I guess I can announce over here now that I wrote Frank/Gerard/Jamia domestic threesomes at the beach with a little D/s for seasoning because it's me. It's called By the sea.

Great challenge this year (as always!). There are still a bunch of stories I'm planning to read, so far they're a lot of fun. I might pick up a homeless spare prompt? We'll see...I still have my whole kink bingo card to work on plus lots of original-y things.

On that note, I went to an erotic writing workshop at the local sex-positive woman-owned sex shop! It was...okay. Super ultra beginner, so it wasn't quite right for me, but it was nice to do it in public, y'know? Plus we did a number of writing exercises that could potentially expand into longer stories, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.

Otherwise, LIFE. Maybe I'll give a full update another time, but mostly things are just...life-y. I sort of have a social life, which is still mystifying. I've been reading and watching the fall season start up (Definitely Watching: HIMYM, Sleepy Hollow, Agents of SHIELD).

I guess I'm in kind of a monthly posting pattern now...for once, I've actually been busy and not too boring to post anything!

New job is still going well...I really enjoy it and I think that my goal is to go full-time there. I still love editorial work, but the magazine just doesn't give me the same feeling. My total lack of interest in the topic doesn't help, of course, but the tourism job makes me feel connected to my city. I get to be involved in the arts community! And there are definitely perks too >_> My boss actually just left a week ago, which was sad...I didn't know him long, but he was a good boss and a really cool guy. And now I have to be nervous that the new director won't like me! Fun!

Otherwise, I'm doing pretty good on a social front (shock of shocks). I'm hanging out more with K's bookstore friends. A big group of us went to bar trivia this week, and I actually hung with two of them, just us, at a really cool party on Friday. Apparently a gang of bookstore people are going to House on the Rock for a Halloween-y picnic, and we got invited to that. I saw Much Ado with K & my sister and LOVED it. Still doing bookclub. Family stuff too! I feel so busy.

Ugh, what else? I got super into Hannibal, so happy it got renewed & so sad I have to wait a year for more. WILL GRAHAM ;___; K & I are planning to go to Disney World & Wizarding World in the fall, which will be my first real inter-state trip on my own (first time on a plane without my parents!). Should be a good time.

I'm working veryyyyy slowlyyy on my BBB, gotta get my rear in gear on that. K and I also started a collaborative Harry Potter fic project, 36 Views of Hogwarts. It's been a lot of fun - if you like character-centric short fictions, check it out :)

Hope everyone is having a good start to their summer...I'm still around & reading, though crap at commenting as per usual.

So I was gonna post and then stuff kept HAPPENING and...yeah. Here I am now so buckle your seatbelts.

1. I got a new job! I saw the posting and was like "that is so me" and it was the only job I applied for and...I got it :) It's a marketing assistant gig with Milwaukee's tourism bureau. I'm really excited - I start next Monday. It takes the place of temp job, I'll still be at the magazine; also, I realized that this will be the first time in my life that I'll be working permanent full time. At two different places, sure, but...it's a nice thought! Hopefully it goes well.

2. Madison: I went to visit a dear college roomie at her new home in Madison! While I was there, I got to meet were_duck (woo!), drink butterbeers, watch AVPSY, and laugh a lot. It's going to be so nice to have friends so close (she used to live 5+ hours away).

3. Cross stitch: I did my first cross stitch project! I posted about it a lot on instagram. It was a lot of fun and pretty quick...I enjoyed it, I definitely will plan on doing another one.

4. MCR. Yeah. I'm...okay? I was really upset the night it happened, but things have settled some. All the guys are still here, all the music is still here. And Gerard has helped the okay-feeling by being an absolute doll on Twitter all week. ♥ I'm still planning on writing everything I wanted to write.

5. Submission: I submitted a piece to an anthology of queer Shakespeare-inspired erotica! Fingers crossed :) If it doesn't get in, I'll probably put it on AO3.

anddd...that's about it, I guess! I've been having vague thoughts about tattoos lately, but nothing solid. Easter was very nice, good family time. And this Thursday will be my last day at temp job! Crazy to think I'e been there for over a year, longest I've ever worked somewhere.

I've got a really drippy cold going on right now which only occurs in the mornings which is...exciting? Mostly annoying. Shmer. Works are fine...new issue of the magazine just got printed, so I'm busier than normal getting all our web content ready to go/sending out comp copies to contributors/all that good kind of stuff. Law job is nutty as usual.

I had a job interview on Friday! I think it went well? It's hard to judge, I dunno. The position is really well-suited to my experience, so that's nice. I was the last of 5 people to be interviewed. They're calling references this week and are hoping to make a decision end of this week/early next week, so...fingers crossed!

Also on Friday, I attended another Harry Potter party! One of K's workfriends throws them and...it's a lot of fun? Basically we eat food, take VERY LENGTHY quizzes about Harry Potter, drink butterbeers, and have the movie on in the background while we do a craft. This month was Prisoner of Azkaban themed and we decoupaged boxes/coasters with PoA/Marauders themed stuff. And I won the quiz!! I got a gorgeous time turner necklace (this girl really goes all out with the party planning), so I was very pleased with myself.

Saturday I watched all of Jekyll which...started out vaguely intriguing and then just got dumber and dumber as it went on. Oh, Moffat. Sunday morning I totally failed at Daylight Savings Time, but K and I made it to brunch anyway. We went to Honeypie, which is great, and I had french toast with a peach/blueberry compote, fresh whipped cream, and candied pecans. Nom. That afternoon I went to my parents' house for a spaghetti dinner and got to visit with my sister, who is home on spring break (jellyyyy).

I'm going to Madison this weekend? Apparently? One of my BFFs/former-roomies just moved down there and asked if I wanted to come up so...I'm going to! It's really weird (but awesome!) to have her actually live within weekend trip "pop by and visit" distance. And since Starkid was kind enough to decide to post AVPSY on youtube this weekend - I forsee more brunch and lots of Starkid in our future!

I continued in my theme of actually doing stuff this weekend (whodathunk it?)! My roomie K came home from work on Friday and asked me if I wanted to go to a drag show Saturday night. The answer was, of course, HELL YES.

It was a good time! We met up with some people we went to college with who K had been friends with and I sort of knew, but it wasn't awkward, everyone was super friendly and it was nice to be around multiple people of my age group for a change. The show was at a college, and it was FREE, and because of both of those things, it was fucking packeddddddd. It was standing room only by the time we got in and some people didn't even fit in to stand. My feet were killing me (we'd walked for 20 min to get to the show from the friends' apartment) but motherfucking drag queens & kings \o/ I've been watching Drag Race, of course, but there's nothing like seeing a live performance. I actually knew one of the kings from high school, so it was neat to get to see him performing for the first time! There were some awesome queens, super impressive, and a bunch of people left at intermission so we snagged some seats \o/ Which made things more enjoyable. One of the queens sang songs from Rocky Horror live and was SO good, and one queen lost her wig from dancing too hard but just kept going and was FIERCE, and oh god, one queen was wearing like...NOTHING. I've seen body queens on tv, but I never thought I would see one IRL but...goddamn. The whole way home K and I were like HOW DID SHE DO THAT????

anddd yesterday was surprisingly productive? I watched a ton of Slings & Arrows, but I also cleaned the bathroom, did dishes, roasted a chicken with dressing (turned out okay...not my best, but still tasty), did the laundry, AND watched the Oscars. Oscars were...unimpressive. Whatever. I knew I wouldn't be impressed with the hosting (jerk) but, eh, whatever. I feel like the Oscars is always awkward and disappointing - you'd think that the ~Hollywood elite~ would spend some time writing decent bits and crafting a decent show to celebrate themselves. They do love that. OH WELL.

Newsflash: it is still fucking cold in Wisconsin. Jeez. I know I do this every year, but how can winter be so LONG? It's like it never ends. We keep inching closer and closer to something resembling spring (or even just not being FREEZE YOUR FACE OFF cold) and then slide back into a swimming pool filled with ice cubes. Naked. Harsh, Wisco.

In other news, I went to see roller derby! It was one of the things on my list of STUFF I SHOULD DO so I was super proud of myself for pulling it together and actually doing it. It was super fun too, I'm hoping to go back (possibly with my sister) to see the March bouts. I keep forgetting how close I actually am to downtown...it's literally like 10 minutes from my door to the heart of the city, which is pretty great. I even had the parking gods smile on me and let me into a pay lot for free on derby night. I was anxious about my car being towed the whole time, but nothing bad happened! Just a free ride - thanks faulty parking kiosk! The rollergirls were beyond cool, and I want to be one so bad. I'm wayyyy too unbalance/unathletic/generally wimpy for it though; as if to remind me of this fact, I scraped my hand on the couch while sitting on it the same day I went to the bout. Obviously anything where I need to move and people are TRYING to injure me is not gonna fly. I'm content to watch and cheer.

What else? People around my age came to my door at like 7pm while I was making dinner to talk to me about AT&T. What a crappy job that would be. I still have no idea what I'll do when law job ends, but I also have no idea WHEN law job will end so that works out okay. I applied to one job that would be right up my alley and allow me to work from home (cue heavenly choir) so fingers crossed for that.

This weekend I am going to attempt to roast a chicken with homemade dressing - I have done this before, but I've never CARVED a chicken, so that should be an adventure. I intend to make stock out of the carcass and am considering attempting a leek and potato galette to go with it (as a follow-up to stuffing). I'm a mad chef!

That meme that everyone is doing!

( about me )

I last posted in June? Wow. Well then! Stuff has happened since then!

I got a job! A permanent one (even though it's only part time) and, get this, it's with a MAGAZINE :D I'm an editorial assistant for a hobby magazine, and it's really pretty grand. It's small, but I get to proof things and I update the website and send people checks. I wish that I could just do that...unfortunately, part time isn't quite enough. I'm still working the rest of my hours at the temp gig I've been at since March, but that's probably going to be wrapping up in November and I don't know what's next! I might try to keep temping, but that's so variable. Maybe retail, but I'd prefer not to have to work at night...it would be really nice to work somewhere fairly low-key, maybe something issue-based. We'll see! It would be amazing if in the future I could work part-time and support myself part-time on a freelance basis.

Otherwiiise, I am on a serious apartment hunt! I'm really hoping to get moved out this fall, so fingers crossed that I can find the right place. I'm looking for a place with my best friend from college, and I'm pumped to make it happen. I've been three places so far, and we're seeing another one (maybe two) tomorrow. It's hard to balance the stuff I want with the stuff I can afford with the stuff on the market but that's life, I guess!

Obviously I'm not journaling much...I still read my flist everyday, but for the most part I'm on twitter and tumblr if you want to find me! I'm writing a fill on the TDKR kink meme? And I submitted a piece of original erotica to an anthology. That's about the major sources of excitement in my life!

I wrote fic! It's post-movie Thor/Loki PWP and if you can get Ao3 to work for you, you can read it HERE

The other exciting thing in my life is that I saw a prescreening of Rock of Ages and...I loved it. Okay, so, it's cheesy 80s music mixed with musical theater and looked like a super camp explosion (when my sister and I first saw the trailer in theaters we basically went !!!!!! at each other) so I knew I would enjoy myself. But I expected to like it in a "ha ha that's so bad" kind of way, but nope, I ACTUALLY LIKED IT. Which is not to say it's "good"...the story is pretty much as basic as it gets (I'm not familiar with the musical at all, which sounds...much different) but it's just a lot of fun. I was smiling the whole time. The only person who can't really sing at all is Paul Giamatti (and they wisely gave him like, 2 sung lines) and Tom Cruise and Russel Brand are both actually really good. Speaking of Tom Cruise: TOM CRUISE! I am being totally tricked into liking Tom Cruise again, because I have all of the affection for people who are willing to make fun of themselves/not take themselves too seriously and...okay, also, he's super hot in this. Like crazy hot. He literally does not wear a shirt the entire movie, and it's just sweat and tattoos and LACED UP LEATHER PANTS and crazy fur vests and it's just marvelous. Marveloussss.

So...yes, you should see it, if you like silliness, and 80s music, and also musicals.

...otherwise, I've been working, and that's pretty dull, so. No comment.

I got a new job! It's a contract job, so I have a guaranteed four months, and they already said they would love to add someone to the team permanently if the budget allows. But even if it doesn't work out, it's going to be a great for my resume. It's at a law firm that shall henceforth be referred to as Werewolves & Associates due to some convoluted rhyming slang and a highly googleable name, and the office is downtown (like, really downtown) which of course thrills me to no end. I'm not looking forward to the drastically increased commute, but...the city is where I really want to be, so it definitely feels like a step forward. I'm going in to get set up Wednesday morning, and my first official day will be Thursday. I am super pumped to be able to wear HEELS to work! (haha, pumped about pumps. PUNS.)

That's pretty much the most exciting part of my life right now. I'm actually still working my retail job through next Saturday (I have Thurs & Fri off there, which is why I'm starting at Werewolves & Associates), so this next week will be pretty busy, and...every other week will, since I'm going to be working full time again with an hour commute each way, BUT. Busy can be good? I hope? Hopefully my tablet case will get here so I can surf the web at my leisure during my lunchbreaks.

It's so nice to finally post with good news :) I hope that things continue to be so positive when I actually start this job!

Oh right, posting. Journals. HELLO.

I'm still working retail, but I've been brought on as a permanent part time employee from seasonal. This is...nice. I mean, obviously, it's better than the alternative of NOT being kept on, but it is not as good as having a job that has more regular hours, benefits, and which pays enough that, even if I can't afford to get my own place on it, at least I can save some money. Right now basically my entire check goes to The Debt, which is hard :( It feels a little like being on a hamster wheel; I'm not accomplishing anything, either at work or for myself in my own life, just...flailing. I really want to get going and it's frustrating that I kind of have to wait for someone to say "yeah, okay, you" and give me the opportunity to move forward. Job hunting (at least my experience thereof) is super soul-crushing in that you expend all this effort and the VAST majority of the time, you don't get anything back, not even a rejection. I think the analogy I used when talking to another recent grad friend was that it's like I'm in a ditch, and I keep pumping on the gas, but all I'm doing is getting mud all over myself.

...in slightly less depressing news, I've decided to take a class. I'm not sure which one yet, though right now I'm leaning towards sewing lessons. I'd just like to...do a thing and meet some people who like something that I like.

I'm also going to be attending LeakyCon this year! It's my first convention, and I'm very excited :D I'm plotting costume ideas already.

otherwise, I'm hanging out a lot on my tumblr, watching television, and baking cupcakes.

This is my first DW post since actually friending (adding?) people and stuff! Hello!

I guess the most reasonable post to make at this juncture is the post-Christmas post (lolz). Christmas was good! I worked 6AM-2PM on Christmas Eve and then basically went to straight to Mass from there (after mowing down a McDouble in the car) which was as wildly busy as always! Then we watched Muppet Christmas Carol, which is, of course, the best Christmas movie in the world.

Up at 8AM on Christmas morning to open presents. Family haul was: the Belle historical Disney print I'd been wanting, a GPS (which I then picked out and ordered for myself), a kitchen prep set, a mirror with a bird on it that I bought at Pier One with money from my grandparents, and a certificate for bra fitting + bra which was...sort of weird to open but is something I want/need, so hooray! Then I showered, ate cinnamon rolls, and piled into the car to take nearly 10 pounds of prime rib to my grandparents. We opened presents there, which yielded the expected check, check, and box of See's Candy (woo!). Then my grandpa somehow ended up giving my dad and sister random things he had lying around the house and wanted to find something for me. Which is how I became the proud owner of a neon orange CAR FRIDGE. That's right! It's shaped like a tiny retro fridge and plugs into the cigarette lighter in a car and supposedly will fit approx. 6 soda cans. I don't know when/why I will use this, but it's pretty amazing. Then MEAT MEAT MEAT and back home to decompress.

The big thing I wanted this Christmas was a tablet, which I knew I'd need to pick out myself with Xmas funds. But the world apparently doesn't think I need one, since the tablet I picked out as Best Buy is apparently secretly discontinued, and now my second choice tablet appears unavailable on either Best Buy or Amazon. WHAT THE FUCK.

And there's the end. Resolutions to come if I end up thinking of any, I guess \_o_O_/