Spinning on that dizzy edge

I've reached critical mass on links I feel need to be shared. (Hat tip to karmageddon, siria, and umadoshi, and anyone else I've filched these from.)

Remember that massive Metafilter thread on emotional labor? Olivia K. Lima posted a PDF putting it all together. (Very long - it will eat lots of time reading through it.)

Did you know that HP laptops may be logging every keystroke? Yikes!

It's a little bit woo, but also great food for thought: 5 Self-Care Strategies That Aren’t Fucking Mani-Pedis

It's probably not news that conservative voters have an irrational attachment to the just world hypothesis. I wish this article had actual advice to counteract it, but just calling it out is a step in the right direction: The 'pro-life' party has become the party of death: New research on why Republicans hate poor and sick people

"The Snarling Girl" By Elisa Albert, Notes on—and against—ambition. I feel like I could spend hours trying to unravel all the emotions and realizations that this essay prompted in me. I am not ambitious at all, but I have a dim recollection of maybe feeling that way when I was younger. Where did it go? Do I miss that feeling? So much to chew on.

For a palate cleanser, have a goofy animation of the history of the world.

Similarly, Chris Evans reads a kids' book about superheroes. Bless that soft bro loaf.

If cleanliness is next to Godliness, and Zenliness is next to mindfulness, then I am spiritually bankrupt. *sigh*

I finally got the last of the Christmas crap packed up and put away this past weekend, way past overdue. I never got holiday cards sent out, I baked zero cookies, and I got all of two ornaments hung on the Space Battle tree, so why it took me so long to undo it all, I have no idea. It feels so good to have it done; every time I walk by the living room, I breathe a sigh of relief. The rest of the house is still drowning in clutter, though, try as I might to dig our way out.

I have been distracted at work for months. Depression, sleep debts, SAD, family issues, health issues - all I've wanted to do at work is surf the AO3 for fic and nurse my new crush on Chris Evans. (I blame his role as Jensen in "The Losers", because I am an absolute sucker for smartasses in glasses.) Seriously, if you ever want to pimp me into a fandom, tell me there's a tall guy who has short mousy brown hair, maybe a little bit of facial scruff, blue or green eyes, and is fucking brilliant on or offscreen, glasses a bonus, and I will curse you even as I download that shit as fast as I can. (David Hewlett, Tahmoh Penikett, Sean Murray, Chris Pine, Ben Browder...damn your stupid faces.)

At least I got my Festivids entry done (a Jake 2.0 vid! Go watch it, eh?) to the happiness of the recipient. I also wrote a last-minute entry in the Losers fic Scramble (created for kate in a feverish 3-hour binge two Fridays ago). It's my first A03 offering; now I really should post the rest of my stuff, I suppose.

Tomorrow's Friday, right? Weekends are where I'm a Viking. In my sleep, doncha know.