I don't always mention my birthday, and I usually don't bother mentioning when I'm going to be away (I always come back), but I figure doing both at the same time is reasonable.

So hey, I'm 29 today. I'm probably gonna go get myself a haircut. Whee! (Yeah, nobody cares about 29. Feel free to save your givvadams for next year. ^_~ )

Also, I'm not going to be around much this month. I've got a long vacation coming up for the 21st-28th, and between now and then I've got a lot of things to do—transitioning to a new phone and a new laptop being among my top priorities. There's also the usual: the job, where I've recently gained new responsibilities; daily tasks like feeding myself (would anyone else gladly give up food if they could, just to save the time of shopping, cooking, face-stuffing, and dishes?); expectations of people to interact with them and maybe even do the occasional favor, like we're friends or something; and trying to get some writing done in between. I'm swamped.

Finally, just to give this post one more reason to exist, I made an interesting discovery last night. Well, it's interesting to me. While I was saving mulberry's spin-off, "Clan of the Cactus," I decided to take a peek at the reviews. To my utter surprise, I found one that I myself had left on chapter 4, dated June 3, 2003. I was 17, with 18 just around the corner. This is the earliest evidence of my PPC involvement that I'm aware of, and I describe myself as "a follower of the PPC" and "PPC supporter," "not an employee yet."

Later, in August 2003, the Oddlots PPC bulletin board would be updated with a post about a bad Farscape fic, and that would spur me to my first mission-writing attempt, with Artemis (the first one) as my co-writer. That's been my only reference point for when I joined for years. Now I know I must've found the PPC prior to June 2003. I can't tell how much prior, but it's nice to be able to definitively place myself on a solid point in time, even if it's not the exact date of discovery.

And, it made me realize I should save the reviews on PPC spin-offs when possible, to preserve the valuable data of names, dates, and context there, so that's what I'm gonna do. {= )

~Neshomeh