back from real life

[lobelia321]

Hello, everybody, I'm back! Did you miss me????

I was first in Mannheim where resideth t'sister and her by-now four children, incl. an incredibly cute and alert and troll-like seven-week-old new addition, and then I was in Bristol where tooketh place the conference for which I convened a session. And guess also what, I was elected to be a member of the executive board of my professional organisation and now I am, as they say in the U of K, 'well chuffed'. (This means 'pleased' in common parlance.)

My session went phenomenally well. It was very exhausted, and I am now ill with lack of sleep and excess of travel and have no voice, but hey, you don't need a voice for LJ! I think I have a natural flair for organising people; everyone said how relaxed the session was, and how productive, and people stayed for 45 minutes at the end simply to discuss the issues! I loved talking about my own topic for two days, I have to say. And I enjoy (although it is also exhausting) convening, introducing people, shepherding them when nervous, soliciting questions, tying points to points people made the previous day, and all that stuff.

T'h has taken to talking about 'His Holiness'. These are not words I am used to hearing around our demesne but thus is the fall-out of being wed to a Catholic. Now t'youngest son has started saying, 'Can we go to church? I miss the Pope!'

I didn't get that job I applied for, bugger it all. So I'll be stuck at my present crap of shit for a while longer, I guess.

*goes off to shine oven*

Oh, and while in Germany, I bought myself two things called Schreibmappen






and I am still drooling. I'm not sure what these are called in English (portfolio bag? conference folder?) but I love and lick mine and used it 24/7 at the conference. *caresses said item of stationery*

I've also progressed in writing bits and blobs with Draco and Dudley. It is a fucking difficult fic to finish, I have to say but sometimes it is very swoonsome and mostly just obsessive. I think I dug my own grave with it because it is conceived in a very straightforward, no-nonsense prose style, and I'm not very good at that kind of straight-out storytelling. I tried to make it humorous (didn't work at all, too angsty -- what is to be expected from such a pairing and such an author?), and I tried to make it more metaphoric but that also didn't work, it didn't suit the characters. So I'm stuck with this prosaic style, and it's the bane of my writing!

Comments

[msilverstar]

Yay for wildly successful conference! Put that on your CV right away, k?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, CV-update, you're right! Very important. *g*

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

You're back! Again! I'm glad everything went so well. Can you come over here and organize me next? I have become completely un-flied. Or you can just send me your D/D and give me a good excuse to get nothing else done!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

How can you, my temptress and Fly-introductrix, have abandoned the One and Only True Faith? *is stricken*

Listen up, honey, quit whining about teh move and teh illness and teh not having the money and teh being depressed, just get off your franny and shine that sink. (Was that a convincing imitation? Or is the spelling still too immaculate? I just can't bring myself to misspell: spelling errors are clutter and must be weeded out!)

Okay. Shine your sink. Then come back and reply to this comment. No D/D without shiny sink.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Spelling MUCH too immaculate. I have no idea what you just said. The sink IS shiny, just full of stuff because I have no dishwasher and the computer is taking up the rest of my kitchen counter. I know, whine, whine, whine.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Sink shiny? That's all right then. It can shine away underneath its burden of hi-tech equipment.

Whine 'n' shine!

Or should that read 'wine 'n' shine'? Perhaps moonshine-wine?

*runs away with associative stream o' consiousness*

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Wine n' shine! It's my new motto. And gathering from some of the testimonials, I'm not the only one!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Aha! So you're still reading the testimonials,eh?

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Most of them; just to give myself some hope. The daily reminders aren't doing me much good when I can't find any shoes, let alone lace-up ones!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

The testimonials can be addictive. I did *not* follow flylady's advice and go to no-mail while I was away; I wanted to save ALL the testimonials and filtered them into a special filter. I am known to weep copiously at some of them. Absurd. But it's a kind of interesting cross-section of womanhood, you really get all sorts and people with terrible problems that put one's own into perspective. I always thought, for example, that housewives do nothing but keep house all day long but they are actually very, very busy. In fact, everyone on that list seems to be very busy which is, I guess, why they joined the list to begin with because they're overwhelmed.

Anyway, thank Flylady for making me factor 15-minute slots of HP writing into my daily schedule... *g*

[mystisblom.livejournal.com]

OMG you bought a federmäpsche *G* cool!
where in germany?

(I so live under a stone lol)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to say it's rather more than an ordinary Federmäpsche! Although I can see how it is a distant cousin. Perhaps that explains why I could find such an item in Germany and not in the UK. The English just throw their pencils into little bag thingies. Germany? I was in Mannheim.

[mystisblom.livejournal.com]

Yes I know that with the federmäpsche it's just that a buddy of mine used to call it that so it kinda stuck lol.
I have something like that too but right now I have no reason to use it :( I feel so importend when I carry it around gg

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

That's great about teh conference! And you're still writing teh fic! Cool! I wish I could write something, but all my words have gone boring and everyday-style. It's either that or laziness.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Do you think we're going to start speaking like this: 'teh' conference and so forth? Your words have gone boring? That is so disloyal of them!!! Perhaps you could start writing boring!fic?? Or just compile to-do lists.

[eve-took.livejournal.com]

Mannheim. How funny. I'm from Heidelberg, moved to Cologne five years ago.

:)

Nice Schreibmappe!

Oh, and I've seen "Kal Hoo Naa Ho". Remembered you squeeing about Bollywood movies. I guess I'm infected with Bollywood addiction now. :D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Kal Ho Naa Ho! Yay, Pretty / Shahrukh! I saw Dil Chahta Hai while in Mannheim, and my most recent swoonsession is Veer-Zaara. But if you liked KHNH: have you seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? The Bollywood film that got me into the obsession to begin with.

*gg*