Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[kungfuwaynewho]

For some reason I got it into my head that I couldn't post until I had finished my edit of Part One, because to do otherwise would somehow admit defeat?  I didn't think of this literally or articulate it to myself, but every time I thought of a post, I would think, "no, I'll be done with the edit soon, I'll post then."

I am actually done with the edit now!  I ended up feeling that I needed an epilogue of sorts, instead wrote a full chapter, and had to go over that enough that I felt it was as polished as the rest of Part One.  But it is, in fact, done now.

(Of course, not posting has nothing to do with why I haven't been reading my flist.  I get the weirdest social media-related anxiety and issues sometimes, I don't even know.)

One of the major things that stalled my progress was the absolute glut of video games I either received or purchased for myself around Christmas.  I hadn't really been playing games much the last few years, and I'd forgotten what it was like to come home from work (or, in earlier years, school) and just sit down and play Civ for like five hours straight.  (What is it like?  It's great, except you start feeling like you haven't showered in a week, even if you did, in fact, just shower.)  I think I've gotten it out of my system, but for about three weeks there, I wasn't doing a whole lot else.  It was kind of sad.

Randomly this last week I have found myself actively missing fandom, specifically B5 fandom circa-2010, and landcomms, specifically scifiland, a whole lot.  I've been saying for over a year now that I was going to make a new fun B5 comm that was going to be like half-meta, half-landcomm, and I've never gotten around to it, so it's hard to whine about there not being anything going on when I'm not even attempting to be active myself.  But 2010-2011 was like a great period of time fandom-wise and I really miss it.  :(

And here is my favorite gif from the last month:

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[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have hand sanitizer, and most everyone ends up washing their hands a dozen times a day. (When my cold was at its peak and I was blowing my nose like twenty times an hour, I had to wash my hands every time, and I swear just walking back and forth to the sink was enough to wear me out, LOL.) I think it's just that we handle so many books every day, and we all work on the same computers, and no matter how careful we are about wiping things down, if there's something going around we're going to end up catching it.

We do still check out books. We have two self-checkout machines, one by us at the main circulation desk and one in children's, and people use both. Most people choose to check out with us, especially our older patrons. And yeah, there are so many adults who can't figure out how to use the machine, I can't imagine making it the only option. That's such terrible decision-making. It actually makes me a little angry, because that has nothing to do with helping patrons and everything to do with justifying what was probably some bureaucrat's ill-informed decision.

Ah, okay, you're almost caught up! I think the show really came into its own when Brendanowitz left. He worked as the straight-man character in S1, when Leslie was more like a Michael Scott-esque buffoon, but when they shifted tone in S2, there was really no reason for him to be there, and the whole love triangle thing between him, Ann and Leslie just bogged a lot of the season down for me. And him leaving brought us Chris and Ben, who are perfect.

(d), man. Fucking (d). Lately I've been really bitter about screenwriting and the whole stupid male-dominated film industry, and while grad school was a wonderful experience and I learned so much, and I still love writing dearly, I do sort of cry when I look at my student loan bill every month and realize I work for peanuts at a library because it was the only job I could find. But honestly, I think those are all valid reasons. Any one of them would be valid, but altogether... *hugs*

[hollywobbles.livejournal.com]

I figured. Just... worth checking. There are so many strange, bad bugs going around this year. Not fun. :/

Yeah, it makes me very urge-to-kill-rising. I just hope my friend was exaggerating or didn't know the full story.

Yep, I think I'm caught up now. WANT SEASON SIX. Yeah, I didn't like Mark much, and Ben and Chris are *litrally* the best.

Sucks. Stupid money why?? I would absolutely be off in art school right now if it weren't for silly things like money and employment.

...If it makes you feel remotely better about or more proud of your job, in order to obtain an equivalent position in GR, you'd have to have a masters in library science and have been lucky enough to beat out the intense competition for a shelving or phone-answering position, then beat out the competition to work your way up the ladder, eventually becoming a legit librarian who gets to [not] check people out if you're very lucky. Library shit's competitive around here.

I mean, I realize that probably won't *actually* make you feel much better. When I remember the competition there was to get my job I feel a *little* bit better, but only a little. Doesn't turn it into what I actually want to be doing with my life.