! ! ! Pop quiz ! ! !

If someone tells you I do not like being touched, do you:

a) try to guilt them into it with exaggerated expressions of hurt feelings “Why are you treating me like that? I thought we were friends!”

b) attempt to make yourself the exception to the rule while going in for a squeeze “But it’s just me and you love me so it’s okay!”

c) point blank ask “Who hurt you that you’re like this?”

or

d) respect their fucking boundaries and keep your hands to yourself

In related news, I bit another coworker today.

///  ETA: Yes, another, because the “clever” ones decide they’ll steal hugs or drape themselves across me when I’m carrying heavy things. They forget that I am 5′3″ and the perfect height to chomp the shit out of their shoulders. I learned years ago to follow up “I don’t like being touched” with “and I am a biter” for this very reason.

They laugh it off.

Then they learn better.

guess who doesn’t have to move to pennsylvania

Guess who doesn’t have to move to Pennsylvania??? aaaaaaaa

scattered RL updates of a sort:

OK so you probably noticed we’re going with 3.31 – in part because some craziness slowed things down on my end and mostly because it’d mean more ((to me at least)) to use Neil’s birthday instead of Kevin’s. Also, that extra time means there’s a 2% chance I’ll consider changing the covers. ((I know at least half of ya’ll think they’re ugly as sin, but I’m fond of them, I hate working with graphics, and I am lazy af. So. 2%.))

Random unasked-for trivia:

I’m setting myself some pseudo deadlines for the paperbacks. If I can get everything sorted out – and get the proofs here in time to check / double check / correct? – then I will try to have the paperbacks out on Kevin’s birthday.

If it takes a couple rounds with the post office ((I think it takes 5 days or so for Amazon to print a proof and mail it to me for inspection?)) then the books will have to wait until Neil’s birthday March 31st, because I am too obsessed with numbers to release the books on any day in-between.

Hopefully having a deadline will keep me focused & on task, ya’ll know I’m easily distracted.

It’s Monday! That means it’s time for you to tell me about your week. ((how last week turned out, what you’re doing this week, either one)). @ me anything!

Remember how short my update was last week? This week it’s even shorter because I have been doing exactly one thing this past week: playing The Secret World. It’s Golden Week in-game, so there are nonstop world bosses and double AP boosts, so I’ve been running my secondary toon into the ground trying to get her fully leveled. Whoops.

This is what a responsible adult looks like, ya’ll. I guess life’ll return to normal after the event ends tomorrow.

Time flies when you’re going out of your mind!

I don’t have much to say this week, so I hope you guys have plenty to make up for it. A coworker has managed to get me sick, which is always fun, but I’m also currently neck-deep in a “sleep is for suckers” phase. I swear this happens every other week or so, where I either can’t sleep for more than an hour at a time or I have fun nights like Saturday where I slept an hour, was up for three, and managed another half-hour before I had to be up for work. Fun times were had by all! So I haven’t gotten anything done as far as goals go, whoops. Maybe this week will be better, ahahaha..ha… *drinks*

Ummm there was something else, but I forgot it. YOUR TURN. @ me, distract me.

Morning tumblr!

It’s Monday, so tell me what’s up with you! I guess I made it harder on us by turning off Asks, but feel free to @ me or reblog this with your news or message me, whatever works.

My “news” : I’ve skipped making resolutions in favor of focusing on time management. I mentioned last time I’m trying to learn Latin & programming this year, and that I also want to get back into Japanese, etc etc. I’ve decided to try and treat these things as if I’m going to online school, and I’ve scheduled specific days for each “class”. The times are flexible because my work schedule is constantly changing, but at least I know what to expect each day. Hopefully by setting that level of expectation/commitment I can stick with things for longer.

Today is the first real day of work on the “new” project.

* one day I really will write something new and stop rewriting everything a thousand times. not.

morning!

((She says at 7:40pm))

I was supposed to turn off Asks on Christmas, but I got a couple the other day that I really like, so I guess I’ll leave Asks on until closer to New Year’s Eve? Going to answer them in a bit, but no promises on how coherent they’ll be ((ya’ll that’ve been here long enough know how much I like to answer Asks after a significant amount of vodka eyyy))

when you love the company you work for and don’t hate your job and yet want to choke out at least half the people you work with because oh my fucking god

tagged by @selurdour, 6 movies you can watch anytime:

1. The Departed

2. Aliens

3. Inception

4. The Runaway Jury

5. Tomorrow When The War Began

6. Four Brothers

Ya’ll probably got tagged for this already, but @confidentialfinch, @wasdplz, @foxholemadness, @coldsaturn, @andrewminyardd, and @foxholemadness. But honestly it’d be interesting seeing anyone/everyone’s, because if I get back into crochet I’mma need things to watch.

This is why I did not junk my old computer when I got the new one: I just turned on my external drive ((which has all of my documents on it–my new computer literally has nothing but games and the internet right now, whoops)), and my computer said “Hey, you know you need to format this before you use it, right?”

and the external hd is empty

eyyyyyyyyy.

((Trying to remember if the old computer has my music & digital pictures on it or if I shifted them off when the computer started acting up. Not like I needed to keep those 4000 pictures of Japan forever, right?))

Three Asks left, but I don’t think I’ll answer them tonight ((sorryyyy)). One is still that long one I’m hiding from, and the other two should be easy but I’m technically supposed to be cleaning right now since my mother’s coming into town for Thanksgiving. So I think I’m going to sneak out of here and attempt to be productive.

((I told my mom there are two stages of cleaning: EVERYTHING MUST BE PERFECT followed by MY MOM KNOWS WHAT KIND OF PERSON I AM)).

Also, in December I’m going to try and gain traction on my next project, which has been fighting me for the last six thousand months because of various plotholes and up & down apathy. It’s hard to get attached to newer projects because they don’t have the history the relics do, but on a good day I like the potential in this next story so I do want to try, try again.

Problem is, once I commit to that, I’m going to have to take a small break from Asks–won’t be able to let those new characters in my head if Neil & the Foxes are still taking up active space. I don’t have that kind of attention span. Once I get it going it should be easier to multitask, but at the beginning I’mma have to block my bbs out. I’ll warn you all before I actually start tackling it, though!