Randomness

[briarwood]

Today is artist claiming day in sncross_bigbang. I'm signed up as both a writer and an artist. As a writer, this day is nerve-wracking...I'm always convinced no one will want my fic. So far I'm unclaimed. It's terrible for my ego :(

It's my first time as a big bang artist and I had my eye on three stories from the original sign ups. There were four or five others I thought I could do, but three that I really felt good about. Only two of those made the list...and it was a real hard choice. Maybe the other one will go unclaimed and I can volunteer to do both :)

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My OU course is over! Today was the deadline for the final assignment but I was done last week - in plenty of time. Now I'm free until later this year, when I have to decide whether to continue or give this up as a bad idea. A lot of that will depend on whether my workplace will continue to fund my studies. Frankly, doing the course cut into my fannish fun too much for my comfort. If I go on, I'll almost certainly have to quit a lot of the stuff I love most...and having to pay for that privilege? Not appealing. But we'll see. I don't have to decide anything yet.

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Poppy is much improved. She's back to her old, happy self, actually, though she still prefers to walk on three legs. The vet saw her again last night and told us part of the wire holding her leg together has to come out. This was a surprise as we understood the whole thing to be permenent. It won't be yet, and the vet assured us it's a simple procedure, but I'm a bit - no, a lot - worried that any more pain in that leg is going to set her back a long way. She's got to start walking properly or the muscles will waste. And she's got to go through the same thing with the other leg once this is over.

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I saw Whip It last Saturday - fabulous movie directed by Drew Barrymore and starring Ellen Page. Really, those two names say it all. I planned on seeing another movie afterward, but I felt so rotten - bad cold - I went to Bute Park for a picnic lunch instead. That was nice. I met puppies being walked in the park and got to watch seagulls on the river. I almost took the riverboat out to Cardiff Bay, but I'm absolutely not spending unneccessary money for three months (I'm saving up for Roadhouse Con) so I resisted that temptation. If I've saved enough by the end of the month I'll treat myself next picnic.

Then I headed home and spent the rest of the weekend being miserable in bed. But I'm all better now and ready to bounce again. Well...bounce a little :)

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And finally...

Anyone here watch Castle or White Collar? I keep hearing about them but no one ever explains what the show is actually about when they pimp! I just want to know if it's my kind of genre.

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Oh, one last thing. krazykipper and geonncannon - have you seen Legend of the Seeker? 'Cause if you haven't, you both should. You'll love it! (Geonn - mostly season 2. Trust me.)

Comments

[shanaqui]

My crossover is with a book that people tend to read when they're quite young and think of as a children's book, so... despite the fact that it's gen, I suspect there's an element of "nooo, my childhoood".

[briarwood]

Oh, is yours the Dark Is Rising fic? I never read that. My best friend loved it but I was really fussy about stories at that age. If it was about boys and didn't have animals, I wasn't interested :)

[shanaqui]

Yep. I didn't read it until I was sixteen. It's probably my favourite book now.