TGIF

It's way too hot in the office, but on the plus side, I got a new chair that's better for my back, and I keep getting compliments on my cubicle curtains. :)

I haven't been remembering my dreams lately. I wake up knowing that I dreamt something, but it slips away the instant I wake up. Hmm. I guess there are some things my subconscious isn't ready to share with me yet.

Been playing too much FreeCell too. I can tell by the pain in my index finger. I gotta cut back. If I'm gonna have an RSI recurrence, at least it could be from something productive like writing fiction!

I finally got my passport photos taken, but now I can't find my birth certificate. I'm pretty sure you need it to get a passport. I know it's around here somewhere, 'cause just recently I was looking at it and it reminded me that I needed to get the photos. And now I have the photos but not the birth certificate -- that's, like, the story of my life. :P

In other news, ( boring and possibly squicky feminine biology stuff )

on thinking one's thoughts

While replying on this thread, I was reminded of a guy I used to date (my second and last boyfriend ever) and how, when we talked on the phone, he used to constantly ask me "what are you thinking right now?" That was soooo annoying, because I felt such pressure to have been thinking something deep and meaningful (I was in college -- everything feels like it needs to be deep and meaningful!). I often made stuff up ... but then, maybe I wasn't exactly making it up, because how often are you ever thinking just one thing at a time? On the surface your main thoughts might be about the phone conversation and how sore your ear is getting (we used to talk for a LONG time) and the person you're talking to, but underneath you're also thinking about the reading you have to do, the paper to write, what's for dinner, whether you're afraid to die, why the sky is blue, etc. etc. ... there's always so much going on in the human brain at any one time. (Was just re-reading what Terry Pratchett has to say about this in Witches Abroad.)

But so often it's hard to pin down any one of those lines of thought, they're almost more like feelings/emotions than actual thoughts, so you can't really put them into words. But as a young, insecure, pretentious college student, you sure as hell try. And then it comes out sounding stupid, and you feel stupid and wish he would frickin' stop asking you what you're thinking. :)

passport update

It turns out that you can get a new passport if you have your old one, even if it's expired; and then you don't need your birth certificate. So I took my application in over my lunch break, and it's processing now. Yay.

I thought I was going to have to pay extra for expedited service, since regular service takes six weeks and it's only four till my Montreal trip (eek!), but it turns out you don't need a passport for Canada anyway, so I should be fine even if the passport doesn't arrive in time. And then I'll have it for Japan next winter. Whee. So, only $60 for my passport this time around. It's not highway robbery if it's the government robbing you, right? :P

my new look!

I decided to cough up the $25 to support livejournal and get me some of that custom coding goodness! What do you think of my new look?? :) I know, I know, it's too pink. I'm gonna work on that. I promise.

More fic snippets

This week's Buffy episode got me thinking about Faith and how much I miss her. And since I'm diving into the world of fic-snippeting on livejournal, why not? By the way, remind me to write a lj entry about past vs. present tense in my fiction.
( click for Faithy goodness )