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This totally isn't fair of me, but I'm feeling left-outed and vaguely jealous again. The wonderful neeuqdrazil has new friendships bursting out all over at her, and she very much deserves it...but I want some! Waaaaaaaaah!

Gack. I don't even know whether I want people to comment and try and tell me how special I am or anything because I feel like it doesn't count if I've asked for it.

Where did this come from?! GRRRRRRRRRR!

I have been feeling a bit depressed lately, for no apparent reason other than perhaps seasonal malaise. (I want spring!)

I've been sleeping far more than usual, though not very restfully, a somewhat worrying tendency when tomorrow I'm off to Detroit for ACUS. I know perfectly well that's going to be a major sleep deprivation weekend. I hope I don't do anything embarrassing like fall asleep in the middle of a game.

I've also had very little motivation to do anything at all other than hang out online: I've made next to no progress on my unpacking, I've procrastinated designing characters for the aforementioned ACUS, and I've neglected AW completely. Even my morning pages, the one aspect of AW I felt I was doing well at.

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Some of my first-ever usenet posts

mactavish gave me the idea, again. It took a while to find search criteria that zeroed in on these. It's a rather interesting look back at the things that interested me "back when".

A fairly knowledgeable discussion of Japanese grammar. That makes me sad, because I've forgotten so much: if I hadn't translated my own sample sentences I'm not sure I'd understand them now without a lot of effort.

Several questions about netHack. I'd nearly forgotten, but I wasted many many hours playing that game.

A question, unanswered, about a favorite book of mine. I've since reread that book many times, and lent it to quite a few friends, but I always forget to mention it when listing my favorites.

Because someone will find this amusing...

While trying to figure out something distinctive I could wear so that jillfelice's husband would be able to pick me out of the crowded Detroit airport, the only thing I came up with was my ACN t-shirt. This should be relatively unique, though as I'm attending an Ambercon it's quite likely someone else there might have one. But the chances that they'd be wearing it, and in the airport at the same time as me, are pretty slim.

It was rather funny, actually. She called me on my cellphone while I was driving home from work, and I could barely hear her over the Harry Potter book-on-CD I was listening to. So when she said "Hello this is Jill" I thought she was Jill H from work. It took a good couple of minutes to straighten out that misunderstanding, but we got it eventually.

More Brunching Shuttlecocks fun

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