The Unused Page

This journal is now friends only. Comment here to be added.

ETA: I have decided to unlock most of this journal; a few entries will still be flocked, but most of my ramblings will now return to public status. :)

I felt like I needed to post here to show off my new OTW Member icon!  Ao3 has become so much more awesome over the years since I first became a member; if you haven't done so, please contribute to their current fundraising campaign.  I know we all use the Archive so much these days, so please support such a great feature.  /PSA

God, this has been the week from crazy-land.  Monday was the October bank holiday, which sounds good, but just meant that I lost a day of work with a loan closing coming up next week.  Then, my co-worker is in Europe for a week, so I got dragged along on two site visits, for which I had to get up around 4 AM on both Tuesday and Thursday.  I didn't leave the office until after 9 PM last night, so I'm dead tired.  But!  In spite of the craziness, still loving the job.  And I'm going to visit family this coming weekend, so that will hopefully go well.

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 Well, here we are again, people flocking to DW since LJ and the Russian mob are back at it. Perhaps this migration will be more complete and we can just stay here. We'll see.  I'll try to connect with all my friends here over the weekend. 

ETA: This was a much faster and easier import than the last mass exodus!  I'm falling in love with all my old icons that went inactive when I gave up my paid account, and the fandoms that gave rise to them.  I wish I had something witty or clever to contribute, but these days I use up all my brain power at work.  
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So, since updating via iPad is such a pain, I've...kind of not?  However, I have recently purchased an actual computer again, mainly so I can finish work at home instead of in the office (though, our office is so goofy, that hasn't worked out yet), so--update!

The job is really interesting, but a very big challenge.  There's a lot of math involved, which has never been my subject, so I'm really having to stretch myself.  Also, most of my coworkers are political idiots, but I try to ignore that (not easy).  However, they pay me well and I'm mostly enjoying it.  I've become very well acquainted with Excel these days, since that's what we do our underwriting in.  I'm sure absolutely no one but me has any interest in that, though, so I'll stop there.

I'm mostly trying to ignore the absolute shame of this country right now, so I won't want to either kill myself so as not to be witness to the end of our democracy and human decency (which would suck), or figure out if there are assassins who would hit the entire capital on inauguration day (very tempting, in the you'll thank me later sense).  It is not a good time to be an American.

(On a side note, my brand new computer features the right shift button on the outside of the up arrow key, meaning I keep hitting the up arrow instead of capitalising things.  Irritating.)

My parents have had a hard time of it this year; they went to Canada in July and my mom ended up fracturing her pelvis in two places, then on Monday my dad had to have his hip replaced.  They're doing well now, but it's been a process.  A long process.

I guess my life is pretty boring otherwise; I'm getting ready for my choral society's series of Christmas concerts starting tomorrow, although it won't be quite as fun as it should be since the director cut all my favourites!  :(

Hopefully there's actually still someone who bothers to read this...

So, I'm out getting lunch, and I pass a woman who had the stupidest tattoo I think I've ever seen: a semicolon behind her ear. Nothing else, just the random punctuation mark. If you're going to mark up your body, shouldn't it at least mean something important? Sigh.

ETA: Thanks, wings128, for pointing me toward http://www.upworthy.com/have-you-s… to show that it's actually for a great cause: suicide prevention.  So, my faith in humanity restored for the day, I sit corrected!

Filched from wings128, who posted the loveliest bookcase I've yet seen and challenged us to post our own bookcases, here is the messy shelves as seen from my bed at home.



You'll totally notice the many books crammed sideways on top of others when I ran out of room--these are just my favourites to re-read. There are a few others in my spare room and downstairs. Can't own too many books, after all.

So, after several days, my answers to the meme from wings128:

The first ten songs on my iPod's shuffle in order:

1. Got A Hold On Me - Hanson
2. Maybe World - Mary Chapin Carpenter
3. Anvil Chorus - Glenn Miller
4. Firefly-Main Title - Sonny Rhodes
5. In The Mood - Glenn Miller
6. Hey - Hanson
7. Invincible - OK Go
8. American Patrol - Glenn Miller
9. Been There Before - Hanson
10. Flesh and Bone (Battlestar Galactica Season 1) - Bear McCreary

Awesome, my drive to work in the morning will be filled with good music, looks like.

Um, I don't know ten people on LJ anymore, so whoever sees this and feels compelled to answer, consider yourselves tagged?

Happy birthday, wings128! Hope it's a great one!

I realised all my fairies/wizardesses/whatevers were looking more like Wings, so here's one that's more Rhia (plus some extra elf guy).



They let the females have much better fashion sense in this game.

Hopefully this post turns out properly from my iPad... I had to try the adorable fairy from wings128!

ETA: As mentioned in a comment below, the LOTR-themed wizards.



ETA 2: game here