Missing Major Dick Winters today. There are so few real people who are heroes to me. I know I'm far from alone in mourning a role model and an inspiration. Hang tough, friends.

*Sadly does not have appropriate Winters icon; alternatively uses ghostly Skip icon of pure love*

Ah, my condo board... How you make me wish I still lived in that crappy rental apartment where the bathroom ceiling literally fell into my bathtub. Among tonight's long, involved discussions was a detailed exploration of the potential need for emergency exit signage outside every unit. (In brief: There are three stairwells in this building. Each ( Read more... )

Sneaking in at work... Shhh! My mom was in town last night on her way home from my sister's, so I have been LJless... Woe!

Okay, ultraviolet9a tagged me for the meme where you list your five favorites of your own stories.
( Fiddle dee dee! How you do run on. )

So much to say about "Tall Tales" but I will post in detail later because fangirls are sleeping in my livingroom right now, but I can sum up the evening thusly:

OMG SSKIIIIP!!!!!!!"

Yeah. Screamed in unison by three eduring but currently otherwise-occupied Band of Brothers fangirls ( Read more... )

Spent the afternoon (after a fairly pointless morning of wandering through a town where every single thing was closed) watching Joyeux Noël, starring--briefly and in true BoB secondary-character-played-by-somewhat-obscure-actor fashion--Robin Laing. He is the first person onscreen, rushing adorkably into church to find his brother and announce to ( Read more... )

I have to admit to not liking my computer or LJ very much lately. Yes, it has brought me many friends and a hell of a lot of entertainment and personal amusement. But this month it's brought me the biggest load of pain and heartache I've seen this century. Just yesterday I was thinking how all the joy seems to have gone from my previously almost ( Read more... )

In mulling over my fic history for today's meme, I went back to my never posted giant X-Files post-apocalyptic AU thing, and I was reading my notes on how it was supposed to end and why I bailed the fuck out and never finished it, and I just realized that the BSG people are writing the exact same subplot. The whole thing on BSG with the breeding ( Read more... )

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Don't you love Fridays before holidays and fun weekends to come? Time creeps by so very slowly. Of course, I have plenty to do here. I am having trouble focusing, however, and therefore I succumb to Teh Meme. Gacked from a bunch of people:

Fandom/character meme.

Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you:1. The first character I first fell ( Read more... )

Okay, have just had a good, fun roll around the laundry room with the AWs and absolutely have to get back to catching up on work stuff, but wanted to update while I'm in front of a computer that a) has internet access but b) does not have my mother standing directly over my shoulder reading what I write like a postcard (and by the way, Mom, I'm ( Read more... )