Pronoun Trouble

Job! Interview! Tomorrow!

Interview outfit: Purchased and assembled (still need to iron the jacket, I have a bit of time for that though)

Probable interview questions: Studied

Practice interview courtesy of SIL: Done (more 'um'-ing than I'd like, but whatever)

Me: About as ready as I can be

Let's do this!

We know about the sower demons, but canon doesn't really discuss the demons that TLJ brought the sowers in to feed. I've got some speculative worldbuilding for this fic that I'm going to get into here, followed by how I think rotting human flesh might have become a more general delicacy for demons after that.

Short version on the demons TLJ wants to feed: ( They're human-focused scavengers )

Now, as to ( how rotting human flesh became a demonic delicacy (which gets seriously unethical in places) )

Who knows if any of the non-scavenger demon stuff will make it into the fic! Except maybe as some sort of "Oh, hey, maybe the pig thing will work here, too?" option. But at least now I have an idea of how it works!

I dropped all of these over at Tumblr, I should probably get around to sharing them here as well.

First off: Hex paper! If you want to make your own hexagon quilt pattern, this is what I used. (Well, I found a smaller version of it and used the magic of photo editing to expand it, but close enough.) Original version via MuseDownloads.com .



( Horizontal Flowers )

( Honeycomb Quilt )

( Snowfall Quilts )

I threw together some basic Pokéball designs as well, but it's coming up on bed time, so I'll try to get to those tomorrow 👍

Power's out for the next two hours, give or take 🙃 Guess I'll update that community properly later!

Edit: Power actually came on way earlier than expected (about half an hour after I made this post), so. Yay!

I was so productive today 😭

I spent the last five days writing and polishing a fic that I outlined last year, and now it's done and posted and I can breathe easily and daydream about a potential novel-length continuation.

I also finally finished my resume, wrote a cover letter, and applied to a job! I just finished alerting my references that they may be hearing about it in the near future, so they know to expect something. The job I applied for is a Test Center Associate at the local community college, and I think it would mesh really well with my old convention skills, plus my timing and task coordination skills from my bakery job. (It's also a dollar more an hour than I currently make, and likely more hours a week overall 👀) Fingers crossed!

I finished up by going out to get myself some ice cream, because I heckin' deserve it!

Edit: I decided to add another task to my list and changed the sheets 😂 At least I'll sleep well!

This time for Future Sight (a companion to my Pokepod Xatu fic). It's actually a gift for peasina, but as I said elsewhere, getting your work podficced can feel like it's a gift to you, even when it's for someone else!

Anyway, go check it out over here, and please consider leaving comments and/or kudos for the recorder, AeliaPods!

In light of Dolly Parton's recent passing, I would like to encourage people to check out The Imagination Library; if you've got a few bucks to chip in, it's a really worthy cause, and if you know a kid under five who could use a few more picture books in their life and who lives in one of the five countries the Imagination Library serves, I think that Dolly Parton would be real pleased if you signed them up.

Edit: Confirmed via US Magazine: "...in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

Hello, all! I have returned from a weekend trip that I never said anything about here, whoops 😅 It was a lovely time with my mom, my brother, my SIL, and my two niblings. (Dad was invited but declined to come, and I can't decide how that compares to the visit the same group of people took to his sister last year. On the one hand, much shorter trip to a much closer location! On the other hand, his sister, and in a season that's much nicer where his sister lives than where we live.)

I am tired now, but largely satisfied from the trip. It was my mom's gift to my SIL for her 40th birthday (a couple years late, actually, but who's counting). Apparently, it's tradition on her side to have a big to-do on people's 40ths, and she's extending it to in-laws. As I'm turning 40 this year myself, she wants to know what I might be interested in doing!

Prior to this trip, I'd been idly thinking about checking what show might be playing at that dinner theater she and I went to earlier this year; upon arriving at our destination this weekend, however, it occurred to me that I could probably take a similar trip! The Chicago Field Museum is going to be running the Pokémon Fossil Exhibit through sometime next year, so that gives me plenty of time to see it, and this would be a great excuse! Plus I might be able to go a day or two early and visit the Chicago Aquarium as well.

Definitely something I'm giving real consideration to now, though that does need to include a guest list. I'm fine with just inviting my family again, even if that means I'd be doing a bit of extra kid watching with my five-and-under niblings (and Dad would probably decline again, which would sting a tiny bit more, but not much). I know I don't want to go alone, at any rate. I'll have to think about my options and find out what budget Mom has in mind.

Sleep deprivation headaches suck, but even moreso when you have them despite actually having tried to get a reasonable amount of sleep!

Trying to fall asleep the past two nights has been absolute shit. Usually, if I can just fall asleep, I'll wake up a few times*, but I tend to fall back asleep within a few minutes anyway. These past two nights I could barely fall asleep in the first place.

Reminds me of the time before I started taking melatonin, TBH. I've been using a generic brand for a while now (only because my preferred brand wasn't available the last time I ran out), then went out and got my preferred brand after I spent most of Friday tossing and turning; sadly, while it worked out a little bit better than the generic, I still didn't sleep a whole lot last night.

Fingers crossed for tonight, though, and I'm off tomorrow, so I should have plenty of time to both sleep in and nap!

Me tonight: Hemming a pair of pants

Me tomorrow, probably: Hawing a shirt