#not museum

[greek-museums]

I went to the library of the school of fine arts here in Athens to leave a couple of books i wrote, and these guys have like a full air conditioned lounge.

[museum-spaces]

Happy solar new year nerds. I have been having feelings [tm] about the passage of time and the last 12 months. I am sat on my couch in the Greater Vancouver Area with my 5 month old chihuahua and my almost 3 year old husky-mutt under blankets because my heat is out, and I am... happy.

It has been ages since I have felt this... effortlessly content. Ianto is currently begging for special food [I do not know what Special food is in his mind, he won't tell me. just that the food that is out is not what he's after] and Klaus is curled up with a hot water bottle and a denta stick and I have a coffee. Life is good.

So, this post is a bit of a sappy retrospective on the last 12 months. Feel free to skip if not what you're after and, of course, absolutely no ill will towards people who didn't have a good 2023. I get it. just getting through to 2024 is waaaay more than enough to call it your year.

First quarter; started the year off bad. No water, no floor, no contract for 2023 at my then-current job at Camel Town.

Highlights; sleepover at my friend's house [because my water was frozen], and a trip to the local christmas market. It was a nice day out with Johannes.

Second Quarter; got a reduced contract, fewer hours and less money, but enough to float till I got another job. Got quite a few interviews including the one for my current job1 found a place to live in the GVA [turned out to be a scam], and moved down here. Also learned about Klaus' oops existence and started to plan for him to come home.

Highlights; made another friend1 started my job and am doing very well I think. got money, did meetings, did some networking. did good.

Third quarter; brought Klaus home, continued to make friends, continued to do good work.

Highlight; met Myth1 they spent the weekend at my place and they are very very sweet.

Fourth quarter; settled into my life enough to realize I need to move, but its not life or death, its just a bit more expensive than ideal to live here. Klaus finished his vaccines and started day care - he is shy but not nervous according to the day care folk.

Highlight; accidentally got myself a boyfriend? we went to the Vancouver Winter Market and I went swimming. It was very fun. My meds were reduced from 50mg to 30mg over 2 months. With luck, I'll go down to 20 in January or February.

[chasingstxrdust]

Just vibing with some jellies

[isfjmel-phleg]

As if tonight could not get any more exciting, apparently the Wodehouse Archive at the British Library includes, among lots of other fascinating materials, notes for story ideas from 1938-1961 that include the heading “Psmith Novel,” and another batch of notes from 1951-1964 also including “Psmith Novel.”

You guys. More Psmith material exists. It’s actually out there. He was still trying to work with the character decades later, even if the ideas never got off the ground, and we still have the evidence. Like, theoretically you could go to the Library right now and just look at it.

I need to go back to England.

[builditupwithsilver]

"Why is it like a thing to have a crush on a museum?"