Thrihyrne

I'll admit that in past years, I was mostly jazzed about writing, not what I received. This year, however, has brought a truly marvelous story my way that I'm not waiting to share!! It's set within "Almost Human," and if you know the wonderful TV series that SO disappointingly wasn't continued, you will love this short story. Everything about it is spot on: the banter, the dialogue, the knowledge of the show. It's phenomenal. If you're interested, please go and read and leave the (still anonymous) author some kind words! ♥

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2800139/chapters/6285350

For the first time in ages, I really slept in on Saturday and needed it after my week of getting up so early. But once I was up and had coffee in hand, I spent several hours having unhurried, thoughtful conversations with family and friends, including emansil_08, persephone100 and cim_halfling. I also had a massage on Sunday. :D I got it from Joseph, the fabulous massage therapist who I used to see regularly when I lived here before. That is one great perk of living at Julia's: being able for him to use the treatment room. There's something marvelous about getting a massage without having to go anywhere! I also had a major library run, taking back loads of movies and some books and picking up a slew of unfortunately heavy books to bring home in my backpack. I'm currently reading The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman, a book I'm borrowing from a work colleague, amazingly enough. I've also started my second major tome by Jared Diamond, his perhaps more famous one, Guns, Germs and Steel. It's pretty interesting stuff, and great reading while on the bus and train. I will say that walking to the bus and it being light outside was quite novel— and much appreciated. I did agree to switch back to the early shift for Wednesday to accommodate a fellow CSR's doctor appointment. One day of doing the early shift again won't be too bad. I'm really enjoying my work. I still have plenty to learn, and I'm not always as fast as others, but I'm already pretty savvy about what's going on and I know that my actual interactions with clients is professional and personable. I am weighing out options about whether to stay at Julia's for more than another month or to get serious about finding something much closer to my job. It's not as black and white as it could be, and there are many positives as well as many negatives to both— and an unfortunate amount of psychological elements to it, some of which really do make me want to move out again so as not to deal with them. The universe has been incredibly good to me in recent months; I trust that will continue.

Lastly, I uploaded my Yuletide fic. Yay!! Perhaps I'll do some more writing on my Tolkien stories over Christmas, as well as while on the bus. Speaking of, I had another of my "Wow, I really do love this city/area" moments while crossing the river this morning, seeing the mist on the hills and loving that I can get around everywhere I need to on public transportation. That's pretty cool. :)

Last night I had the good fortune of bedding down not just with Stan, but also Kitty Boy. Unfortunately I was finding it difficult to get to sleep, and when I glanced over at my clock and saw it was 1:30 a.m. I did give serious thought to going and getting a pill to help, but that would have involved getting up, and I had cats curled up on both sides of my legs. So I decided to wait it out and eventually I did fall asleep. Having the cats and particularly Stan back in my life are such a joy— Taffy had definitely decided to be my fast friend at my parents', but I've always been a cat person first and foremost and Stan had adopted me when I lived here last and he's taken up with me again now that I'm back. There's something so incredibly marvelous about having a decent sized cat sprawled out on my chest, one paw stretched out over my shoulder under the covers while going to sleep. :)

This week I've continued in my daily job search and have picked up another interview on Monday plus a modeling gig this Saturday, the 29th and December 9th. I also got my food benefits straightened out (there had been some issues between Oregon and Virginia but it's all settled now) and will do a job meeting of some sort with the benefits office as part of getting the food help. Seeing as how I'm already incredibly driven and tenacious about this stuff, that's not an issue, but it turns out that they'll give me some bus tickets to help with my search. YAY!!! Because at $5 a pop for a full day pass, that is a huge help.

The vintage cardigan I'm knitting is coming along so quickly! The back and fronts are done and I've started on the sleeves. Pictures soon to come. I'm also enjoying writing on my Gimli story; I checked out The Annotated Hobbit from the library as I have him going up to Erebor post-WR and details about the dwarves up there is found in The Hobbit, not really LotR. And my copy of The Hobbit is back in VA, along with other books I wish now I'd packed, but I'll get back eventually. Speaking of writing, today I signed up for Yuletide, and now am nervous about what I'll be asked to write. I opted not to sign up for His Dark Materials or True Blood since that's what I've written in Yuletides past, so we'll see who I get paired up with. :) And having just picked a Secret of Kells icon, I'm realizing I should have nominated that as a fandom! Surely gapfiller fanfic could be written for it. Next year, I suppose. ;)

I'll be brief- first and foremost, thank you for writing for me! Whichever fandom we had in common, I hope that you have fun writing it and are delighted rather than disappointed. And whatever fandom you write in that I requested, I'll be exceedingly grateful. As is obvious in my request, I'm a slash fan, but you needn't necessarily go that route if you're uncomfortable with it. I'm far more interested in character development and wordcraft, though of course some scorchingly hot interaction between any of the slash pairings I mentioned is welcomed. I do have an aversion to epithets, writing in the present tense, and fluff. For someone who knows well what I like in regards to the four fandoms I requested, elfscribe5 is the one to consult.

Mostly, I do hope that you're looking forward to writing whatever you do! For what it's worth, the person I was paired with has requested something I'd never considered writing about and I think it's going to be quite an adventure. Thank you again for writing for me. I'll very much look forward to whatever you've selected!