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I cannot brain today. I'm not tired (thank goodness), but am extremely fuzzy-brained and lacking in attention span. Ah, the hormonal joys of being female.
But! I have a chocolate cupcake sitting on my desk (thanks to a going-away party for one of my co-workers), and the mail today will bring me![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gailcarriger's new book Changeless, the big art book for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, AND the blu-ray of Sherlock Holmes. So there will be plenty of distracting things for me when I get home.*
Tonight, I must update the GCS Events page with info about my Norwescon schedule, the details for the celadon CD release party, and the reading at the Night Kitchen. I also need to work on the CD reviews for Toy-Box Trio and Faith and the Muse. Can I manage to do those things while watching Sherlock Holmes? Who knows. But I'm certainly going to try.
*Between Sherlock Holmes and Changeless, I am going to want to add EVEN MORE bustles, boots, and parasols to my wardrobe. I just know it.
But! I have a chocolate cupcake sitting on my desk (thanks to a going-away party for one of my co-workers), and the mail today will bring me
gailcarriger's new book Changeless, the big art book for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, AND the blu-ray of Sherlock Holmes. So there will be plenty of distracting things for me when I get home.*Tonight, I must update the GCS Events page with info about my Norwescon schedule, the details for the celadon CD release party, and the reading at the Night Kitchen. I also need to work on the CD reviews for Toy-Box Trio and Faith and the Muse. Can I manage to do those things while watching Sherlock Holmes? Who knows. But I'm certainly going to try.
*Between Sherlock Holmes and Changeless, I am going to want to add EVEN MORE bustles, boots, and parasols to my wardrobe. I just know it.
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I am working at home today, thanks to the wonders of a smart card and remote access privileges. I am VERY VERY GLAD I have these things, as I feel very fuzzy and unwell. (I'll be over it by tomorrow, it's just that my period is being particularly unpleasant this month.) But this means I can edit while being flopped on the couch with the cats, thank goodness.
Since I AM working at home and feeling unwell, there will be no SFD photos. You are all wonderful people, but I am not presenting you with a photo of me in stripy pj pants, a "fangbanger" t-shirt, a Bat's Day hoodie, and bunny slippers. Sorry, you will just have to use your imagination.
Last night I DID get writing done, and the next GCS column is off to the beta readers. Yay! Speaking of GCS, I have a question: It has been suggested to me that I start cross-posting my assorted fashion (and possibly book) reviews that I post here on LJ over to GCS, in their own section. I am intrigued by this idea, but the writing style for GCS is rather different than how I write over here in LJ-Land. But doing this would certainly give me a quick way to keep a tiny bit of new content on Gothic Charm School in between the advice columns. What do you folks think of the idea?
Okay, more tea and editing. And ibuprofen.
Since I AM working at home and feeling unwell, there will be no SFD photos. You are all wonderful people, but I am not presenting you with a photo of me in stripy pj pants, a "fangbanger" t-shirt, a Bat's Day hoodie, and bunny slippers. Sorry, you will just have to use your imagination.
Last night I DID get writing done, and the next GCS column is off to the beta readers. Yay! Speaking of GCS, I have a question: It has been suggested to me that I start cross-posting my assorted fashion (and possibly book) reviews that I post here on LJ over to GCS, in their own section. I am intrigued by this idea, but the writing style for GCS is rather different than how I write over here in LJ-Land. But doing this would certainly give me a quick way to keep a tiny bit of new content on Gothic Charm School in between the advice columns. What do you folks think of the idea?
Okay, more tea and editing. And ibuprofen.
Dearest Darling girlghoul, the package arrived yesterday. Thank you so much! It will go perfectly with the outfit I have planned for tomorrow.
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Hmmm. Today's second pot of tea is the Double Dark Chocolate Maté from the Republic of Tea. It smells divine and tastes ... I think I needed to let it steep a bit longer. I also think I need a cupcake, but alas! I do not have one.
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Last night I went to the Wayward Coffeehouse and saw nice people! And was given a pre-release copy of the new Toy-Box Trio CD, muah-ha-ha! And then went home and ... stared at the next GCS column that I'm writing and listened to my brain go ::whiiiiiiirrrrr::. Let me put it this way: I was so fuzzy and brain-dead that my bathtime reading selection was Eclipse. Yes, from the Twilight series. I guess I felt like giggling and rolling my eyes a lot. But tonight will be a Writing Night. It really will. It HAS to be.
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My outfit today includes a pink and white striped men's Oxford shirt. Yes, really. Worn with a black fluffy skirt with pink and white striped trim, and a black blazer with pink and white striped buttons and a pink and black cupcake patch on the arm. I'll try to post a photo later.
girlghoul, the package arrived yesterday. Thank you so much! It will go perfectly with the outfit I have planned for tomorrow.---
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Hmmm. Today's second pot of tea is the Double Dark Chocolate Maté from the Republic of Tea. It smells divine and tastes ... I think I needed to let it steep a bit longer. I also think I need a cupcake, but alas! I do not have one.
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Last night I went to the Wayward Coffeehouse and saw nice people! And was given a pre-release copy of the new Toy-Box Trio CD, muah-ha-ha! And then went home and ... stared at the next GCS column that I'm writing and listened to my brain go ::whiiiiiiirrrrr::. Let me put it this way: I was so fuzzy and brain-dead that my bathtime reading selection was Eclipse. Yes, from the Twilight series. I guess I felt like giggling and rolling my eyes a lot. But tonight will be a Writing Night. It really will. It HAS to be.
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My outfit today includes a pink and white striped men's Oxford shirt. Yes, really. Worn with a black fluffy skirt with pink and white striped trim, and a black blazer with pink and white striped buttons and a pink and black cupcake patch on the arm. I'll try to post a photo later.
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Probably no Shallow Fashion Details photo today, sorry. I know I should like this outfit (as it is one I have worn in the past and been perfectly happy with), but thanks to the hormonal joys of being a girl, I am filled with free-floating cranky (and cramps). Therefore I have an irrational dislike of what I am wearing, and don't want to take a picture of it. Again, sorry. Yes, I know I'm being ridiculous. Have I mentioned lately that I loathe hormonal mood-swings?
Anyway. Last night involved sushi, cupcakes, and getting to see ouranophobe, who I have not seen in FOREVER. (And poetry_lady, who I should try to see more often, what with her living in the same state and everything.) It was a wonderful evening of socializing and catching up with an old friend.
In news of ridiculous things I vaguely want to look for: someone explain to me why I have a strong urge to find very cute Alice In Wonderland fabric and make a skirt incorporating it? Other than the fact that I'm a big fan of Alice In Wonderland, and also other than the fact that finding elegantly whimsical gothy fabric prints is nigh-impossible, I mean. (And not that I should be thinking about sewing anything right now, as I OH MY GOD NEED TO BE CONCENTRATING ON WRITING. Not any other projects. Yes, really, I know that. I DO.)
Good:
- Had a very nice weekend, including finding a great jacket and a dress at Thriftko.
- Just sent off Important Documents, which means that a project of mine is moving forward. (Yay!)
- Received squee-inducing email about an event in May. (omg! omg! squeeeeeee!)
- Had a very interesting tarot reading done for me bycaliban1227
- Went to Vampire Kisses at Blacklight last night for a little bit, and had a lovely time. The new space is very inviting, and it was oh-so-nice to go out dancing again, even if it was for a very short time.
Bad:
- Hormones and some other stuff have conspired to make me feel absolutely dreadful: headache-y, dizzy, and like my brain has been replaced with cold oatmeal. I would be happier about feeling this unwell if I had done something fun and foolish to cause this like, oh, had boozy treats at Blacklight last night, but no. I stuck with water and got a decent amount of sleep, but feel like the walking dead. The not-fun type of walking dead, that is, with the lack of brain and the shambling and the unable to say anything coherent.
- Which means I'm using a sick day, because I would have been completely useless at work today.
- And I'm not making it to S&B tonight, just in case all of this isn't due to hormones, but are symptoms of something ooky and contagious.
- Because I feel so spectacularly blah and wonky, I don't have the brainpower or coordination to work on any projects. Flopping on the couch it is, then.
- Had a very nice weekend, including finding a great jacket and a dress at Thriftko.
- Just sent off Important Documents, which means that a project of mine is moving forward. (Yay!)
- Received squee-inducing email about an event in May. (omg! omg! squeeeeeee!)
- Had a very interesting tarot reading done for me by
caliban1227- Went to Vampire Kisses at Blacklight last night for a little bit, and had a lovely time. The new space is very inviting, and it was oh-so-nice to go out dancing again, even if it was for a very short time.
Bad:
- Hormones and some other stuff have conspired to make me feel absolutely dreadful: headache-y, dizzy, and like my brain has been replaced with cold oatmeal. I would be happier about feeling this unwell if I had done something fun and foolish to cause this like, oh, had boozy treats at Blacklight last night, but no. I stuck with water and got a decent amount of sleep, but feel like the walking dead. The not-fun type of walking dead, that is, with the lack of brain and the shambling and the unable to say anything coherent.
- Which means I'm using a sick day, because I would have been completely useless at work today.
- And I'm not making it to S&B tonight, just in case all of this isn't due to hormones, but are symptoms of something ooky and contagious.
- Because I feel so spectacularly blah and wonky, I don't have the brainpower or coordination to work on any projects. Flopping on the couch it is, then.
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I feel like I didn't get any sleep last night. Which is ridiculous, because I did (and it was filled with odd dreams), but it apparently didn't actually work. I am so, so not amused by this state of being.
Dithering about bags: while I love the black leather Coach tote thatalexiarnps (my resident Coach addict) found me, it doesn't have a long strap that I can use to wear the bag across my body, instead of hanging from one of my shoulders. And now that I have a work laptop that I'm going to be carting to and fro, I need a bag that won't put stress on my (already twinge-y and temperamental) shoulders and neck. (And no, I refuse to consider a backpack. Ew.)
So! Target.com, bless 'em, has a bag I like. In pink (alexiarnps, stroppy_baggage, stop rolling your eyes.) or in black. (Yes, clicky links. You knew that.) I'm (of course) leaning toward the pink one, because, ooh, fun! And at that price, I would feel no remorse about adorning a leather bag with satin bats. But would the black be a better bet? I just don't know.
... gosh, I hope I become clearer-headed soon.
Dithering about bags: while I love the black leather Coach tote that
alexiarnps (my resident Coach addict) found me, it doesn't have a long strap that I can use to wear the bag across my body, instead of hanging from one of my shoulders. And now that I have a work laptop that I'm going to be carting to and fro, I need a bag that won't put stress on my (already twinge-y and temperamental) shoulders and neck. (And no, I refuse to consider a backpack. Ew.)So! Target.com, bless 'em, has a bag I like. In pink (
alexiarnps, stroppy_baggage, stop rolling your eyes.) or in black. (Yes, clicky links. You knew that.) I'm (of course) leaning toward the pink one, because, ooh, fun! And at that price, I would feel no remorse about adorning a leather bag with satin bats. But would the black be a better bet? I just don't know.... gosh, I hope I become clearer-headed soon.
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