But God, who'd want to be such an asshole?

I keep meaning to post about something, just to let everyone know I'm not dead or anything, and... keep getting sidetracked and forget about it for another week.

But anyway. Um. Not dead. Which, in some ways, is quite the accomplishment. I am just going to sum up things in a nice friendly list, because that is what happens when you don't post for months. Lists and summaries become necessary.

• I survived New York. This was about a month ago, but I just realized I never told anyone that, so... there you go. It would figure that the day I got over the PAIN EVERYWHERE and the general exhaustion and started to decide I never wanted to leave the City again... was the day I had to leave, but there you go. And the plane ride back was HELLISH, but I survived that too.
  
  
• POSSIBLY MORE IMPORTANT, I survived my birthday (which was about a week ago). Most of this was because I refused to speak of or acknowledge it on the actual date - I have a birthday curse to rival Buffy's, and it has led to nothing but disaster in the few years before this.
  When I had a brief moment of insanity this year and tempted fate with a half an hour until midnight (and, therefore, the end of my birthday) by asking "What bad thing could happen at this point?" My girlfriend's computer crashed, the second the words were out of my mouth. But I think that was more of a warning from the universe not to mock the curse than an actual manifestation of the curse, and I have learned my lesson.
  
  
• Writing! I am actually doing it! Every day recently (except for last night, because I woke up late and was then derailed from productivity by RAEG). ...if you have any idea what the last year has been like for me, creatively speaking, this is a big deal.
  
  
• I am going to be disappearing from the internet for the first week of November for writing purposes. If anyone needs me superurgently, I'll still be checking email about once a day, but most things are going to be ignored until I come back.
  I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do fake!NaNo (which is not so much fake NaNo as a NaNo in which I just work on a project I already started... so slight cheating, but no one actually cares) this year, but the plan is to finish the first On a Saturday book. I actually think I have less than 50,000 words to go on that one, so that's encouraging. I'm going to attempt to have at least a vague outline for the next book on hand, just in case, but god only knows how that's going to turn out, since it has fairies. And fairies just... confuse me.
  
  
• Thinking about doing Yuletide this year. Thinking very seriously about it. I nominated some fandoms I really want fic from, just in case, but I haven't come to a decision yet. I have never done it before and it is huge and intimidating! But so shiny!
  
  
• I am never going to get to sleep today. I keep trying, and things keep happening to prevent that (and Simba keeps trying to sing me soothing lullabies, except it sounds more like a very quiet - but still loud enough to keep me awake - chainsaw). ...I guess the many cups of coffee I've had haven't helped that, but I ONLY HAD THE LAST TWO AFTER IT BECAME APPARENT THAT SLEEP WAS GOING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE.
  Nrghfl. Being awake this time of day feels wrong.