at how my escalating Radiohead obsession stole away my energy for the LoM archive trawl I'd begun in February, actually. LoM is still the fandom I'm "writing" fic about in my mind all the time, so it's definitely still an active fandom for me. But my fannish reading, in the last few months, has been Citizen Insane - a mindbogglingly huge collection ( Read more... )

The Sandman/LoM crossover thing has just grown to around 2,500 words - nearly four pages - and it feels barely started ( Read more... )

the beginning of my HP AU. It may be the purest distillation of 'my' kind of angst I've yet achieved. For some reason Sirius and Remus work incredibly well with that. (More precisely: a pre-2003 fanon idea of Sirius and Remus works incredibly well with my kind of angst. I don't actually know canon Sirius and Remus all that well. So there's another ( Read more... )

Short update on the stink: it has lessened - maybe it had something to do with the heat. It seems somewhat correlated with days when the temperature in my flat reaches or exceeds 30 degrees Celsius ( Read more... )

It happens, especially when I'm so close to finishing something yet can't ( Read more... )

editing the beginning of The Man Who Fell to Earth, aka "the 2.08 survival fic", down to four pages. I think what I have left now is fairly solid, aside from the obvious problems I have with keeping dialogue in character, especially for the 1970s crowd. The main problem, though, the problem that has kept me from continuing this project since 2008, ( Read more... )

Just got an invitation for an interview for the three to six-year university position for which I made my Ph.D. proposal thingie in the last few weeks.

WHAT DO I DO NOW????

(Also, wtf am I doing right, now, that I apparently did wrong the 1.5 years before?)

*boggles*

*frets*

ARRRGH!

Has LJ been assimilated?

Okay... I guess that means I have to migrate my journal to Dreamwidth now. *sigh* One more task I don't really have the time for.

Arrrgh.

This is good news, because since yesterday evening I've already found about half a dozen new bands I *need* to hear more from ( Read more... )

- Washed four big loads of dishes (I swear, if I had a dishwasher I'd save enough time, per week, to take up an entire new hobby. Or, maybe, actually devote some time to one of my current ones. Or actually reply to some e-mail ( Read more... )