Am now at my mum's for the week over Christmas. I have internet access, but probably won't have time to respond to my Yuletide story before I go home on the 30th. So, dear Yuletide author, please don't fret if you don't hear from me straight away.

I seem to be cursed with waking up stupidly early; I blame the cat. Also, I found a word missing ( Read more... )

I went away for the weekend with a few non-fannish friends and a couple of new-to-me people and all in all it was a fabulous time. There was too much drinking and too much eating - oh, my god the tapas was divine - and someone should slap me next time I think it's a good idea to drive two and half hours in the morning to go to work. An extra night ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating this post for a while, but have been too lazy to make it and this morning I realised that most of what I want to say is nothing more than whiny self-pity. See;

"Woe is me, I have to try to understand permutational non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance and use it in an important report. Woe is me, I think my ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had as fabulous a time as I did.

I wrote stories for both yuletide and DWNOGA; as if you couldn't tell from the panic apparent in this journal. Who am I kidding? I loved it.

For yuletide I wrote a This Life story called Bad Shags & Old Friends. I loved writing this story, ( but it was a challenge. )

First, Happy Birthday erilyn! I hope your family spoils you shamelessly.

Some interesting things I've read recently:

a) an essay by Annie Proulx about Brokeback Mountain, the movie and writing it, and
b) this interview with Val Kilmer, done when he was promoting Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. His Robert Downey Jr. adoration makes me smile. I may just have to ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been consumed by, in chronological order, DWNOGA, Christmas, moving house, and work. I keep thinking I should post and promptly forgetting what I was going to post about. So, like many posts before it, this is full of random...stuff.

First, SeSa aka DWNOGA. Enormous thanks go to eponymous for writing me Perfect. If you haven't read ( Read more... )