They Say What They Say

Oh god, I've become so bad at this LJ thing lately. I haven't posted or read my flist in two weeks and I'm so far behind with what you all are up to I don't think I'll ever catch up. I do love you all, it's just that there's so little time in the average day!

*arrgh!*

Oh god, I've become so bad at this LJ thing lately. I haven't posted or read my flist in two weeks and I'm so far behind with what you all are up to I don't think I'll ever catch up. I do love you all, it's just that there's so little time in the average day!

*arrgh!*

Thanks to the very kind generosity of oriole_girl I can has a Dreamwidth account! I'm Laylee over there as well so feel free to hunt me down and add me to your contacts if you haven't already done so. However I haven't added any content or anything as of yet. Not even a user pic. And since I'm still very much wedded to LJ, I probably won't do much with it for the moment, unless of course my entire flist suddenly migrates en mass. I have a hard enough time keeping up with one journal, let alone two. After being off line for five days over Easter my flist has exploded and I had to give trying to catch up with you all after skip=350 lest my head went boom! And for the moment I'm quite content to sit back and wait and see what happens, if anything happens at all.

Thanks to the very kind generosity of oriole_girl I can has a Dreamwidth account! I'm Laylee over there as well so feel free to hunt me down and add me to your contacts if you haven't already done so. However I haven't added any content or anything as of yet. Not even a user pic. And since I'm still very much wedded to LJ, I probably won't do much with it for the moment, unless of course my entire flist suddenly migrates en mass. I have a hard enough time keeping up with one journal, let alone two. After being off line for five days over Easter my flist has exploded and I had to give trying to catch up with you all after skip=350 lest my head went boom! And for the moment I'm quite content to sit back and wait and see what happens, if anything happens at all.

I've just spent a very satisfying thirty minutes going through a box of course notes and journals articles that I kept as I was doing my masters and throwing out pretty much everything. I hadn't looked at most of it since I finished the subjects it was associated with and aside from the few assignments I managed to get back after they were assessed, I really needed none of it. If anyone goes rummaging through our recycling bin over the next couple of days, I'm sure they're going to wonder why it's full of recordkeeping standards, notes on metadata and journal articles about knowledge management. However it's very satisfying to rid your life of clutter and if I have any new year's resolutions at all, one of them is to throw out or give away the things I really don't need and/or use and make sure the rest of my possessions are properly stored and organised.

Yesterday Best Work Friend and I went to see The Golden Age Of Couture: Paris & London 1947-57 at the Bendigo Art Gallery and I tell you, I was in fashion heaven! It is probably one of the best costume exhibitions I have ever seen, and it was all I could do not to leap into the displays and start undressing the models so I could find how the clothes were made. As it is both BWF and I made a spectacle of ourselves as we crouched on the floor so we could see under the hems of some of the dresses. The little old ladies reminiscing about the frock they wore to a dance back in 1955 were not amused, but I saw underneath an original Dior Bar suit, the one that caused all the fuss back in 1947 when he launched the New Look!!! There were also several gowns worn by the Queen and Princess Margaret, and oh my didn't Margaret Rose have a tiny waist? But not, I'm afraid to say, as tiny as that of Margot Fonteyn whose black silk Dior cocktail dress is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Also heavily featured were Balenciaga, Givenchy, Balmain and Hartnell, of course, Jacques Fath and Hardy Amies. There were evening gowns, cocktail dresses, smart suits for both town and country, hats, shoes and gloves, underpinnings and design notes. I loved it, every bit of it, and it really makes me wish I'd studied materials conservation instead of information management. I am definitely going again before it finishes in March, definitely!

In other news, I have finally seen Tin Man which screened on Aussie TV this weekend. I must say that while I loved all the CKR screen time, as usual I watched with 'Oh Callum, why must you always play the bad guy?' firmly stuck in my head. I've also been dipping into yuletide, and egging katikat on in her new found love for Sports Night. All in a day's work, really.

So tell me, what are you guys up to?

I've just spent a very satisfying thirty minutes going through a box of course notes and journals articles that I kept as I was doing my masters and throwing out pretty much everything. I hadn't looked at most of it since I finished the subjects it was associated with and aside from the few assignments I managed to get back after they were assessed, I really needed none of it. If anyone goes rummaging through our recycling bin over the next couple of days, I'm sure they're going to wonder why it's full of recordkeeping standards, notes on metadata and journal articles about knowledge management. However it's very satisfying to rid your life of clutter and if I have any new year's resolutions at all, one of them is to throw out or give away the things I really don't need and/or use and make sure the rest of my possessions are properly stored and organised.

Yesterday Best Work Friend and I went to see The Golden Age Of Couture: Paris & London 1947-57 at the Bendigo Art Gallery and I tell you, I was in fashion heaven! It is probably one of the best costume exhibitions I have ever seen, and it was all I could do not to leap into the displays and start undressing the models so I could find how the clothes were made. As it is both BWF and I made a spectacle of ourselves as we crouched on the floor so we could see under the hems of some of the dresses. The little old ladies reminiscing about the frock they wore to a dance back in 1955 were not amused, but I saw underneath an original Dior Bar suit, the one that caused all the fuss back in 1947 when he launched the New Look!!! There were also several gowns worn by the Queen and Princess Margaret, and oh my didn't Margaret Rose have a tiny waist? But not, I'm afraid to say, as tiny as that of Margot Fonteyn whose black silk Dior cocktail dress is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Also heavily featured were Balenciaga, Givenchy, Balmain and Hartnell, of course, Jacques Fath and Hardy Amies. There were evening gowns, cocktail dresses, smart suits for both town and country, hats, shoes and gloves, underpinnings and design notes. I loved it, every bit of it, and it really makes me wish I'd studied materials conservation instead of information management. I am definitely going again before it finishes in March, definitely!

In other news, I have finally seen Tin Man which screened on Aussie TV this weekend. I must say that while I loved all the CKR screen time, as usual I watched with 'Oh Callum, why must you always play the bad guy?' firmly stuck in my head. I've also been dipping into yuletide, and egging katikat on in her new found love for Sports Night. All in a day's work, really.

So tell me, what are you guys up to?

After spending three days in the old home town and today catching up on all the work that accumulated while I was away, I've come to the realisation that from now on I'm pretty much going to be permanently behind on my flist and fandom its self.

You see, a couple of years ago when I had a job that bored me senseless, the only thing that really kept me going was you guys and fandom. I knew that even if the majority of my day was going to be one big nonevent, at least I had something to look forward to as I cruised around LJ, squeeing about cute boys and getting to know y'all as you shared your lives with me. But last year I suddenly found myself going from being a worker bee with little to do, to a semi-Queen Bee with more than enough to keep me occupied. As a result it is becoming harder and harder for me to keep up with LJ and, by extension, fandom and my flist. A good example is the boobie kerfuffle that's recently been going on. I have no idea what it's all about, who started it and why. I see these post about it, but if I stop to read each one I find myself missing out on other, more important stuff. I'd hop onto fandomwank where I might glean some pertinent information, but if I did that I'd soon get caught out sniggering over the outrage and fall even further behind with what's going on with everyone else.

I know that it's good to have a life outside of LJ, and after much angst over where my career was going it's nice to finally see some results from all those years of slogging through university and toiling away in dead-end jobs. But I miss you guys like crazy and feel like I'm never going to be able to emerge from this semi-lurker state that I've gotten myself into.

You know how we have those daily (or weekly) newsletters that condense the goings on of fandom into an easily accessible digest? The ones like spnnewsletter and sn_updates? Well, I need one for my flist, just so I don't constantly feel like I'm being left behind.

After spending three days in the old home town and today catching up on all the work that accumulated while I was away, I've come to the realisation that from now on I'm pretty much going to be permanently behind on my flist and fandom its self.

You see, a couple of years ago when I had a job that bored me senseless, the only thing that really kept me going was you guys and fandom. I knew that even if the majority of my day was going to be one big nonevent, at least I had something to look forward to as I cruised around LJ, squeeing about cute boys and getting to know y'all as you shared your lives with me. But last year I suddenly found myself going from being a worker bee with little to do, to a semi-Queen Bee with more than enough to keep me occupied. As a result it is becoming harder and harder for me to keep up with LJ and, by extension, fandom and my flist. A good example is the boobie kerfuffle that's recently been going on. I have no idea what it's all about, who started it and why. I see these post about it, but if I stop to read each one I find myself missing out on other, more important stuff. I'd hop onto fandomwank where I might glean some pertinent information, but if I did that I'd soon get caught out sniggering over the outrage and fall even further behind with what's going on with everyone else.

I know that it's good to have a life outside of LJ, and after much angst over where my career was going it's nice to finally see some results from all those years of slogging through university and toiling away in dead-end jobs. But I miss you guys like crazy and feel like I'm never going to be able to emerge from this semi-lurker state that I've gotten myself into.

You know how we have those daily (or weekly) newsletters that condense the goings on of fandom into an easily accessible digest? The ones like spnnewsletter and sn_updates? Well, I need one for my flist, just so I don't constantly feel like I'm being left behind.

Oh wise and gentle flist, come someone give me the name of one of an American clothing chain store that caters to girls in the 15-25 age bracket. Some place where you can get both casual and 'career' wear and preferably a chain that'd be well known in the NYC area. I need it for a fic.

*kisses*

Oh wise and gentle flist, come someone give me the name of one of an American clothing chain store that caters to girls in the 15-25 age bracket. Some place where you can get both casual and 'career' wear and preferably a chain that'd be well known in the NYC area. I need it for a fic.

*kisses*