Entries tagged with my so-called life

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makes out with the internet

OMG INTERNET HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[Poll #1763596]

WHAT HAVE I MISSED? Link me to your important posts/new stories/cool things that happened/pictures of starfish! I'mma go play on

elrhiarhodan's Promptfest VI and watch The Glee Project.

YAY SUMMER

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GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD (wide web)

I'MMA TELL YOU A STORY.

It is a short story about a tall lass. (Me!)

( my terrible horrible no good very bad week )used and possibly trying to flirt with you, please be nice to him? He's somebody's family, and they're probably worried about him.

My plans to spend this summer writing and being part of fandom again have failed to materialize. And I think that's what actually making me feel down. It's like all my cool friends went to summer camp without me.

But. Yeah. Anyway. That is what is going on in the life of me.

Current Location: PANERA, BITCHES

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Moving sucks. BUT! The new house is lovely. All big furniture items are moved, the dogs have explored every nook and cranny of the new place, and we've met...four different neighbors! Who are all v. friendly. I think my dad's making a Guy Friend with one of the neighbors. THEY DRANK BEER ON THE PORCH TOGETHER. IT WAS ADORABLE.
My Crazy Uncle has decided that my mom's offer of the entire basement as an apartment basically rent-free is not generous enough, because the washer and dryer have to be down there and he cannot handle that. So he's in a hotel now. Somewhere. Or possible he's donated all of his belongings to a Goodwill and gone back to being homeless, which was his back-up plan. *headdesk*
No internet at new house yet. Will be even more out of touch the next week or so. SO SORRY!

Question for flist:

Working on a XMFC beach-aftermath fic, but I am historically/geographically stupid. What possible options are there for the team getting off the beach? What hospitals would they be close to? Would said hospitals have helicopters? Are there Canonical Facts about what transpired?

I'm going to see the movie again later today with my mom and hopefully Little Sister, who I bribed with an explanation about how the Xavier/Magneto divide was based on the different ideologies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She's been a King fan since she was a toddler. She used to sit everyone down and recite facts about Marfin Lufer King. (I miss her speech impediment.)
Back to writing. Half an hour before the movie, then will be spending the rest of the day packing up shit at the old house and hauling it to the new place.

HOW ARE YOU GUYS? GIVE ME UPDATES!

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my life in bullet points

1. Someone wrote an extra story for me in the [Poll #1757588]AND FINALLY: THE AUCTION! It closes...today? Sometime? GET YOUR LAST BIDS IN! Here's the c/p'd info about my thread/the whole shebang: there is a charity auction! I'm offering a fic! I forgot to put minimum word count on there, so: I've only written one charity fic that fit under 2k before (and that was one thousand cranes, which I think was an okay exception). Most end up over 5k. You can check out my writing for: chatities tag to see the kind of work I do for this sort of set-up.

Here's all of the deets from my thread:

User Name:

hoosierbitch
Email: whoisyourb [at] gmail [dot] com
LJ Examples of your work: All of my fics, and fics written just for charities.
Fandoms you'll write: White Collar, Glee, Merlin, Star Trek (Reboot), Sky High, Friday Night Lights, Leverage, Doctor Who.
Pairings you'll write: List and further explanation at my Five Acts post here. I'm willing to stretch myself when it comes to charity fics, though, so if you want something that's not on the list, just shoot me an email or PM! :-)
Starting Bid: $5.

If anyone else wants to volunteer some talents or bid on some awesome stuff: here's the fic post, crafts/postcards, art. Here's the intro post with info about places to donate, and here's the FAQ. If anyone else is offering, please feel free to link and promote your threads in the comments here!

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update & rec

Job is going well! I went out and bought better shoes after that first horrible day, and the last two days were much less painful (not painless, but better). Worked 11 hours yesterday, five of them walking. I'mma gonna be so fucking fit if I survive this! Next week I'll be working 9-hour days instead of 11, so I'll have my mornings back to write. THANK GOD, because there are so many fics I need to write! *is happy*

I've got Saturday off to spend in a cafe, and then Sunday hopefully I'll be canvassing Pride--where a good canvasser can apparently make, like, lots of money. Maybe $150-200 for one day's work.

WHITE COLLAR FIC REC:

Night Sins, from the

wcpairings community! It was written for my prompt:

Rough-angsty-trust-issues sex. Neal/Peter. Maybe fallout from the last episode, maybe Neal slips up somewhere else - Peter's pushed over the edge and fucks Neal. Hard. Maybe up against a wall. With spit for lube. And lots of dirty talk.

This is the author's summary: When he discovers a side-project of Neal’s, Peter unleashes his anger…and a whole lot more.
Warning: Dubcon.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT IT IS INDEED ROUGH, ANGSTY, TENSE, AND SEXY AS HELL, Y'ALL.

REEEEAD IIIIIIT.

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Good News & Open Letters

Dear The Job Interview I Just Had,

You were awkward. Why did we spend so long talking about cats? I'm a dog person.

...maybe that's why it was awkward. Also, hypothetical questions about how I would answer questions that I don't know the answers to because I haven't been through training are mean. And you can tell your scribbly-therapist's-notepad that I said that. Only don't, because I want this job. Even if it's only a couple of evenings a couple of weeks each month. I NEEDS MAH MONEYS SO I CAN GO TO SCHOOL.

Also--I don't put a lot of stock in handshakes. But. Yours was really limp. And I stood up when you left the table. Is that...is that weird? Chivalrous? Something only dudes are supposed to do? I am a reasonably butch woman, does that make it okay? It did kind of make it so I loomed over you, though, because I am tall and you were short. Nice lasting impression, y/y?

LOVE,
HB

*sigh*

Dear Crazy Uncle,

No. No, I will not go car shopping with you this weekend. Not just because I don't know anything about cars, not because I think that buying a car right now is a stupid financial decision (it is), not because I'm homophobic and want to avoid physical contact with you (really? REALLY?), but because the last time I went car shopping with you I almost died.

(He claimed to know how to drive a stick shift. HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STICK SHIFT. Me and my sister were in the back seat, the car salesman was in the passenger seat. The whole test drive was a blur of near-misses, loud screeching noises, the salesman's awkward laugh, Crazy Uncle shouting THEY DID NOT USED TO BE LIKE THIS, and my sister and I clutching on to each other for dear life. It was like being on a roller coaster. A roller coaster going the wrong way down a one-way street.)

LOVE,
YOUR NIECE

IN THE GOOD NEWS FRONT: GUESS WHO HAS A HOUSE? THIS GUY's parents! My folks have purchased a house! Assuming their loan comes through. Which means we've got about a month to pack up the house that we've been in for two years. I'm the only person in my family who's not a serious packrat (...books don't count). So I'll be spending the next month carting around boxes will all of my brother's old lego collections, my sister's old shoes and purses (from before she turned into a dumpster-diving-anarchist-vegan-hipster), my dad's papers and class notes from the last thirty years, and my mother's collection of HEY THIS BOX OF THINGS IS ONLY A DOLLAR MAN AUCTIONS SURE ARE FUN purchases.

I'm going to finish my freakishly salty frittata and drown my sorrows in porn. Or Diet Pepsi. Or both.

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

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suicide over breadsticks

So, my uncle's here!

Ahaha.

I laugh because it's actually not funny at all.

( cut for my uncle being crazy and suicidal all over everyone in the restaurant last night. )

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Holy shit.

I have officially finished my first year of graduate school.

*happy dance*

I owe a big thank you to everyone who's helped me get through this bitch of a year intact - especially

photoash,

elrhiarhodan,

rabidchild67,

afiawri, and

coffeethyme4me. Thank you for being such generous, loving, and supportive friends. I am lucky to have you.

I'll be driving back to St. Louis tomorrow, and then heading back up here to finish packing/moving out next week. My folks are leaving town to go to my brother's graduation (WOO BRO!!), so I'll be spending the weekend applying for jobs, walking the dogs (including the adorable new corgi who randomly showed up at our house one day), and OH YEAH BABYSITTING MY CRAZY UNCLE.

*headdesk*

It's like a bad horror movie. He's baaaaaack!

I anticipate spending a lot of time hiding out at the Panera. Writing porn.

Like a boss.

BRING IT, SUMMER!

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Update and porn! :D

I woke up this morning and was excited for the day. :D :D :D :D :D

That marks the first time that I've gotten out of bed without having to force myself in WEEKS. Thank you, antidepressants! \o/ And thanks to my mother, who offered to drive three hours to have dinner with me. We're going to just wait until I drive home for Spring Break, but the fact that she wanted to, and that it was an option if I really needed it, helped to alleviate some of the stress.

Romeo & Juliet starts tomorrow, and even though I'm less prepared than I'd like to be, I'm not UNprepared. Given the givens, I'm gonna try not to beat myself up over that too much.

And as a final thank you to all of you: HAVE SOME PORN! This is part of what is turning into a RIDICULOUSLY PORNTACULAR body!swap fic for

rabidchild67. I don't know when I'm going to have time to finish it, so here's a bit to tide you over!

Information that is necessary for reading this snippet out of context: HANDWAVY PLOT HAPPENS AND NEAL AND EL SWITCH BODIES.

AND THEN SEX.

\o/

( Pooooooooooooooooooooooorn! )
Also, MY TULIPS ARE BLOOMING! IT IS NOT UNLIKE A METAPHOR.

( You can call me Flower if you want to... )

Thank you all so much for your support. Seriously - I cannot say enough how much I appreciate it. ♥

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Chaaaaarity! All alooone in the mooooooonlight...

( Shakespeare and Chicago! Cut for excessive rambliness. Ramblyness? I like tacos. )

waltzmatildah is running a fundraiser on her LJ to raise money for relief efforts in Australia. The flooding there has been devastating and far-reaching, and fandom has a great history of being able to come together as a community when things like this happen to raise money for good charities.

The way this fundraiser works is that writers offer fics for the folks who offer to donate the most money to different charities (Queensland Government Flood Relief Appeal and the RSPCA Flood Appeal have been promoted all over the place as good places to donate).

I'm offering one fic for each of the two highest bidders. Here's the thread with all of my details. (Not, to, like, twist arms or anything, but keep in mind that I'm going to have a lot less time to write this semester, and that these two stories will definitely get written. So if there's anything you're dying to read, this is probably the best way to ensure that it'll get written before the summer!)

Here's a complete list of all the authors/fandoms on offer! If you have money, consider making a bid! If you're a writer, consider making an offer! If you have neither money nor the inclination to write, consider signal-boosting! If you don't want to do any of those things...you should eat a mango. They're delicious.

Also, I can't even tell you how much I hate html right now. That picture did not want to go to there.

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things finally got hard.

Opening night is this Friday.

ANXIETY.

We might not have publicity posters. The floor may not be painted. The lights are definitely going to be crap, and we have a nonexistent closet.

Last night I dreamed that my costume designer was trying to talk me into changing all of the clothes into dresses made out of 2-liter Sprite bottles. And I was agreeing with her. My dream-self thought it was the best idea ever. My dream-self also thought that the play was secretly about saving whales, though.

Despite the fact that it seems like my designers are out to get me - death by frustration is not a pleasant way to go - I think this may actually be a good show. I think. I hope.

I CAN'T TELL ANY MORE.

Friday I was so tired I fell asleep while walking. I tripped over a curb and woke myself up, then got home, and slept for twelve hours.

My props person is criminally incompetent, so I gotta go buy whipped cream, a baby monitor, and frozen peas.

I love theatre.

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my walls are empty.

So I haven't posted an update on my life in a bit, and I realized that it's 'cause I keep waiting for things to start going badly. As if if I talk about being happy, I will jinx it, and it will go away. I'm still waiting for things to settle into a routine that I'm familiar with - which involves a certain amount of day-to-day awkwardness, feeling uncomfortable, and being antisocial.

That is not currently my routine.

O.o?

( Which is to say: grad school is going swimmingly! )

I just - I don't feel out of place here. I feel like I'm in the right place, doing the right thing. It's kind of wonderful.

Fannish news:

usakeh I swear to god I AM WORKING ON YOUR FIC! I'mma try to get it done before Wednesday.
The new season of Merlin started! And, may I say, Bradley James has become EVEN PRETTIER. HOW DID HE DO THAT?
Also...the new season of America's Next Top Model has begun. *hides shame and rewatches*
I'm going to try to finish two fics before September 24th. And if I do that, I'm gonna sign up for whitecollarswap! Signups are open now, and close on the 24th. I think it's a lovely idea for how to pass hiatus, I just want to make sure that I realistically have enough time to finish a fic for it.

Now: off to finish cleaning the apartment in anticipation of BFF's arrival in the next 3-4 hours, and then gonna read some Pinter and Arthur Miller! And then (*stares at life like a cobra that might sting*) I'm gonna go to a social event so that I can hang out with people. Because I WANT to.

WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!

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OH MY GOD.

LIFE IS SO BUSY.

I will maybe do an ep reaction after I have time to rewatch the ep - I was dead tired when I saw it last night. All I remember is drooling over the pretty. And then drooling because I was falling asleep, and I do that sometimes.

Past week: changed the show I'll be directing later this semester to a different (better) play, got through a week and a half of classes, started work in earnest, made good friends and one strongly-disliked-person, went to A Party, went to two different rounds of auditions/callbacks, made 5 delicious smoothies, paid bills (HAHAHABROKENESS), and was compared to a panda.

\o/

I am v. huggable. It's science.

My cast (for the play I'll be directing in November) is FRICKIN' AMAZING, AND I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH. So that's a source of joy. Another source: a cancelled class this morning, so I had time to catch up on work! And now I'm watching The Big Bang Theory. OH, JIM PARSONS. YOU DESERVE YOUR EMMY, MY FRIEND,

In other news: Jeff Eastin's totally reading my porn. OKAY, THAT IS A BIT OF A STRETCH, I ADMIT. But he knows about slash fiction. I'M USING DEDUCTIVE REASONING.

Dear Jeff Eastin,

'SUP, BRO? How's it hangin'? I like your show.

I WRITE PORN FOR IT. I am sure that was your intention, all those years ago when you began working on the pilot. SEXY McSEXYTIMES.

It's okay. You can admit it. We're all friends here.

<3,
HB

P.S. plz to be having Neal call Peter "sir" some more, mkay?

Things I am going to write in my 2.5 hours of free time today:

1) HANDCUFF PORN. I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU, FRANKIEMCSTIEN.
2) SEKRIT BIRTHDAY FIC FOR DARIA.
3) H/C FOR USAKEH!

Also, checked out gay erotica as well as Arthur Miller on my last trip to the library. IS A MICROCOSM OF MY LIFE, Y/Y?

I MISS AND LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also: omg, lj. The WTFuckery needs to end. FWIW: I'm not going to repost/crosspost anything anywhere. I would appreciate it if y'all would do the same when you're in my lj - ESPECIALLY on my v. infrequent flocked posts. Thanks!

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KINKY McKINKFEST

( Things wot are awesome about today. )

AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN I READ POOOORN.

literaryspell is a new friend, and I was reading through some of her older work, AND THEN I READ PRETTY BABY AND ALMOST CAME IN MY PANTS. It hit my hardcore kinks with a fucking ANVIL. No, with a SERIES of anvils. No, with a TRUCKLOAD of anvils. GAAAAAAAAH.

It was sort of creepy how accurately it hit my kinks. So then I thought, HMMM, what ARE my hardcore kinks? I made a list in April when I was doing the Five Acts Meme, but my kinks have changed. So I made a NEW list!

( MY TOP FIVE BULLETPROOF KINKS! )

If any of you guys want to post your own list, I WILL COMMENT!PORN FOR YOU! I AM IN A MOOD. Also, it would make me happy. In my happy place! (NO, NOT MY PANTS, MY HEART. JEEZ, YOU GUYS...)

ETA: I AM GOING TO BE AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR A FEW HOURS - PLEASE write ficlets for other people if the mood strikes you, and I will be back to porn ALL OVER YOU as soon as I can! I LOVE ALL Y'ALL KINKY MOTHERFUCKERS SO FUCKING MUCH.

♥

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WHAT UP, HOME DOGS?

I am moved in! \o/

The new apartment is LOVELY. Got my king-sized bed set up, took the doors out of my closet, hung up my oversized towels in the bathroom - it is perfect. And, of course, BFF is here! She is buckets and buckets and buckets of awesome. We watched the pilot of the new Who last night (ASH, I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING TOO, THE DOCTOR'S FACE IS AMAZING, Y/Y?) and our plan for tonight is to rewatch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid so we can squee together. I LOVE RL FANDOM FRIENDS.

Today we wandered the town for a bit, got the lease filled out, ate good food, and had good naps. And got internet installed! The wireless router won't be here for another 4-5 days, though, and the modem's in her room, which has no furniture, so I won't be on that much for a bit. My back's not a big fan of sitting on the floor. And I've been hurting a bit, after doing so much heavy lifting. But I got through everything! And with great panache, IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF.

I am WAY BEHIND on my Gulf Aid fics, for which I am SO SORRY - I won't have them done until the end of the week. REALLY, I AM SO SO SORRY. *shame*

Tomorrow BFF is going back home (she'll be back early Septemberish), and my plan is to go to the one cafe in town (well, there are actually two, and one of them is like cafe MECCA, but it's closed until school starts), buy myself an iced tea, and do three things:

Write the two scenes I'm really looking forward to in my Star Trek Gulf Aid fic and trying to make a fic around that.
Type up all the handwritten notes I've got for my White Collar Gulf Aid fic, and see what happens after that.
Finally finish reading the play I'll be stage managing this fall. HOLY CRAP IT IS SO BAD IDEK. It makes me want to do violence to small children. With a butter knife. SO. BAD.

Okay - off to drag BFF out to Mexican food! And then Butch Cassidy. Seriously, that threesome dynamic - strong couple with the dude's best bud - shows up ALL OVER THE PLACE. Butch Cassidy, White Collar, Sky High, Doctor Who - and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Is odd, yes? I will maybe meta about that later. After burritos and squee and Gulf Aid.

To sum up: LIFE IS GOOD, AND I MISS YOU ALL.

*long distance hugs*

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Polls and TV and Packing OH MY!

The dog just spent about five minutes licking my ankle. [Poll #1598722]And, okay. I saw Inception, right? And it was very good! I liked it quite a lot! I went to see it in theatres because so many people on my flist have been ficcing for it, so I was expecting to really fall in love with the characters. And I didn't. So I am wondering: if any of y'all are big fans, wanna tell me why I should fic for it? Because I don't get it yet.

Also, I have some new friends! Hi, new friends! :D

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I feel like such a WOMAN!

I hate shoe shopping. Hate, hate, hate it. I even wrote an essay about how much I hate it in college. Because my feet? Are HUGE. I wear 11.5 in men's shoes. Which means I'm a 12W/13 in women's. So pretty much my entire life, I've had to shop for shoes in the men's department. Setting aside the issues about the different departments for different genders and the problems inherent in that - it kind of sucks to have every major retailer say "hey, your body is abnormal."

THE PAYLESS SHOE SOURCE I FOUND THIS MORNING CARRIES SIZE THIRTEEN SHOES.

I'mma buy me some HEELS, y'all. And maybe FLATS. IDEK - I own ONE pair of women's shoes - a pair of brown heels I got when I was, like, fourteen. It's freakin' disorienting to look at my feet in strappy sandals. It looks like...well, it looks WRONG. But I do want to embrace my tallness. I'm 5'11 now, I would be even ~~AWESOMER~~ TALLER in heels, y/y? Okay, mostly, I just want to be more like Cat Deeley (the host on So You Think You Can Dance). She wears pretty dresses, five-inch heels, and looms over everyone - and has never, for one second, looked uncomfortable or out of place. And I want to feel that way, too.

OKAY IN OTHER NEWS, HERE'S A MEME!

I can't remember who I ganked this from, but I've had it sitting in a to-do file for a bit. I've got a month left before grad school starts. So:

If you could have me write a fic specifically for you, what would it be like? Fandom, characters/pairing, genre, plot elements, kinks... what's your ideal fic from me?

As always, this is a no-shame zone, but if you feel uncomfortable about your request anon commenting is absolutely fine! ♥

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I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!

HELLO, INTERNET! I MISSED YOU TERRIBLY.

AT&T is my new favorite. There was an unexpected opening in a repair guy's schedule, so they came today instead of Friday!

*hugs the wireless*

I'm going to keep catching up on all the posts that I've missed - hopefully, I won't miss anything important (if you think I may have missed a post of yours, just gimme a shout out in comments! :D). ONE POST I HAVE ALREADY READ:

elrhiarhodan's SHOE PORN. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The two most exciting things I have done recently:

1. Bought an iPhone 4! My mom's buying my iPhone 3G, I'm using my sister's upgrade and my tax refund - it's almost not an incredibly stupid financial decision (...almost). It'll get here in 7-10 business days - fingers crossed it'll get here before the 1st when I move out!

2. Set my leg hair on fire!

I am kind of tempted to leave that one without an explanation...

So we had a belated 4th of July celebration with some friends back in Indiana. Awesome quiche, cute kids, the dogs got along with everyone - and we set off really old fireworks that I stole from my old job (we got paid 5.15 an hour. Minimum wage makes me sneaky). And in the midst of the revelry, one of the triple-burst mortars blew up in the tube five feet away from where I was standing, and I was pelted with flaming debris!

It was like the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Except with more shrieking. I bellowed in a very impressive fashion. The goth teenagers who were helping explode things, however, did an epic flaily run-away-dance that I really wish had been caught on tape.

And I caught on fire! I've now got a bare patch on my right calf where my awesome super-womanly leg hair used to be.

I think maybe the universe is telling me to shave....

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We got the apartment.

After two months of sending information back and forth and about a month of thinking it just wasn't going to happen and we'd end up stuck in a shitty sublet by frat row, today, we finally got approved. An awesome apartment, on the bus line, that we can actually afford.

Move in's August 1st. Orientation starts on the 20th.

I'm a goddamn fucking grad student, y'all.

This is really happening.

Wow.

Current Mood: frustrated

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I think the universe wants me to be poor.

( ARGH. )

Sorry I've been a bit MIA! RL, obviously, plus I've got some more family visiting from out of town (last time it was Rich Aunt, now it's Nice Aunt, both siblings of Crazy Uncle). We're going out to see Pirates of Penzance tonight. I directed it in college - should be fun to see it done professionally!

I'm also waiting for my new

kink_bingo card. If it's good, I'll try to do a black-out on that. I've already written 7 of the 16 kinks I have left on the current card, and I'd like to do a few more new ones if possible!

Aaaand here is my entry for the first week of whitecollar100! This week's theme is "Clue" (you can still join/write for this week!).

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( Playing Games )

I hope you're all doing FABULOUSLY.

*smooches*