So job: continues to be job! And slowly getting used to being an employed person. Job is sort of thing I would willingly do for free absent economic realities, and it's 40hrs + benefits without being 9-5, so I think it'll do. ^_^

Took Mom out for dinner & a movie to celebrate first paycheck - the only thing that was playing at the right times that looked good was ( Gravity )

Meanwhile, working five days a week pointed out to me that my "professional" wardrobe was looking pretty threadbare and oddly sized, so I went to all the thrift stores and have bought two sweaters, a jacket, seven shirts, three pairs of pants, and two pairs of shoes for $45, which should mean I don't have to go clothes shopping for another ten years.

...and then Mom dragged me to a used book sale today and I bought THE GREATEST BOOK I HAVE EVER SEEN, that being Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle which has ALL the piano scores for the songs from his first three albums, I am so excited, I get to learn to play "Smut" and "The Masochism Tango" and "We'll All Go Together When We Go" and All Of Them! :D :D

Also, due to job cutting down on free time, I went and installed xkit on Chrome, because I discovered that it has a "show only original posts, no reblogs" option. And I have discovered that checking my tumblr dash with that option on actually gives me *fewer* posts than my DW in that same period - so there to all the people who say that Tumblr has all the fandom content these days - DW has just as much original content, it just doesn't dump all of it onto your rlist fifty times every day.

jadelennox is running invisible_ficathon!!! Yes, it's true, finally the fest we were all waiting for, the exchange for fanfic about those fandoms that don't actually exist! I'M SO EXCITED.

It's running more-or-less by Yuletide rules, I think, so it's currently in nominations. You should all go nominate! I haven't yet because I'm still trying to come up with my list. Current list:

Definitely nominating:
1. Wonder Wombat (the Golden Age comic, not the modern DCU character)
2. Raul Bloodworth's Jack Colquitt Adventures
3. The Lazarus Bowl (Movie)
4. Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure (book canon)
5. The Stonebender Family stories by Jubal Harshaw
6. Howard Goldberg, Frontiersman (Book)

Possibles:
1. Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle (Comic)
2. The Kathy Reichs novels by Temperance Brennan
3. Harriet Vane's Robert Templeton novels (I believe one of these is already nominated but we need the whole series)
4. the Millie books from Chrestomanci
5. The Gray Ghost (TV Show)
6. Wendy the Werewolf Stalker (TV Show)
7. Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan
8. The Six Bunnie-Wunnies book series
9. The short stories of Nal Eiili of Proxima II
10. "The King in Yellow" (play)
11. "The Song of the Twelve" (23rd century song cycle)
12. Troy and Abed in the Morning RPF
13. "The Hobo Wars" (American Experience episode) (or possibly something else hodgmanverse have to check)
14. Supercaptaincoolman (Comic)
15. The Captain Vortalon vid series (and/or The Tales of Vorthalia the Bold)
(And I'm pretty sure there's more I wanted that I'm forgetting, augh, somebody remind me what they were?)

And yes, I will ABSOLUTELY be posting fandom resource posts for all of the ones I nominate - these are by definition almost all five-minute fandoms, everybody who nominates should post intros, I think this ficathon would gain admirably if we get a lot of people writing who know *only* the nominated fandom and not the fandom of origin.

You should all go nominate too! You can nominate without writing (although you should write too) and I kind of want this tag set to be as large as possible. :D