Freedom!

[elizabethoshea]

Well, almost. Just finished my hideous exam and lived - in one piece, if not entirely unscathed - to tell the tale (and we don't find out the results until after Christmas so I'm going to try to put it from my mind between now and then - once the immediate flashbacks wear off, at least

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[nellhowell]

Ooh, yay! And congrats and what fun for me to share your sudden, freed surge of Christmas feelings vicariously! I'm ever so glad you've got frost (and I don't :) and the whole splurge of Christmassy feelings.

Also, writing the DIALJ story will be part of the fun! I'm sure of it! (Just trying to help with the positive feelings. :g:)

[elizabethoshea]

Thank you! It's true that the writing's fun in distant prospect - it's just as the deadline looms closer and inspiration disappears over the horizon that I start to panic *g*.

But I'm still full of Christmas cheer tonight (singing along with Salisbury cathedral choir on Radio 4 while I tidy my room - In the Bleak Midwinter; very Lartonesque), so I'm making the most of it.

And I'll keep wishing you not to have frost, while simultaneously wishing for snow in Vancouver (which my friends there are hoping for on Christmas day)!

[msmoat]

Yay! At least the worst is over--you know you can ace any essay you attempt. *g*

Now, as for the story...ooh, I can't wait! It's been too long--and that snippet sequel was just a teaser, you know. Plus, I had nothing to do with getting you into this fix--er--opportunity so I don't have to feel any guilt!

Go on, then, tell us a story.... ;-)

[elizabethoshea]

Arrgh! The pressure, the pressure...*g*

And, actually, you know, you're *entirely* responsible for getting me into this fix. Okay, so it's a rather convoluted chain of guilt but if you hadn't got yourself a LiveJournal, I'd never have got one and if I didn't have one I wouldn't have thought of having anything to do with any LJ challengy things and if I hadn't been tempted by the mistletoe thing I wouldn't be in this mess now. So it's your fault! QED *g*.

Unfortunately, shifting the blame doesn't shift the writer's block. But at least I have the consolation of knowing you're going through the same agony - and your deadline's two days earlier than mine...*g*

[msmoat]

Oh, cruel. (And where does Bodie say that? My mind is a sieve.) I ought to have cut that first story off midway through, then promised the rest for January. Right when Bodie first kissed Doyle. "Part 2 to come". Ah, lost opportunities!

Now, if you want to talk about blame...okay, you're right, I am partially to blame. But really it's the people who created the challenge. So innocent, they seemed, so...innocuous. Oh, come and join us; don't worry if you can't do much; all in the spirit of Pros and the season.... Ha! We're in big trouble, mate. Very big trouble.

[byslantedlight]

*flutters eyelashes winningly and innocuously*

Idle curiosity

[1crowdedhour]

Which M.R. James short story?

Re: Idle curiosity

[elizabethoshea]

"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" - it's an old favourite, and it fits very well with Freud's essay (stuff about not being sure whether things are actually alive and all that). We were meant to write about a story we've covered on the course, but I wanted to write about this and the tutor was fine with it, so... I could actually rather enjoy writing this one, but I wish I could do it after Christmas rather than before .

And thank you for your congratulations - and your idle curiosity

Oops.

[1crowdedhour]

Congratulations! That's what I meant to say when I opened the comment window. First congratulations, then idle curiosity.

[metabolick]

Enjoy your well-earned time off! I too am glad that you have frost and I don't. Though it's been getting pretty cold here at night by so. California standards (upper 30s).

I felt the same way about others setting the standard very high for Mistletoe before my turns. But I have to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed every single offering, and I know I will yours too. ::sending positive vibes to your muse::

[elizabethoshea]

Thank you for the positive vibes - they're desperately needed, I can tell you *g*. Maybe a little Christmas magic...

We have been seeing some wonderful stuff, haven't we? I keep being amazed all over again by just how creative and original everyone's being.

I had to translate your temperatures (somehow I work in Farenheit in the summer and celsius in the winter - which confuses even me *g*). It's minus 4 here in celsius today (according to my BBC weather thingy), which I think works out as about 24 in Farenheit. It's lovely. I just drove home from dinner with a friend, and it was thick fog (which could have been a bit hairy except that the roads were pretty much empty at this time of night) and thick frost. Unfortunately, I'm off down to my parents' for Christmas in a couple of days and it's a lot warmer where they are, so I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much for a frosty (if not a snowy) Christmas.

[metabolick]

Argh! Sorry for being so Yank-centric about the temp. I keep forgetting that the rest of the world uses C (and this after I commented on the fact to hubby this morning that I am so culturally deprived for not being able to make the conversion quickly in my head).

Someone commented on one of the lists about how LJ has injected new life into the fandom because it is so visually oriented (and we have such great eye candy in the Lads) and that it lends itself to immediate feedback. I couldn't agree more.

[elizabethoshea]

No, not Yank-centric - I'm old enough that I do still think half in each (though I still need a calculator for the conversion...). It's just that summer temperatures seem to work best in Farenheit and winter ones in Celsius, so I spend my whole life jumping backwards and forwards between the two *g*. It's like height and weight - at work we have to do everything in metric but I still have to translate it back to imperial in my head or I'm lost. Someone weighing whatever kilos means nothing to me, but put it into stone and I can get a mental picture. Same with height in centimetres meaning nothing until it's translated into feet and inches. At least I've mastered decimal currency *g*