12 and 24?

12. Favorite color?
Various combinations of blue, green, and gray. I guess a not-too-bright teal, based on the color of my rugs and the chair cushions I got from Ikea.

24. Favorite band?
I’m bad at this, because I don’t really keep up with contemporary music, I just listen to the indie station on satellite radio and then don’t buy much. I like Florence + the Machine, CHVRCHES, St. Vincent (that’s not really a band), Belle and Sebastian… stuff like that.

4, 26, go!

Ooh, that was surprisingly fast. Thanks!

4. Kissed anyone?
Yeah, a fair number of people. Mostly men, a couple women.

26. Best thing that has ever happened to you?
Finishing and defending my dissertation felt pretty damn good. But I also got to taste a 1962 Pauillac at the harvest party for the winery where I worked in 2014, and it tasted like it could still age a few more years, which was pretty incredible, too 😉

Well, I didn’t get the job I had the fly-out for, and I probably won’t get the postdoc I wanted at my undergrad university, so I’m drowning my sorrows in ice cream, Scotch, and season 2 of “Jessica Jones.”

I don’t have anywhere to be tomorrow, I’m just going to be hunkering down at home staying out of the Nor’easter, which means that in theory I have the whole day to spend working on research and/or fanfiction… but lbr, I’ll probably just sleep until 3pm and spend the rest of the day dicking around on the internet.

I’m terrible because I haven’t had time to read all the fics people were posting yesterday for the Thorki Valentine Exchange… I was scrambling to finish my own fic yesterday, and then I’ve actually been doing stuff today, which is weird but also nice because having been stuck inside being sick for 4 days, it’s good to see and talk to real people. (Singing with lungs not at peak function maybe not the best ever, but still better than doing nothing.)

Anyway… tomorrow I will reblog things. And also go grocery shopping.

Now that I’ve defended my dissertation and my parents are no longer staying with me and I actually have some free time again, I should arrange playdates – er, I mean, visits with all the people I haven’t seen in a while.

More specifically, I should invite people over so that I’m motivated to clean up my act… I mean, my apartment.

philosopherking1887:

I’m having a lot of feelings and I can’t stop reading/watching things that are semi-traumatic. I have a problem.

Good thing I’m seeing my therapist on Monday, I guess… but I don’t know how to tell her that I’m fucked up about a work of fanfiction, among other things.

I also want to write fanfiction, but my feelings and mushy brain are getting in the way. If I do manage to write anything, expect something completely random instead of updates to either of my partially posted WIPs.

I have a lot of posts that annoyed me saved in my drafts folder for when I have the time/energy to write a rebuttal. Sometimes they’re there for months, and I forget about them until I’m going through my drafts to rebuild my queue. Sometimes I’ve lost the motivation to argue about whatever it was and I delete the post.

I was tagged by @neveserene. Thanks!

Name: Phil (on Tumblr and AO3)
Gender: I like @raven-brings-light‘s answer: “I respond to ‘she’ but if I could pick one I’d pick ‘none’ (no, you don’t have to call me ‘they,’ ‘she’ is fine).” I’m a woman by default, not conviction.
Star Sign: Libra (but I don’t fit most of the stereotypes; those “the signs as” things never work for me. My ascendant is Gemini, which is closer.)
Height: 5′1″
Sexuality: I consider myself bi, but that shouldn’t be interpreted to exclude nb people.
Why I made a Tumblr: I started writing fanfiction again after a 10-year hiatus; I’d figured out that AO3 was the new place to post it, but I needed a real-life friend who’s plugged into fandom (hi, @gotham666) to tell me that Tumblr was the place to network and find readers.
Hogwarts House: The first time I took the Pottermore quiz, years ago, I came out Slytherin; when I took it more recently, it said Ravenclaw. I think I’m about evenly split between the two.
Average Hours of Sleep: I need 10 to feel rested because I’ve had crazy vivid dreams every night for the last 5.5 years that make me feel like I’ve acted them out rather than sleeping. If I get less than 10 for a few nights, my body will compensate by sleeping 12+ hours as soon as I get the chance.
Dogs or Cats: Cats, cats, cats, definitely cats. I don’t hate dogs, exactly, but they make me nervous and they mostly smell bad.

Tagging: @dardisblue, @darklittlestories, @led-lite, @seidrade, @shes-gone-rogue… and whoever else wants to do a meme!

I was tagged by @lunariagold and @neveserene. Thanks!!

Rules: we’re snooping upon your playlist. Set your entire playlist on shuffle and report the first 10 tracks that pop up and then choose 10 friends.

1. CAKE – Mexico

2. “Cowboy Bebop” OST 3 (composed by Yoko Kanno) – Wo Qui Non Coin (why is it called that? No idea, the lyrics are mostly nonsense)

3. Déanta (on a compilation CD of Celtic airs) – Harp Airs: Rock of Esse / Ascent

4. October Sky Soundtrack (composed by Mark Isham) – It Is a Thing of Glory

5. Rent film soundtrack – Without You

6. Simon & Garfunkel – I Am a Rock

7. “Glee” Cast, more specifically Matthew Morrison (don’t laugh) – Sway

8. Chapel Choir at my current university (which I will not name) – Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (a lot of what I have on my computer is recordings from my choir concerts…)

9. The Prince of Egypt soundtrack (composed by Hans Zimmer) – The Reprimand

10. The Smithereens – Behind the Wall of Sleep

Damn, my music is really weird and includes a lot of soundtracks. Well, I already knew that; now y’all know too.

Tagging tagging tagging… @adaringdrinkerofdreams, @andreashwood, @angrymadsygin, @fuckyeahrichardiii, @ghostxforest, @kingloptr, @princess-ikol, @seidrade, @vika-avey, @widevibratobitch