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Things that make me happy
Feb. 8th, 2013 10:52 amIt occured to me today that this journal, somehow, became my primary space where I actually get involved in any sort of online conversation. I use tumblr, yes, but we all know Tumblr is for squee not for actually interracting with each other. I technically have what others would call a "fannish" journal, but I haven't updated it in a year or so. I'm not big on forums or mailing lists, and while I keep in touch with people I befriended online (and meeting them in real life), agnieszkas is now my official hangout.
Hell, the lines between my fannish identity and my real name have been blurred for a while now and I recently realized I don't mind connecting the two. It's a new idea and I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed on that front, but be warned. This post will not be discussing OTW-related topics.
This post is more personal, if somewhat random and all over the place.
This post is all about Things That Make Me Happy (list edition)
In no particular order:
- Watching my OTPs on screen together (preferably when they are being nice to each other)
- Nail polish (of which I have 43 different shades and colors)
- Funding weekend trips so my mom can visit her friend in a different city
- Seeing people add to Fanlore pages I started
- The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- Skittles
- Color-coded Excel spreadsheets
- Comments on my fanfics
- Hugs
- Dancing alone in my house
- Being told I do good work
- Pizza
- making lists
- Writing
- werewolves
- non-conventional relationships
- Kenzi
- sarcasm
- my friend's successes
- skull designs
- tattoos
- watching other people be excited
- sleeping in
- New books from my favorite authors
- my cat
- crepes
- meta
So there you go. Things that make me happy. Looking at it, it's a mixed bag and I really feel like I should add some sparkles around the Skittles.
ANYway. I went out on a limb and shared something personal. Please don't make me feel awkward and let me know what makes you happy in the comments, so I don't feel like an idiot.
Hell, the lines between my fannish identity and my real name have been blurred for a while now and I recently realized I don't mind connecting the two. It's a new idea and I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed on that front, but be warned. This post will not be discussing OTW-related topics.
This post is more personal, if somewhat random and all over the place.
This post is all about Things That Make Me Happy (list edition)
In no particular order:
- Watching my OTPs on screen together (preferably when they are being nice to each other)
- Nail polish (of which I have 43 different shades and colors)
- Funding weekend trips so my mom can visit her friend in a different city
- Seeing people add to Fanlore pages I started
- The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- Skittles
- Color-coded Excel spreadsheets
- Comments on my fanfics
- Hugs
- Dancing alone in my house
- Being told I do good work
- Pizza
- making lists
- Writing
- werewolves
- non-conventional relationships
- Kenzi
- sarcasm
- my friend's successes
- skull designs
- tattoos
- watching other people be excited
- sleeping in
- New books from my favorite authors
- my cat
- crepes
- meta
So there you go. Things that make me happy. Looking at it, it's a mixed bag and I really feel like I should add some sparkles around the Skittles.
ANYway. I went out on a limb and shared something personal. Please don't make me feel awkward and let me know what makes you happy in the comments, so I don't feel like an idiot.
I have nothing in my defense
Jan. 26th, 2013 08:01 pmThere is a possibility that I ordered the entire season 8 of Buffy comics. And the first book of Angel&Faith line. All the Fanlore editing of the Buffy content reminded me how much I miss that fandom. So comics went on the list of things I can't live without. They will quickly be joined by DVDs (which, surprisingly, I don't own yet). But you know how it is. New content is more attractive than the episodes I can quote in my sleep. But since the entire series is only L49, I might end up ordering it for the first holiday that comes up.
Side note: How is it that 5 seasons of Angels are more expensive than 7 seasons of Buffy?
In other news: Thanks to the wonder that is Wayback I managed to get access to Morbid-Much? the vid site I mentioned in my previous post. Which means I might end up adding a lot of Fanvid content to Fanlore, even though it was not (by any means) my primary hangout during the fandom's golden age (I was always more of a written word girl. And all the fics I want to add there.... So many things, so little time). I just can't get over all the vids that are no longer available for viewing or download.
It makes me yearn for The Dark Archive and Torrent of Our Own (when is those going to happen anyway? I need them like yesterday!). So I could access all the wondeful vids I no longer have on my HDD...
Side note: How is it that 5 seasons of Angels are more expensive than 7 seasons of Buffy?
In other news: Thanks to the wonder that is Wayback I managed to get access to Morbid-Much? the vid site I mentioned in my previous post. Which means I might end up adding a lot of Fanvid content to Fanlore, even though it was not (by any means) my primary hangout during the fandom's golden age (I was always more of a written word girl. And all the fics I want to add there.... So many things, so little time). I just can't get over all the vids that are no longer available for viewing or download.
It makes me yearn for The Dark Archive and Torrent of Our Own (when is those going to happen anyway? I need them like yesterday!). So I could access all the wondeful vids I no longer have on my HDD...
Wrangling Translation
Sep. 17th, 2012 10:14 pmI keep repeating to myself that picking up a co-wrangler for the Teen Wolf fandom was the best thing I could've ever done. Not only we had a 3 hour-long wrangling party trying to put some order in the chaos that are additional tags (also known as freeforms), but my co-wrangler turns up on every committee I need to work with in my capacity os Translation chair.
It's incredibly awesome because it makes me feel more at ease when I reach out to those committees. It's like when you hate bothering strangers with things you think you should know, but it's perfectly okay to bother somebody you know with them. That's how I feel.
Did that explanation even made sense to people who didn't spend the past 13 hours in front of a computer?)
Weekly Recap
- some of my TV shows are returning but I'm already terribly behind. I managed to stay on top of Switched at Birth (I remeber the time when my fic was the only SaB fic on AO3... As opposed to now, when there are two fics) because that show is adorable. I'm a masochist who loves music, so I'm still watching Glee. There's also Doctor Who and Leverage. I have to be really excited about a show to watch it now that I have little free time available (or you have to be Glee which I can't seem to STOP watching...). We'll see how that goes when all my previous shows premire... I will give up sleep probably.
- On Tranlastion front I'm very excited about getting a new staffer. God, do we need manpower.
- I'm learning about editing wiki, because I want to revamp Translation pages. I learned basic HTML, I can learn this. Though I suspect I will stumble here and there. I'm excited because once I get all the codes down I will be able not only edit the org wiki but I will be able to add stuff to Fanlore. My contributions so far have been brief and uninspiring.
- I think I need to teach myself PHP and Drupal too, or at least research it enough to know what I'm talking about when I go bother Webmasters about shiny things translators could use on our interface.
- I tried learning RubyonRails, because there's a very fun tutorial online, but it's something I had to push on my "Later if I have a lot of time" list.
*sigh*
I have so many plans and things I want to do and things I want to try. I think I need a good 5-year Plan. Possibly in Excel. I really REALLY love Excel.
It's incredibly awesome because it makes me feel more at ease when I reach out to those committees. It's like when you hate bothering strangers with things you think you should know, but it's perfectly okay to bother somebody you know with them. That's how I feel.
Did that explanation even made sense to people who didn't spend the past 13 hours in front of a computer?)
Weekly Recap
- some of my TV shows are returning but I'm already terribly behind. I managed to stay on top of Switched at Birth (I remeber the time when my fic was the only SaB fic on AO3... As opposed to now, when there are two fics) because that show is adorable. I'm a masochist who loves music, so I'm still watching Glee. There's also Doctor Who and Leverage. I have to be really excited about a show to watch it now that I have little free time available (or you have to be Glee which I can't seem to STOP watching...). We'll see how that goes when all my previous shows premire... I will give up sleep probably.
- On Tranlastion front I'm very excited about getting a new staffer. God, do we need manpower.
- I'm learning about editing wiki, because I want to revamp Translation pages. I learned basic HTML, I can learn this. Though I suspect I will stumble here and there. I'm excited because once I get all the codes down I will be able not only edit the org wiki but I will be able to add stuff to Fanlore. My contributions so far have been brief and uninspiring.
- I think I need to teach myself PHP and Drupal too, or at least research it enough to know what I'm talking about when I go bother Webmasters about shiny things translators could use on our interface.
- I tried learning RubyonRails, because there's a very fun tutorial online, but it's something I had to push on my "Later if I have a lot of time" list.
*sigh*
I have so many plans and things I want to do and things I want to try. I think I need a good 5-year Plan. Possibly in Excel. I really REALLY love Excel.
