Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

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.

Ugh, I have a snothead *sniffles*. I did go to work though and was rewarded with a lovely NewYear's lunch (scored a kroket, yay!). On my way back home I delivered all my cards and parcels at the post office, so they are on their way, whoopwhoop. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that;) (Thank you for your card, felisblanco!)

Am working with somer on this year's first round of SMPC Sundays, read our pervy promo-post here to find out if you want to join in! We love artists, authors, lurkers and commenters:)

I updated my ArtMasterlist with my latest 2017 creations and put up a new Booklist sticky. You're welcome to check out either or both;)

Looking forward to a new year of fangirling!

J.

Ugh. My artwork is now in that 'fuck-it-this-is-never-gonna-work'-stage, so I'm giving up for today. Am not in a good mood to be creative anyway, let's blame that on the period, to at least get something out of that. *sighs*. Right. A weekly update... (Don't worry, it comes with a happy link to the adorable nephew, so it's not all blah;)

( and I'm not gonna talk about work, so it's really not that bad )

What have you been up to?