Happy new year!
Jan. 15th, 2020 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleHappy new year, everyone!
Ah, the 2020s. I'm not sure how you feel. but I was totally prepared for the end of the year and totally *unprepared* for the end of the decade. The spate of the end-of-the-year news articles summing up the 2010s really surprised me. How did we get to the end of the 2010s? What to say about this decade, other than it ended on a perilous note, and I'm glad that I'm still here to worry about the next one?
Not much news at this end, in a good way:
* My winter break is wrapping up and classes start next week. It's been a lovely break, with lots of productive work at the beginning and end but a soft, squishy, happy, relaxing middle. I spent about two weeks visiting friends in the Northeast, sleeping in, eating well, catching up, thinking about the future, playing card games (including Taco Cat Goat Cheese, Pizza), snuggling with pets, and even trying to ice skate. (Operative word: trying.) I even got to meetwrite_out! If, like me, you love chatting with her and always wondered what she was like in person, I'll tell you: exactly as you'd imagine, and even better.
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small_gifts, which ran during the first three weeks of December, took a break and finished strong in late December and early January, thanks in no small part to our readers and commenters and bonus gift authors. Thank you to all those who contributed and enjoyed the fest!
* I actually wrote two things this exchange season, hurrah! (For those of you who are new around these parts, I'm a fan in hibernation, a little too busy and tired to do much, so I celebrate a bit when I get something done.)
For Small Gifts: Cat People (and the Dog Who Loves Them), featuring Remus Lupin's mum, Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin's dad, James Potter, a retired Auror-cum-grocer, and a big black dog; rated G; 3400 words. Remus' mother is a cat person. So is Remus. That's why taking in a giant black dog for the holidays is no fun at all.
For WAdvent: The Map and the Territory, featuring John Watson/Sherlock Holmes and a books of maps; rated G; 1600 words. Three maps of London that light up John Watson’s imagination.
* We have been invited to an f/f wedding! I can never get enough of these.
* I'm finally getting over a very odd cold that only shows its symptoms in the late afternoons and evenings. Have you ever had one like this? For about ten days now, I start the day off feeling great, but by 3:00 or 4:00 I'm tired and by 5:00 or 6:00 I've got a sore throat, a headache, body aches, and the kind of fatigue you normally get with a normal cold that just wallops you for three or four days and then takes its leave. And I've been coughing so much my partner R kicked me out of bed and sent me to sleep on the couch. Bizarre. I'll be glad to see the end of this one.
Hope 2020 has treated you well so far, flist!
Ah, the 2020s. I'm not sure how you feel. but I was totally prepared for the end of the year and totally *unprepared* for the end of the decade. The spate of the end-of-the-year news articles summing up the 2010s really surprised me. How did we get to the end of the 2010s? What to say about this decade, other than it ended on a perilous note, and I'm glad that I'm still here to worry about the next one?
Not much news at this end, in a good way:
* My winter break is wrapping up and classes start next week. It's been a lovely break, with lots of productive work at the beginning and end but a soft, squishy, happy, relaxing middle. I spent about two weeks visiting friends in the Northeast, sleeping in, eating well, catching up, thinking about the future, playing card games (including Taco Cat Goat Cheese, Pizza), snuggling with pets, and even trying to ice skate. (Operative word: trying.) I even got to meet
write_out! If, like me, you love chatting with her and always wondered what she was like in person, I'll tell you: exactly as you'd imagine, and even better. *
small_gifts, which ran during the first three weeks of December, took a break and finished strong in late December and early January, thanks in no small part to our readers and commenters and bonus gift authors. Thank you to all those who contributed and enjoyed the fest!* I actually wrote two things this exchange season, hurrah! (For those of you who are new around these parts, I'm a fan in hibernation, a little too busy and tired to do much, so I celebrate a bit when I get something done.)
For Small Gifts: Cat People (and the Dog Who Loves Them), featuring Remus Lupin's mum, Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin's dad, James Potter, a retired Auror-cum-grocer, and a big black dog; rated G; 3400 words. Remus' mother is a cat person. So is Remus. That's why taking in a giant black dog for the holidays is no fun at all.
For WAdvent: The Map and the Territory, featuring John Watson/Sherlock Holmes and a books of maps; rated G; 1600 words. Three maps of London that light up John Watson’s imagination.
* We have been invited to an f/f wedding! I can never get enough of these.
* I'm finally getting over a very odd cold that only shows its symptoms in the late afternoons and evenings. Have you ever had one like this? For about ten days now, I start the day off feeling great, but by 3:00 or 4:00 I'm tired and by 5:00 or 6:00 I've got a sore throat, a headache, body aches, and the kind of fatigue you normally get with a normal cold that just wallops you for three or four days and then takes its leave. And I've been coughing so much my partner R kicked me out of bed and sent me to sleep on the couch. Bizarre. I'll be glad to see the end of this one.
Hope 2020 has treated you well so far, flist!
