The grades are in

It's all over but the crying. I have one more meeting and graduation tomorrow then I'm off til July. gah wish I didn't have to teach in the summer. I need to figure out how to get into summer research (which naturally doesn't pay I need money...)

I'm a little disappointed I wasn't there to get my 5 year service pin. USUALLY they hand them out at the last all-campus meeting but they had a pizza party this time. Our new email system is faulty. I didn't get the notice. Sigh. The pin was in my inbox when I got to school to put in the grades. oh well.

that was my exciting day. put in grades. deal with students outside my office door. put in grades. students again. more grades. whimpers, goes home later than I would have if I had been teaching...

I did try to do my first non-guided mediation. For the last 9 months or so I've been taking advantage of the free guided meditations from the Chopra center when they do their challenges (though now they won't let you download them, just charge you for that privledge later). Anyhow, I have about 30 or more downloaded from last year and I've been using them.

I finally felt a little freer to move away from them and try my mantra meditation with some of the music designed for that. Well that's what I SHOULD have thought. No I decide to leap head first into the chakra meditation book where you have to concentrate on yantras. I failed to even manage it for as long as I usually do in a guided meditation. I think i WILL back off, move slower and just try the mantra meditations before taking a step up into opening chakras and concentrating on yantras to embed them in my mind.


got this from trekwriter (and a tinfoil hat too. THANK YOU)

You Are Family Focused

You are a fun-loving and social person. Your friends and family are everything to you. You tend to have a pretty active lifestyle. You enjoy being on the go. You are easygoing and low maintenance. You don't like drama of any sort. You have a positive perspective on life. You are an optimist, and you don't judge people.

What Does Your Favorite Breed of Dog Say About You?

Blogthings: Cheaper Than a Therapist

Yeah this is NOT me. I might like Labs but this is so not my personality.

( Day 193, my pin )

Another collection of Fanged Four Fic

I posted these to fantas_magoria and thought you all might like to see them.

These are the few remaining Fanged Four that I remember (and this was a good time to get them up on AO3). These are all Spike/Dru and they're all NC-17

Wishes on Her Eyes Set in Coney Island in the 1920's

And Never Die Spike/Dru run into Darla at Woodstock

Psychadelic Butterfly set in the 1970's at the um...magical parties Ripper and Ethan used to hold (where in I probably slaughter dialect, overuse Monty Pthyon (and kill one of them), and engage in all sorts of cracky writing. I believe this is the only genderswitch story I've ever written (did I mention magical parties?) It's probably pushing the boundaries of this week's challenge).


And I have something of a question/dilema over on Jana's blog. I'm not quite sure what to do with helpthesouth. Please feel free to weigh in.

what should Jana do