( Harry Potter )

These Chromatic posts make me happy, especially int the wake of the slash debate. So far none of the arguments I've seen on metafandom exactly ping me as being emblematic of what I feel about the issue. I say write whatever you want, but if you put "Eww het" in your notes, you better believe I'm not reading your stuff. If I notice that you keep ( Read more... )

Meme from redcandle17The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead ( Read more... )

At this time every year the ideas start to wane. Realizing that this is a yearly thing that disappears as soon as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve ( Read more... )

I've been MIA lately due to work. The summer course I'm teaching in a condensed grade 12 English, which means I'm teaching 110 hours of material in three weeks. Luckily, the end is in sight. I haven't written a single thing since the course started and I've been slacking on reading. I'm not beating up myself, though. The first year of teaching is ( Read more... )

First attempt at Spock/Uhura = spectacular fail. Will try again soon.

The only good thing to come out that fail is that I wrote over a thousand words yesterday. I have written that much in a day in a long time. I'm crediting WriteMonkey for that. WriteMonkey is a Windows program that opens a text document to full screen, blocking out your task bar ( Read more... )

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The worst thing about being sick is that it messes up the habits I've been trying to cultivate. Instead of reading and writing steadily, for the past few days I've been sitting in bed wallowing in tissues and snot. Not a lovely image, I know. I've puttered around in the Internet here and there but I lacked the motivation to participate. It's only ( Read more... )

There are many reasons I want to cry at the moment. The first is this cold that will not go away. The downside of working with children and teenagers is that your chances of catching a virus triples. I have not been this sick in a year and a half. I can still breathe, and I'm grateful for that, but the sneezing and blowing my nose every ten minutes ( Read more... )

The last week and a half has been something else. I'm getting to that point where I'm slowly becoming okay with not being the nice teacher who accommodates everyone. It's not my job to make sure every kid pass. It's my job to make sure they have the opportunity to pass. There's only so much I can do. At the end of the day the kid has to pick up the ( Read more... )