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Does anybody have a copy of the Bodoni Ornaments font that they could email/upload to me? It just freakin' disappeared off my computer, and I was using it heavily in a major graphic design project!

*repeated keyboard smash*

Thanks!

An attempt at a basic all-grounds-covered update.

Since I am massively, massively overdue for one. I mean, I don't think I've done one since March or so.


RL and other practicalities.

Since March I have:
- met the lovely yunatwilight at a D&D game (thank you heavenscalyx!), with whom I have shagged like a bunny, pooled finances, gotten involved in local kink and poly groups, shared minds and projects, and generally fallen very deeply in love. We are sexually open, both individually and as a couple (and I am still attempting to embark upon my quest to see if males of the species, y'know, exist, never mind want to sleep with me and are pleasant and attractive and in the Boston area), but not so much open to one of us having an outside romance, but seeing as I'm not the romantic sort, that doesn't much hamper me.
- quit my crummy cafe job and moved, after an unexpectedly failed interview, into the equally crummy world of temping. However, if everything goes right, I'm going to be working full-time again starting Friday.
- having quite a few alarming money-crunches, which is a kind of fear I've never really had to deal with before. I think we're out of the worst, though, what with work starting Friday and all.
- moved to a comfortably large first-floor apartment in the very far corner of Somerville, about a mile from Davis. Three sizable rooms (currently bedroom, living room, and studio), a ginormous kitchen (no dishwasher, woooeee!), one tiny moldy bathroom, a narrow little back hall evidently built with supermodels in mind, multiple walk-in closets, and cat-friendly. Once I am financially stable and we've finished painting the place, we'll be getting one! In the meantime, we are welcome to visitors, though it's still rather a mess. Directions available upon request to folks I know well enough to have over to my house. No proper crash space yet (ie, lack of couch), but we are working on it.
- played video games besides Myst for the first time evah. Very disconcerting.
- made, as it always goes, several new friends, and lost touch with many more. Part of the latter is due to my internet time being severely curtailed due to wacky schedules and, until recently, very limited computer availability. I'm going to be trying to keep up with livejournal and emails more now, although the latter may have to wait until either of my webmail accounts works again. I mean, WTF?
- DANCED WITH FIRE WHEE.


Personal matters.

Possibly as a side-effect of living with a monk (though not a celibate one, thank all relevant deities), I've started having some rather startling metaphysical experiences. I am considering forming a filter to discuss them further, assuming I get comfortable enough to post them at all. Suffice it to say that I am no longer very much Jewish, and despite my entirely skeptical and materialist upbringing, well...there are things out there it didn't address. I also have a very shiny dagger. ^^

I have become...well, less depressed. Or rather, my depression has mutated from escaping from everything and contemplating escaping life itself to wibbling copiously about jobs, careers, and what in sam hell I want to do with myself. For some reason I continue to toss around the idea of law school. ?!

On the other paw, I am completely over my submission-related BDSM angst.

My relationship with my parents has deteriorated considerably, and my step-grandfather on my father's side passed away. I never knew my grandmother's first husband, and my maternal grandfather is a fundamentalist moonbat, so it was something of a shock to lose one of the very few of my older relatives I know at all. It's also a shock, though, to contemplate living apart from my family at all, seeing as I've never officially moved out of my parents' house until July this year.

Also, as you might have noticed recently, I am juuuust beginning to break the near year of writer's block that followed the completion of Arcana Viscera. Which leads into...


Fandom stuff.

First off, obviously, I'm getting sucked into FFX fandom to a certain degree by a fascinating world and cast of characters, a vague mess of bunnies, and a rather strong Tidus-muse, who is very distracting when he is naked, and who by all rights should be naked at the times that he isn't. (Tidus-muse says: Oy!)

The downside of having a Tidus-muse is that it's harder to write about Jecht. XP

Also, if I can ever shed a few pounds about the waist and arms and get my paws on the dress, I am SO cosplaying Lulu.

I probably will wind up participating somewhat in the FFX fandom, to the extent probably of joining some comms and posting some fic if and when I write enough to bother, but I don't think I have the time and the energy for full-blown fandom entry anymore. It's not that I've been scared off by the wank or the pettiness (after all, I was happily in the FMA fandom for months XP), more a combination of the following two factors: time and energy crunches due to adjusting to the working world and living full-time with a partner, and the it's-harder-to-keep-up-with-internet-social-groups-when-you-have-RL-ones factor. (Or at least I personally find it to be so.)

yunatwilight has also been introducing me to Kenshin*, which while I'm enjoying immensely (oh, me and my little maniacally evil thing for duels that push characters to their limits), I will probably not be fandoming except for reading fic and possibly writing a bit about Kenshin himself, as he fascinates me. (Plus I want to find an excuse to have him hanging naked in hemp from somebody's ceiling. It seems the thing to do.) We are also watching Slayers and Buffy, but in both cases that is, as of yet, pure fun--perhaps some reading, but probably no writing or fandoming. Xellos* may rock every sock I have ever owned in my life, but I don't think I could write him to save said life.

At this point I can't quite imagine having the energy, time, and will to backtrack down my creative road to finish any of my extant works-in-progress in any fandoms, with the single exception of a Trek fic that's been dogging me for years that I don't much talk about anyway because nobody but me has an interest in it. (Funny how those things go.) That may change; we'll see. There is the possibility that I may come into vast quantities of literary energy due to metaphysical reasons; again, we'll see.

I do also have a few non-fic-related loose ends to clean up, such as doing something with utena_inscribed other than ignoring it out of incompetent-mod-terror, fulfilling a promise I made a long while ago to the webmistresses of Empty Movement, and actually, for the love of all that is Gately, reposting the best damn thing I ever wrote on my actual main fic site. @.@

Mostly, right now, I really want to do this meme again with FFX, but it seems wildly unfair to do that with outstanding ficlet requests, so I'll try to wait.


There. That should cover the most important stuff. Of course, I also should reformat my journal at some point, and post the photos of me dancing with fire, and post the photos I took of my girlfriend, and post the photos my girlfriend took of me naked and wrapped in saran wrap...

AUGH. NO TIME.


* I have not yet finished Slayers Next OR Kenshin PLZ GOD NO SPOILRZ KTHNX.