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[luzula]

1) Augh, I suck at my job. I faff around on the internet instead of proving theorems. /o\ The reason I suck is that I have no one to work with atm (the awesome woman I worked with this spring is on parental leave, and the senior researcher in my group is never here). In the absence of other people, I apparently have no motivation to do math. The biology fieldwork I got to do earlier this week was great, though. Maybe I'm in the wrong line of work. *sigh*

2) I won three auctions at help_pakistan, and will get a podfic, a fannish postcard/letter, and a story! Awesome. And I feel good about having put my podficcing skills up for auction, as well.

3) I got a prize for being one of the winners of amplificathon! The prize is a reading by kinseyx of my story Home Schooling (Fraser family gen, G). You can check out the podfic over here. I always love hearing my own works read by someone else--it's like it adds a layer of interpretation so that I can hear it from another angle. And I think I'm not that good at reading my own stories, for some reason. Even stories that I genuinely love and feel proud of can feel awkward in my mouth. I wonder why.

4) Writing 10,000 words of Bob/Caroline seems to have given me a tiny crush on young Bob Fraser. Ahem.