karanguni | Entries tagged with cuts like a knife

I am bracing for some not-great news at work (as in something in which outcomes are going to not be as good as expected as opposed to a net negative, but I've been promised good things for so long that not getting them is going to make me deeply dissatisfied) on Monday and it's put me more or less in mental trench. I'm trying to decide where my thresholds are for staying at my current position versus looking for greener pastures when the local microcosm of my superiors is good in spite of a hatefully provisioned evil mega corporate umbrella. Do I stay for the opportunity, or leave for more industry-standard salaries but potentially shitty co-workers? I just don't know. But I know I'm tired of being undervalued in monetary - if not social/work clout - terms.

Snowflake 5: Recommend a fannish or creative resource.

I like writing in WriteMonkey on Windows. I don't really have any particular resource - that's all fandom dependent. I have plenty of coding related resources, but...

With the irrational fuel of a human being forced to be pulled, like the tides, by the moon, I shall do this today:

[] Code

sister_coyote's layout for LJ/IJ/DW
[] Write a triple bill across VII/Batman Beyond/Gundam Wing, jotting down ideas and random thoughts and Anger At The World on the etherpad, if you want to watch me work and point fingers/laugh.
[] Code up fic and archive it on And More Slow
[x] Read Estraven and quietly rock back and forth in my chair; the local news and the consciousness of the world makes me want to stand up and write and I am so afraid, somedays, of what-will-be-will-be. "Screw this, when I grow up I want to be like Rusty Ryan."

Also, fic writers/readers, what is your favourite font to read in, and what size?

I have recently been overcome with the strangest and most irrational love for Segoe UI, which is, yeah. Thanks, Microsoft.

\o\ things for today:

Got a new microphone set = no more skype fail!
Boss did not say "start from blank" re: draft 3! Boss also showing human side!
Parents possibly taking us out for dinner!

/o\ things for today:

Almost died buying new mic!
Boss still wants edits! \o More rhetorically-driven education coming up at 9pm tonight!
Sleeping at 7am and waking at 12pm = not good!

"Augh DO THIS NOW" things for today:

[x] CSS fixes for friend
[x] MORE DRAFTS
[x] Pauper AU
[x] Left Hand fic
[] Potentially traumatising tentacle fic for the sake of Motivation and Crack Relief
[x] Methos (Dude, dude, Peter Wingfield is born on my birthday (um, day, not year) and shares my strange watch wearing habits! This makes me ridiculously excited! For happy, mindless, fangirly reasons! SPRINGTIME OF MY YOUTH.)

"Augh DO THIS BEFORE YOU LEAVE ON WEDNESDAY" things:

[] Layout draft to sister_coyote
[] Layout draft to mjules
[x] MAKE SITE GO LIVE. SEE SITE RUN, RUN SITE RUN

Time to chug the caffeine.

Though maybe only after some sleep.

Good points:

- Finishing 1 (one) fic
-

nasdack hilarity

Bad points:

- Laptop breaks
- Work draft is due
- Phone breaks and then revives itself
- Schedule now does not allow for me to be around when Laptop Fixing Dude is cometh
- Schedule now does not allow for much sleep, either (out of the house at: 8am tomorrow, back in the house at: 12am)
- Everyone everywhere is stressed out!

Points for improvement:

- Random love memes: you've got a friend

*flops* SO, HOW HAS YOUR FEBRUARY BEEN?

Also:

- Go ahead and leave prompts; I will do 50 word replies! ♥

Major exams start in 10 hours.

Lay flowers at my grave; this here's going to hell.

NO TURNING BACK.

Finally took a day or so to do nothing but indulge myself - between coming fast and hard off the exams and straight into soul-eating fic, I decided not to write another few chapters and just to laze around and be human for a little while. Still feeling kind of twitchy; my body wants me to do stuff, even though my mind is telling me firmly to back off.

( She has a life, does she? )

Here, have a few guilty pleasure listening songs:

Miley Cyrus - See You Again

This song is so hilariously teeny-bopper, but also hilariously catching, if you ignore Miley Cyrus' self-insert into the lyrics. It's my private Stephanie!song, for the Batfans on the flist. Somehow it sparks a little of young!AU!Elena, for the FFVII people. God, pop.

The last time I freaked out
I just kept looking down
St-st-st-stuttered when you asked me what I'm thinking 'bout

Smashing Pumpkins - The End is the Beginning is the End

For the Batfans: Yoinked right off the Batman and Robin soundtrack, this track makes me think of Jason Todd, Dick gone wrong and Timothy logically extended. It's a frightening Gotham. For the VII fans: dude, this is like. Midgar slums +++++ I write angry Tseng and think of this fondly.

Is it bright where you are?
Have the people changed?
Does it make you happy; you're so strange.

[edit] Bugger. Pornbattle on IJ just decided to buttonsmash me. Potentials:

Batman Beyond, Bruce/Terry, family
Batman Beyond, Bruce/Terry, time-travel

DC Comics, Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson, ward
DC comics, Dick Grayson/Tim Drake, bonded

I WEEP FOUR THOUSAND LITRES OF TEARS.

not dead yet, stop.

middle of examination hell, stop.

how is everyone, question mark, stop?

oh god, and after this we have LLNM writing to do, stop.

yes we do, precious, stop.

mmmm, batman, stop.

guh, need more icon space for snarky house icons, stop.

update over, stop.

[edit]

nevermind, stop. things about dick and bruce are more important:

infinite crisis = worlds colliding = multiple everyone

superman #2 = wants to destroy our world because our world is imperfect

bruce's argument against destruction = dick

later, while fighting to keep the world alive, dick and bruce bond.

i do love comics that make my sad, sorry little paper-pushing life better. \o\

Streets are filled with --

Picking up what others have left behind

[Snowflake] Resources

Point! To your survival

\o\

So, this week, it has been fantastic:

god oh damn uh rungngjalkgjalsgj

Mmm, breaktimes

oh she's

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