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brief update (warning: contains fish)
Jan. 2nd, 2019 10:44 pmI tried to write a long meandering post about myself and fanfic and the glories I am discovering therein (glories many others already know, I am late to the party) but I am increasingly tired and I need to get up at a very reasonable time tomorrow so I may wash my smol daughter's copious hair and comb it out before we go have Fancy Tea with an old friend and her once-smol-but-now-in-college daughter, during which time I will attempt to get the girls (who like each other but are shy) talking about Harry Potter and I will hopefully resist getting too enthusiastic about the conversation myself because I want to leave lots of space for smol daughter to share her love of the books without too much parental enthusiasm and hand-waving...
You see, causing it to meander wasn't the problem, it was editing it down enough that it stuck to any sort of line at all, so I will post about that later and for now just say, hello out there, it is still vacation, I am enjoying spending time with my family but looking forward to being as introverted as possible next week when everyone is back at work/school -- not very introverted, Girl Scouts and a big school event next week -- and oh yes I finished that enormous fanfic and it was marvelous and since then I have been reading all kinds of fanfic nonstop, it is like I suddenly discovered a new galaxy or something, I am giddy with it, and it deserves to be a post on its own, so while it might take a while, it will come. (If I can keep from being overly embarassed and I can already hear certain segments of the population asking me just what there is to be embarassed about, and there is nothing, it is just -- chemicals, can I blame chemicals? I am a person who is easily embarassed about liking things, oh this is ridiculous.)
Today we went to a marvelous aquarium en famille, and it was crowded but not too much so for enjoyment, and smol daughter saw many things she remembered from being much, much more smol, and smol son was in absolute constant delight because there were fish and butterflies and another really huge fish swimming above our heads and tiny little eels and more fish and butterflies and jellyfish and seahorses that look like floating plants and sand dollars and LOOK AT THE FROG MOM etc etc etc, it was fantastic. Friday we are going to our usual aquarium where a multitude of silver fish swim in a circle around the ceiling; I expect that will be good, too.
You see, causing it to meander wasn't the problem, it was editing it down enough that it stuck to any sort of line at all, so I will post about that later and for now just say, hello out there, it is still vacation, I am enjoying spending time with my family but looking forward to being as introverted as possible next week when everyone is back at work/school -- not very introverted, Girl Scouts and a big school event next week -- and oh yes I finished that enormous fanfic and it was marvelous and since then I have been reading all kinds of fanfic nonstop, it is like I suddenly discovered a new galaxy or something, I am giddy with it, and it deserves to be a post on its own, so while it might take a while, it will come. (If I can keep from being overly embarassed and I can already hear certain segments of the population asking me just what there is to be embarassed about, and there is nothing, it is just -- chemicals, can I blame chemicals? I am a person who is easily embarassed about liking things, oh this is ridiculous.)
Today we went to a marvelous aquarium en famille, and it was crowded but not too much so for enjoyment, and smol daughter saw many things she remembered from being much, much more smol, and smol son was in absolute constant delight because there were fish and butterflies and another really huge fish swimming above our heads and tiny little eels and more fish and butterflies and jellyfish and seahorses that look like floating plants and sand dollars and LOOK AT THE FROG MOM etc etc etc, it was fantastic. Friday we are going to our usual aquarium where a multitude of silver fish swim in a circle around the ceiling; I expect that will be good, too.
