It's time to update again already??

[evangeline1138]

I decided last month that I may as well take a minimum wage PT job to get me back into the swing of having to be somewhere on time again. I applied for a Note Taker's position (going to class and taking notes for disabled students) at the local community college and was astonished that they hired me for (a whopping) 5 hours per week. The good thing

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hey

[pittsburghgirl]

*pounce tackle*

where the hell have you been?

i missed you

Re: hey

[evangeline1138]

*squash* I've missed you, too!

RL was just very overwhelming there for awhile. The kidlet was sick (sinus infection, allergies) for a couple of months, going through *4* antibiotics before he was able to kick it, so he was home with me most of the time. That left little time for computer stuff after taking care of him and the house and online surfing/classifieds scanning for a job. There were a few other things going on, too, but I'm tired of thinking about it all. *weary smile* It's all better now (besides the van).

Re: hey

[pittsburghgirl]

oh yeah, i hate that stop short stuff
teaching the girl how to drive-she ran over a tree stump last week, cost us a new passenger front tire-which my husband ruined the week before-luckily-we had road hazzard on the tires.

good to hear from you-sorry about the rug rat
email me sometime and let me know how you is
pittsburghgirl73@hotmail.com

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[evangeline1138]

Oy! Poor tire! *g* The important thing is that everyone's okay, though. (That's what I tried to point out to the hubby after hearing his little "asides" about my driving once too often.)

Thanks for the addy! Mine is evangeline1138 at cox.net. You might want to go back and edit your comment to spread out your e-mail addy the way I just did with mine. You never know when a robot is gonna pick up your addy from the web....

[daisycm83]

And I still haven't betaed daisycm83's little personal piece. I'm sorry, Chris. I know you keep telling me to take my time, but I've never taken this long to get around to anything before (that I offered to do for someone else) and I'm worried it will only get worse. This does not bode well for the New Year! *makes face* At least I'm updating, though. That counts for something, doesn't it? Doesn't it? *sniffles*

Awe, it does, sweetie. No worries. *hugs*

[evangeline1138]

Thanks. *smile* I think I needed to hear that again.

[angst_angel]

where past subjunctive with the verb 'be' is used with 'was' instead of 'were,'

Grr, that bothers me, too. *g* And I admit that I'm really bad with the comma before "too" because even though I know that it's supposed to be there, I'm a)too lazy to type it, and b)my train of thought often runs so quickly that there doesn't seem to be a pause(comma). If that makes sense. ;)

Good luck with the job(s)! :)

[evangeline1138]

my train of thought often runs so quickly that there doesn't seem to be a pause(comma)Y'know, it's kinda strange. Even though I'm sort of complaining about the 'too w/o a comma' thing, I know I've read and betaed fic before where it just seemed *right* to leave the comma off. I guess it's the whole 'where does correctness in grammar end and creativity begin' argument. I always have to struggle with that when writing or betaing. It can be such a fine line. I find that fanfic writers on average are much more free about using punctuation and wording to their advantage when being creative; they seem to be much less bound to the rules we learned in school than authors who are published by large companies. Stephen King and a few others ignore a lot of those conventions, but most don't. I find that rather refreshing most of the time, but in the case of bad!fic writers (of which I may be one *g*), not so much. LOL! I'm sure that a lot of fanfic writers out there are totally ignorant about grammar, but many are not, and choose to use

[angst_angel]

Oh, how I do love a good fic like that--I have a strange predilection for the twistedandangstybutohsolovely stuff. :D Thank you for the recs, hon. Which one of liv's did you want to mention?

[evangeline1138]

I have a strange predilection for the twistedandangstybutohsolovely stuff

Ditto. And Amen!

Thank you for the recs, hon.

You're welcome. I love talking fic with friends.

Which one of liv's did you want to mention?

Well, I love all of Liv's fic, but my favorites are: Dislocated People, Not Talking Not Touching, and Eating Angel Cake (which is still there ATM). I was going to mention the first one because it, more than any of hers, has that sort of 'stream of consciousness' flow of words from the character's mind into the reader's. I've read other fic that uses that device, but none so effectively as this one. I also read a SW fic the other day that used it nicely, too, but Dislocated People is the first fanfic I read like that, and will always be the best (IMO).

[venom69]

*huggles her Twinnie tightly* I hope to see you on soon!

[evangeline1138]

*sob* I fell asleep last night when the kidlet and I settled down to watch SG! I use that ploy sometimes at night when he doesn't seem sleepy at all; I put it on and he doesn't understand enough to follow it, so he falls asleep. Sometimes it backfires on me if I'm really tired, though, and I fall asleep, too. After all, I *have* seen every single episode at least three times!

Anyhoo, I'm gonna try (again!) to chat tonight....

[venom69]

*huggles* It's ok twinnie.

Hope to see you online tonight then!

[evangeline1138]

I'm going to try to chat for a few minutes now. We'll see how long I can before kidlet comes running for the computer again. (He's playing Game Cube with his dad.) Hope to see ya on MSN....