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Why is it that whenever our main IT person isn't in (poor woman got her eye socket cracked -- ow), everything goes wrong? I'm not a hardware person, dammit, I can't fix this! Phone lines being wonky, and I'm getting sent from A to B through C back to A by the phone company and the company we get the actual phone system from. Argh.

Today is my mum's 45th birthday. It's really weird to realise my parents are approaching middle age; I've always been used to having young parents. My mum was 22, nearly 23 when I was born, which was rather young even then, and my dad was 23. On 3 December this year, I will pass the point where I'm exactly half my mother's age, an occasion traditionally celebrated in my dad's family by the child taking their mother out for dinner. Will have to find a restaurant we can both enjoy. Possibly the wok place we went to for my brother's birthday last year.

Speaking of my brother, he's turning 20 this year. Oi. Everyone is getting old! That means I'm getting old, too! *whimper*

A little over a month from now, it will be four years since I started RareSlash. Three years ago yesterday, I joined Tallific and officially entered RPS fandom, as much as there was an "RPS fandom" back then. Less than three weeks from now, it will be three years since I started RS-X. Seems I'm getting old in fandom years, as well.

Randomly, does anyone else remember Mona's Slash Writers Survey? I've been thinking of something like that. Just randomly surveying the fandom.

I sort of want to go see a movie this evening, but I fell asleep during Inspector Morse yesterday, and I'm sleep today as well, and I'd really rather vegetate in front of the TV. Also, I have three pairs of jeans I need to put in the dryer to fully dry, some minor ironing to do, a whole bunch of sewing and stuff I've been putting up for a year now, and I should get my paperwork and stuff in order.

Besides, the movie I really want to see is The Two Towers, but I don't want to have to wait in front of the closed theater doors for half an hour in order to get good seats. I really don't deal well with large crowds. I braved them to get to see the movie the first time, and again to see it with my parents and brothers, but I don't want to have to deal with them again for the next few weeks or so. I'll catch a morning showing this weekend. Hopefully, that'll be better. (And by "better" I mean "will not make me feel like I'm slowly approaching a panic attack". My social phobia may have mostly disappeared, but my acrophobia's getting worse every year. :/)

Trying to write, still. No, I've not forgotten about those RP drabbles I owe people.

Meh.

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Dear self: GO HOME! Before you work yourself into another migraine attack.

(The problems with my phone line might actually be useful now, I think. Forces me to stay off the computer.)