Dreams of Falling

Good news: I am a year older! ...which has overtones of 'so there, universe! pbbbth!' now that I think about it, but eh. I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb.

Further good news: Hogwarts promoted me, which is nice? If a little stressful, because new duties! while not having given up old duties!

Knee: sadly not magically better, because physical therapy is not a silver bullet and it's not like I'm going to suddenly stop being hyperflexible because I've been working those muscles. (And I do not work for Actual Hogwarts, which on the bright side means no transphobia by authorial contamination, but on the down side does mean no magical potions that can fix your body overnight.)

Book I am reading next: John Scalzi's KAIJU PROTECTION SOCIETY, which Wife has read and is anxiously waiting for me to read so she can burble.

Imagine, if you will, the following cartoon:

Chibi Thia stands on a beach with a broom. A wave comes in. She sweeps the water back down into its proper place.

Another wave, this one higher! She frowns, but sweeps frantically and the water subsides.

A third wave, leaving her up to her knees in water. She grits her teeth, and is sweeping her little heart out.

Suddenly, a shadow falls over her. She looks up to see the Mother Of All Waves about to crash on her. She shakes her broom at it and then is swept away in the tide.

This is only sorta a metaphor. Stupid paperwork. (Big Deadline coming up, so not only do we have All The Paperwork, but also All The Panicking Students to go with. Whee!)

Also we went to see BLACK PANTHER over the weekend with friends, and enjoyed it. Do not have brain to go into further detail, because see above with waves and broom.

Hello, new people from friending meme!

I feel like I’ve reached some kind of critical mass where no really, I can’t assume that people know certain things. (For a long time, a fairly high percentage of my internet friends were also RL friends, who knew things like my RL name, for example.) So, here is Actual Information Post: ( which is cut to spare your space! )

When I try to list out all the reasons why, they mostly look silly, because they fall somewhere between 'yeah, it's nice when they do that' and 'but workplaces are supposed to do that'. It's depressing to realize the failures of Previous Workplace by way of contrast.

My Hogwarts boss just stopped by my cube, to give me a little Christmas present (homemade Christmas cookie mix). This is in addition to the nice present that I thought was the department gift (with a card signed by my boss's boss). All the students have gone home for the holidays, I've finished my Yuletide pinch-hit and submitted it, and we are planning to go see The Force Awakens on Christmas Day. (Will we be able to remain unspoiled until then? Stay tuned! Y'all have been wonderful about cut-tagging your spoilers, but Tumblr is Tumblr is Tumblr.) Also we're going to tourist it up a bit: we have been informed that we should check out the local Botanical Gardens, not to mention the Aquarium.

This isn't yet Home in the way that New England is. But it's getting there.

(Awesome Mother-In-Law (one of two - yup, I scored two great mothers-in-law) is moving down to within driving distance this spring. We're making friends and settling in - but it will still be nice to have family that's not a plane ride away.)