gratitude

[kaberett]

1. Sunshine.

2. The strawberry plant is starting to have actual fruit on it. Still nowhere near ripe, but nonetheless!

3. Flomping around in vest top and linen trousers.

4. My new wallet. It was a ridiculous extravagance and I felt super-guilty about it, but... it makes me happy every time I look at it, so.

5. Living close enough to friends that if my housemate is out for the evening and I'm not doing brilliantly at food, I can ping someone over IM and ask them to come over for dinner and they will. (I really love that "do me a favour? let me feed you?" is a thing I can ask people.)

6. I am on my first reread of Ancillary Justice because it became perfectly apparent that my brain wasn't going to let me settle into anything else until I did. It is a long time since that last happened.

7. ... apart from the bit where my ereader ended up partway through Famine (by lightgetsin, part of A Deeper Season, the epic Vorkosiverse AU I love to bits) and ~for some reason~ this time round I ended up highlighting huge chunks of it. Ways to fit myself into the world, indeed.

8. My supervisor has replied usefully to the last e-mail I sent her, which means she doesn't hate me forever and I can get on with the things I was trying to get on with with rather less anxiety, thank goodness.

9. People: in addition to spontaneous-friend-tonight, I'm seeing my mum for lunch tomorrow (and possibly visiting London Volcano in company), and randomling is coming over for dinner Friday night; and TOG is staying Friday-Sunday morning. And I then have about three different options for Interesting Things I Can Do With Nice People on Sunday afternoon.

10. Having finished The Middleman, I have persuaded my housemate that A:tLA is a good choice for Next House TV Show. However I am probably going to try to get my act together to make Orphan Black a thing we can do together next season, given how much the entire Internet seems to like it!

Comments

[hilarita]

Lightgetsin's AU is so very, very good. So sad, in parts. I have to be in quite a good place before I can read bits, because it's so powerful.

[barrelofrain]

Sometimes a ridiculous extravagance can just be nice. :)

[untonuggan]

yay feeding people!

[hairyears]

'Flomping'... Like shlepping, only with a dash of flounce?

Naaahhh.

Meanwhile, feeding people: shame I'm on the wrong side of London.

[swaldman]

I kinda missed Orphan Black - as in, I didn't notice it until it was well in to Season 2. At this point I think it's best for me to ignore it on TV and rent the DVDs later...

[vass]

6. I am on my first read of Ancillary Justice.

8. Oh good. I know those feels. I'm glad she gave you what you needed.

10. I love that you have a House TV Show.

[surpassingly]

<333 I'm really grateful to have read this post, and to know you, and be your friend -- I just wanted you to know. So much love.