This past week I felt a real return to functionality.
One of my lost priorities has been the gym, and I am happy to report that I worked out 4 times last week and am now sore, tired and signed up with a trainer for more abuse fun.
And, hmmm, not a coincidence? My libido is back! I hadnt' really noticed it had gone missing, er, as my virtual playmates don't complain when I am distracted, at least, not often. But looking back I can see my interest in teh pr0n has been feeble for a little while here. No doubt many of you shall help me with my recovery. ;-)

Current Mood: chipper

I've been so preoccupied with RL, I feel like I've hardly been around my journal(s). I've been reading small fics and keeping an eye on you all, but mostly either running around to the gym or various heathcare appointments, or fretting over my resume, the seemingly endless process.

Today I finally feel like it's DONE!!! Oh, there will still be tweaks, and multiple variations and formats and postings and cover letters and and and, but I finally read it and feel like it's good.

What an amazing feeling, to be suitably impressed with my own career!  After all the effort my miserable (nearly former!) boss devoted to convincing me I'm incompetent, it feels really great to rediscover myself.

It seemed impossible to ever get ready to make this change, and I still can't see how all of it will work out, but it things are lining up, and change.

Current Mood: hopeful

Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder treason and plot,

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

Hello, flist!
I am in need of a brit-picker for several short fics (@2000 words or so each) I am working on, ready this weekend or next week and due by the 15th. One is fluffy, one is darker. more details if you are interested.

thanks!!

a bit late, but, hey, let's keep the magic going. Originally written for severus_sighs Anniversery drabble fest

Title: All Hallows Eve
Author: venturous
Pairings: Mentor!Snape and 1st year Harry; past Severus, Lily; Severus/Harry
Rating: PG
Word count: 6 x 100
Warning: flangst, tears.  slash implied after age 18
Notes: thanks to beta spidermoth for speedy work. I tinkered only a tiny bit with canon time: in HPSS Harry encounters the Mirror in mid November of his first year.


All Hallows Eve

October 31, 1991 – Hogwarts

He gazed, transfixed, into the Mirror of Erised. Of all the revelations during Harry's first weeks at Hogwarts this was the most profound: his parents had been Wizards, well-loved, smart, and beautiful. Yet they were just as dead as all the times Dudley taunted him. It was baffling. He tried to feel through his confusion. They smiled at him from the hazy mirror, and he wished he could step inside and be enfolded in their arms.
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Current Mood: optimistic

Too much fun not to share:  some holiday amusement from naadi 



tonight, I'm busy. Tomorrow, I celebrate. professor Sprout will attend a Samhain concert with her dogs.
(They are going as Wolves in Sheep's Clothing.)

Current Mood: accomplished

All week I've been sorting, recycling, filing and pitching. I had a terrible backlog of paperwork,  boxes of unfiled stuff in chaotic heaps, thrown in boxes and piled against the wall. But the wall of shame is no more!

I also rearranged all the art in here, replacing my great-grandfather's portrait* with Severus' HBP poster and hanging lots of water-themed painting. I found treasures I thought were lost, when I got to the final boxes they weren't papers at all, but treasures.

The clear space in here is just amazing! I've always loved this room, but now it's really the Library/Den/Office. I feel so worn out, but pleased with this lovely clear space.

*don't worry, Great-Grandpa is in the studio for cleaning and frame repair. I still love him!

Current Mood: tired

...from a series of witty and perverse comics  at oglaf.com.  thanks to la_dissonance  for connecting me. All you defectors to Merlin, I dedicate this to you:
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It's a meme, but it's an easy one. ;) Gacked from r_grayjoy

Leave a ONE WORD comment that you think describes me. It can only be one word. No more. Then copy & paste this as to your journal [if you feel so inclined] so that I may leave a word about you. Keep it going [if you want]. :)

update: basic resume is roughed in. just needs editing.
time for lunch!

she whose moods flow like the weather is having a blue day. matches the deep grey wet sky, cold rain dripping of sad leaves, falling, falling.
**heavy sigh**
OK, snap out of it, darlin. You need to write a federal resume. **shudder**

hugs accepted! and maybe quick cheer-u-up reccs?

I'm wallowing in early Rickman.... I haven't seen this film in ages...not since I've been a Snape fangirl.

It's comically 80's -- the big hair, the novelty of car phones and pacman-ish computer graphics...  lots of yuks. And bang-bang shoot-em-up, of course. But Alan makes it all worth it. Mmmm, that voice. Even that cracky American accent.

Oh, and I am a closet former Bruce Willis fan... (David/Maddie!)  Hmmm, do you suppose there is Hans/John slash out there?

Title:Into the Forbidden Forest
Fest: founders gifts on LJ
Gift for: peskywhisitpaw
Author/Artist: venturous
Characters/Pairing:Rowena/Godric
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Genres: mystery, romance

Author's/Artist's Notes: peskywhisitpaw, I enjoyed your prompts because they generated all manner of stories as I mused on who and what to draw for you. But the allure of a mystery was too strong for these two to resist! Thanks to Founders Gifts mods and participants for shedding light on wonderful, essential and oft neglected HP characters.

Art created in PS3 using a highly-processed iStock photo background (see below) and original figures. This was an experiment with light effects and I'm pleased and surprised with the direction it took.

Summary: Drawn by a mysterious light, Rowena and Godric are drawn deeper into the Forbidden Forest, until they have lost their way. Will Rowena's familiar be able to resist the enchantment and help them find their way?




here's the photo I started with:

Current Mood: pleased

yes, you read that right. put down your coffee and

click here

Agh!! My web skills are too poor for most of the jobs I'm seeing.
Fortunately I am a quick study!

Maybe you can help cheer me on... ( Read more... )

Current Mood: busy

from deborak and littleblackbow :

The problem with LJ/IJ/DW: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your journal and find out what people don't know about you.

• Older dog Seneca survived her minor surgery successfully. Two bumps removed and clean teeth, no extractions. She came home a bit loopy and has stitches, but she is perking up.
• listening to a fun podfic via this podcast, called A Little More Time by Pallas, wherein Teddy rescues his parents and brings them into 2018. Not for the Remus/Tonks averse, but so far I love her Teddy and Tonks characterizations
• reading a fic I like in the rs_games , Common Woodbrown. AU, Remus raises baby Harry. It's a writing style I love, rich with mood and imagery, and it's filling in some of the mysterious years and Sirius' backstory, things I have always found baffling.
• as you may have noticed, I am taking a break from Snarry, post Games. Feel free to recc your favorite non-Snape, non-Harry fics: long, mysterious, angsty and full of magic and UST are love.
• submitted my FMLA paperwork and am on leave for two blissful weeks.
• made appointments for therapy, massage, gyn, MD for checkup. Already have dentist appt.
• made a yummy bean-rice thing:

Current Mood: amused

It seems after many months of feeling trapped at work, I've had two felicitous events that combine to give me two weeks  of leave and some relief from a desperately tight budget. I can hardly believe it, but I am so relieved!!!

Late bills have been caught up, Seneca's (minor) surgery is now affordable, I can invest in some interview clothes. And, I am looking at two weeks wherein under doctor's orders I am to rest, excercise, meditate, see the therapist, and experiment with how well my medication works without the stress of dealing with my hostile boss. Two weeks ago I couldn't imagine this... I felt like a hamster on a wheel. Two weeks from now I expect I shall feel like a different person.

My first mission will be to get my arse to the gym each day. Two weeks with my dogs! Two weeks at home! Cool, quiet, and time to think. ahhhhh.

Current Mood: grateful

clickee here for poodle!Snape

Yummy curry!

You can make it on the stovetop or slow oven:

Current Mood: chipper