elanya

Well, that was a week, all right!

I feel like there is just not a while lot of interest going on with me these days that is of much interest. My work days are all fairly similar - I'm cataloguing the paperweight collection, which is going fairly quickly. Some of them are very pretty, and some of the modern ones we have aver very striking. they're also mostly from the 80s and 90s, and when i go look up the artists to see what they are doing now I get even more impressed. I think my favourites are Paul Stankard and some of Chris Buzzini stuff for modern botanical paperweights. Parabelle made the best millefiori I've seen, but they are out of business (an image search is your best bet if you want to see what I mean). I think of the artists we have in the collection that I have looked up, though Debbie Tarsitano is doing some of the most interesting stuff, having moves away from paperweights and in to other ways of doing art with glass.

I usually do lunch with a handful of friends who also work on campus, but they have not all been available this week. Yesteday i just had lunch in the break room and then went downstairs and poked at the crazy long Diablotin fanfic I've been working on until it was done. It is done! yay! I'm super happy with how it turned out, but also sad because, as always, it really hasn't got much of a growable audience. It is basically WWI with magic and gangsters? well, theoretical magic, anyway, there is no actual magic in this story, just references to it. I think there is probably just enough references to the larger world and historical stuff for it to be harder to access for people who don't know the world though. There is a scene full of microaggressions that probably wouldn't make sense, which is a shame. They are world-building microaggressions, darnit! I am proud of them - narratively speaking, I should clarify.
In case you are curious, the fic is posted at AO3 over here: Dinner Date. It has a terrible title.

Uh, what else of interest from last week... I turned the heel on the sock I am working on yesterday, and am over halfway through the lace repeats on my shawl. I found a really cool job I need to apply for, probably after I finish this entry, at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown. It is a registrar position, and I think I would be really well suited to it. Lets see if I can even get as far as an interview.... Which has not happened for anything else I've tried for, save the local one where I had a semi interview before I actually sent in a resume at all. And which I haven't heard back from the director on in like two weeks. So you know, very encouraging stuff there :p I'm debating whether I ought to make a linkedin. Yes? Probably? Meh. I hate online profiles, especially ones that require maintenance :p Perhaps this is evident in the fact that my LJ/DW onces have not been updated for years and are not really likely to be :p

My regular gaming schedule has been a bit disrupted - Thursdays we have been playing Gamma World, which is a very silly and fun game. Last Sunday we didn't play Adventure World, but did some online Arkham Horror instead. I think my GM for those needs a bit of a brain break, which is fair. We've shuffled the Diablotin schedule as well, as the Gm for that one (naryrising) has house guests who are also some of the players (longpig and wererogue).

I'm babbysitting tonight for tethys123 and will probably use the time after her kiddo goes to sleep to poke more at Trope Bingo stuff. I've finished one story for it so far and have ideas for all the others. or, I might be clever and work more on my game for Webercon, which is only a month away, after all. I do have a solid idea for it at least! And I also need to submit my story for Dreams in the Witch House this weekend as well. Oh, and laundry. One load in already!

I think that's all... with me anyway - how are things for *you*, internets people?