So This Is The New Year
Jan. 2nd, 2007 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowTired today, and uninterested in work, and that's such a crappy combination of disillusionment and resentment and the kind of attitude that ends up with me owing zillions in parking fees and thus not being able to fix the car. I am grateful for employment. I'd be more grateful if it was a brain challenge, and not just a race against time and frustration. Working for the crazy woman was worse. I don't dread this. It just makes me kind of... weary... somedays.
Had a lovely evening with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iamsab and samdonne last night to make up for the fact that I did not see them the night before due to the POLICE THINKING I STOLE MY OWN CAR.
LAPD, here's a newsflash. No one would steal my car.No one!!! And if, by chance, you know someone who would, please point them in my direction so that I can encourage such a theft because the insurance value will surely be worth more than the current blue book/actual car value.
Why my car is a police magnet, I do not know. Why being pulled over makes me sweat and shake and want to cry? I've got a pretty good handle on that. It's having to tamp down every natural instinct to ask them if they're really that stupid, if they really have nothing better to do than pull over people on New Year's who are clearly not a threat to society. It's having the fear of repurcussions that you can't afford flashing through your mind and the fear that even if you're not guilty, that it won't matter, that you'll have to deal first and get an apology later. I do not hate the police, but they aren't winning any points with me these days either. My car has been broken into three times since I moved here. I've had things stolen from the studio where I dance, have been plowed into, nearly run over, inconvenienced all manner of times and never once have I gotten any sort of assistance from the police. But try to drive my car and all I get is grief.
Huh. Apparently I am just that pissed off about this.
For 2007, I'd like to do the ficcish year in review meme, but work beckons. Well, mostly it makes a sqwaky chicken sound, but it's definitely making its presence known.
My first goal in 2007 is to finish at least one of the fics that I've got started because I never used to be someone who'd start on a roll, and slide right out of the orbit of a story. And I don't feel like all of them need endings, or middles, or answers, but some do.
As for the rest of you, tell me what you've written, or read that you loved and didn't expect to. Tell me something you did last year that you're proud of and something that you hope for from the coming year.
My goals for the year are all honorable cliches, including doing a half marathon (walking) with my mother which is why I'm walking around with my pedometer cursing the fact that 10,000 steps is a hell of lot more steps than I thought it was.
Had a lovely evening with
iamsab and samdonne last night to make up for the fact that I did not see them the night before due to the POLICE THINKING I STOLE MY OWN CAR.LAPD, here's a newsflash. No one would steal my car.No one!!! And if, by chance, you know someone who would, please point them in my direction so that I can encourage such a theft because the insurance value will surely be worth more than the current blue book/actual car value.
Why my car is a police magnet, I do not know. Why being pulled over makes me sweat and shake and want to cry? I've got a pretty good handle on that. It's having to tamp down every natural instinct to ask them if they're really that stupid, if they really have nothing better to do than pull over people on New Year's who are clearly not a threat to society. It's having the fear of repurcussions that you can't afford flashing through your mind and the fear that even if you're not guilty, that it won't matter, that you'll have to deal first and get an apology later. I do not hate the police, but they aren't winning any points with me these days either. My car has been broken into three times since I moved here. I've had things stolen from the studio where I dance, have been plowed into, nearly run over, inconvenienced all manner of times and never once have I gotten any sort of assistance from the police. But try to drive my car and all I get is grief.
Huh. Apparently I am just that pissed off about this.
For 2007, I'd like to do the ficcish year in review meme, but work beckons. Well, mostly it makes a sqwaky chicken sound, but it's definitely making its presence known.
My first goal in 2007 is to finish at least one of the fics that I've got started because I never used to be someone who'd start on a roll, and slide right out of the orbit of a story. And I don't feel like all of them need endings, or middles, or answers, but some do.
As for the rest of you, tell me what you've written, or read that you loved and didn't expect to. Tell me something you did last year that you're proud of and something that you hope for from the coming year.
My goals for the year are all honorable cliches, including doing a half marathon (walking) with my mother which is why I'm walking around with my pedometer cursing the fact that 10,000 steps is a hell of lot more steps than I thought it was.
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Date: 2007-01-02 10:59 pm (UTC)in know what you mean about the 10,000 steps. it's what got me more motivated to to go work 1/2 hour early and walk around the pond. not so easy in the rain though. meep.
as for something this year that i'm proud of? er, photos of birds and such have made me very happy. and although i didn't make the site (am totally indebted to and amazed by svendra who did) i have a happy feeling when i see the stories on the page. i would have never thought i'd write any of them. http://svendra.com/jen/index.html
mostly just surviving the last 5 months. yikes and *headdesk*. and also a giggle, because what can one do but laugh? i hope for safety and health in the coming year. and more stories coming to mind. and good light for photography.
sending you good writing thoughts and more hugs.
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:06 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2007-01-03 05:45 am (UTC)what kind of car do you have, and i might be able to posit a theory for their behavior.
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Date: 2007-01-03 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 10:10 am (UTC)you'd be wrong there, sugar. they are one of the.most. stolen cars in Southern California. and i can speak to that factually because i work for a police dept.
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Date: 2007-01-03 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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