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my new plan to ensure that i have time to study vocabulary for my finnish test a week from today (given i have a 10-page paper to write by this friday) is that i am allowed to write small amounts of fic but not to do any recreational reading, not even of the print paperback i keep around for when i can't reach the computer, until the essay is written.

starting right after this one story¹...

also. for years i have been plagued with the medium-bad acne that runs in my dad's family, and been kind of lazy and not done a whole lot about it. but i finally got serious and at isilya's encouragement started this, which is extremely simple but has added upwards of 30 minutes to my morning routine, unfortunately. i am afraid i'm going to have to start getting up an hour earlier to have time for skin care + walking the dog. that sucks, because hello, i already wake up at six. *mope*

1. whoa, that was brilliant. going on the recs page!

family weddings, happy birthdays

hey, good news. it looks like i am invited to wax's brother's wedding next july. the bad news is that kuopio is so far away that we will have to stay in a hotel or some permutation thereof. and that the prospective sister-in-law's parents are religious freaks whom wax_jism's mother did not take a shine to. i anticipate, however, much much more trouble in obtaining something suitable for wax to wear than in the wedding itself.

also, today is the birthday of my lovely and perfectly adorable godson, sean. he is three! how time does fly! it seems hardly any time has passed since hollsk was living in a ratty apartment with a roommate named jen, and there was like a mouse living on top of the refridgerator or something, and seannie was not even a glimmer in her eye.

it's also perhael's birthday. she's not my godson, but she's a stellar and much-valued fic-cheerleader/hand-holder and largely responsible for the successful and happy completion of a number of the stories i've written. and she's also a pal.

happy birthday, dudes.