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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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10:11 am - Fic: Say I've got nothing to fear (Supernatural, gen)
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Say I've got nothing to fear
Spoilers: Everything through AHBL 2
Words: 5,070
Summary: Two weeks after the demon's killed they take a case in North Dakota, and Sam tries to come to terms with the clock ticking over Dean's head.
Author's note: Huge, squishy thanks to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) luzdeestrellas for the very helpful beta. All remaining mistakes are mine.
Song and cut tag from Santana's Put Your Lights On.
( There's a monster living under my bed, whispering in my ear. )
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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6:53 am - LJ, where you been?
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OMG Livejournal, never leave me again! *clings* Anyway, for future reference I am javajunkie13 at both Greatest Journal and Insane Journal. I think I like Insane Journal best, and if I get a vote about where fandom migrates when we decide to, I vote we migrate over to IJ.
I never know what to do with myself when Livejournal is down, which is possibly very sad, but I don't care. Where do y'all go when LJ leaves us? Terra and I decided last night that we need a good Emergency Plan for when LJ goes down, and every good Emergency Plan has a Place to Meet. So, thoughts?
I am up ridiculously earlier and I really just want to go back to sleep, but I have a presentation in a couple of hours that I want to be awake and coherent for, so instead I will caffeinate and eat donuts. Yay donuts!
I feel as though I should talk about DH seeing as I just finished it the other day (shut up, my parents were visiting all weekend so I couldn't start it until late Sunday), but I think I may be the last person on my flist to have finished the book, and pretty much everyone has said everything I was thinking. ( Spoilers for Deathly Hallows )
Huh, I guess I did have a lot to say. Anyway, I still can't really believe it's over. I wasn't really in the HP fandom anymore, but it still makes me sad. Harry Potter was the fandom that got me back into fandom, and without it I wouldn't have met quite a few of you. Aw, guys! Group hug!
So because I couldn't read the book until later in the weekend from Friday on I pretty much wasn't online, and I'm pretty sure there were a couple people who wrote fic, so, link me? As well as to anything important that I missed, or anything not important, really just anything you think I should read, I need a reason to avoid studying later.
All right, I have to go get ready for my presentation. Yay interoffice conflict! Nngh.
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| Friday, July 20th, 2007
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10:23 am - why you think the 'net was born?
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Today is my three year LJ anniversary! Wikipedia tells me that the traditional third year anniversary gift is leather. Heh, kinky.
Anyway, happy Harry Potter day, all! I'm. . .not going to talk about HP at all in this post. *g*
So, the other day I was in Barnes & Noble and I saw this book by Andrew Keen called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy ( and I have quite a bit to say about it. )
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| Monday, July 16th, 2007
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3:22 pm
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Apparently two days of lazing around are not enough for me because I skipped both my classes today even after promising myself I would go to at least one. I rock at this summer school thing. *sigh* At least I got my laundry done and did my grocery shopping, I suppose.
I really need to get back to work on my spn_50states fic. I have about 5,000 words right now, but, um, I sort of don't like it anymore. ( bitch, bitch, bitch )
So, I'm watching NBC's Victoria Beckham Comes to America, and I just, I can't decide if it's a joke or not, and I don't know if the joke is on Victoria or on America. She cheated on her driver's test and the guy running the test caught her and still let her pass (and, am I wrong or don't you usually have to do both the written and driving test when you come over from another country?). Really, I suppose, knowing the Cali DMV, or any DMV, actually, it's not that surprising.
And then she went to learn how to pitch from a bunch of kids and gave the gem of: "I'm looking out on this field and there's all these little people and I'm wondering how far away are they? come to find out, they're not far away, they're children."
Lol, I just, I don't even know. Why am I watching this? And why can't I stop?
Ok, I have to go write now, or attempt to, anyway.
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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7:42 pm - open your heart, it's not so strange
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Terra and I went to see OotP this afternoon and, um, ( movie spoilers )
But! Seeing it totally brought back my Harry Potter love, which had been missing recently, and now I'm quite excited for the last book. And kind of sad. It's sort of just hitting me that this will be the last book. I don't know how I feel about the whole thing being over.
In other news, I made it through my round of tests that were going on this last week, and now I can go back to completely ignoring my classes until the next round. *fist pump* I am an awesome student in the summer!
There was fic the other day:
Changes in Topography
Sam/Dean; Adult
Once it's over, Dean doesn't feel any different.
I think I had more to say when I opened this window, but I can't remember it now, and I'm supposed to be writing. *eyes open documents* So, let's do that fun meme where y'all give me topics to talk about, it can be fannish, political, my life, whatever, I am very opinionated on a number of things so. . .ask with caution, I guess? *g*
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| Monday, July 9th, 2007
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11:51 am - Fic: Changes in Topography (Supernatural, Sam/Dean)
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| Friday, July 6th, 2007
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9:48 am - a frozen light in dark and empty streets
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Snagged from nekare: Find your 42nd entry ever. Yes, this may require some counting and basic math. Deal with it. Link to that entry in a new entry. This is the meaning of your life.
My 42nd entry:
These Days
James/Lily They learn about the Prophecy on the third Saturday of September.
I'm not all that surprised that the meaning of my life is fanfiction. I think I may have been disappointed if it was anything else. *g*
I'm pretty much ridiculously excited for Live Earth tomorrow. Y'all, researchers in Antarctica have been practicing for six months in order to perform for it, just so there can be concerts on all seven continents. How is that not made of awesome? Everyone should go find out their carbon footprint and make a commitment. It can be as simple as spreading the word or turning off lights when you leave a room. Little things add up to make a big difference. *steps down off soapbox*
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| Friday, June 29th, 2007
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3:08 pm
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Why did no one tell me there was a new USA show about spies? SPIES! I HEART tv shows about spies! There needs to be someone who's job is just to inform me of these things. Luckily there is a rerun tomorrow night since USA apparently does not let you watch shows on their website, at least not this show. USA FTL.
Wow, I opened this window like four hours ago and kind of forgot about it. Whoops. I'm pretty sure I had more to say back then other than just 'spies.' (SPIES!!) I was informed today that Terra and I have an apartment secured for September. The lady at the leasing office said we're right next to the laundry room and we can 'say we have a pool in our backyard.' We haven't seen it yet, but I'm fully expecting it to be the Greatest Apartment Ever.
ABC Family has been showing reruns of Grounded for Life which makes me kind of ridiculously happy. I sort of love that show a lot. Lily/Brad 4 eva!!!eleventy!! (Although, Bret Harrison? Hi, will most definitely not be watching your new show after you trash talked SPN. First of all? That's the audience you want. Also? Not on to bad talk shows on your own network.)
So, earlier today untangle popped my porn writing cherry when she had me write her comment porn to satisfy her sick need for dirty bathroom winsexin'. ;) It's rough and will need a bit of work if I decide to turn it into anything, but I feel as though I should post it here for posterity's sake, so, uh
( It's wincest. And porn. So, be warned. )
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| Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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7:39 pm
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*blinks* Dude. 100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May where the lake had been in March.
Somebody kidnapped a lake! My mom's response? "Maybe the Commies built pipes and stole the water!"
Damn Soviets. *g*
In other news, I broke a plate today. *sademoface* I've never broken a plate before. Now I only have three plates! And if I buy a new one it won't match my set. Woe. Is it lame that breaking a plate makes me feel like an adult? Yeah? Oh well, I'm mostly ok with being lame.
I am thinking of changing my layout, any thoughts? I want bright shiny colors, I think.
I'm pretty sure I had more to update on when I opened this window, but I can't think of what. Classes are boring. It's hot in Columbus. The end. I was going to do that high school meme going around and I answered the questions and everything and then the internet closed on me and LJ FAILED ME and didn't not automatically save my entry. I would do it again but I'm supposed to be writing right now, so maybe later.
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| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
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2:27 pm - all that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
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I'm sure a lot of your flists' are linking to this today, but I think it's important to spread the news about the death of Aaron Hall. The crime itself is horrifying and the current defense completely absurd, but the fact that the media isn't covering this story, that even people within the town don't fully understand what happened, may be just as disturbing. Spread the word.
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| Monday, June 18th, 2007
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9:00 pm
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Hi y'all. I took a very unannounced, undecided hiatus from LJ over the past week, which is kind of funny since I'd originally planned that my week long summer break would be me writing fic and spamming my flist. But I got home and there were all sorts of people from high school home that I wanted to see, and I ended up having a fairly active social life for the week. Plus my parents wireless was not working, so after a couple days I gave up on kicking the stupid thing repeatedly and decided a break was in order. So, I know I have quite a bit to catch up on, which I will try to do within the next few days, so if you get a random comment from me for a post that's like a week old, now you know why!
One thing that I did miss that I feel very badly about, was such_heights birthday. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, SWEETIE!!♥♥ I hope you had a wonderful day.
Break was fun, Terra and I went to Michigan! I met kilted and much fun was had, although, South Haven has no coffee shop that is open at 8 in the evening which is just, NOT ON. How does one properly watch a sunset without coffee, is what I want to know. I mean, really.
In other news, classes started today and were boring, and I really want to make a pie. It would be the third pie I've made in a month so I'm trying to refrain for at least another week. So, what's new with you all?
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| Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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12:27 pm - Fic: On the House (Supernatural, gen)
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On the House (or Six Times in Dean's Life When Pie Was Had)
Words: 1,793
Spoilers: everything through ALBL 2
Summary: "Ain't a problem in the world a slice of pie can't fix, darling."
Notes: This was for terraneanblues's birthday, which was yesterday (Happy birthday again, baby! :-*) I posted it to the comm made specifically for the occasion and am reposting it here because I'm slightly anal about all my fics being in my journal. *g*
( Strawberry-rhubarb )
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| Friday, June 1st, 2007
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1:21 pm - It's your state of mind, no matter where you're from
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You guys, the third name on the list for hurricanes this year is Dean. I think this is something everyone should know; it was the first story on CNN when I turned on the TV this morning and it amused me greatly. Hurricane Dean. I think Dean would find that kind of awesome. Hopefully it won't be a bad storm because I'll feel really bad about getting all gleeful about the name.
I had my last Chemistry lecture today! Yay! Now I only have finals and then I get a week and a half off! And then it's back to school. Boo. But! A week and a half off! And I've decided to take a vacation, possibly to Michigan, 'cause why not? And only for a day. I'll drive up there, wander around where ever I stop, find a cheap motel for the night and then head back home the next day.
I thought about going to Niagara Falls but nothing's cheap there, so Michigan! Because it's cheaper and closer and I've never been, which seems a little sad since I've lived right next to it my whole life, minus two and a half years.
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Ok, I know I had a lot more to update about when I opened this window but I've stopped and started this entry so many times throughout the afternoon that I can't even remember anymore.
I do have one thing to say about Strikeout '07 ( old news, I know, but I have stuff to say anyway )
That actually wasn't at all what I was going to say when I sat down to write this post, but I'm done now. *g* I'm going for coffee.
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| Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
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6:53 pm
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I don't know how many of you were aware of the supposed hoax that was happening a few days ago, but that hoax? Yeah, not so much a hoax.
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) pornish_pixies has been permanently suspended along with some other comms, I don't know all of them, but there's some good explanations of the whole thing here and here along with a number of other places I'm sure.
What it comes down to is a group is reporting journals to LJ Abuse that have things in their interest that suggest they're pedophiles. That includes any kind of mention of incest or underage sex. Which puts a lot of people in fandom in danger ('cause we're all dirty whores). Now, I'm all for trying to catch child predators, but you have to know what you're doing and these people very much don't.
I don't have time for the long rant that I really want to write, but I wanted to get this out there for those of you who don't know and possibly need to adjust your interest to stay safe. You can also lock all the entries on your journal here if you have a paid account and feel you need to (unpaid accounts have to do it manually).
ETA: If you want a list of everything that's been deleted so far you can go here
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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10:36 pm - walk in here and think you own the joint
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Angelina Jolie,
You are awesome and your children are adorable. And extra kudos to answering the question "Why is this [AIDS orphans] America's problem?" with "It's everyone's problem, it's not America's problem.[. . .]because it's the right thing to do."
You rock,
Me
Ann Currey,
You suck at interviewing. Your questions and 'omg I'm so close to crying!' voice makes my brain bleed. Please to be stopping with that.
No love,
Me
God, this interview is awkward to watch, it must have been really uncomfortable to sit through.
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I had a lot to update on but I can't remember most of it now. I was supposed to study Chemistry tonight and finish my Political Science study guide; instead I started working on my spn_50states story and watched half of some special on Saturday Night Live that made me all nostalgic for the days when I used to have to watch it every weekend.
There's quite a kerfuffle going on over FanLib and I spent the majority of my afternoon reading through the various discussions and metas over it all and it made me think all sorts of thinky thoughts. Thoughts that I can't coherently type out just yet. I think this post by telesilla best sums up my thoughts on the whole matter. She has a number of other good posts on the whole issue in her journal as well if you haven't been following it. (And really, who can blame you, cause there are a hell of a lot of posts floating around about it.)
The idea of people who don't understand the fannish community (nor seem to care to) coming in and trying to exploit us and "bring us into the mainstream" makes me really uncomfortable. Especially because I feel like they seem to be telling us that this is what we need/want and they're doing us a favor by creating this site, like we (fandom in general) haven't been functioning perfectly well for the past forty years.
They seem to think we should have welcomed them with open arms, and they've apparently completely failed to grasp the fact that they are trying to take this culture that we've created, this complicated thing we love and cherish, and turn it into a business. Fanfic is not just about readership or recognition, none of us would be here if that's all we wanted. It's about a love for the source material (that really cannot be understood by non-fannish people) and a desire to be a part of the community that it plays a part in.
The way that CEOs* have handled it is not only naive, but fairly arrogant. Do I think it would be nice to have a place to house all fanfiction everywhere? Yes (though, it would be an incredibly arduous task and take a lot of cooperation from a group of people who spend about half their time with in-fighting). Do I think FanLib can ever be that place? Not unless the whole board is kicked out and taken over by fangirls/boys who really understand what they're trying to undertake.
I'm sure I'll have more to say on it later; feel free to weigh in with your own thoughts, etc. And here, have an article on why fanfiction is awesome. :D
*An all male board of CEOs, and I really do feel that's important to note. Fandom is largely a female space (and I in no way mean to marginalize the male role within it by pointing that out) and we have a group of men trying to come in and take something that we control and make it "better." People can say it's not a gender issue, and that we feminists are just being our hysterical selves, but while the business they've created wasn't based off of any sort of sexism, it's there anyway, and it shouldn't be ignored.
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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10:02 pm
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11:19 am - Wednesday-when, huh, what day? Thursday! The third day!
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You guys! It's Thursday!! *flails* Just thought I'd throw that out there in case y'all didn't realize. *g*
I'm not really sure how I'm expected to make it through my classes this afternoon. Luckily there is no Thursday chem quiz this week because I'm pretty sure my answers would be things like: Oh, Dean!
anteka posted the Top Ten Moments of SPN: S2
And, um, I think I had more to say when I opened this, but it's Thursday, so *hand wavey*
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| Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
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9:48 pm - Somebody's got a case of the Mondays
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Everybody, Ale wrote me fic!! Photographic Proof - Sam Winchester has sixteen photographs buried at the bottom of his duffle bag: This is what each one of them means.
There's so many normal, everyday moments it makes me flail (and some not so normal--unicorn! Creepy ghost child!). Y'all should go read it right now. :D
I think I had a lot to update about, but I can't remember any of it. Tuesdays eat my brain. There's Biology recitation in the morning and than lecture right after that where I want to bash my head against the wall because all we talk about is science and public policy. And, really, science policy in this country sucks. And yes, there are controversies and all sorts of debates we could have over it (which, um, I don't want to have. If you don't think evolution should be taught in schools then that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion, but I'm never going to agree with you, so let's just agree to disagree right now, yes?). But my professor and all the speakers that come in are all scientist, and from a scientist's point of view science policy sucks hardcore, but none of them will come out and say so and it kind of drives me nuts. I've never been in a class where my professor won't just come right out and state his/her opinion.
Huh, wow, that got to be kind of a rant, didn't it? Anyway, after Biology there's Chem lab, which is why Tuesdays eat my brain, and I think that was the point of that whole thing, right? We'll say it was.
I spent over an hour this evening talking to a complete stranger about my two and a half years in California. (He was a regular customer at Joanna's coffee shop, not some kind of creeper, don't freak out, Lauren.) It was weird, but not a bad weird, just strange. I never know what to say about it all. I feel like I always make it sound a lot worse than it was, it's just kind of hard to explain, and not just Hollywood but LA in general. I mean, you can say "traffic sucks in LA" but until someone has actually sat in completely stopped traffic for over an hour on the 405 at two in the afternoon you don't really grasp the concept of "OMG traffic sucks." So I feel like when I talk about it, it either comes across as omg, LA is the worst place EVER or OMG it's the greatest place one earth! Which, you know, neither is really true, it's just a place, but it's not really like anywhere else.
Wow, I'm kind of all over the board today, aren't I? Can I blame it on the fact that it's Tuesday?
In other news: it's still not Thursday. What's up with that?
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| Saturday, May 12th, 2007
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12:27 pm
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Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes! *smishes all of you* It was a good day. I had two midterms in the morning but I think they went pretty well, and then I just bummed around until the afternoon. My parents and sister came down to visit for the evening, my mom baked me a cake and brought candles and everything, and they took me out to dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise. My parents went back home that night and my sister stayed down for the rest of the week and we bummed around C-bus and hung out between my classes. We drove back home last night and my sister listened to me whine about the lack of pie at the diner we stopped at (lighthouse themed, in the middle of farm country Ohio) and only complained about my music once, so overall I'd call it a win. *g*
I'm home for the weekend for Mother's Day and my mom's graduation. My parents are having a party tonight and I'm staying upstairs and studying chemistry. What does it mean when your parents have a more active social life than you do?
I have absolutely nothing coherent to say about Thursday's SPN. ( Spoilers for All Hell Breaks Lose part 1 )
Oh, wait! I do have one coherent thing to say! ( Coherent spoilers )
I really didn't plan to talk about SPN this much when I opened the window. Huh. In conclusion: is it Thursday yet?
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| Sunday, May 6th, 2007
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6:54 pm - all my rooms are filled with musty dust
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I've been kind of very absent lately. Things have been kind of crazy, not impossibly so, just busy. I had midterms a couple weeks ago and now I'm having them again because none of my teachers grasp the true meaning of a midterm. I've been trying to get everything squared away so I can be in my second degree program by autumn quarter (which means registering for those classes this week), which is what's really made me crazy.
There are about a hundred advisers to talk to and forms to get filled out and signed, and there have been an unnatural number of freakouts in the past week and a half that my mom has handled like the awesome person she is. But everything is almost squared away now, assuming my Thursday meeting with my newest adviser goes as planned. If it doesn't, I'll probably spend the rest of the day screaming and pulling my hair out before I suck it up and adjust the Plan (yes it's capital, it's very important). But let's hope that's not the case, 'cause I really like the Plan the way it is right now.
So, I should be around more now, probably not posting any more than usual, but definitely reading the flist and such. Feel free to fill me in here on anything I've missed over the last few weeks.
I know one huge thing I missed! Happy (incredibly belated) birthday, moonix!!♥ ♥ I hope you had a fantastic day, sweetie. :-*
And, I think I had more but I can't remember it now, so have a snippet of the SPN AU I'm working on. *g* ( Just 'cause )
It still has way far to go. When I started it two months ago (exactly two months ago today, actually) I never expected it to be as long as it is now, and I definitely thought it'd be finished and done by now, but the more time I spend in the universe the more aspects of their lives I want to flesh out. I have an end in mind, which I think is part of why I still enjoy writing it so much. If I didn't know where it was going I probably would have abandoned it awhile ago, but the only thing really holding me back from working on it more is school. Who wants to do something about that? *g*
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