Thoughts on the Journey

This morning I woke up feeling unsettled after a dream of being back in New Zealand in a hospital but being chased down. Something had transformed a lot of people there, many I considered friends in the dream to take me down for some reason and it was terrifying. I had to hurt people which really bothered me and I woke up feeling sore and a little tired. I think part of this dream comes from the fact that the nervousness of waiting to hear about the jobs keeps bubbling up in me as I would love one of these jobs.

Thankfully or not, it depends on the shift, this week all the shifts I traded out come due and I worked yesterday afternoon and will work Thursday closing on top of my other shifts. At least this keeps me busy and yesterday's DE promptfest is also accomplishing that. One of the things I was doing this weekend was going back through prompts I've filled and posting them on Archive of our Own on the Milliways' collection. In the process I almost doubled the amount of fic I have posted, which makes me smile along with discovering older fic I'd forgotten about.

My prompts that I'm still working on are over here. I adore that the first one I filled could fit perfectly into the Erik and Charles meeting OOM, that makes me feel like my writing is going in the right direction.

My big project for today is to update my phone to a smartphone, my parents and I decided that its best to do it now instead of waiting until I get a job. My current phone isn't dying but its not been working as well as it might so I'm going to get an iPhone. I'm looking forward to it and would love recommendations for apps I need to get.

This week I'm also going to be brave and head back to the bank to see if I can do anything with them. I haven't talked to them in a while with life being so busy but I'm going to do one more try to get my money back.

I think today will improve, its just that dream left me ill at ease. I have books I want to write about as well, I'll try and manage that later.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "My father-in-law was convinced that his
sheepdogs picked up his thoughts telepathically," writes Richard Webster
in his article "Psychic Animals. "He needed only to think what he wanted
his dogs to do, and they would immediately do it. He had to be careful
not to think too far ahead, as his dogs would act on the thought he was
thinking at the time." To this I'd add that there is a wealth of other
anecdotal evidence, as well as some scientific research, suggesting that
dogs respond to unspoken commands. I happen to believe that the human
animal is also capable of picking up thoughts that aren't said aloud. And I
suspect that you're in a phase when it will be especially important to take
that into account. Be discerning about what you imagine, because it could
end up in the mind of someone you know!

Another entry for me today as since the last one, life keeps happening. First off if you got a Twitter DM from me about rumors, delete it and don't follow the link. It's a sneaky phishing attempt and I was stupid and got caught before I went and changed my password. I'm terribly sorry for all the confusion. At least there doesn't seem to be a virus attached as I did a virus scan and nothing came up. I should have known better but the DM came from an unexpected source and confused me. Be careful and sorry.

Now for this horoscope, it makes me go, Uncle Rob, please stop being so apt. You see that today I got an email from another school and have a phone interview tomorrow at 2 pm. Something has changed in my job world and it just makes me blink in amazement in terms of what might be possible. I'm trying to carefully not think any wishes too hard as I don't want to make anything go wrong, but it's rather amazing nonetheless.

Now to share my current good mood, I'm going to snag a prompt meme that I've always liked from withherhands.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

This EP and it's Mixed Muses' mirror were the best ideas ever. Quatre and Charles are talking about dreams, I will somehow finish the dream!fic. I also should have been in bed a few hours ago and will be bleary tomorrow but I'll deal.

I'm posting a quick meme as it's one I love and I'm still thinking about an AU that I need to write.

Give me an AU prompt in the comments and I will plot out for you the fic it evokes in my mind.

And both memes over on this post are still open. For reference those are the tell me about a story I haven't written and drop an image plus characters as a prompt.

Now I'm going to sleep as I love when my creativity gets flowing and I'm such a night owl.

Title Worth praying to
Characters Ben Wade 3:10 to Yuma, Demeter Greek Mythology, mentions of Dan and William Evans from 3:10 to Yuma
Rating PG
Disclaimer No one belongs to me, I'm just borrowing them for the story.
Summary There's been a drought and Ben ends up seeing a pray for rain fulfilled.
Written as a gift for sardonicynic who requested something Demeter and Bencentric with the phrase the lies of heroes. This idea appeared while I was driving and I hope you like it.

( It didn’t feel right to speak, the air around them felt empty but as they passed, Ben could almost swear he tasted rain. )

I always forget how busy Thanksgiving is even when I have a longer break. There are just so many things to do and there never seems to be time to just sit.

I'm hoping to have that at the moment as my mom and I managed to navigate the outlets for some great shopping. I have a beautiful pair of new boots, two sweaters, bras and underwear and the second and third books in the Iron Druid series. Also I had a productive meeting this morning and now can pause.

Tomorrow I'll be on the move again as I have a meeting in Philadelphia on Monday morning that I need to figure out how to get there and then I'll be heading back to Michigan on Tuesday.

I want to use this post to let people know about holiday cards. What I do for cards is use a picture I've taken and make it into a card. I love the idea of writing something as a gift as well.

The comments on this post are screened so if you'd like a card leave your address and a prompt if you'd like me to write you a piece of fic.

Even if you think I already have your address, please leave it again. This makes it easier for me to see who to send to.

Life is going at the moment as I keep being productive with things I truly didn't expect. sharp_teeth keeps giving me ideas and I've never written horror before and when I do write horror, it tends towards kind of Poe and Hawthorne inspired type. Also I'm trying to follow newredshoes's example and not hide away my writing as I'm proud of it and seem to be doing more of it. The first was for a prompt from ashen_key and is 3:10 to Yuma moviever, the second one is a Supernatural one but no spoilers for anything.

In terms of job things, yesterday I got emails from two places saying the positions were filled. Oddly it didn't really hurt as with jobs I'm glad to hear something from anyone. I'm currently planning some talks with some of my parents' friends and possible mentors over the Thanksgiving break and I have another blog post I want to write up at some point.I've also fallen behind in my book reviews on Library Thing and here as I've been reading and rereading some wonderful things lately.

Work is getting busy as the middle of the semester hits and students are realizing they need sources. I do love helping people research, it just makes me happy.

I've also had the feeling of this Halloween/Samhain being a real turning point in a way I can't quite put my finger on yet. A lot of this is due to the incredible tarot reading that neenie did for me but just how I feel. I feel confident enough to put my writing out there for strangers at the same time as I'm putting myself out there for work.

The weather has changed here in Michigan and I actually put on my heat last night because my toes were getting cold. I'm still working on what my life feels like for this point as I wait to hear from jobs, pick up shifts at the library and work on writing things. Thankfully the rain has stopped as that wasn't doing anything to help my mood. I enjoy rain but there were about three or four days of constant grey rain and it made it hard to find energy to do things. My parents came to visit me at the start of the week as they were in the midst of a Midwest road trip and it was so wonderful to see them. We made dinner one night and went out the next and I actually allowed myself to really celebrate that I have a diploma in the mail. There will be another small celebration when I can hold my masters but for now, I know I did it and didn't think I would. When I came back from New Zealand after a year of trying to write a masters thesis about Pindar, I felt ready to give up on academics bu then the recession and job hunting showed me that I wanted to be a librarian. Now after two years of hard work, I'm working as a part-time librarian and have a masters of information. Its a good feeling and somewhere out there is a job for me working with kids and getting them excited about reading and writing and creativity.

I've been writing more thanks to a wonderful prompting DE over in Milliways. Also I've got a few works in progress that are going slowly. Its so weird to actually have multiple things I'm writing that aren't papers or plot things for Milliways. Speaking of Milliways, I finally put Sameth back in as I've missed playing him a lot. In elsegame news, au_hogwarts is fun, I'm still figuring out all the details of things there but its a chance to play with some old friends. Oh and one oddly wonderfully thing that happened while my parents were here was that I showed my mother my works page on Archive of our Own and she liked what I'd written, which meant a lot to me.

Now I'm going to head out into town and enjoy reading The Discovery of Jeanne Baret which is such a good book. I love the author's way of presenting and filing in what we know and don't know. Then I might make some banana bread when I get home as it will make my house smell lovely, warm things up and be tasty.

This is going to be crossposted to millirific, apologies to those who see it twice.

Title: Stop This Crazy Thing
Fandoms: 3:10 to Yuma 2007, Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Characters: William Evans, Thalia Grace, references to Artemis and her Hunters
Pairing: William Evans/Thalia Grace
Rating: PG-13-Making out is involved but not explicit
Summary: Thalia questions her Oath to Artemis and considers another path. Written to fulfill a prompt from spooky_lemur of Thalia and William, stop this crazy thing.
Disclaimer: Characters aren't mine but belong to their creators.

( Her oath was always in her head and she promised Artemis that she just wanted to be free in his kisses for a little while. )

I think I'm going to continue with the nautical titled posts for another day as it feels like today the wind truly changed from yesterday. In the end I turned in my draft and already one group member has said it looks good and that makes me happy. I also ended up writing a long post over on my librarian blog and playing with the theme, it can be found at Nurturing Stories on Wordpress. The weather isn't quite as humid as before and walking home there was a breeze and it felt like there might rain later.

I spent most of today fretting about references as my cover letter and resume are all set to be sent to Kentucky but I need to update my references. I actually have a couple of people in mind and emailed them but I haven't heard back. So I can't send things off just yet but as soon as I get the okay they'll be off.

Tomorrow I'm going to have lunch with two of my favorite people in Ann Arbor, the couple of M and T as they're about to leave town soon. We were going to meet today but I overslept and so missed their email saying, let's meet at your place so it didn't happen.

Instead I sent emails and then before work finished reading After the Golden Age, which I picked up on bodldops recommended in a Milliways' DE. Its a fantastic read, if you love superheroes, if you love seeing the rest of the world around the superheroes then go read this book. The main character is the daughter of the two main superheroes but she's without powers and her voice is amazing as the author, Carrie Vaughn captures all the complications and family dysfunction in a natural way.

Then at work, someone from where I did my internship stopped by and said that what I'd put in place is really making a difference and that I should see how everything's looking. That's had me beaming since it happened because I knew I was changing things and helping but this was just amazing. Now I'm home and considering what to do for food and possibly doing some writing.

As ashen_key just saw X-Men, recs and things flew about and one of the fics that walksbyherself pointed out about scars gave me an idea to write about Kait and Sameth. It started out being her taking care of him when he finally has time to be at Milliways after the end of canon, but then keeps branching out in my head. One reason I love taking him through canon is so there's the fascinating beginning for him as he and everyone else figures out what being a Wallmaker truly means. Also After the Golden Age does a great job of riffing on all the familiar superhero tropes and the telepath is beautifully written. I think I might need to go see X-Men again and poke at things as my writing brain just kicked in.

Please leave prompts here for me as I want to write more.

Its almost 5 o'clock and I really don't feel awake. I hate this feeling as I have a long list of things I'd like to get done. My main goal for today will be to do laundry as that doesn't require a huge amount of moving and I'm in need of it. I'm enjoying my new laptop quite a lot since its so easy compared to my other one and just works.

My coming week doesn't have a lot in terms of going to work or class in it but I have various stuff on my list.

Oh and in odd things that make me grumpy, my hall light has gone out once again. I think there must be something up with it as the lights in my kitchen and bedroom haven't but it feels like I replace this one every few months. I know I use it more but it feels far too often. Also I hate changing it since I have to stand on a step stool and deal with the weird light cover. If I could find a wording I liked, I'd mentioned it to my landlord as I like having a hall light.

Today though I'm not going to worry about any of that and instead post a meme that I'm pretty sure austen started this round. She has the best memes.

‡ Pick one of my icons.

‡ I will (try my best to) write you at least one sentence of something vaguely resembling fiction based on said icon (but I'm not very loquacious so it'll probably be much longer).

Oh and I haven't forgotten about that other prompt meme but my writing has been odd lately. I did a huge amount on the Jane fic and now its slowed, but my plan is to balance class/work writing with fun writing.