the last 24 hours have been nightmarish in their violence, and I just am so angry this is the world we are in and god damn it

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Happy Hanukkah, friends! I hope your lives are filled with literal and metaphorical light.

I have now seen Wake Up Dead Man!

I have finished my holiday cards, and have cleared out my backlog of past years' cards! (Except Hanukkah; I've got another year of cycling through the three designs I have.)

Nice.

Wicked was as messy as Act II hast always been, but it was very pretty and incredibly gay.

Starting to prep my holiday cards! If you've known me online for a long time and/or have met me IRL and you think I might not have your address, DM or email me! I want to send things! All cards are either generic winter or Hanukkah-specific.

Well, I suppose if I had to shatter my laptop screen, Black Friday weekend was a good time to do it.

I managed to celebrate @vassalady.bsky.social's birthday and cruise around town despite the endless snow! But now I am back home and now leaving again until after 5pm tomorrow.

I have consumed Thanksgiving dinner!

I'm trying not to be a brat because life happens! I still get Thanksgiving tomorrow! But I am A Holiday Person and sitting listless at home in my pajamas is bumming me out.

My Thanksgiving was postponed until tomorrow so I'll be curling up with Death Blart after the dog show.

I need a Jonathan Groff/Bowen Yang romcom.

Tonight I showed Challengers to M and @vassalady.bsky.social and baked this amazing pumpkin bread pudding and it was a wonderful evening.

Lonely anxious sad.

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

Ok, so I watched both Mountie on the Bounty episodes, having seen (and forgotten) maybe two Due South episodes previously, and what even WAS this show??? And was it really always this gay?

It's like Bruce imagines that having a brother means having a best friend but EVEN MORE INTENSE, and in the process he skipped right over brother and straight to boyfriend.

I've never really been a Nebraska fan, but I've been listening to the album a bunch because of the movie and I don't think I'll ever get over "nothing feels better than blood on blood." What the fuck did you MEAN to convey, Bruce?

Poor Stella. This bag of Nerds gummy clusters DOES look and sound exactly like the Temptations bag, but sadly for you it is not, actually, full of cat treats.

I had an elaborate dream that @likeadeuce.bsky.social had a secret past as a child actress and I only found out when I accidentally caught one of her movies on TV.

I have no idea what to request for Yuletide. Maybe I should just not sign up, but promise myself to write a treat?

I'm not sure I expected that my time doing LJ drabble challenges would be so integral to my career.

I look most like my roommate, who I am not related to at all. (Genetically, I look most like my dad.)

Does anyone have experience trying to have Android texts show up on a Windows PC? I'm so tired of having to copy and paste work texts/links into an e-mail to myself.

Laughing as podcast dudes go on at length about what a weird intense dude my former colleague's cousin is.

I unplugged and replugged it, it tried to do a thing and then immediately stopped and I smelled burning. So. Uh.

Welp, the washing machine is definitely dead, and it's currently full of soapy water and towels.

Took a long nap because I got so little sleep last night, but all it accomplished was giving me nightmares and fucking up my neck. Lesson learned. Time to do work.

*redacted work frustration tweet*

This made me so happy

In my quest to read books that have been on my shelf for ages, I'm finally reading the copy of A Great and Terrible Beauty that I got from a Little Free Library. I love The Diviners series and Under the Same Stars (Beauty Queens was just ok), so it's fun to finally read Libba Bray's debut.

I've been following a bunch of the same friends since 2001/2002.

r/hockey is writing a lot of fanfic today.

I really hope Alexander Skarsgård and Jack McBrayer are FWB.

I need the Swifties to give me an annotated list of who these songs are about.

I laughed at the McElroy Family Clubhouse bit when the guitar-covered Firehouse Subs mural was revealed to be in Waukesha, but today I'm IN Waukesha and they are EXTREMELY proud of being the birthplace of Les Paul. I was not familiar with their guitar vibe!

I think I have a cold and I have so much editing I need to do but I just want to drink tea and sleep.

I do not understand why "fanfiction" was not accepted in Spelling Bee today (it would have been a pangram!) when they do accept "fanfic."

History of Sound was very very good. The only real misstep for me is that Paul Mescal is not nearly a good enough singer to be what the story presents his character to be. But he's great otherwise.

I had a nice afternoon reading in the woods, but now I'm consumed by worry and guilt for various reasons and I'm not sure the sad movie I'm going to watch tonight will help.

Shana Tova, friends. <3

Me: "It's supposed to be in the 70s all week." M: "No, Jen, that's just for this Starsky and Hutch con. Tomorrow it'll be back in the 2020s." 🥁🥁

My AO3 user number is unremarkable (2261, early but not wild), but my fanfiction.net number was, amazingly, 24601.

I've been getting one or guest kudos a day on the same random fic for months, and at first I thought it had been recced somewhere but at this point I'm 98% certain it's a bot, so I'm archive locking it because I feel guilty about stolen valor.

The cat distribution system found my brother and now he has two 2-month-old kittens and I won't be able to meet them until CHRISTMAS.

After some work stuff in the morning, today was "recovering from vacation and a 13-hour (with breaks) drive" day. Tomorrow I'll start catching up for real.

I drove for so many hours today but I am back safely from my vacation.