state of mind

[fahye]

1) I've totally lost track of who knows about this (the people I email? probably twitter??) but: I'm buying an apartment! It's a tiny one-bedroom place, buying off the plan, won't be ready to move into for at least another year. But it will be MINE, and it will be brand new, and the location is one that I didn't expect I'd be able to afford. Adulthood, Jesus Christ. I'm going to have a mortgage.

2) I listened to the 'Internet friendship' episode of slashreport and I'm having a horrible fit of longing and self-pity about how much I miss hanging out with fangirls. I love my RL friends, but none of the ones I am in close proximity to are fannish at all. It was wonderful to hang out with people in the US last year -- even though by the time I ran into most of the Boston people I was in the midst of a severe introvert reaction and barely holding it together sociability-wise, SORRY -- and I am really sick of not having fannish friends on my CONTINENT, let alone in my city. I keep wondering if I should move to somewhere like Melbourne where I know a handful of fannish people and would be able to stumble across plenty more, but, well, a) incipient mortgage and b) work.

2a) How the fuck do people make friends on Tumblr? I DON'T GET IT. Which is a pity, because the Hannibal fandom seems 99% Tumblr-based (with the exception of the kink meme) and also full of cool people. How...do...connect??

2b) Dreamwidth, let's be friends. GROUP HUG. LEAVE A COMMENT.

3) I'm really liking my GP placement at the moment. I'm interviewing for the training program next weekend and am feeling very positive about it as a career path, especially considering the fact that it's easy to subspecialise as a GP in the two areas I like best (mental health and women's sexual/reproductive health).

3a) So many fucking adorable babies in clinic this week. "Yes, I must hold your child on my lap. It is important for...medical reasons. AREN'T YOU AN ADORABLE BALL OF GERMS, YES YOU ARE."

3b) How I have not yet come down with every virus under the sun, I have no idea.

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[surexit]

GROUP HUG.

YAY ADORABLE CHILDREN.

[fahye]

I love other people's babies so much. Still not convinced I want any of my own, but this is an improvement from the time when other people's babies made me want to run in the opposite direction.

There is one kid who bursts into tears whenever he sees me or my stethoscope, and tries to kick my fingers into mush, but I'm choosing not to take that personally.

[highlyeccentric]

HELLO FAHYE! I bought fancy boots, I think you would appreciate the fanciness of my boots.

Also I am moving to Geneva.

[fahye]

I ALWAYS appreciate fancy boots. Do you have pictures?

That makes two of my fandom-related RL friends who have decided to move from Sydney to Geneva. CONSPIRACY.

[highlyeccentric]

These ones, which are less chunky IRL than on the website.

I got a job there! I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise.

[fahye]

Ooooh. If I could buy most of the shoes that Diana Ferrari put out, I would -- there are a couple for sale on their website at the moment that I am having to slap myself down from buying with internal shouts of MORTGAGE!!

Like these ones.

Yeah, that seems to be why people move there. And then they stay for the chocolate and the exciting weekend trips to every European city imaginable :D

[genarti]

GROUP HUG! I am having similar woes in regards to Les Mis fandom. I have made a couple of tumblr friends, but it's mostly been via talking in other mediums on other websites while simultaneously following each other's tumblrs... There's so much good content on tumblr, and I hate the entire interface so much. Sigh.

YAY APARTMENT. A tiny adorable place all your own sounds completely marvelous. Mortgage and all.

[aria]

GROUP HUG

I would be so delighted to see you at such time as you return to Boston. <333

[happydork]

HELLO HELLO HI! *squishes you*

[jothra]

YOU should move to Boston. Or at least come visit again. >_>

There are even more of us here now!

I am glad to hear your apartment news, that is delightful. I have my first real one now, it is very exciting!

[highlyeccentric]

Is your formerly-australia-based friend someone i ought to know or who would like to know me, you think?

[fahye]

Yes to both! It's leareth, go poke her for advice on being an Aussie expat in Geneva.

[fahye]

Yeah, I wish there was an easier way for direct communication than direct messaging or reblogging -- the one seems too personal and the other too IMpersonal.

[fahye]

I am sure I will return at some point in the future, and maybe I will even be capable of holding down my end of a conversation <3

[fahye]

HIIIIII

I am so glad you're still using this site regularly, I like being updated about your life.

[fahye]

I did love Boston, and if I were moving to the US it'd be at the top of my list. But unfortunately medicine is one of those professions that is surprisingly difficult to move with, given the enormous headaches of exams and hoop-jumping that registration in another country would require.

I'll just have to come back again, yes :D

[jothra]

I figured that was probably the case, alas.

But yes, visiting!!

[wakeupnew]

GROUP HUGS!!!! and also what Jo said

[fahye]

Huuugs. I was very sad to miss you by a slim margin! I don't know that I will be back any time soon, either, because of time and money :( I can't just spend a few hundred dollars and take a long weekend. DAMMIT AUSTRALIA.