Salon post: August 3

[jenett]

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Topic of the week
My brain, the last couple of days, has been heavily stuck on remembering Alternity, the massive but massive project alternate universe Harry Potter project that ate nearly 7 years of my life. (You also get a relevant icon, one of many I made during that time. Glad to explain this one in comments, but it involves spoilers for Year 1)

(Specifically, for those familiar, my brain has been Siz missing Tosha, which once I actually looked at the dates made sense: August 1 is the day in year 7 when she both killed Rookwood and Tosha was temporarily dead.)

Anyway, that seems to make an interesting question "What do you do when a project lingers with you, or an experience, or a period in your life?" What do you like about that? What is harder? What helps? What projects or experiences have been like that for you?

What I've been up to
It is horrifically hot and humid around here, so not all that much? Even doing my daily word count has been pretty dire.

(Ok, so that involved dinner with friends on Tuesday, and the last of my allergy shot buildup shots on Wednesday, so there were some things in there.)


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[longstrider]

What was it with you and my characters deaths :-p

The summer camp I went to for three years and worked at for another three still lingers with me. Every time summer weather comes around, I ache to be back at Thoreau-in-Vermont and deeply regret the circumstances that mean my children will not get to go there. Even if they are in a place where sleepaway camp makes sense and we find a good one it will not be TIV. It's the place that taught me that my peers were not all horrible monsters. It was a place outside of my immediate family (even if run by my aunt and uncle) and meeting that focused on non-violence and social justice helping remind me that there were people in the wider world that believed as I was raised.

[jenett]

I am still delighted you permitted me Rookwood. Things I hadn't thought would work out. (Well, not Rookwood specifically, but that particular response.)

That's a really wonderful memory, and yeah, that's a thing that you can't replace, and nowhere else is quite the same, even if other thigns are good.

[jazzyjj]

Chiming in a bit late here. But I think one memory for me that still lingers--a positive one--is my days as a "floating" receptionist at a local nonprofit that is now defunct I'm sorry to say. But my co-workers and bosses were all great. Actually one of my bosses went to school with me back in junior high. He helped me out a lot in Spanish class, and then ironically our paths didn't cross again until 1999. I was sitting at home one day watching a movie. I was still living with my parents at the time. The phone rang, and I picked it up. On the other end was my boss friend from junior high. He asked if I would go out to lunch with him, and he even offered to pick me up and drive me home at the end of the day. So I accepted his offer, since we hadn't talked for years. After lunch, he asked me to come run a small errand with him. It turned out that he had to drop by his office and pick up some T-shirts for an event they were having. It was there that I met his boss, and we immediately hit it off. Long story short, I began volunteering in that office and then they started paying me. That was truly a fun job for me.

[jenett]

That's great that you were able to reconnect!

[stormyhearted]

Ohhh, I so miss reading Siz and Tosha.

Though I was just a reader, Alternity definitely lingered with me; I became accustomed to checking for new content, theorizing with others (not so much in alt-fen, because of my lurker tendencies), and really enjoying the twists and turns and alternate perspectives. It took me several months to stop opening the tab for new posts!

[jenett]

Oh, it took me months, too. (Even *after* moving the bookmark out of my immediate toolbar.)