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I already knew it was the perfectly adorable

minlliw's birthday. She assures me she's had a nice day and a lovely weekend, which is no more than she deserves. She and I will be meeting for a date next week, when I will be spoiling her in some way or another. If you're reading this, happy birthday my sweet. All the birthday love in the world to you *smooches*

In addition to what I already knew, I have learned the following things:

Work-based internet privileges are capricious and fleeting. One minute I was posting a lunchtime rant about the absence of The Brain from my work life, the next thing I know LJ is blocked at a server level by the work system. No more lunchtime browsing of my SFW list. Or daytime venting of my frustrations to my journal's ever-listening ear. Oh well *sighs*
I have a sexual squick that's greater than the one I thought was my biggest one ever. Not something I've tried, but something I read today. It squicked me out more violently than I thought possible for anything. I was almost physically sick, and ended up in tears. It's not even anything that's all that extreme in the grand scheme of things. I can deal with all sorts of violence, blood, even watersports even though it's not my thing. I've watched most of "2 girls, 1 cup", FFS! But just a few short [well-written - it wasn't the writer's fault] paragraphs had me quaking and queasy. It made me ponder on the broad church of human sexuality and how we're all so different. I'm sure there's stuff that I enjoy seeing or reading about, or even doing, that would turn others right off. I think I was just surprised at the strength of my reaction, and I learned something about myself.

The only other thing I know for sure is that my headache of Friday was just in remission rather than actually gone, so I'm eating a fistful of pills and going to get some sleep.

We have internet connectivity back at home. It took a while, but we got there in the end. The freakiest thing about the whole experience was that I tweeted this morning about the BT engineer arriving on early and how I was unaccustomed to dealing with strange humans at such an early hour and BT Customer Care tweeted back at me that they were glad to hear they were on top of things are are now following my tweets. Twitter: freaking me out since 2008.

This afternoon, after a catastrophic lunch failure and a lack of progress in the morning due to people and things distracting me I decided to come and work at home. It worked to a large extent and I managed to marshall my thoughts on my most urgent pieces of work and get some words out on paper. I am at least moderately hopeful of getting to the end of the week and being able to say that I've achieved something. I'm not going to get too carried away, though.

In other news, I've finally finished my long-overdue final Torchwood fic and shipped it off for beta. It's been painful to get through but I'm glad it's in the last lap. Once it's done and posted I can move onto other things.

Exactly what those things will be is not yet clear.

Madame G

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