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Happy new year, everyone!

Normally I post my word count for the year around now, but Iiii really don't want to talk about that. Let's just say... abysmal? Seriously, it's deeply depressing if I let myself think too much about it, so I am just going to... not do that.

Happy things? I signed up for

getyourwordsout, so that will hopefully be helpful getting me... back to somewhere that feels more normal for me. And

jaeled has issued a challenge to enter writing contests with her, and I am pretty much incapable of saying no to a direct challenge. Or to Jae.

ALSO, now that Yuletide fics are no longer anonymous, I can link to mine! (I'll post it on my writing journals properly another time. When I don't have so many things on my damn to do list.)

I wrote a Dresden Files/Sparrow Hill Road crossover for

ordinarygirl. Could've been a lot better, as A) I am out of practice, and B) I was writing up to (and past) the deadline and so had no time to revise, but I still like it a lot.

...plus, now I can justify writing a second one once Ghost Story is out. You have no idea how excited I am for that.

NOW, I need to go... finish off the last few items on my to do list. So I can get to work on the second one. YES, I HAVE MULTIPLE LISTS AT ONCE. WHAT.

Current Mood: restless
Current Music: What About Everything - Carbon Leaf
Crossposts: http://allfireburns.livejournal.com/381329.html

jaeled: As far as the magic of the Wood is concerned--it centers more around changing the reality of an object or its seeming than anything else. Most magics are illusory or change a thing's nature, if not its essence--for example, people being turned into cats.
jaeled: But tttcat 0k sface s-eao0jg -f
allfireburns: ...and then Jae became a cat.

...that happened a couple weeks ago, but it needed to be shared anyway.
So my dad's packing up his house, because no one is going to be living in it very soon, and he keeps sending me boxes of stuff. The boxes of books were awesome! And there's a box of winter clothes that will be awesome before long. But today we got a box of... papers? From kindergarten to third grade?
I don't know what I am expected to do with this box, but Beka decided she would post the best parts. IT IS STRANGELY HILARIOUS. Tiny!me seems to be offended by toucans.
My back is trying to kill me when I stand up. And sometimes when I try to sit upright at all. This is not exactly conducive to productivity and oh my god, this had better stop before I have to wander around New York City for a day or two, because otherwise I am going to cry. And then kill everything.
THIS IS THE BEST PART, YOU GUYS. I MADE AN RP (okay, so some other people were involved too :|).

babylonwood

Don't ask me how I keep getting involved in creative projects that have fairies when I... really don't know what to do with fairies, most of the time. It just keeps happening. But anyway. Apps open at the beginning of September, actual playing starts a couple weeks later, and it will be awesome. September cannot happen soon enough.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies
Crossposts: http://allfireburns.livejournal.com/376521.html

This book. Is just. Oh god what.

Jon... laid his hand on Jack's arm, muscles incidentally tensing magnificently, like weasels in a sack.

Is it just me, or is that image THE FURTHEST THING FROM SEXY? How could you write a line like that and seriously think it was a good idea?

...oh, and in other news, unrelated to weasels, we got all the stuff out of the trailer and into the house. None of it is unpacked, and we need to wait until tomorrow to set up the bed, so we'll be staying another night here with Jae and Caroline, but we are free of the trailer! Yay!

I cannot wait to have the bed back. It is huge, and I will fall on it and sleep forever. Oh god yes. (Also, it smells like Jaqui. I'm if that's a good thing, or if it makes me want to cry.)

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: The Chain - Ingrid Michaelson

I did not sleep at all well this morning, but when Beka got up, she let me have the bed and let me sleep for four more hours, so all was well and I felt much better after that (despite having a nightmare about Beka's mom trying to kill me... that was weird).

I now have Toshiko (my external hard drive, which should hopefully have everything from Gwen backed up on it now...), and Gwen has been sent off to be repaired. So in a couple weeks, I should have her back, or I can start flailing periodically at Best Buy until they fix it. I also got a tiny bag for my netbook which is just the perfect size for the netbook and a paper notebook and a book. It's awesome!

And then we got home only to turn around again and go out for awesome ice cream. They had pumpkin ice cream, and my day was made! (I eat pumpkin everything when I can find it, for the entire month of October, and most of November too. It is my favorite time of year.)

On our way back, we noticed that the stars were awesome, and demanded that Pat pull over somewhere with no lights. So we stopped in a little parking area beside the road and got out, and spent some time staring at the Milky Way and (mis)identifying constellations, until, lured by Jupiter, we wandered closer to the road and realized that we could stand on the side of the guard rail not facing the road. At that point, we decided (somehow) that the best idea was to stand there, creepily, until a car came by, and just stare at the sky. I have the feeling we either made someone's day or totally freaked them out, but it was fun.

I am now waiting for my vodka to cool off in the freezer so I can use some of it to make my back stop hurting, and about to wander off to abduct Caroline's desk long enough to transfer some stuff from Toshiko to Sarah Jane. (That's the netbook, in case you were wondering. Beka and I have a naming theme going on with all our electronics.) I can have my own music now! Well, some of it. Enough that I will not lose my mind. Huzzah!

EDIT: Okay, having gotten things off of my external, I can now officially say that Toshiko is the BEST THING EVER. OMG. *Gleefits* ...yes, I am this pleased by a little thing like an external hard drive.

Current Mood: happy

Today has been somewhat bizarre. Beka and I went to go see if there was anything Best Buy could do about my computer, and Jae came along so she could get some food with us. And... turned out we'd have to send the laptop out to get it fixed, and Jae, hearing that, decided to call and see if there was anything Tim could do to at least get some stuff off my hard drive before the laptop got sent away. Tim being... Tamora Pierce's spouse-creature.

So we abruptly decided to take a trip to Syracuse. There was a trip to the Best Buy up there, as Tim tried to see what he could work out, and there wasn't really anything to be done there either, but I at least got loaned a spare laptop to use until Gwen returns. And I got to meet Tammy's amazing herd of cats, and we watched Dr. Horrible with her and sang along and wow, today has been interesting.

The drive up to Syracuse was awesome, because there was the sunset and awesome storm clouds the color of a battleship and mountains and autumn and everything and it was just gorgeous. I kind of thought we might die on the way back, but (obviously) we did not.

I just may have to crash very soon, because I am exhausted. In a good way, though. Tomorrow, we acquire a storage unit so we can get rid of the trailer until we know where we're living - we may actually be looking for a place to stay in Syracuse temporarily until the college students in Ithaca move out for the semester and GIVE US SOMEWHERE TO LIVE.

...but there's ridiculous anime on and I don't want to go to sleep yet. Damn it.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Ghost Stories

I have failed at updating the past few days, and I'm sorry for that - it was mostly a result of generalized exhaustion, because driving on wet roads makes me tense and twitchy all day long. Luckily, it cleared up the last few days, and yesterday was lovely and bright and sunny.

We got to see

lionessvalenti in Ohio, and stayed the night at her grandmother's house. ...we didn't sleep much. Mostly, we stayed up talking about Torchwood and fandom, tried to write a little, and then... ended up putting on Countrycide, which was either a mistake or the best thing ever, because Tracey got a plotbunny of doom that I will be so very disappointed if she doesn't write.

And then we had a short drive to see

yetregressing, who is OMGSOTINEH and adorable and I kind of wanted to steal her and take her with us. ...but that would be wrong, as she has parents who would worry. ONE DAY.

Stayed an extra day in Alliance, because Beka didn't want to drive moar, which was fine except for halfway through the day there was a weird Silent Hill siren we could find no reason for. It was not a tornado siren. I know for sure there were no tornadoes that day.

And then... the trip through Pennsylvania and New York was kind of meant to take two days, but we got to where we were planning on stopping and weren't tired (also, we got confused by the disconnect between mile markers and exit numbers, and briefly thought we'd fallen through a tiny rift somewhere on the highway). We are in Ithaca now, and I'm not sure it's sunk in that we're done driving. I has a Jae and a Pat and a Pen, and we had adventures in Ithaca last night (with too many dots), and today Beka and I will poke around and find a place to live. Wish us luck!

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Jonas & Ezekial - Indigo Girls

So, for those of you who missed seeing it on

starletfallen's journal, we'll be moving to Ithaca, NY around the beginning of October. I am partly absolutely thrilled about this, because OMG East Coast and New York, I missed you, and even if it's not my city, it's close enough for visits and there is a

jaeled there and hey, another road trip when I've been getting wanderlust like crazy lately...

On the other hand, I'm more than a little heartbroken. I don't want to leave Jaqui, I just... Arizona is not the place I need to be, and I don't believe in staying for a person, even someone I love so fucking much.

...also, this means I'll be travelling on my birthday. I don't know if this is a good thing or terrifying. For those who don't know, I have a birthday curse second only to Buffy's. I've never had demon arms inna box or anything, but I do tend to end up in broken down cars a hundred miles from home. So. Heh. Um.

Then again, this road trip probably won't take as long as the last one, without so many long stopovers and snowstorms and concussions, so... Maybe we'll already be there by my birthday.

I keep wavering between bouncing ecstatically and wanting to burst into tears, so I think I'm just gonna drink my coffee, nest in the Doctor's playlist, finish voting for

writerinadrawer and... yeah. This happydepressed mood is confusing as hell, and I have no idea what to do with it.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: Call Me - Shinedown

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