Selenay's Ramblings

After a lot of discussions on Twitter lately, mourning the loss of the comment and fandom culture when LJ fragmented, I'm going to try to resurrect this old thing and actually make regular posts.

Yeah, I know, I've said this before. But this time I have my determined face on. See the determined face?

I'm not going to get overly ambitious about this. No commitment to daily posting. Weekly posting, that's what I'm aiming for as a minimum. Even if it's just something short and silly, like "OMG DOCTOR WHO SQUEE".

(That might get tired after a while for you guys if that's all I do, but I'm going to try.)

If anyone wants to send me prompts to help me stick to this (oh, please, send me prompts), leave a comment here with questions I can answer or meta stuff I can talk about. Because it might take some prodding to get my thinky brain working again :-)

First off, I got my invite this morning and signed up for my Dreamwidth account over breakfast. I'm selenay over there because, for once, the name hadn't been taken yet. Hooray! At the moment I'm mostly thinking that it will be a back-up should LJ go totally kaplooey at some stage (or the whole of fandom does an en mass exit) and a reading pane for those LJ-ers who have done a complete migration. If anyone wants to comment with their DW name...

I'm sure that I'll find everyone eventually. The ironic bit? I can access LJ without problems at work, but DW is blocked. Watch me laugh. I've got it set to cross-post here automatically, so I won't be leaving LJ even if I do migrate to posting there. Right now, LJ is still more convenient :-)

Last night at knit night I finally reached the neck on my tunic. That means I just need to do the shaping and bind off - yay! Then I do the front, which is the same as the back. But I'm halfway there, anyway. I've got a hairdresser's appointment with some dying involved tonight, so I figure that I can get that much done at least. This week I'd intended to make progress on my shawl during my lunch hours, as my lunch companion is on holiday, but for various reasons that's just not happened. Damn. I got a bit done on Tuesday, but Wednesday I had to have a quick lunch due to a staff meeting and I worked through yesterday's. As I have to go to the pharmacy at lunch today, I suspect that no shawl will be done again. Possibly if the hairdresser's isn't too crazy I could get a row or two done. Maybe.

Work has been a long, stressful week. I suspect that a lot of this is that I'm finally starting to care about the impact my work has on the systems and the company, not just about how good my work is. If that makes any sense. So I'm putting a ton of pressure on myself and there was a lot that needed to be done this week and that always results in stress. I've still got a lot to do today but at least I have a time limit on how late I can stay tonight. Plus, it's Friday. Thank goodness.

This weekend is my aunt's big move to the apartment. I suspect that I'm not going to be doing much other than move boxes all weekend. In the rain. Yay.