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bluflamingo) wrote2011-02-15 10:16 pm
bluflamingo) wrote2011-02-15 10:16 pm
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Hi world! hi!
Not that anyone probably noticed I was gone (because I know it takes me weeks, sometimes months to start going, hey, X has been quiet lately...) but I noticed you all were gone :(
The reason being, I moved house on the 4th and only got internet reconnected today. Worth it, though, because my new flat is gorgeous, and doesn't have rats, and is bigger than my old one, and in a better neighbourhood and I love it to a completely ridiculous degree. So - yay!
Other news...I also got a new car, after my old one died on me, and it's tiny and pretty and red. I have my last appointment with my counsellor next week and, unlike last time we were possibly finishing (where I go books counselling in 6 week blocks) and I had a complete freakout over it, I actually feel ready to stop now, which is good.
Um, I'm off to a wedding fayre this week, with my sister, my mother, my sister's future mother-in-law and my sister's future sister-in-law, the latter two I have never met. And I'm so not a wedding fayre kind of person, I don't care about this stuff. But it's part of me and my sister trying to get along better, so I'll fake it :)
One thing that really annoys me about writers who complain when they get bad reviews is when they say something along the lines of "well, the reviewer ought to try to write a book, and see how they do, it's not like it's easy." because (a) could you possibly sound any more petty? (b) how do you know they haven't? and (c) it doesn't matter whether they could do better - you're being *paid* to do it. If the best you can come up with is 'it's hard, I did my best,' you deserve a poor review. Be grateful someone thought you did a good enough job of it in the first place to pay you for your words. If you're expecting other people to buy them, you have to be good; I can't say to my boss if she criticises something I've done 'well, you try organising a conference by yourself, it's hard work.' She's paying me to do it, she expects me to get it done or say that I can't. Ditto writing.
Also, also: passed by a guy loading beer things (barrels? are they barrels if they're made of metal) into a van.
Him: Some weather (sarcastically, as it was pouring)
Me (also sarcastic: Yeah, lovely
Him (apparently sincere): So are you
Me: *keep walking and pretend he didn't say anything*
Cos God knows I look my best when I'm in slob around the house clothes and my hair's wet cos it's raining! Why do people do that?
There was something else I was going to say as well, but do I know what it was? I do not. (tangentially related to that, in uni, my friend and I watched The Mummy until we could practically recite it, and we'd often end a tale of our day with "And did I panic? I did not," John Hannah's line.)
Not that anyone probably noticed I was gone (because I know it takes me weeks, sometimes months to start going, hey, X has been quiet lately...) but I noticed you all were gone :(
The reason being, I moved house on the 4th and only got internet reconnected today. Worth it, though, because my new flat is gorgeous, and doesn't have rats, and is bigger than my old one, and in a better neighbourhood and I love it to a completely ridiculous degree. So - yay!
Other news...I also got a new car, after my old one died on me, and it's tiny and pretty and red. I have my last appointment with my counsellor next week and, unlike last time we were possibly finishing (where I go books counselling in 6 week blocks) and I had a complete freakout over it, I actually feel ready to stop now, which is good.
Um, I'm off to a wedding fayre this week, with my sister, my mother, my sister's future mother-in-law and my sister's future sister-in-law, the latter two I have never met. And I'm so not a wedding fayre kind of person, I don't care about this stuff. But it's part of me and my sister trying to get along better, so I'll fake it :)
One thing that really annoys me about writers who complain when they get bad reviews is when they say something along the lines of "well, the reviewer ought to try to write a book, and see how they do, it's not like it's easy." because (a) could you possibly sound any more petty? (b) how do you know they haven't? and (c) it doesn't matter whether they could do better - you're being *paid* to do it. If the best you can come up with is 'it's hard, I did my best,' you deserve a poor review. Be grateful someone thought you did a good enough job of it in the first place to pay you for your words. If you're expecting other people to buy them, you have to be good; I can't say to my boss if she criticises something I've done 'well, you try organising a conference by yourself, it's hard work.' She's paying me to do it, she expects me to get it done or say that I can't. Ditto writing.
Also, also: passed by a guy loading beer things (barrels? are they barrels if they're made of metal) into a van.
Him: Some weather (sarcastically, as it was pouring)
Me (also sarcastic: Yeah, lovely
Him (apparently sincere): So are you
Me: *keep walking and pretend he didn't say anything*
Cos God knows I look my best when I'm in slob around the house clothes and my hair's wet cos it's raining! Why do people do that?
There was something else I was going to say as well, but do I know what it was? I do not. (tangentially related to that, in uni, my friend and I watched The Mummy until we could practically recite it, and we'd often end a tale of our day with "And did I panic? I did not," John Hannah's line.)
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Your new flat sounds lovely. :)
Good luck with the wedding stuff!
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Your icon is adorable, btw
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Are you still thinking about getting a cat?
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(BTW, if you get a chance, can you please vote for Sid in the owner poll for
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We've never taken anyone off as a maintainer--we just take 'em off the email list. But I think we may change that now, in case LJ does something like this again. (I suppose we should be thankful they didn't make the person who started the community the owner, since I assume that would be either advevtion or starglyph and neither has been on LJ in months.)
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Your rant is justified. And the driver sounds like one of those blokes who feels he has to flirt with every woman he sets eyes on, just in case he gets lucky. ;-)
Glad you're back!
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He'd have had to be more than lucky - he was old enough to be my dad!