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It seems that some people were inadvertent overachievers on Sunday, and they did not so much "Spring forward" as "launch wildly into the future." Temporal anomalies have been detected at houses that also experienced sudden and mysterious disappearances, so investigators believe the missing people have catapulted into some as of yet undetermined date. While further study will continue, we may have no choice but to wait until we get to the future as well to reunite with our lost neighbors, hoping all the while that they are making it nice for us.

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angrboda

In January, Bookscorpion over on Pillowfort recommended an app for doing pilates exercises at home. I have today finished Day 43 of the beginner's program.

It continues to humble me. Today I learned I am incapable of 60 seconds of jumping jacks. A full minute is a surprisingly long time!

I'm sticking with it quite well, though. There have been some breaks here and there due to illness and travelling, but I've been doing it every day as much as possible. It's not difficult when it's only ten to fifteen minutes.

I'm going to keep adding days to the beginner's program for as long as possible. It's plenty difficult thank you very much. I don't feel at all ready for intermediate, and I am downright frightened of advanced!

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Whoops, I keep forgetting to post the third check-in!

In 6 more days, I'll create and post the link for the AO3 collection. Anything you post there will remain hidden until April 1st, when the collection closes and is revealed!

So, that's 23 days left to get those podfics done! How is everyone faring? The fanfic I WANTED to post entered a hiatus, so that bit of work is being put aside, for me. However, last week I was able to record all of a fanfic I REALLY love, so now all I have to do is edit!

I hope everyone is feeling confident! It's been good to see so many people sign up, and I am very excited to see how things go on reveal day!

Happy recording! Or, at this point, hopefully happy editing!

-Kit

conuly

And there's an increase in mortality with every change of the clocks.

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hannah

Knowing my parents' summer plans, I don't think I'll want to attend the full vacation with them. I don't know yet if I'll want to attend any of it with them. They're staying in a town a half-hour's drive from Beacon, which is a pleasant enough train ride, so I'm thinking maybe three days, tops, would be okay.

Last time they did this, I only stayed a handful of days. It's not unprecedented in our vacation plans. I'll probably want to get out of New York City in its sticky season, and knowing I'll have a limited amount of time there from the get-go is probably one of the better things I can do to be able to enjoy myself. I've seen what happens when it's all on my parents. It doesn't end well.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: nothing now

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Writer signups are now closed. Thank you so much to everyone who signed up!

We are now randomly matching our brave writers with their mystery Unown form(s) and will send out assignment emails before 9 March, 20:00PM UTC at the latest. There will be a small number of initial pinch hits, so keep an eye on this community and/or our Tumblr for updates on which Unown need adopting so they get to go on a special adventure.

You can still sign up as a podficcer until 17 March.

scrubjayspeaks

Well, no real improvement over last week, except that I didn’t have to work Saturday again. In addition to my actual job, which is in high gear at the moment, I also still have a project in which I had to repair the tool, set up the press, and create the automation programming on two systems, despite not working in any of the departments who should be responsible for those things. And my quadruple salary will kick in aaaaaaaaany day now, I’m sure.

Now the tractor is having issues again. I need all vehicles to sToP bReAkInG~~~!

Hot in the day, freezing at night. Gotta love March...

Lewisia: 5 new pieces written, so I’m one short of being caught up, queued all posts for March

Day job: 45 hours

Cooking: discard double chocolate cookies (delicious, though I would like them to stay chewy longer), copycat KitKat bars (which are nothing at all like KitKats, more like millionaire shortbread, interesting but I would like to tweak a few things)

Gardening: weed whacked in the field again to take the seed heads off the foxtails, garden club post

Reading: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (a little difficult to track in audio form at times, but don’t worry, its ability to wrench at my heart remains undimmed ;_;)

Watching: The X-Files season one, episodes 11 and 12

Listening: Destination Heaven by Euphoria Again & Dogwood Tales (heard “Candy” on KEXP and wanted the album, melancholy country, gotta love all that slide guitar)

Playing: oh no, stop telling me about Pokopia, it sounds perfect for me, I don’t *want* to spend $500+ on a new system *sob*

Aftermarket Parts: in random markers in time, hit my 1000 days on T *\o/*

Clock Mouse: 76 minutes of planning work

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angrboda

In happier news than my last few posts, I am sitting in my room!

This renovation project has taken longer than we expected, as we ran into some significant delays due to Christmas, illness, and family emergencies. But today we moved my desk back in, Husband mounted the new ceiling lamp and the curtains and we also moved the chair back in. New cupboards and the rest of the furniture will have to wait a bit longer, because it seems easier to buy and get the new stuff in first and move the rest of the existing afterwards. We have managed to reclaim a bit of our lounge.

I have a picture up of the progress so far on Pillowfort. Never mind the untidy desk, things were just sort of piled back on it randomly.

I did have to come up with plan B, though, because it turned out that with the rug I initially wanted under the desk, there wouldn't be enough room for the bookcases. The conclusion was that it was just not possible with the rug I had in mind to puzzle things in, in any way that didn't mean having to give up something. So I decided to give up the rug.

This decision was also helped by several quite recent reviews on Ikea's website about it not being cut straight. Not encouraging! I shall go without the rug for now and keep the dreaded floor protecter, and then if I later find I actually do want one after all, I'll go somewhere I can have it cut to measure instead. It'll be significantly more expensive, but probably a better quality and fit all in all.

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2023-present I have been watching my cat go through what occurs to me is basically the ~2005-07 New Who arc:

1) oh god something terrible has happened and I'm alone in the universe. only hints of my species remain. oh god oh fuck

2) HALLELUJAH! there's another one left!

3) why tho. Why this member of my species in particular. Why

Current Mood: amused

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My fic for flamingwell for last year's

fandomtrumpshate is finally completely posted! Flamingwell's prompt went far better than I'd anticipated - this fic was supposed to be about 15k! Hahaha. haha. haaa.. XD

Anyway, it's now complete and I'm really proud of it! I'm usually more of a fluff and humour writer, but this thing is angsty! XD

Escaping the Tiger's Mouth

Read on AO3.

Chapters: 13
Words: ~ 55k
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, pre-Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing, Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sunshot Campaign, Golden Core Reveal, in several ways even!, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, Hurt!Wei Wuxian, Yunmeng Siblings Feels, Getting Together, Love Confessions, tiny hints of Chengqing, POV Multiple

Summary: “Wei Ying!” Lan Wangji gasped, rushing forward.
Wei Ying was lying face down on the ground, an arrow protruding from his shoulder and blood staining the robes on his left side. At first glance it looked like he wasn’t moving at all, only the grey wisps of resentment still swirling around him, but as Lan Wangji knelt down he saw that he had been wrong. Wei Ying was shivering violently, his whole body a shudder. He made no sound besides his harsh breathing.
“Wei Ying,” Lan Wangji said again, gently touching Wei Ying’s back. No response.
“Fuck, what happened here?” Jiang Wanyin said, kneeling down on Wei Ying’s other side. “An ambush?”
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As the Sunshot Campaign is drawing nearer to Nightless City, Wei Wuxian gets ambushed by an assassin and falls gravely ill. The doctors cannot help him, but Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji refuse to give up.
There must be a way to save Wei Wuxian.

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hannah

My plan to cope with daylight saving is to go to bed early and sleep through the worst of it. As this calls for me to go to bed early, there may be a flaw in the plan. But I'm willing to give it a shot.

I spent most of the day with a friend - the Frick art museum, both Central Park zoos, a bowl of noodles and broth. We took our time with the paintings and the parrots, and also the penguins and pinnipeds. We talked about our upcoming birthdays and traded presents, and made general noises towards plans to do it again in a couple of months. We spent about two hours at the bowl restaurant talking fandom and fic, bouncing from crossovers to omegaverse to the importance of a plurality of voices within the community. It was more than welcome.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: nothing now

scrubjayspeaks

Welcome to the March edition of Pandemic Garden Club! Growing good things in strange times!

Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.

As for myself...

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A reader writes:

I work in a cubicle office and bring a trained, medically necessary service dog named “Betty” to the office with me. I allow her to socialize with coworkers on breaks, and she is very loved in the office for how friendly and adorable she is. She also adores her coworkers and thinks everyone is her best friend.

Unfortunately, a new coworker, “Sarah,” has been repeatedly ignoring service dog boundaries with Betty over the last six months.

These boundary violations include taking Betty out of my cube while I’m on work calls or distracted, removing her leash in public work areas without asking, entering my cube without permission to interact with her, and petting her or interacting with her when I step away from my desk. This has started to impact Betty’s training as she’s now having separation anxiety behaviors when I leave in order to get attention. Sarah would respond to this behavior, which escalated it, despite being asked repeatedly not to.

Things were at their worst today when Sarah not only removed Betty’s leash but also attempted to remove her service dog gear. I asked her to stop but this didn’t work, and I had to physically push her hands away from Betty.

I have had multiple conversations with Sarah about her behavior with little success. When I point out a specific behavior, Sarah will then start doing a new one or find different ways to circumvent the boundary and continue her interactions with Betty. This appears to be a pattern with Sarah, as there are other areas where she struggles to incorporate feedback.

All my conversations with Sarah so far have been verbal and in the moment, as we are equals and I don’t feel it is my place to supervise her behavior. I did message my supervisor about the concerns when they started escalating and we had a one-on-one about it. My supervisor then spoke with Sarah’s supervisor about the issues and a one-on-one was had with Sarah about a month ago. Despite this, the behavior has not gotten better and seems to be getting worse.

I have had a previous negative experience with HR where I was blamed for not handling a verbally aggressive and threatening coworker with clearer boundaries before escalating to them. This time I want to make sure that I’m doing everything I can and should before I escalate things to HR again. I also don’t want to ruin the atmosphere of the office by cutting off all contact to Betty due to one coworker being unable to follow boundaries. What should I do in this instance to handle it professionally and not step on toes or upset HR?

– Trying to keep my working dog working

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Miss Manners: Items vanish post‑party, and list of possible culprits is down to 3. How do I proceed?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room.

After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and a little sculpture were missing from the smoking room. Neither of them is really valuable, even sentimentally, but it still has left me very distraught.

There is no other way that these items could have disappeared except being taken by someone. Only three guests were ever in that room.

Now, what do I do? I have not mentioned this to anyone, since it undoubtedly would make everyone uncomfortable and lead to speculations about who took the things. I’d rather just forget about the whole thing, but if something similar happens in someone else’s home, I will feel guilty for not having said anything.

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