singing in the dead of night

this day doesn't promise much. i have some friends who are moving and feel compelled to help them. i have no fewer than four bills to dispute over the phone: the phone company who charged us twice, the cell phone company for the $40 in roaming charges for calls made from our own house, the gas and electric companies for failing to acknowledge our address change, and our isp who list of annoying fuck ups is too long to bother with here. yeah, these things do tend to put one in a good mood. hmph.

i feel like there was no yesterday. the day barely seems to have happened. it just left the house a little messier and me feeling more panic-y about work and life.

eh moan moan moan. life is hard blah blah. i'm boring myself.

i did find a harry/draco that i could read last night. and i have several more chapters to look forward to today. this is good.

also good is lobelia's latest, past imperfect. i love her stuff. i love her ability to take characters/actors i don't know or care about and just write a good enough story that it doesn't matter. i love that this fic so far isn't really about dave wenham and marton csokas so much as it's about memory and the past... and sex, that always helps.

amazing. i feel all cranky and then i think slashy thought for approximately three minutes and already i feel much better. la la.

long walk home

just picked up the utne reader and saw an ad... for a new peter gabriel soundtrack. !!!!! meh. i take back all my earlier whining. this is the best day ever!

i had no idea. so out of it am i. oh. boyohboyohboy. wooooooo!!!!!!!!

[edit]: and then, seconds later, downside-up comes on my music player... coincidence? i think it's cosmic.

bwahahahaha!!!

got another one. hahahahahaha. first harrimad_sol and the harry/dracos. now, unsuspecting little siena... from whom i just received an e-mail, after sending her off yesterday with three printed out fics... here are some of my favorite parts of said e-mail:

I enjoyed them all thoroughly and want more. ::evil cackle:: ok then, i can provide more. soon, she will realize, there can never be enough.

But, jesus, the longer one with Billy and Dom, where there's all the stupid miscommunication and stuff - is that the end? Okay, can't deal with that lack of resolution. sadly, she will also soon realize, as i have only recently come to accept, that someidiothasice is not likely to ever write "everything."

Harry/ Draco was a little weird... but ended up being good and believable and I got into it and I can't wait to read the rest. So start printing!

yay!!!!!! hahahahaha. got her.

you may wonder (or not), why are you still here, phineas? aren't you supposed to be helping your friend move? well.... yes. but. i tried to call him and i can't get him (not surprising since he's moving). so what do i do? drive over to his old place and see if he's there and i can be useful? um, yeah, i guess that's what i should do.
::grumbles and heads off to get dressed::

drip drip

am home. am very hot and sweaty. that was not exactly fun, but it wasn't as bad as moving can be either. matt is extremely grateful and i must have racked up some good karmic moving points. despite my general out-of-shapeness, i felt very manly moving large heavy objects with the men while matt's wife and her frilly friend did little arranging tasks. manly, indeed.

only made 2 out of 4 angry calls this morning but they may have been productive, we'll see. supposedly, i will have dsl by 5 pm tomorrow. right. i'll believe when i see it.

don't you hate when you're reading a fic that you think is complete and you get to the end and find out it's a wip that's still ip? yeah, me too. that's my current state. i would like the next part, please. ::sigh:: will try to wait patiently. but then, probably by the time the next part is up, i'll have forgotten all the details and have to read the whole thing over again anyway. so i could have just read it later. or something. not sure i have much logic at work here. i just want to know what happens. i mean, beyond the obvious - they have sex and then spend the rest of their lives blissfully together. yeah, beyond that.

D S L

yes, it's back to the high speed internet connection for me. ah, this is truly wonderful. now i can click on all the pics and videos i want... ::smiles::

only one drawback... it's on rach's computer only... a catch i wasn't aware of. so my lil ol' laptop is watching me sadly from the other desk, feeling suddenly rejected. i would much rather be using it - newer, faster, has more toys on it. i must investigate the cost of adding another computer. yes.

we were so domestic tonight. we cooked a dinner which consisted of corn from a western mass far; summer squash, collards, kale and garlic from our farm share; and green and yellow beans from my mother's garden. and then rachael baked an amazingly delicious zucchini coffee cake with some of my mom's zucchini. it's so good. i would never have chosen to bake on a hot night like this, but that's rach for ya. and i'm not complaining. i mean really, it's that good.

cooking always puts me in such a nice mood. now i just need to find the perfect story to print and take to bed, and i can call th evening finished.

lj is unnaturally quiet tonight. i wonder what's up.