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Jan. 14th, 2019 03:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyThus far I've been okay on the keeping up with my cleaning. A little less so on the digital housekeeping, but I feel like I can probably catch up to where I want to be tonight considering I slept all day. Which is usually how my Sundays go. I'm either up all day and pass out right after dinner, or I sleep the day away. Especially at period time where my body decides that I need all the sleep. ALL. THE. SLEEP.
Because I know some of you like to keep up with book/author drama, for the past week or so I've been befuddled/annoyed by the Jennifer Armintrout/Armentrout thing. To which you're probably like, "the what now?" so let me give you the short version and then a link to the 'article'/post that details things more.
Once upon a time, in the land of LKH insanity, someone linked to a fabulous author who had a take on the WTF. I laughed and immediately fell in love. The author was Jennifer Armintrout. Note the i. You can find her at Jennytrout.com and while I don't follow many authors (possibly any at all?) other than her, I will say that she's fabulously wacky and I still love her. I went out and tracked down a book of hers and that was that.
My point, where did I leave my point? Oh. Yeah. I also remember being a little surprised that she'd changed her name. Turns out she did so because another author, Jennifer ArmEntrout (see the E?) started publishing in the same genres and some (possibly) well-meaning people told Jenny that it was no big deal. Only then it was, because E eclipsed I and hence the name change.
This kinda makes it seem less like a coinky dink and more like a dick move. Because after awhile it's just a lot of little things that make you go umm...
I am a bit perplexed though, as I could've sworn that I read a short story by one of them in a collection but the only anthologies I could find are ones I know I've never read. The universe is a strange thing, I suppose.
Dammit. I'm still fucking hungry and shouldn't really be. Debating spending the time making a grilled cheese.
In other news, I did my part to make winter last for about two more days as I finally ordered a coat. To be fair, I don't want winter to be over but as last year's snowstorm proved, I really do need a coat. So I snagged the Hello Kitty one from Torrid's clearance section and I will hopefully not regret this decision. I do love that one of the three reviews is bitching about the Hello Kitty themed embroidery... on a HK coat. Like... the point, you missed it? It's not like this is the Doctor Who coat that I am still bitter about missing considering it was in stock right up until the minute a sale went live and then suddenly it was gone. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Anyway, that one is kind of a hidden fandom thing whereas the HK coat it's in the embroidery.
I've spent the last couple of hours (off and on) trying to remember my last coat. I'm fairly certain there's one in my closet, jammed behind all my dolls (don't judge) but I think that's Dad's. I think I had a purple one at some point when we lived at the house but I'm pretty sure that was my last one. I don't really do coats because I get too hot too quickly and then I wind up carrying around something that feels like it weighs nine billion pounds... but I also don't like hearing Mums bitch when I venture out on the few days we actually have legit winter weather. Plus the previously mentioned snowstorm really would have been better suited with a coat.
I do love that when it gets the teensy bit cold, people around here still freak out and break out the parkas. Guys, it's 50 degrees. Maybe a sweater or a hoodie. You don't need to be bundled up like the Michelin man. I hope that if I live to be truly old, I will still find this hilarious.
Okay, I'm off to clean and maybe make a sammich or two.
Because I know some of you like to keep up with book/author drama, for the past week or so I've been befuddled/annoyed by the Jennifer Armintrout/Armentrout thing. To which you're probably like, "the what now?" so let me give you the short version and then a link to the 'article'/post that details things more.
Once upon a time, in the land of LKH insanity, someone linked to a fabulous author who had a take on the WTF. I laughed and immediately fell in love. The author was Jennifer Armintrout. Note the i. You can find her at Jennytrout.com and while I don't follow many authors (possibly any at all?) other than her, I will say that she's fabulously wacky and I still love her. I went out and tracked down a book of hers and that was that.
My point, where did I leave my point? Oh. Yeah. I also remember being a little surprised that she'd changed her name. Turns out she did so because another author, Jennifer ArmEntrout (see the E?) started publishing in the same genres and some (possibly) well-meaning people told Jenny that it was no big deal. Only then it was, because E eclipsed I and hence the name change.
This kinda makes it seem less like a coinky dink and more like a dick move. Because after awhile it's just a lot of little things that make you go umm...
I am a bit perplexed though, as I could've sworn that I read a short story by one of them in a collection but the only anthologies I could find are ones I know I've never read. The universe is a strange thing, I suppose.
Dammit. I'm still fucking hungry and shouldn't really be. Debating spending the time making a grilled cheese.
In other news, I did my part to make winter last for about two more days as I finally ordered a coat. To be fair, I don't want winter to be over but as last year's snowstorm proved, I really do need a coat. So I snagged the Hello Kitty one from Torrid's clearance section and I will hopefully not regret this decision. I do love that one of the three reviews is bitching about the Hello Kitty themed embroidery... on a HK coat. Like... the point, you missed it? It's not like this is the Doctor Who coat that I am still bitter about missing considering it was in stock right up until the minute a sale went live and then suddenly it was gone. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Anyway, that one is kind of a hidden fandom thing whereas the HK coat it's in the embroidery.
I've spent the last couple of hours (off and on) trying to remember my last coat. I'm fairly certain there's one in my closet, jammed behind all my dolls (don't judge) but I think that's Dad's. I think I had a purple one at some point when we lived at the house but I'm pretty sure that was my last one. I don't really do coats because I get too hot too quickly and then I wind up carrying around something that feels like it weighs nine billion pounds... but I also don't like hearing Mums bitch when I venture out on the few days we actually have legit winter weather. Plus the previously mentioned snowstorm really would have been better suited with a coat.
I do love that when it gets the teensy bit cold, people around here still freak out and break out the parkas. Guys, it's 50 degrees. Maybe a sweater or a hoodie. You don't need to be bundled up like the Michelin man. I hope that if I live to be truly old, I will still find this hilarious.
Okay, I'm off to clean and maybe make a sammich or two.
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Date: 2019-01-15 01:11 am (UTC)And yeah, I'm sure someone is trying to muscle in on Jenny Trout's territory because she became uber popular after her sporks (didn't she do a Twilight one as well?). I started to find her tiresome, but that doesn't mean I want someone being a jerk to her out of spite.
Yay coats!! I luff coats and sweaters and basically anything with long sleeves. I have several different "weights" of coats and I haven't had to break out the big one (when the highs are in the 30s) in awhile. Usually I can layer and wear a sweater-weight coat and I'm good. I, too, get hot really fast when I have on a heavy coat.
And yeah, it will never not be funny that some people in this armpit of hell think anything below 60 degrees requires five layers of clothing. Long sleeves and pants, maybe (if its overcast). Thermals, hats, gloves, and coats? Yeah no, not so much.
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Date: 2019-01-15 01:51 am (UTC)Huh. I thought Jenny had done a Twilight one, and it's possible that's from life before going by Jenny and thus not linked as easily, but I can't easily find it. I can also see how one would tire of her but since I can drop out of remembering to read her site for months and then binge (especially if her Jealous Haters Book Club thing isn't updating, as that's my dinner reading) I don't burn out. Plus the bar is set at LKH so that helps. :P
I love the look of coats and winter/autumn gear but it's so rarely cold enough for me to actually find it necessary since, like you said, sweaters are a thing. Also, I have a hoodie that, when worn over a sweater, is like the best hug ever and only the snowstorm was too cold for that combo to deal with. Long sleeves are hit or miss for me because I'm forever rolling them up... unless they're so long as to hit my knuckles and then it's like "yeeeeeeeeeessssssss, my precious!" and I don't know why.
My favorite of the freakouts are the people from places that are legitimately cold and who have swung so far in the opposite direction. Like you guys used to deal with snow and ice on a regular basis. It's not even that cold in the sun, why are you bundled up like the snowpocalypse is about to hit?
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Date: 2019-01-15 11:22 am (UTC)What. The. Actual. Fuck.
There are no words. None. Just weird faces and wtf on an endless loop as I make weird hand gestures meant to convey WTF.