In the works

I got a bank statement this week that said 500 dollars had been taken out of my account last week. Automatically, I had a minor freak out that somehow, somebody had found out my information and gotten into my account. When mom got home, I showed her the statement, and immediately I knew. It was her. She took 500 bucks out of my account without asking in the hopes that she could put it back in before I noticed. Aagh. I get that our money situation isn't great, and I don't have a job, but damn, she could have asked.

I've got a couple things in the works that I'm going to need money to complete, least of all that I've been saving up for a nice new laptop that doesn't have bits falling off of it. (Seriously, one of the hinges is damaged, and a few minutes ago, a bit of plastic came out of the spot where the power cord goes. That can't be good.)

One project I'm thinking about involves screen printing t-shirts. I've made up a couple of designs (most of them geeky in a Doctor Who or Red Dwarf sort of way - or just geeky). First of all, I'd like to see if I can make them look nice, and secondly I'd like to see if setting up an Etsy or something for my geeky wares sounds like a good idea.

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People were staring at me on Thursday. Two cars honked while passing me on the street. This is not normal, and I am trying to account for it without much success. I was wearing jeans with a pink t-shirt, black tank, and black vest over the top. None of this was revealing in any way. I had my hair back in a ponytail. I did my make-up. There was nothing especially out of order about it.

Possibilities:
1) I was self-conscious about wearing something I would have usually worn with a jacket, or something else over the top, so I was more likely to notice when someone looked at me.
2) There was something off about me that people were drawn to look at, but which I didn't notice.
3) There was a quantum leak in the multilayered "attention field", which caused it to shift, momentarily, to bring focus on me.
4) Inexplicably, I looked nice.

...I think I'm going with #3.

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Oh, also, I've written Red Dwarf fic...but not the one I mentioned working on before. It's over here at reddwarfslash  if you'd like to read it (though it's not particularly slashy, more of a character study).