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| Monday, July 7th, 2008 | |
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008 |
whytraven
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06 July 2008 Public holidays mess up my already fragile grasp on what day it is. With a deadline fast approaching, I find myself in that peculiar holiday frame of mind which means I don’t do the things I should and spend more time playing.
JR is sick again. I don’t know what we are going to do. It’s probably the same problem as before, and likely the “best” solution would be to give him the surgery which changes his boy plumbing into girl plumbing, but it’s going to be hard to spend another $1500 to plump down on that, especially since it’s not a sure thing. (And yes, the last round of this stupid illness of his cost well over $2000 and led us to become disillusioned with three vets.)
It’s also very hard to see the poor cat lying around, listless and in pain. I also wish he would quit becoming sick at the weekend when the only vets available are exortionists. This cat who follows me, the feeding human, every time I go into the bathroom (where the food is served) has not eaten since yesterday lunchtime.
Read the rest of this entry » This was cross-posted from Raven's Range. You can comment here or there, but if you could bring yourself to comment there rather than here, that would be very nice.
Here's the link to comment over there |
antennapedia
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I often dream of trains when I'm awake. I'm going to go finish reading Bujold's latest Sharing Knife book in the bath, with Lush. Meanwhile, you can tell me what I'm going to do with myself this week. ( Yes, behind the cut it's a POLL. That never happens around here. )ETA: Now that I think about it, that really should have been "Chandleresque". Current Music: I Often Dream Of Trains : Robyn Hitchcock : I Often Dream Of Trains |
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Tag-FIC: Fantastic The day off is going splendidly. The weather is a bit shit, but it's been the perfect day to curl up inside with Who eps and get some writing done. And I did manage the grocery store earlier, so it's not a total wash (room cleaning to commence shortly - maybe). Title: Fantastic Fandoms: Firefly/Doctor Who Pairing/Rating: R, Inara/Nine Word Count: 4400 Disclaimer: Not mine! Summary: The TARDIS thinks the Doctor needs a companion. (Set pre-series for both canons.) Author's Note: This is for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bodhibird, who wanted an incident from Inara's training. As usual, the first person to comment on the story gets to give me the next prompt; available fandoms are Harry Potter, Temeraire, Firefly, or Vorkosiverse (Who is negotiable, but I haven't seen everything yet), but not Buffy. (I have a lot of Buffy projects going at the moment and I'm looking for some variety in my fandom diet.) Other than that, rules for the prompts may be found here. Thanks to antennapedia for giving this a once-over for me. ( Fantastic )First person to comment gets to give the next prompt! Current Mood:  accomplished |
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New Challenge: Peer
Only one post this week, so Hufflepuff wins, 20-0.
Pretend it's still Saturday for the new post. :D
New Challenge: Peer --as in looking, or person of like group, or, though this is more a Muggle thing, member of nobility--perhaps there is a Wizarding equivalent, or perhaps a Muggleborn has a noble title.
100 words even, pick your house, and have fun. |
| Saturday, July 5th, 2008 |
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Giles in Season 7 - Something I had forgotten So I posted the last part of "In Loco" I'll probably get to before Summer of Giles, and while doing the formatting, I had been listening to Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along." For those who aren't familiar with the show, it runs backward through the lives of three friends, starting with them all estranged, their lives outwardly "successful" with all the things they thought they wanted, and ending with them together watching Sputnik passing overhead, their whole lives ahead of them. It asks the question, "How did we get there from here?" I thought it might give me a new perspective, going back through the Buffy canon from the end. And so far, yeah, it's been interesting. But something just happened that threw me completely. In the episode "Touched," Giles listens with the others to the Bringer speaking through Andrew's body, about how it serves the First Evil and how it will be around long after they're all dead. The Bringer is bound and helpless. And Giles picks up a knife and cuts the Bringer's throat to silence him. Just trying to wrap my mind around this. I know it's often been remarked how Giles is anti-Giles in this final season. But I'd appreciate thoughts on this and what it might say about Giles, here and post Chosen. I can't write this story if I can't get back in the head space of these characters. And I'm not sure this Giles is someone I can understand well enough to write, or even to edit what I have to finish this. Current Mood:  confusedCurrent Music: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Theme - Nerf Herder |
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New Chapter of In Loco Posted ( Work and weekend wittering. ) Anyway, after applying some beta correction from sahiya and Wee Hob, I have got Ch 9 of In Loco posted. Find it here. Now I really have to focus on Giles and Willow and Ethan. Hey, gillo? You up for some tutoring me in remedial geography? The good news with In Loco is, I finally know where it's going, and it's a much different and better place than it was going. The mixed news for the BtVS story is, the first part is in good shape for posting on my assigned day. It's so long, though. And it needs a major rewrite on the last parts. Ah well. I better get to it. Happy weekend, everyone. Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: Growing Up - Stephen Sondheim |
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Title: Dudley's Day in Court House: Hufflepuff Word Count: 100 Characters: Dudley, Harry Challenge: Court Author's Note: I think I have the correct type of legal professional, barrister, representing Dudley in court. If not, please let me know so I can correct it. ( Read more... )Title: Basketball Courtship House: Hufflepuff Word Count: 100 Characters: Ron/Hermione Challenge: Court ( Read more... ) |
sahiya
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The inevitable dissertation-related nervous breakdown. I've been relatively un-stressed this year. I got through two batches of essays with very little trouble - turned most of them in early, as a matter of fact. Not so, the dissertation. It wouldn't be so bad if I had the full time (until September 8th). But I have to leave two weeks early because some people decided to go and get married (*glares*) on the 23rd of August and I can't very well go home for the damn weekend, so I'm struggling to get everything turned in by the 20th and no matter how efficient I am about it, it's going to be very tight. Added to which, Dr. P is making noises about going on vacation the first two weeks of August and not checking his email, so if I have problems I'm just going to be stuck, and then I've got six days max once he gets back to work everything out, get it formatted and bound, and turn it in. This is just . . . really not cool. I don't know what to do about it. What I should probably do is talk to Dr. P and if he really is serious about not checking email (why why why???), get the name of someone else I can go to if it's all going to hell and I need help now. Professor L is unfortunately also going to be on vacation at that same time, I think, though perhaps she at least will be checking email, but there might be someone else. I really need a day away from it. Badly. I took today and did some other work and it was good, but Monday I really need to dig in and get a bunch of reading and writing done. What I should do is take tomorrow and go grocery shopping and to the gym and clean my room and do all the stuff I need to do to really be productive the rest of the week, not to mention giving myself a mental break, but I am so, so stressed about it that I don't know if I can. I came home from the grad center just now, took a shower, sat down, and promptly burst into tears because I am really, really freaked out about this. And I know it's not that big a deal, and I know it'll all get done, but I am so very afraid that it won't and my Distinction, which I have busted my ass for this year, is going to just vanish because of the stupid fucking dissertation. I could have chosen something else. Something simpler. Something I actually had a background in, where I wouldn't have had to start from scratch and reinvent the goddamn wheel. I could have chosen a less ambitious approach and not let myself get talked into doing something I didn't feel I was prepared to do. I could have told Antonie and Mike that I was really sorry, but I just couldn't make the goddamn wedding. I could have done eight million things to make this easier on myself and I didn't. ETA: Have been talked out of my tree by antennapedia, who pointed out that there were ways for me to do this from back home. I'm worried about getting the binding wrong (they are unbelievably fussy about it), so I really want to use the services here at the university, but if I gave someone the money ahead of time they could print out two copies for me and take them to get them bound when they took their own stuff, then deliver it all to the department together. And I am taking the day off tomorrow. Because yow, that was the closest I've come to a panic attack in a long, long time. Current Mood:  stressed |
whytraven
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Oh, say can you see… The Fourth of July has been and gone, and there are no fireworks for us tonight. There is, however, a lovely and fitting gift from Mother Nature–freedom from smoke to the extent where today we had blue skies for the parade and stars out at night. I can’t tell you how wonderful that is. :)
We’re not off the hook, though. Yesterday I went down to Redding and fires were burning right beside highway 299. I mean fires with Actual Real Flames, so I can no longer say that I’ve never seen a forest fire. They’re at the top of Buckhorn Mountain, which is the pass which separates Trinity and Shasta Counties. The smoke wasn’t too bad but I kept my helmet firmly closed.
Read the rest of this entry » This was cross-posted from Raven's RV. You can comment here or there, but if you could bring yourself to comment there rather than here, that would be very nice.
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| Friday, July 4th, 2008 |
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