Gah, pinboard is down. I'm not sure what to do with myself. Refreshing my pinboard page is a time-honored time-waster, and now it's gone. And I was going to clear out some of my Firefox tabs by doing a recs spree today, too! I feel so empty and hollow inside.
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So, I haven't been on the internet for a while.
Technically that's not true. I've been on the internet a lot. But mostly just reading, or screwing around on G+ or buzzfeed on my phone, or netflixing or playing games. Most of my reading has been through AO3 subscriptions or my pinboard. Today was the first time in weeks that I so much as touched dreamwidth or livejournal, which is the first in years, not counting vacations. It's just... weird. I'm glad I'm back, I guess, after a while the main reason you don't get online is so that you don't have to face catching up online, but I had several days off in a row and decided to just go for it today. I basically capped out at "an hour" or "when my attention span failed" for each dw and lj, whichever happened first, so there's probably huge amounts of stuff I will never get caught up on, which I am okay with. I've been pretty busy with my offline life, which is a nice change.
I can't remember if I ever told the internets that I'd finally gotten together with the guy I'd been not!dating for a long time last winter? Because I did. It's pretty awesome. We're almost at the six-month mark, and we'd been basically dating for months before then, and best friends for about the same time. We spend basically all our time together, with maybe one day a week we're not sleeping over at each other's places. We already decided that barring unforseen circumstances, he's going to move in to my place when his lease is up next April. The thing that makes me think this is not a terrible idea is that a non-trivial amount of time together on shared days off is spent gaming/reading/watching tv in separate rooms. Also I have a house big enough for us both to have our own office space, as well as an entertainment room. We should be fine.
So anyway, internet, I have been away because I've been basically "in the bubble" with my partner, and that's been pretty awesome so I'm deciding not to regret it. I'm back now, though. I may even be getting some writing done, once I get my thesis prospectus done in a couple of weeks. Grad school is weird.
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This is a massive, massive crosspost. Which took some wrangling- I'm sorry if posts kind of appeared and disappeared on your flist in the last twenty minutes, there was some frantic cut-and-paste going on- but I was victorious. This is like, the last month and a half of recs. Also, there were about three recs that wouldn't crosspost from March 8th. Sorry, three little recs. It's not you, it's me.
( avengers, captain america, x-men first class, iron man, the unusuals, star trek reboot, dc comics, teen wolf, harry potter, merlin, inception, stargate atlantis, avatar the last airbender, good omens, sherlock bbcCollapse )
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An excellent comment from my professor in class today:
"The first thing about being a history major is to make a life. Not a living, a life. And once you make a life, you'll find it much easier to make a living."
Damn if that isn't bang on the nose how I feel about my future career. As I keep saying to people who are asking me about it: you don't go into graduate-level academia because you want to get rich, you do it because you love what you're learning and want to make a life using what you're learning. Period, end of story.
Dr. Blake said it better though.
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( merlin, sherlock bbc, avatar the last airbender, lilo and stitchCollapse )
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( sherlock, trek reboot, generation kill, merlin, tin man, dcu toon, avengers, metaCollapse )
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All right! Had my first test of the crossposting-from-Pinboard just now. Let me know what you think- does it look okay? Should I go back to just posting the fandom roundup every month? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I have two months worth of recs updates to post! I fail. After this I'm going to try and set up something that posts things over here automatically from Pinboard, but we'll see how that goes. And I have at least three months worth that I have to add to my website. *facepalm*
In the month of December, I posted 56 recs in 36 fandoms, including Angel, Avengers, Buffy, Criminal Minds, DCU, Doctor Who, Farscape, Fringe, Haven, Hawaii 5-O, How I Met Your Mother, Inception, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, NCIS, Person of Interest, SGA, Sherlock BBC, Sherlock Holmes, Supernatural, Torchwood, Star Trek Reboot, White Collar, X-Men First Class, and Young Avengers.
In the month of January, I posted 81 recs in 24 fandoms, including Alice (SyFy), Avengers, Captain America, Covert Affairs, DCU, Doctor Who, Fairy Tales, Generation Kill, Harry Potter, Inception, Merlin, Mulan, SG-1, Sherlock BBC, Sherlock Holmes, Supernatural, The Unusuals, Star Trek Reboot, Warehouse 13, and Young Avengers.
And now I have over fifty essay tests to grade, so I'm going to go crawl home and die.
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Hey, everybody. So, I'm not dead, fyi, just incredibly distracted all the time and back in grad school, which is attention-consuming at the best of times.
At some point I will make a more substantive post, possibly even with some form of fiction involved, but right now I just have to say:
Finally saw the newest Avengers trailer, and why was everyone going on about the Steve-n-Tony moment when there was a MUCH MORE AWESOME moment of Tony being sarcastic at a god? While drinking, because Tony. Jesus, I can't wait for this movie to come out.
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