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wildestranger) wrote2009-11-28 07:28 pm
wildestranger) wrote2009-11-28 07:28 pm
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the joys of purchase power and adam lambert
I got paid yesterday. \o/
See, I've been working three jobs since September, but until now I've been paid for only one of them. This is how universities and part time jobs work, apparently. *smites them* Anyway, now I have money and its omgsoexciting. Money for rent! Money for food! Money for my water bill and council tax and internet! Money for WINE! (guess which one I'm most excited about? *g*)
This is also the first time in my life that I've earned enough to support myself. Yeah, I turned thirty this year. This what happens when you're a student until 29 with no funding and emerge on the job market just as recession hits. Jobs in my field usually have at least 50 people applying for them, but this year it has been more likely to be 150.
Anyway, now that I've acquired some lovely, lovely money, I have also been buying things. Not just wine. Although obviously that too. Things wot I've bought include:
Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment. Gerard Way's The Umbrella Academy: Dallas. Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Dresden Dolls' A is for Accidents. And a sleeveless Nike top for the gym, a new ladies razor (the last one was form 1995, still functional but starting to rot), some beautiful green jewelry from Accessorize, Christmas presents, and three bottles of fancy wine. I am hoping to fill my five-bottle wine rack before I open them.
Also, I've finally been able to put into action my plan to read more scifi by female authors that isn't about manpain. So far I have acquired Justina Robson's Silver Screen, Nicola Griffith's Slow River, Connie Willis's Bellwether, and Tricia Sullivan's Double Vision. I'll do another proper post about them books individually, but the short version is that I really enjoyed the first two, found the third a bit dull, and have yet to read the fourth.
I am on the lookout for more scifi by female authors, preferably with female protagonists, so if you have recs I'd be very interested to hear them! I've been going through the Mindblowing Science Fiction By Women page, but it's a bit confusing. No need to tell me about Lois McMaster Bujold or Ursula LeGuin, them I know and love already. But new writers, especially ones who write LGBT characters, would be very welcome.
And here's a rec for an Adam Lambert fic: the hours and times of your desire bysolvent90. It's a slavefic au, with some issues of consent as one might expect form the genre, but it is hot and delightful and enjoyable, so go read!
See, I've been working three jobs since September, but until now I've been paid for only one of them. This is how universities and part time jobs work, apparently. *smites them* Anyway, now I have money and its omgsoexciting. Money for rent! Money for food! Money for my water bill and council tax and internet! Money for WINE! (guess which one I'm most excited about? *g*)
This is also the first time in my life that I've earned enough to support myself. Yeah, I turned thirty this year. This what happens when you're a student until 29 with no funding and emerge on the job market just as recession hits. Jobs in my field usually have at least 50 people applying for them, but this year it has been more likely to be 150.
Anyway, now that I've acquired some lovely, lovely money, I have also been buying things. Not just wine. Although obviously that too. Things wot I've bought include:
Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment. Gerard Way's The Umbrella Academy: Dallas. Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Dresden Dolls' A is for Accidents. And a sleeveless Nike top for the gym, a new ladies razor (the last one was form 1995, still functional but starting to rot), some beautiful green jewelry from Accessorize, Christmas presents, and three bottles of fancy wine. I am hoping to fill my five-bottle wine rack before I open them.
Also, I've finally been able to put into action my plan to read more scifi by female authors that isn't about manpain. So far I have acquired Justina Robson's Silver Screen, Nicola Griffith's Slow River, Connie Willis's Bellwether, and Tricia Sullivan's Double Vision. I'll do another proper post about them books individually, but the short version is that I really enjoyed the first two, found the third a bit dull, and have yet to read the fourth.
I am on the lookout for more scifi by female authors, preferably with female protagonists, so if you have recs I'd be very interested to hear them! I've been going through the Mindblowing Science Fiction By Women page, but it's a bit confusing. No need to tell me about Lois McMaster Bujold or Ursula LeGuin, them I know and love already. But new writers, especially ones who write LGBT characters, would be very welcome.
And here's a rec for an Adam Lambert fic: the hours and times of your desire by
solvent90. It's a slavefic au, with some issues of consent as one might expect form the genre, but it is hot and delightful and enjoyable, so go read!