Feel free to defriend me, anyone whom I don't know irl

I actually don't post here because I feel bad about cluttering other people's flists when I haven't been in JE fandom since I left for college/my rl JE fan friends. And then the more I don't post, the more I don't check my flist, and the more I don't check my flist, the more guilty I feel and the more I avoid everything. So, uh, unless you like random rants about children's lit/sherlock/rl, you can defriend me and my journal will return to its previous, frequent one-liner posts and general inanity.

Now that that's out of the way...
I don't want to leave my volunteer job. :( I'm an intern at a lab with a bunch of postdocs are married and foreigners, for some reason. This is kind of awesome because the postdoc I'm working with is british (so although our sense of humors don't match up at all and he probably thinks I'm kind of crazy, we still bond over the necessity of tea, etc) and sometimes gets texts from his wife that say things like "you left the cat in the cupboard all morning!" I feel reeeeeally bad because he's apparently trying to siphon off part of his salary and give it to me. ;_; I have been working 40 hours a week all summer, but really. He's, like, living an actual life and I can just mooch off of my parents. :(

XMEN. WHAT WAS THAT SHIT. I CRIED TWICE IN THE THEATRES AND ALMOST DID A THIRD TIME BUT WE WERE DOING A GAY DRINKING GAME IN THE THEATRES AND i AM A V HAPPY TIPSY/DRUNK. Like, I can't even say any more about this rn.

Reread the fandombnfs!Sherlock au and am v tempted to watch the Brett!Sherlock Holmes series, esp since it is live stream on Netflix. But do I even have time?

I went to comiccooonnnnnn and fjdkalf;jdl; the SPN cast are real people!! This is really all I can say, other than that this 8-year-old dressed as a weeping angel totally guilted the Dr Who writers by asking them when the doctor would regenerate as a woman (in front of 6,200 people. gotta love hall H.). I was seriously awesomed out.

Korea is such a lovely country to visit. I want to go there at least once a year. ;_;

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Ngl, it made me much much more sad when I finished the last Jane Austen book that I had left than when HP ended. Possibly this is because the books finished long ago, possibly it's because I'm surrounded by people that love it and talk about it openly, possibly it's because a big part of HP for me was fanon, and that will never end. But, like, Jane Austen's oeuvre (should be pluralized? not used at all?) is a thing that will never ever be added to and her writing style and protagonists make my brain feel instantly relaxed and it just really really sucks not to have any more as of a year or so ago when I finally caved and read Mansfield Park and regretted it. Why so trodden upon, Fanny?

Anyone know of any books similar to Austen that are not by a Bronte or depressing?