"I'm sure Luke wasn't on that thing when it blew."

I waited until it was February 1 to post so that THIS sparkly sentence here will be my February entry for the "year in review" meme at the end of the year, and perhaps I'll look back on it and think, "What the fuck was I doing awake when I was so tired and cranky?"

I'm doing pretty good at this not-posting-as-much business, eh?

It's been almost a week since I stopped getting on LJ at work. It IS nice to feel productive and not like a total slacker all the time... except I'm painfully caught up on my work now. I talked to sleuthgirl27 a bit about the internet thing and she was very cavalier about it all, she said they had to sign those things too and they got a very similar email sent to them (she works at the helpdesk of our parent company) - she really doesn't think I have anything to be worried about. It still doesn't seem worth it to me. In a couple weeks I'll go back to what I was doing before (getting on at the beginning of work and at lunch ONLY) and hopefully it won't escalate into having 3 or 4 windows up all day long. Heh.

I feel... hmmm. Like I fail at pretty much everything lately. Perhaps "fail" is too harsh - okay, make that "I'm mediocre at best, piss-poor at worst" at everything. I wonder if taking some sort of hiatus from the internet would help. How would it help? I don't know, but these things wander into my brain when I'm up late for no good reason.

How sad is it that right now, I'm thinking "Well, I'd still have to sort people (for hogwartsishome, because I've never missed being a top sorter since I joined in 2005)?

Yeah, sad. Goooooo Gryffindor! That's the only thing I do there though, is sort. And leave comments on people's common room entries. Woo.

I'm going to go write a fic so angsty I won't be able to show it to anyone, and most likely won't even finish it, let alone post it.

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This week's thefridayfive is about family. My answers aren't very inspired... oh well.

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? Pffft. When I did it for school I probably went back four or five generations, but I don't even know the third one up off the top of my head. If I dug around a bit I'm sure I could go back further, at least on my mom's side, but I probably never will do that. It's too depressing that I'm stunting the family tree by not having kids.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives? I guess this is supposed to be some random factoid about a distant relative? Well, it's hardly interesting to anyone else, but definitely strange to me: I just found out last week that my parents are getting a divorce. I'm still pretty weirded out about that and just trying not to think about it much, really.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives? I wouldn't do it, I'd rather agree upon an original name with the daddy, but whatever floats other people's boats is fine. Who am I to judge?

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? No. Are there any families that are, though?

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them? Yeah, see, the whole having kids thing - not gonna happen, so, fuck this question.


I think next time I go to get my shiny new prescription I'll whine a bit to the doc and get my dosage increased. Or maybe I just need to sleep more. Mmmmmm, sleep.

ETA: I feel a bit better. I just talked to K for about an hour on the phone. Yes, *I* was on the phone for a WHOLE HOUR. (don't get any ideas, I still hate the phone) We took turns whining about stuff. It was nice.