Been a rough week and a half at work, the weather is the only thing making it bearable - I did PE three times this week, have been taking the kids out for English reading and even let them run around and play "Stuck in the Mud" for five mins at the end of the lesson one day! Monday will tell the tale of the rest of my year...

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You know, if you're nervous about watching the world skating championships, wine makes it a lot easier. Fact.

Nothing else about that because, y'know, spoilers.

Also? Wine and eBay is a bad combination. And I've just ordered something that, if it comes off, will make me do handsprings of delight.

I needed to see posts like this after the day I had (two parents in before half ten, and the principal not in? Pass the vino!)...

Seen on mosca's LJ, The 10 Greatest Figure Skaters Who Never Won An Olympic Medal. Interesting look, but not as interesting as mosca's sequel part one; twenty great skaters who never won an Olympic medalLots of YouTube links, oh ( Read more... )

Spent most of this past week disappearing into skating and pondering the irony of the fact that Europeans are in Sheffield in England, yet the Tv coverage is absolutely the worst it has ever, ever been.

Two fics I found while pondering -

The Last Scene by ami-ven, NCIS, The last book in the L.J. Tibbs series stayed on the best sellers list for eight weeks.

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Meant to post this last night but didn't have the computer turned on and can't figure out how to embed from the iPad!

RIP Etta James

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Just finished looking at Jodeyne Higgins and Sean Rice's short from worlds in 93 where Sean blew the side by side spin... Underhill and Martini are commentating and Barbara actually utters the words that it's very unusual to make a mistake on the spin... the irony, it burns.

On the other hand, their short in 97 Nationals, Reflections of Passion. ( Read more... )

Sixteen years ago today, Sergei Grinkov passed away. He was 28 years old.

Have some skating.

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Hard to believe that Daria is now 19 years old with an American accent...how the time does fly!

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The quintessential G&G program.

Off for more YouTube now!

If this works it will be Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from Skate Canada 2011 gala, I Want To Hold Your Hand... another chapter from the "I Don't But If I Did" story.

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ETA: Wahooey!!!!!

Today and indeed this weekend I have been introducing Nimoy to the wonders of figure skating via Skate Canada. There is work yet to be done I feel.

That said, today I ended up seeing Tessa and Scott's short, free and gala. I swear, I could look at them all day. As ye all know I don't do RPF, but if I did? I totally would!

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I've said it once, or a million times and I'll say it one million more. The only thing worse than doing nights is being married to someone who's doing nights.

Have been internet surfing rather than writing. Bad me. However, I did find some interesting posts on writing, about women in fiction and the dreaded Mary Sue... Ladies, Don't Let Anybody ( Read more... )