getting a refund makes me feel guilty. It's not really my job to keep these writing classes open, and it's not like I promised someone specific that I'd do it with her.(Part of me still wish I'd just said "yes" but the money might come in handier than feeding my dumb brain, anyway.
(Part of me has always been holding out for something more passionate than me being a good little girl with my notebook, also, though, I have to admit that.)

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1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)? Probably back when I wrote a lot of fanfiction, which I kind of don't now. although I did begin a crossover sequel yesterday--we'll see if I really write it.

2. How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to? Kind of a lot, considering how quiet a lot of the comms are. Why did we ever abandon text for memes and pics?

3. Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new?Both.

4. How did you pick your user name?It's a family nickname that I also write fic under.

5. If you could change your user name, would you? Considering the level of things that I would change about my life and identity, this doesn't even rate, but probably not.

The following bonus questions are brought to you by the fact that I (anais_pf) have been unable to access any page of LiveJournal for more than a week (and therefore cannot post to The Friday Five there):

6. If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it? Haven't even used it except to look at old stuff for years...feel like I would have deleted when it became all Russian except that I forgot my password or something. Am torn between being comforted by the memories when I do read it and sad about the stuff from then that still dogs me now.

7. Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?

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If you get a chance and don't mind sentiment(or musicals) you might want to stream "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" which I missed during the pandemic. it's cute, but also pulls your heartstrings too.
thought I'd be back here faster, but some virus or allergy attack had me literally sucking on a lozenge for week so, you know.
WIP: A revamped version of "My Friends Think I'm Crazy", which I'll put a sample of under a cut.
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my stomach was *so upset*--although I've always been...kind of the type, the last few times have been more intense. Do not like.

se questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] that_one_girl.

1. What did you want to be when you were a kid? My mom's friend used to buy books for the library. She was also cool so I think I wanted to be her. I also have wanted to be a writer that long so I'm kind of doing it.

2. What is your proudest accomplishment so far?I don't know...I have a few great bylines, but I think I am most glad about helping someone else.This week, it was that I could participate in a crowdfund that kept someone in her home.

3. What is your dream job?Crip!TanahesiCoates, in a cooler city that isn't a drag.If everything had worked out, maybe I'd be some progressive's CJ Cregg.But I'm kind of only a leftist because things *didn't* work out...that version would have different dreams, anyway, probably.

4. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I don't. Like, at all. I don't see myself dead, either, but I don't see *anything*--it's kind of disturbing.I used to be such a little *planner*. Of course, that was devastating when none of it worked out, but I signed off on it, damn it!

5. What does it take to make you happy? Is it too insufferable to be like Justice Stevens and say "I know it when I see it." Happy is hard, but contentment might be easier. I was very happy watching "Becoming Janr" yesterday, even if it's a big Austen RPF.

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But January this year was partly nauseating(Even as it picked up at the end) so this should represent a step forward.

so of course the new story for workshop seems...slow at first glance.
(Will really dig in tomorrow. Maybe just a bad beginning, though my own writerly struggle is always endings and I can start things all day. writing is the most fun for me before you have to, you know, live with what you decide and make the mosaic fit together.)

Shawn's eyes almost lit up as he saw the unattended keys gleaming among the hoarderesque piles of papers and stuff. Sometimes he really did feel that he had a special gift, even if it didn't come from the spirit world, since he could expect to be distracted by Jules' strawberry shampoo. He could tell it wasn't a real robbery, but an inside job. The "psychic" took a deep breath and waited. The secret to this bit was the pause(also that Shawn guessed it was the skeevy stepson.) His dad would have said that Kato Kaelin Junior had a bad attitude, and though it killed him, personally, and made him feel like a generation traitor, he had to agree.

for "knots", which might have been different, further from the holidays.

She pulled at the ribbon of the small, compact package, that kind of put up a fight. Looking at the shiny blue paper and the neat wrapping job(She couldn't see any tape!) she wondered why the knotted ribbon that someone had fluffed up and made fancy, was green instead of white or silver, which seemed like the logical, stylish choices someone at the store might make. "Wow, good things come in small packages." For a moment, her cheeks got hot, because they'd just taken things to the next level recently, and she hoped he didn't think...well, never mind. In one of those moments of partial telepathy that she might have been glad had skipped a beat, he said "I got you a green one because it's your favorite color."

. Do you have a favourite cause that you support? Yes, I have a lot...mostly, these days they involve the left wing of the Democratic Party and trying to bring it back to its roots and all that.

2. If so, how do you support it? Money, and many, many phone calls. I've pulled back a little, though, both for logistics and because it can eat up my life if I let it. Which would be one thing,if I, say, met my husband doing that stuff and it was, you know, us and our shared obsessions against the world, Jane-and- Bernie style, but my personal identity just suffers if I dive in too deeply.(And, no, it hasn't really turned out to be a great way to get a date because "You'd have so much in common." I was hoping, but not so far. For bohemians, everyone seems to be super-attached. blah. Although I guess if I ever did meet someone, I wouldn't have to worry about movement work messing up our longevity? Dig me, with the heart half-full for the next twelve minutes. I could still meet somebody! Like the peach that's still fresh...if you eat it *right now*)

3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)? Probably the most unusual answer to this question involves the few ADAPT actions I went to, but I got sick from the plane--never flying again without a mask--and I promised my mother I'd stop, as I infected my everything. I still talk up the fact that I did it though.

4. Have you ever led any group? Does it sound like I ever led any groups? I've been on several advisory committees and people don't take my advice.

5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?Yes, both.

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