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I had such high expectations of getting the cards out, the gifts, grading all the things etc. etc. I should have realized it was no attainable.

I need to keep better records over the year as I tend to buy gifts at cons and festivals and now there is way too much and I got so flustered I left my house to reset at the coffee shop. The post office was fucking nuts because they have ONE person worker (and he's explaining how he is the only one because of the stupid) There is another woman but all she did was ask are you picking up or dropping off. No idea why she couldn't work the other register.

Also a monster storm is coming so like everyone else I go to the store. I get a rotissiere chicken because if I DO lose power I have a whole chicken to pick at in the cold. (bread and peanut butter too) CVS and the dollar store was just as bad and then the bank tells me they no longer have a coin counter. What am I going to do with all these coins? Sigh.

It took until 7 pm to get all the grades done except my two research students (tomorrow's worry) I am fielding are you going to round that up? Yes I am but your 70.2 isn't rounding to a fucking 73%. Sorry, you didn't do nearly well enough to pass.

I also managed to aspirate my lunch and have been coughing up crap off and on for hours since my lungs are pissed at me.

I did however managed to avoid spoilers for The Amazing Digital Circus's episode 7 drop and got to see the episode. More about that maybe on Tuesday.

And I did some writing.


Title: Forget Our Memories, Forget Our Possibilities

Summary: Angel knows he had no choice but to return to Valentino. It was the only way to keep his friends safe from him. He wants them to forget him but he can’t forget them. He writes letters as often as he can. Will he one day be brave enough to send them?

Rating: teen

Notes: written for the allbingo prompt of love letters and the lyrical titles bingo prompt of Lyric with "remember" or "forget". I chose Don’t Stay by Linkin Park.

( story at the above link and under here )

Have the fannish 50 friday recs


Drawn To The Sea Torchwood

Branded FAKE

It Broke His Heart to Hurt Her So, and Yet He Had to Do Hazbin Hotel

Wilful Blindness Torchwood

Out Of Their World The Fantastic Journey

Friends The Murderbot Diaries

Let the Sorrow Go, Its Half the Battle Hazbin Hotel

Outrageous! Torchwood

Young Chainsaw Man

The Dreamcaster Is In Stargate Atlantis

Learning About Magic Teen Wolf

Fool's Rosegold The Owl House

1. Why are you asking me for extra credit when you didn't do the REAL credit?
2. Why are you emailing me after the final and asking me what you can do to save your grade?
3. No, you can't have extra extra credit (okay I DO say this one all the time but no one listens)
4. How do you NOT KNOW what chapters are on the test?
5. Why do you think THOSE chapters are on the test? When the hell did we ever touch that chapter?
6. Why do you think you can ask for a pity D (that's 60% btw) when you have a 30% in class
7. Why do you think I'll give you extra anything when you haven't even shown up for exams
8. No I don't care that you're a senior and you won't graduate if you fail. The time to worry about that was weeks ago when I COULD have helped you.
9. How the fuck do you think leg muscles are LUNGS?


At any rate two are done and one to go. Some people are not going to have happy holidays.

At least I busted out a replacement fandomtrees story that I really like as well.


I have forgotten that I got an advent calendar from Simpson and Vail tea and haven't done my yearly tea tasting so buckle up, here comes 8 days at once
1. glacier national park - Black teas, organic juniper berries, birch bark, huckleberry flavor, uva ursi leaf (bearberry), and white cornflowers petals. One of my favorites (I get this one all the time)

2. Cinnamon Chocolate Brownie - Organic Chinese black tea, organic cacao nibs, organic cinnamon pieces and natural chocolate flavoring. - Not as a cinnamon as I would have liked

3. Snowberry Frost - Black teas, organic cacao nibs, cranberries (cranberries, sugar, sunflower oil), cranberry cream flavoring, and white cornflower petals. = I'm not a fan of cranberries but this one is good

4. Herbal Chai Masala- Organic cinnamon pieces, cardamom seeds, organic black peppercorns, organic whole cloves, orange peel, organic ginger pieces, organic anise seed and Indian sarsaparilla. - THANK YOU for no rooibos in this or chamomile

5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Black Tea Blend - Black teas, lapsang souchong tea, hibiscus flowers, wild cherry flavor, orange blossoms, and bourbon whiskey flavor. - This is one of my go tos and I love it

6. Candy Cane Organic Rooibos Herbal Tisane - Organic green Rooibos, natural candy cane flavor and organic stevia. - As much as I don't like red rooibos I do like green and the peppermint is really nice in this and the stevia doesn't give me a headache like it often does nor tastes bitter

7. Victorian Earl Grey Tea - Rose Congou black tea, lavender petals, rose petals, rosemary and natural bergamot oil. - Another of my favorites from them. I'm not sure what really makes it Victorian, probably the flowers. Rosemary is a strong flavor but here it works

8. Rooibos Pear Herbal Tisane - Rooibos, pear flavor, alfalfa leaf and marigold petals.- Literally the worst of the bunch. Of course I don't like red rooibos and that's all you can taste. Some one should know pear is too delicate to stand up to rooibos


And for Music Monday the prompt today is A Song by someone Who has Passed away. I have two

The sound of my college days

And since I'll be heading back to his hometown soon

Because dear sweet baby Jesus my students are challenging me. I had two lab finals today. For both I said DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT I'M ASKING. READ THE QUESTIONS. I pointed out like three times pre-exam that I could ask 1. What is this muscle 2. What is this origin/insertion 3. What is the muscle's action.

Not only are they putting muscle names in for actions (because they didn't read) and then because there is cardio on my nursing version of this those words are on the wordbank too and my upper level A&P students see those words and the question is what is the action of XYZ and they tell me mitral valve. How do you a) not know that's not an action (and this was MORE than 1 person) how do you know realize I have never once mention the fucking word mitral valve?!?


The second lab final today runs from 1-2:50. At 140 I get an email alert and it's one of my students who is MIA (I assumed she finally realized she can't possibly pass and didn't come, like one of the others did). I didn't hear my alarm and I overslept (it's nearly 2 pm....) I'm coming next week to make up the practical. No, you have an hour left on the exam. Be here or get a zero. She comes and from what she handed me was likely a zero anyhow. But She did have 2 hours because so many students (who didn't tell me they were coming friday at 1. THREE told me this and I had to get the secretary to get me more answer sheets. THIS is why I tell you to communicate with me.) my lab couldn't hold them all so they needed more time. I said they could have til 320. (that's an extra half hour). At 330 a dozen were still there. No, move on now. At 340 I demanded the tests back. If you don't know it after 3 hours then you don't know it.


Here me screaming as I yank out all my hair. Btw I feel justified in giving out a 23% to my upper levels because 4 out of 8 got 100%. It was far from impossible.

Bah, have the fannish 50 recs. I have been writing but it's all for fandomtrees and I can't share it. I am really intrigued by the Hazbin prompts there. I will say that.

A Royal Idea Teen Wolf

Just A Man Torchwood


Self-Discovery FAKE


Melty. The Murderbot Diaries


Friends Old And New Torchwood

Dancing In The Dark Hazbin Hotel

just the beginning Hudson & Rex

What Everyone Wants Torchwood


A Heavy Burden The Fantastic Journey

No Such Thing As Too Late Supernatural

oh no, he’s hot. 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

hot chocolate icons

The List due South

Offer of Protection Teen Wolf

It was nice and snowy and any other day I'd be thrilled but today was my lab test and I had to reschedule it for tomorrow...and friday and hope to hell they all can make it at such short notice.

Also my throat hurt too much to go out and play. I have sores on my tongue now so I have no idea what's going on in my mouth but I ain't happy. (I am wondering if my gerd is getting so bad, stomach acid is burning the fuck out of my mouth)

I did get out in the afternoon to CVS who finally had my insulin (three days later) but there were so many people there it took nearly a half hour.

I did get sleep though. I was in bed by quarter after 1 in the morning. (hush, that's early for me) slept to 7 Am, rolled over went back to sleep for another 3 hours.



Fannish 50

I am in that nebulous area with one fandom ending its season and the next one 11 days away from dropping a new episode so both Hazbin fans and Amazing Digital Circus fans are awash in speculation (and naturally ship wars that I'm ignoring hard). We'll have some answers for TADC in 11 days (and then not again until March), Hazbin will not be around until probably 2027. Even though the voice acting for S3 is done and they're on to S4 already, the animation takes for freaking forever (and I'm okay with that).

The speculation is fun and it'll certainly give me a lot of fanfic prompts. What will happen with the Vees now? What about poor Angel? Husk and Cherri, what will they do? Lilith is she showing up? Who will be the next villain?

We know it'll be about family so definitely Charlie and Lucifer (Lilith?) will have a lot more to do. I hope to hell (pun intended) that they will make them less fucking stupid because S2 was hard yinz. So hard. Charlie was annoying as was Lucifer.

We know Arackniss is showing up. So we're getting Angel's family. Backstory please.

Viv did say in addition to the Morningstars we're getting more about Angel and Husk so it's going to be a long wait.

so let me ask this, for those with still on-going fandoms, do you like the wait? Do you like speculating on what comes next? Does it make you nuts? I will hand HH this, no big cliffhangers, open threads, cliffhanger no. I hate cliffhangers so I was happy.

It was an easy open study lab today and they were playing music when one of them pipes up, do you like music Doctor Evans?

Yes, I love music. Feel free to play it.

Girl from the back. Did you listen to Jacob Sartorius? (her table had suggested it last week when they were using him to remember the sartorius thigh muscle)

Yes, I liked it.

What did you listen to?

Ladies it's been a week, I don't remember.

Guy from the front - Do you like rap?

Me - it's not my favorite genre but I listen to some of it.

WHO?!?

Me - Oh, they're all old now. Run DMC, Will Smith when he was the Fresh Prince, Sir Mix-a-lot, Tone Loc

Guy from the front - do you like Nas?

Me - I've not really heard his stuff but I like Little Nas X

Them- holding up phone, what's this one? (obviously thinking Doc Dana is trying to be the cool prof who knows music)

two notes

me - Old Town Road, Little Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus

they start giggling. loudly.

The phone goes up. More music.

Me -three seconds in, Get Jiggy with it, Will Smith

More giggling.

Them - Dance

Me - Just play your music.

They weren't sure if it was a dare or not so the phone went away.


We had some of the other testing too. It's week 15 of 16 after all. Can't I have extra extra credit. No.

I NEED to pass this class to graduate. Can't I have a D? I'm desperate. 1. that's not passing 2. You have a 38%. No. I mean you'd have to sacrifice to the elder gods to pass at this point.


Let's hit the fannish fun for fannish 50 For one, sharing this again because Blake and this song hit the Billboard top 100 (at 98 but my god it's less than 3 minutes) Also move over Jessica Rabbit, another animated lounge singer is after your crown




( Finally getting my thoughts out on the last two Hazbin episodes. Spoilers abound and outside of the above song all the clips and songs are NSFW )

Between my coworkers seeming to NOT understand that this 'new shining insurance' will cost in the long run three times the shit show we have and the unqualified twit Trump has running the Dept of Education deciding nursing is not a professional degree (which would make it harder to get student loans for it among other horrible things) I have had enough of this fucking day. And my apple set off my gastric paresis so not vomiting was a real chore in lab

I'm glad we didn't have the writers meeting. I'm not fit for man or beast (nor have I answered or read posts since...omg nearly the 7th, go me) so have fannish 50 recs

I wrote a thing!!


Title: Only Shades of Gray

Summary: Angel is ready to help his new lover, one of hell’s up and coming overlords grab more territory. But who walks into Valentino’s would-be new territory but someone Angel had been waiting for for decades. So, his brother had finally died.

Rating: teen

Notes:This is set in the late 1970s which is currently, from the old notes up on fandom wiki, the time period in which both Valentino and Arackniss died. So I gave hell that same 70s vibe and this would be when Valentino is just building his empire and what Angel’s role is in it. And his first meeting with his brother after Arackniss died. I am sticking with Giovanni for Arackniss’ living years name as the old notes have him as a Jonathan.

Content warning – Angel’s family is homophobic so there are references to that along with time period appropriate history for Angel’s living years in the 1930s and 40s.

Written Spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Cave, Situation, Extent, Shy, Sip, & Ambitious

And written for the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt, Song with a color in the title. I chose Shades of Gray by The Monkees. And for the allbingo prompt of Duty is heavier than a mountain. Death light as a feather. This quote is used in the story and it is from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.

( Story under here or at the above link )

Recs!!

No More Torchwood

In Denial FAKE

A Time for Healing Starsky & Hutch

Hope Against the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Divergent Roads Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Fool's Rosegold The Owl House

Heartache Stargate Atlantis

To Trust His Daughter Hazbin Hotel

Goodbye, little duckling. Hazbin Hotel

Dill With It Hazbin Hotel

Childhood Ambitions Torchwood

Never Giving Up he Fantastic Journey

Perfect shot Call of Duty

The Write Stuff Stargate Atlantis

This Moon, That Moon 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Uncomplicatedly Complicated Wolverine/The X-Men

wooing the lady 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

something you could sin for Naruto

Living Their Own Lives Teen Wolf

We've Done This Before Addams Family

My writers' zoom meeting went on too long for me to do a fannish 50 today AND I know the only way to not get spoiled for the finale of Hazbin Hotel is to watch it tonight when it drops at midnight (provided the storm leaves me power) so I won't be back to do it then so I'm getting on with it.

So my day, the thing I wanted to say was I saved a sky puppy. We were cleaning up the dissections today and I hear a student scream Dr. Dana there's a BAT in the sink.

Me thinking sure there is I was just at the sink like 90 seconds ago. I go over and sure enough there is a Big Brown Bat (legit name) in the sink. She's cold and shivering and wet AF because it's pouring outside for like the last 12 hours (can't wait for the ice slick tomorrow) So this is the A&P lab and I don't have leather gloves to safely catch her without getting bitten.

I go looking for the wildlife profs (leaving the students in charge of Batty, just keep an eye on her and where she goes if she leaves the sink) No one is around. The wildlife prep room has no damn gloves that I can see. I go into my micro to get the thermal gloves we use for the autoclave. My coworker has moved them god knows where.

I pop into the environmental science lab and she's there. No gloves but we do have a catch container. We go get Batty (who very obviously had to come down through my fume hood) and we put her under the skybridge to the other building where she can hang out and get dry. Poor thing.


ETA - the Midnight drop for Hazbin is west coast time. ARGH. That's 3 am here. whines piteously

I am....beyond frustrated.

I head to the BMV because they've cheaped out on the plastic and my handicap tag shattered like a porcelain tea cup kissing the floor. Getting a new one was easy. I went to the coffee shop but had so much b.s. to deal with I don't even get much writing done. At least CVS hasn't fucked up for once and as I'm getting my needles and pills, the BMV calls me to tell me they didn't give me all the paperwork and I need to come back.

They are SO lucky that they caught me before I was 25 miles away back at the school. I go back and the same woman waits on me. She blinks at me and seems unable to comprehend why I'm there (or that I was there before to the point I wonder what she's high on) Someone else walks over to save her and gives me the paperwork.

Now I'm nearly late racing to the university because the student who has stood me up FOUR times already with no explanation is supposed to be there on my day off to make up the lab exam. She shows and then I go into my meeting.

I haven't mentioned that there has been so much shit at work with fucked up schedules. This meeting is on fire. A couple of us got yelled at (me included) to calm down. But dudes you put two of my classes at the same time and you have 30 students (not including the 24 in my class) we can't even find a time for and you're telling me you haven't changed your major so it's OUR fault. Dudes this is the first time in SIX years you've taken both sections of A&P so don't give me that shit. You didn't look at the schedules we've given you. And please remember that we have to work around all the OTHER biology classes because we have two labs that can hold this many people and oh by the way the last time we had nursing, rad tech, ultrasound and resp therapy, sports and exercise ALL taking both sections of A&P we had a THIRD instructor. Me and DM are the only two left (and one of us is 72) you are killing us.

So in this one of the academic coaches is at my door. I put him off and he returns at the end with my research student who is 1 class short of graduation. We sit down with the biology coordinator and try to figure this out. The only solution? Me offering my online class so now I have two online classes, three face to face classes and two separate research students.

RIP my sanity and my free time (If you think I'm slow commenting now....)

I was SO looking forward to my youtooz monitor buddies of my boys (points down to top pairing) They took forever to ship and they're here Look they're cute here. ANNNNNDDDDD, they don't fit on my desk top monitor. They don't fit on my lap top monitor. WTF are they supposed to fit on? They're so top heavy. At this point I'm wondering can I make a little bar for them and sit them on stools? Way to piss away your money. I should have bought that sticker at the Monster Mash with a possum saying Breadwinner? Ha, I'm the bread loser.


This is everywhere right not. From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions. (I think I saw this on shipperslist first)

Current number of works on AO3: 887

1.Under what rating do you write most?
teen and up

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
1. Prodigal Son
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Hazbin Hotel tied

3. Which character do you write about most?
Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)



4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?
Now THIS was a surprise to me.

1.Angel Dust/Husk (I go from no anthropomorphic characters because it’s so not my thing to this)
2.Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
3.Gil Arroyo/Jessica Whitly (Prodigal Son)

Wait, no one from Buffy or The Owl House?!?

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
1 found family
2 emotional hurt/comfort
3 whump (okay it’s technically Malcolm Bright needs a hug but that is so fandom specific so I picked up number 4)

Woke up 20 minutes before the alarm and thought okay this day shall go well. Oh how wrong I was

I pull into the parking lot, put up my handicapped hang tag and it shattered into 5 pieces. OMFG. It was cracked but I didn't realize it was that bad. I'm gonna have to tape it together until I can get to the BMV.

Get inside to find out our secretary had a major health event and is in ICU on an ecmo which is needless to say serious shit. Scary.

the ladies basketball teams me they're leaving tomorrow for a full week and I have to move the test to be fair to them (which really isn't a problem) so long as they're here for the bone practicum this week.

And then I set up my practicum. 4 and a half hours because shit is missing AGAIN. I know who took it because it's always him. I screwed up the answer key and questions 3 times. I didn't leave work until 830 at night and didn't eat dinner til 9. blech.

I was going to share something fun for music monday that I thought shipperslist had but I can't find it so since it's writing month let's do music that we want to write to or have written to. One of the stories I want to get on is the "last" story in the All that Glitters Husk Overlord series (well it's where the whole series was heading, to husk/angel becoming a couple) so it gets the world's most sappy love song also for lyricaltitles bingo challenge

to off set the whole nightmare of work today (It's too late in the day to relive it) I had students be very kind. I visibly had a hypoglycemic attack but I didn't want to run back to my office and while I was debating it, it dropped so much I was shaking and sweating so students ran to the vending machine and got me recesee's cups and wouldn't let me pay them back.

And another student stayed with me and a third student who had fallen on the steps because they didn't want to go to urgent care and could I examine their sprained ankle (I kept the other student as a witness) It looked fine, told them what to do if it looks even worse in an hour or so (it didn't look bad) i.e. yes go to urgent care. They knew was RICE was and that's what I suggested because I can't treat patients. I could only give advice.

Didn't get into the lesser cryptid anthology. Oh well. But had the online writers group thing and got some progress made.


It's music monday and next week I'll be sharing a meme from shipperslist but for this week one last Halloweeny one, have some of the most successful Halloween songs

Literally my favorite and one of my favorite comedic movies. evil_little_dog shared a FB story about Dan talking about how much Ghostbusters meant to him and why he still loves it so much. Me too. Me too. If the local group was closer I'd join





Back with MTV was king


And the one that started it all in many ways