The Life and Times of a Caffeine Addict

Title: Cicer Arietinum Interruptus
Fandom: Ghostbusters (movie/comic-verse)
Warnings: Unedited, raw WIP; also, spoilers for the latest issue of the comic.
Rating: G
Characters: Egon, Janine (hints at pre-Egon/Janine)

Fic be after the jump.

I've been busy, with a lot of things.

John and I joined a different Pagan denomination (more on that in a separate post) and there is homework and required reading and experience-logging to do, and meeting with people to ritualize and drink... LOL. But the people are lovely and we always look forward to spending more time with them.

Work has also been crazy up until it dwindled this week, due to the Holidays.

But I've been writing and plotting a multi-chapter fan fiction, and bweeeee! I'm excited. I have a fairly concrete outline for some of the things, and yeah, it's going good. I'm still excited about writing it after I get some of it down in a document. I'll explain more about it in another post, because my lunch is almost over.

:D

If someone wants to watch a replay of me playing roughly 50 minutes of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, with my French Canadian accent, and whining at the bits I don't like, and talking to John and replying to stuff people said in chat but that I couldn't see... Go here.

*sigh* I've taken to writing and not finishing stuff again. I have so many WiPs I don't know what to do with them, or myself. Some are even multi-chapter.

I feel like grabbing and shaking myself yelling: "Finish what you start, woman!" XD

So...

We have three more issues of Ghostbusters: Get Real coming (the movieverse/Real Ghostbusters crossover).

Next, we're getting a Ghostbusters Annual comic in the fall.

Burnham is working on an "Abridged" Tobin's Spirit Guide with Kyle Hotz (who penciled and inked Ghostbusters: Infestation) with Insight Editions (looks like the publisher will have more than one Ghostbusters-related product coming, including something on the history of the franchise, whether that is history of the Ghostbusters as a fictional business, or of the franchise as a whole, I have no clue). I'm not sure if Hotz will be illustrating, since he's also a writer, so he may well be co-writing it with Burnham. I would have preferred Tristan Jones as artist, because his stuff is deliciously creepy and eerie. But if Hotz pencils and inks, it should be pretty good, as he can also do creepy pretty well.

And, finally...

*drumroll*

IDW Ghostbusters Ongoing, Volume 3, Status: CONFIRMED! Coming in 2016!!! *happy dance* I actually screamed out loud when I saw Erik Burnham's tweet.

That is not counting the new movie, which, I know, opinions are divided on. I'm excited and refuse to judge it until I've seen the final product. I like the looks of what I am seeing, so far. I like the cast, how they look, how the equipment looks (different, but neat in its own way), how the costumes look. I can't wait until we have a trailer, to start being able to gauge things, while hopefully still having surprises in the movie. I've watched some bystander videos and I've been spoiled for a few things, if they make the final cut, but I'll be hush-hush on here unless something really exciting comes up, then I'll put it under a cut.

But we ran out of boxes, so we wound up unpacking some stuff, then doing multiple runs back and forth between the old place and the new, which lasted until Wednesday (good thing too, because even though I paid Canada Post to forward my mail, a package we were waiting for was delivered to the old place THAT day when we were almost on our way out for the last time, I should call and yell at Canada Post for that).

So now we're pretty much done with the old place. Just need to turn in my keys, but I have until the end of the month for that.

The place is still a mess because due to the running around for half the week, we didn't exactly feel like unpacking aside from the stuff that needed to be so we could use those boxes. It's been an exhausting "vacation" week, to say the least. I'm almost going to be glad to go back to work. Today we're chilling, until we get to go pick John's friend up at his work at the airport, then going to lunch with him, before driving home, then it's going to be laundry, and unpacking stuff until bed time (punctuated with breaks for food, but we have enough Haitian rice and beans to feed an army right now).

Charlie-bird is acclimating pretty well, mind you, as long as I'm there, she knows she isn't being abandoned, so that helps, but I'm not sure how she'll react to the first work week.

This place is definitely smaller than the old one, and we may have to continue purging in the weeks and months to come. Oh, well, we have too much stuff anywyay.

Speaking of stuff, our first piece of "mail" here, aside from the confirmation of change of address from Canada Post, was a food processor John ordered with our Air Miles points, and it's AMAZING. We've already made coleslaw twice with it (in seconds, holy crap!) and soft-serve frozen yogurt from yogurt and frozen fruit that was deliciously tart. OMNOMNOM.

Our second pieces of mail was a fanzine I had a little Egon/Janine fluff thing published in, along with the change-of-address sticker for my driver's license.

Three more nights left before we officially move.

John is taking Friday off in order to finish packing odds and ends we've been using this week and need to pack by Saturday.

John's brother, Brian, and his work friend (who both work for a moving company) are still currently scheduled to come by around dinnertime to move us. This may change, if they're available earlier. The work friend doesn't work Saturday and Brian might, but it's not sure yet. If not, we pick up the truck at 2pm, and they can start moving us right away, which means we should be done by about 6pm or 7pm at the latest.

And next week, John and I are on vacation, so we can take our time unpacking and whatnot.

Temperatures reached 22 Celsius yesterday. And the heat in both our apartment building and the building where I work are still on.

As a result, we are currently boiling in this office.

Like, I am covered in sweat and not feeling all that great (I deal poorly with heat, especially with little to no breeze).

Ugh, I already feel like I need a new shower.

:(