inventory

Four things I am not handling especially graciously or gracefully right now:
(1) raging yeast infection
(2) rampaging guilt gorillas
(3) clutter and disruption of routines resulting from current work on my kitchen and bathroom
(4) imminent deadlines of various stripes

Four things that amused me tonight:
(1) my husband pouting because the Think Geek package was addressed to me, not him (thank you Dichroic!)
(2) Helvetica screening at the library, and the conversations afterwards
(3) a line in my own fic. That's a good feeling...
(4) chatting with the co-owner of my favorite bar about dealing with enemies

Four fics I've recently enjoyed:
( potential spoiler for Buffy the Vampire Slayer under the cut )

very quick bpal note

Guy in elevator, after several odd looks: What are you wearing?
Me: Beg pardon?
Guy: What perfume are you wearing?
Me: Uhm, something by BPAL.
Guy: It smells FANTASTIC.

For my reference, I'd dabbed on the dregs from a bottle of Nanny Ashtoreth I'd gotten secondhand as an empty. Lab description:

She wore a knit tweed suit and discreet pearl earrings. Something about her might have said nanny, but it said it in an undertone of the sort employed by British butlers in a certain type of American film. It also coughed discreetly and muttered that she could well be the sort of nanny who advertises unspecified but strangely explicit services in certain magazines.

Middle Eastern flowers, amber, honey, blood red-berries, whip leather, and polished paddle wood.