Alive in a Box

I get the feeling that this new season is mostly a meandering meditation on change, and age, and small town life, and holding onto the past and being trapped in old patterns . . . . with a soupcon of crazycakes and the Cooper plotline to kind of hang the meander on.

Hmm.

Year-end is always a ridiculous time at work, and then there is travel and dealing with extended relations and shenanigans. So.

Here is this.

holiday love meme 2015
my thread here

Year end at work is destroying my will to live, I swear.

In light of that, love meme time!

holiday love meme 2012
my thread here

I don't watch much Parks and Rec, but several people that I know do, and they had the lovely idea of taking some time to appreciate the online (and offline) ladies, women, and girls that we all know and love.

So!

Happy Galentine's Day
my thread

Meme! Well, answers to a meme, mostly. And then the meme proper. If you want.

Comment with "Come at me, bro," and:
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people question

( These questions are from Sweeney )

THE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MEME

My thread.

It has been a week. A good week, one with some positive changes at work and out, I think.

But still, change is stressful.

So is attempting to regulate the temperature in my apartment without resorting to A/C and heating. Windows open = too cold, windows closed = too hot -- I clearly cannot win. And it makes me sleep less. But I have figured out which windows to open and when in order to optimize my sleeping experience and STOP WAKING UP at 3:30 am.

Dear lord.

It has now been a year since I moved to Boston. I find myself weirded out by how fast that year has gone by, and how amazingly not-arduous it was. Before this I had never lived outside my home state before, I had never spent more than three months away from home, I'd never lived entirely alone. But it's gone pretty well, I think. I love my job, I like my coworkers, the stuff I get to do every day is interesting.

Sure, I have less energy than I used to, especially for things like IM and RP, but I think that'll pick up again once the end-of-year push is done. Sure, everything here is more expensive than back in Pittsburgh (oh my god rent why are you SO HIGH???), but I have friends that live close by, and the public transportation is nothing to sneeze at.

I even, knock on wood, get imposter syndrome less often than I did in grad school.

So all in all I think it's been good for me, living out here. I'm hoping next year is even better. I'm hoping the same for all of you.

And hey, maybe I'll even start updating my LJ more than once ever six months. *holds breath*

And because winter is my long, dark teatime of the soul -- my post at the Holiday Love Meme.

I'm a sucker for memes. So if there's anything you've always wanted to tell me --

❝i've always wanted to tell you❞

Have at.

Given that this is my week of glorious vacation, and I am fed and comfortable and waiting for the workday to be over for people who are not as gainfully unemployed as I am so that we can all run free in the cold and the rain together --

Have a meme.

A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?

B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!

You can choose any or all of these options.

My fandoms include Milliways characters and fandoms (including broad DC and Marvel, but I am not an encyclopedia, so that will be a factor), most popular sci-fi/fantasy books/movies/tv, but anything that premiered in the last two years that is not sci-fi/fantasy, Life, or Dexter, I have probably not seen enough of to wax epic about it.

(We interrupt this news bulletin to say 'hey, cat, stop sitting on my hands! Ow. Claws.')

Since I have a stupid meeting in an hour that will require me to sit and watch other people talk for two hours when I could be working on my thesis -- a meme! So that I have potentially something fun and/or funny to look forward to doing once Hell Hours are over!

PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question