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I'm still badgering away at the Invisible Library Drabbles. By my tally I have fourteen more to go. It goes more slowly now because by and large I'm dealing with books that I have to find context for and do research on. I'm still enjoying myself, though! I am plotting, when it's finished, to make a mass post of all of the drabbles, after which they'll be zapped off to Simon for PDF typesetting and Hedgerose to be made into Very Small Books (more on this later).

A selection will also be sent off, in the next few days, to Swift, who is without internet (so far as I know) while deployed in Iraq. Swift is a Marine, so mostly I'm just afraid she's lacking in intellectual stimulation. *grins* If anyone has any good RECENT Housefic recs -- ie, fics posted within the past week -- I'd love to have 'em. I've told her I'll be sending some along to her eventually. She rabidly prefers House/Wilson.

Training tonight was a rerun of last night except with more eyerolling. I tanked both my practice tests -- five out of ten wrong each time -- but it's not a fundamental flaw in my thinking so much as my inability to really get into the groupthink that dictated what I should be grading the essays as opposed to what I am grading them. I'm fixing it; I know what's wrong. For example, I tend to base at least a portion of the grade on relevance to the prompt, and we were actually told tonight that as long as there is some link at some point, most of the better papers actually will show a significant lack of relevance. Man, I couldn't get away with this shit as a TA if I tried.

Anyway. I did meet a friendly guy who's a playwright, he's in much the same boat as me careerwise, but our burgeoning networking session was cut short by the woman sitting between us, who wants to be a Christian Pop Music Star and in the meantime is very focused on the problem of bringing modern pop music sounds to "cathedral" style choirs. Normally I would find this pretty interesting, actually, but some people need a mute button. Gawds could she talk.

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I'm not going to be of much use today, so don't look for me online too much -- I'm a bundle of nerve endings at the moment, waiting for NY to call, and I'm going to call them in a little while if they don't call me. After that, either I'll still be a bundle of nerve endings, or I'll be miserable, or I'll be packing to leave.

Either way I'm not getting much done that requires actual thought, though I have managed to clean my room, do the laundry, and sort out some files.

ETA: Hiring manager is out of the office today. *facepalm* Does she realise she's directly responsible for the ulcer forming as we speak?

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So was House not even....on last night?

In other news, the hiring manager is out of her office today, so no answer today on the NY job. Omg, my ulcer. My proto-ulcer. And there was this whole fiasco with a telephone number, let's not even go there.

I will totally stfu about this job now, because even I am tired of hearing me talk about it.

So. Uh. HOW BOUT THAT HARRY POTTER? Is he scarheaded or what? You know I think Snape might not be a bad guy. Dude, do you think maybe that Lupin guy and Harry's godfather are doing it? I mean, you know. Wolf, dog...brotherly hug...I dunno. I think maybe.*

XD

* I actually said this to someone back when I was first reading the books. Before fandom, before I wrote Potter fic. "I think there's some subtextual gay here." And they looked at me like I was nuts.

Which is why I love fandom. The end.

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Okay, this is pathetic, but:

1. The new pizza hut "cheesy bites" pizza is the most disgusting thing ever to have been done to that divine food. I used to think crust stuffed with cheese was disgusting, but now it's crust stuffed with cheese THAT IS NO LONGER CRUST.

2. I am ethically, morally, and spiritually opposed to the Muppets being Pizza Hut spokes....things.

3. Have they chunkified Miss Piggy? She looks fatter than she used to. No judgement, just curious if anyone else has noticed this.

3a. Three Things about NCIS incoming in either forty two minutes or...uh....tomorrow...which...it will be in forty two minutes anyway. But much later tomorrow.