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Yay for solstice!
Yay for the days starting to get longer ( Read more... ) -
Entertainment prompt
How has technology changed the way you watch movies and listen to music?One of the big changes is that since I listen to songs on my computer I have all these different artists and eras on the same playlist. It's not like when I had to pop an individual CD (or even cassette tape, back when there was no internet and we all wore cavebear skins) into ( Read more... ) -
Holiday LJ Prompt
From LJ's Writer's Block prompts: What is the most emotionally challenging aspect of the holidays for you? Do you enjoy this season more or less than you did as a child?These days the most emotionally challenging aspect of the holidays is time management and admitting I can't do everything in between Halloween and Christmas. My newly(ish) single ( Read more... ) -
Cocooning
I have had more family drama than usual this fall, and am sincerely glad it seems to be over.
I'm toying with some ideas for fanfic, but really all I have the motivation for right now is knitting. I have to finish x-mas presents. A week and a half to go! -
A Brief Overview of My Weekend at the Superhero Symposium
This weekend my former university hosted Understanding Superheroes: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Superheroes, Comics, and Culture, and I took a couple vacation days to attend with my roommates.
On Friday I was trying to decide whether I wanted to attend the panel on supervillains or the panel on sexuality in superhero comics. I chose to attend ( Read more... ) -
The thing about breaking up is...
... that whenever I talk to my Ex on the phone there is this awkward moment at the end of the conversation that is me catching myself and reminding myself not to say "I love you" like I would have if we were still together.
And really the thing about that is that it's still true.
(And I think he has the same awkward moment on his end.)
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It's my birthday, and I'll whine if I want to
Guess what I get to do for my birthday? I get to help my Ex (finally) move his stuff out of my house! (After two months! Seriously, the dude needs to get himself an exit strategy.)
Which is, you know, pretty fucking far down on the list of things I want to do on my birthday, especially considering that I spent my last birthday moving into this house ( Read more... ) -
Humor: coping mechanism of champions
I was hanging out with my roommates and some friends of ours and we were talking about the recent douchebag-y actions of another member of our social circle and someone said he was a "giant vagina ( Read more... ) -
Lifespan: Seven years and one month
My SO and I are calling it quits. It's been on the horizon for a while. He isn't romantically interested in me anymore, and there's nothing I can do about that ( Read more... )