tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964 right between the scapulae, back of the heart Sofia Violet Emilie Blackthorne 2012-11-20T01:21:02Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:533010 2012-11-20T01:21:02Z 2012-11-20T01:21:02Z public 0 History prof is totally my favorite today! Our last class is on a Monday (the very last day of classes for the semester, actually), and our paper isn't due until the Friday after class ends. o_O<br /><br />I am actually leaving Boston that Friday, and going to Maryland for a long weekend. JetBlue was running a 25% sale, and even before that discount, tickets were much cheaper than they had been for Thanksgiving holiday travel. I'll be with Cory and his family from Friday the 14th to Tuesday the 18th... giving me time to recuperate from the hell semester and finish that seminar paper before I leave, and to clean my damn apartment before my parents get here for Christmas.<br /><br />I meant to have a batch of holiday cards in the mail today but I kinda failed on that. Soon, though! In the meantime, <a href="http://sofiaviolet.dreamwidth.org/532609.html">still plenty of time to ask me to send you one.</a><br /><br />Now to answer comments and get groceries. Not necessarily in that order, or both this evening.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=533010" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:532609 2012-11-15T03:11:50Z 2012-11-15T03:11:50Z public 0 Holiday cards! Because this is a thing I do. If you would like a card, please leave a comment.<br /><br />Comments are screened, so that they are a safe place to leave a mailing address. You can also PM me or email sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com if you prefer.<br /><br />In addition to your mailing address, you can also include info on what holiday(s) you celebrate or very definitely don't celebrate (so I can send you a card that will be appreciated, not offensive).<br /><br />Please also consider this a place to leave a link to your wishlist. :)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=532609" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:523212 2011-11-25T00:27:43Z 2011-11-25T00:27:43Z public 2 Arkham Horror last night with Cid and Christian (Cid had invited a bunch of other people but we were the only two who actually made it). We battled - and defeated, for now - Shub-Niggurath. Also we ordered Chinese from Food Wall; I ate an entire large pepper steak and accompanying rice, and now I am sad because no leftovers. Note to self: you owe Christian $$ for dinner.<br /><br />Ellie and I aren't doing Thanksgiving, really. We had leftover chicken noodle soup for lunch (homemade from an entire chicken, so we have lots of it), and she's reheating a roast right now. Our actual celebration is going to be on Saturday at Cameryn's house with a huge chunk of our local friends. Note to self: buy vanilla ice cream, pray it will fit in Cameryn's freezer until dessert.<br /><br />I mailed the holiday cards yesterday - okay, I mailed the holiday cards to the internet yesterday. I still need to send cards to all the people who don't read my journal, like my relatives and my local friends and my boyfriend's roommates.<br /><br />Now I will sit around with my hair under a plastic shower cap, feeling grateful for many many things, like purple hair dye and a sister who is intent on teaching me to ride a bike and the people who live inside my computer. &hearts;<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=523212" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:484829 2010-09-17T01:16:21Z 2010-09-17T01:32:27Z public 4 <h2>Recently</h2> <p>Post office seems to be holding everything Ellie and I receive from outside the United States. "Pissed off" is putting it lightly, especially since I pretty much have to leave work early to make it to our local post office before it closes.</p> <p>Work has been kind of meh this week. And Cory hasn't been online much for the past few days. And Ellie is too spoonless to cook. And the temperature dropped kind of suddenly. Many things contributing to my overall bleh right now. I am looking forward to the weekend.</p> <p>ETA: Cory is back online. Much cheered by this. :)</p> <p>As for MCR: thanks for finally giving us some real news, fuckers. And the album does sound like something I'd like. But I will forever be sad that we won't get Black Dragon Fighting Society.</p> <h2>Links</h2> <ul> <li>via somebody, but I forget who: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/arts/design/15lawyers.html">Superheroes in Court at Yale Show</a> <blockquote>The show, “Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books,” provides images of superheroes in the dock, comic books about lawyers and examples of legal disputes and Congressional inquiries involving caped crusaders.</blockquote></li> <li><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/09/16/funny-pictures-eyeliner/">This lolcat accurately describes my eyeliner skill level.</a></li> </ul> <b>Dreamwidth stuff</b> <ul> <li><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/'><b>ninetydegrees</b></a></span>: <a href="http://getting-started.dreamwidth.org/58584.html">Getting Started: Styles</a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Category:S2_Guide">S2 Guide</a> and <a href="http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/S2_CSS">S2 CSS</a></li><br /> <li><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png' alt='[site community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/'><b>dw_antispam</b></a></span>: <a href="http://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/31096.html">Call for antispam volunteers!</a></li><br /> <li><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kate.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kate.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kate</b></a></span>: <a href="http://kate.dreamwidth.org/418805.html">Collection of things to help people new to Dreamwidth</a></li> </ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=484829" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:479920 2010-08-13T04:25:47Z 2010-09-03T16:52:00Z public 4 <h2>Notes</h2> <p>I'll be out of town August 14-21. While I'll have internet access, I have no idea how much I'll be online. But rest assured I'll catch up even if I can't <em>keep</em> up.</p> <h2>Recently</h2> <p>Bosses and one reference desk person are away for the Society of American Archivists conference. Work is freakishly quiet.</p> <p>Busy couple of days. Tuesday morning, I hauled a box of fun surprises to the post office (since the TSA probably frowns on taking rope in your carry-on), went to work, and then went to Diesel to meet up with <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://shadesong.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://shadesong.livejournal.com/'><b>shadesong</b></a></span> and receive my BARCC auction winnings: a lovely flogger. After that, I ran into Andra and spent forever telling her about C. (she kept asking questions, and I am still flush with omgyay).</p> <p>Yesterday I got some purple dye, and this morning before work, I put it in my hair to see what it would do. Not a lot, as it turns out: my hair is too dark. Now it's even darker, with something of a blue cast to it. While kinda disappointing, it's not actually surprising, and it's definitely not a <em>bad</em> result.</p> <p>Leaving for Grand Forks at stupid o'clock Saturday morning. Clothes are basically picked out, and toiletries are selected and quart-size bagged.</p> <h2>Memes</h2> <p><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=4000">Still open for questions.</a></p> <blockquote>I know so little about you, I'm afraid my question is quite pedestrian! What would your dream job be?</blockquote> <p>Pretty close to what I'm doing right now. I want to be an archivist full-time, as my real grownup job. But I'm not thrilled with the idea of meetings and managing other people, which my bosses at work have to do. I just want to work with the collections.</p> <h2>Placeholder</h2> <p>I want to write about "lazy femme," which is what I call my gender presentation. In short: I like things like skirts and makeup, but I don't generally bother with these more effortful bits of gendered plumage.</p> <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://sofiaviolet.dreamwidth.org/479920.html#cutid1">11 links</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div> <h2>Plans</h2> <p>More packing, go to bed, sleep, get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, finish packing, go to bed, get up, get on airplane, arrive in Grand Forks, get laid.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=479920" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:469270 2010-05-25T03:30:20Z 2010-05-25T03:30:20Z public 0 Who wants an obnoxiously touristy postcard from New Orleans?<br /><br />[Comments are screened.]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=469270" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:101964:426630 2009-12-15T23:22:28Z 2010-07-22T16:55:43Z public 8 <a href="http://thereifixedit.com/2009/12/14/and-the-overkill-award-goes-to/">Oh look! It's Ellie's phone!</a><br /><br />(Context: my sister works for a company whose main thing is superbatteries of the future, or something. Charge faster, last longer, don't explode - that kind of thing. And she's in the market for a new phone since hers (which used to be mine, and is about 4 years old) no longer has any battery life to speak of. And it's a phone shaped much like the one in the photo.)<br /><br />And now that I've killed the joke with explanation...<br /><br /><br />Mail! I received a card from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://harborshore.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://harborshore.dreamwidth.org/'><b>harborshore</b></a></span> on Thursday, a card and a wrapped gift-shaped object* from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://thelemic.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://thelemic.dreamwidth.org/'><b>thelemic</b></a></span> on Friday, cards from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://solarcat.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://solarcat.dreamwidth.org/'><b>solarcat</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://insunshine.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://insunshine.dreamwidth.org/'><b>insunshine</b></a></span> on Saturday, and cards from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/'><b>turlough</b></a></span> and <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://chaosmanor.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://chaosmanor.dreamwidth.org/'><b>chaosmanor</b></a></span> yesterday. :D<br /><br />* Which I haven't opened yet, because I'm not sure if I should wait. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://thelemic.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://thelemic.dreamwidth.org/'><b>thelemic</b></a></span>?<br /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://sofiaviolet.dreamwidth.org/426630.html#cutid1">My weekend: naked people and nearly-naked people.</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sofiaviolet&ditemid=426630" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments