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Jul. 23rd, 2011 12:52 amBy way of breaking in the new blog...
My roommate is watching HP4. When I got my lasagna out of the oven just now and walked by her room they were playing the music from just after the graveyard scene, when everyone saw Cedric's body. This made me feel all sad - but then I completely cracked up laughing. I have been watching the HP movies off and on (OOTP got me through grading this afternoon) to prepare to see the latest one. We apparently both have the same idea, but rather than do it together we're both huddled in front of our respective computers watching it by ourselves. We don't even own a TV, though we do have a big living room where we entertain occasionally. The parallel-but-separate movies just struck me as so our generation. Or a NY thing. Or something.
Tomorrow I'm finally going to see HP. I was going to go on Thursday after I finished the teaching week but I lost my cell phone and had to pay the deductible to get it replaced, so I suddenly felt poor. Though I have major bucks in the bank, comparatively speaking; I just felt poor because I'd spent money I wasn't expecting to. Today I almost went, too, but I had to wait around for UPS (cursed be the name) to deliver the phone, and once it arrived I didn't feel like going out. Tomorrow I have to be out anyway for a doc's appointment, and I also found out the phone must be activated from another phone number. So that gives me an excuse to drop by the office which likewise gives me an excuse to be in Manhattan - ergo, fancy-schmancy theater on a day where I can be there for the matinee.
Plus, I just got my check for when I had jury duty. It's funny - less than I spent on the phone, but it still feels like I now have money to spend because, again, it was unexpected. Odd how that works out.
I also feel a bit like celebrating because I'm facing three weeks of no counseling because of various vacations and scheduling conflict. Counseling is necessary if I want to get better, but it's also like legilimency lessons (to continue the HP metaphor). Legilimency lessons with Lupin rather than Snape (my shrink's actually a great lady), but legilimency lessons nonetheless. It's that draining. It should be, it needs to be, but I am glad for the break.
Let's see, what else... I spent the last few hours gathering quotes for the SWG monthly bio, which I'm handling this month. And I'm about to dig into some MEFA categorizing. Though what I should be doing is sleeping, or else I'll face a repeat of last week's dueling sleep schedules when I have to be teaching in Manhattan by 9 AM. Beside the SWG bio I'm not really working on anything fannish, though I have been thinking about a vignette series involving Faramir's and Denethor's family dynamic and the question of domestic violence (sorta kinda). But if I am looking forward to a break from counseling perhaps now is not the right time to dig into such a, well, psychological topic. In any event I miss writing.
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A word on the new hobbit-hole:
Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
roh_wyn for the invite code. I appreciate it!
Over at LJ, I have experienced a sharp uptick in the amount of spam. There are other factors, too; really, it was just time for a move. I will still probably be reading mostly at LJ because that is where most of my friends spend time, but I am looking forward to breaking in a new DW blog. From now on I will probably post here and would appreciate it if people would comment here. We will try it for a few weeks and see how that goes.
I also moved my non-fannish blog to DW as well. It has the namefidesquaerens here at DW and at LJ. As with this blog, I'll be crossposting to LJ but would love if people would comment here rather than there.
LJ folks can comment without signing up for a new account. Two options:
My roommate is watching HP4. When I got my lasagna out of the oven just now and walked by her room they were playing the music from just after the graveyard scene, when everyone saw Cedric's body. This made me feel all sad - but then I completely cracked up laughing. I have been watching the HP movies off and on (OOTP got me through grading this afternoon) to prepare to see the latest one. We apparently both have the same idea, but rather than do it together we're both huddled in front of our respective computers watching it by ourselves. We don't even own a TV, though we do have a big living room where we entertain occasionally. The parallel-but-separate movies just struck me as so our generation. Or a NY thing. Or something.
Tomorrow I'm finally going to see HP. I was going to go on Thursday after I finished the teaching week but I lost my cell phone and had to pay the deductible to get it replaced, so I suddenly felt poor. Though I have major bucks in the bank, comparatively speaking; I just felt poor because I'd spent money I wasn't expecting to. Today I almost went, too, but I had to wait around for UPS (cursed be the name) to deliver the phone, and once it arrived I didn't feel like going out. Tomorrow I have to be out anyway for a doc's appointment, and I also found out the phone must be activated from another phone number. So that gives me an excuse to drop by the office which likewise gives me an excuse to be in Manhattan - ergo, fancy-schmancy theater on a day where I can be there for the matinee.
Plus, I just got my check for when I had jury duty. It's funny - less than I spent on the phone, but it still feels like I now have money to spend because, again, it was unexpected. Odd how that works out.
I also feel a bit like celebrating because I'm facing three weeks of no counseling because of various vacations and scheduling conflict. Counseling is necessary if I want to get better, but it's also like legilimency lessons (to continue the HP metaphor). Legilimency lessons with Lupin rather than Snape (my shrink's actually a great lady), but legilimency lessons nonetheless. It's that draining. It should be, it needs to be, but I am glad for the break.
Let's see, what else... I spent the last few hours gathering quotes for the SWG monthly bio, which I'm handling this month. And I'm about to dig into some MEFA categorizing. Though what I should be doing is sleeping, or else I'll face a repeat of last week's dueling sleep schedules when I have to be teaching in Manhattan by 9 AM. Beside the SWG bio I'm not really working on anything fannish, though I have been thinking about a vignette series involving Faramir's and Denethor's family dynamic and the question of domestic violence (sorta kinda). But if I am looking forward to a break from counseling perhaps now is not the right time to dig into such a, well, psychological topic. In any event I miss writing.
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A word on the new hobbit-hole:
Thanks to
roh_wyn for the invite code. I appreciate it!Over at LJ, I have experienced a sharp uptick in the amount of spam. There are other factors, too; really, it was just time for a move. I will still probably be reading mostly at LJ because that is where most of my friends spend time, but I am looking forward to breaking in a new DW blog. From now on I will probably post here and would appreciate it if people would comment here. We will try it for a few weeks and see how that goes.
I also moved my non-fannish blog to DW as well. It has the name
fidesquaerens here at DW and at LJ. As with this blog, I'll be crossposting to LJ but would love if people would comment here rather than there.LJ folks can comment without signing up for a new account. Two options:
- Dreamwidth lets you post using your LJ username, through the magic of something called openID. Read about it here and just use your current LJ account to comment here.
- Also, feel free to use the "anonymous" comment feature. I appreciate a name I recognize, but that can be typed at the end of the comment if you don't have an account and can't figure out how to use open ID.
