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Uneventful drive luckily but got a late start thanks to the exam (which I have yet to finish posting for them) Just like that, the semester is over and graduation is in two days.

I will miss it so naturally we have a speaker I'd like to hear for once, the no-armed archer who won paraolympic gold. Our archery coach is also the coach for teh paraolypmpic team

I dragged so many bags into this old hotel it looks like I'm moving in. Cosplay takes up so much space.

Old style tv in here but I have Indiana Jones keeping me company. Can't complain.

Wish me luck on my reading tomorrow.

The test took forever, gave it at 11 AM finished grading it at 11 pm

Had to pop into the dean/president farewell for summer party.

Had a 2 hour biology dept meeting that sucked my will to live and accomplished...I have no damn idea

Half assed the draft of my last test

graded and graded and cried and realized I still have no powerpoint for Saturday and tomorrow is my only day off where I still have one test to make, grade more shit and pack everything. I still don't know how I'm pulling this all off.

I got this 30 day meme for our favorite fandoms from [Bad username or unknown identity: kitarella_imagines> Honestly I figure I can do it every Tuesday and pick an older fandom based on some of the questions. <lj-cut text=]
Day 1: Favourite season

Day 2: Favourite episode

Day 3: Favourite female character

Day 4: Least favourite female character

Day 5: Favourite male character

Day 6: Least favourite male character

Day 7: Favourite friendship

Day 8: Favourite romance

Day 9: Least favourite season

Day 10: Least favourite episode

Day 11: Best SFX / most woeful use of SFX

Day 12: Favourite villain

Day 13: Favourite guest character

Day 14: Character you relate to the most

Day 15: Character who didn’t get enough screen time

Day 16: Best use of a hoary old trope

Day 17: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did

Day 18: Favourite Liberator moment (change for other shows-how about Favourite unlikely friendship?)

Day 19: Favourite Scorpio moment (change for other shows- how about Favourite rivalry?)

Day 20: Favourite outfits

Day 21: Favourite fanon/headcanon

Day 22: Favourite audioplay

Day 23: Favourite cliffhanger

Day 24: Funniest moment

Day 25: Moment when you knew you were caught

Day 26: Favourite fanfiction

Day 27: Favourite scene

Day 28: Favourite quote

Day 29: Your song/fan mix for the show

Day 30: Would you like to see a modern remake?

I'm going with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My newer fandoms, Prodigal Son, Hazbin and The Owl House are all too short really to count

So for fannish 50 here we go

Day 1: Favourite season - Season two and three are tied. they had the best stories. Spike hadn't become annoying yet. We didn't have Andrew stinking up the joint. The villains were engaging. Giles was still involved. We didn't have the eyerolling Dark Willow magic as addiction crap and the less said about how Buffy was treated in S7-8 the better. The Mayor, Spike/Dru/Angelus were amazing. The introduction of Faith (and the anger at how badly she was treated or at least how indifferent) really kept me watching.

1. The classes are over (the bad is yet another student told me the organ with baby kittens falling out of it was the brain)

2. My heart is fine.

The bad? This doctor has seen the last of me. He's an ass. Yeah I made another appointment (mostly because I didn't want them calling). It's not for 6 months so I have plenty of time to find another cardiologist. You could see it in his eyes. I wasn't sick enough to be interesting. I'm not really that sick at all.

Me, being an absent minded idiot, even though i finished inputting info into my blood pressure log, I forgot to print it. I DID have it on my flashdrive in my purse. When I offered it his reply was 'I don't need to see it.'

Then why the fuck did you make me DO three blood pressures a day for a fucking month?!?

My echo hadn't changed in 9 years (which I knew) and he was ready to let it go with that but I was NOT (he was running behind because he'd been called into the ER)

Me: so I have mild tricuspid regurgitation
Him: not unusual in women (I know this but I plan to go over my results point by point and fuck him trying to race off)

Me: but also mild diastolic dysfunction. Is that from sleep apnea (I know it is and my psychiatrist was concerned by this)
Him: yes, see someone to get a sleep study (i.e. not me)

Me: what would cause my diasstolic pressure to be so low (it's been 50-65 most of the time. Normal is 80)? this I didn't know but has gone to mayo clinic to look up. Often it's dehydration which makes sense being diabetic.

Him: could be aortic regurgitation but you didn't have that on echo, could be some athersclerosis but I doubt it (could be though I am diabetic) but we can't do anything about that (okay fair)

Me: did you get my month long (I'm still itching my chest wounds) holter monitor?
Him: yes.

Me: And? It didn't tell me because most patients wouldn't understand it, I know but I want to see what it said.

Him: You're tachycardic
Me: no duh, that's why I've had two echos now, and?

Him: and nothing really. No afib (thank god), no real issues, just tachycardia and a few pauses.

Me: Pauses? From sleep apnea (most likely)

HIm: nothing to worry about. You really need to talk to your endocrinologist, a lot of this is metabolic.

Me: will do (and get that sleep apnea)

Eye roll. Yeah this is the last I'll see of him. Life's too short to deal with uninterested docs.

One month of blood pressures and he didn't care. It's Beltane and a full moon. You're lucky I'm not hexing you.


Came home and the cheap Victorian gown from Amazon was here. And it's actually not bad quality. Certainly something I can build on for my Rosie cosplay. Alas it does button down the front. I have boobs and it gaps open. I can pin it shut. Also doesn't button at the neck just under the chin but that's fair. I can not bear things around my neck. I can put a brooch on that part.


Have some fannish 50 friday recs


Watch Your Step! Teen Wolf

Sect Leader Jiang's 31 step program to happiness
陈情令 | The Untamed

Can’t Go Home Again Torchwood

The Last Dance Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Losing John Inspector George Gently

Worn Hazbin Hotel

Team Work Stargate Atlantis

Anniversary Problems Torchwood

Thursday Afternoons with You The Owl House

Incredible Hazbin Hotel

The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

To Ease The Pain Torchwood

Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Held Hazbin Hotel

no one can dream for you 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Just as I was getting ready to go to bed at 130 AM the storm did something that scared me. You know how your lights flicker off and on because the power lines are galloping? It did it for about three minutes before failing. I was afraid something might have overloaded and caught fire (it didn't). Now it's too hot to sleep but raining too hard to open a window and my blood sugar is being stupid so I have to pee 4 times between bed time and 6 AM when the power finally turns on.

I said today can you believe it was the last week of class and several said 'thank god.' I know the feeling but on the other hand it stings.

my Indian cowoker brought in a curried egg dish and coconut rice filled with cardamon and cinnamon and so I had to have elevensies. I don't make the rules.

I came home to one story rejection but also one story accepted so I'm taking that as a win.


I'm too exhausted to think of anything for Tuesday's fannish 50. I am looking for thoughts, thinking of doing yet another con panel at a pop culture. I was thinking about the history of women writing horror. Would that be interesting? Maybe link it up with women mangaka/animators because surely there have to be some.

So today's embalming fluid accident was my fault. I caught the bag on the packing staple and that fluid shot out of the bag like a fire hose. Everywhere. But most especially all over me. Whee. No fresh shirt this time. At least it was only a half day.

And the other exciting thing that happened was late tonight. I'm on the phone with evil_little_dog who might join me for 1 night during the Bourbon City steampunk thing. So I was looking at the schedule to be sure the writing thing wasn't at night because they have NOT gotten back to me at all about my story. I didn't want to say we can go on this or that ghost tour or bar or whatever shenanigans we'll get up to so I check the schedule.

At first all I can find is the guests and found out two friends I didn't even know were going to be there are there. Yea! Nothing about the writing thing. Boo. So I click around and find the daily schedule and there is nothing about the writing contest. There IS however MY DAMN NAME up there as a presenter Saturday and Sunday. NO ONE told me this!!!!

No wonder my friend PQ gave me that look and asked me if I were sure I wasn't presenting. What the actual hell? My only thought is maybe, somehow it went to the other gmail that my phone uses (and I don't have access too) but there should be no reason for that. I know what email I gave them.

I am presenting in two weeks. I DO NOT HAVE ONE OF THE TALKS. When I never heard back I didn't make it up since I wouldn't need it til Gettysburg in August. Now I have to come up with this talk on Victorian/Edwardian wacky medicine that's 1 hour long from out my ass during finals. Kill me.

That said it should be fun.

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Have your Friday Fannish 50 fandom recs



the break Prodigal Son

God Of Coffee Torchwood

Acceptance Stargate SG-1

Consent is key Hazbin Hotel

Angel Enchanted Hazbin Hotel

Moonless Night Torchwood

Worlds Apart The Fantastic Journey

The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus

Family Tree Merlin

Learn To Piece My Parts Together The Amazing Digital Circus


Gentle Hazbin Hotel

Perfect Inspector George Gently

Whoopsies Hazbin Hotel

Blood And Death Torchwood

be yourself along the way 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜

Blood Ties Hazbin Hotel

Afterlife of the party Hazbin Hotel

Paternity Testing Stargate Atlantis

First Hazbin Hotel

Close the Distance, Lock Us In 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

Spice of Life 9-1-1

Before Breakfast Inspector George Gently

Birthright The Amazing Digital Circus

Building Alliances Teen Wolf

Secondhand Knowledge Merlin

I celebrated by splashing embalming fluid all over me because one of the student groups hadn't sealed the bag right. Thank god I had a t-shirt for yoga to change into...my The Owl House Bad Girl Coven shirt that I had to go to class in AND the all-faculty meeting today. Whee.

And then someone called in a bomb threat to the local Wal-Mart and I have to wonder if it's related to all the bomb threats being called into the local schools.

I ended up not going to yoga. When i got there my sugar hit 70 and I had to nope out. Went to taco bell for a sugary drink to make driving home safer. It was more money for the drink than food. Noped out of that too.

Getting the run around so in spite of insurance company telling me I don't need anything to get my dex coms at CVS, CVS said yes I need a prior authorization from my doctor and they asked for. Fast forward a week and I ask CVS again. Oh your doctor didn't send the PA We'll ask again. Knowing CVS has lied about this in the past I call myself. Sure enough CVS has never bothered to ask for it. So I do and like an hour later I have it for some online drug company I've never heard of and have no account with. Head desk. I hate our health care system.


What I Just Finished Reading:

What Feasts in the Night - not quite as good as the first novella but still a fun read.

Hazelthorn - ya horror, really enjoyed this


What I am Currently Reading:

Deadly Fates


Keeper of Lonely spirits - this one is astrange



What I Plan to Read Next:

Hooked on Murder - lousy so far

Death al Dente - so far terrible

The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail)


Back into the last Inspector George Gently. Mom is about to bail on this for the same reason I'm thinking of it, John Bacchus. This guy creeps me out more every episode for five damn seasons now.

So as I mentioned my majors (the pre professional crew, not my nurses) BEGGED me to move the exam today because they weren't ready. Well the two who would have had an A last week got them. The other five scored so badly they should explain to me how they could do this badly on cardiovascular, literally the easiest thing we do this semester. This is a year where I could easily pass just two students. There really isn't an excuse for this but this is also what happens when several of them are part time students at best between choices they make and the sports they play. My empathy is running dry here.

At least there was water aerobics and I love that. I've decided even if we don't pay for this in fall I will do this on my own. Hell I will lead our little group if need be. We can trade off. This is good for us.

Today my hard copy of the last anthology I'm in arrived unexpectedly today. I'm thrilled Myths Reborn: Modern Tales of Cryptids & Dark Folklore check it out. I love the cover


Called the Cleveland Clinic because they're blowing up my phone to get my gastric paresis appointment. I get them and they go oh...you're still in the entrance process. We're not ready to give you an appointment. So why the fuck won't you stop texting me?!? They'll call me when it's time to make an appointment.


It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is # 22 a song that describes you, Share my friends, share



( this is hard )





here's the whole prompt list

( All under here )

So today was me talking about urogenital infections in microbiology class going wear. your. condoms!!

And I also told them for extra credit they can go to the health fair on campus and tell me one vendor they interacted with. So I go over there and there are just condoms all over, no less than three groups giving them out. One of them puts free condoms in the dorms but when I asked about it the students looked at me like I had grown another head.

I thought it was because they didn't have them there. Apparently they were shocked I knew about bowls of condoms like their little Gen Z butts invented the things. Ha. Actually I loved the key chains that contained condoms. If I had any need I'd have snatched one of them up.


Talked to health care providers of all types especially mental health ones. They had a trans rights group that I spoke to just to be sure they were okay because this is NOT a LGBT of any kind friendly place. They gave me tons of stickers.

The doctor's nurse called me again this time to find out if I had read the echocardiogram. Yes. No I have no questions because I can see it's the same as it was 10 years ago. Oh that's what the doctor said too. Yes I DO have questions but they can wait until I see him and ask directly


I had to take a book back to the gallipolis library (not my usual one) and FINALLY saw the Lego exhibit before they take it down next week. 120 exhibits all on travel. There were space ships and chariots and stage coaches and a bugati and a silver ghost rolls royce (all the history on plaques I couldn't squat down to see, made for kids of course).

The showstopper was the Titanic, 200,000 pieces built by 3 Lego masters over four months. Only 10 of the exhibits have actual instructions. They almost all were built by artistic talent. I have tons of photos on my camera.

I was going to share them but the night went sideways. had a hypoglycemic attack in the exhibit, went to dinner to stabilize, came home, went to unwind with some June's Journey. Apparently fell asleep sitting up only waking up when my limbs went numb and painful.

Today was the faculty awards. When I first started at this school, each award had its own dinner with family and friends and story telling. To be honest it was a bit much. Money got tight. It became 1 party for everyone with less talking.

By the time I won one, it was here's your award, we'll take 1 picture and there are some cookie on a tray. No one cared. Then covid hit. Now we've decided to try and reclaim these awards. Still hardly anyone came but two people in my school won so I went and OMG the food was foccia with make your own toppings (hummus, pesto etc, I went pesto and chunks of feta) then there were grilled veggies, salami picante (pepperoni) dry salami with black pepper crust, mozzarella pearls, and rolls of proscuitto which I assumed were wrapped around cheese and then a huge fruit platter. Turns out the proscuitto was just a giant jellyroll of meat. I was shocked given how expensive this is.

I ate two platters and then a third and then they said, everyone take it home. Watch me through a pound of proscuitto into a take out container. Yum. Salami and more damn bread. I am happy.

I am also embarrassed because a student came in to find out why she did so badly on her exam. Turns out she hadn't. I transposed the numbers. SO SORRY!

Last night's stress dream, I was brushing Rocket and he had flea eggs in him...but at first they were the size of cavier. And the more I brushed, the slimier and bigger they got until there were dozens of them the size of marbles. I didn't know what kind of bug eggs these were but I couldn't get up without getting the eggs everywhere. Thanks brain. You're the best.


For fannish 50 I wanted to talk a little indie animation. So the fandom has lost their shit about The Amazing Digital Circus releasing in the theaters early. I mean being fucking rude, cruel etc because damn fandom is entitled any more.

And yes, I get it. It went terribly for Hazbin which did the same. People scalped tickets, scalped the collectors items and worse SPOILED it. I didn't heard any but it was bad.

Of course the fandom is worried but put it in the light of Glitch's response right here. Ask yourself when was the last time you saw Indie animation in a theater? We get Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. If we're lucky we get something Miyazaki did.

We are getting a true indie animation in a theater. It sold out in minutes. It earned FIVE million dollars in pre sales. Imagine that.

Imagine what could come next. Yes some fans will spoil it and it's shitty that they will. But this is something big.

Meanwhile on Kickstarter I've tossed a coin to another indie animation in Clara and the Below. Check it out, really cool stuff and Matt Braly did Gravity Falls and Amphibia so I figure the animation will be really cool.

In an era where Disney is turning to AI animators we need this.

SF, one of our wildlife profs stops me on the way to lab to tell me our mutual friend PQ was here to do a guest lecture. He was partially the inspiration for Josh in These Haunted Hills PQ was a naturalist in the Hocking Hills (which is how SF knows him) and is part of my steampunk group and also loves ghost hunting and beer making (how I know him) I didn't get to hear the lecture because I had lab but I did get to talk to him about our upcoming Steampunk con in Lousiville.

The cheater finally came to lab pretending like it's all alright. It is not and I do feel a little bad that she doesn't seem to know how much trouble she's in. Ah well.

Any of my British mystery fans know Whistable Pearl? I'm starting it tonight.


My coffee shop has this month a new latter Almond Joy. This one is very good. I'll need to make it myself.

So The Amazing Digital Circus dropped a teaser trailer today for the 9th episode which is the last one and it will also be released in the theater early. this worked out horribly for Hazbin, just saying. I didn't know where to get tickets because I'll be traveling at that time. I dicked around and by the time 3 hours went by Pittsburgh was sold out. However, Huntington barely sold ANY tickets. So yeah I have tickets now.


I did a little writing. This was for spikesgirl58's 6 words challenge. It's a potential chapter in my new novel. It may or may not happen. I'm thinking about it. It has seen zero editing so be warned.

Speaking of warnings, there is a minor mention of drug addiction, also mentioned (in no detail) child sexual abuse and PTSD. Also minor blood, mentions of sex work

( Brush with death )

And the Friday Fannish rec for Fannish 50


Coming Back Inspector George Gently

Making A Splash Torchwood

Safe And Sound Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Miss Mabel Make Plans Teen Wolf

On His Level Hazbin Hotel

Eggsplanations Torchwood

Mysterious Messenger The Fantastic Journey

Curious Hazbin Hotel

Munch Ado about Cookies The Owl House

A Narrow Escape Inspector George Gently

I May Have Hurt Your Head, But You Hurt My Heart Hazbin Hotel

Multiple Signals Hazbin Hotel

no exit (huis clos) The Amazing Digital Circus

Belief Torchwood

Head Over Heels Starsky & Hutch

Gently Going Undercover Inspector George Gently

The Perils of Paperwork Teen Wolf

The Past Reconfigured Stargate Atlantis

Who Needs Sleeping Nettles The Owl House

Lost Souls MCU

Black/Blue Hazbin Hotel