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For your vents/rants of the day.

I currently have a massive migraine that meds aren't touching. Feeling extra sound sensitive. I've got ear plugs in. But my dad is practicing piano loudly. He's well aware of my headache. Can't ask him to stop practicing. And he's got at least another hour to go.

I took piano lessons for about ten years when I was younger. It is possible to practice without playing at a loud volume. Your Dad doesn't sound like a very considerate person.

My apartment smells like burnt popcorn. :(

I want to start writing Star Wars fanfic (self indulgent drawer kind) but I'm intimidated by the amount of lore/canon... I'm still trying to figure out if the characters I want in the story ate even around at the same time! And don't get me started on all the planets and cultures! I need details on the minutiae of daily life...ughhhh

(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

As a Star Wars person, this is really going to depend on what your characters are/where they are going. So much is kind of hidden in the old EU and comics. Some of it might not actually jive with the new post Disney canon.

Go to Wookiepedia and like if you're looking for anything Hutt or Wookie related, I'd recc the OLD Han Solo trilogy by Anderson. The Twi'lek stuff got scattered everywhere. Same with the Bothans. The Corellian Trilogy could give you a tiny bit about Selonians. (Though that came up some in the X-Wing series too. The X-Wings series tossed out a lot of tidbits of lore, especially in the Wraith Squadron half.) The Bounty Hunter Wars talked a lot about Ku'at. Tales of Mos Eisley cantina had a BUNCH of different aliens including the Bith.

But like I said, it's OLD legends canon and may or may not jive with what they are doing now. So, since it's drawer fic, choose your own canon? Hope it helps even a little.

AYRT

Thanks for the recs! I'm definitely going to check them out -- although I'm pretty sure some of the main characters will be human (but they can be of a specific people?), it helps to have knowledge of other species and planets (planets and the people who live there and why etc -- literally yesterday I learned who the Twi'leks were despite seeing them in SW media ALL MY LIFE). I mean, I could just make things up (since it is just for me lol) but I would rather have some threads of actual canon in the story. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a "Divergent Timeline" type of fic, but so what? Lol that's fic. Maybe it will be the kind I post (for other people looking for self indulgent nonsense lol), but esp. for that reason I want to have at least a few key elements "grounded in reality", as it were. There's no way I'm going to get the actual plot threads involved however, maybe just a few mentions or nods to it, but...anyway, thanks!!! And congrats on the blog post -- I'm going to have to check it out.

my apt bldg changed owners and nobody seems to be able to tell me anything about the new guys.

I have two things chapping my hide in February.

One, I am sick of cooking. Now, I love(d) cooking. Coming up with new recipes, trying new cuisine, finding new ingredients, the pleasure of making something delicious, etc. But I'm fucking tired of cooking. All I do is cook and do the dishes. My entire day is now structured around when to start cooking so that dinner is ready when my wfh roommate is done with work. I'm tired and I'm angry that the pandemic and other things have ruined something I used to love. I just want to eat Kraft dinner and donuts for the next month.

Related, but also separate. This fucking cold. This fucking polar vortex. Not that I can go anywhere with the pandemic but I can't even pop outside to shovel or take my time running errands. It's COLD. It's below zero F and it's not going to get better until, get this, March 1st. Predictions are for this to last literally three more weeks straight. I can't. I just can't. The closed-off basement and our upstairs are plenty warm but the main level of the house is cold, no amount of heating can mitigate it. We're not at risk for any pipes bursting or anything but it's just fucking miserable and compounding every other issue in my life at the moment.

FUCK. WINTER. FUCK. COVID. there is that rant enough?

GOD This is me. I'm so tired of cooking. Same situation. Same mood.

I just want to eat Kraft dinner and donuts for the next month.

Do it.

I mean, you'll get tired of this after like, four days, but I did this last month. Dinner was like...pb&j or canned chili or mac and cheese. It was like a reset. And yes, I did buy a box of donuts and had donuts for breakfast. I didn't die.

Can your roommate take over the cooking for a while?

This. It's important to take breaks from stressful situations. OP, if it's possible on your budget, try stuff like sandwiches, frozen dinners, and ready-made salads for awhile. They're simple and easier than cooking.

Why are you doing all the cooking for your roommate? You guys should be trading off.

It is freezing and icy today. Thankfully I don't got to drive to work today or tomorrow but I will Wednesday. And it is only getting icier each day. It is going to be in the negatives this weekend!

I fucked up. I missed something in a document. The kind of trifling little detail that's hidden in mealy mouthed language so you don't realise it's a huge massive fucking deal.

And me, being a complete novice at the time, just up and missed it as being significant.

And now I need to shell out $35,000 to sort it the fuck out.

If you ever buy a house, check fucking everything in the buyers survey. Even things you don't think will be an issue - look at how much it will cost to fix it should it rear its ugly damn head.

I got a juror qualification questionnaire in the mail today for federal court and I have no way out of it, I have to fill it out. I FUCKING HATE THIS. Serving should be voluntary, NOT FORCED.

I got one when I was in grad school and wrote that I was a grad student and having to take time off my studies would be a hardship. Never heard back. Guess that was a good enough excuse. I've never been able to get out if county-level jury duty like that (although I've also never actually been selected from the pool once I got there).

AYRT
I'm unemployed, have no therapist, not disabled. Can't get out of anything if they pick me. I have to start making excuses or just let my anxiety/depression get the best of me and cry.

Filling out the questionnaire doesn't mean you'll get called. Getting called doesn't mean you'll get selected. Take a deep breath, and try not to borrow trouble.

No. The type of people who would volunteer to serve on a jury are exactly the type of people you don't want serving on a jury.

People who want a no-questions-asked day off work?

Put that on your form and you might not get picked.

My stupid chronic illness presents me with so many reasons to be pissed off and wish I was dead beyond the pain. Today a bunch of them were work-related:

- Had to have a Zoom meeting with a handful of people including my boss, to have an in-depth look at a new tool we're using for website stuff, and the entire time I was clutching my stomach and hobbling to the bathroom intermittently.

- My reflux is so severe that even exhaling through my mouth makes me choke, but apparently I was the only one present who really managed to absorb the training video about how to use this tool, so I was constantly watching everyone else go "What does this do?" "What if we wanted to do this instead of that?" "Augh, why didn't that work?" and having to speak up and tell them out loud how to do what they were trying to do. And then immediately muting my mic so I could cough while manually pressing down on my stupid upper GI to try to keep my stomach where it belonged.

- In spite of me holding this meeting together while literally holding my guts in place, I can't take the currently vacant full-time position that is exactly the same as my current job and get health insurance, because... my health is too terrible to allow me to hold a full-time job. Or get a second job to try to make enough to get medical treatment... which would let me hold a full time job with medical benefits.

I'm tired of everything at this point. My job, my living circumstances, my own self.

I've been listening to the TANIS podcast and I wish I knew who did the voice for Cameron Ellis. UGHHH his voice *swoon* he gives me CEO daddy vibes and I'm not mad about it lol I'm into it sometimes (but only sometimes) -- the character is shady as hell, I wouldn't trust him for shit but I love his voice.

I wanted to move my content from twitter to pillowfort but the site is still down and just... SIGH. And now the kiddos on twitter are complaining about how they keep finding NSFKids content. Since all I wanted was some privacy and not having to deal with kids, I might as well just move my stuff to DW.

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