I may not be the biggest BAMF in the room at any given time, but I certainly try to be in the top three.

I've been in the theatre for over twenty years as a little bit of everything. Yes, I have welded upside down from a second story set in nothing but gauzy underwear half hour before a show opened. I prefer to keep my hair purple. And I run very quickly in four inch heels.

Real texts that I send my roommates, genarti and sandrylene:

"So, if you find the cats' paws covered in red, it is not that they are bleeding. It is because they are morons that can not be trusted when I dye my hair red."

"PS, I am a moron that can not be trusted to dye her hair red unsupervised. The bathroom is no longer a horror movie set!"

"Love you both, hope you are having fun!!!"

Yeah, that's right! I use proper grammar in texts!! And I can never be trusted to be left to my own devices for, oh, ever!

I went crazy and joined one of the writing comms for the year. I pledged to write 150k words. CRAZY. But, if I want to make my goal of publishing for novella this year, I need to do it.

GO TEAM ME!


GetYourWordsOut: One Last Time (Probably)!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

( So, adventures in physical therapy continue to be adventures... )

In short: I might have chronic compartment syndrome in my bad leg, and I sort of agree, if really scared about it. I am trying not to freak out. Also, I WANT A BEER. BEER MEEEEEE!!!!

My new (and belated) new years resolution: Don't Fall On Pie.

So, I did not manage to finish that short story that I wanted to turn into to an anthology today. It was a dark fantasy piece that I really liked but then I got to a part that included some dark fairy tale cannibalism, and I squicked myself out with it. And got that sort of writer's block that I could not think out another way around because damn it, I wanted that in there!

I'll come back to it and try again in a few weeks. I actually really like the idea (even the dark bits that freaked me out). Maybe I can use it for something else! I say that a lot about my short stories. Poor babies, I'll get you published somewhere someday!

I need to get back into writing that Other Thing I was writing. It was neat, and I need to do more with it. Come on, Team Me, let's go write more! (I should probably stop reading so much fanfic and get on this, right? Right.)

PT continues to be painful but helpful. I was stuck mostly bed and couch bound this weekend because it was so painful with all the muscles they were unkinking. It still hurts today, but like, a 1/2 vs a 6/7. So, improvement! Hopefully, I can get back to actually running by the end of this! I want to get healthy, damn it!!!

If I add in a few more damn its, this will be a better entry, right? RIGHT! Damn it, damn it, damn it!!


( Cut as I talk about the embarrassment at being totally bad at talking to guys now )

Damn it. (I needed another one)

I had my first physical therapy session today! I was, again, embarrassed how difficult things that I know are simple where for me, but I've got my giant red band and exercises I am to do twice a day for the next several weeks.

My therapist was doing a tissue massage to work on some of the problem areas, and she found this place on my calf that suddenly what she was doing hurt. I was very shocked by it because nothing until that point had hurt. Stretched and put on pressure, yes, but not actually hurt. She explained to me it was all the scar tissue in my muscles right there, and it hurt because she was stretching them in ways that had not done in extended period of time.

It's, again, painful but good to realize that no, this would not have gotten better on its own, and I was not being a giant wimp for going to the doctor for help. Sometimes I need to hear that over and over again! Because other wise, I think I "failed" for going to the doctor and not being able to run a 5k without a huge amount of pain.

I had to take the taping she did on my foot off, though. Blue toes are not good!

My dieting has been good as well! I've lost three pounds since I started and kept them off! :D! It's not so much "dieting" as "eat healthy shit and limit the bad shit". Which awesome! For me and my wallet! I've been really liking myfitnesspal, if people are curious about it! Weight Watchers did not help me (it was purely a ME thing, not that weight watchers does not work), but this has a lot more! I've been much happier.

In writing news, I have been a good little Heather and writing every day. EVERY DAY. They are not always good words (I read some the next day and go WHY DID I WRITE THIS?!?! *DELETE DELETE*), but I am making myself write. I have a short story I am determined to get done by its deadline, and I have something that I've been working on that will either be a New Years Resolution fic or it will be my first adventure in selfpublishing.

Yes, I'm saying it, and I'm going to go for it. Selfpublishing! It will be work, but I read a lot of trade blogs and agent blogs, and many of them have come around to selfpublishing for authors, especially while the publishing industry is still in such a flux with how to deal with ebooks. I read about midlist and lowlist writers being able to quit their day jobs with their digital selfpublishing, and I have said ALRIGHT, I'LL TRY IT. This decade is supposed to be the decade of the novella (writing less than 40,000-50,000 words) and the short story, and I love both of those types so much. I'M GONG TO TRY FOR IT. I keep getting the sort of rejection letters that are "this is a great piece! But doesn't fit anywhere for us to publish. But send us more of your stuff!!!"

Oh god, scary. But, you only live once, you know?

On that note, I think I might be signing up for the Get Your Words Out thing this year. It make myself write. I don't know! But I think so? Ah, scary!!


GetYourWordsOut: One Last Time (Probably)!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

I'm trying to do a lot of things this year! Actually, not really. My goals are: get a better job, write more and attempt to publish more, and continue to get healthy. I'm working on it all, so far, and I just want to keep it up. I CAN DO THIS THING.

GO TEAM ME!!!!!!!

I know, right? The holidays have come and gone!

I did have a good holiday, if awkward time with the family (my father invited his girlfriend whom is very nice but it is...awkward for many reasons).

New Year vacation with many friends was AWESOME. There was much eating, much adventuring around Boston (FISHES, ARTS), and much watching of many things. It was an nice, relaxing holiday. Then, Gen and I promptly got sick as everyone was leaving. Tuesday and Wednesday was spent much in bed and collapsed gracefully across couches. And by gracefully, I mean sprawled with whiny cats next to faces.

In christmas news, I did actually get a christmas present this year! I have already bought many ebooks with it. SO MANY THINGS TO REAAAAD! I, too, shall now cry at Code Name Verity.

Also, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is going to be waiting for me when I get home. EEEEE! No, it is not the book, but I enjoyed it for different reasons.

Switching gears, I had my first physical therapy appoint yesterday. My doctor is calling it plantar fasciitis, but what it really is that I managed to give myself a minor tear in one of my tendons that particularly healed but incorrectly. This has lead to the rest of the muscles in my leg up to my right hip stressing to overcompensate and then becoming weaker. I now walk strangely on the outside of my right heel. It was kind of embarrassing when I was doing the work with the therapist and realized how weak my entire right leg had become, since I used to jump several feet in the air with that leg as dominate.

I go to PT for the next few weeks, and I'm really excited about it. For the last year, my regular doctor did not really help when I kept saying I was in pain, implying without outright stating that if I lost weight, the pain would go away (which, it was hard to do cardio to help loose weight when I could hardly walk, let alone run or get on the bike or exercise equipment). When I did finally get to a specialist, he said no, this was actual injury that would have never healed on its own, and my therapist said the same thing.

I'm not allowed to run or do any having activities while I'm in therapy for now. Which, SUCKS! The Boston Derby Dames are FINALLY posting openly when their new skater tryouts start, which is Feb, and I MUST APPLY BY JAN 11TH. ;_; NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I really wanted to do it!!!!

;_;

Maybe if I make very cute faces at my therapist, she will tell me I can sign up but not skate until Feb? MAYBE? ;_;!!!

In other news, I am sort of kind of freaking out about money, but not. This PT is going to bleed me a lot, and I'm a little worried about what my actual paycheck is going to be now with the fiscal cliff deal reached. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get!

I have no idea. Maybe I should do a drabble drive? Or something? Give me a dollar and I... I cry out of gracefulness? I have no idea. The first month or two of the new year are always adventurous.

<3 you all.

Just A Regular, Bonafide Badass (2552 words) by wickedtrue
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dredd (2012)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Cassandra Anderson, Joseph Dredd
Summary:

Six months in the life of Judge Cassandra Anderson, street judge.

 

Or: Anderson's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Robot-Filled Life

I only wrote one fic for yuletide this year, a first for me. I always write three. I have a fic that did not get finished before yuletide (it kept getting bigger!), but I am so posting it for New Year Resolution fic.

I loved writing my fic! I just let my id run wild. It was so awesome! There are knife fights and rocket launchers.
Along with character studies.

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For yuletide, I received loads of awesome stuff!

The Nautical Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (4596 words) by scintilla10
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Adele Blanc-Sec, Agathe Blanc-Sec, Andrej Zborowski
Summary:

Adèle Blanc-Sec sets sail on the RMS Titanic, and discovers that someone is trying to kill her.

Several someones, in fact.

Really, she's going to have to write a strongly-worded letter to the White Star Line.

My main fic is so awesome!!! I got Blanc-Sec sister fic post movie! If you have never seen this movie, all of you should go out and see it. French female Indiana Jones style journalist and archeologist at the turn of the century, and she is a laugh riot with her adventures, disguises, and just witty, crazy self. It is based on a French comic that I never managed to get my hands on but I hear is very entertaining.

You should totally read this fic!! My person should have more hits!



Hunch (892 words) by ultharkitty
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dredd (2012)
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cassandra Anderson, Joseph Dredd
Summary:

Dredd arrives at a crime scene only to find something he didn't expect. Acting on a hunch, he calls in Anderson.

Contains non-graphic description of a murder scene, and details from the comics imported into movieverse.

Many thanks to my beta. I'll edit to give named credit once authors are revealed.

I am laughing because the person that I wrote for then wrote me gift fic in the same fandom. Awesome fic!!!!! This is cracking me up. Read the fiiiiic!



All Good Things Come in Threes (984 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shine On Me - Chris Dane Owens (Music Video)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pirates - Character, Ninja Sorceresses
Summary:

Pirates to the rescue! (Well, that was the plan, anyway.)

And someone finally wrote Shine On Me fic!!! Isn't that cool?!

AAAH, HEATHER SMASH!!!

I had an okcupid guy email me to say, "Hey, you seem like yuo won't be a bitch that put me int he friend zone. Wanna get coffee?" I left in the typos.

1) Thanks for letting me know in one sentence that you're an asshole I would not be having coffee with. (I looked at your profile, and it is blank, so again, no coffee).

2) The friendzone doesn't exist. When you say friendzone, I think, "Ah. A woman said she did not want to date you/have sex with you, which she has a right to do as a free individual. You do not agree that she has a right to do this since you like her. You now remain in her social circle to work an angle while stewing your annoyance/anger at her for having thoughts and feelings that do not match your expectations."

3) I know everyone isn't like me and re-reads messages to others on dating sites like five times before hitting send, but you can't be bothered to do it once, just to check?

4) I say specifically in my profile that I do not like coffee. You did not read my profile, did you?

5) Seriously, you misspelled "you".



Why do people do this sort of thing???

I mean, when a guy doesn't want to fuck/date me (it happens! To me, to other women, too!), do I think he is a giant douchebag and that all men suck, and GOD, IF HE HAD JUST GIVEN ME A CHANCE TO KNOW THE REAL ME. Then, hover in his orbit, stewing about how I will get him back for jilting me while trying to still fuck him. No. I mean, that's fucking creepy ass shit!

I like this meme!

( A meme of yuletides past... )

I do so love Yuletide. It is always a lot of fun to stretch my writing wings and try for something different. I think my best writing comes out making gifts for other people.

Now, to actually finish my yuletide for this year!! And maybe get the treat done, too. Writing adventures, here I come!

I am in that mindframe of AAAAAH, YULETIDE, DON'T TALK TO MEEEEE.

I had one story started for my person, then read the prompt again and decided they would not like my idea (they asked for no romance whatsoever, which makes total sense in canon context; I had a background pairing that was important to the plot, also canon but! So dumped it for a later story idea for me, not yuletide). I have a new story started that I'm excited about! It just won't flow on paper right. ;_; GET ON THE PAGE, EXPLOSIONS!!!

My second story, that I really, really want to get done in time, is awesome and involves plot and all my push buttons (anyone that reads it will go "ah, this is so Heather!"). And eeeeeeee, I have to think of more plot with it, but it's fun!

I'm putting it out there now: I am going to be begging for a beta soon. You do not need context. THERE ARE EXPLOSIONS. It's like context! Most likely ready for Monday, I think! I hope. WRITE HARDER, SELF.

I plan to lock myself in my room this weekend and WRITE WRITE WRITE. That's how I work best on yuletide: write in a massive chunk, then read it over the next day, fret, then make others read it, then REJOICE!!!

Between hair appointments, of course! I forgot I had that one. Red head, here I come!!

I have to figure out what to get my nephew for christmas. I honestly have no idea. He wants a remote control monster truck, which my dad already got him a fancy one. I ask, "well, what else might you like?" He says, "Just that, auntie. And for you to visit for longer. I love you!" DAMN YOU AND YOUR CUTENESS. Give me a freaking list!!! He's so unmaterialistic, he makes it hard for all of us each year. He might be getting a remote control air shark, if my sister lets me. I'm a good aunt: I always vet my gifts by mom!!

I am regifting my old ipod to my sister, which she is dorking out how to jailbreak it already. She wouldn't let herself buy one for herself before, because she was afraid of what she would do to it, because she is a giant damn nerd (also, she never buys herself anything). Hurrah, I win Christmas already!

Right. I will win against this freaking work project on I'm right now. So many evaluations! It's fine; my eyes cross after a while from all the tiny print. I'm taking a break before I tackle at least two more before end of day. TWO MOOOOOOORE. It is my battle cry of the day.

And off I go! BACK TO THE GRIND.

It's been adventures for me lately!

My assistant has been out the last two weeks after a foot surgery. Which, I highlight, IS FINE. I had to practically throw her out to get it done because she was terrified of our boss, but she had to get it done, she could hardly walk.

That means that I'm a little more busy and things become adventurous because a lot of the day, I am the ONLY person in the office. Trying to use the bathroom becomes like some game show time challenge. WILL I make it back to my desk before someone comes in or rings? And if I don't, will it be the sort of sort of person that just wanders into other people's offices or starts going through the desks (yup, welcome to my world!).

YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED-- AFTER THIS COMMERCIAL BREAK!

;_;, are my feelings on the matter.

The students are in what are supposed to be their last week of classes. Except most classes end up having their final on their last day of class, so finals weeks becomes obsolete for most of them. Except those kids that have a final on Dec 20th and just want to go hooooooome. Why is it the ones that WANT to go home get stuck, and the ones that never leave are supposed to have left this coming Monday?

Supervisor has been... herself. ;_; I will be happy when Dotty gets back, not because of any work load but as another buffer between myself and boss.

I am going almost a whole week to see my family at the end of the month, and I have taken the ENTIRE last week and half of December off. We get most of it off because of university holidays, but I took the last of the time. I am very o_O about visiting my family because there are always Dramas Afoot with them, but I can't wait to see my sister and co. My nephew keeps trying to emotionally blackmail me into staying longer. He's a little shit, but I love his face. :D!!

Then, New Years is a friends celebration!!! :D gramarye1971 is coming up, and I will be dancing with the Boston folks and just having an actual vacation for once. REAL VKAY FOR MEEEEEEEE! :D!!!!!!!!!

In random news, my phone died last week. Which, was fun! And by fun, I mean that my wallet is now very, very sad, but I'm glad to have something that actually works right now. I got the Galaxy S III, and it wasn't until I messed with it for a while that I realized how glitchy by old phone had become and I had needed a new one for a while. Again, wallet still sad, but it was worth it.

I might end up doing a big phone numbers and addresses drive post sometime soon, because it's so random what numbers did not transfer over. Like, varadia didn't. Whom I talk to almost every day! So strange!

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All right, I think I have gone through and hit everyone. I can allow myself a love meme. I LOVE YOU ALL, LET'S LOVE EACH OTHER. With words. :D?

holiday love meme 2012
my thread here

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EDIT: One day, I will remember how to "user name" on dreamwidth, and not try to do it like lj, like I did for ten years (I AM OLD ON THE INTERNET, AAAAAAAH).

So, who is doing what with Disney villains this year?

I know Sandry is planning to Ursula, and Jo had been talking about doing Madam Mim. What are everyone else's plans?

I am still planning to do some sort of Sailor senshi costume (still want to do sailor dead pool and tuxedo dead pool, Jo??).

I am going to help Sandry with whatever she decides with Ursula. Anyone else need make up help? I do have an air compressor and can do air spray make up.

I must make my project plans! I am not feeling as inspired this year after seeing a few pictures of myself for last year. But I do really like doing make up and styling for others!

I know, I fall off the planet a lot, right? It happens!

Work is busy right now. Everyone keeps showing up at my desk randomly, "OMG, THIS THING. WE DIDN'T DO IT!!!!!" No, I did it two weeks ago. Because I always do it. Every year. We're fine. "...oh."

The next day, "--OMG, THIS THING." Repeat, repeat. Everyone is always shocked I just do things in advance without being told. And I do it so they can't try to change their minds about doing things "different" then deciding no, no, it is too much trouble, let's do it all at the last moment again, half wrong, and be crazy. Like always.

Whaaaatever. I'll just go organize things quietly, behind the scenes, and then hand directors completed projects before they know they need them. And get told I'm shit at my job for it.

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I love my ipad. Seriously. I thought I was being silly getting it, showing off my elitism, that sort of thing. But I use it every day. It was totally worth it!

I type on it, check my email, follow the cats around the house and take their pictures. And the gaming! Tablets are awesome game machines, y'all! Embrace the future! I might have been playing a lot of my old favorite point-and-click adventures for the last week. >_>

If you've been back and forth about getting a tablet, get one! I managed to hobble my old netbook together enough that I still use it for typing and writing (it can no longer get on the internet), but I use the tablet for everything else. I need to figure out an actual working IM client on the tablet, though. I miss actually chatting with people! Besides murdering all the pigs in Angry Birds (they needed to die!!).

(Since writing the above, I might have found a tablet chat client that works! I might have put it together right now? THE FUTURE IS COMPLEX)

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In my continuing adventures with kpop, I have a new boyband crush. This changes weekly, sometimes daily. Because I discover new Korean boybands every day. Because almost 20% of the youth population in Korea, at one point, joined a talent agency and spent years training before either deciding to go to college or become a producer. And seriously, THEY HAVE A LOT OF BOY BANDS.

Current crush: Taeyang from BigBang

Beef cake bboy dancer! He speaks fluent Korean, English, and Japanese! And has a mohawk (sometimes), doesn't really like interviews (he dances instead), and loves kids. His twitter is full of "OMG, MY FRIEND BROUGHT THEIR KID TO THE STUDIO!!! PICTURE OF US CHASING MY DOG, PICTURE OF US PLAYING ON SWINGS, crap, I'm being yelled at for not recording. ;_;!!:"

Very shocking boyband crush is shocking! :O

I fully admit, I started watching BigBang interviews in hopes that GDragon would reveal what eyeliner and hairspray he uses. Damnit beanpole, what products do you use?!?! Your hair stays upright through a whole concert! I NEED TO KNOOOOOOW.

Suggested watching:

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Lunch break over, back to the grind!

I closed out my show! It went really well. :D!

Everyone was very sick by the end, but I managed to not get the plague until about two hours after I left the cast party. I shambled downstairs and whined at Gen, and she was tall enough to get the herbal tea. I am now on all the behind-the-counter drugs from the drug store (you know, the ones you have to show your ID to get). Ug, chills and body aches and cough. Gross.

We're prepped for storm. Who know how it will go down! I was taking a vacation day tomorrow, and it turns out the university is closed for tomorrow. Which, that was a surprise! It never closes down. I'm sure some parents freaked out and demanded it be closed. Or the city government did.

I'm just tired, y'all. Thanks for everyone that emailed: we're all good in the house. We're waiting on Sandry to get back from her trip, then it is movie and cuddle time with the kitties.

;_; Fun times, dudes.

First, YOU'RE FUCKING AWESOME, YULETIDE WRITER!! Thank you for taking on my prompts!

Yuletide is always such a fun thing for me, so I hope my prompts are fun for you! Everything listed here are merely suggestions, so please, go crazy and have fun!

A little about me:

You can find the stuff I write here.

I really love gen fic, comedy, character studies, and slice of life stories. I am all about laughing at those every day life things that happen to us all, those mundane life details in extraordinary stories, and stories about friendships and relationships, both grudging and deep. Ensemble fic is the best thing ever! I have such a soft spot for awesome ladies, strong female characters, and strong female friendships. I love seeing the tiny details of the differences in cultures or locations, the history of a place, all the little things only someone that really loves a place will know.

I also like explosions, action, kicking ass and taking names, and cursing like a sailor. If you can get an awesome character in a space suit, blowing out an airlock and blowing up a space station while thinking "all in a day's work", I might melt from the happy.

While I do love tragedy, violence, and explosions, I do not like it to be without reason. I also do not like character bashing. While AUs can be awesome, I'd rather you stick with canon.

--Except with Aliens. Because what movies after the second one? I have no idea what you're talking about!


Now, the prompts!
( Shine On Me, Dredd, Blanc-Sec, and Aliens )

Have fun, yuletide writer! And I will catch you on the flip side!

I am just full of posts today!

So, I bought myself the latest ipod touch when I bought the ipad, and I just got mine today. I am in love! I kept being shocked when I hold it because it is so light!

I fully admit, I got hypnotized by the power of Apple when I bought the thing because there is nothing wrong with my old 3rd gen ipod. It's just several years old.

That leads me to the offer: does anyone want a 3rd generation ipod touch?

I bought it about 3 1/2 (ish) years ago refurbed from Apple. I remember I had it about a month or two, then they announced the ipod 4th gen coming out that summer and felt silly.

Like I said, it is a 3rd gen itouch. 64 gig memory. It works great! It is never given me any trouble. It has lived in the bottom of my purse for several years, so it is banged up on the back. No engravings. It does not have a camera in it (last itouch that didn't!).

I'm looking to get about $125 for it. Anyone interested? Email or comment!

HA! This is all Becca's and Merc's faults.

It's the Magical Girl AU Episode! (2151 words) by wickedtrue
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Parks and Recreation
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Leslie Knope, Ben Wyatt, Ron Swanson, Andy Dwyer, April Ludgate, Tom Haverford, Donna Meagle
Summary:

Sailor Knope strikes a pose. "I am Sailor Knope, and in the name of the Magical Parks and Public Recreation Enforcement Squad," she takes a deep breath, "I will-- ask you politely to pick up your own garbage and throw it away for you when you don't."

As my students continue to make me crazy with their sudden schedule changes, FASHION TIMES! So I don't go even more crazy.

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Today, I am wearing:

A fitted v-neck in dark purple (not pictured)
high rise cord bell bottoms in deep blue (pictured)
This style necklace, silver layered pearls
open, shawl style cardi (similar)
And these Fluevogs in grey

Hair verdict: Why must my hair kink into crimps JUST AT MY SCALP but be perfect waves and smooth everywhere else? WHY? I will win this argument yet!


I'm actually looking a little period today with my giant, blue bell bottoms and giant, chunky platform heels. I'm comfortable and warm at my desk, that's what makes me happy! Also, excuse to wear my giant, chunky platforms since otherwise my feet will disappear in the pants. Awesome feet, but the so called "flare" are fucking huge bell bottoms.

I'm not sure about doing pictures. I'm always fearful of my double chip and the nastiness that can be the internet. Maybe I'll go crazy and do it tonight?

My cold won't go away. I am drippy and have full body aches and my stomach is mad at me.

Also, I bought an a new ipad and itouch. OH GOD, THE MONEY I JUST DROPPED. Hurrah educator payment plans!

I am going to watch more Bridesmaids. With loads of drugs, it is even funnier! (Why won't the headache stooooop?)

Today is one of those days that, with my assistant out, I am just busy enough that I can't commit to do things on the internet, but can flit about websites a little between phone calls and "emergencies", like how the copier is broken (it isn't broken, you jammed it, stop touching the copier).

I love fashion. It makes me happy! Sometimes, I get the feeling that some people in the world (not you guys!) want me to feel guilty that I like and buy clothes a lot. That I am being a bad person, buying lots of clothes. That I am betraying the female sisterhood buying lots of clothes.

To which I always say: whatever.

I'm an office manager in a busy university department. I am expected to not only be good at my job, but to look good while doing it. And my boss explicitly likes to see me in new outfits because she feels it makes her more important and impressive that I look awesome and impressive. Whatever makes the woman happy and lets me buy more white out for the office at the end of the month (we had an argument; is white out really an office requirement? Yes, yes it is).

It is still an issue that women are expected to "look different and interesting" in the office more often than men. Men are catching up with their metro and clothes horse hunting themselves this century to be judged by their wardrobes, but it is still mostly a woman's job to be awesome and look good doing it.

One day, I will not have to worry about looking perfect while bent over a drawer, fighting 10 year old files out of its dusty home. Today is not that day, so I am a fucking window shopping (and it's okay, there are awesome things there).

My list of things I am search of this season:
- a neutral, work friendly, cross body bag
- brown or brown patterned, work friendly pants that look fucking awesome on my ass
- a pair of black flats that doesn't rip my heels to shreds
- more high quality flowy, bouncy patterned blouses that can transition across seasons
- more "adult", color one piece work dresses (I have ENOUGH blacks!)
- a new tan or dark neutral trench coat that is actually WARM
- flat blue or black oxfords
- brown heeled oxfords
- tweedy blazer!
- FOREVER MORE ACCESSORIES!

Taylor Swift wears some freaking adorable shit, and I want to steal her wardrobe. Also, I need more scarves. I feel like I should shout things like, "accessorize me like one of your french girls!!".

I admit, I am trying to figure out how to take out the rack thing in a vintage bowling bag without removing all the bag reinforcing.

Etsy vintage red bowling bag
This is cute, though don't know if $170 worth
etsy blue bowling bag