Dear Totally Awesome Yulegoat ( Read more... )

Fred Rogers, truly a good person, and his letters to a boy and his family after the boy sent mail to The Neighborhood.

Three Things I Used To Think About School Reform, very depressing and frustrating, and very much what I'm thinking and feeling about the profession, especially as our city prepares to add to our workload without compensation.

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I'm trying to get my DW space set up. Drop me a note if I've not already added you? I plan to import my LJ for safe-keeping and with all the same comments and duplicate filters (leaving out folks not here, but not changing status of where filters apply otherwise). Of course, I've got to figure out the FAQ for pulling my LJ stuff over here...AND ( Read more... )

It's Me Again
by amilyn
Doctor Who for yahtzee63
100 words

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In response to the Drabble Meme, this is the first one I've figured out what to do with. Sadly, it would not be a drabble and instead is a ficlet. More to come as I figure them out (everyone who requested is still not only welcome but encouraged to leave prompts, even a single word, if you haven't yet). ETA: I'm probably going to expand this ( Read more... )

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PSA: Don't snarf mead.

End of Time, parts 1 & 2. I really enjoyed 1 (had been warned about a crack party), and enjoyed part 2 until it just went...beyond the beyond and I was left contemplating the fucking MACRAME that could be made from the loose ends that were left dangling...we could make PLANT hangers. Seriously.

( Here there be spoilers )

Great fanfic out there, sadly, I'm not getting to much of it.

The stuff I do want to note includes:

Doctor Who
"Shades of Life" by shinealightonme, which is PERFECTLY Jackie after "Doomsday" on the AU Earth in an England with a president.

Bones
"The Center Must Hold" by ayiana2. Outstanding, perfectly-painful bit set between the regular universe stuff of the last 2 ( Read more... )

In response to the Character meme, here are my first four lists.

( Sarah Jane, Sam Carter, Grace Balthasar, Natalie Lambert )

I'm caught up on TV!

I'm current with DW, Torchwood, Bones, Chuck, SCC, SJA...it's nice not having a backlog. But there's something very sad about NOT having the Huge Pile of Stuff To Watch at a moment's notice saved up.

I LOVE what the shows are all doing. Really. Love.

P.S. Oh! And I have made more bran muffins and more vegetable beef