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Mar. 25th, 2011 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkit1) I got a promotion at work. I've actually known for a while but I didn't want to mention it until it was absolutely certain. Starting next week I'll be a "team leader," which means, well, $.80 more an hour, hopefully a more predictable and reliable number of hours each week, more paperwork, and less sweeping and mopping. And, you know, having to manage other people. The latter is a bit eep-ish, but weirdly enough, I think I may actually have more authority in this crappy job than I did as a professor. *laughs somewhat bitterly*
2) One of the less-contemplated effects of moving to a different region is that your allergies get a whole new range of possibilities. The juniper trees are pollinating here, and boy, am I feeling it. Apparently it's this region's worst allergy season in a decade; certainly it's the worst allergies I've had in ages.
3) I wish it would rain. I miss rain. And lakes. (On the other hand, this town is really not equipped for rain. There are no storm sewers! When it rains, all the rain just washes down into the streets and makes driving scary and dangerous.)
4) I've been listening to old Style Council songs. Long Hot Summer was, to the best of my recollection, the first music I ever bought for myself; I listened to it over and over and wished I was grownup and elsewhere, and wondered if Paul Weller was gay (he was widely rumored to be, at the time), and wondered why I wanted him to be. That was almost thirty years ago.
5) I actually went to Tumblr voluntarily, because I thought I might find pictures of Ryan Robbins there. At least some of you will understand my motivation:
(The piercings, my god, the piercings.)
There were a few pics, but mostly I was confirmed in my belief that I do not like or understand Tumblr. There didn't seem to be any way to tell when stuff was posted, for example, and that annoyed me. Is fandom really moving over to Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr? Because . . . weird. I would never post fanfic or fannish discussion at any of those places. And if I created art I certainly wouldn't post it to Tumblr, with its culture of reposting without attribution. Or am I just behind the times?
2) One of the less-contemplated effects of moving to a different region is that your allergies get a whole new range of possibilities. The juniper trees are pollinating here, and boy, am I feeling it. Apparently it's this region's worst allergy season in a decade; certainly it's the worst allergies I've had in ages.
3) I wish it would rain. I miss rain. And lakes. (On the other hand, this town is really not equipped for rain. There are no storm sewers! When it rains, all the rain just washes down into the streets and makes driving scary and dangerous.)
4) I've been listening to old Style Council songs. Long Hot Summer was, to the best of my recollection, the first music I ever bought for myself; I listened to it over and over and wished I was grownup and elsewhere, and wondered if Paul Weller was gay (he was widely rumored to be, at the time), and wondered why I wanted him to be. That was almost thirty years ago.
5) I actually went to Tumblr voluntarily, because I thought I might find pictures of Ryan Robbins there. At least some of you will understand my motivation:
(The piercings, my god, the piercings.)
There were a few pics, but mostly I was confirmed in my belief that I do not like or understand Tumblr. There didn't seem to be any way to tell when stuff was posted, for example, and that annoyed me. Is fandom really moving over to Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr? Because . . . weird. I would never post fanfic or fannish discussion at any of those places. And if I created art I certainly wouldn't post it to Tumblr, with its culture of reposting without attribution. Or am I just behind the times?
