Just bits and pieces today. All I have time for, I'm afraid.

I have seen Star Trek, and it's great fun. My personal favourite thing of all was that Scotty had got himself exiled for zapping Porthos from Enterprise into the ether - but I loved lots of it, and time never hung heavy for a moment, even when the plot was a bit daft. It doesn't seem ( Read more... )

I've just come back from a seminar on an attempt to combine 4 very different music styles in one concert - seemed like pointless navel-gazing when I was not-quite-strongarmed into going, but I came out realising that combining unlikely talents can bear surprising fruit. We all need to be reminded of that from time to time, I think.

And following ( Read more... )

Ages ago I saw a BBC poll about which Star Trek was the real Star Trek. Of course, that is a rather stupid question (which no doubt explains why my favourite version came last by a sizeable margin), but I was thinking about it again recently, and wondering whether I'd get a similar result from readers of this journal.

So please humour me while I ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I've read any Harry Potter fanfiction. Which is really quite strange, considering that the whole purpose of this journal was to read and write the stuff.

This is no reflection on this journal, or its friends - I'm getting a lot of fun out of it just the way it is. But then, just occasionally, I get to thinking "Where's all the ( Read more... )

Nearly my LJ anniversary again - how time flies!

I came here quite specifically for the Harry Potter fanfic, and look at me now - not a fic on my whole front page! (though I do have a new Sherlock Holmes story on the drawing board - watch this space for the first draft of the Disappearance of Miss Eglantine Diggle...)

Anyway, I've been reading ( Read more... )

I started this LJ for Harry Potter fanfic. That was all it was going to be for. It's ended up as a lot more than that - including a sympathetic ear and source of brilliant advice - not to mention contacts with really interesting people. And I'm very happy with it this way ( Read more... )

This is mostly because large parts of my life as it now stands involve sitting around and waiting for things to get started. Nothing worth angsting about, but it's playing hell with my concentration. My story is stymied too - Hagrid's got into a long conversation with the Weasley twins and I'm having problems bringing the conversation to an end and ( Read more... )

The last week has been a truly spectacular parade of crazy. I've had just about everything, from venal landlords to unfair blacklisting by checking agencies through loopy stuff at work and unwanted guests to my computer breaking down this afternoon (now mercifully fixed, or I wouldn't be writing this...)

Anyway, just when you think life couldn't get ( Read more... )