Happy August
Gah, you know, I keep having all these, "I want to post about that," thoughts and then I actually get a few minutes here with time to do that, because I don't need to spend 3/4 of my limited computer time with work-related stuff, and I go blank. Fabulous. We'll stick to a list because nobody else needs to know how long it was supposed to be, right? ;)
-The spell of hot, muggy weather we've had for about the last two weeks has finally stomped on my allergies. I've been coughing and sneezing my head off the last few days. Apparently, my body knows it's August. :P One of the few areas where Halifax beats pretty much everywhere else is in regards to allergies, so I was kind of expecting them to flare up here, but hoping it wouldn't be too bad. Though, I expect having spent time in London recently didn't help matters; it's really more the coastal areas where there's any improvement.
-Even with as limited as I've been forced to play so far, I'm enjoying the Est and having fun with the writing and posting parts both. I can't wait to be able to get properly involved when I have my laptop back. I'm also finding it absolutely fascinating to deal with Rob at different points in time (there are, of course, flashback scenes). It's so interesting to get past a certain point in writing something set *then*, and then realise how it affects who he is and what he thinks/feels/does *now*, and that it's actually really critical to his character development. Whee.
-Semi-relatedly, I am getting to the point in some things where I am somewhat less comfortable posting from the library, lol. Not that that'll stop me, but it appears I do have some sense of propriety after all. I'd say something about y'all being shocked, but by this time, I sincerely doubt it!
-I need to post about this in more detail, and possibly steal some of cookie2697's pix, but we went to the BBC Proms last Sunday, for the Doctor Who Prom, with muffinkath7's sister and a friend of Anne's. This is not a formal graduation dance type thing, btw - that's what I thought it was the first time I heard of it, that some school had gone all fannish on their formal! - but the Proms are a series of orchestral concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The DW one was # 13 and it was amazing. It wasn't the first time, but it was probably the strongest that I've wished that I were a really, truly obsessed fan for the show, because the entire thing was a glorious exercise in the best kind of fan service. (No, not *that* kind, you naughty people.)
That's all I've got time for now. Off to Wales in the morning (so excited!)!
-The spell of hot, muggy weather we've had for about the last two weeks has finally stomped on my allergies. I've been coughing and sneezing my head off the last few days. Apparently, my body knows it's August. :P One of the few areas where Halifax beats pretty much everywhere else is in regards to allergies, so I was kind of expecting them to flare up here, but hoping it wouldn't be too bad. Though, I expect having spent time in London recently didn't help matters; it's really more the coastal areas where there's any improvement.
-Even with as limited as I've been forced to play so far, I'm enjoying the Est and having fun with the writing and posting parts both. I can't wait to be able to get properly involved when I have my laptop back. I'm also finding it absolutely fascinating to deal with Rob at different points in time (there are, of course, flashback scenes). It's so interesting to get past a certain point in writing something set *then*, and then realise how it affects who he is and what he thinks/feels/does *now*, and that it's actually really critical to his character development. Whee.
-Semi-relatedly, I am getting to the point in some things where I am somewhat less comfortable posting from the library, lol. Not that that'll stop me, but it appears I do have some sense of propriety after all. I'd say something about y'all being shocked, but by this time, I sincerely doubt it!
-I need to post about this in more detail, and possibly steal some of cookie2697's pix, but we went to the BBC Proms last Sunday, for the Doctor Who Prom, with muffinkath7's sister and a friend of Anne's. This is not a formal graduation dance type thing, btw - that's what I thought it was the first time I heard of it, that some school had gone all fannish on their formal! - but the Proms are a series of orchestral concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The DW one was # 13 and it was amazing. It wasn't the first time, but it was probably the strongest that I've wished that I were a really, truly obsessed fan for the show, because the entire thing was a glorious exercise in the best kind of fan service. (No, not *that* kind, you naughty people.)
That's all I've got time for now. Off to Wales in the morning (so excited!)!