have an EKG and then have someone from the clinic calls you to talk about it. Since they almost never call you for a normal, I'm like OMG I'm dying. No, my doctor was just exercising caution. the EKG is 'mostly normal' but there was no more details. They posted the strip in a blurry pic to my portal. I'm assuming they mean the tachycardia. I'll see the new cardiologist in a couple weeks so we shall see.
No one came to micro today. I'll point out spring break doesn't start until Monday. out of 40 students I had 10. And being the bitch I am I had a test in anatomy today (found out there's one tomorrow for my ultrasound students) most of the sports teams were gone and someone cheated on the exam. I didn't catch them (it's hard I'm in a hole in an auditorium and even if I walk up and down the steps, I take steps SO slowly they have warning so what's the point. Another pissed off student turned them in. I'm saying nothing but I know how they're cheating and next test, without warning, I'm taking all that away. (i.e. every phone must be placed on MY table)
I wish I could stay over near Cinci for more than 24 hours tomorrow. there is SO MUCH food Restaurants of every kind. I'm thinking Korean. Oooo the choices.
No one came to micro today. I'll point out spring break doesn't start until Monday. out of 40 students I had 10. And being the bitch I am I had a test in anatomy today (found out there's one tomorrow for my ultrasound students) most of the sports teams were gone and someone cheated on the exam. I didn't catch them (it's hard I'm in a hole in an auditorium and even if I walk up and down the steps, I take steps SO slowly they have warning so what's the point. Another pissed off student turned them in. I'm saying nothing but I know how they're cheating and next test, without warning, I'm taking all that away. (i.e. every phone must be placed on MY table)
I wish I could stay over near Cinci for more than 24 hours tomorrow. there is SO MUCH food Restaurants of every kind. I'm thinking Korean. Oooo the choices.
AO3 Link | Divining Destiny: Flight for Freedom (1050 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Forgotten Realms, The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Vierna Do'Urden, Zaknafein Do'Urden, Drizzt Do'Urden, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Typical Violence, Fratricide, Murder, flashfic, Cross-Posted from Archive Of Our Own (AO3), Time Travel
Summary:
Vierna came alert from the dream with a chill on her spine. Things had been going so well ever since she had managed to give Drizzt a chance to live elsewhere.
Her Lord was the only reason she dreamed at all, which meant the dream was a portent that she had to divine the meaning of quickly. With a flicker of her will, she sent her current messenger spider, one of the line from her father's gift to her so long ago, to fetch him to her. While she did that, she cleared her mind to take up the spells of hiding that she had lived under, ever since the Masked God chose her as His priestess.
Zaknafein was waiting when she came up from the prayers, sitting calmly opposite her — and a barrier to anything else that would have dared enter the Matron's chambers.
"Something has shifted, and we are now in danger," Vierna signed to him. "Invite your lover to take those of our people he wishes. You and I, any you trust explicitly, will use the gathering paths to leave this city."
"You are certain?"
Vierna's mouth set in a grim line for a long moment. "Only that the hiding spell is known to me from childhood allowed me to take it, I think. She is seeking His influence in the city now."
"Be at the portal by the time for evening meal; I will have all things in motion," Zak told her firmly.
For better or worse, House Do'Urden in Menzoberranzan would be abandoned to the Spider Queen, but personal survival was prized above all else, for most drow, and Vierna was typical in that regard.
Dinin sat in the safe house of Bregan D'Aerthe with his head in his hands, still mulling over everything. He was grateful to the Weapon Master for making this opportunity appear, but he was at a loss for what would be expected now that he was without a House.
Jarlaxle, leader of the mercenary company, sat beside him, uncovered eye surveying those few men he had chosen to bring into the band. He wasn't very pleased; Vierna Do'Urden had been opening avenues to the cunning man for years now.
"It is done."
"She — they did make it out, yes?" Dinin asked, looking over.
"That actually matters to you," Jarlaxle said, and he looked pleased with that awareness. "Yes, they did. And to spare the rest, their meal was laced with poison, courtesy of my sense of mercy."
Dinin pondered that. When the Matrons of the ruling council moved to end the heresy, they would have tortured the commoners to learn all they could. The loyalty of the fighters would have pushed them to fight even without knowing where their matron was. The changes that Vierna had brought about in the House had made them all stronger, but…
… it was the kind of strength that was not allowed.
"Send me to one of your outposts, with some of my people and any of yours you trust to keep me under your eye." Dinin drew in all of his own cunning, ambition, and pride. "I live, and serving you is damn sure better than being dead or in the clutches of a different House."
"I have just the place for you," Jarlaxle said, smiling. "And I think you will thrive in our network."
Zaknafein inspected the house that had been procured in Rilauven, checking it over for any and all possible traps. When he at last came to Vierna, who was just settling back from prayer, she looked fatigued but content.
"With only ten to support us, it's not the most defensible place, but we can make it work," Zak told her.
"We will have more in time," Vierna promised him. "We still have enough gems to set ourselves on the path of growth."
"Once I am satisfied one of the fighters is able enough to defend in my absence, I will take up the offered contract at their school."
"Mother's manner of salves are unknown here, from all I can learn. That is another avenue of income." Vierna reached for his hands, and he gave them. "Thank you, for having faith in me."
"Nothing else to do when my own daughter proved she was not lost," he said quietly. "Will you be able to scry Drizzt now?"
Vierna sighed, shaking her head. "I had no luck, but then the prayers are still shrouded."
Zak frowned, but if the gods wanted to war on each other, he didn't care; he'd rather they left drow alone. "At least you being so high in favor, even with Him weakened, means you shouldn't be tested too soon."
"So I think, yes."
Vhaeraun sighed melodramatically as Eilistraee finally managed to pull the poisoned chelicerae out of His abdomen.
"You should have made it clear You wished aid long before now," Eilistraee scolded, putting the large pincers into the waiting darkflame to destroy them. "What happened?"
He considered how to answer as Her hands moved back to the wound, bringing healing and soothing the unending agony He had been inflicted with since the attack.
"One of the junior clerics My priestess had sent to learn in Her temple betrayed My priestess by thought. I managed to warn her, just before My realm was swarmed by Her abyssal spiders.
"I believe She'd already glimpsed My influence building." He grimaced with distaste for losing the first real foothold He'd made in that city.
"She will be on guard for reprisals," Eilistraee mused. "You must be careful, My Twin."
"When am I not, My dear Sister?" he asked in mocking tones, before lying back to let Her finish the healing He needed. She let Him rest, considering all of this, and how it might backlash upon Her own people.
"My priestess is safe, with her father, in one of the cities I hold more strongly," He said. "I chose well with her, even if this did not work the way I wished."
"Just don't go becoming enamored of her, Brother. My Nephew is enough trouble."
Vhaeraun laughed, bitterly, but nodded at the warning. He did enjoy such pleasures, but this priestess was too important, in His limited foresight, to risk that with.
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Forgotten Realms, The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Vierna Do'Urden, Zaknafein Do'Urden, Drizzt Do'Urden, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Typical Violence, Fratricide, Murder, flashfic, Cross-Posted from Archive Of Our Own (AO3), Time Travel
Summary:
Vierna is Betrayed
Divining Destiny: Flight for Freedom
Vierna came alert from the dream with a chill on her spine. Things had been going so well ever since she had managed to give Drizzt a chance to live elsewhere.
Her Lord was the only reason she dreamed at all, which meant the dream was a portent that she had to divine the meaning of quickly. With a flicker of her will, she sent her current messenger spider, one of the line from her father's gift to her so long ago, to fetch him to her. While she did that, she cleared her mind to take up the spells of hiding that she had lived under, ever since the Masked God chose her as His priestess.
Zaknafein was waiting when she came up from the prayers, sitting calmly opposite her — and a barrier to anything else that would have dared enter the Matron's chambers.
"Something has shifted, and we are now in danger," Vierna signed to him. "Invite your lover to take those of our people he wishes. You and I, any you trust explicitly, will use the gathering paths to leave this city."
"You are certain?"
Vierna's mouth set in a grim line for a long moment. "Only that the hiding spell is known to me from childhood allowed me to take it, I think. She is seeking His influence in the city now."
"Be at the portal by the time for evening meal; I will have all things in motion," Zak told her firmly.
For better or worse, House Do'Urden in Menzoberranzan would be abandoned to the Spider Queen, but personal survival was prized above all else, for most drow, and Vierna was typical in that regard.
Dinin sat in the safe house of Bregan D'Aerthe with his head in his hands, still mulling over everything. He was grateful to the Weapon Master for making this opportunity appear, but he was at a loss for what would be expected now that he was without a House.
Jarlaxle, leader of the mercenary company, sat beside him, uncovered eye surveying those few men he had chosen to bring into the band. He wasn't very pleased; Vierna Do'Urden had been opening avenues to the cunning man for years now.
"It is done."
"She — they did make it out, yes?" Dinin asked, looking over.
"That actually matters to you," Jarlaxle said, and he looked pleased with that awareness. "Yes, they did. And to spare the rest, their meal was laced with poison, courtesy of my sense of mercy."
Dinin pondered that. When the Matrons of the ruling council moved to end the heresy, they would have tortured the commoners to learn all they could. The loyalty of the fighters would have pushed them to fight even without knowing where their matron was. The changes that Vierna had brought about in the House had made them all stronger, but…
… it was the kind of strength that was not allowed.
"Send me to one of your outposts, with some of my people and any of yours you trust to keep me under your eye." Dinin drew in all of his own cunning, ambition, and pride. "I live, and serving you is damn sure better than being dead or in the clutches of a different House."
"I have just the place for you," Jarlaxle said, smiling. "And I think you will thrive in our network."
Zaknafein inspected the house that had been procured in Rilauven, checking it over for any and all possible traps. When he at last came to Vierna, who was just settling back from prayer, she looked fatigued but content.
"With only ten to support us, it's not the most defensible place, but we can make it work," Zak told her.
"We will have more in time," Vierna promised him. "We still have enough gems to set ourselves on the path of growth."
"Once I am satisfied one of the fighters is able enough to defend in my absence, I will take up the offered contract at their school."
"Mother's manner of salves are unknown here, from all I can learn. That is another avenue of income." Vierna reached for his hands, and he gave them. "Thank you, for having faith in me."
"Nothing else to do when my own daughter proved she was not lost," he said quietly. "Will you be able to scry Drizzt now?"
Vierna sighed, shaking her head. "I had no luck, but then the prayers are still shrouded."
Zak frowned, but if the gods wanted to war on each other, he didn't care; he'd rather they left drow alone. "At least you being so high in favor, even with Him weakened, means you shouldn't be tested too soon."
"So I think, yes."
Vhaeraun sighed melodramatically as Eilistraee finally managed to pull the poisoned chelicerae out of His abdomen.
"You should have made it clear You wished aid long before now," Eilistraee scolded, putting the large pincers into the waiting darkflame to destroy them. "What happened?"
He considered how to answer as Her hands moved back to the wound, bringing healing and soothing the unending agony He had been inflicted with since the attack.
"One of the junior clerics My priestess had sent to learn in Her temple betrayed My priestess by thought. I managed to warn her, just before My realm was swarmed by Her abyssal spiders.
"I believe She'd already glimpsed My influence building." He grimaced with distaste for losing the first real foothold He'd made in that city.
"She will be on guard for reprisals," Eilistraee mused. "You must be careful, My Twin."
"When am I not, My dear Sister?" he asked in mocking tones, before lying back to let Her finish the healing He needed. She let Him rest, considering all of this, and how it might backlash upon Her own people.
"My priestess is safe, with her father, in one of the cities I hold more strongly," He said. "I chose well with her, even if this did not work the way I wished."
"Just don't go becoming enamored of her, Brother. My Nephew is enough trouble."
Vhaeraun laughed, bitterly, but nodded at the warning. He did enjoy such pleasures, but this priestess was too important, in His limited foresight, to risk that with.
If you're a fan of science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror, this post is for you...
Worldcon is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (aka WSFS).
(Terminology note: When Worldcon first ran in 1939, "Science Fiction" was a general catch-all term for all of the "fantastical" stories that nowadays are split between Science Fiction and Fantasy. One of the earliest examples of Science Fiction is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which can fall into either category, or both. In addition, it's almost impossible to have Horror, without some element of science fiction or the fantastical in the story. As a result, the WSFS encompasses Speculative Fiction in general, which includes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.)
Worldcon has run every year since 1946, at various locations around the world. Australia has hosted it four times so far: 1975, 1985, 1999, and 2010, all in Melbourne. Wellington, New Zealand, was supposed to host the Worldcon in 2020, but then 2020 happened, and they managed to pivot to a fully virtual convention in under three months.
There have been some wonderful Worldcons, and there have been... some problems. When some problems were revealed in early 2024 about most recent Worldcon, 2023 in Chengdu, China, I got really really angry, and discovered I cared about it.
As a result, I chose to put my money where my mouth was, and got involved in trying to run a good Worldcon, without the problems, here in Australia.
The Brisbane in 28 bid has built up since then, and site selection for 2028 happens this year in Los Angeles. As a result, we've gotten our bid documentation collected and submitted: https://www.brisbane28.org/the-brisbane-in-28-worldcon-bid-is-now-official/
(Please go and read the bid documentation we've put together. We've tried to pre-emptively answer every question that an interested party would be likely to ask, and we are really proud of what we've put together. I know that I definitely want to go to that Worldcon.)
We are not the only bid on the ballot, there is also a bid from Nuremberg, in Germany. There are a bunch of issues we have with that bid, but that's a whole other post. The main thing is: we have put a lot of effort into getting this far, and we want to win site selection and get to run our Worldcon.
What can you do to help?
Firstly, social media. The more people in the fandoms that know about this, the better (for the entire fandom, really.)
So, you can find us in the following places:
You can also join the mailing list, to keep up to date. I will try and update, but there's a reason the bid has people who's responsibility it is to update social media with relevant information, and I'm not one of them. :)
Secondly, you can vote for us for Site Selection.
Unfortunately, voting does cost money, which is how they make sure that only people with an actual interest are going to vote.
To be eligible to vote, you must be a member of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). To do that, you need to buy a WSFS Membership for the current Worldcon (LA Con, in August). This will cost US$50 (approx AU$70 to AU$80 depending on exchange rates at the current time) and can be done from here: https://www.lacon.org/register/.
In addition to being eligible to vote in Site Selection, you also gain the right to vote in the 2026 Hugo Awards, and get the voting packet for the awards. Last year's voting packets was two zipped files totalling over 25gig, which included the full Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves movie; samples from two of the other movies up for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form; full ebooks of five of the books up for Best Novel and an excerpt of the sixth; copies of most of the novella, novelette and short story contenders; excerpts from parts of the six series' up for Best Series; samples of the works up for Best Graphic Story; and more.
The voting packet is worth it all on it's own.
To actually vote for us in the Site Selection, at some point later you will need to buy a voting token. Cost for this is still to be confirmed (it is something that the two sites up for selection will discuss and agree on) but it will most likely be equal to the cost of the WSFS Membership (US$50). Money collected for voting tokens goes to whichever Site wins Site Selection, and for the voter turns into a WSFS Membership for that convention.
So, voting in Site selection does cost money, but it's not wasted money.
When Site Selection actually happens, there will be five options on the ballot:
* Brisbane in 28
* Nuremberg 2028
* None of the Above
* No Preference
* Write In
Write in votes are only valid if the site in question manages to submit their bid documents before the close of voting. Otherwise they are used for joke votes by people who don't care who wins.
No Preference is considered a vote for both Brisbane and Nuremberg. These voters are happy with whichever one wins, they just want to get in early.
If None of the Above gets the most votes, then neither bid is successful, and the WSFS Business Meeting on the fourth morning of the convention would get very interesting. It's never happened in the history of the convention, but it's there in case it's needed.
Third thing you can do, is support us by giving us money. Running a bid is expensive, especially a non-American bid, as the majority of the people you need to persuade for you are living in the United States.
(A small aside on memberships: there are two main membership types for a Worldcon. The WSFS Membership I've already mentioned gives you access to nominate for the Hugo Awards, vote for the Hugo Awards, attend any virtual components of the Business Meeting, and means you are eligible to buy a Site Selection token and vote in that. It also gives you the right to nominate for the Hugo awards for the following year. It does not, however, allow to you attend the convention itself. To do that you need an Attending Membership, which you can buy after you have a WSFS Membership. There are usually multiple types of Attending Memberships, but they all allow you to actually (either physically or virtually) attend the convention.)
At the moment you can choose to give us a donation, or buy a presupport.
A donation simply goes into our kitty to be used to advertise our bid and drum up support.
A presupport does the same, but also gives you something out of it, should we win.
The presupports we have are:
The fourth thing you can do is get involved directly. We need volunteers for the bid, and will need volunteers for the actual convention itself. We also need more committee members, division heads, area head, and all the rest. You name it, we probably need it.
Worldcon is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (aka WSFS).
(Terminology note: When Worldcon first ran in 1939, "Science Fiction" was a general catch-all term for all of the "fantastical" stories that nowadays are split between Science Fiction and Fantasy. One of the earliest examples of Science Fiction is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which can fall into either category, or both. In addition, it's almost impossible to have Horror, without some element of science fiction or the fantastical in the story. As a result, the WSFS encompasses Speculative Fiction in general, which includes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.)
Worldcon has run every year since 1946, at various locations around the world. Australia has hosted it four times so far: 1975, 1985, 1999, and 2010, all in Melbourne. Wellington, New Zealand, was supposed to host the Worldcon in 2020, but then 2020 happened, and they managed to pivot to a fully virtual convention in under three months.
There have been some wonderful Worldcons, and there have been... some problems. When some problems were revealed in early 2024 about most recent Worldcon, 2023 in Chengdu, China, I got really really angry, and discovered I cared about it.
As a result, I chose to put my money where my mouth was, and got involved in trying to run a good Worldcon, without the problems, here in Australia.
The Brisbane in 28 bid has built up since then, and site selection for 2028 happens this year in Los Angeles. As a result, we've gotten our bid documentation collected and submitted: https://www.brisbane28.org/the-brisbane-in-28-worldcon-bid-is-now-official/
(Please go and read the bid documentation we've put together. We've tried to pre-emptively answer every question that an interested party would be likely to ask, and we are really proud of what we've put together. I know that I definitely want to go to that Worldcon.)
We are not the only bid on the ballot, there is also a bid from Nuremberg, in Germany. There are a bunch of issues we have with that bid, but that's a whole other post. The main thing is: we have put a lot of effort into getting this far, and we want to win site selection and get to run our Worldcon.
What can you do to help?
Firstly, social media. The more people in the fandoms that know about this, the better (for the entire fandom, really.)
So, you can find us in the following places:
You can also join the mailing list, to keep up to date. I will try and update, but there's a reason the bid has people who's responsibility it is to update social media with relevant information, and I'm not one of them. :)
Secondly, you can vote for us for Site Selection.
Unfortunately, voting does cost money, which is how they make sure that only people with an actual interest are going to vote.
To be eligible to vote, you must be a member of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). To do that, you need to buy a WSFS Membership for the current Worldcon (LA Con, in August). This will cost US$50 (approx AU$70 to AU$80 depending on exchange rates at the current time) and can be done from here: https://www.lacon.org/register/.
In addition to being eligible to vote in Site Selection, you also gain the right to vote in the 2026 Hugo Awards, and get the voting packet for the awards. Last year's voting packets was two zipped files totalling over 25gig, which included the full Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves movie; samples from two of the other movies up for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form; full ebooks of five of the books up for Best Novel and an excerpt of the sixth; copies of most of the novella, novelette and short story contenders; excerpts from parts of the six series' up for Best Series; samples of the works up for Best Graphic Story; and more.
The voting packet is worth it all on it's own.
To actually vote for us in the Site Selection, at some point later you will need to buy a voting token. Cost for this is still to be confirmed (it is something that the two sites up for selection will discuss and agree on) but it will most likely be equal to the cost of the WSFS Membership (US$50). Money collected for voting tokens goes to whichever Site wins Site Selection, and for the voter turns into a WSFS Membership for that convention.
So, voting in Site selection does cost money, but it's not wasted money.
When Site Selection actually happens, there will be five options on the ballot:
* Brisbane in 28
* Nuremberg 2028
* None of the Above
* No Preference
* Write In
Write in votes are only valid if the site in question manages to submit their bid documents before the close of voting. Otherwise they are used for joke votes by people who don't care who wins.
No Preference is considered a vote for both Brisbane and Nuremberg. These voters are happy with whichever one wins, they just want to get in early.
If None of the Above gets the most votes, then neither bid is successful, and the WSFS Business Meeting on the fourth morning of the convention would get very interesting. It's never happened in the history of the convention, but it's there in case it's needed.
Third thing you can do, is support us by giving us money. Running a bid is expensive, especially a non-American bid, as the majority of the people you need to persuade for you are living in the United States.
(A small aside on memberships: there are two main membership types for a Worldcon. The WSFS Membership I've already mentioned gives you access to nominate for the Hugo Awards, vote for the Hugo Awards, attend any virtual components of the Business Meeting, and means you are eligible to buy a Site Selection token and vote in that. It also gives you the right to nominate for the Hugo awards for the following year. It does not, however, allow to you attend the convention itself. To do that you need an Attending Membership, which you can buy after you have a WSFS Membership. There are usually multiple types of Attending Memberships, but they all allow you to actually (either physically or virtually) attend the convention.)
At the moment you can choose to give us a donation, or buy a presupport.
A donation simply goes into our kitty to be used to advertise our bid and drum up support.
A presupport does the same, but also gives you something out of it, should we win.
The presupports we have are:
- Virtual Mate (AU$50) - turns into a Virtual Membership should we win.
- Young Mate (AU$125) - turns into a YA (18 to 25) Membership.
- Mate! (AU$250)- turns into a full adult Membership.
- Best Mate! (AU$550) - also turns into a full adult members, but also includes a bunch of swag and merchandise.
The fourth thing you can do is get involved directly. We need volunteers for the bid, and will need volunteers for the actual convention itself. We also need more committee members, division heads, area head, and all the rest. You name it, we probably need it.
Most of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
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So the police and fire dept show up IN my office today. Where's the gas leak?
Me....it was someone with gasoline on their shoes.
Cop/FD - you are KIDDING?
Me - don't I wish.
What happened someone showed up to class reeking so the prof moved them to my lab because it was empty and had windows (class rooms do not) some student apparently texted a parent who heard gas leak and phoned it in to the fire department...
Cop leaves muttering and now I have to write this up...
meanwhile a coworker's wife's h.s. was put on lockdown and then evacutated. he's not sure why. And yesterday they played bomb threats on the radio hoping someone knows the voice as someone keeps calling them in to a local high school.
I did go to get my EKG done. I wasn't sure. They said you could just walk in no schedulling required and damned if i didn't. nothing in the portal yet
Went to yoga but I really hurt now. I can half ass the seated/standing stuff but the stuff on my knees beyond cat or cow is killing me. My knee made such a lough cracking sound everyone looked. I'm like nope not doing that one. I may give it up entirely if water aerobic goes off. we went from 14 to 5 sign ups and we're not even started. sigh
FINALLY got my hotel (again) for the Loveland Frogman Festival on Saturday. I'm so busy I feel guilty for going but I plan to have fun, buy shit I don't need and see friends
What I Just Finished Reading:
Check Please sticks and scones - It wasn't as good as book one, tried to cover too much with no depth (like Jack goes from joining the team to winning the cup without much in between) and the fact that Jack is drawn like he's 40 (he's 22-24 I think) and Bittle is drawn looking 14 instead of 21 made it...uncomfortable
gave back the Y man without reading
Between the Shades of Grey - way too dark to be enjoyable for me
What I am Currently Reading:
Got these on interlibrary loan - With Friends Like These, The Snow Child, At Death's Dough and Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so I'm trying to bull thru all four at once (because that makes sense)
The Final Problem - mystery set in the 60s welcome to the name dropping hour
What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia, and Luna Park history
Me....it was someone with gasoline on their shoes.
Cop/FD - you are KIDDING?
Me - don't I wish.
What happened someone showed up to class reeking so the prof moved them to my lab because it was empty and had windows (class rooms do not) some student apparently texted a parent who heard gas leak and phoned it in to the fire department...
Cop leaves muttering and now I have to write this up...
meanwhile a coworker's wife's h.s. was put on lockdown and then evacutated. he's not sure why. And yesterday they played bomb threats on the radio hoping someone knows the voice as someone keeps calling them in to a local high school.
I did go to get my EKG done. I wasn't sure. They said you could just walk in no schedulling required and damned if i didn't. nothing in the portal yet
Went to yoga but I really hurt now. I can half ass the seated/standing stuff but the stuff on my knees beyond cat or cow is killing me. My knee made such a lough cracking sound everyone looked. I'm like nope not doing that one. I may give it up entirely if water aerobic goes off. we went from 14 to 5 sign ups and we're not even started. sigh
FINALLY got my hotel (again) for the Loveland Frogman Festival on Saturday. I'm so busy I feel guilty for going but I plan to have fun, buy shit I don't need and see friends
What I Just Finished Reading:
Check Please sticks and scones - It wasn't as good as book one, tried to cover too much with no depth (like Jack goes from joining the team to winning the cup without much in between) and the fact that Jack is drawn like he's 40 (he's 22-24 I think) and Bittle is drawn looking 14 instead of 21 made it...uncomfortable
gave back the Y man without reading
Between the Shades of Grey - way too dark to be enjoyable for me
What I am Currently Reading:
Got these on interlibrary loan - With Friends Like These, The Snow Child, At Death's Dough and Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so I'm trying to bull thru all four at once (because that makes sense)
The Final Problem - mystery set in the 60s welcome to the name dropping hour
What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia, and Luna Park history
Set
Miscellanea:
The polar stars
With fixed purpose;
Thunderbolt iron
To open the power
(Great of strength)
to speak;
Confusion;
Discord;
Overcoming that which would
Annihilate;
The sinister and redheaded;
The foreign.
And
Problematic
Men—
Angry drunks,
Queer,
And the ball-less.
Collected.
but damn today was something. I woke up 40 minutes before the alarm. Got 2 miles from work and realized I had forgotten my phone on the charger. Because of the multifactorial verification I can't get into my work email or the online teaching stuff.
I can't turn around as I was giving a test in the morning. The entire handicapped parking lot was full (we have asked parents of CCP kids to STOP fucking parking there to wait but no one enforces this) so I have to park up the hill.
So after the test I run home (I'm only 10 miles away) Also today was SO much warmer than yesterday I don't even care I had to run home. I changed shirts. Go back. Students were supposed to show up today but didn't (but at least I got stuff graded).
I still can't get anything done at work and more and more is getting added on us and then the dean in charge of this is gone effective today. What happened? No clue.
I get to CVS and the line is so long I eat my KFC sandwich in line and wasn't halfway thru it (but I was out of both meds so I had to get them)
I'm not bringing you any new Fannish 50 today but I'm really looking forward to being able to share some of the open calls later this week. I am lining up stories in my head. I'm thrilled to finally have things that might fit some of these open calls.
It's women's history month so I hope to highlight a woman a day, oh probably not every day but I'll try.
So while this is niche for Pittsburgh, it's our women of WWII which with the way Trump and Hesgeth are ripping out military women's history, I think it's important to share it so those fucks can't succeed. You can see it here.
I can't turn around as I was giving a test in the morning. The entire handicapped parking lot was full (we have asked parents of CCP kids to STOP fucking parking there to wait but no one enforces this) so I have to park up the hill.
So after the test I run home (I'm only 10 miles away) Also today was SO much warmer than yesterday I don't even care I had to run home. I changed shirts. Go back. Students were supposed to show up today but didn't (but at least I got stuff graded).
I still can't get anything done at work and more and more is getting added on us and then the dean in charge of this is gone effective today. What happened? No clue.
I get to CVS and the line is so long I eat my KFC sandwich in line and wasn't halfway thru it (but I was out of both meds so I had to get them)
I'm not bringing you any new Fannish 50 today but I'm really looking forward to being able to share some of the open calls later this week. I am lining up stories in my head. I'm thrilled to finally have things that might fit some of these open calls.
It's women's history month so I hope to highlight a woman a day, oh probably not every day but I'll try.
So while this is niche for Pittsburgh, it's our women of WWII which with the way Trump and Hesgeth are ripping out military women's history, I think it's important to share it so those fucks can't succeed. You can see it here.
Ha. So — so far at 3/4 for rejections (for jobs and writing submissions) over the last, er, month. Jobs — one I just did not hear from (the posting was removed and then relisted), and the other was a mismatch between what their ad said and what they actually wanted (they were nice about it, but it wasn't a fit). The writing thing I figured I would be rejected for, too, since right after I submitted, they shared on their social media, "we're especially interested in stories about [SOMETHING I DID NOT WRITE], as we've been inundated with stories about [WHAT I DID WRITE]", which...oops.
It's...I dunno. As I said to Ed in therapy yesterday, I know that if you don't submit stuff, you can't, like, expect to have any chance of getting stuff published, and if you don't apply to jobs, you won't get hired, but both processes suck a lot and I am not a fan.
I have one more piece currently out for publication. It was an even longer shot than the first one, so, er. I'm preemptively going, "yeah, I'm going to guess I didn't get in for this one, either" and shrugging. At least I tried?
Right, anyway.
The upshot to this is that while I was very much In My Feelings yesterday re: rejections and just feeling low, I got a very nice comment on one of the things I have on AO3 that I'm most proud of (The Road Through the Mountains, because...yeah, anyway). Like, nice enough that it made me teary, because it came in very shortly after the extremely impersonal writing rejection (like, they misspelled my name, that's how impersonal we're talking, ha), and it was very clear from what they'd written that they loved the piece, which was a great feeling. ♥
And, er, well.
The auctions for Fandom Trumps Hate opened for bidding today — they'll be open through Friday — so imagine my complete and total shock when I opened the bidding sheet for the writing I'm offering and saw that there is, in fact, a bid — one placed pretty early, even, for 5x what my minimum bid listing is, from someone I don't know.
I had sort of half-expected that I was going to need to send someone $5 to bid on me, so this is a very pleasant surprise. ♥ Almost offsets the "ugh, applying for stuff is the WORST" feelings. :)
If you're wanting to bid, then, looks like you have to donate more than $25.
If you want tabletop (bespoke tabletop!!), that one is open and doesn't have any bids yet — you can find it here.
It's...I dunno. As I said to Ed in therapy yesterday, I know that if you don't submit stuff, you can't, like, expect to have any chance of getting stuff published, and if you don't apply to jobs, you won't get hired, but both processes suck a lot and I am not a fan.
I have one more piece currently out for publication. It was an even longer shot than the first one, so, er. I'm preemptively going, "yeah, I'm going to guess I didn't get in for this one, either" and shrugging. At least I tried?
Right, anyway.
The upshot to this is that while I was very much In My Feelings yesterday re: rejections and just feeling low, I got a very nice comment on one of the things I have on AO3 that I'm most proud of (The Road Through the Mountains, because...yeah, anyway). Like, nice enough that it made me teary, because it came in very shortly after the extremely impersonal writing rejection (like, they misspelled my name, that's how impersonal we're talking, ha), and it was very clear from what they'd written that they loved the piece, which was a great feeling. ♥
And, er, well.
The auctions for Fandom Trumps Hate opened for bidding today — they'll be open through Friday — so imagine my complete and total shock when I opened the bidding sheet for the writing I'm offering and saw that there is, in fact, a bid — one placed pretty early, even, for 5x what my minimum bid listing is, from someone I don't know.
I had sort of half-expected that I was going to need to send someone $5 to bid on me, so this is a very pleasant surprise. ♥ Almost offsets the "ugh, applying for stuff is the WORST" feelings. :)
If you're wanting to bid, then, looks like you have to donate more than $25.
If you want tabletop (bespoke tabletop!!), that one is open and doesn't have any bids yet — you can find it here.
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goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.
My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again.
May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.
minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again. May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
minoanmiss -- I'm still processing.May I suggest we remember her life as a artist, a creative force to be reckoned with, and one of the main reasons I personally re-evaluated my racism because of SO MANY insightful thoughts.
I am likely going to finish all current projects, and then my writing I share with the public will only be what I sign up for in charity drives and exchanges.
I just don't have enough energy to warrant putting the effort into sharing/promoting fic when it is a source of stress, given comment dearth and spammer content.
I will not be removing any of my archives. I'm just going to stop trying to engage with others.
I just don't have enough energy to warrant putting the effort into sharing/promoting fic when it is a source of stress, given comment dearth and spammer content.
I will not be removing any of my archives. I'm just going to stop trying to engage with others.