obvious, but the unifying fact is that I would love to get fic on any of their universes equally, so!)

( General stuff )
( fandoms: Papers, Please; Emma - Jane Austen; Kara: a PS3 new technology; Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro )

More seriously, I'm part of at least two policy discussions internally (meta and cat change), and yesterday they were affecting my mood. Well, not so much cat change, which had a very productive meeting, but it contributed to my general feeling of being fed up at discussing blurry things.

And yes, 'blurry things' is totally a valid characterization of policy discussions. -_-

(More seriously still, of course I don't want to stop being part of those discussions.)

Anyway, stuff:

( movies and series I've seen )

( games I've played )

( movies I want to watch )

ETA: If I see another 'you don't even care' comment, I may flip out. Yes, we don't care. That's exactly why we are all dedicating long hours of work on it, on top of everything else that may be going on in our lives. Tell it to the fan writers, Claudia Rebaza, tell it to the fan writers. -_-

I've been silent, and absent, and I'm not going to ask if you missed me.

The things that happened since I last posted weren't that many, but enough that my memory doesn't have an accurate record, plus I don't think they really matter to anyone but me (at that time). Last things that happened:

• I went on vacation with my sisters! We walked up to the top of a couple mountains (one really small; the larger one left a heart-shaped bruise on my leg the size of my thumb (seriously!)); I ate nice things; saw a sizeable part of my country (including some cities I didn't expect to ever walk); spent time with family I don't see much usually. We went by train and bus, with long-ish waiting time in the middle -- that way we saved almost half the money we would've spent on it. I was mostly disconnected from my online life, which felt strange, but not as terrible as I thought (still not something to repeat soon) and had little to no private time, which wore me out a lot. I could chat with E every couple days for a little while, and she kept me up with fannish happenings a bit, which was really nice. I expected to write -- I couldn't.


• I got a temp job. Office work. Involves talking with people on the phone. A lot. I'm slowly starting to get used to it. New life achievement? The Office: pretty accurate, it turns out. ;)


• I've seen almost all Six Feet Under (great show).


• I've been seeing more argentinian cinema, but feel a bit weird about it because I can't really share it with anyone but my sister and her gf, and we share so many opinions (we watch together) that it's a bit futile to try to discuss it and see new things in it.

Goals now include writing and activating my org work, but I think I ended up more tired from my vacation than I went in.

So, I went to the pride march, and it was fun! I just came back and am very very tired, but I had to post, because a fannish thought intruded on the moment at one point.

I first thought: if one would transpose the edward bennet and fitzwilliam darcy (from Five Sons Mr and Mrs Bennet Never Had, except obv also transposed to modernity) to this moment, what would they be doing? And obv, I thought, wait, I can't see Darcy here -- he's probably being dragged here by Edward or something, and he will secretly like it. And are they argentinian? I can't imagine them argentinian. And then I was derailed, because Plan B. This may be the best idea ever -- Bruno and Pablo on the Pride March -- how did they get here, what are they doing. I'm too tired, but I might just write that fic, unless someone else does for Yule or something.

Other random stuff:
I took my tshirt off in public. I think the weirdest thing was that I wasn't embarrassed -- though I was pretty cold. (to print it, not to dance -- I'm very bad at dancing)
I danced. Not on top of anything, but I just realized it has been a while and I missed it.
I really really think someone should vid The Walking Dead to Kumbia Queers' Kumbia Zombie.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi! Let me tell you first: I'm not a demanding recipient. If anything below sounds like something you can't do, you can just ignore it. I'll try to give you as clear an idea of the type of thing I enjoy as I can, but if you already have an idea, or if nothing here works for you, that's fine for me, too!

( General likes and dislikes, links, that kind of thing. )

( Requests are they figure in my sign-up (no particular order): )

So, I took up the Learn Ruby the Hard Way tutorial, and it was all cool and well until I stumbled into chapter 23: Read Some Code. Nothing I find in github looks remotely like the stuff I've learned! A lot of randomword :anotherrandomword, construction which I'm not sure what it means (the : this, mainly), a lot of different types of files (plus some function definitions, which I do mostly understand), etc. I know there's still a long way for me to go to be able to actually read code, but the fact that I can't find anything I can understand at least vaguely is making me sad. Also, I can't go on until I do it, supposedly /0\.

On the other hand, I managed to contact one of my leads and get help with work -> total triumph for me personally.

Support is cooking something interesting of our own (not the Support in other languages proposal*, which is cooking now with other committees) that I'm not at liberty to share yet (well, I think, and Matty is not around at this precise instant to check) but it's very exciting to me, and I need to finalize some stuff (mostly Survey) so I can take it out of my mind and concentrate on docs again.

I've been meaning to set one hour a day to write, come hell or high water, but haven't done so yet. I think it may be the solution to my not writing problem (i.e. the fact that I easily get distracted and not write even when I'm thinking about stories).

My mother goes tomorrow for two weeks -- and for the first time we didn't automatically plan a party with my sister. I've thought about it and proposed it, though.

The Strategic Planning workgroup sent the survey to tag wranglers today and I filled it up. It was mostly easy and quick to complete. I hope they can get good data!

(Re: proposals. May I just say that discovering that writing proposals is not that hard this term has been awesome? I haven't actually used it yet but once, and this was not something to elevate to Board, but in general... It makes everything easier.)

* I'm not sure if I've told? But there's not much to tell until it's approved by everyone involved and the problems ironed out, etc. Just a proposal being considered. Still: \0/ I've wanted this since last term.

I just love that my participation in the OTW and AO3 work mean that I want it to be 'a cultural blank space'.

Fuck it, I'm clearly too tired to deal with this in a mature fashion. *goes to sleep*

ETA: because I'm so tired I forgot to do the standard disclaimer thing: volunteer, speaking unofficially in my own space. Obviously.

I had a pretty full week, and then a really full weekend. I've only a vague idea of what I did when, though. /0\

( in no particular order: )

I've a ton of stuff to do, and though I feel vaguely overwhelmed if I let myself, I mostly am not letting myself, so that's good.

I didn't sleep Sat night (nothing terribly exciting, had to clean and my sister et al came by to drink a bit, apart from a meeting at 6am) and finally crashed in the late afternoon. And I'm now up at almost 5am. My sleep schedule: crap.

( OTW )

( writing )

( tv shows )

( life )

( random recs )

Seems like, no? (ETA: actually, checked. It's every month. It felt longer this time. Uh.) I kinda fell into hiding again after last post. Now that I've managed to catch up with the friends with whom I chat almost every day, I feel more up to posting.

( OTW work )

( series )

( day to day )

( writing )