So, I just finished season 3 of Orange Is The New Black. Can I just say, OMFG?!? Where the hell is season 4? I haven't written any fanfic for that series yet (mostly cause I haven't written fanfic of any kind in awhile), but I may have to pop that cherry. Not gonna go into much detail right now because it's 0430 and I really need sleep, but damn. Holy freaking damn.

On a lighter note, a good friend of mine from Austin was posting about ArmadilloCon on Facebook. The deadline for their Writer's Workshop has just been extended to the 20th and I suddenly want to go like burning. Honestly, the only thing holding me back right now (besides making sure I can get the time off) is the hotel. She just moved so can't put me up and the conference hotel is out of conference rates. $159 per night for three nights. I'd go in on Thursday for the Workshop Friday morning because I know myself and early mornings. They don't happen unless I've been volun-told and I'm getting paid time and a half.

The good news is someone posted to the FB page asking for roommates and I just messaged her. Hopefully she'll get back to me tomorrow. Cause if she got the conf rate, that would only be ~$54 per night. Failing that, there's a LaQuinta a block away that's $79 per night. Sadly, I worked at a LaQ in college so I know what their standards are, but I've also worked at a Hampton, Fairfield and Staybridge and know what *their* standards are. Mo' money does not always mean cleaner sheets and I always take my own towel. Fat girls like me do not fit in those bitty little hotel towels.

With any luck, I'll be around nerds for a whole weekend at the end of July. My people!! And I have a short story that I really want to get workshopped. And that means more time with even more nerds! What more could a girl ask for?
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( Jun. 11th, 2015 03:22 am)
So I sort of accidentally drifted away from fandom for...a long time. I mean, I've remained fandomish and lurked on the edges of Twitter and most recently Tumblr and I still troll through AO3 on a regular basis. But I'd gotten out of fandom as a community. Part of that I blame on fandom leaving LJ and not really going anywhere that I felt comfortable following but most of it I blame on me being super shy and not feeling comfortable really clipping myself onto someone or a group and letting them lead me to wherever.  I'm still not super comfortable with that but I really want to try.

So I signed up for [community profile] pod_together .  Because why wait?  Also I've done that before and I'm okay with interacting with a few people.  I figure over the next few days I'll probably start poking through people's profiles trying to find where they hang.  Because I can be super creepy that way.  Oops?

With that said, I'm also getting into crochet and sort of quilting.  I say sort of because it's been tricky to sit down at the machine.  I lived in Austin for two and a half years and there was a Nerdy Knitting group there (obviously they were cool with crochet, too) that met up at my coffee shop and I'm really sad that I missed the chance to be nerdy with them.  I'm back in the hell that is my hometown and there's nothing like that here.  Although at work we do have a group of us who I've started affectionately calling the Crochet Mafia but I'm the only nerdy one of the bunch.

Anyway...that's the state of me.  In all my sad little lurker glory.  I think it's time for bed now.

So I've made my way over here to Dreamwidth. I'm still not sure how much original stuff is going to happen over here or if things are just going to get crossposted for awhile. Mostly, I just wanted there to be a post so that my journal is made up of more than just links to elsewhere.

I plan to play with things more once I get done with school here in 2-ish weeks.

Also, going from 105 icons to 6 is really freaking hard!
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