This is my life

So, no follow up email/phone call/text message/messenger bird after my amazing interview last Thursday. WTH? I decided it was a test and tried to not freak out. I didn't call until today. Turns out my recruiter is on vacation, the dude who interviewed me keeps calling to push my final interview up, and the next step is them flying me somewhere for an in-person meet (but no one bothered to even say "boo" - you'd think if they really wanted me that bad, they'd at least have said something).

Baltimore folks: I won't be leaving right away! Apparently it's no big for me to live anywhere I want, I can just fly in and out of anywhere on their dime, so even if all goes swimmingly and I get hired, we'll be here at least until our lease runs out. Then it's probably back to the Midwest because it's close to my mom and sisters. And if I'm traveling a lot, I'd like to have family close for soleta and the kitties (if she decides to travel with me sometimes). We've already looked into houses in my hometown (the one we used to think was a palace is for sale - 5 bed, 2 bath for $154k... my face, you should have seen it) but that's a ways off, likely.

BUT! Last night I had a bad night, editing a podfic that was problematic for me on a number of levels (I'll post tonight), and then screwing up one of my betas (for the lovely pistolbunny) and feeling awful about it. And pistolbunny didn't want me to feel bad, so she made me some art! It's lovely and hilarious, but I won't post it here without permission. And then, because she's amazing, she went to zoronoa and had her make me some art, which is unfuckingbelievably amazing. It's a sketch of Jensen and man, if she produces that the way I produce shortfic, I am simply in awe. It's amazing, folks, go take a look and leave nice comments! (And if you haven't seen it, do be sure to check out her sketch of Cougar's tattoo from Pistol's We Know How It Works story. AMAZING!)

ETA: Here, have a thumbnail! SO AMAZING!



ETA2: ( Hahahaha Pistol gave me permission to post her virtual hugs! )

So, the OTW is having its drive and it ends today! I always seem to be swamped when the March drive comes up and forget to post. I'm terrible at speechifying about the OTW anyway, so I suggest reading kass's fairytale history of the OTW instead, and then going here to donate if you like.

gblvr, wolfshark, and telesilla are each donating $1 per drabble written for the atlantisbigbang drabble tree by March 31 (that's tomorrow, folks). Author signups end tomorrow too, I think. ETA: Ack, did not mean to indicate that those lovely people are donating to OTW! They're donating to Doctors Without Borders. I just couldn't find the group when I was rounding up links (I was going to put help_japan, but I didn't think that was right, so I didn't indicate who). So now you know, sorry if that was confusing. /ETA

Other interesting things found out and about on my dwircle:

denise talks about paying down technical debt.

skieswideopen has opened sga_guide which is an alternative guide to SGA (meaning alternative to the many excellent McShep guides already out there). I'm really excited about this, guys. I am thinking about signing up to do Radek/Ronon. And I have to say I'm more than a little surprised that no one has yet signed up to take Lorne/Zelenka or, last time I looked, Lorne/Parrish. Thank goodness someone has signed up to do Teyla/Elizabeth (havocthecat, I think). And there are a ton of others signed up to do pages, so I'm super excited. I wish it wasn't on LJ as I don't go there very often (if at all anymore), but it's still a great project, so I'm happy to support it. They're also trying to encourage mirroring on Fanlore, so that makes me a happy camper too, as I am growing more and more fond of wikis.

rydra_wong posts an excellent roundup of thought-provoking links I've read and had thoughts provoked about this week.

remix_goes_wild is live, and guys, this is a BRILLIANT idea. There are twenty-some types of remixing, there will be a list of authors giving blanket permission and/or you can use your own work, and it's all low-stress, low-key, and other low- things. Take a look, seriously, this is the remix I have always wanted.

eruthros has posted a bunch of fandom secrets done by our favorite characters! I do not know a lot of these, but I had fun overlaying SGA characters on almost all of them. >:)

monanotlisa linked to this gorgeous photo shoot of the amazing Jasika Nicole. Wow, does she have the most gorgeous eyes I have ever seen.

queerlygen is in the middle of flashfic challenge #5: Family (biological or chosen), which hits a huge narrative kink of mine, so please write me lots of stories for it!

cesperanza points to The Plight of the Straight Male Gamer on the Geek Feminism blog. Made me grin from ear to ear.

soleta sent me this askjfhskladjfhskldafh vid of twin babies having a conversation. It's clearly a conversation, I think (feel free to disagree, but I think you'll see what I mean), and I'm pretty sure it's about socks.

BALTIMOREANS! Check out the Baltimore Food Coop, thanks to spillingvelvet for that link.

Also, I have a co-worker who has a final the night she was supposed to be at an MCR concert. She's looking to sell her ticket. I don't have more details than that, but if anyone's interested, let me know and I'll ask.