highrise living for a joke like me

As of 11:15p:

18 fic in
15 extensions granted (4 already in)
pinch hitter found (we'll see if I need more)

My fic is in.

*breathes*

Now I get to read the one green_grrl wrote for me.

(Also, I hate my mother, but that's not exactly news.)

- Dragon*Con: I'll post my pictures, but I've decided that giving a complete rundown of my weekend will likely piss someone off, and I don't really feel the need to rehash it anyway. This one you can ask me about if you want.

- the whole Roman Polanski thing. If you don't know my opinion of the situation, you don't know me, and it can't be good for my blood pressure to write about it in depth.

- filling out paperwork for new doctor I'll be seeing in November, and the fact that having to put my medical history down on paper is fucking depressing.

- the fact that I'm theoretically finished with my involvement with UMD Vagina Monologues (even though I expect S and crew to call me once a week to ask me questions), and it's making me kind of sad.

- the fact that winter is coming and I am perpetually cold.

- the fact that I pretty much hate my life right now, including, but not confined to: my only social life these days is confined to going places with my parents; how much I hate going to class, even the classes I'm theoretically enjoying; etc.

Less depressing content later.

...and decided to change my layout. I'm not sure it'll stay this way, since it has these annoying empty bars on the sides that I can't figure out how to get rid of.

Also, LJ being slow or is it just me?

Yesterday, my mother and I donated five bags of toys to Interfaith Clothing Centers, which is pretty much what the name is. They gather clothing, toys, and school supplies and then give them out to local families in need through a network of religious institutions. I've got another bag of toys, plus at least three bags of clothes to go through and drop off, possibly as soon as next weekend, plus a whole pile of old board games and things in the dining room.

I'm also prepping furniture and baby things to give to A Wider Circle, which focuses on getting families--especially new families--settled with the things they need to make a home. Finally, all this "junk" that's been sitting around my house can be repurposed and given to someone who can use it.

Also went driving yesterday. I'm slowly getting better with this; it would help if I actually practiced more often. :(

I'm still playing catch-up with classwork stuff. I have some seventy pages to read and take notes on for history, plus three powerpoints, and twenty pages to read for art history. And I'm waiting for the music prof to get back to me with the powerpoints I missed. All I can say is yargh.

Oh, and I quit my job on Friday. Retail hell would have been survivable, but I really didn't appreciate being shat on regularly because I was the newest employee. The 'rents are already paying for all the necessities--which all I'm spending, anyway, now that D*C is over--so I'm not really hurting for money. And considering how my mental state has been, I'm not ready for the added stress that particular job was causing. Maybe I'll resume the hunt in a few weeks.

Once I'm caught up for the semester, there will be fic. I have a collection of short things that are close to done that I intend to pick off one by one. And not just Stargate; there's Harry Potter and original stuff on that list, as well as crossovers such as An Apple a Day and the Stargate/X-Files one I mentioned at the D*C general fanfic panel. I'm going to do my own Bunny Euthanasia Project this October, in the hope of clearing my To Write list and bringing it down to manageable sizes.

I do intend to finish my stargate_summer on my own, rather than wait until next year. Quick opinion poll: The first part is already done, and the second will be done soon. Do people want me to post in installments--knowing that this is not some endless WIP--or just wait until it's all done?

got home last night, safe if not sound. more details to follow.

I have bad handwriting. Really bad handwriting.

Don't believe me? This is a scan of a to-do list I made for today:



For those who need translation, it says:

move laundry
text A re: schedule
write something
move Scholls to Allstars
check ACES
rebox TVM shirts + shit

Admittedly, I wrote this last night, after the meds had kicked in and I was falling over from the combination of meds and previous lack of sleep. It's still funny, though.

Busy day yesterday and today:

Yesterday:
~ send Beat the Geek tests in
~ put up jd_ficathon sign-up post and pimp
~ remove all tags from new work clothes
~ clean room
~ pay for fall classes
~ go to Israeli bond office and get check for most recent matured bond (money will pay 'rents back for classes, and then part is going into a CD)
~ send e-mail to stargate_summer beta

Today:
~ make cards for people already signed up for jd_ficathon (we've got ten people already!)
~ watch Star Trek: First Contact so it can be returned
~ clean desk
~ call the Maryland Comptroller's Office again (they're very, very stupid)
~ shower
~ make limeade
~ wash floors
~ lots of laundry

Today was Mum's birthday (I can't tell you how old she is or else I'll have to kill you), so we took her out to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and then for dinner. I also gave her the butterfly cross stitch I'd made; it's not framed yet, but hopefully now I'll be able to get the supplies. I also took pictures as I worked on it, and once it's all done I'll be posting the pictures for everyone's edification/amusement.

I'm more than a little bit of a purist when it comes to movie versions of books, especially the Harry Potter books. I have been...less than pleased with them thus far. I'm not any more pleased with this one (well, more than the last one), but I had a revelation:

I've mentioned the ficathon RemixRedux (at remixredux09 this year, and the archive, including my fic, just opened up anonymously [see what I did there?]). Basically, the gimmick is that you take a fic written by someone else and remix it: rewrite it from a different perspective, focus on a subplot, rearrange the order, etc. And I think that this is exactly what they've been doing with the films. Focusing and expanding the bits they want, ignoring the bits they don't.

It's convinced me to stop picking them apart, at least. :)

Went driving today, including a little time on some bigger streets. I'm still having trouble with stopping smoothly at stop signs, but I'm getting better. Mum and I are going to try going back out again tomorrow and working on parking. I'm still not entirely sure where the car is around me, especially when parking, but at least I can pull into parking spots and be mostly inside the lines.

I've also filled out three more job applications, one online and two that I'll be dropping off on Monday. I'm cautiously optimistic about one of them, but I'm not really getting my hopes up.

Got run around in circles a bit when I did the application for [local community college], but I am now applied, for the Fall '09 semester. We'll see what happens re: classes, etc, once I actually get in.

Got run around even worse trying to sort out some tax things for the Monologues. I think I have it tentatively sorted (I'm now waiting for a letter thanking us for our donation from the Victim's Advocate on campus, but then we'll be good), but it was an annoying experience. The first person I talked to at the comptroller's office gave me the wrong number to call, so I wound up stuck in the health department's phone tree for a bit, and then when I called the comptroller's office again, I got kicked off the line when I was on hold three times. And when I finally did talk to someone, she was incredibly rude. But at least she transferred me to the right person.

Then I called the FACT Rx people (something that's part of this program I was signed up for as part of my health insurance), and they're really stupid. Basically, the part of it that I'm interested in is theoretically a discount on all prescription medications. However, each individual pharmacy sets the discount for each drug, and there's no standardized list anywhere. So I have to actually go to CVS with the card and see if the discount I might get on the med that isn't covered by my insurance is more than the 25 bucks a month this program costs me. Early guesses say 'no'.

After that Mum took me driving, and after we went to the mall to grab more job applications (people aren't hiring, but they are "accepting applications" :( ). Went to Target to try to get pajama pants, but they didn't have any at all in my size, though they had smaller and larger. And then I was going to get myself bubble tea while Mum was at Starbucks, and I realized that I'd left my wallet on my desk when I took it out to pay the community college's application fee.

It's amazing how frustrating today was, and how much I still managed to get done.