Found in Translation

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

bardling gave me: lordofthewheel , yurt, likes-it-warm, games, travel. She also wanted to know about the name 'Nayela', so she gets that too because curiosity is a good thing. :)


( Lordofthewheel, aka Pete )


( Likes-it-warm )

( Games )

( Travel )


( A Katie by any other name... )

Well, yeah. Hi again. Some of you might remember me. :)

I stopped updating this journal almost three years ago because it had begun to feel like a chore. Something that's meant to be fun shouldn't be an obligation, so I left it to itself. Lately, though, I've been thinking it might be fun to write again, so here we go.

Some of you, gentle readers, have met me in real life or talked/IM'd with me recently; some of you haven't. (Here's a belated 'Hello!' to those I've met at the filk con a few weeks ago. 'twas good to see you.) I've been reading along, so I'm marginally familiar with how your lives have been going. Here's an update on the state of the Katie.

( For the curious or interested )

Did you know that trolls--craggy, lumbering, living-rock Pratchettian trolls--have rollercoasters? No? I didn't, either. Until a few nights ago, that is, when I dreamed one.

( I have no idea why it was there... )

I'm in a frighteningly good mood today. There's no particular reason for this, but I tend to go through mood swings like the proverbial teenager all the time. Walking on sunshine out of the blue? Not complainin'. And, come to think of it, there are quite a few things that might explain why I'm smiling to myself and at random strangers and the world in general. Let's see:

-I got some work on my research paper done today. This is rare. See, while I sit down to tinker with this paper on quite a regular basis, the days on which I actually do something constructive with it are few and far between. I wander off into plotting a story, or writing a letter, or just staring at the page until I think 'screw this' and go off to do something completely unrelated. That's why I've been working on this bugger, off and on, for months. Argh. But today, I looked up some more secondary literature, and I have a working outline on the last chapter. Progress is made! It's pathetic, but it's progress.

-It's finally spring! I was getting the feeling this winter would only end if someone hammered a stake through its heart. (Can you spot the American Gods reference? Well can ya?) But now, the forsythia bushes are in bloom, there's new grass coming up and tiny leaves on the trees, and I can actually go out without my bulky hideous winter jacket and not freeze my ass off. There was snowfall in the mountains this week, I've heard. No trace of that where I live, thank god. If we just hang in there, we'll get actual T-shirt weather one day. I can feel it.

-Only three sessions left before I can quit my crappy job for good. Conditions at my workplace are getting steadily more chaotic, as in, the boss hasn't been around in weeks and nobody knows where he is. As an added bonus, the guy filling in for him knows hardly any German and not a scrap of English, so communication between me and the management is somewhat lacking. I've got a fairly good handle on my tutoring groups, except for That One Kid, of course. Can't say I'm going to miss them, either. Note to self: find job that doesn't require explaining the gory details of language to people who can read a text 87 times and still not grasp what it says. Yay for being out of there soon.

-I'm going dancin' this Friday! Whee!

-Time passes. Which means a) my trip to England and my visit to Pete are getting steadily closer and b) for once in my life, time is working in my favour. I think that's a first.

-Pete. I mean, we mutually tolerated each other for a week, without him getting freaked out by me, or me getting one of my antisocial moments? I didn't think this was even possible. Must be love. Or masochism. Or both. (Yes, 'mutually tolerated' isn't quite an accurate description, but I'm trying my damndest not to be sappy here. You should be grateful.)

So, in conclusion: life is good. It makes a nice change to plodding along and feeling blah, that's for sure.

lordofthewheel, this is all your fault.

I could happily go on floating. In theory, I have work to do. Papers to write, people to see, a life to keep organized. But for now I’m drifting along a little sideways from the rest of the world, not quite in dreamspace, but closer to it than is usual even for me. There is a vortex of memories and stories, dreams and music, and I can slip into it without any effort and let it carry me through the day. There’s the memories we’ve made, there’s the stories we’ve shared, there’s the dreams of things we will yet do, there’s the music you gave me. Songs old and new are coming to find me and I set my work aside, take that one half-step sideways from the world, and listen.

Flowery prose aside: I fear I've been infected with Filk. (Would that be the Fandom equivalent of an STD, I wonder?) There are songs niggling at the back of my brain in addition to the usual plot bunnies. WTF? Thank you, Pete. Hate you dearly. :p

Let's face it, this journal is pretty much just a dumping ground for memes right now. I do live and read along, I just don't feel like writing much.

That said, here's a meme from lordofthewheel. He seems to have a knack for coming up with interesting ones. ^_^

Ask me a question about EACH or ANY of the following:

- Friends
- Sex
- Music
- Religion
- Love
- Livejournal

No matter how naughty, sexual, or confidential. Then post this in your journal and see what questions you get asked!

All comments screened.

I think I should not end my journal entries with 'stay tuned'. Not only is it rather tacky, it also is ineviteably followed by a long, long period of no entries at all. I won't do it again. How's that for a New Year's resolution?

Well, life goes on. I would like to wish all you people on my friendslist a splendid start of 2006, and let you know I've been reading faithfully along even though I haven't posted much. I guess there's another resolution lurking behind that sentence.

There's nothing much to say otherwise, so if you're interested, here's the (in)famous 2006 meme. This is the third time I'm doing this, and I'm using a slightly different version to the one that's been going around. ( Read more... )

See you next year! I hope you have a good one. ^_^

This is too cute and silly to pass up on.

Meme from lordofthewheel

YOU CAN ASK ME SIX QUESTIONS.

No matter how random, revealing, rude, naughty or pointless. I promise to answer them 100% truthfully. Repost this in your own journal and see what people ask you.