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Dec. 14th, 2018 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lodessaHow do I do this again? It's been so long that I've sort of forgotten.
Let's see. Time flies. We've been in our house for three years now, married for seven years, and in January we will have been together for twelve. This is my eighth year teaching (sixth at this school).
2018 has been one of those years where you aren't in crisis really (internally or externally) but everything is just really hard and tiring. My commute is arduous feeling, writing is a struggle. My husband keeps being hit with bad news (in the last month his sister got diagnosed with cancer, one of his friends died in a motorcycle accident, and his grandma died). Like... I know it will pass, but I'm tired.
Fandom-wise, I'm still faithfully shipping Janeway/Chakotay (Star Trek: Voyager). I've also been having an ASOIAF Jaime/Brienne resurgence. I started watching Doctor Who again with Thirteen after just never getting around to watching Twelve at all and I've been pleased with her and all the new companions. I've been writing a little for Star Trek: Discovery, a show I'm still a little worried about making the wrong choices. I'm watching the Charmed reboot (which I'm enjoying) and I watched the Sabrina one (it was fine but maybe overhyped by friends) but neither is making me feel fannish.
It's been a slow reading time for me. I'm still catching up on all the Brandon Sanderson books (up to date on Stormlight Archive, read the first Mistborn triology, and partway though Warbreaker which I was really enjoying but then I got busy/interrupted).
Making consumable things has really been my most fruitful creative outlet: home brewed cider, fresh pasta, syrups from scratch... there's something nice about making something you can tangibly enjoy.
Anyway... hi friends (old and... relocated)? How is it going?
I'll probably be posting a masterlist of the fic I wrote this year (paltry as that might feel compared to years like 2014 and 2015( or maybe one for the last couple years. We'll see).
Let's see. Time flies. We've been in our house for three years now, married for seven years, and in January we will have been together for twelve. This is my eighth year teaching (sixth at this school).
2018 has been one of those years where you aren't in crisis really (internally or externally) but everything is just really hard and tiring. My commute is arduous feeling, writing is a struggle. My husband keeps being hit with bad news (in the last month his sister got diagnosed with cancer, one of his friends died in a motorcycle accident, and his grandma died). Like... I know it will pass, but I'm tired.
Fandom-wise, I'm still faithfully shipping Janeway/Chakotay (Star Trek: Voyager). I've also been having an ASOIAF Jaime/Brienne resurgence. I started watching Doctor Who again with Thirteen after just never getting around to watching Twelve at all and I've been pleased with her and all the new companions. I've been writing a little for Star Trek: Discovery, a show I'm still a little worried about making the wrong choices. I'm watching the Charmed reboot (which I'm enjoying) and I watched the Sabrina one (it was fine but maybe overhyped by friends) but neither is making me feel fannish.
It's been a slow reading time for me. I'm still catching up on all the Brandon Sanderson books (up to date on Stormlight Archive, read the first Mistborn triology, and partway though Warbreaker which I was really enjoying but then I got busy/interrupted).
Making consumable things has really been my most fruitful creative outlet: home brewed cider, fresh pasta, syrups from scratch... there's something nice about making something you can tangibly enjoy.
Anyway... hi friends (old and... relocated)? How is it going?
I'll probably be posting a masterlist of the fic I wrote this year (paltry as that might feel compared to years like 2014 and 2015( or maybe one for the last couple years. We'll see).
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Date: 2018-12-15 05:33 pm (UTC)I admit I haven't really felt super inspired to make or seek out fanthings in recent years either (other than meta/analysis type dealios) -- I wonder if it's an ebb and flow thing or just a one-way trajectory (or something wibblier, heh). But there are certainly grand dames of fic (and sundry other fancreative things) so I reckon it can't just be age, right?
May the next year lighten your burdens and bear sweet fruit.
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Date: 2018-12-15 06:08 pm (UTC)So happy to see you pop up on my flist. Sorry this year has been so rough, and especially sorry for the bad news in the family and friends circle :( Here's to a 2019 with no bad news at all.
I still have your Toby books, btw! And should really return them to you one of these days. I'd love to hand them back over lunch, if you find yourself in my corner of the city, but also happy to just, like, mail them to you like a normal person, much as it appeals to me to keep them hostage so we have to meet up again.
Anyway, hi! <3
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Date: 2018-12-15 07:50 pm (UTC)Sounds like our lives are somewhat parallel! Girl & I have been living together for eight years now (and we just celebrated our 10 year anniversary of being together). I defended my PhD and it's my seventh year working at university (but in a teaching capacity, no research position for me yet).
We're in the process of buying our first apartment (hello, debt - thankfully not too much, once we've pooled our savings).
Fandom-wise we're not really up to much; we've been writing a bit of ofic though and we might be submitting a short romance novel soon.
We've actually started watching Voyager a while ago - that show always makes me think of you! - but we've stalled due to lack of time. We will get back to it though, perhaps after the next ST:Discovery season! (After the first season of Discovery, we watched bits of ST:TOS, the entire TNG and about three seasons of DS9.)
(And since I see you talking about them in the comments, in 2017 I binge-read the entire Vorkosigan saga as way of dealing with grief after the late-2016 deaths of my mother in [sort of] law [cancer, an awful last month in hospital and hospice] and my brother [who was run over by a car a month after MiL died; 2016 was bad but the Vorkosigans really helped me cope or at least escape in 2017.)
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