| Poem for Saturday |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|12:43 am] |
( Grief )
I had a pretty quiet Friday -- visit to the post office with insanely long line and only two windows open, walk in the gorgeous chilly late fall woods with lots of squirrels gathering acorns for the winter, and writing my negative-to-scathing review of Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Perfect Mate". Plus lots of getting up to shoo cats off the heating vents -- there are three vents on the main level of the house and three cats, so I have to check the front window, under the desk, and the back window, and by the time I'm finished, whoever I booted out of the front window is already moving back. This is how I woke up this morning (photos by amused husband who couldn't convince the other woman to budge):
( Cold Cats )
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) thefridayfive: ( Seasons )
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fannish5: ( Wardrobe )
We watched our usual fall Friday lineup with football in between and after. Neither sci-fi show impressed me overmuch - big epic tragic stories leave me unimpressed these days, there are just too many of them, and I always expect reset buttons sooner or later. Smallville, at least, had some lovely lines and a guest star I had no idea about: ( squee! ) As for Sanctuary, I already saw ( spoilers. ) |
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| Brain dead, and CSA |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|08:51 pm] |
Okay, I'm in not too bad of shape with this assignment, I guess, unless I've woefully misinterpreted what it's supposed to do. The instructions were... terse. But my brain is seriously shutting down, so I'm going to quit working on it for tonight and come back in the morning.
CSA this week included: daikon, red radishes, turnips, a few little carrots, garlic, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, arugula, turnip greens (in addition to those on the turnips), dandelion greens, and purple beans. [Still around from previous weeks: cherry tomatoes, radishes, daikon, turnips, acorn squash, butternut squash, beets.] Turnip puree again, probably; cook some of the red radishes for SO; plain steamed beans; lettuce salad. I might turn the other greens into a tart (don't have that recipe online yet). I also have a recipe for shrimp with cherry tomatoes and feta (also not online) and have a pound of frozen shrimp, so maybe that (using last week's tomatoes, which are now about ripe).
Other than that... Taught classes. Got prep done for Monday for both classes. Had a meeting. Dealt with work email. Dictated about 800 words each on two different fics; one for a fest, the other DD. Played some with Juno.
Now waiting for SO to get home. He'd indicated he was going to try to get home early tonight, but that didn't happen; he decided he really needed to work out since he hadn't all week. Okay, fair enough, and I worked on the assignment meantime. But if he doesn't get back soon, we probably can't have our Friday night date since restaurants around here close pretty dang early even on weekends. So we'll see. There are some leftovers if we end up not doing anything tonight. |
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| Patriotism Meme |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|01:54 pm] |
No writing on the horizon for today or tomorrow I don't think. May try to write a rough of my Kinky Xmas on Sunday though.
Meme seen on persevero's LJ.
( Patriotism Meme ) |
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| Happy birthday! |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|07:53 am] |
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| Poem for Friday |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|12:39 am] |
( Sonnet for Caesar )
I spent a very nice afternoon with gblvr, who came over (and even provided her own sushi because I am a terrible hostess) and brought the first season of Leverage. The first time I ever saw Arrested Development, I shrieked because one of the series creators is a boy I went through elementary school with, and I had a similar experience in that one of the creators and writers of Leverage is the guy who was the editor of 34th Street, the weekly magazine of The Daily Pennsylvanian, which is where Paul and I met. I feel that I am probably therefore too biased to evaluate the series intelligently, but I will say that the three episodes we watched were extremely entertaining, especially the comic wedding story our former editor wrote.
( Frederick County Bridges )
As for evening TV, I had read some information about the novel upon which FlashForward is based that gave me an inkling what this week's big shocker would be -- ( spoilers. ) Then I did something I never did before: watched a full episode of Supernatural! I'd read spoilers about the format of the episode and figured that might make it worthwhile, plus I had to review one of my least-favorite Next Gen episodes, "The Perfect Mate," afterward so I figured that even if SPN was as sexist as I've often been warned, it would only help give me perspective. ( Spoilers. ) |
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| Where did the day go? |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|07:05 pm] |
Did not get nearly as much done, work-wise, as I hoped. More household/personal stuff.
( Done dids: )
![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 3fan_holidays will be running once again! This is the small ficlet fest I mod, now in its fifth year. Wow. It's a low-commitment, very friendly little exchange; participants only have to write as few as 100 words (up to 2000 max), in one of three fandoms: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Pirates of the Caribbean. You don't have to be familiar with more than one, and you can request fic in a fandom you're not comfortable writing. Go here for the info/signup post, and spread the word!
Finally finished and posted the next installment of HotM. I need to edit/submit a fest fic, finish another (which is becoming rather longer than I thought initially), and start on December's DD. Phew. Then there'll be Yuletide fic to write, too, and 3fan. Clearly my sanity is, hm, marginal when it comes to all this.
- Worse Things to Do [Kirk/McCoy, adult]: The last night that he and McCoy are in Atlanta, Kirk finally meets Jocelyn. Here at IJ.
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| Drabble: Send a Message, PG, Severus/Harry |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|04:17 pm] |
Title: Send a Message
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
snarry100 Challenge 187: Methods of Communication
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: *waves*
( Send a Message ) |
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| *vbg* |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|02:07 pm] |
Oh, a very good day indeed!
I emailed in my mini_fest fic finally (I've had it done for at least a week).
I proof-read gryffindorj's hp_yule_balls draft and she's looking at my snarry_holidays for me.
I deleted over 300 words from my severusbigbang fic but added at least that much again.
And gryffindorj and I are working on a collab for severusbigbang and it's really taken off! (Thanks to her mostly.)
Actual word count for me so far today is near 600 words but it feels like more. :D
I might have had a bit too much caffeine as well.
Oh, and Minxie? Halloween candy is the work of the devil. Pat Robertson was right. ;) |
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| Poem for Thursday |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|12:40 am] |
( Southeast of Eden )
I had a spectacularly uneventful Wednesday -- did a bunch of reading, worked on some job stuff, took a walk with a neighbor whom I've known for many years but only recently discovered has an amazing history (she grew up in Palestine, her mother taught Moshe Dayan, she fought in the Israeli war of independence). The county traffic lights are all screwed up because of a massive computer failure that has the lights all out of sync and I kept getting e-mails telling me that local roads were going to be clogged, so I stayed close to home.
I am depressed about a bunch of things from Election Day, but mostly I am infuriated at how the media -- even reporters who should know better -- are trying to spin two weak gubernatorial candidates as a referendum on Obama, and not even talking about the places where the Democrats made gains. Yes, the Maine vote is very disappointing, but as in California with Prop 8, it was very close and involved lots of money from a relatively small group of bigots...the numbers are shifting in the right direction even if it's not as quickly as they should.
( On Catoctin )
We started to watch the World Series and yet again disliked the way it was going early on -- plus we cannot stand the Fox announcers -- so we put on the third episode of the current season of Merlin, which I liked because it had lots of Morgana, but did not like because it was lots of shrieking, sniveling Morgana instead of the one whom Uther says never ran away from anything in her life -- if only Uther were in charge of her storylines. (And if only the Druids had anything to do with, you know, Druids, but that's a whole different rant.)
It's no Witches of Eastwick, which remains my favorite show of the new season, though it still hasn't been picked up for the season (and this being ABC, I am betting they pull a Pushing Daisies and don't actually cancel it but don't pick up the back end of the season, leaving it hanging). For once I felt like all three women's storylines were balanced, and I really liked what was going on with Joanna! ( Spoilers. ) |
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| Dear Yuletide writer... |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
Signed up for Yuletide! At the time of my sign-up, no one else had either requested or offered any of the four fandoms I picked. *holding thumbs* They are:
Anne Perry - Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series - Charlotte Pitt
Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah - Sime/Gen series - any characters
Norah Lofts - The Maude Reed Tale - any characters
Rumer Godden - Thursday's Children - Doone Penny, Ruth Sherrin
I'm actually posting this before I complete the sign-up, so I can put a link to it there. (And cross-posting just 'cause I always do, and besides, maybe some of my f-list will be interested.)
( Dear Yuletide writer, I've been a very good girl this year... ) |
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| Because clearly I love lists |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|05:18 pm] |
( Although this is a short one )
Also, yay! My gift in the fall_fantasia exchange was posted yesterday! It's called "Unveiled," and is Draco/Sirius with a side of Severus/Harry. Postwar and PG, and I enjoyed it very much. |
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| Because Eey says so . . . |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|03:19 pm] |
Here's a post from me, too!
I actually got a nice chunk of fic written today but somehow I've lost track of what number of words I started with. I am working from an edited doc and I looked at the word count when I started but didn't write it down or anything. I know I wrote somewhere between 500 and 1000 today at any rate. Progress! |
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| *Squee* |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|07:35 am] |
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FFBB has begun posting on DW, mine is first and is followed by beautiful art for my fic. I've never had any art offered for any fic I've written. This is also my first Firefly fic, so I'm doubly excited. Please to click on the links if you're so inclined. :) |
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| Poem for Wednesday |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|12:33 am] |
( November Philosophers )
I spent a lovely day with melissaukgirl, who drove down from Columbia for what was supposed to be lunch out but ended up being an afternoon at Great Falls, a quick lunch at my house and then Voyager's "The 37s" and Due South's "Odds" (the hand-holding episode, as starfishchick says). I haven't watched any Voyager in half a decade and was startled by two things: how stiff the acting seemed and much I love the Janeway/Chakotay scenes, still, in spite of everything. Also, I still have very great affection for Sharon Lawrence's Amelia Earhart. The actor who played Fred Noonan, David Graf, died quite young of a heart attack, so the episode is kind of sad-nostalgic all around. By then we had realized that traffic was going to be terrible so I told melissaukgirl to stay for dinner and she got to listen to my kids go on about politics and Spore.
( November at Great Falls )
In the evening my family watched the pilot of V, which was okay yet not particularly good -- decently acted and fun to see a bunch of familiar actors, but predictable and slow to get going. Then we watched The Universe's "Science Fiction, Science Fact," which was a lot of fun in that it had many Star Trek clips (including a diatribe about the scientific implausibility of the destruction of a certain planet in the reboot, heh), plus interviews with Trek's onetime science adviser Andre Bormanis and BSG's Kevin Grazier, who had the best line of the night talking about communicators and noting that our cell phones have more technology than Star Trek's communicator had: "I mean, did you ever see Mr. Spock playing Tetris?"
At 10 we reluctantly put on the news, having already received e-mail alerts with expected bad news about the Virginia gubernatorial race. We watched as they called New Jersey for Christie, took some comfort from the fact that the Democrat had a healthy lead in the NY 23rd Congressional District race, realized that the Maine vote on gay marriage wasn't going to be tallied any time soon and put on Comcast's very good classical channel before Jon Stewart. I hope I wake up to good news. |
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| FYI-notifications |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:35 pm] |
Notifications of comments seem to be coming intermittently to me. I missed several from this afternoon but received others. Might want to check your 'recent comments' just to see.
Anyone else notice a problem?
While I'm here . . . I added about 700 words to one of my fics plus I wrote a double drabble today, almost making up for writing nothing yesterday. Not quite making my 500 word a day goal but still making progress. |
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| Drabble: Bedfellows, PG, Severus/Harry |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|08:57 pm] |
Title: Bedfellows
Word Count: 100x2
Rating: PG
snarry100 Challenge 186: Sleeping Arrangements
Warning: MPREG
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: Unbeta'd. Adding to my day's word count with a drabble. :P
( Bedfellows ) |
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| The day so far |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|02:25 pm] |
( More lists )
Also, fall_fantasia has started posting; this is a small exchange, in which I am one of the participants. Since there are only ten people (one fic posted daily), I'm trying to make a real effort to read all the fics (unless there's something that squicks me, natch). The two posted so far have been most enjoyable. |
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| October Fic List |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:00 am] |
Here are the newest additions to the master list.
In the Beginning Severus/Harry, NC-17, 100 words
The Truth Will Out Severus/Harry, PG, 100 words
Sight Unseen Severus/Harry, PG, 200 words
Out of the Rain Severus/Harry, PG-13, 100 words
Playing Favourites Severus/Harry, Severus/Draco, R, 100 words
The Chosen One Severus/Harry, Draco, NC-17, 200 words
What's in a Name? Severus/Harry, G, 100 words
Harmonious Charlie/Kingsley, PG, 100 words
Symphony in 'O' Major Severus/Harry, R, 100 words
Meu PrÃncipe Severus/Harry, ~680 words
End of an Era Severus/Harry, G, 200 words
Heat Severus/Harry, NC-17, ~200 words
Seaworthy Severus/Harry, PG-13, ~300 words
Caught Severus/Remus, R, ~500 words
One More Time Severus/Harry, PG-13, ~200 words
All in the Family Charlie, Ron/(Hermione), R, ~1400 words, written for October's daily_deviant |
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| Poem for Tuesday |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|12:48 am] |
( Rimbaud's Kraken )
The kids had no school due to teacher's meetings on Monday, so we met my Paul's parents at the visitor center at Catoctin Mountain National Park. The leaves were a bit past peak but the weather could not have been more beautiful -- about 60 degrees with mostly clear skies -- so we hiked to two spectacular views at Hog Rock and Blue Ridge Summit Overlook. Then we drove to two of Frederick County's three remaining covered bridges, Loy's Station and Roddy Road, where there were more colorful leaves at the lower elevations. My in-laws took us out for dinner at the Cozy Inn, oldest continuously operating restaurant in Maryland run by the family that founded it, which regularly serves the staff at Camp David and has been visited by dozens of presidential visitors.
( Catoctin and Frederick )
We got home in time for Heroes, about which I have little to say (bored with traveling circus, fed up with history rewriting, no longer care about long-term regular characters, sick of resurrections of some first-season characters and rewritten backstories of others). Then we watched Monday Night Football, since Philly apparently plays better when we don't watch than when we do -- I am perfectly happy with the idea of the Saints as Super Bowl champions -- and Jon Stewart's team coverage of sports fans was a delightful ending to the evening. |
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exhausted
mellow
hopeful
hungry
will I ever not be busy?