Cubicle: the small, squarish or sometimes rectangular space that most office workers occupy during the work day.

Cubical: relating to a cube (a three-dimensional form).





Sorry, but I have seen people using cubical when they mean cubicle far too often recently and it is getting on my last nerve!!!

*deep breath, smoothes down hair*

Rant over.

Carry on.

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Question: Writerly type people, do you always write linearly or do you sometime write a scene that will come much later in your story but is so vivid in your head that you must write it before it disappears?

Squee: Omg, you guys, I am so happy with the new person I hired! 1) She is whipping everything I give her into tip-top shape, and 2) I think she might be a closet fen. We like a lot of the same books and keep discovering new stuff we both like, and she didn't even blink when I mentioned fanfic. I love it when things work out even better than you imagine.

Owies: I am pretty sure that I have plantar fasciitis in my left foot. It's been going on for a couple of months now and I've been ignoring it, but it's not going away. So I am trying anti-inflammatories and icing, but the most common therapy is staying off your feet for up to a week, which is not really possible right now. This getting older shit is really not fun.

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I have done nothing but watch Season 3 episodes and read WC fic all day.

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I know, I know. I am shocked myself. I haven't posted anything fannish in forever.

BUT! Last Friday, I was poking around Netflix, trying to find something to watch, realizing I am so behind on so many, and I came across White Collar, which I have seen darthrami rave about. And she and I usually like the same shows, so.

I've consumed all of season 1 and 2 since Friday night! Count me in the Matt Bomer fan club, specifically the Matt Bomer Shirtless Sub-division, because omfg! But mostly this show is just FUN. The writing is great, the characters have depth and flaws, and did I mention Matt Bomer? Also, any scene with Willie Garson is my favorite.

So, that's what I've been consuming the last few days!

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I am playing HP LEGO Years 5-7 on the Wii (a Christmas present) and during the "Harry learns Legilimency" scene I made Harry and Snape play on the teeter-totter for a while.

LOL




This post brought to you by prurience and late night caffeine consumption.

Now, if only I could get my body to sync with my mind and LET ME SLEEP IN!

Mind you, once I was awake the mind started going and it was hard to turn off.

But at least I was up early enough to listen to John Simm and Philip Glenister on Graham Norton's BBC Radio 2 show talking about the second series of Mad Dogs which starts next week. I ♥ those two so much!

Off to catch up on more merlin_holidays entries!

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I was having a rather typical day - feeling very overwhelmed with eleventy billion things (and people are starting to notice - not in a bad way, but in an 'omg, perhaps we've overloaded you' way) and sorry for myself and wondering if I needed to just take a break from all social media type thingies.

And to top it off, I had my first real yoga class tonight and I was a little apprehensive about how advanced the other students would be (even though it's a level 1 class) and how well I'd remember the poses. But I worried for naught as it all ended up fine and I was actually right in the middle skill-wise and I could feel how much stronger my body was during the poses (vs. when I first started in November). So, that was nice.

AND THEN!

I come home and am going through the mail and ...

I got a Christmas card from the Hudson-Hummels!!!!! Which I suspect that wordplay had something do with as she is the only one that has my address, but it's a letter and photo collage and a "Burt Hummel for Congress" sticker and I WAS SO EXCITED!!!

Then I come to LJ and longtimegone is posting pics of Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant and kerryblaze is posting pics of Bradley and Colin and and...

IT'S LIKE YOU ALL KNOW ME AND KNOW WHEN TO CHEER ME UP!!!

Thank you! ♥♥♥♥

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Popping in from my current state of insanity to say that I am also misscake at Dreamwidth. I've not been very good about cross-posting, but that is on my list of resolutions for 2012!

Also, I've not really been keeping up with all of the issues on the update but I get the gist of them. I just hope all of my favorite comms make the move too!



ETA: COMPLETELY UNRELATED! Oh, for FUCK'S SAKE! After years of me discouraging my mother from getting a Facebook account, my sister has gone and helped her set one up! JFC! I do not want to to be friends with my mother on Facebook!

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So, it's official. We are now a completely Droid family. My husband was seriously considering the iPhone 4S and spent about 3 hours at the Verizon store hemming and hawing between it and several Android based phones. I stayed home and out of the way so he could be sure he really had what he wanted and he ended up going with a Droid (HTC Incredible 2).

In other news, the house is now spotless and ready for foldingstar and his Liam. My husband said they should come over more often since I only seem to really clean for them (or other company). I reminded him that he's home most of the time, so 1) the mess is mostly from him, and 2) he has lots of free time to clean. Either way, TWO MORE SLEEPS until they get here!

The boy did his first Shadow Day on Friday at one of the high schools we are considering. He really enjoyed it and saw a lot of boys that he knows, so this is definitely a strong candidate for us. The only downside is the location.

Also on Friday, I realized that I was starting to get pink-eye in my left eye. So, I threw out all of my eye makeup and luckily still had antibiotic eye drops. And yay for three day weekend where I don't really need to go anywhere that I need to wear makeup!

It's been so nice that I have had the window next to my bed opened for the last few nights. Today, I found a stink bug on the curtain. Eurgh! So much for open windows.

On the job front, I've been told unofficially that I am getting the promotion. Well, actually what they are doing in splitting our current staff into two new groups as we are picking up a whole bunch of new responsibilities and the workload is going to increase. So, Scheming Coworker and I will both be selected to lead one of the groups. But there are still issues to work out so nothing will likely be official until November.

Nothing spoilery, but here are my thoughts on some of the shows I've been watching the last few days:

Doctor Who: Damn, I really want a hot-air balloon car. And I think I got more canon from Confidential than the actual show.

Merlin: I want there to be a spinoff show called The Knights of the Round Table where they just all go off on silly adventures. Also, BEST THREAD EVER!

Downton Abbey: I think I love this show more than anything right now! I want to live in 1920's Yorkshire.

Glee: Well, who knew they could do character development?!

1) I am amused by the reactions to Amazon's Kindle Fire and the comparisons of it to the iPad when it's clearly patterned after the Nook Color.

2) I saw an license plate frame this morning that said, "I'd rather be at Pemberley." :D

3) OMG... what did my 13-year-old self ever see in 13-year-old boys. I am so done with jokes about poop, sex, bodily functions and every combination of them. I mean, I love my son. But he is SO 13.

4) My sister saw me looking at Twitter and wants me to follow her there. :\

5) Who is WildNettle48 on Pottermore? I lost my list of who everyone was and I want to give you the right nickname!

6) This is just the best most awesome news and I have been dying to squee publicly about it! SQUUUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

I am staying off tumblr this weekend. I have already seen 4 .gif montages of the planes going into the towers or the towers falling.

I understand this is how younger people document and process events. To many, this was an event you weren't old enough to remember or you only witnessed it on television.

But for those of us who were in NYC or DC that day, we saw it with our own eyes.

And those are images of people DYING.

And I think it's in incredibly poor taste to make a .gif of that.

You know the picture of the Before Person in the cold and flu medication adverts? The one with the red, swollen eyes, the red nose, the sniffles, sneezes, and coughs surrounded by balled-up tissues?

That is me, right now.

Took the day off to try and recover a bit, but my boss has already called twice on work stuff... no rest for me!

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Last year, on my son's birthday, we were at the WWoHP in Universal and my son got selected at Ollivander's to get measured for a wand.

This birthday he got his Pottermore Welcome email!

Can't wait to see what house he's in! We're both in Gryffindor!

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1. After reading a few more articles on the whole G+/name policy brouhaha, I decided to delete G+ from my fandom email account. Looks like the only thing I've lost is Buzz which I am fine with. I am keeping it on my other account, but wish Google had been very clear about where they were going with this from the beginning. It leaves a bad taste for what is otherwise an awesome service!

2. Yesterday was a waste of a day. I was all set to go to work when I started feeling very nauseous. I ended up working from home for the morning and then taking the rest of the day off from around 11am. I didn't want to look at the computer, read, or even watch television. I took 3 naps and still ended up in bed at 9pm. But I woke up this morning at 7am feeling just fine. Not sure what happened, but I am recognizing a pattern involving garlic. Which would make me really sad to suddenly have to cut that out of my diet!

3. Today is my son's 13th birthday! It's sort of a low key day. We've given him a few gifts early: a gold chain for the pendant we bought in Italy, a new sleeping bag because he was far too tall for the old one. He got to go to the shooting range with my husband this morning. He's shot rifles at his Scout camp, so I could not really protest much longer. And there were long gun safety discussion along with a required cleaning up afterwards. Tonight we're going out to dinner with the family where he'll get a few more presents. His big present is an iPhone but he's decided to wait until the iPhone 5 comes out... whenever that is!

4. I've spent the last 7 months betareading, seal-clapping, and being a general cheerleader for wordplay on her Klaine Big Bang fic. If you're into the Glee fandom, go HERE, to read this amazing Kurt/Blaine Big Bang fic and see the gorgeous art!

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Made it through surprising well. Can't believe we still have power. I even slept through the worst of it.

Hope the rest of you are okay too!!!


ETA:( Current Power Outage Map for my area )

Just hanging around waiting for the show to start. And while I wait I'm queuing up some fic to read and I have some videos to share:

1) For zorb and lessthanpie: the making of OK GO's Muppet Theme Song video.

2) Take a drive through 1950s London.


See you on the other side!

Everytime I look at the projected path of Irene I hear, in my mind, either the voice of Wash (Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die) or the voice Colin Morgan: (We're gonna die! We're gonna die!).

But mostly I am just really worried that we'll lose power and my Pottermore Welcome letter will finally arrive and I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!