Recently returned from upstate New York, where our first customer flipped the switch on the project I've been working on for about a year and a half now. It was more fun than stressful, to my surprise--we'd anticipated most of the major issues, and the only bug we identified was something I couldn't possibly have found in testing. I got hugs from ( Read more... )

This morning I finally unpacked the sweaters from my winter chest. It should have been done much earlier, because we've had late November weather for the last month, but today is beautiful--sunny and crisp, with leaves still on the trees and temperatures hovering around fifty. I drove out to my parents' this morning because I'm helping with the ( Read more... )

So I know I won't have time for 10 stories in 10 days; I haven't decided yet whether I'm going for 5 in 10 or 10,000 words written and posted in ten days. Either way, I think it's doable--almost halfway there already!

This fic brought to you by this thread on tumblr, this post and the comments on DW/LJ, the intense nostalgia I experienced after ( Read more... )

What usually happens when I try to write something is that it starts small and nicely contained, and it's not until I actually begin typing (usually much later) that it turns into a sprawling epic I will never finish. (See: the massive post-Cryoburn series that still occupies a good deal of my creative headspace.) Or, if I'm lucky, it'll keep ( Read more... )

is when you're genuinely excited about the things you're writing and the things your friends are writing.


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• Turkish sandwich intestines
• saffron
• North American numbering plan
• smell nitroglycerin
• hoagie

The closest I actually got to the CS department in college was a theoretical course cross-listed with the math department. (To graduate, I needed one class in the math and sciences division that didn't count for the math major, and this one technically fit the bill.) I've regretted this any number of times since then, and eventually when I have ( Read more... )

Aggggggh I have just now discovered the logical emotional conclusion to the arc of my Big Bang fic. After a twelve-hour day in the office. With one week left to edit the crap out of it and incorporate beta suggestions. I think I can fix the arc with a single scene and some tweaks, but...why do these things always happen just before major work ( Read more... )

...for another fandom right now. I owe so many emails it's not even funny, and I have several thousand words of Big Bang draft to get done ASAP. And yet ( Read more... )

Work today was exhausting, as apparently one of my tasks for the summer is convincing 150 self-directed and opinionated people to change the way they do their jobs. Nicely.

Too worn out to write with any focus. I keep getting distracted by research for the current project, then sidetracked into research that clearly won't fit into the current ( Read more... )