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jazzfishRight, Thanksgiving. I would have done this on the proper day except I was busy having my brain rearranged. May as well stick to the US schedule for one more year.
I'm thankful for #VPXV. For the experience itself, of course, but also for the reminder / reinforcement /reprogramming that writing stories is What I Do. And for the community, for the twenty-seven other writers and eight and a half instructors and uncounted staff, many of whose chatterings I can keep up with on a daily basis thanks to Twitter. ("Thankful for Twitter" being one of those things I never, ever, thought I'd say.)
I'm thankful that I got to go back to DC a couple weeks ago and see an awful lot of good friends. I'm thankful that I know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vvalkyri, who is a fantastic native guide. (Seriously, if she ever says "it's right around here, and it's neat," take the few minutes to go see whatever it is. The old Greyhound station on New York Avenue has been refurbished into this spectacular 1930s art-deco museum thing, and I would never have known.) I'm overwhelmed and thankful that there were two dozen people willing to give up their Saturday morning to come have dim sum with us, including two who came down from Philly.
I'm thankful that I could go down to Seattle for the VNV concert last night. That's a combination of 'have the money to do so,' 'have a job that's flexible enough that it doesn't mind me being late to work this morning,' and 'have a partner who's supportive of my efforts to meet cute chicks on the internet.' Incidentally, both the concert and J-- from Seattle were pretty cool.
I'm thankful that I get to live in Vancouver, which seems to be the perfect city for me even if right now the rain is falling sideways, and I'm deeply thankful that I get to live here withuilos, who just made a dozen jars of salsa verde.
Life is, overall, pretty decent. Except that now I have to go return the rental car, in the sideways rain.
I'm thankful for #VPXV. For the experience itself, of course, but also for the reminder / reinforcement /reprogramming that writing stories is What I Do. And for the community, for the twenty-seven other writers and eight and a half instructors and uncounted staff, many of whose chatterings I can keep up with on a daily basis thanks to Twitter. ("Thankful for Twitter" being one of those things I never, ever, thought I'd say.)
I'm thankful that I got to go back to DC a couple weeks ago and see an awful lot of good friends. I'm thankful that I know
vvalkyri, who is a fantastic native guide. (Seriously, if she ever says "it's right around here, and it's neat," take the few minutes to go see whatever it is. The old Greyhound station on New York Avenue has been refurbished into this spectacular 1930s art-deco museum thing, and I would never have known.) I'm overwhelmed and thankful that there were two dozen people willing to give up their Saturday morning to come have dim sum with us, including two who came down from Philly.I'm thankful that I could go down to Seattle for the VNV concert last night. That's a combination of 'have the money to do so,' 'have a job that's flexible enough that it doesn't mind me being late to work this morning,' and 'have a partner who's supportive of my efforts to meet cute chicks on the internet.' Incidentally, both the concert and J-- from Seattle were pretty cool.
I'm thankful that I get to live in Vancouver, which seems to be the perfect city for me even if right now the rain is falling sideways, and I'm deeply thankful that I get to live here with
uilos, who just made a dozen jars of salsa verde.Life is, overall, pretty decent. Except that now I have to go return the rental car, in the sideways rain.
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