If my body didn't let me know it was PMS time, my mind sure would. And other news.
I'm in that stage of PMS where my mind will not turn off and I have a lot of energy. I'm torn between continuing the fall cleaning (clothes are next; I realized I have a whole drawer full of t-shirts, and there are about 3 I wear to Escapade, but I haven't worn any of the others in a very long time, and my Rent shirt is hopelessly torn) and writing (scenes from a Buffy Navy AU, the CSI hooker AU, nostalgia about people from high school (I haven't gotten out the yearbooks. Yet.)). Someday someone will do a study and then we'll finally have scientific data to go along with the anecdotal evidence that creativity can be highly influenced by a woman's menstrual cycle.
In other news: I greatly appreciate all your advice, but it turned out to be unneeded. The wedding was cancelled (first thing in the morning the day of), although the couple is still together. Here's a hint: If you're ever getting married, discuss where you're going to live sometime before, not after, the rehearsal dinner.
In yet other news: I feel there's a shift here, in which this journal is less and less fannish, and I'm not sure what to do about that. I don't think my life is less fannish, but I don't write as much or as widely as I used to, and I don't know as many fannish people as I used to. I could post snippets of unfinished fic, but I think that's unfair to you because I don't finish most of my unfinished fic, and you'll be left wondering forever. Or tormented with your own version of the rest of the story.
I discovered recently, that the real reason I dislike WiPs is that I will fan fic them in my head, just the way I will fan fic any other unfinished story. Tesla's S Curve poll put a whole Lindsey and Lilah in the hall scene in my head. As soon as I figured it out, I had a whole version of the reveal in Kat's "Bent Justice" and was subsequently somewhat disappointed when the actual reveal was significantly different. There's some lingering Metallica fandom trauma that makes me hesitant to actually reveal this predilection to the world.
In other news: I greatly appreciate all your advice, but it turned out to be unneeded. The wedding was cancelled (first thing in the morning the day of), although the couple is still together. Here's a hint: If you're ever getting married, discuss where you're going to live sometime before, not after, the rehearsal dinner.
In yet other news: I feel there's a shift here, in which this journal is less and less fannish, and I'm not sure what to do about that. I don't think my life is less fannish, but I don't write as much or as widely as I used to, and I don't know as many fannish people as I used to. I could post snippets of unfinished fic, but I think that's unfair to you because I don't finish most of my unfinished fic, and you'll be left wondering forever. Or tormented with your own version of the rest of the story.
I discovered recently, that the real reason I dislike WiPs is that I will fan fic them in my head, just the way I will fan fic any other unfinished story. Tesla's S Curve poll put a whole Lindsey and Lilah in the hall scene in my head. As soon as I figured it out, I had a whole version of the reveal in Kat's "Bent Justice" and was subsequently somewhat disappointed when the actual reveal was significantly different. There's some lingering Metallica fandom trauma that makes me hesitant to actually reveal this predilection to the world.