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I got distracted by assorted things and am trying to catch up on my Not the IRS paid training courses. *sigh*

95% of this is the same damn stuff we learn/review every year, and it's extremely tiring. On the bright side, I do get paid for the slog?

I also have a handy-dandy sheet that tells me how long each course segment is supposed to take, so sometimes I do the courses and then just clock in and clock out to make sure my paid time equals the estimated time rather than tracking my actual progress. Shhh, don't tell!

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In other news, this week we're doing winter inspections of downtown apartments, which is annoying in a slightly different way from doing the same inspections in Collegetown. On the one hand, fewer apartments! On the other hand, a lot of really tall ceilings, which makes pressing the smoke alarm test buttons an exercise in massive frustration. *wry*

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I need to leave a proper intelligent comment on my wonderful Yuletide gift, which I will hopefully have the spoons to manage tomorrow. At that point, I will rec it to you in coherent words! (For now, though, if you like Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel Trilogy? Do go read The Heart With Which He Loved You -- you will thank yourself for following the link!)
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Three-Sentence Ficathon 2022, courtesy of the amazing [personal profile] rthstewart!

I am at work and trying to actually Do Tasks, so I will not be participating just yet... but the moment I get home, I intend to dive in. :DDDDDDDD
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Things about today:

1. Did laundry in the morning(ish), and successfully finished before the afternoon rain.

2. Zoom call with Susan and Cat at 1pm. It is really good to see them, even virtually! :D Also, Susan has okayed telling people, so I am pleased beyond words to announce (to you guys, who don't know her at all *wry*) that she is pregnant, with a due-date in mid-to-late May. BABY!!!

3. In the afternoon I did some kitchen chores, such as A) taking my kitchen compost out to the communal backyard bin, and then bleaching the compost container because wow it smelled rank, and B) chopping up a bunch of homegrown peppers that had been sitting in my fridge for a while because I didn't have the spoons to deal with them. (I then took all the pepper waste out to the compost bin as well.)

4. Listened to the Patreon release of the most recent Enthusigasm episode, which is about professional wrestling.

5. Vacuumed my apartment. UGH. There are not words for how much I dislike vacuuming.

6. Made a packing list for my Thanksgiving trip to and from Chicago.

7. Cooked a Hello Fresh meal for dinner. I believe I have previously mentioned that any uncollected/abandoned meal kit boxes become property of the rental office staff, yes? In this case, I got a full Hello Fresh box, which contained a cheeseburger meal, a chicken and pasta meal, and a pork stir-fry meal. Tonight I made the cheeseburger meal, which includes garlic roasted potato wedges and special sauce (for which I got to quick-pickle some diced onion in white vinegar), though I changed it up a little by adding some pepper to the grilled onions because onions and potatoes alone don't really count as a proper vegetable portion, you know? And I have so much pepper on hand anyway, so why not.

Anyway, it was delicious. I am sure the second burger will be equally delicious tomorrow night. :)

Now I think I shall go fold some laundry.
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Hello all! Today the RemixRevival 2021 archive has opened, and I would like to tell you about the fic someone wrote for me. :D

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A Magical Mishap (or, Nephews and Nieces; the Aunts and Uncles remix) (1349 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Letitia "Letty" Ketterley
Additional Tags: Book: The Magician's Nephew, Magic, Remix

Summary: "As so many things did, it all began with Polly and Digory quarrelling." The tale of how Aunt Letty acquired two new apprentices.

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This is based on Aunts and Uncles, a tiny ficlet I wrote for this year's Three Sentence Ficathon. My mystery remixer has taken my idea and run with it to glorious effect!

I have many and various things to do today (not to mention I am still making my slow way through this year's NFE archive), but I poked at the Remix archive a little. There are dozens of excellent stories from a vast array of fandoms, and you should go check them out.
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This is super-belated, because it has been A Week, but whatever, my gift is awesome and you must go read it immediately!

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we should take warning, we should forgive each other (4664 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Prunaprismia/Miraz
Characters: Queen Prunaprismia (Narnia), Queen Prunaprismia's Son (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Caspian X (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Fertility Issues, Offscreen canon character death, Politics, Isolation, Grief/Mourning, Canon Compliant

Summary: "Instead we are opposite, we / touch as though attacking, / the gifts we bring / even in good faith maybe / warp in our hands to / implements, to manoeuvres."

Prunaprismia, rightful Queen of Narnia, lives a long life.

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Worldbuilding? Amazing. Character study? Amazing. Horribly inevitable conclusion you can see coming a mile away that hits like a freight train when it arrives? AMAZING.

This is a slow slide into self-created tragedy in all the best ways. :)

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You should go read the other 27 fics in the collection while you're at it: Narnia Fic Exchange 2021. As always, the quality of work is high and there are all sorts of interesting ideas!
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Guess who has a THREE DAY WEEKEND!

ME! I DO!! I FINALLY GET NOT JUST TWO DAYS OFF IN A ROW, BUT A WHOLE, BEAUTIFUL THREE DAYS OFF IN A ROW!!!

(Look, my usual schedule is Sunday off, Monday on, Tuesday off, Wednesday to Saturday on. I don't mind working Saturdays, but in an ideal world I would get Mondays off in compensation instead of Tuesdays. This on-off-on-off thing is frustrating because the point of a weekend is to take one day to go AAAAAH and then the second day to actually do stuff, you know? It's not as effective to try compressing that into a morning of AAAAAAH and a productive afternoon.)

I had to rearrange a couple things I'd scheduled for Saturday before we all collectively twigged that hey, Memorial Day weekend is a thing, and stay 15 minutes late so a subtenant could pick up their keys one day early, but whatever. I HAVE THREE WHOLE DAYS OFF IN A ROW!

Also I finally got back on top of the inquiries and prospect applications, which is nice. I now have like a whole week of that to bash into my inquiry tracking spreadsheet on Tuesday, but eh, details. At least I answered all the people in a not too egregious timeframe.

The reason I was so behind, btw, is only partly that I was out sick on Wednesday. It's mostly that we are down to zero 1-bedroom apartments and just four studios (two of which are technically unavailable because of Current Tenant Issues (don't ask. seriously, don't ask)), so potential tenants are contacting us in droves. It's nice to fill apartments! But holy gods, it is EXHAUSTING to wade through the flood of moderately panicked prospects, and I think if I have to make a single phone call before Tuesday I will murder the person responsible.

I think once we can just shut down that particular type of inquiry with "nope, sorry, sold out," Mr. Geniality and I will recover a bunch of our currently eaten time. We should also have a temp assistant starting on Tuesday, which will also help relieve some of the load since they can take care of a lot of paperwork processing, routine phone calls, and apartment staging. Which means I will FINALLY have time to construct and update some spreadsheets that have been languishing for a while, and resume my attempt to untangle the disaster that is our inherited apartment key organization (utter-lack-of) system. *sigh*

But anyway, enough of that. MY THREE DAY WEEKEND AWAITS!
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[personal profile] godoflaundrybaskets made a podfic of What's in a Name?, which is a ficlet I wrote a few days ago for the Three Sentence Ficathon 2021:

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[Podfic] What's in a Name? (42 words) by GoLBPodfics
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amena & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Amena (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Gender, gendered nicknames, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes

Summary: "Do you mind me calling you Third Mom?" Amena said abruptly.

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Go! Listen! Comment!
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A very belated rec for my two NFE gifts, both of which involve the mysterious Mrs. Lefay!

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First, the one that was written just for me:

Third Time's the Charm (4186 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mrs. Lefay (Narnia), Andrew Ketterley
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Fairy Tale Style

Summary: To be a fairy godmother is a heavy responsibility, especially in an era when science is taking over from magic.

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And then the one that is a shared gift for me and for [archiveofourown.org profile] WingedFlight:

The Ladies' Spellcasting, Divining and Sorceress Hunting Society (5856 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Jill Pole, Letitia "Letty" Ketterley, Polly Plummer, Mrs. Lefay, Digory Kirke
Additional Tags: Magic, Treat, maybe background f/f

Summary: The Ladies' Spellcasting, Divining and Sorceress Hunting Society has a new recruit.

"I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien on Fairy-stories

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Go! Read! Enjoy! Leave feedback! :DDD
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The Narnia Fic Exchange 2020 is live! Go forth to read, enjoy, and praise the writers. :)

I will make a post about my own two (!!!) gifts a bit later, after I have managed to comment on them (all I've done so far is leave kudos because I think I used up all my words yesterday in an intensive writing session, blargh) but for now, if you wrote one of them and happen to be reading my journal, please know that I love them and will say so at greater length and more coherently tomorrow. ♥
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I left a few more prompts over at the current Three Sentence Ficathon post, and two of them have been filled -- twice, each. An embarrassment of riches!

For Any, any, Come, my friends, / 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
-----a meta fill, by [personal profile] runespoor
-----a Doctor Who fill, by anonymous

For Any, any, "Both?" "Both is good."
-----a Fire Emblem Three Houses fill, by [personal profile] runespoor
-----a Naruto fill, by [personal profile] kalira

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