also, kal penn's back in the white house*

[glass_icarus]

1. It is generally a terrible life decision to go to work on 2 hours of sleep, y'all. Also a terrible life decision? Staying up until ass o'clock in the morning reading epic 100,000+ word A:TLA fic when I still have to do ALL THE THINGS. It's a good thing I was productive yesterday, otherwise I'd be kicking myself really hard over that "writing break."

1a. In unrelated terrible life decision news, I have been neglecting to back up recent icons and music & video files to my external hard drive, and now my creaky 6-year-old desktop where most everything is housed is suddenly refusing to turn on and I have no idea what is wrong with it! Probably it's not worth fixing since I need a new computer anyway, but argh. 6 years' worth of ahemmables! And now I will not be able to check which media files I need to re-ahem, sigh. At least I use googledocs/laptop/thumb drive religiously these days, I don't know what I would have done if actual important things (like my personal statement!) were on it.

2. dark_agenda has a useful AO3 invites and reminders post! Which actually reminds me that I have an AO3 invite, should anybody need one. *g*

3. Still debating Yuletide signups. /o\ None of my Deadlines coincide with the fest deadline this year, so I will technically have enough time to write fic! Must ponder requests...

* &hearts

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

SOB HAVE YOU READ HIROMI GOTO'S HALF WORLD?

... b/c that is one of my unoffered fandoms right now & it is SO AWESOME & & &...

Also, zomg, work on 2 hours' sleep. ;_; (& augh, reminder that I really need to make sure we're backing up stuff on our computer, ack. Sorry you're having computer trouble!!)

[glass_icarus]

No I have not! It is on my list of things to acquire, though, when I finally have time to go hunting again.

I am surprisingly functional, actually, but I think I'm only able to cope because of years and years of insomniac habits. >.>

[littlebutfierce]

Ho ho, then maybe next year? I plan to nudge as many people as I know to read it this year in part for that reason, hehehe.

I feel like when I don't get enough sleep for work I rarely am able to go to bed early that night--somehow I just end up staying up as late as the night before, which compounds things & then by the end of the week I'm a zombie, augh!

[glass_icarus]

I think that is a solid plan! After all, flailing repeatedly and everywhere I possibly could worked for me re: Saving Face. ;)

I have DEFINITELY done that before, hee! I'm hoping that having been awake for something like 23 hours yesterday will prevent the cycle from completing, though.

[littlebutfierce]

I am totally failicious & haven't yet seen Saving Face (though your flailing has been noted!). Double fail cuz when I was in NYC I had a chance to sit around a booth at one of the Asian American fests w/one of the women in the film (don't kill me, I can't remember which) as a volunteer for our queer Asian group. I didn't, but I did stop by, & I am sure whenever I see the film I will retrospectively kick my butt many times!!

[glass_icarus]

AHHHH! (Was it this one? *g*) Well, you have a lot to look forward to!

*perks up*

[ursamajor]

100,000 word ATLA epic? Which one? Where? (Just please don't tell me it's a WIP; I'm already hanging on enough of those these days.)

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[glass_icarus]

I am brainfailing very badly at the moment thanks to the not sleeping, but it's on avocado_love's reclist? The first arc is done but arc 2 is in progress (alas!).

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[ursamajor]

Awesome, I'll have a look. Thank you!

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[glass_icarus]

... and having poked through the reclist- it's this one.

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[vi]

Thank you! I was just going to ask, "WHERE IS THIS FIC!" Not that I need any more distractions today, omg. /o\

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[glass_icarus]

Ahaha, I know the feeling. ;; You're welcome!

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[ursamajor]

*surfaces 24 hours later for air* DAMMIT, MOAR NAO PLZ.

Thanks for the rec! Hooray Katara and Mai adventures! Hooray imperfect world! Hooray Aang branching out!

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[glass_icarus]

IKR. Can we has more Katara and Mai, universe???

(I was so depressed re: Azula! Also I love Mai/Zuko kind of A LOT but this was the sort of setup for Zuko/Katara that I could appreciate. :D)

-- also, hahaha, you're welcome!

[lemniciate]

If you need someone to, you know, provide you with some ahemmables, esp. the musical type, just let me know! :D

[glass_icarus]

Aww, thanks bb! I may in fact have to poke you when the new computer thing happens. Also, AHAHAHAH YOUR ICON~ &hearts

[nan]

Re: working on two hours of sleep - YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE ONLY PERSON TO HAVE DONE THIS. It really is very fdsfdsafdsfdsfdsaf-inducing. D:

I signed up for Yuletide but only requested and offered anime/manga fandoms. *fist pump*

[glass_icarus]

S-solidarity, at least? Sort of. ;; *fistbump*

Hee, I think I attempted to do that last year! And oh, oh, you've reminded me I want to offer Stigma, although I've already written the one story I really wanted to write for it. &hearts

[vass]

The hard drive might be salvagable. The most likely cause of a computer refusing to turn on is the power supply (was there smoke?) which could screw up the rest of the computer, but is unlikely to affect the hard drive. So you could open the case up (obvs, disconnect it from the wall first) get the hard drive out, buy a USB external case (they're cheap) and install it. Bam, you have a new external drive, preloaded with ahemmables.

[glass_icarus]

Heh, I should probably do that with the hard drive, yes. Thanks! :) There wasn't any smoke as far as I could tell. We had a power outage a while back but since nothing else plugged into that particular power strip was affected afterwards... *hands*