Well... that's a chest cold.
And I'm flying to Seattle tomorrow. Dammit dammit dammit, body, this is so not on.
Busy/not busy past few days. Saw The Hobbit, enjoyed it, am curious to see how it'll fit in with the next two films before I make too many judgments. Have not accomplished as much cleaning (or very much of anything else) due to incipient chest cold, which seems to have decided to stick around, even after I fed it a burger last night, which usually fends these off. Still haven't written my Yuletide, which is starting to worry me. Trying to get better about rhythm and strumming and changing chords with the ukulele, which is, as ever, a pain in my ass.
Can't read the news much. I thought I was okay, about Sandy Hook, but now that more details about how teachers and employees acted to stop the gunman and save lives are coming out... can't do it. Just can't.
I guess we're doing memes about Yuletides past? I can get behind that.
2007: The Amazing Invisible Mercury Man (I Was A Teenage Quicksilver Cowboy) -- Stephen King's IT
I actually matched on another fandom (Queer as Folk UK) my first year, but that was, in part, because I'd done the thing where I volunteered for absolutely everything I'd heard of, without really thinking about what I'd be able to write. When I got my assignment, I realized I didn't know the show well enough, so... IT was one of my recipient's other requests, and since we had a lot of lead time, I read it. This story is about the things that piss me off -- how nobody remembers what happens after the book is over, and how Ritchie and Bill are still riding to each other's rescue.
2008: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cherry Bomb Red -- Ten Inch Hero
This was the year my recipient and I wrote for each other! This was also the year I discovered Supernatural, so I was all over Mr. Jensen Ackles and his other work. This story takes place post-film, and it's about Tish and Priestley actually communicating that they don't want ordinary, they want each other.
2009: Delicious -- Eddie Izzard stand-up routines
The most popular story I've ever written and probably ever will. It's about Canada, and the Northwest Passage, and Vikings, and polar bears. There are Nazis too. It was a hell of a lot of fun to write.
2010: The Squid Is a Metaphor -- Hark! A Vagrant (Kate Beaton comics)
Pirates and PostSecret: seems legit. I was supposed to write about the epic love story of the Captain and the Brigand. This sort of happened instead.
2011: Or Maybe Twice -- Yellow Submarine
Cosmologies are my favorite! How Pepperland came to be, how it's because of WWII, and why it took the Beatles to come and sing the Meanies away.
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Busy/not busy past few days. Saw The Hobbit, enjoyed it, am curious to see how it'll fit in with the next two films before I make too many judgments. Have not accomplished as much cleaning (or very much of anything else) due to incipient chest cold, which seems to have decided to stick around, even after I fed it a burger last night, which usually fends these off. Still haven't written my Yuletide, which is starting to worry me. Trying to get better about rhythm and strumming and changing chords with the ukulele, which is, as ever, a pain in my ass.
Can't read the news much. I thought I was okay, about Sandy Hook, but now that more details about how teachers and employees acted to stop the gunman and save lives are coming out... can't do it. Just can't.
I guess we're doing memes about Yuletides past? I can get behind that.
2007: The Amazing Invisible Mercury Man (I Was A Teenage Quicksilver Cowboy) -- Stephen King's IT
I actually matched on another fandom (Queer as Folk UK) my first year, but that was, in part, because I'd done the thing where I volunteered for absolutely everything I'd heard of, without really thinking about what I'd be able to write. When I got my assignment, I realized I didn't know the show well enough, so... IT was one of my recipient's other requests, and since we had a lot of lead time, I read it. This story is about the things that piss me off -- how nobody remembers what happens after the book is over, and how Ritchie and Bill are still riding to each other's rescue.
2008: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cherry Bomb Red -- Ten Inch Hero
This was the year my recipient and I wrote for each other! This was also the year I discovered Supernatural, so I was all over Mr. Jensen Ackles and his other work. This story takes place post-film, and it's about Tish and Priestley actually communicating that they don't want ordinary, they want each other.
2009: Delicious -- Eddie Izzard stand-up routines
The most popular story I've ever written and probably ever will. It's about Canada, and the Northwest Passage, and Vikings, and polar bears. There are Nazis too. It was a hell of a lot of fun to write.
2010: The Squid Is a Metaphor -- Hark! A Vagrant (Kate Beaton comics)
Pirates and PostSecret: seems legit. I was supposed to write about the epic love story of the Captain and the Brigand. This sort of happened instead.
2011: Or Maybe Twice -- Yellow Submarine
Cosmologies are my favorite! How Pepperland came to be, how it's because of WWII, and why it took the Beatles to come and sing the Meanies away.
This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!