Going to Portus, having four days of pure Potter t00biness has reawakened - for the time being, anyway - some of the squishiness I had for the series, enough to make me go back and try to polish up some of the (many, MANY) poor orphaned fics I've abandoned and unleash them on the outside world.

So, time for another round of "Aeryn tries to clean out her closet!" One down, about two dozen to go. :P This is unbetaed - though I certainly wouldn't mind having one! - so all mistakes are cheerfully mine.

Next up is probably another H/L fic, but I've got a H/Hr that's taking shape pretty well too.

( She's never been exactly sure what the fuss over boys is. )

Now, WB just needs to hurry the eff up and give me a picture of the Slug date already! :P

As if being a beautiful liberal city on the Pacific coast (and hosting a Harry Potter con next year) wasn't enough:

Proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant Makes Ballot

HEE. :D

Making plans to catch a late The Dark Knight showing tonight. I'm looking forward to it, but if anything, the near-universal praise for it actually makes me less thrilled. It seems like the pedestal is being set almost too high to be lived up to. The last time I heard this overwhelmingly positive a sweep of reviews was the LotR films, and I've made no secret of how I feel about those; I usually seem to go for the stuff that gets mixed/panned by critics. (Case in point, all six damn Star Wars movies.) So I'm just going to skim my eyes right past any more reaction posts or reviews out there until after I see it. ;) Because dammit, I do want to enjoy this movie.

ETA: Granted, I'm not anticipating HBP as much as previous Potter flicks, but... four months before the movie comes out, and THIS is the best WB can do? (For an IMAX trailer, no less?) Come ON! We had 10 times more than this at this same point before OotP. At the very least show us a split-second shot of the cave sequence, or SOMETHING - that's one part of the movie that should look damn awesome in IMAX.

It makes it a lot harder to try and take over more responsibilities for this program when certain other people keep jumping in and taking over the situation without asking. Especially situations like this one, which I could've handled just fine on my own. All I asked was where this applicant's folder was, and She just swept right in and took it all out of my hands.

Certain people are apparently having a hard time letting go of the notion - however false it always was - that I'm here to assist them. Uh, no. I'm here to work this program. You just happen to work in this same program. My younger age and shorter time working here does not make me your "assistant."

Looks like I get to have another discussion with our boss.

On a better note to fellow HP (more specifically H/L) peeps: I should have a new ficlet to post sometime today. :)

ETA: Also, certain customers start getting irritated with me and don't let me finish a sentence, prompting me to have to raise my voice to be heard, and they get on ME for being loud? Uh, suck it. :P Shame we don't have a spot for a "RAGING ASSHOLE" flag on our database screens.

I actually put myself down for this over a week ago, but certain things got in my way. *g* I'm meme-ing like crazy lately... I'm claiming it as work therapy.

Icon Meme!
1. Reply that you wish to take part, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee!

I commented on turtle_goose's and heron_advocate's LJs. Since their choices overlapped, I just have six to squee over. ;)

( to the squee! )

Aside from them ending, anyway?

The catch-up time. I've been at work for two hours and haven't even touched my backed-up paperwork yet - it's all been catching up on emails and phone calls and mailouts.

(I'm taking my 15 minute break now, dammit.)

Good news - or not, depending on your view of work - my boss's boss (my old boss) told me this morning they've approved me to work overtime for the next month! I'm very happy about this... even though I'm technically supposed to be an equal partner with the other lady working this licensing program, I've been at an extreme disadvantage because her position allows her to work overtime. And she has been, working until midnight many nights... and weekends. :P (Which, I think, does make this lady - who I griped about at length last year, but things seemed to have improved since then - still feel she's my "superior," which she's definitely not, and can direct me around.)

So yay, extra money! I'll need it if I'm doing two long-distance cons next year. *g* Azkatraz on the West Coast, and SW Celebration 5 likely somewhere in the upper Midwest or East Coast. There's a part of me that'd love to do Comic Con, but given the choice between it and a Celebration - since there's no way I could do THREE huge cons in a year - yeah. The pure-SW love wins out every time. ;)

I'll have Portus pics up tonight - not near as many as I had for something like Celebration because it's not as ostentatious or crowded a venue (plus a lot of the time you simply forget about taking pics), but hey. :) And anyone else who still wants to take a look at my extremely tl;dr recap, it's here.

*squishes the new f-list addees from Portus* :)

ETA: Just spotted this headline on CNN: "Anchor tumbles down hill in Zorb." And of course my still-fannishly-imbibed brain goes straight to zorb. Hee. (Hope you made it home all right!)