Ficathon reminder and other boring crap

[cornerofmadness]

For those of you participating in the WIP ficathon challenge. Youv'e got a week. Yeah I know scary. I've NOT got mine done either. Worse, in the two years since I've looked at it, I've come to the conclusion of ewww, this needs HELP! Phew.

Well there must have been a herd of hungry mice in this house because that box of decon disappeared overnight. Which is disturbing in you know i won't FIND the dead mice until they start stinking...

Still trying to get to FL. You know with all the damn hurricanes it should be dead cheap to get there but no. And of course the big boss is gone this week so I can't get leave approved.

We (my boss and the two teaching assistants) got together today to work on all sorts of stuff...mostly at the bar over beer at noon. I've learned something. I'm not half as hard on my class as these student assistants would be. Ouch. They're tough. They offered (stunning me since it's a shitload of work) to actually go thru those stupid quizbowl questions and weed out the duplicates and bad ones so that there's less work for the students. They've also given me ideas on how to shake up class...ie. let's just go to lab during any of the three hours that I have them for because when I leave it for the last hour, half my class books out on me.

The heater died again. If you think I'm crying (and I am. It was 80 yesterday and 50 today and my arthritis can't handle taht) imagine how much the guy who owns this place is pissed.

Got Keith Urban's new CD. It sold out of Wal-Mart in the first day but two days later there were more. I generally don't buy an album without hearing more than one song because lately you get two songs worth it and the rest stink. I like Keith. He's a great ball of energy on stage, nice voice and he's dead sexy (no lie, thought mom, since we were second row center sitting next to Brooks and Dunn's wives, was going snag and shag Keith). Got the album and read the lyrics thinking outside of She's Gotta Be (which is a perfect shipper song) there's not many that really grabbed me. Listened to thinking hmm, not impressed but then again I didn't hate it. Sometimes I need to listen to it a few times before I get excited. Second listen thru was more stimulating. The radio said Keith is 37. My age...he looks like he's in his 20's. I thought he was even younger (maybe the radio was wrong). Anyhow I'm grateful for Australia for sending him our way. Oh and he had an interesting quote on the back of his cd booklet, thinking it must be his since it's not attributed to anyone, "Life is a balance of holding on and letting go." I'm going to go meditate on that. (okay really I'm going to drink more alcohol and chant it's not cold in here)

Comments

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Yah, it's an interesting pairing but I don't think I'd do it again.


I like the new icon.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Too hard to write? Not really your thing? I felt the same way with Buffy/Lindsey. It was an interesting stretch but the ship didn't really do it for me

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's too hard to write and although I like the idea of the pairing it's just not my cup of tea. I started writing it when I first started getting into fanfic.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. My wip that I can't finish seems so clunky. I'm not sure why. I loved the idea when I started it. It's Giles centric which is a love of mine then again I did this during S6-S3 of Buffy/Angel when I hated what they were doing in the show and i think it shows. And it's hard to do an OC with any kind of ability without someone screaming Mary Sue...sigh.

Oh and this was written when Connor was a baby and I hated him so much I just never brought him back from QUor-Toth and Angel doesn't even really acknowledge he has a kid

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

that would be interesting to read, especially from you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Wellyou'll see it soon. Actually I'm hoping people don't read it as soon as I post it. It's been two years. I'd like to go back and clean up the beginning, streamline it a little more (it looks like it went up in a rush and since that was when we were first starting the site I'm betting that's true). But I can't finish it AND clean up a 100+ pages in the next few days

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

how about you tell me when it's ready to read and then I will read it? I have no problems waiting.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

It'll be posted. The whole thing as is WILL be up for the stupid ficathon. I'm determined at that. Then as per normal, I'll edit it more and start posting it. I STILL have 15 ficathon and other stories to run at SUnnydale yet.

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

yah I know how that feels...too many stories & too little time.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no kidding and I DO want to work on my original fic too...at least I could three handwritten pages of script down. That's about a minute and half of tv time...

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

that's fast writing. then again I tend to write at work.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I do as well, at least at office hours. I like to write in front of the tv too.

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

I get too distracted in front of the tv

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

It depends. If it's something i've seen a million times I can zone and write. If it's new, I watch it and write during commerical breaks.

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

true enough. I suppose that my problem is every time I try to write in the living room that's when my mum wants to talk to me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah well yes when I'm home this doesn't work at all.