The Weekly Update with... well, me
Aug. 25th, 2007 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
And I thought I'd get more time online once I went solo again. *sigh* For your convenience, I give you lists of the week's doings.
1. I am melancholy, and very nearly 23. These facts are connected largely by a third: this will be my first birthday with no family participation. Everybody's been crazy getting my sister and I situated these last few weeks, and I don't have time to drive home, and I don't have the heart to make anyone drive here... end result: not so much with the birthdayness. In the meantime, I keep trying to convince the Mom that I'm fine, and not at all bummed, because there's not a thing she could do about it except feel guilty, which I'm trying to avoid at all costs. Oh well. Next year.
Tonight, I will light candles around the house and maybe bake brownies. Well, maybe not. It's kind of hot here. Hm. The point remains that there will be confections and open flame. The traditions of natal celebration will be hereby upheld.
Thus endeth the pity party. *g*
2. Still no luck with the soulless bastards who control net access. I'm getting creative about this whole thing, though. Earlier this week, I wound up at Borders to do the daily check in, and the place has exactly one well designed seat for computer use, located next to an outlet. I was not in that seat. My power was on its last legs. I ended up camped out in the aisle between pregnancy texts and tomes on New Age self-actualization. Let me tell you, you haven't lived until you've downloaded slash while hippies and pregnant women circulate around you.
3. Also entertaining this week: sheep wrestling for the short! There is, it seems, a trick to getting a sheep to behave itself for inspection/medically necessary prodding. It involves lifting the head and straddling the shoulders. Our problem - my lab partner's and mine - was that we were in the final group to attack the sheep. We got the rejects; those that were too ornery, large, or otherwise wily to be cornered earlier. And then we grabbed a fine specimen showcasing all of these qualities. And then I found out that, while I could in fact straddle said sheep, it was a little bit difficult to keep the head up when my feet wouldn't stay down. It was somewhere around lap 2 of the holding pen and the beginning of my career as a mutton buster that I realized I might be in for a difficult time. *g*
4. There is no four. There was going to be, but then I forgot. Sorry.
5. Still open for any and all recs. They make my cable-less, internet challenged world go round. I am not an addict. I can stop any time I want. No, really. *looks shifty*
6. How are you?
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Date: 2007-08-26 01:02 am (UTC)2. you haven't lived until you've downloaded slash while hippies and pregnant women circulate around you.
Well, it must have been a unique experience, to say the least. (Same thing goes for the sheep wrestling. :D)
5. Um, well, you can always check out my memories. The latest fics I've read and loved are here (most recent at the bottom) and here.
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From:You are my sunshine my only sunshine
Date: 2007-08-26 01:49 am (UTC)at my mom's on a lap top
you've never lived until you realize that you have walked away with the WRONG THING open on the desktop
this link is NSFW!!!
http://www.caffiends.net/viewstory.php?sid=297&textsize=0
seriously i was in the mood for either crackfic or badfic whichever you want to call it
snape/ malfoy, get sort of married, and lots of SPANKING
BAHAHHAAH
sheep and *snerk*
ahem
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Date: 2007-08-26 02:24 am (UTC)a) Thank You For Flying Church of England -- you like the title, you'll probably like the fic.
b) The New Atlantean Dictionary of Literary Terms -- you like the title, you know the rest, eh ;)
And if and only if you have read Deathly Hallows and wanted further commentary upon its treatment of the Four Houses, behold: Maya's Last HP Fic.
c) Coda to an Epilogue: Twenty Years Later, Or, The Kids Are All Right.
Hope they please.
HAPPY HAPPY
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Date: 2007-08-26 02:26 am (UTC)1. Happy couple hours 'til your birthday, you! I actually do have a card 'n' stuff to send you, despite the handicap of not knowing exactly where you are right now. Candles and brownies are good. In FACT, I might make some brownies in your honour (and cos I want some). The lack of family thing does kind of bite, especially the first time, but such is life. :\
2. I've experienced hippies, pregnant women and, mostly thanks to you ( :p ) slash, but never more than two at a time. I can hardly imagine...
3. *snort* I dunno, something about the fact that someone I know, and consider a dear friend, was in a situation where she was forced to wrangle with sheep... it's great.
4. It'll come to you late at night. These things usually do.
5. Still don't have much experience in this arena. Though I'm curious if you've ever run into
6. Not bad! My apartment is finally clean -- it took about 9 days, but I feel I've accomplished something. Of course, now I'm not entirely sure what to do (I don't have cable either), but I'll figure out something.
Anyway, again -- happy birthday! And call me for chrissakes, woman! I'll take a few minutes if that's all you've got. :)
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From:no subject
Date: 2007-08-26 05:50 am (UTC)Ok, this makes me mostly early still then, which is a change from being late. Happy Birthday you. :) *sqqqqqqueezze*
I've done many a birthday on my own, in fact my 21st birthday was celebrated by me eating dinner and reading a novel. Such a riveting person I am. Just think, there will be many more of them with people around and well, do something nice for yourself even if the family can't be there. Certainly they are thinking of you.
*snerk* Ah, the joy of sheep wrangling. I remember doing that. I also remember being dragged around the shed by said sheep because I was at that point a light thing and could be dragged. Now the sheep would probably put its back out. Perhaps I should go into sheep wrangling? Clearly, this would be a good job prospect with a history degree.... apart from the fact that sheep are kinda making no money and we are in a drought.. but meh.
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