nickelmountain

I finished my second semester of grad school on Wednesday night, and today I'm heading out for a weekend of fangirling with nwhepcat. We're going to eat some good food, watch some great shows, and SRSLY WORLD ENOUGH WITH THIS STUPID WEDDING CRAP.

*Ahem.* Sorry. Apparently I needed to get that out of my system.

My friends' band released their new album on Tuesday, and also announced that they'll be playing Lollapalooza again. Which is awesome for them, because they're incredible and deserve all their success, but it's more awesome for me. Because this means they'll be coming through Chicago this summer, and I'll get to see them. These are some of the nicest, best people I know, and seeing them always restores me somehow. I mean actually hanging out, but watching them play is also always satisfying, if surreal. They're fantastic, but watching the audience react to them is always strange for me.

Anyway. I guess I needed to get that out of my system, too. End of semester + my friends coming to Chicago + SPN renewed for a 7th season + fangirl weekend = one awesome fucking week, don't you think? Woo hoo!

where I'm calling from ipad srsly quit posting my address. i turned that setting OFF.

I have two more weeks of classes before the Spring semester is over, and everything is due next week. Two presentations and three papers, and then I'm in the clear until June.

I have podfic plans. Oh yes I do. I am excite.

I wanted to record a ton of podfic over winter break, but that break was swallowed whole by Christmas. May, however...requires very little of me. I'm starting it with a trip out to see

nwhepcat for a fangirl weekend to celebrate surviving the semester, and I'm ending it with

nwhepcat again at

wiscon . With fannish bookends such as those, how can May be anything but awesome?

( This is my plan: )
Anyway. Back to paper-writing and presentation-preparing. And also: Friday night, why must you tempt me so? Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, and Fringe all in one night? I mean, sure, I'm used to watching Fringe on Hulu the next day, but it's the principle of the thing. So much awesome, and I have to resist and avoid spoilers until my schoolwork is done.

Sigh.

This year is moving so incredibly fast. Ever since January, it's been one thing after another - studying for and taking the GRE, writing my admissions essay and corralling all the necessary elements of my admissions packet, taking that horrible statistics course, and of course work, with all its myriad stresses and preoccupations and hours of overtime.

I finished work just over a week ago, on my 30th birthday.

It's only just now sinking in. I celebrated my birthday/semi-retirement with a RL friend from out of town, and then promptly left for a few days bumming around in Denver, followed by a few more days with my parents, a couple hours south of Spokane. Got back last night, and have been spending some quality time with my cats ever since.

Fandom related if you squint hard enough: We went to the public art museum in Denver, where I saw an incredible drawing by Bill Amundson. I saw this exact same drawing on exhibit at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI with

nwhepcat in June.

This is my last week of freedom. Orientation is on Friday, and classes start next week.

I still have:
One super-long podfic, still in progress. I'm slow, I suck, I'm sorry.
One shorter podfic on the docket, which I planned on finishing before I left town, but plans and I don't always get along.
One podfic remix that I'm really excited about.

Oh my god, school is starting next week.

Also: oh my god, I'm 30.

I spent yesterday in Milwaukee, drinking coffee and talking fandom with

nwhepcat and

huzzlewhat . The day was made of awesome. It was my first meet-up with other fans - I went to one day of the Supernatural con in November, but I didn't actually talk to anyone. So cool to talk about fanfic out loud.

This meet-up was unlike other specialized interest meet-ups I've been to. Very occasionally, I'll find myself at a vegan meet-up. The food is generally pretty awesome, but the people talk about nothing but being vegan. The politics of it, especially. It gets old. I've been vegan almost half my life - it's a fact of my existence, not an interest. I have my reasons, but I don't feel compelled to go over them again and again.

Fandom...is totally different. I really want to talk about fannish stuff, pretty much all the time, and nickelhusband has been my solitary, long-suffering audience up until now. Also,

nwhepcat and

huzzlewhat are cool as hell. You can tell anyone I said so.

I promised another podfic. It will happen. I'm in the preliminary stages now.

But first - eight hours at work!

I spent yesterday in Milwaukee, drinking coffee and talking fandom with

nwhepcat and

huzzlewhat are cool as hell. You can tell anyone I said so.

I promised another podfic. It will happen. I'm in the preliminary stages now.

But first - eight hours at work!

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