I had ambitious plans for yesterday, all kinds of stuff I planned to do, but then there was the weather. So I did one tiny errand and then I sat in the sun and read a book for most of the day, because I could sit in the sun and read, in a skirt and a short-sleeved top, and be perfectly comfortable, on October 1. The sky was crisp blue, the leaves ( Read more... )

I am starting to suspect that while I wasn't looking, someone decided to rewrite my life as a comedy episode of House. I mean, I had health issues, I had surgery, I felt all loopy and had lying-on-the-couch recovery time, so far, so good. Then I got some side effects from the surgery and felt all loopy again. Then I got some fairly intense ( Read more... )

resonant8 posted about liking first-time stories and feeling cheated if the story doesn't clearly signal whether it's first-time or established relationship until halfway into the sex scene or something, and marycrawford made a post to herc_iolaus about the Hercules/Iolaus relationship and how that pairing isn't very first-time-y in nature, and how to work in the whole yes-they- ( Read more... )

Things I really should have learned by now, #3,754: that someone has a rec page does not mean that their taste or standards are compatible with mine.I've been reading a lot of Fraser/Kowalski lately, but I had to stop today, because I was getting too claustrophobic. On their behalf, I mean. It's not the first time a slash pairing gives me ( Read more... )

I think one reason why I sometimes don't post a lot to lj is that I get into a state of mind where I believe I have to find a subject line before I write the post. Cue blank stare and no writing ( Read more... )

When I woke up this morning I found tinsel in my shoes. Holiday parties - they follow you home! I'm scared to open the closet in case a choir leaps out and bellows Silent Night at me. But I have my favorite seasonal decoration on the fridge: my RotK ticket. I wonder if it'll still be valid if I sketch little sparkly reindeer on it ( Read more... )

Apologies to the people to whom I still owe drabbles! I'm working on it - see subject line ( Read more... )

I have a cold. I'm sure you all wanted to know that.

thete1 decided to start a meme, and that seems to have gone well; people like to talk about their stories and themselves. I'm certainly no exception.

What do you think your last five stories say about you?I was torn between last five finished and last five posted, and decided I had to find out if ( Read more... )