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Good things happening recently:

- watched Ponyo tonight. I don't think Miyazaki has written such a purely cheerful childlike movie since My Neighbour Totoro. (And having listened to the Disney dub of the latter recently, I am SO missing the old Fox version). Lovely, happy, just what I needed.

- Colin took me to Gasthaus Gutenburgetrr for lunch today, then to the zoo. Neither of us has been in ages. I got to pet a young albino constrictor (Beautiful shades of rust reds with red eyes, white only on the belly, but missing the dark pigments that would normally colour it. It seemed to like me, or at least my body heat. (We'd been walking through the tropical house already and I hadn't taken off my coat at all, so i was plenty warm). Got to watch the macaques play like cats with an unfortunate mouse; felt sorry for the mouse, but it was hard not to cheer on the monkeys in full play. And trust me, five feet away? You really KNOW the tiger's a predator. Even the other big cats, even that close don't give nearly that impression of "this could eat me".

- Finished Sherwood Smith's A Stranger to Command (Which led promptly to me rereading Crown Duel.) Fabulous. It does end on a bit of a prequel note, meaning you can tell there's another story to come, but the relations between Vidanric/Shevraeth and his classmates and his friend from home are riveting.

- Finished and re-sent that rewrite request from last year. And I think I did improve the story hugely by listening to the feedback. (Of course, since I was asked to cut it by a third, I felt that it was a good follow-on to full edit mode on Bird of Dusk.

- I have the most amazing husband. And I only hope I'm being as good for him as he needs me to be, too, because he's being all too good.

- Listening to Lennie Gallant's newest English CD, and it's loverly.

- A couple of months before I finished Bird of Dusk, i found one more song that was just too utterly perfectly the song for Finno and Jen and their relationship, in a most expected place from a most unlikely artist.

- Work has continued to go well (Although i realise when i talk about it that i usually end up griping, I've also realized the frustrations of this particular job are usually ones I can work with.

- I convinced Colin to try Criminal Minds with me. he got hooked even faster than i did. Nice to know the multiple recommendations I had were worth heeding. (Although for various reasons, we haven't watched it the last few days.)

bad thing:

- I can't talk about this here.

- Part of me would like to. To record it fully. Another part is afraid even to explain to my friends and kin.

- There is at least one image that will probably be fodder for nightmares for a long time. And an echo of my own voice in my head, chanting "No no no no -"

- Worst fucking timing in the WORLD.

- Yeah, it kind of seems to overwhelm the good things. For a while. Then they win. Then it swamps them again. Then they fight back. The good things are small enough that clearly this isn't the end of the world.

- I hurt.

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Good things happening recently:

- watched Ponyo tonight. I don't think Miyazaki has written such a purely cheerful childlike movie since My Neighbour Totoro. (And having listened to the Disney dub of the latter recently, I am SO missing the old Fox version). Lovely, happy, just what I needed.

- Colin took me to Gasthaus Gutenburgetrr for lunch today, then to the zoo. Neither of us has been in ages. I got to pet a young albino constrictor (Beautiful shades of rust reds with red eyes, white only on the belly, but missing the dark pigments that would normally colour it. It seemed to like me, or at least my body heat. (We'd been walking through the tropical house already and I hadn't taken off my coat at all, so i was plenty warm). Got to watch the macaques play like cats with an unfortunate mouse; felt sorry for the mouse, but it was hard not to cheer on the monkeys in full play. And trust me, five feet away? You really KNOW the tiger's a predator. Even the other big cats, even that close don't give nearly that impression of "this could eat me".

- Finished Sherwood Smith's A Stranger to Command (Which led promptly to me rereading Crown Duel.) Fabulous. It does end on a bit of a prequel note, meaning you can tell there's another story to come, but the relations between Vidanric/Shevraeth and his classmates and his friend from home are riveting.

- Finished and re-sent that rewrite request from last year. And I think I did improve the story hugely by listening to the feedback. (Of course, since I was asked to cut it by a third, I felt that it was a good follow-on to full edit mode on Bird of Dusk.

- I have the most amazing husband. And I only hope I'm being as good for him as he needs me to be, too, because he's being all too good.

- Listening to Lennie Gallant's newest English CD, and it's loverly.

- A couple of months before I finished Bird of Dusk, i found one more song that was just too utterly perfectly the song for Finno and Jen and their relationship, in a most expected place from a most unlikely artist.

- Work has continued to go well (Although i realise when i talk about it that i usually end up griping, I've also realized the frustrations of this particular job are usually ones I can work with.

- I convinced Colin to try Criminal Minds with me. he got hooked even faster than i did. Nice to know the multiple recommendations I had were worth heeding. (Although for various reasons, we haven't watched it the last few days.)

bad thing:

- I can't talk about this here.

- Part of me would like to. To record it fully. Another part is afraid even to explain to my friends and kin.

- There is at least one image that will probably be fodder for nightmares for a long time. And an echo of my own voice in my head, chanting "No no no no -"

- Worst fucking timing in the WORLD.

- Yeah, it kind of seems to overwhelm the good things. For a while. Then they win. Then it swamps them again. Then they fight back. The good things are small enough that clearly this isn't the end of the world.

- I hurt.