Really, nothing but Call the Midwife thoughts, these days.
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So 2014. Not such a great year so far. Work has been insane, and I've been having a bunch of health problems that have exacerbated the work craziness and probably also been exacerbated by it. But the two big, stressful work deadlines are in the past, and I've got a medical test on Wednesday that promises some answers (*fingers crossed*), so I'm ( Read more... )

I spent a little while trying to formulate an opinion on yesterday's new episode of Doctor Who, but these efforts mostly left my brain feeling a bit addled, so I have come to the conclusion that it's really probably best not to think too hard about it. In short: there were a few things I liked, a few things I didn't, and a whole lot of things that ( Read more... )

So chaila43 suggested we should post awesome things in July, and I asked if anyone had suggestions for awesome things to post, and she came back with a request for discussion of favorite fanworks. This struck me as an excellent idea, because although I make recs from time to time, an all-time favorites list would look a bit different, I think--in part ( Read more... )

To start with, have three stories each from three fandoms: the first a fannish staple of mine, the second the new shiny in my life, and the third an example of what I love best about Yuletide (ie, reading fic about sources I'd never thought to read fic for).

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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First official rejection of the 2010-11 job season today. Not a surprise--the job was a long shot at best--and really, it's hard to take it personally when you're informed that there were over 350 applicants (of whom I'd bet fully 300 were well-qualified for the job, and at least 100 would have been quite excellent, if hired). Anyway, thinking more ( Read more... )

I think I promised recs and musings on Irina and Jack/Irina, but you'll have to content yourself at present with recs (which have taken enough time on their own, since I'm one of those people who has to read ALL THE STORIES before I feel like I can make a recs post).

Let's start with some gen Irina-focused stories:

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I was poking at an LJ comm the other day in which people were commenting with their Facebook identities. Rationally, I can't think of anything wrong with this (it's a public comm, after all, and if other people want to link their LJs and Facebooks, so be it), but I was still kind of squicked out, and I've let it be the thing that pushed me over ( Read more... )

I had such good femgenficathon intentions. Intentions to write, intentions to read, intentions to rec. The first of those got swallowed up by a summer that got a lot busier than I expected, and while I may yet catch up with the second, I figured I should go ahead and do a little of the third, in case I don't catch up with the second for a while yet.

First, femgenficathon ( Read more... )

1. Apparently I live under a rock, because I'm still not entirely sure what Inception is. Judging from my Facebook list (and to a certain extent my flist here), it's a movie that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD has seen. Except me. Because I've not even heard of it outside of people talking about it, and I have no idea what it's about or who is in it or ( Read more... )