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first, i need to share that last tuesday, so about a week ago, it was so hot i went to my sister's to take advantage of her a/c. i called her when i got home from work and was waffling about going over there - i wanted to keep packing! - and then my power went out. >.< which kind of decided it for me. i mean, if there's no power i can't run the fans and if i can't run the fans i'm going to melt. in the morning she drove me to the t station and after work i went home and continued to put things in boxes.

so yes. i'm all moved in. :D the movers came like fifteen minutes early - i was ready for them - i showed them around the place and said "everything goes except the ficus" because i wanted to put it in my car and they were very efficient and didn't have to take the legs off my couch to get it out the door! (the guys who moved me in did.) but did have to disassemble my bed and take the legs off my dining room table. it took them five hours and fifteen minutes to move all my shit. my sister came over to be moral support and after the movers were done she went back to the old place with me to eat lunch (we sat on the dining room floor because, you know, there was no furniture) and clean up. she cleaned the stove, i swept and wiped down the kitchen counters. there was A LOT of dust under my bed. O.O and then my roommate showed up to get rid of the plant pots on the back porch - why she didn't do it sooner i have no idea - we'd had this whole conversation last week about when i would be around and i thought she needed me to let her in because she'd turned in her key, but no. she still had it. so why did she have to come over when i was there? who knows! she's someone else's wtf-magnet now.

i tried to set up my internet and cable in the new place, failed utterly, and spent like an hour on the phone with comcast while they tried to fix it. (and failed utterly.) a tech was supposed to come today but is apparently coming tomorrow? and in the meantime i hooked into some free-floating unsecured wifi so i could get online today to get some work done. after comcast was unable to help me my sister and i went out for dinner, came home, discovered the internet had not magically turned itself on, she went home, i unpacked some clothes so i'd have something to wear. because sunday [livejournal.com profile] tamalinn had a birthday brunch (mexican food, delicious) and then we went to her house to play games and pet the dog, and after that i went to the grocery store - it's right around the corner from me! but i might still go to the store that's closer to the old apartment - and sat outside the coffeeshop that's near the aforementioned former grocery store and eventually went home.

because i couldn't count on the home internet i went in to work monday and tuesday, enjoyed the a/c, told fellow admins about the move, met the new admin (admin f) who replaced one of the admins c who just retired, tried to figure out the best commute. it takes longer than it used to and i'm at the mercy of the bus schedule but overall it's not bad. and i used to take the bus when i worked for tax people so it's not like this is totally unfamiliar.

so far i have unpacked:

a wardrobe box full of coats (like i need them in this weather :| )
a wardrobe box full of clothes and art
a wardrobe box full of random bedroom stuff
almost all my suitcases (except the one with my shoes in it) (see below)
dvd's
cd's (altho i seem to have lost a bunch of classical cd's)
silverware
kitchen knives (so i can cut up a lettuce for a giant salad)
the salad spinner (so i can wash the aforementioned lettuce)
two (2) cereal bowls
the teapot
all the bathroom stuff
a box of clothes and hangers

i have not unpacked:

a bowl large enough for the aforementioned salad
a can opener

...which is only important because i like chickpeas in my salad but i have no way to open the can. oy.

things i don't love:

there's no overhead light in the bedroom or the living room
it gets very dark in the bedroom without a light
there's not as much cross-breeze as i was hoping for
the ceilings are low
i can't put hooks over the top of the doors or the doors won't close

which mostly means i can't hang my shoe thing on the closet door if i want to close the closet door (which i do) but if i don't hang my shoes i don't know where to put them. the closet ain't that big. this will require some creative thinking. also another couple of lamps.

(there's no cross-breeze in the bedroom but there is in the kitchen! which is nice altho not helpful when i want fresh air to sleep in.)

i miss the front porch in the old place and i haven't met any dogs yet and it's very weird living alone and not having to share the kitchen or the bathroom and not having to deal with someone else's clutter. i haven't even unpacked enough to make my own clutter. it's also really quiet. every so often i can hear someone out in the hallway or outside and this afternoon i could hear someone vacuuming in the apartment next door but otherwise it's kind of like i have the whole building to myself. but so far i like this place. i think i'll stay. :D

in totally other news the old guard 2 (2 old 2 guard, mamma mia here we guard again) is out and i know this because gif sets are appearing on tumblr. no one tell me nothing. i don't want to know until i see it myself.

wednesday reads and things

Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:17 pm
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[personal profile] isis
What I've recently finished reading:

Lamentation by C.J. Sansom, the 6th Shardlake novel. This is all about the heresy hunts in the last few years before Henry VIII's death - one faction wanted to go back towards Catholicism, one wanted a radical re-imagining of religion and social structures, and if you wanted to stay in the regime's good graces, you walked the narrow path of "the King is the divinely ordained leader of the Church, and whatever he says goes." Warning for historical burning of heretics, plus canon-typical violence; also for weird religion and contentious legal cases. Matthew Shardlake still has a crush on the queen (Katherine Parr).

What I'm reading now:

My hold on Katherine Addison's The Tomb of Dragons came in, so that. Just barely started.

What I recently finished watching:

American Primeval, which, huh, I've never before encountered media in which the Mormons are the bad guys. (This is not a spoiler. It's pretty clear from the get-go, but it gets more pointed and cartoon-villainy toward the end.) Definitely violent and gory, though also it felt very clearly written to Tug The Heart Strings (and then, often, deliberately kill the character it's just tried to make you care about) at which at least for me it failed to do. I liked Abish, Two Moons, and Captain Edwin Dellinger, and James Bridger amused the hell out of me, but - I mostly enjoyed it, but I don't feel it was superlative. I got tired of the filter to wash out colors so it looked almost old-photo sepia.

I did enjoy the historical setting of the Mormon War; as I mentioned last time, I researched it for my Yuletide story, and I think it's just an interesting time, the settlement/colonization of western North America.

What I'm about to start watching:

Murderbot! We always wait until enough episodes are out that we can watch ~every other day and not have to wait.

What I'm playing now:

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which was recommended to me as a "spooky atmospheric puzzle game", and I'm enjoying it a lot. You play as a mysterious woman who has come to a mysterious hotel full of locked doors in what might be Germany in 1963, at the request of a mysterious man for reasons of ??? I told my brother about it because it's cheap in the summer sale at Steam, and he decided it sounded good so he is playing it now, a bit behind my progress but because of the nonlinearity he's ahead of me in some things. We're trying to give each other elliptical hints when needed.

ZhuBai picspam (sort of)

Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:35 pm
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I'd mentioned to [personal profile] mumblemumble making desktop wallpaper calendars from Zhu Yilong & Bai Yu photos, and to commemorate my 6th Guardianniversary here's a little picspam of what they have looked like.

Years 2020-2025 )

Venting

Jul. 2nd, 2025 05:01 pm
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A former co-worker called me last week. We were...work friends. We never socialized outside of work.
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.

She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.

This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.

She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.

I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Jul. 2nd, 2025 01:42 pm
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[personal profile] sage
books
Astrology for Yourself: How to Understand And Interpret Your Own Birth Chart by Demetra George, Douglas Bloch MA. Rev 2006. A bit outdated in terms of social examples, but the basics are sound.

not quite finished with: Chiron and the Healing Journey: An Astrological and Psychological Perspective by Melanie Reinhart. 2009 ed. Super creepy case studies, esp Jonestown, pre-De Klerk South Africa.

yarning
Didn't go to yarn group, though I was dressed, packed up, and ready to leave. I just couldn't get myself to get into the car and go. Or to work on the languishing bunnies on my own. It's true that crochet still hurts my shoulder and I haven't kept up my PT for it, but seeing people in person again would have been nice. And good for me.

healthcrap )

fandom
Interview with the Vampire S3 is filming, and my tumblr dash is full of pics. It's delightful. I watched Murderbot through 1.6 & haven't yet caught up with the most recent 2 eps. So excited, though, to read that Martha Wells is polishing the final edits on the new Murderbot novella!

astrology
I'm studying hard, and it feels really good to be learning (and relearning) so much again.

#resist
July 4: Independence Day Boycott/Free America Protest/Weekend of Community Events
July 17: Good Trouble Lives On Day of Action (in honor of John Lewis, who died 7/17/2000)

I hope all of y'all are doing well & we US-ians have a happy Fourth of July weekend! If you go to a protest/march, please be safe! <333
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The economic boycotts led by The People's Union USA for the month of July: Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks.

For more details, see this Newsweek article.
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One of those thrillers that splits the narrative between two women—both twenty years old, working at the same grubby motel and living in the same apartment, one in 1982 and the other in 2017 trying to solve the mystery of the first one's disappearance—and their stories run so parallel they're basically interchangeable and you start wondering if maybe the author should have only told the story once. It certainly would have cut down on the amount of clunky exposition and awkward dialogue.

The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.

Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.

Start July as you mean to go on

Jul. 1st, 2025 11:10 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
Technically this was yesterday, but I climbed a hill and had an eagle fly past me. (The hill is the Bodenburg Butte in Palmer, AK.)

Photo from a high vantage point, looking down on farms and fields stretching to blue mountains with their tops covered in clouds. Small figure of an eagle is visible against the clouds.

I realize the eagle is more like a dot, but if you've tried to take a quick photo of a bird, this is without zoom (I was just trying to snap a fast shot without completely losing the experience of having an eagle flying in front of me) so it is actually very close! After it flew past, I turned around and two teenage guys were standing above me, having just descended from the top and watched it too. "Sick," one of them said in obvious delight, and we nodded at each other.

I'm down in Southcentral doing Mom Things. Mom has been moved out of the rental where she was living since last August, and she was supposed to go home via helicopter today, but the weather was a problem. But that's why I reserved two extra days at the Airbnb beforehand, just in case. Tomorrow we try again! She was very respectful of my space today - I think she recognized that I was planning on having the evening to myself tonight and it didn't happen - and I wrote both fanfic and original fiction, and took a long walk to sort some plot things out in my head. Thursday I go home, and perhaps drive the Denali Highway on my way, if the wildfire smoke isn't too bad.

6 years

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:17 pm
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My 6th year Guardianniversary was a couple of days ago. ♥ I have a Guardian-adjacent post in mind but it requires some digging through folders and I haven't finished that yet.

Instead, today's post isn't about Guardian... but about a sus AO3 encounter )
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From this U.S. fangirl for Canada on today's Canada Day and every day: declaring my love and respect for the Great Sovereign Land of Canada.




Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.

(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
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[personal profile] amedia
DC-Slash is an online convention coming up at the end of July. We still have ONE DAY for people to make panel suggestions (https://www.dcslash.org/dc-slash-con/programming) and I for one would LOVE to see MOAR Asian Drama-related suggestions!!!

Read more... )
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Since I've been fighting a migraine for the last four days, I didn't think there was anyway I was going to finish my story by the [community profile] intoabar challenge deadline.

But somehow, I did!

So, here it is, Illya Kuryakin walks into a bar and meets...Bucky Barnes!

Two of my biggest fandom collide! I couldn't have picked a better pairing myself.

Title: Jazz and Vodka
Author: P.R. Zed
Word count: 8,879

AO3 Link


The assignment let me pull out a fragment I've had kicking around forever with young KGB agent Illya Kuryakin getting pulled in as a last minute replacement for the Winter Soldier's handler. Which turned it into a multi-timeline 8K mini-epic. (When I told him what my word count was looking like, my husband just said "Of course you did.")

Murderbot 1x08

Jun. 27th, 2025 10:09 am

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