Ding dong, Christmas bells ringing on the radio~ ♪ ♫ ♪

[yuuago]

Oh man. Getting coffee as a surprise in the mail is the best thing ever. Thank you again, Ardis. <3 Now, let's just hope my parents don't drink all of it before I get a taste. That's what happened the last time I had special coffee. :|

The last week has been so busy! Work has been frustrating as hell - I feel like a chicken running around with its head cut off. The store is crazy-busy due to people coming in to buy things for last-minute Christmas parties. If only they'd plan ahead.

Of course, when I'm working so much, that would be the time I get so much inspiration to write! It makes perfect sense! Argh, I have a million stories running through my brain right now, but I'm not going to have a moment's rest or any time to think until about January 01, I expect. Woe is me. ... Though I actually did manage to get about half a page written on one of my Swe/Fin stories the other day, so all isn't lost.

I've been working on the revamp of the Baltic Index off-and-on, whenever I get a tiny bit of time. It's going slowly. Mostly I'm indexing the latest Part + unfilled requests (beginning with Est, as he has the fewest). Then I'll move on to the fills and filled requests. The new Baltic Index is here, and as y'can see, it looks pretty much the same as my Nordic Index.

Anyway. I finished reading World War Z. I... enjoyed it. Mostly. Though I did find it disturbing. I still haven't been able to quite put my finger on what I find so utterly terrifying about contagion, zombies, and end-of-the-world scenarios, but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I'll probably read one of the Moomins books next as a palate cleanser. When Diplopod sent me that box of books, I probably could have read them all in succession, but I'm rather glad that I decided to (mostly) keep them reserve to follow whenever I read something disturbing. Come to think of it, I still haven't finished watching the series, either... I've kind of slowed down with it because I have more difficulty paying attention to the raw episodes, on account of it being harder to figure out what's going on.

... I think that's it for now. There are a few things that I had considered discussing, but after thinking about it, writing about those problems won't make me feel any better, so there we are.

[eta] OH. ALSO. I was playing the harmonica this evening, and I finally managed to do a recording of The Highwaymen's "Rover" without making any mistakes! Yes. I'm so proud of myself.

Comments

[noyadespate.livejournal.com]

i think you should write that latin fetish thing, i hope you didn't forget that idea

if you want to complain about any problems, you can send me a message if you ever want to. and I hope the holiday rush dies down after the major holidays, so you can get a break; you deserve one.


you know what you'd find scarier than zombies? manuscript-destroying zombies

[yuuago]

Pfft, how on earth could I forget that idea? 8) Don't worry. I will write it. When I have time.

WELL... Okay, I'll keep that in mind. I do usually have this feeling of "MAN. Nobody wants to listen to me whining", but I will indeed try to keep it in mind.

After Christmas, I'm pretty sure that my schedule will go back to regular "Sunday and Tuesday off", so everything will be right as rain again. Unfortunately that's still a while yet, argh.

... Manuscript-destroying zombies? Don't even go there, bro.

[noonish.livejournal.com]

awwwww you play the harmonica so cuuute.

[yuuago]

NOT CUTE.

Noon, you're silly.

[noonish.livejournal.com]

CUTE LITTLE HOSER

[yuuago]

YOU'RE THE HOSER HERE.

It's the truth.

[minninen.livejournal.com]

You know yesterday at the mostly useless team work class the teacher mentioned that one way to get inspiration is to do something you don't normally do/doing something new in a familiar enviroment/etc because that stimulates your brain and makes it easier to come up with new ideas or something along those lines.

So idk, maybe doing so much stuff at work is stimulating your brain in some sense?

[yuuago]

Hmmm, that makes a lot of sense. It's possible!

... Or perhaps that I'd just rather be doing anything else other than working. Who knows.

Regardless of the cause, TOO MANY IDEAS. щ(ಥДಥщ)

[minninen.livejournal.com]

...now that I think about it that sounds pretty possible, too!

You could invent a time machine with all those ideas.

Then you wouldn't have to work.

[yuuago]

You're the smart one here, not me. I think I'll leave the time machine inventing to you.

[minninen.livejournal.com]

What no YUU'RE PUTTING TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON ME NOW.

[yuuago]

No, no pressure at all!

... I could help? ╮('◡'✿)

... ALSO I see what you did there.

What you did there. I see it.

[minninen.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah thanks to the awesome TEAM WORK course I now know how to work in a team perfectly!

Btw did you know that the name of that Leevi and the Leavings song is "Very Sad Christmas"? Like "Merry Christmas", they're just wishing... very sad Christmas

[yuuago]

OF COURSE. Naturally, you couldn't figure it out on your own (despite being a bloody brilliant individual). But Now You Know!

Also, ahaha yes - Was surprised, because to me the tune sounds so cheerful. I ran it through a translator today, as it's my favourite of their christmas songs and I wanted to know what was said, and I was like, "...Wait, what?".