Recovering, Writing, Reading, Watching
I'm recovering pretty well from Thursday's surgery, though I'm still having some moments of discomfort. The scars will be fairly well camouflaged once they heal. Though Friday I had swelled up so much that I went up nearly a cup size. I sleep on my side, so when I woke up Friday morning they'd swelled sideways. It was an interesting look.
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I realized that I've already posted about 43,600 words of fic in 2017, which might not be much compared to my output in my early years in fandom, when I was writing about a fic a week, but really good for how I've been doing the past few years. Of course, my high output years came when I had a lot of friends inside my fandoms I spoke with almost nightly and had massive fan talk coming to my inbox daily so I doubt I could do it these days.
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So when she tweeted me the other night and asked me if I would read the Cheesecake Factory Menu live, if she raised half a million dollars for the charity, I did not ask any of the obvious questions (like, why would I read the Cheesecake Factory Menu aloud? or Who would want to hear this? or even How would you ever make that much money for something so unlikely?). Instead I said I'd like the money to go to Refugees, please, and sure. (And I added, "If you get to a million dollars, I'll also read the entirety of Fox in Socks after the Cheesecake Factory menu.")
And then Sara did something even more unlikely. She set up a page to allow people to donate at Crowdrise.com (https://www.crowdrise.com/neil-gaiman-will-do-a-live-reading-of-the-cheesecake-factory-menu-if-we-raise-500000-for-refugees/fundraiser/sarabenincasa)... and people started to donate. Lots of them.. (from "The whole Cheesecake Menu Thing Explained, with photographs")
Having heard Neil Gaiman read for Coraline, I'd like to hear the Cheesecake Factory menu and Fox in Socks.
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For me, Gillian Anderson has been the MVP of American Gods. I'm enjoying Audrey too, and how it's fleshing out a lot of the characters more.
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I realized that I've already posted about 43,600 words of fic in 2017, which might not be much compared to my output in my early years in fandom, when I was writing about a fic a week, but really good for how I've been doing the past few years. Of course, my high output years came when I had a lot of friends inside my fandoms I spoke with almost nightly and had massive fan talk coming to my inbox daily so I doubt I could do it these days.
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So when she tweeted me the other night and asked me if I would read the Cheesecake Factory Menu live, if she raised half a million dollars for the charity, I did not ask any of the obvious questions (like, why would I read the Cheesecake Factory Menu aloud? or Who would want to hear this? or even How would you ever make that much money for something so unlikely?). Instead I said I'd like the money to go to Refugees, please, and sure. (And I added, "If you get to a million dollars, I'll also read the entirety of Fox in Socks after the Cheesecake Factory menu.")
And then Sara did something even more unlikely. She set up a page to allow people to donate at Crowdrise.com (https://www.crowdrise.com/neil-gaiman-will-do-a-live-reading-of-the-cheesecake-factory-menu-if-we-raise-500000-for-refugees/fundraiser/sarabenincasa)... and people started to donate. Lots of them.. (from "The whole Cheesecake Menu Thing Explained, with photographs")
Having heard Neil Gaiman read for Coraline, I'd like to hear the Cheesecake Factory menu and Fox in Socks.
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For me, Gillian Anderson has been the MVP of American Gods. I'm enjoying Audrey too, and how it's fleshing out a lot of the characters more.
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comments at Dreamwidth.