Yuletide. Is. PWNED.

*leaps about gleefully*

29 hours till deadline. I think there is an end in sight, but I may have to stop for tonight and come back tomorrow. The brain is starting to shut down ( Read more... )

( Holiday party, work, gifting, remodeling, Yuletide, and more... )

We had ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY trick-or-treaters this year. Between 6:30 and 8:30, when we blew out the pumpkins, turned out the porch light, and retreated ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and went ahead with signing up. I made six requests (my "Dear Yuletide writer" letter is here if you're interested; I only put it on DW) and made seven offers. My requests this year included two films, two children's/YA books, one comic, and one novel... more of a variety of types than sometimes in the past. I haven't done Yuletide ( Read more... )

Whether or not I end up signing up, I have now officially submitted nominations for Yuletide. Nominations can be changed through 3 October, but I probably won't.

( For anyone who cares... )

Having just participated in friending memes on both LJ and DW, I feel a certain obligation to post something, you know? (Not obligation in a negative sense. Just... like it would be appropriate, so as not to seem like I friended under false pretenses.)

( Various RL bits behind the cut )

I'm not signing up for the Yuletide exchange this year; I think I did the last five? About that anyhow.

Which is sad-making, but I think the best decision for me right now.

Pre-semester week and first week of the calendar year, so there was scheduling, and shredding, and training, and there will be more of the first and last next week because OF COURSE people made changes in their classes, and other people don't get back until the last possible moment or later, and next weekend is a holiday weekend which requires a ( Read more... )

Two more gifts for me at Yuletide today (from Yuletide Madness): "I Am (Not) Dr. Lazarus," another Galaxy Quest one about Alexander Dane, quite a different take from the other but another great look at Alexander's interior; and "A Novel Solution," about Sophia Grey from Sense and Sensibility - this one managing to be both similar to and dissimilar ( Read more... )