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Or, you know, an actual heat wave.

I tried really hard not to get an AC, seeing as they are a luxury item with potentially significant environmental impact.  I got an evaporative swamp cooler in May, which is a thing that uses water to cool the air about 10 degrees. 

Yeah, I totally broke down and got an AC last week, and I'm glad I did; it's too damn hot.
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In honor of absolutely nothing, it's a round of 'Guess the Obscure Musical Theatre Quote'.  Enjoy!

Also, I am having a very good day, because I am flush with success.  I got up from my desk today without prompting from anyone else and without having to talk myself into it, then I went to another floor and walked around passing out paystubs, and I spoke to a few people.  This is practically a coup, considering that last Wednesday it took me all day to make 1 phone call. 

I don't know if you'd call that social anxiety or what, but some times even very minor social interaction, like dialing a phone with the expectation that someone will answer, or going to visit another part of my office where people I don't see everyday sit, is simply beyond me.  I thank the gods every day that my job usually requires only as much interaction as I am willing to expend.  I get through some days only answering the phone and talking to my bosses, without actually having to dial out or speak to anyone else.

But, today was a really good-feeling day for me, very low social anxiety, and I am proud of myself for that.  So, I thought I should share.
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Anyone else buy reference materials for their fanfic?  I know most of the writers on my flist do heavy research for original fiction featuring original characters.  But, how much research do you put into fic?
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 As all attempts to write recently have come to a screeching halt, I'm appeasing my guilt by re-posting some of my favorite LJ challenge drabbles & shorts at ff.net.  That at least makes it look like I'm producing something.  

Another new floater in the office today, and I had better luck explaining everything than I've had in quite a while.  I have no clue why this happens, that I can do something wonderfully 8 times, then suck at it 4 times, then I'm good again once, maybe twice...It happens with lots of things.   Even writing goes like that sometimes, where I write 4 or 5 pages and end up deleting the whole thing due to suck-dom.

In other news, hanging out w/ [profile] mymagritte  tonight; should be a lot of fun, as I haven't seen anyone local other than [profile] happynonoplace  in more than a week now, and I miss everyone.  Missed out on the tentative trip to visit Boston this weekend, but that's okay, now I can use that cash to replace the phone that went MIA on vacation.  My poor, free, pink phone.  Not that I was desperately in love with having a pink phone, but it made a cute contrast with my green iPod, once I got over the shame of owning a pink elecronic.

Anyway...I know I meant to say something else...Oh, yeah, so there are long drabbles/very short stories of mine in memories here, which will be migrating over to FF.net if you follow my stuff there.  And I'm getting a social life again.  

And I still have writer's block.  Although, I did have a 'Scoobies on a Cruise' idea that was mildly amusing.  We'll see if anything ever gets going on that.  I've also had some thoughts on a new "What If" Book, about the way things would have gone if the Initiative had never come to Sunnydale, and another which I have written in my head but not on the computer yet, that I'm putting off because it's going to be so intense and emotionally painful to write.  So, we'll see.  I'd like to get back and finish FAA and start posting the sequel, but it's just not coming right now.  It will, though.  I will finish the fudger eventually.  Pinky swear.

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Apr. 26th, 2007 06:54 am
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Last night before bed, I went looking for my pj's, so I could change.  Not on the bed, not on top of my dresser...Where were they?  In my desk drawer.  Why?  No clue.  I couldn't for the life of me remember how they got there.

This morning after my shower, I came and plopped down at my desk, to check the weather report before I got dressed, and I put my pj's back in the desk drawer.  Luckily, I realized what I was doing, and moved them to my bed.  But it makes me wonder; how long do you have to do something before it becomes a habit?  Will it take me a few more mornings, wandering around half asleep, to remember that I'm supposed to drop my nightware on the bed, before I go to my desk?  (Yeah, I check the weather at the National Weather Service every morning, so?)  Or, will I be done now that I've noticed the odd behavior?
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But according to my icons, cranky and cynical are very similar emotions.  Learn something new every day, I guess.

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