Happy 120th birthday, Washington state.



May you continue to be filled with ill-advised demonstrations of "an abundance of grit and manly vim."

Or just give up, ditch the boat, and stay inside your parents' garage tinkering with computers? Really, your call.

Largely due to the unreasonableness of a rather large number of people who want to get better as soon as possible and who evince absolutely no regard or consideration for those of us who have pornography to wallow in and and long since defunct TV shows to obsess over, if I'm going to continue to freak out over sign up for yuletide, it will have to be in the next four hours.

The jury is still out as I also have dive gear to tune up and packing to do. But I will say that the smart nickel is ALWAYS on me continuing to freak out for as long as possible. ( Monk spoiler )

*whimper*

Feeling a bit tired and sick today, bleh.

( shagging stickmen? OK, I was too tired to draw )

Thank you everyone who posted a comment saying they'd be interested in a read & watch-along! Instead of answering each individually with the same general information, I thought it better to just do a new post.

Please note that I will definitely be setting up a separate community soon along the lines of the expressed interests of everyone. It will be both a read AND a watch along community, but the formatting will make it optional to talk about one, the other, or both in comparison.

It will take me a bit of time, but once the community is done and has been created, I'll definitely let you all know. It will probably be done and up before December, but the Official First Week will start December 1st, story & episode to be announced.

I know a few of you expressed interest in reading in chronological order and if anybody could get me a copy of a generally accepted list of such I'd be very interested in seeing it, since it sounds like it would be an interesting way to read roughly all 60 stories.

And of course, for your time:



Be seeing you!

P.S. Any suggestions for community names would be appriciated too ♥

I wanna take a nap. I might cave in.

Sigh.

Writing went slow today, it wasn't hard per se but it wasn't great either -- if I'd typed it I think it would only be half a page, maybe a little more but not quite a full page. I think before I go sleep tonight I'll put the paper on my lap in the bed and try to write a bit more -- of course I'm writing grief, which might be part of why it's hard right now. I'm not raw with grief right now but it's still new.

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The kitties have bumped noses and Cordy has sniffed Impala's butt and pounced on her (without anything horrible happening at all). It's only been a week since Luis got Cordy -- which seriously only a week, I feel like that kitten has been here forever. So I think the progress is pretty dang good.

HOW DID I MISS THIS?

You're fired, f-list. I demand you care as much about this as I do!

In other news, I won't be leaving the house for a couple of weeks.

[For those of you who don't realize why this is exciting: Sassoon's letters & manuscripts have never been available online before. They went up for Rememberance Day.]

In memory of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, I offer poetry...

( In Flanders Fields by John McCrae - 1915  )


Am currently enjoying lovely sunshine on my day off. My brother has been here since the weekend and made me yummy food and rice pudding! I LOVE rice pudding! I have a wonderful brother!

Was given the notion for this idea because another friend of mine just proposed a read-along for a completely different series.

Is anyone interested in a monthly read-along for the stories? Every month we would all read a certain story and then discuss it in depth. Conversely, if this is more interesting, possibly a Granada series watch along, with an episode a week to discuss and fan over at the same time? Or maybe both!

What do you all think?

And for your time, I give you this:



Because I'm rereading The Sign of Four this week ♥

So apparently, I can't go swimming anytime between 3 and 730. Valuable lesson. Just means that I can't go home to nap and come back later to swim. I don't mind the NMSU swim team taking up the deep end, but I do get kind of pissed at the high school teams using the pool.

Oh well. So, I wrote something! I am very happy about that. Currently, I'm plotting a prequel to If Players Do Not Pass One Another in Silence. Thing is, that was my big bang fic. However, I'm pretty certain I can write the prequel in less than 18k words, so that's good.

School is a lot easier right now, mainly because Dr. V hasn't given me back lit review and methods sections; once she does it will be difficult again. On teh plus side, my other advisor Dr. D promised to give me the study's original IRB paperwork, which will make filling that thing out WAY less of a hassle.

Anyway, 5 reasons I'm glad I'm alive
1. I got to go swimming today. Granted, I only swam 800, but still. I got in the water.
2. The grad office in general. We're all good friends and if I want, I can spend a good portion of my time just hanging out in there. I do, but I try not to talk too much because other people have stuff to do.
3. My meds work, I'm feeling fairly even, and I cleared the air with dad and judi this weekend.
4. My psych nurse gave me permission to sleep in! apparently, if you take antidepressants they can push back your REM cycle, which my explain why I"m so tired when I wake up. Seeing as I dream only around 5 or 6 am, I'm going to try to set my alarm for 745 am tomorrow, see if that makes a difference.
5. People've been saying really nice things about me. I think I managed to respond to those that did, but i want to let everyone on my list know that I appreciate all of you. So much. *hugs entire friendslist*

Hah! Take that ouch to 5k, I did your first work out! *does freeze frame jump with fist pump anime style*

I also haven't had ANY candy or other shit this whooole three days, and I have actually eaten vegetables recently, which is awesome. Thinking about it, I have been suuuper lazy this month, so I am feeling way more awesome.

1. Totally spent five hours in the pub, discussing everything from classes, to human rights, to cultural relativism, to sex, to strap-ons, instead of doing work. And instead of buying my train ticket for Sunday. However, have half-organised a group trip to a sextoy store in Brighton. It is an entirely worrying trend, this.

2.( Icon Meme )

3. Completely & utterly focused on feminism & gender studies. Certainly not obsessing about WWI, nor half-writing a paper on it. Because that would fail.

4. Signed up for yuletide! A while ago, actually, but I haven't posted here since then, so I thought I'd tell you all.

5. Haven't heard from potential volunteering opportunity. Am supposed to be having a meeting tomorrow & was supposed to have an email today. This did not happen. Woe. However, I shall be pro-active & get up early tomorrow to call the centre.

I went to a 'work party' in New Babbage, and procrastinated for a long time. Then I drew this.

( pr0n-ish toon )

So yesterady after seeing my Aunt I was all woey as I fell a bit back into the past couple of years, the last one especially with my grandmother and got cranky, moody and way too woey... I also had to face writing the section of the first part of a fic I'm writing that had me totally stuck for days -- I would start it and stop, I don't know how many times. But yesterday, despite the bad mood and the woe I actually managed to get through it in a way I don't totally hate. It could suck but it didn't feel wrong on the page like all the other tries did --

Then, sigh, ( semi-spoiler for the fic )


Okay, now that I am onto Part TWo it's back to long-hand writing again. So I'm getting offline to do that :-)

I hadn't planned to do any more picspams this month because it's a fair amount of work & I have a lot of school work and NaNoing to do this month, but when I started watching The Naval Treaty, I found that I just HAD to do some screen capping because OMFG Raj Blake!!! Gareth Thomas!!!

So without further ado, a mini picspam of the Granada's adaptation of The Naval Treaty. With a bit of me being silly.

( Under the cut! )

Please feel free to use these for anything you wish ♥