Woohoo, managed to make reservations for two plays in London in March and July. The latter will be
Hamlet with Cush Jumbo at the Young Vic; the first one is
Endgame with Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe and Jane Horrocks at the Old Vic. Looking forward to making arrangements for both these weekends. If you're in the UK and want to meet up for a cup of tea in London or anywhere else, let me know! I'm an introvert hermit, but I do like chatting over a (non alcoholic) drink or meal:)
I signed up for a February reading buddy in the
thestoryinside to help me pick what to read next from
my 2020 bookpile [
DW]. It's a lovely low pressure community where you can chat about books in all genres (including non-fiction). If you would like a bookbuddy too (you get to make a readinglist for them!) - go to
this post.I'm planning to organize another round of the
quicky_bang. Last time there were plenty of authors and awesome short fics, but a rather low ratio of artists, as per usual in fandom. So I want to warm up first by doing a head count of interested fandom artists.
Go here to let me know if you're an artist up for a quicky and spread the word among your social media, please!
Another fandom hangout I'd like to promote is the Sunday Morning Porn Club, aka
smpc; we'd love for more naughty authors and artists to become active members! Of course consumers of pervy pleasures are also always welcome.
You are invited to squee or give input on how to make your Sundays better, here:)Last but not least, a short update on life.On Friday I had a bit of a surprise, when two years after menopause I got another period. What the fuck, body. I've been having such a lovely relaxed life, don't want to start this mess again. I did some reading and apparently this can happen for 7-10 years? Can I nope out of this? Now I'm even happier with
my bath bucket [
DW], because soaking in a warm bubblebath for a couple of hours was exactly what I needed. <3
My elbow is healing nicely; I tried to get the stitches out today, but I couldn't reach well enough to cut through them with my left hand. So I do have to wait until my dinner with mom on Wednesday and she can help me with that:)
Went to a really cool presentation on Deep Learning and how to train a computer to recognize bridges, which could be very helpful for collection of geodata in the future. I definitely want to explore the more technical side of GIS, so this was inspirational and gave me a few ideas on how to expand my potential jobsearch (because my contract is unfortunately not indefinitely).
Next month I will train a new group of MGCP data collectors again, so the next few weeks I will be busy updating the course and instruction manuals. There may be some changes coming to the workplace that I'm not too sure about, but I'm still enjoying the day-to-day exploring of the world (currently checking out Venezuela!), so I'll hold on to that until we know more about the future.
In the meantime I also hope to find joy in making some more Japan picspams;)
J.