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Ugh, work. Other people, why are they?

Last night, L met me for a quick drink after work to discuss my review, but of course, I was late because even though the board meeting happening this evening was originally scheduled for two weeks ago, nobody's slide deck was finalized. I don't even know. The meeting was originally scheduled for 3/14. How were the presentations not finalized until 5:20 pm on 3/29?

I mean, I get it. It's like uploading your yuletide story two weeks in advance and then deciding to rewrite the whole thing and suddenly not being finished at the deadline. But still, I find it really frustrating.

On the plus side, I was actually only 7 minutes late in the end, and the chicken fingers were excellent so it all worked out, despite my desperate annoyance with other people's inability to finish their stuff.

Then last night, I dreamt there was a Check, Please! update, but it was only available via Skype, and even though it was still a still comic, it was done as a slideshow with voiceover narration. I don't remember what actually happened, though.

Anyway, here are two links, one fun, one less fun (but still good for a little schadenfreude):
- 70 days in, Donald Trump’s presidency is flailing at Vox

and

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 year cast reunion photos at EW.

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Work is hectic so bullet points:

1. Last night I dreamt I was in a rooftop hot tub with Tyler Seguin. Sadly, Jamie Benn was not with him. But this morning, I texted devildoll and she was like, I ALSO DREAMT ABOUT TYLER SEGUIN. Great minds! *g*

B. I keep forgetting The 100 airs on Wednesday now, so I was busy detangling my hair* and by the time I realized it was on, I was like, ah, fuck it, I'm going to bed. I'll watch it tonight, on Thursday, as it is meant to be.

*not a euphemism

iii. Writing is hard! When I have the motivation I don't have the words, and when I think I have the words I don't have the time, and when I have the time, I don't have the motivation. It just keeps going round and round. Which is why it's vicious. And a circle.

d. Last night, I attempted this DIY lip balm gloss, though I cut it in half, and used 1/2 tablespoon of castor oil and 1/2 tablespoon of pomegranate seed oil instead of almond oil, which I don't have on hand (and am not planning on using because of my niece with the nut allergies), plus 1/4 tsp vitamin E oil and a 1/2 teaspoon of wild violet flare mica powder, which looked amazingly trippy (sparkly and purple like the universe!) when it was liquid, but solidified into a gray waxy blah. Not glossy at all! (I unfortunately did not take pictures.) Also I could actually see it solidifying. Which maybe tells you something about the temperature in my apartment. *snerk*

Otoh, since I made it, I've got to see how it actually feels, and it feels fantastic (maybe a little waxy at first? but I didn't wake up reaching for the chapstick so that's a plus). So maybe a different color and a little more of it next time? I still have other formulations to test out, though they are all basically the same, it's just swapping around the amounts of each oil, I guess, and finding a color that works. And I guess I can always melt down what didn't quite work and tinker until it does.

V. Three day weekend coming up! And it's supposed to warm up! I can't wait!

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I keep opening my wsip and then not writing. You know I'm lost when I start doing detailed descriptions of the landscape, because those are always the parts I skim over when reading other people's writing (also detailed descriptions of outfits and architecture). Maybe this weekend I'll get back in the swing?

My writing goal, such as it is, and as it has been for the past couple of years, is to finish and post one thing every month, and not beat myself up over lack of productivity. I feel like I was on a pretty good roll at the end of last year and now I've hit the slump. I know it will pass - it always does - but it's always so worrisome when I'm in it.

At least my brain gave me a nice dream about Keanu Reeves last night. *happy sigh* I really should watch John Wick.

In terms of things I did watch:

Steven Universe: The Zoo
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The 100: Echoes
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Five things make a post:

- I went and picked up my bakery boxes this morning and had a very easy bus ride in both directions. The weather is surprisingly warm - I was way overdressed and sweating like a pig in the store while I waited for them to bring up my order.

- tomorrow I will go buy ALL THE NUTS and also the fruit to make these candies (I already have ALL THE CHOCOLATE). Here is the current plan:
no nuts:

• cinnamon and coffee
  
• raspberry
  
• blueberry
  
• cranberry orange
  
• marshmallow
  
• mint

nuts:

• hazelnuts
  
• almond cherry
  
• macadamia nuts
  
• cranberry pecan
  
• peanut butter cups

I hope that's enough - I've got two new giftees on the list (they got other things last year) and also promised to bring some into work so I need to have a lot. I mean, last year it was a large amount too so I'm not that worried? But yeah. It's a lot.

- I'm still thinking about Rogue One, and gosh, I don't want to be that fan, but I'm also thinking a lot about Vader and these hilarious posts in light of some revelations in the movie (that last one is an update of the one I linked yesterday, all have Rogue One spoilers).

I don't know if I'm going to write fic with the Rogue One specific characters - I definitely need to see the movie again for that, I think - but I definitely want some backstory for all of them, so all y'all should get on writing that. (and I specifically mean Baze/Chirrut, Bodhi Rook, Jyn Erso, and Cassian Andor. I could not care less about any garbage space fascist who isn't Darth Vader.)

- I had anxiety dreams about work last night, specifically that I was let go without notice, and well, on the one hand, I'm on vacation so I don't want to think about work, but on the other, there are ~reasons I had that particular dream, I think, but I guess that should go under a lock, so at some point I will gird myself to write about everything that's going on at work. (Spoiler: as far as I know, in actual reality, my job is not actually in danger right now - at least not from the things I'm currently worried about and would be posting about [subnote: it's not anything I've done or haven't done; my bosses appear happy with me]; we get most of our funding from the Federal govt, so everybody's job is kind of in danger under the next administration, but that's not what's got me on edge right now.) Ugh, I hate to vague blog but the whole thing is too lengthy and boring to go into right now. If you remember my previous posts, it's the same situation but more of it.

- Attempt number 4 at this yuletide treat will be underway shortly. I know there's a story there, but so far I've started too early and too late and from the wrong angle, so hopefully this time I will have figured it out. *hands*

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Last night, I dreamt that Ewan McGregor was actually the devil in disguise and he went around seducing people for their souls and I woke up and thought:

1. that's hilarious because didn't he just play Jesus in a movie recently? and

2. it would totally explain how one man could be so ridiculously charming. I mean, my tumblr tag for him is #so fucking charming. I'm just saying. I would totally let myself be seduced by Ewan McGregor, even at the cost of my soul. Who wouldn't?

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Star Wars Rebels: An Inside Man
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Speaking of Rogue One, in the twenty minutes between my getting the email that tickets were on sale and my purchasing tickets (i.e., the time it took for L. to get back to me that she didn't really want to go), the 84th Street theater with the recliners was sold out for the Friday night 8 pm show. So I bought a ticket for Saturday at 2 pm. But then I discovered that the theater in my neighborhood wasn't sold out, so I did get a Friday night ticket after all. (I can't go Thursday because that night I have to bake for the office holiday potluck on Friday.) So I'll be seeing it both Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Hopefully it warrants it.

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Last night I dreamt that Keith Hernandez bought me a wok and taught me to how to make chicken stir fry. Idek.

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Oh man, I had the worst dream last night: I was watching the new Gilmore Girls episodes on Netflix and Rory got kidnapped and brainwashed by death cultists, and then Emily was gunned down at a random Stars Hollow town affair, and everything was terrible! I was like, THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR ASP! and then at the end of the episode, Lorelai woke up and was like, "Whew, I'm glad that was all a dream!" and I was like, SOMEHOW THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT ANY BETTER. And then I woke up and was like, "That would never happen!"

*narrows eyes at NetFlix and Amy Sherman Palladino*

That better not happen!

I mean, I realize I still harbor some *cough*a lot of*cough* residual bitterness about how my comfort show turned on me the last couple of seasons, but I didn't think I'd be having anxiety dreams about it!

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What the weather forecast says: Scattered showers
What the weather forecast means: It will rain only if/when you decide to go outside, especially if you don't bring an umbrella.

Now that I'm back at my desk, it's sunny out. Sigh.

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I mentioned this on tumblr, but not here. Tuesday night I dreamt that Blue and Ronan opened a detective agency, and also Ronan dreamed up self-baking pie tins - you just had to put in the crust and the filling and the pie would bake to perfection without an oven.

I guess my unconscious would like a Raven Cycle/Pushing Daisies crossover?

Either way, I would read a million words of Sargent & Lynch, Private Investigators, with or without self-baking pies. You should totally write that.

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Four things make a post:

1. I have been enjoying the terrible reviews of Batman vs. Superman so much. SO MUCH. I know that this movie is going to make bank regardless but if terrible reviews and poor word of mouth means it fails to meet internal box office projections and has a severe dropoff after its opening weekend, I will be pleased, because ugh. I just went back and looked at my post about Man of Steel and god I was SO KIND to it, considering my memory of seeing it basically consists of me going "Wtf?" at the screen for most of the movie and then ranting afterwards about how it didn't understand SUPERMAN AT ALL (L. and I went to Shake Shack and sat outside! I remember it clearly!) and from what I've cobbled together from these reviews it sounds like Batfleck does the best he can with what he's given, but ( Collapse ) Which sounds like they don't understand Batman at all either. Wonder Woman is either shoehorned in or one of the few good things in the film. (I'm choosing to believe the latter.)

Why would you put the MOST ICONIC SUPERHEROES IN EXISTENCE* in the hands of people who don't like (Goyer) or don't understand (snyder) them? WHY?

*Man, I don't care if you're a Marvel fan who hates DC, or if you don't care about superheroes at all, NO ONE is more ICONIC than Batman and Superman. They're just not.

Links to reviews I enjoyed, for them as wants 'em:
- AV Club
- Hitfix (even more amazing since the reviewer apparently loved MoS)
- Deadspin
- Collider
- Vox

2. Speaking of superheroes, Arrow: Broken Hearts
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3. Star Wars Rebels
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4. Speaking of Star Wars, last night I dreamt that Anakin was split into Light Side Anakin and Dark Side Anakin, a la that one Star Trek episode, and it took Padme a few minutes to figure it out and then Ahsoka showed up and was like, "WTF?" and Padme was like, "play along until 'real' Anakin shows up" (Padme thought it was a clone) and he did and then I woke up so I don't know what happened. But I would totally read a story where that happened, so if you know of one, drop me a link.

ETA: I remember the fifth thing now! I knew I originally had five but couldn't remember but it was RIP Ken Howard! White Shadow was a pretty formative TV influence for me as a kid, and also he was Jefferson in 1776!

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As you may know, my apartment is unfortunately drafty (due to a wall-mounted air conditioner in the bedroom that is not properly sealed), so it is cold as fuck in here today. It was nice and toasty under the covers, but I can't spend all day in bed.

In order to avoid going out during this cold weather, I purchased a bottle of that premade Starbucks vanilla latte drink they sell in the supermarket (well, sometimes; I've only seen it rarely) and it costs $6 for 40oz, which is only a dollar more than my usual iced latte costs daily, so it seemed like a good deal. It is, of course, disgustingly sweet, but it gives me caffeine without having to go out into the frigid weather and also without having to deal with coffee grounds after cold brewing, so I'm calling it a win.

Yesterday, I caught up on all the Tuesday night tv I missed:

Brooklyn Nine Nine: The 9-8
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The Flash: Welcome to Earth 2
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Agent Carter: The Atomic Job
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Last night, I dreamt that Natasha was around in the 50s and she had ScarJo's current short haircut and she and Peggy were both dressed in really sharp men's suits as they tried to seduce each other in a Spy vs. Spy thing and it was super hot. Someone should write that for me.

iZombie: Physician, Heal Thy Selfie
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So that was a lot of highly enjoyable TV.

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