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jade_sabreALRIGHTY LJ
NOBODY IS POSTING (INCLUDING ME)
who actually still visits this site on a regular basis? And what, exactly, is that regular basis? This is just me being curious I'm not going to go anywhere and half of us are also Facebook friends but you know.
ALSO if you are not spending time here, are you spending it on another site, or are you too busy being consumed with ~*~real life~*~?
also I am trying to decide which project I should work on over this whole nine-month deployment thing. I am slowly getting more settled and accepting that This Is My Life ("yeah! I spent the majority of my first year of marriage apart from my husband! so much for 'alone time before having children'" mostly I jest but it is partially true sob) and soonce I beat ME2 and then ME3 and Kaidan comes back and tells me he's sorry and he loves me and I can say IT'S OKAY, I LOVED YOU ALL ALONG much to Quark's disgust as that happens and I get on a schedule (studying Old English? Who has to study for a...language course...sob) I will be WRITING and I have to finish Godbaby fic
(snippet NO STEALING: The pounding grows quieter. I am afraid to look over the wall, and I do not know why. I have only ever spoken to Mother and to the elves. Mother taught me a greeting, but I do not know if the girl—if it is a girl—will understand me. And she is only one person, and Mother told me to find a town. I think that if I wait, she and the animals will go away. I am good at sitting still for hours, at hiding from the sight of those around me. I will wait.
The grass itches at my hands, but I do not move. The smell of the animals is strong and unpleasant, but I do not cough. The sun becomes brighter and brighter in the sky, and sweat drips into my eyes, and I barely blink. I am not here, I think. I think of nothing else.)
but also I want to work on a novel so that WP has something to read that is my fanfiction. Top choices are Goblin Novel (probably he would like it best, but it needs serious serious work because I wrote it during first semester senior year which was INSANE and Pictash spends a lot of time in a library doing research) and 2010 NaNo That Went Nowhere (the two main characters don't have names, also they are basically a younger version of Nevalle and Tanithar) (her name is either Theresa or Tabitha, but Tabitha is too close to Tanithar and I don't like the way Theresa looks, though I like the sound of it) (anyway it's my Generic Fantasy Novel in the same way that the Goblin Novel is my Subversion of the Generic Fantasy Novel). SUGGESTIONS WELCOME.
okay okay time to go eat lunch and borrow Quark's shower and pay my rent and get a library card WOOT.
♥
eta: MY UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR IS WATCHING SLEEPING BEAUTY is it wrong to want to knock on their door and tell them how cool they are. (Actually I think they have small children, but still. This has made my early afternoon.)
NOBODY IS POSTING (INCLUDING ME)
who actually still visits this site on a regular basis? And what, exactly, is that regular basis? This is just me being curious I'm not going to go anywhere and half of us are also Facebook friends but you know.
ALSO if you are not spending time here, are you spending it on another site, or are you too busy being consumed with ~*~real life~*~?
also I am trying to decide which project I should work on over this whole nine-month deployment thing. I am slowly getting more settled and accepting that This Is My Life ("yeah! I spent the majority of my first year of marriage apart from my husband! so much for 'alone time before having children'" mostly I jest but it is partially true sob) and so
(snippet NO STEALING: The pounding grows quieter. I am afraid to look over the wall, and I do not know why. I have only ever spoken to Mother and to the elves. Mother taught me a greeting, but I do not know if the girl—if it is a girl—will understand me. And she is only one person, and Mother told me to find a town. I think that if I wait, she and the animals will go away. I am good at sitting still for hours, at hiding from the sight of those around me. I will wait.
The grass itches at my hands, but I do not move. The smell of the animals is strong and unpleasant, but I do not cough. The sun becomes brighter and brighter in the sky, and sweat drips into my eyes, and I barely blink. I am not here, I think. I think of nothing else.)
but also I want to work on a novel so that WP has something to read that is my fanfiction. Top choices are Goblin Novel (probably he would like it best, but it needs serious serious work because I wrote it during first semester senior year which was INSANE and Pictash spends a lot of time in a library doing research) and 2010 NaNo That Went Nowhere (the two main characters don't have names, also they are basically a younger version of Nevalle and Tanithar) (her name is either Theresa or Tabitha, but Tabitha is too close to Tanithar and I don't like the way Theresa looks, though I like the sound of it) (anyway it's my Generic Fantasy Novel in the same way that the Goblin Novel is my Subversion of the Generic Fantasy Novel). SUGGESTIONS WELCOME.
okay okay time to go eat lunch and borrow Quark's shower and pay my rent and get a library card WOOT.
♥
eta: MY UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR IS WATCHING SLEEPING BEAUTY is it wrong to want to knock on their door and tell them how cool they are. (Actually I think they have small children, but still. This has made my early afternoon.)
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Date: 2012-09-03 06:22 pm (UTC)Also he's been using the laptop a lot of webdesign work, so I am often booted off of it. Still here, and I promise I will make an effort to interact more!
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Date: 2012-09-04 03:19 pm (UTC)WP and I bought him a new laptop at Best Buy right before he left, and it really wasn't that bad price-wise for what you got--and we didn't even bother shopping online or looking for deals (it was sort of a "two days before he got deployed crap crap your laptop is seven years old and going to die as soon as you get over there" decision), so I bet y'all could find something that would work! Also I am glad to hear that he's doing webdesign work. That's awesome!
BEAR AS ALWAYS I LOVE YOU FOR YOUR OPEN AND UPBEAT SPIRIT AND YOUR DEVOTION TO YOUR ARTS AND ALSO YOUR UNDYING LOVE FOR YOUR PUPPY DOG I think it is so awesome that y'all rescued him and he turned to out to be PERFECT for you and that he makes you so happy. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-19 05:15 pm (UTC)the laptop caveat is that is has to run Creative Suite and therefore that rules out a lot of the cheapy ones :( owell
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Date: 2012-09-03 07:12 pm (UTC)And tumblr has been where everyone has moved to. Because it is tumblr.
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Date: 2012-09-03 09:49 pm (UTC)/fogey
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-04 02:34 pm (UTC)It's *not* the best website for communication. But it is the best website for getting a general sense of what everyone feels about something immediately/finding out new information/seeing pretty pictures/ego-boosting.
Here's how I started with tumblr: go to the main page, and you'll see you can enter a tag. I entered a tag for a fandom (glee!) a ship (klaine!) and a character I happen to like (blaine anderson!). Tags are...sort of like LJ communities, but not?
Like, picture this: every time someone makes a post on their own livejournal talking Glee, they tagged it. And when you click on that tag, you are seeing what everyone who has tagged Glee has to say about it. Which is a lot, and a little overwhelming, and a lot of it is crap. But then you notice one person has posted an opinion you really agree on, and you decide to check out their journal, and--what do you know!--you agree with them on a lot of things! So you decide to follow them so you can keep track of them and their posts, in the same way you would follow someone on LJ. So now whenever you open tumblr, you see whatever that person has posted, like you would on your friend's page.
Then you notice someone else on the tracked tag who draws fanart that you like, so you follow them. Then this other person writes really good fanfics, so you follow them. And this person is just quirky and you like their style, so you follow them.
And before you know it, you've stopped checking the tracked tags because you're following 100 people and they'll tell you everything you want to know anyway, so why bother wading through the crap? You've got other stuff to worry about.
(Following someone is a buttload less formal than friending someone on LJ. Most people follow/unfollow people without ever speaking to one another. It's more of a "Hey! I think you're interesting and would like to see what you're up to!" kind of thing. It's nice. I like it.)
(and communicating is...hard, but not impossible. Most people communicate via reblogs (which is like, "hey I like what you said here, so I'm going to post it on my own blog so everyone can see it!" thing) which can get...long, and hard to follow. But there are also asks (private messages) and other things more suited for private conversation, so it tends to work out in the end. Worst part of tumblr is that it feels like a popularity contest sometimes, because if someone has a lot of followers, their stuff will get reposted a million times whereas yours might never get seen. But it works in reverse, too: just because you don't have a lot of people following you doesn't mean they won't read your stuff! And people 'like' and reblog stuff all the time, so you'll look at something you've posted and go "WOAH 50 PEOPLE LIKED THIS!" and make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Does this make any sense?)
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-04 03:29 pm (UTC)And thank you for your description of tumblr! Again, it would have more appeal if I had a fandom that I was deeply involved in, I think, but I'm also with Kee--I'm more interested in the back-and-forth conversation, and tumblr's just not designed for that. I like comment threads!
JAK you are one of my oldest LJ friends and I would have sent you a wedding invitation if I had had more than a week to get them together. I've been praying for you about jobs and school and hoping that you get the chance to kick just as much butt at real life as you do at writing hilarious fanfiction. You've always had a talent for being funny, and I hope the Glee fandom is appreciating it as much as the Zutara one did! :-)
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Date: 2012-09-03 07:53 pm (UTC)/stares
/breathes heavily
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Date: 2012-09-04 03:37 pm (UTC)or wait is this Hamlet posting as Quark idk it's a little hard to tell the difference
girl you have been the absolute most patient, helpful, patient, generous, patient, kind, and did I mention patient friend a person could ever hope of having, and I feel like I am bad at showing it but I appreciate--am grateful for--what's a better word than "appreciate" it seems a bit shallow for what I'm trying to convey--you get the idea--I cannot express how thankful I am that you have been willing to let me come be your neighbor and hang out at your apartment and play your Mass Effect and use your shower and your internet and sit on your couch because mine is surrounded by boxes and loneliness. I honestly don't know what I'd be doing with myself if you weren't such an amazing friend, and I don't know what I can ever ever do to even begin showing you the same level of awesome in return.
girl I
I don't even know.
thank you.
♥
(so it turns out they have a playlist but anyway this song popped up it seemed appropriate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKC-lRhvdNY&feature=autoplay&list=UUmKurapML4BF9Bjtj4RbvXw&playnext=2))
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Date: 2012-09-03 09:47 pm (UTC)I visit LJ way more often than I do FB even if we were friended on there. For me, FB is more a placeholder "public" face so I don't lose complete track of a few IRL people, while I actually talk about things I care about on LJ.
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Date: 2012-09-04 03:57 pm (UTC)ooooooooooo, LASEK! WP had that done, and he loves it. (Apparently the safety glasses the Army makes you wear fog up too easily to make them a viable option in the field.) My eyes aren't bad enough for me to want it--also, I don't know how my mental picture of myself would cope with not having glasses. :-b
That makes sense--FB is becoming more censored for me, not because I'm friends with my mom, but because I'm friends with my mother-in-law and several of my former students. (Profanity use has gone down exponentially.) I have a whole LJ post in my head of rejected Facebook statuses--things I'd like to ask the internet/people I'm friends with on Facebook, but would have to spend way to much time setting up filters to make it worthwhile. Now it's all about being nice while still trying to sound like myself.
ALSO I had a question for you--well, more like a "can I put you in touch with someone"--a friend of mine studied abroad at UCDublin during undergrad and is looking at applying there for her Master's--I know you did a similar thing with Trinity, and so I/she was wondering if you'd have any advice or guidance on being an international application...ee. If you're okay with that, I'll pass you her email address.
KEE you're such an awesome Wilde geek and even when I don't fully know what you're talking about I love reading the way you talk about it. You're so smart and you know SO MUCH and I'm kind of jealous of your cultural education in your youth (you know so much about ballet and opera and theatre and it's SO COOL also this post made me think of you (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/858888.html)), and I hope the job front looks better for you and that you and Beloved are otherwise well. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-04 04:45 pm (UTC)I'm still looking into it because someone else may be working on something closely related, but I'm thinking of writing about those racist trade cards I posted about and looking into the intersection of racialist rhetoric and the American reception of Wilde as both an Irishman and a symbol of the British cultural elite being commoditized in the Aesthetic Movement.
I'm also hoping to do more work on transcribing one of the philosophy essays.
I'm totally excited about finally getting my eyes fixed, and I'm so glad I'm eligible. I'm severely nearsighted and constantly choosing between dry and irritated (contacts) or strain (glasses) is no fun. One of the stupid little things that has been really bugging me lately is how my glasses fog up every time I open the oven when I'm cooking. :p
Ahhahaha! I'm UCD, not TCD. (Or was. Apparently they don't want me there anymore, even to teach one measly hour a week. Grr. Yeah, yeah. I know the budget's been slashed again and they're prioritizing current students and I'm crap at networking and brownnosing, but I still don't have a job.) Absolutely put me in touch with her, because that's totally how I started. Study abroad and going back for an MA . . . :D
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:13 pm (UTC)ALSO HI
I AM HERE
I POST
YOU COMMENT
OR YOU POST
I COMMENT
AND IT'S A WONDERFUL THING
ETC
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Date: 2012-09-04 04:03 pm (UTC)BETH YOU KIND OF ALREADY STARPOWERED YOURSELF BY MENTIONING BOTH YOUR POSTS AND YOUR COMMENTS, but I just thought you should know that you have a very difficult job and I'm sorry it's giving you fits right now because I think it's so cool that you're involved in it and know so much about the system because that is something you can use to help people later on even if you aren't able to stick with it now. I'm even willing to overlook that giant character flaw of being a Yankees fan! ALSO one day I hope to be as good at reading as you are. :-b THANKS FOR ALL THE INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION LOVE. <3
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Date: 2012-09-03 11:01 pm (UTC)I have a tumblr, but it's just the kinda thing I spend mindless time scrolling through.
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Date: 2012-09-05 03:13 am (UTC)the more I hear about tumblr, the more it seems like if I ever want to be productive again I must never ever get one. :-b
AUDREYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY you have awesome taste in music and you're fantastic at sharing it with other people and you were actually brave enough to leave the internet for a month and I admire that HUGELY because I'm not sure I'll ever actually take that plunge--I mean, it shows a real strength of character, whether you think that or not, to make that first step. And you used your time productively and you're WRITING and I think that's awesome. Rather like you. I'm glad you've got a stable work situation. Also I love your icon. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-05 04:39 pm (UTC)And you're totally right about routines. With my "stable job", I feel like my life is really boring. And there isn't a big fandom I'm super into to make me post all the time. I didn't even do that much with Korra. And I love Doctor Who, but...Doctor Who could be its own post on my journal with all my conflicting feelings about it lately. So I won't go there, especially since you don't watch it.
Back to the whole lj internet thing, even though I've drawn back, it makes me sad that other friends are drawing back too. And that is just a consequence of growing up. So many of us were in high school when we were super into lj and now we're out of college or older than that, and getting jobs and getting married and suddenly there are all these responsibilities. There's actually a lot of good in it, but it still makes me sad. Does that make sense?
Aww, ♥
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Date: 2012-09-03 11:04 pm (UTC)But yeah, time that is not caught up with life is spent on Facebook and Pinterest as far as social/media sites go. (Pinterest! You should try it out because it is awesome! So addictive.)
What about Teresa? Maybe getting rid of the "h" makes it look more appealing to you?
YAY SLEEPING BEAUTY I am overdue for a viewing of it. But wait if they live upstairs how did you know they were watching it?
:D ♥
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Date: 2012-09-05 03:21 am (UTC)Teresa! I had thought of that, but it still doesn't look like it sounds. I think it's one of those "e"s needing to be...something else. Will meditate on this.
Because my apartment was really quiet and their TV is right overhead. (I can also hear just about every step they take--it's not their fault, the building's oldish, and once I got over feeling like someone was in my apartment it's not that bad.) What was hilarious to me was that what clued me into it was that I heard the owl, in that little "ooo ooo ooo" duet she has with it around "I Wonder." And I was like "that was totally the owl!" And a minute later I heard Aurora singing and I was like HA I CALLED IT.
also I just discovered this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhLFM596hk) (I'm head over heels for "I Won't Give Up" and was checking out the rest of the album) and it's adorable, there you go.
LISSA LOU I LOVE YOU. I haven't talked properly to you in ages and I hope life is going well and if you'd rather update me on it in email rather than on a public post that's awesome, but I hope your job isn't bringing you down and that your boy is bringing you up because you are sweet and smart and good and deserve all the nice things. <3
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Date: 2012-09-06 03:27 am (UTC)Okay then, what about Turesa Tyresa Toresa Tiresa Terysa Terisa Turisa?
Ahh! (I can see how that'd be very creepy at first, but I'm glad you're getting used to it!) THE OWL I LOVE THE OWL. That is hilarious!
Oooooh I absolutely adore "I Won't Give Up" and now I love this song too! It's crazy you shared it with me because it's so fitting for my life right now. Which I will definitely update you on in an email soon. I LOVE YOU TOO. ♥
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-03 11:57 pm (UTC)I never posted that much in my own LJ, just in Sounis. I don't post there that often mostly because time has gone into this weird thing where there *isn't* any! I don't post on Facebook or anything else; I try to read LJ every few days.
Oh, and tomorrow I have to report for jury duty processing. It's my opinion that anybody who commits a crime deserves punishment not only for the crime but for inconveniencing all the people who have to sit on the stupid jury. Anybody who makes me drive on strange streets and pulls me away from my library so the kids can't check out books deserves to moulder in jail for a good long time.
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Date: 2012-09-05 03:19 pm (UTC)I have come to the conclusion that the internet is a black hole of time. And I don't have all that much to post on Sounis these days; just patiently waiting for the next one to come along.
Jury duty! I had that. I sat in on selection for a murder trial where the accused was pleading insanity, and I spent a few minutes in the bathroom between them asking questions and deciding who the jury would be praying that I wouldn't be picked, and then I wasn't! I wouldn't've been able to handle it. But like Peggy said in her comment on your post, jury duty rarely lasts longer than a day or two if you're not picked for one.
LESLIE I got your e-card--thank you so so so much for the prayers. You are one of the most generous people I know, and your near-inexhaustible knowledge of All Things Vintage will never cease to amaze me. Your kids are lucky to have you to introduce them to all the wonderful classics, and I hope you got to go back to them quickly! :-)
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:18 am (UTC)If I am called in, it will be for a civil trial, not a criminal one, which helps. JUDGE: "The court will now take a ten-minute recess while Juror #8 finishes barfing her guts out after having seen those crime scene photos."
I do thank you for the compliment, but I'm pretty sure I'm not very generous, or I would quit sending snarly notes out to the whole faculty demanding to know who took my scissors, who swiped my tape, and why people who take entire boxes of Kleenex to the back of the room can't trouble themselves to bring them back.
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Date: 2012-09-04 12:04 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2012-09-05 03:25 pm (UTC)TIEGIRL the awesome care and concern you put into taking care of your animals just goes to show what a wonderful person you are. You are so sweet and generous and supportive of your friends. I hope you realize how much we appreciate your constant cheering on of us and hugs and presence, and that we're here for you in the same way. ♥
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Date: 2012-09-09 12:44 am (UTC)Gosh, I miss you, TG, and everyone on sounis. It's amazing how there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day anymore.
Present!
Date: 2012-09-04 12:51 am (UTC)I second Leslie's notion that you might like Teresa better than Theresa - that was my thought when I read the post, too. I certainly do.
Generally speaking I just check lj once a week or so, since the internets became such a time suck and I decided I really liked having time to read, you know, BOOKS, when I had time to read. I've been weaning myself off the misc internet feeds.
And replacing it with a group read of the Dunnett and Vorkosigan books, with occasional breaks for Something Completely Different.
: )
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Date: 2012-09-09 03:25 am (UTC)it's so close and still not quite right! But it is definitely an improvement.
Weaning yourself off the internet--like I told Audrey up above, it's slowly becoming a goal of mine. As I recover from the initial desire to anesthetize myself for nine months and work towards becoming a functioning human being again, this is on my list of things to do.
ALSO I wanted to let you know I got the Lush package! We didn't get to do much with it, but I checked the expiration dates on everything and they'll still be good when he gets back and we have our thirty days off. :-)
PEGGY you are also one of the most generous people I know. Every time I take a road trip I am inspired by your example of pulling over and trying new things on the side of the road and searching for local flavor (see: other things to do during our thirty days) and your awesome sense of adventure. You're going to ISTANBUL I cannot even dictate how jealous I am of your crazy wild travels. Thank you for all the advice and encouragement and please keep sharing the travel pics! :-)
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Date: 2012-09-04 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-04 03:36 am (UTC)And I really want to read your Godbaby fic ><
Also, re: names - here's a few: Tamara, Tanya, Tara, Tasha and I like Thora :)
I haz an icon for this
Date: 2012-09-04 05:36 pm (UTC)We oughta finish off that dancing bear crackfic one day...
Re: I haz an icon for this
Date: 2012-09-07 01:22 am (UTC)And here are some fabulous Esther William swimsuits in polka dots:
http://www.esther-williams.com/fabrics/
(Do you all know Esther Williams' MGM swimming musicals? Lots of fun!)
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Date: 2012-09-04 05:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-04 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-05 03:47 pm (UTC)ALSO YOU ARE BEYOND SWEET AND KIND AND LOVING!!
Wowwww, so I totally missed this post. /fails
Date: 2012-09-06 11:51 pm (UTC)I would love to see your Subversion of Generic Fantasy Novel -- buuuut then again, I love subverted tropes of pretty much any stripe, so there's a definite bias there. ;)
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Date: 2012-09-07 03:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-09 12:53 am (UTC)JADEJADEJADE. You totally need to write a fabulous children's novel in the next 9 months. 175 pages. Geared toward grades 5-7. You write so beautifully. You could write the next Newbery winner, I'm not kidding. Make it either realistic fiction or science fiction. (Fantasy never wins.) If it's SF, make it accessible to kids who don't usually like SF, so nothing too "out there." I'm deadly serious. DO IT.
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Date: 2012-09-09 05:09 am (UTC)so...yes, less and less checking.
I don't always read your entries.
However, what I have to offer you today is that my brother and his wife also spent/are spending much of their first years of marriage apart. Luckily he was just allowed to come back from Afghanistan to meet his new baby son.
I trust you'll find a way to deal. Sounds like you're already on top of it by focusing on the things you loved to do before and not forgetting to throw yourself into them. Good luck.