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have an EKG and then have someone from the clinic calls you to talk about it. Since they almost never call you for a normal, I'm like OMG I'm dying. No, my doctor was just exercising caution. the EKG is 'mostly normal' but there was no more details. They posted the strip in a blurry pic to my portal. I'm assuming they mean the tachycardia. I'll see the new cardiologist in a couple weeks so we shall see.

No one came to micro today. I'll point out spring break doesn't start until Monday. out of 40 students I had 10. And being the bitch I am I had a test in anatomy today (found out there's one tomorrow for my ultrasound students) most of the sports teams were gone and someone cheated on the exam. I didn't catch them (it's hard I'm in a hole in an auditorium and even if I walk up and down the steps, I take steps SO slowly they have warning so what's the point. Another pissed off student turned them in. I'm saying nothing but I know how they're cheating and next test, without warning, I'm taking all that away. (i.e. every phone must be placed on MY table)

I wish I could stay over near Cinci for more than 24 hours tomorrow. there is SO MUCH food Restaurants of every kind. I'm thinking Korean. Oooo the choices.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: NCIS

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Previous poll review
In the spam SPAM spam poll, 52% of respondents only check their spam folder when they're looking for a specific thing, 30% check it maybe once a month, 10% weekly, and 8% daily. (This question was inspired by gmail sending multiple emails in the middle of threads to spam, wtf.)

In ticky-boxes, blanket cocoons and comfort food came second to hugs, 62% to 74%. Judgy koalas came third with 56%. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
I read Courtney Milan's The Earl Who Isn't, which was just as enjoyable at the others in the series. Her kissing and UST are excellent, and I love everyone in Wedgeford.

Bounced off Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield, with prejudice. (That was one of my library books.) The first "chapter" (of three in the entire book) was a blow-by-blow account of working backstage at SNL; the second "chapter" (which I flicked through) was lockdown correspondence. I didn't like either of the characters.

I don't know what I'm reading next. Or listening to on my own. But Andrew and I have about 2.5 hours left in Barrayar.

Kdramas
Oh no, I finished One Spring Night and kind of... went back to the beginning and started it again. With occasional diversions into Something in the Rain (which ha, is by the same writer, as well as having vast numbers of cast members in common, so that explains that). At some point I'll emerge from this Jung Hae In fever dream and start something else.

Pru and I finished Family by Choice (I LOVE IT SO MUCH), and next week we're starting Love Scout (\o/).

Other TV
We're on the final disk of extras for Return of the King, and that'll be it. It's stressful seeing the last-minute absolute chaos behind the scenes, but also kind of magical. Still going on The Pitt, and we've watched a couple of episodes of Dinosaur, a UK sitcom about two sisters, one of whom is autistic. I like it!

Got a few things lined up: new seasons of The Lincoln Lawyer and Dark Winds, more Scavengers Reign, there were probably some other things, idk.

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses, some Better Offline, some What Matters Most (chatty general life psychology/advice), Cross Party Lines (local politics), Letters from an American (just a few /o\), Heaving Bosoms (chatty recaps of romance novels, just for something relaxing to put in my ears), Movie Briefs (lawyers talk about law movies, ditto).

Online life
*hugs you all, so much*

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Writing/making things
My Yuletide treat is at beta at last. \o/ Now I've started in on my Yuletide assignment fic, unfinished at 7k words. I'm imposing a new structure on it to see if that might make it more finishable. No drawing practice.

Life/health/mental state things
Idk, I'm okay. Getting some things done, at least. Getting a fair amount of sleep and exercise. Doing righteous battle with my health insurer. Spending too much time tweaking my new phone to make it behave how I want.

Goals
This week: make a batch of vegetarian dumplings, make a mini quiche in the air fryer. All my goals are food, hi!

Good things
Sunshine. Helpful, supportive people. The 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange is coming soon! Kitty. New phone is mostly behaving itself. We went to a delightfully geeky talk about dragonflies.

Poll #34329 Being an audience

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In the last six months, I've been (in person) to

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cinema
4 (44.4%)

theatre
2 (22.2%)

live music gig
2 (22.2%)

ballet
0 (0.0%)

opera
0 (0.0%)

sports game
0 (0.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

ticky-box full of bakery treats
6 (66.7%)

ticky-box full of keeping a paper appointment diary
2 (22.2%)

ticky-box full of rambling around the podcast 'verse getting your ears dirty
2 (22.2%)

ticky-box full of softly squishable snow puppies snuggling in a heap
4 (44.4%)

ticky-box full of hugs to you all <3 <3 <3
6 (66.7%)

rmc28

The university hockey season is nearly over. Huskies have played our last league game (I say 'our' but I was actually playing with Warbirds in a different city at the time), Varsity is coming up Saturday week, and then there's Nationals in April before we move into summer ice training. We had our Varsity dinner on Tuesday in Clare College and I became sharply aware during that evening that all things come to an end and some people will graduate this summer and leave. This is a university, people are always arriving and leaving, but it's nearly thirty years since I first arrived in Cambridge and I'm still not used to friends leaving.

I love everyone in this photograph (and a couple more teammates who didn't make it to the dinner).

Varsity: Saturday 14 March, tickets go on general sale at noon today, I didn't make the Huskies ("mixed 2nds") Varsity squad but I'm playing in the alumni game and helping out with (at least) Huskies and Women's Blues.

cornerofmadness

So the police and fire dept show up IN my office today. Where's the gas leak?

Me....it was someone with gasoline on their shoes.

Cop/FD - you are KIDDING?

Me - don't I wish.

What happened someone showed up to class reeking so the prof moved them to my lab because it was empty and had windows (class rooms do not) some student apparently texted a parent who heard gas leak and phoned it in to the fire department...

Cop leaves muttering and now I have to write this up...

meanwhile a coworker's wife's h.s. was put on lockdown and then evacutated. he's not sure why. And yesterday they played bomb threats on the radio hoping someone knows the voice as someone keeps calling them in to a local high school.

I did go to get my EKG done. I wasn't sure. They said you could just walk in no schedulling required and damned if i didn't. nothing in the portal yet

Went to yoga but I really hurt now. I can half ass the seated/standing stuff but the stuff on my knees beyond cat or cow is killing me. My knee made such a lough cracking sound everyone looked. I'm like nope not doing that one. I may give it up entirely if water aerobic goes off. we went from 14 to 5 sign ups and we're not even started. sigh

FINALLY got my hotel (again) for the Loveland Frogman Festival on Saturday. I'm so busy I feel guilty for going but I plan to have fun, buy shit I don't need and see friends

What I Just Finished Reading:

Check Please sticks and scones - It wasn't as good as book one, tried to cover too much with no depth (like Jack goes from joining the team to winning the cup without much in between) and the fact that Jack is drawn like he's 40 (he's 22-24 I think) and Bittle is drawn looking 14 instead of 21 made it...uncomfortable

gave back the Y man without reading

Between the Shades of Grey - way too dark to be enjoyable for me

What I am Currently Reading:

Got these on interlibrary loan - With Friends Like These, The Snow Child, At Death's Dough and Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so I'm trying to bull thru all four at once (because that makes sense)

The Final Problem - mystery set in the 60s welcome to the name dropping hour

What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia, and Luna Park history

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: Graham Norton Show

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rmc28

This is possibly my favourite photo yet of me playing ice hockey:

In women's hockey I am big
We play non-checking, that doesn't mean non-contact. I am entirely legally shoving that attacking player away from the net.
See how far the goalie is from the net? My linemate and I cleared the puck on that occasion. The visiting team scored 20 goals on us (ouch), but not that one.

cornerofmadness

but damn today was something. I woke up 40 minutes before the alarm. Got 2 miles from work and realized I had forgotten my phone on the charger. Because of the multifactorial verification I can't get into my work email or the online teaching stuff.

I can't turn around as I was giving a test in the morning. The entire handicapped parking lot was full (we have asked parents of CCP kids to STOP fucking parking there to wait but no one enforces this) so I have to park up the hill.

So after the test I run home (I'm only 10 miles away) Also today was SO much warmer than yesterday I don't even care I had to run home. I changed shirts. Go back. Students were supposed to show up today but didn't (but at least I got stuff graded).

I still can't get anything done at work and more and more is getting added on us and then the dean in charge of this is gone effective today. What happened? No clue.

I get to CVS and the line is so long I eat my KFC sandwich in line and wasn't halfway thru it (but I was out of both meds so I had to get them)

I'm not bringing you any new Fannish 50 today but I'm really looking forward to being able to share some of the open calls later this week. I am lining up stories in my head. I'm thrilled to finally have things that might fit some of these open calls.

It's women's history month so I hope to highlight a woman a day, oh probably not every day but I'll try.

So while this is niche for Pittsburgh, it's our women of WWII which with the way Trump and Hesgeth are ripping out military women's history, I think it's important to share it so those fucks can't succeed. You can see it here.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

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Title: 'Stew'
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Monica Geller
Word Count: 200
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

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Summary: Monica returned to the stove, humming to herself as she cooked.

( Stew )

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kerk_hiraeth

This came up in my memories.

As we spiral ever faster toward extinction it feels even more relevant than during the times it was written.

kerk

If only we had taller been

The fence we walked between the years

Did balance us serene;

It was a place half in the sky where

In the green of leaf and promising of peach

We’d reach our hands to touch and almost thouch that lie,

That blue that was not really blue.

If we could reach and touch, we said,

‘Twould teach us, somehow, never to be dead.

We ached, we almost touched that stuff;

Our reach was never quite enough.

So, Thomas, we are doomed to die.

O, Tom, as I have often said,

How said we’re both so short in bed.

If only we had taller been,

And touched God’s cuff, His hem,

We would not have to sleep away and go with them

Who’ve gone before,

A billion give or take a million boys or more

Who, short as we, stood tall as they could stand

And hoped by stretching thus to keep their land,

Their home, their hearth, their flesh and soul.

But they, like us, were standing in a hole.

O, Thomas, will a Race one day stand really tall

Across the Void, across the Universe and all?

And, measured out with rocket fire,

At last put Adam’s finger forth

As on the Sistine Ceiling,

And God’s great hand come down the other way

To measure Man and find him Good,

And Gift him with Forever’s Day?

I work for that.

Short man, Large dream. I send my rockets forth between my ears,

Hoping an inch of Will is worth a pound of years.

Aching to hear a voice cry back along the universal Mall:

We’ve reached Alpha Centauri!

We’re tall, O God, we’re tall!

Ray Bradbury

Current Mood: depressed
Current Location: USS Rattray
Current Music: Watching Firefly + reactions

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Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.

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You may have noticed that there have been intermittent ao3 outages over the last few days. I know I have....I edited and posted two new hard core logo fics after the first outage, and then wasn't able to share them with anyone because the site went down again shortly after.

This has prompted me to finally add all the fics I have posted on ao3 to my website. Check it out!

It was a pretty painless operation: I just used ao3's html download feature and this css stylesheet & guide to create a folder on my website. If you have a website you could do it yourself!

Now if ao3's servers get wiped by a big magnet, you'll still be able to read everything I've written. So check out my new HCL fics, which are kind of like remixes or AUs of each other: Writeoff and Jimmy and Crash Survey The Universe. They're on Ao3 too! Mind the tags.

These fics come from two different attempts to fill the same prompt ("Time to Buy A Futon") for my 1 2 SNFU challege. Neither of them really fit into it anymore, and anyway I've already written a fic for the challenge, so I'm not going to add them to the collection. That's where they came from, though.

Both fics contain many tedious references to punk and pre-punk music, although not quite as many tedious references as I originally wanted to jam in there, so I think that really I should be applauded for my restraint. I also tried to parody early 80s north american hardcore punk culture, but my interaction with that culture has come at a 40 year remove, through fanzine scans and old music, so it's possible that my jokes did not land.

Gosh, two posts in as many days. I probably won't be posting as often as this in the future. Enjoy it (?) while it lasts folks !

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: The Yobs - Ballad of the Warrington

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Title: Treat
Fandom: Granblue Fantasy
Characters/Pairings: Zeta, Vaseraga
Word Count: 100
Rating: All-Ages
Summary: Mission dinner.
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( treat )

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I've been looking at what's been going on at Ohio U for things to do and relax at. Somehow even though it's linked to the literature festival ongoing there, it was never mentioned on their site. Tomorrow LeVar Burton is at OU. OMFG. It's FREE first come first serve b ut that's the rub. I wish there were tickets (even free) because it's an hour drive with nightmare parking so I am not sure I want to go out (into the icy rain) drive 40 miles, park, walk blocks only to find out it's sold out. Sigh.

How did I find out? I was telling the new admin assistant about the Irish Storyteller at the library next week (I can't go) and he's like so did you hear about LeVar? Sigh. If I had known earlier, I could have had local friends get us seats. Ah well

Today was the rescheduled writers group zoom. It was very productive.

And now I need to hurriedly submit one more story. It's about time. It took me until March to submit anything.

It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is 16 a song that calms you down Share your faves too.

( I didn't have time to really think this one thru so I went with an old standard )

here's the whole prompt list

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Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: Midsomer Murder

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This week's prompt is:

Cook

Have fun!

P.s. I'll take care of tagging.

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cornerofmadness - How to stop a heart
china_shop - Me-and-media update
sinvulkt in fandomcalendar - Star Wars: Vaderkin Creative Exchange 2026
maevedarcy in fandomcalendar - TEEN WOLF: Make him submit: A sub!Derek Hale Fest
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cornerofmadness - Varying Threat Levels
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merryfortune in femslashfete - V&Universe (web series) Fic: Don’t Put Weird Things in Your Mouth ‼️
rmc28 - in my thug era
cornerofmadness - I know the planets are in retrograde
but_can_i_be_trusted in anythingdrabble - [Challenge #429: Cook] Friends: 'Stew'
elasticella - going once... going twice...
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runpunkrun in fandomcalendar - Fancake Theme for March: Siblings
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kalloway in anythingdrabble - [Challenge 429 - Cook] Granblue Fantasy - Treat
zorbo_jorks in fandomcalendar - [GOT/ASOIAF] Sansa Stark Fic & Art Exchange: Signups Close March 6!
cornerofmadness - I wish I didn't know
cmk418 in hardtime100 - HT100 Challenge 132 - Women of Oz - Brenda O'Reily
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[Challenge #429: Cook] Friends: 'Stew'

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POEM: If only we had taller been by Ray Bradbury

Fancake Theme for March: Siblings

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