wrecksahlia

 This past month has felt impossibly stressful, but I think I finally have a chance to breathe now, so. I'm gonna give it a shot. Still getting used to it.

Basically: just got back from a work trip that I've been stressing over for literal months; I had to staff a booth for four days, but my roommate/best friend decided she'd join me, which was basically the kindest thing anyone could ever do for me. I've done a couple of these library conferences, but I've never been able to wander around and see what else was out there, and her being there meant I actually got to glimpse what else was going on! We (especially she) also got a bunch of free comics (and a few free books), and this VP of marketing dude gave her his email so she could request more free comics, and she got to attend several signings, so at the very least I felt like I was kind of paying her back a little. 

All in all: no disasters, I held a couple small signings that went smoothly, I had more traffic than I anticipated and virtually everyone was super nice, and I made it back all in one piece.

My ability to breathe a couple times will also hopefully allow me to keep this thing more updated, so expect some very obnoxious episode reviews (by which I mean: bullet points of yelling, probably) of some of the superhero shows I'm catching up on soon? And also Critical Role. Always.

tl;dr THE STRESS DIDN'T KILL ME!!!!

ETA: I can't believe I forgot to mention that it was almost a GRAVE DISASTER, because the product I ordered wasn't there when I got there. I know I mentioned in my last journal entry that I had finally gotten my order through to the guy? Nothing. For a couple hours, I was just like, UH???????? Turns out: they just sent it really late, so I got it just before the conference started. So it was all uphill from there!

Okay, so I show up at work today because my boss said that our parent company wasn't taking the day off, and she likes to have our office mirror theirs, even if it's a couple thousand miles away. Still, I was the only one working -- there are just three of us, and my boss is on vacation, while my other co-worker was taking time off for the holidays.

I sit down at my desk, check my work's FB group, and promptly discover that our parent company has shut down their office for the day.

At which point I text my boss something that basically amounts to "uh, is it fine if I leave early" (even on vacation, she's generally pretty alert re: checking texts); a couple hours later, she still hadn't responded, and I'm like, IT IS NEW YEAR'S EVE, OUR PARENT COMPANY ISN'T WORKING, NONE OF OUR UK PARTNERS ARE WORKING, WHY AM I HERE.

So I decide, fuck it, we're never here when our parent company isn't, leave, and then spend the next three and a half hours in an anxiety loop at home about my boss still having not texted me back, because I am who I am.

Happy ending: she texted back twenty minutes ago, told me to go home, and was glad that I had! So now I can properly enjoy my New Year's Eve by playing the new Spider-Man game (I've only just started it, basically, but I would happily just swing between rooftops all day!!!) and also probably watching that Netflix Reputation Stadium Tour deal -- because, again, I am who I am. 

Anyway, I'll probably try to post a thoughtful year in review entry, or something, but for now, this is the rambling you're stuck with!

After staring for a good fifteen minutes at my empty journal and trying to decide where to begin, it occurred to me that, uh, an introduction probably make sense. I know. It's hard to overstate my genius.

In brief, I had a Dreamwidth years and years ago, but it wasn't something I ever really used. But I've been feeling a lot of nostalgia about the style of internet community that's difficult to come by on places like Tumblr or Twitter or other social media, and that happened to coincide perfectly with the Tumblr Exodus TM. So I figured, hey -- if people are livening Dreamwidth up again, I am ALL ABOUT doing my part to jump in and make that happen.

( welcome to me rambling about me )