Ooo, hey, it's been a month...
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jennariaWORK: Going really well! Still training (which, as always, is a lot more complicated than just 'swish and flick'), still learning my way around (at least the stairways of my metaphorical Hogwarts don't move on me), but I'm enjoying it.
(My building is right next to the library, and two minutes' walk from the art museum. I haven't been to either, but it's pleasant knowing they're there, like I'm saving them for a rainy day.)
Also, I am driving to work every day, after not having had a license for the first thirty-mumble years of my life. How is this even.
SCHOOL: Wife's, not mine. So far, so good. I've met some of her fellow students, who seem like nice people (aside from one awkward Let's Talk About Arab Politics moment, which was probably inevitable given that one of the gentlemen was Syrian and the other Palestinian and also current events in that part of the world). As the semester progresses, I am seeing less and less of her. This was expected (see under 'grad school widow' jokes). In the meantime, we are also firmly having at least two nights a week for each other, even if we spend them vegging on the couch watching Netflix (see below)
RELIGION: We've joined a church - the church I mentioned earlier, which really is three quarters LGBT. Also feminist, socially liberal, and generally as close to a little slice of Massachusetts as we could ever have found in Georgia. It's the type of place where, after the sermon, the preacher stops and says, okay, your turn, and the congregation can say what they think, right then and there. I've started singing in the choir, which is fun, even if no really I am not a first soprano, what is this high G and how did I wind up singing it.
AMUSEMENT: The third season of MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES just dropped on Netflix, so we have started watching that. We are three (four?) episodes in, and enjoying it hugely (as expected), even if we occasionally want to smack the characters (especially Hugh - no, seriously, Hugh, these are important things which you are failing to tell YOUR FUTURE WIFE, who is arguably more capable than you, what the hell).
First disc of MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. has arrived. Unfortunately, wife has no interest, so I am watching on my own. Still a guilty pleasure. Makes things confusing when I go to AO3 and everything's movie-based. One of these things is not like the others...
Have slacked off listening to WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE. I enjoy it when I do listen, it's just...not my shiny thing any more. Still have one more story I kinda want to write for it, to tie it off in my head, but after that, I can safely put it up on the shelf of fandoms that I'm still vaguely fond of, but which are not the fandom of my heart any more.
Also Les Miserables remains a shiny thing. I'm still not sure why. Then again, if I could predict how people's tastes worked with infallible accuracy, I'd be in marketing, not at Hogwarts.
(My building is right next to the library, and two minutes' walk from the art museum. I haven't been to either, but it's pleasant knowing they're there, like I'm saving them for a rainy day.)
Also, I am driving to work every day, after not having had a license for the first thirty-mumble years of my life. How is this even.
SCHOOL: Wife's, not mine. So far, so good. I've met some of her fellow students, who seem like nice people (aside from one awkward Let's Talk About Arab Politics moment, which was probably inevitable given that one of the gentlemen was Syrian and the other Palestinian and also current events in that part of the world). As the semester progresses, I am seeing less and less of her. This was expected (see under 'grad school widow' jokes). In the meantime, we are also firmly having at least two nights a week for each other, even if we spend them vegging on the couch watching Netflix (see below)
RELIGION: We've joined a church - the church I mentioned earlier, which really is three quarters LGBT. Also feminist, socially liberal, and generally as close to a little slice of Massachusetts as we could ever have found in Georgia. It's the type of place where, after the sermon, the preacher stops and says, okay, your turn, and the congregation can say what they think, right then and there. I've started singing in the choir, which is fun, even if no really I am not a first soprano, what is this high G and how did I wind up singing it.
AMUSEMENT: The third season of MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES just dropped on Netflix, so we have started watching that. We are three (four?) episodes in, and enjoying it hugely (as expected), even if we occasionally want to smack the characters (especially Hugh - no, seriously, Hugh, these are important things which you are failing to tell YOUR FUTURE WIFE, who is arguably more capable than you, what the hell).
First disc of MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. has arrived. Unfortunately, wife has no interest, so I am watching on my own. Still a guilty pleasure. Makes things confusing when I go to AO3 and everything's movie-based. One of these things is not like the others...
Have slacked off listening to WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE. I enjoy it when I do listen, it's just...not my shiny thing any more. Still have one more story I kinda want to write for it, to tie it off in my head, but after that, I can safely put it up on the shelf of fandoms that I'm still vaguely fond of, but which are not the fandom of my heart any more.
Also Les Miserables remains a shiny thing. I'm still not sure why. Then again, if I could predict how people's tastes worked with infallible accuracy, I'd be in marketing, not at Hogwarts.