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There were some changes at the company in the time between when I finished my internship and when I started my new job. Turns out that my title and job description have changed, but the important things (salary, benefits) have not. It is not a bad thing and I was vaguely aware that such changes might happen.

I am now officially "Coordinator Strategic Accounts" for my company. Basically I'm working with the division of the company that manages sales and business development. It's not a bad fit for me at all since I am very good at communication, writing and marketing. Plus I like the team I am working with. It's definitely busy and more than a bit chaotic though as this team is still in development. Three days in and I was already getting larger tasks that I expected my first week. Not a bad thing at all, but it did cause my anxiety levels to spike for a while yesterday.

I've already decorated some of my desk with little toys that I've gotten from friends (an eraser shaped like a brain, a wonderfully worry-stone shaped eraser with "Keep Calm and Carry On" printed on it, a small Gumby, and a Smurfette figurine in a witch costume stirring a cauldron). I'm going to go through my art and photos and take in some pieces to decorate my cubicle walls with.

Monday I need to call my lyme doc and talk about resuming treatment (I held off on increases this past month so that I was at my best before the bar exam). I meant to call today but didn't get to it. I'm doing my best not to feel guilty about that. In all honesty I'm still pretty pooped from taking the bar, my period, and surviving my first week at a new job. Plus I had a touch of sinus crud/cold that I think I am getting over. Anyway, I'm going to go take a shower and curl up to read a bit before bed. Much love to all.

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jjhunter

ENGINE-ING

I am the girl who catches the train
after common sense calls it a day
my breath makes like steam
in—out of my mouth whistle
my feet beat down the track
fast-er fast-er
one thought only shining the way ahead:
catch that train catch that train
I run against sense against time
faster 'n faster 'n
catch that train catch that train
senseless and wild and flying and faster
and machine-girl that I am
I find that I do
catch that train

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jjhunter

Friday, every Friday, I invite you (yes, you!) to share with me key Dreamwidth posts from the last week. They can be one or more of your own posts, posts of others you'd recommend, interesting discussions, linkspams, tiny delights, whatever stands out to you from the last seven days that you'd like to highlight. Assume that I've been away and pining ~~too true~~ and catch me up on what matters to you.

In return, I will make a point of commenting on at least one post of those you share, and I encourage others to do the same.

Newcomers, lurkers and long-time commentators equally welcome. See also followfriday.

peoppenheimer

A very happy birthday to afuna! May this year bring happy learning, good feelings, and much excitement (of a good kind). Lots of hugs to you, fu!

jjhunter

1. Best American Poetry blog: This Just In: Wednesday March 12, 5:00 PM - Rally to Save the New York Public Library

In a nutshell, the ['so-called Central Library Plan'] calls for the destruction of the book stacks in the main library, the shipping off-site of several million books, the sale of the incredibly popular Mid-Manhattan and SIBL libraries to developers, and the shoehorning of those libraries into the space where the stacks are now, which is a third the size of the two existing branch libraries.

staranise: Help me, help my cat?

My job was supposed to start two weeks ago, but thanks to a bureaucratic hangup it might (maybe!) start next week, or maybe the week after; I was supposed to be earning income already. I've paid rent twice this month thanks to the move. Today's vet visit wiped out basically all the money I had left, and I don't know how I'm going to pay tomorrow morning for the medications that Bert needs now, which are averaging around $400/mo, much less any additional tests or procedures he might need.

Update:

staranise's cat Bert passed away in her arms this morning.

lizcommotion

I cannot rant and rave enough about what an awesome person

staranise is, so I won't even attempt to at this juncture (especially since Lyrica + fatigue = what are brainz even?).

However, I will say that staranise and her cat, Bert, could use a bit of extra help at the moment, as staranise just moved to start a new job and Bert is having some rather large vet bills.

"So this is what I'm asking for: I would really appreciate any financial help anyone could give me right now. My job was supposed to start two weeks ago, but thanks to a bureaucratic hangup it might (maybe!) start next week, or maybe the week after; I was supposed to be earning income already. I've paid rent twice this month thanks to the move. Today's vet visit wiped out basically all the money I had left, and I don't know how I'm going to pay tomorrow morning for the medications that Bert needs now, which are averaging around $400/mo, much less any additional tests or procedures he might need."

Paypal donate button and pics of Bert over on her journal.
ETA: Sad announcement over on staranise's journal

signal boosts/donations appreciated <3

lizcommotion

Haley likes it when you throw her tennis ball. Over and over and over again. I have yet to reach the limit of "and now Haley is done with you throwing the tennis ball for awhile." I don't think there is one, or if there is, it is greater than the limit of how many times I can throw it.

I don't care, really. I am a sucker for her adorable little Ewok face staring at me with great joy and expectation going throw-the-ball-throw-the-ball-throw-the-ball. Sometimes she puts a gooey ball in my lap. Sometimes she puts it in front of me and nudges it with her nose. At times, she will even follow me around and put it against my leg.

These behaviors are...less than endearing to my partner. For some reason, the sound of "click click click click click click *thunk* *grab* click click click click click click *drops ball in front of thrower" get to her after, oh, maybe 50-100 throws? IDK. I think it's cute, and also, I can't resist that Face Haley makes.

Partner can resist the face. Partner has some sort of Haley-ball-neutralizing-mystical-powers wherein she puts the ball next to us on the sofa, and Haley comes and chews the ball, and then suddenly she's asleep. How does this happen? (When I attempt this, Haley just stares at the ball from the sofa until I cave and throw it again.)

Here, for your viewing pleasure, are some photos I took last night while attempting to resist the Face. I didn't make it long, but aren't the pictures cute?

Haley, a small brown Border Terrier, sitting very politely and giving me the Adorable Eye

( two more pictures of dangerous adorableness below the cut )

marahmarie

Just learned that Miley Cyrus tried to stick her tongue down "I Kissed A Girl" Katy Perry's throat but rather than smugly brag via new, follow-up pop song that she's kissed another girl, Katy sternly self-reports to the media that she "screamed" and "ran away" (if Miley tried to kiss me I'd scream and run away, too, but then I've kissed girls and not liked it). In talking more in-depth about it, Katy said something that got me terribly confused (emphasis mine):

"I just walked up to her to give her like a friendly girly kiss, you know, as girls do, and then she like tried to move her head and go deeper and I pulled away."

So what the heck is "a friendly girly kiss", anyway? Inquiring minds (assuming I have more than one, of course) want to know. Have I engaged in this kiss? (Dear God, I hope not. This whole topic is turning my stomach and I haven't even gotten into specifics.) Here are possible girly-kiss-engagement symptoms I have, as they stand so far. Please help me crowd-source an answer to the question, "Have I really girly-kissed a girl, like, ever?"

I'm a girl (more precisely, a woman, but why let proper terminology get in the way of a good story?)
I've kissed other girls (and/or "women")
I've only ever kissed two women on the mouth as a form of greeting - my mom and my sister, because they wanted to kiss me that way first (I think it's revolting but I never said so, I simply complied, getting it over with as fast as possible - kissing-on-the-mouth-greetings must be a kissing gene mutation that passed me over)
Otherwise I've kissed women on the cheek and vice versa, or engaged in the theatrical air kisses some women are fond of, or else done the one where you kiss your hand and blow the kiss at them

Soooooo......*drumroll*

Do the above signs mean I have any of the symptoms of having engaged in "a friendly girly kiss"? I find this topic about as easy to talk about as the possible working title of the next eHow post you'll see, you know, "500 Delicious Ways To Prepare Your Own Snot For Breakfast" so bear with me; my stomach's turning so bad I may puke once in a while in lieu of replying to any comments.

tl;dr: So what the heck is "a friendly girly kiss", anyway? Have I ever unknowingly engaged in one?

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silvrguillotine

It's weird, the old habits and things that stick with you!

( on holdovers from sorta-Catholicism )

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Current Music: NIN -- "The Hand That Feeds"

jjhunter

1. My poem "Tempus" is published in issue 58 of Apex Magazine, which has just been released — check it out!

2. This week's CSA share from Red Fire will apparently be a 'pizza party share', i.e. heavy on local mozzarella cheese, Red Fire tomato puree, shallots, and so forth. I suspect I'll be updating my recipe log: pizza tag with the results some time this weekend! (Should I give the rec'd Deborah Madison's Pizza Dough Recipe a try too? Decisions, decisions...)

3. Tea.

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silvrguillotine

I've been meaning to post more about WtNV recently, but I'm lazy (so this is late and disorganized).

( On Carlos, super rambly and long and disorganized, spoilers through Live Ep (Condos) )

Okay, moving on from that topic...

( Eps Condos (40.5), WALK (41), Numbers (42) )

Unrelated to that, is the name "Kevin R. Free" canon? I know it's canon that Desert Bluffs' radio host's name is Kevin, and I know the wiki says his VA is Kevin R. Free, but we know that character!Cecil and VA!Cecil only share a first name, so is there any confirmation on that not being the case for Kevin?

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jjhunter

Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku. I will leave anonymous comments screened unless otherwise asked; feel free to use this to leave private comments if that's what you're most comfortable with.

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marahmarie

And that's to openly engage in body-shaming.

I mean seriously, fuck that shit. Miss High Horse here [access-locked, sorry] is all like, "The point is it's the impossibly high standards the industry holds her to!" because the person in question? Wait for it...in the damning picture she posted of her, her top ribs stick out when she lifts her incredibly well-defined, muscular arms, like to heave heavy award statues up over her head. And everyone who read this druck like I did? Was all like, 'Yeah, but you're singling her out'. Not to mention that so far, there is a five-out-of-five consensus in the comment section (myself included, written just before I hit my good friend the Unsubscribe Button) that the poor girl is not in fact 'dangerously thin', she's most likely simply built that way.

I am built that way...I'm currently 5'3" and 143 pounds and the bottom half of my rib cage has always stuck out (checked the mirror just now to make sure, and it still sticks out...I even have at least one DW friend who can attest to this himself; he's seen me in a bathing suit) so is anyone here going to argue that because of that - and only that - I'm obviously too thin? Obviously too thin? Anyone?

Please...do it! I need a good laugh...

Waiting...

I didn't think so. And singling anyone out as The Example simply to prove a Greater Point? Even if the example you've chosen - by some judge-y yardstick of your own subjective choosing - is too thin? That's still not right. And it pisses me off.

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Drafted on the train (stillness in motion).
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It's a curious thing, this practice of writing a poem every week. For one or two days after finishing the latest piece, I am flush with completion. I share the poem with others, sometimes tweaking and refining it in response to feedback, and while I may soon settle into the reality of the thing and its likely faults there is still some a vein thrumming of thrill, still certain lines returning unbidden to mind like aftertastes of yes – just enough estrangement from the moment of fashioning to reassure they still ring right.

After that, well, it's like the third day of getting back to daily running: my mind most body-like wakes up wanting to do it again, write another poem, even knowing it can be hard, even knowing the likely uphills to come, the stretch and the beat and the work of what it's like to push yourself to fly when the closest you can come is running.

I find myself with a little extra edge of awareness, hunting for the next flint, the next experience by which I might strike some spark worth catching into poetry. When I get one (like I did today), there's often a delay between the first curls and cracklings of possibility and when I can actually sit down for an hour and write the thing. It sits there in the back of my mind (sometimes for days), teasing, fermenting, being alluringly the not-yet-pinned potency of itself that might.

I have, at such times, greater sympathy for chicken hens: eggs are demanding things.

lizcommotion

I tangentially know the co-chair of Katsucon and his wife (also involved with Katsucon) through a friend of mine. His wife, Christine, caught con-crud at Katsucon this year, which for her happened to be H1N1. She ended up in ICU in a medically-induced coma due to underlying medical conditions that made her more susceptible to flu. She passed away on Sunday.

Grig and his son are left with a rather large hospital bill (even with health insurance) and face the lack of Christine's half of the household income. A friend has set up a gofundme campaign to try to raise funds to help get them on their feet in the face of their loss. In addition, Grig has books available for download/hard copy on Amazon if you would like to help that way.

Donations and/or signal boosts on whichever form of social media you feel comfortable are much appreciated.

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alee_grrl - Whew. Survived first week of work.
jjhunter - Poem: "Engine-ing"
ariestess - OUaT FIC :: "Freedom" [Regina/Tinkerbelle, G]
jjhunter - Friday About Town
peoppenheimer - Happy birthday, fu!
jjhunter - 2 In Want Of Signal Boosts
lizcommotion - Signal Boost: Help staranise, help her cat (Adora)Bert
lizcommotion - The Irresistable Face
marahmarie - Hey y'all...what is a 'girly kiss'? Have I 'girly-kissed' before and not known it?
ariestess - OUaT POEM :: "The Nature of Dwarves" [Grumpy & Nova, G]
silvrguillotine - (no subject)
jjhunter - 3 Good Things
ariestess - Today's DailyOM Offerings...
silvrguillotine - ♫ but I'm sure that it happened
ariestess - OUaT FANMIX :: "Won't Surrender" [Cora Mills, G]
jjhunter - How Are You? (in Haiku)
marahmarie - Interrupting my Reading List browsing to point out another thing none of us should be doing...
ariestess - OUaT POEM & GRAPHIC "My Little Prince" [Regina & Henry, G]
jjhunter - Catching Into Poetry
lizcommotion - Signal Boost: Help a Family who's lost a breadwinner and has medical bills to prove it

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