asato_muraki | Hopefully, today will be a day for the writing

Finally we have some Star Wars stuff up on GC!

abrynne's post, Star Wars The Old Republic - It's a Big Universe Out There" touches on the annoying fact that much of the Star Wars extended universe is more narratively satisfying than some of Star Wars films. *sigh* But we love them anyway.

Also, I realized the Forum was set to show only the first ten posts of any topic. *headdesk, repeatedly* I fixed it easily enough, and only three posts (not counting my repeated attempts to make a single post show up) had been hidden, so hopefully no one was miffed.

Heh.

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Now to get to the Five Words Meme:

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" in the comments and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

Here are my five words as provided by

narniadear:

Sons My sweet little fellas. I do talk about them a lot. :) The fact of the matter is that I love my boys. I orbit around them and they orbit around me. We have fun, and sometimes drive each other insane. There's nothing I wouldn't do for them. I discovered when Big Boy was a tiny baby that I was capable of primal violence in his defense. It was the most amazing thing. I freaked out when I had to take him for his shots. Not in a hysterical way, but still. I was pacing and clenching my fists, full of the most amazing adrenaline rush, and the urge to body check the nurse (a woman I quite liked) away from him when I saw the needle go in and heard him cry. Call it maternal instinct, I guess. It was the most amazing urge I'd ever had, and the most violent.

I'm protective of my babies, and proud of them. I'm also very glad I have them in my life, despite the anxiety I may have for their futures. It's an amazing to thing to look in your children's faces and see traces of all the people you've ever loved looking back at you. And yet, they are unique and loved in their own right.

Writing I talk a lot about writing, and a do a lot of it, too. It's kind of a compulsion for me, as I believe it was for my father. I already had a stack of filled journals when he died and we found his stash of filled journals. That was when I decided I was going to write something that people would read, if I had to write (and by then I knew I did). Not much to say about it today, for some reason. I have a lot of it to do today. Maybe that's it.

internet The internet saved me once. We'd just moved to a new place, I'd left my career and friends behind, and I was lost in the care of two small children. I reached out and found new friends, many of whom are a part of GeekaChicas now. I feel blessed to know them, because without the internt, I would not have. Not even my very best friend. Go figure.

Wife Yep, that's me! I'm a lucky woman. When I was younger, I used to congratulate myself on being so smart in my choice of mate, but now I realize, while I may have been smart, I was also very, very lucky. I didn't know I was capable of such intense attachment to anyone, and I don't know how I could have dealt with it, had I attached this profoundly to someone unworthy. It happens, and it could have happened to me. Instead I have a man who stuck with me through the hell of post partum depression, a man whose every action in tis life is for our future and for our family. Love seems almost like a right when you're young. To still have it at my age, though, you realize it can't be anything but a gift.

fandom Hee! This one suits me,too. My explorations of fandom have been limited mostly to the ghettos of my own interests, but I have been lucky there, too. I think I've been lucky to be a part of some of the least insane, most mature fandoms that are out there. Much like the internet in general, fandom has put me in touch with many fabulous people. Heck, I hosted smallish LOTR conventions, for crying out loud! So many wonderful people came into my life because of fannish glee, including most of my friends list and the majority of my real life friends. Fandom rocks.