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Seriously long update: School, fandom, and surgery. (Spoilers for the Happy Town pilot and SN 5x19.)
I have about a bazillion things that need addressing, so here goes.
Week-Before-Dead-Week is finally over, thank god. I thought it was going to be the death of me. Too many projects! D: But I got by – thanks mostly to my fantastic Tech Writing partner and HCI group members. They’re amazing, really. I mean, we’re talking a 4-page report and an 8-page report, respectively, that all I did was beta. It was fantastic.
Speaking of betaing, I beta’d a drabble of benebu’s the other day, which was fun. You should read it; it’s good. (ETA: Linked in the comments.)
And speaking of fic, I have a plan for getting all of mine done. Namely (as I’ve planned since making the arguably poor choice to sign up for Writo de Mayo again) SP will be my May project, so that with luck I’ll get it done during May and have time to fix it up, if necessary, in June; then NCT will be my June project.
My July project will be sleeping, watching TV, and hanging out with Zera, because unless something goes horribly awry with my plans or, god forbid, my finances, I’ll be having surgery on July 2nd. I haven’t officially gotten to pick the date yet, but it was doable as of a few days ago, and I don’t see that changing between now and when I can get home and get the rest of the necessary things (read: pictures) to his secretary.
I have, and silly me not mentioning it yet, decided to go with Medalie in Cleveland, rather than Raphael. I had all but settled on Raphael (keyword “settled”), until I had a small epiphany and realized that the only reason I was going to Raphael was location, and that wasn’t worth it to me. I’d just seen and heard so many great things, nothing but glowing, effusive praise, about Medalie, and more than a few poor reviews of Raphael. Besides, Raphael hadn’t returned my email, and I wasn’t thrilled about that (I hate phones with the flaming white-hot passion of a thousand suns, so having to call him to get a response was not a situation that made me happy); Medalie, meanwhile, had gotten back to me within three hours, during non-business hours. (Yeah, I was blown away, too!) Talked about it with my coworker/supervisor at work, A, too, who agreed with me that I should go with my gut and if my parents aren’t going to at least look at the pictures on which I’m basing my decision (they aren’t), then they don’t have a right to guilt-trip me into going to Plano instead (unless they were helping pay for it, which they’re not).
So, Cleveland it is, and so far it sounds like even without the travel, it might end up being slightly more expensive than Plano, but like I told Zera, it’s all peace-of-mind money that I’m willing to pay for not having to “What if I’d gone to Medalie?” for the rest of my life.
Now if I can just manage to focus onschool anything other than surgery until July. (Hence all the projects.)
Didn’t get into the Geospatial Summer Institute after all, so that frees up May, and gets rid of the annoying housing issue. Also can’t take the summer class I was considering given that it’s grad-students-only. So yay, time to write fic! :D
And speaking of fic again, WdM is maybe not going ideally. 0 words so far, and I haven’t done the last bit of research (provenances; anyone happen to know where I should start looking?) that I’d wanted to get done before May. I may just have to write it anyway and do the research afterwards if I have time.
None of which is to say that school/finals aren’t, of course, taking precedence! *cough* ;) No, no, really, I kid. I’ve actually gotten a lot of homework done this weekend; I’m kind of proud of myself. Gotta fact-check and expand on my Principles homework, finish the last half-a-problem of Theory, and then it’s onto Friday’s cyberethics essay for HCI (hate hate hate him for assigning an essay over Dead Week, argh), which once I get started ought not be too horrible.
Oh, oh, oh, and way off-topic, but I just remembered. Happy Town. Kubicek at BTV was hating on it pretty hard (ETA: here), and I tend to agree with his opinions on SN, so I was kind of concerned. But it wasn’t that bad, lol. I mean, there were bits I seriously lol’d – and the preview for next week? laughed so hard I may have missed something – but, if nothing else, the creep-factor of the last two seconds made up for a lot of it. He said it was trying to be like Harper’s Island, and I, for one, think it mostly pulled it off. It’s fun, anyway.
(As an aside, anyone else who watched it: was it just me who the landlady(?) reminded of Dolores Herbig from DLM? Seriously, could have been her personality-twin, plus some creepy. Amirite? Oh, and also, a) I adore the MMC (and the FMC… okay, and her new buddy, the creepy undertaker-y guy, because he’s so awesomely creepy), and b) I’m convinced MMC’s daughter is screwed. Prove me wrong, Show. And also also, fascinated by the sheriff’s plotline. As Narm-y as it was getting for a while back there. >_<)
As far as TV – how could I have forgotten? – Supernatural, you guys! Oh, Gabriel. Just when I start to love you, thirty seconds later gdi THIS HAPPENS. Sigh. Thanks, Richard, for being so heartbreaking, and thanks too, fandomsecrets, for breaking me by pointing out this. (I love that he’s answering his formspring from beyond the grave, though. Fabulous.) Richard, the reason we love you so much is because you are Made of Awesome and deserve it. Just sayin’. (Also, 5x19 inspired me to finally join spn_gabriel for the fix-it fic, and boy was there ever fix-it fic! If anyone wants, I’ll link you my favorites; just let me know whether you’re on board with Sam/Gabriel or not.) Anyway, SO looking forward to next week! Those “O Death” promos keep getting better and better.
But speaking of sad things and TV, Seeker getting cancelled! DDD: But, um, at least there’s a silver lining? Gotta say, that’s one pretty persuasive post. Esp. #6. XD
OK, I’m at almost two pages in Word – I hope my cyberethics essay can get this long! – so I should call it a day and go have lunch. Later!
Week-Before-Dead-Week is finally over, thank god. I thought it was going to be the death of me. Too many projects! D: But I got by – thanks mostly to my fantastic Tech Writing partner and HCI group members. They’re amazing, really. I mean, we’re talking a 4-page report and an 8-page report, respectively, that all I did was beta. It was fantastic.
Speaking of betaing, I beta’d a drabble of benebu’s the other day, which was fun. You should read it; it’s good. (ETA: Linked in the comments.)
And speaking of fic, I have a plan for getting all of mine done. Namely (as I’ve planned since making the arguably poor choice to sign up for Writo de Mayo again) SP will be my May project, so that with luck I’ll get it done during May and have time to fix it up, if necessary, in June; then NCT will be my June project.
My July project will be sleeping, watching TV, and hanging out with Zera, because unless something goes horribly awry with my plans or, god forbid, my finances, I’ll be having surgery on July 2nd. I haven’t officially gotten to pick the date yet, but it was doable as of a few days ago, and I don’t see that changing between now and when I can get home and get the rest of the necessary things (read: pictures) to his secretary.
I have, and silly me not mentioning it yet, decided to go with Medalie in Cleveland, rather than Raphael. I had all but settled on Raphael (keyword “settled”), until I had a small epiphany and realized that the only reason I was going to Raphael was location, and that wasn’t worth it to me. I’d just seen and heard so many great things, nothing but glowing, effusive praise, about Medalie, and more than a few poor reviews of Raphael. Besides, Raphael hadn’t returned my email, and I wasn’t thrilled about that (I hate phones with the flaming white-hot passion of a thousand suns, so having to call him to get a response was not a situation that made me happy); Medalie, meanwhile, had gotten back to me within three hours, during non-business hours. (Yeah, I was blown away, too!) Talked about it with my coworker/supervisor at work, A, too, who agreed with me that I should go with my gut and if my parents aren’t going to at least look at the pictures on which I’m basing my decision (they aren’t), then they don’t have a right to guilt-trip me into going to Plano instead (unless they were helping pay for it, which they’re not).
So, Cleveland it is, and so far it sounds like even without the travel, it might end up being slightly more expensive than Plano, but like I told Zera, it’s all peace-of-mind money that I’m willing to pay for not having to “What if I’d gone to Medalie?” for the rest of my life.
Now if I can just manage to focus on
Didn’t get into the Geospatial Summer Institute after all, so that frees up May, and gets rid of the annoying housing issue. Also can’t take the summer class I was considering given that it’s grad-students-only. So yay, time to write fic! :D
And speaking of fic again, WdM is maybe not going ideally. 0 words so far, and I haven’t done the last bit of research (provenances; anyone happen to know where I should start looking?) that I’d wanted to get done before May. I may just have to write it anyway and do the research afterwards if I have time.
None of which is to say that school/finals aren’t, of course, taking precedence! *cough* ;) No, no, really, I kid. I’ve actually gotten a lot of homework done this weekend; I’m kind of proud of myself. Gotta fact-check and expand on my Principles homework, finish the last half-a-problem of Theory, and then it’s onto Friday’s cyberethics essay for HCI (hate hate hate him for assigning an essay over Dead Week, argh), which once I get started ought not be too horrible.
Oh, oh, oh, and way off-topic, but I just remembered. Happy Town. Kubicek at BTV was hating on it pretty hard (ETA: here), and I tend to agree with his opinions on SN, so I was kind of concerned. But it wasn’t that bad, lol. I mean, there were bits I seriously lol’d – and the preview for next week? laughed so hard I may have missed something – but, if nothing else, the creep-factor of the last two seconds made up for a lot of it. He said it was trying to be like Harper’s Island, and I, for one, think it mostly pulled it off. It’s fun, anyway.
(As an aside, anyone else who watched it: was it just me who the landlady(?) reminded of Dolores Herbig from DLM? Seriously, could have been her personality-twin, plus some creepy. Amirite? Oh, and also, a) I adore the MMC (and the FMC… okay, and her new buddy, the creepy undertaker-y guy, because he’s so awesomely creepy), and b) I’m convinced MMC’s daughter is screwed. Prove me wrong, Show. And also also, fascinated by the sheriff’s plotline. As Narm-y as it was getting for a while back there. >_<)
As far as TV – how could I have forgotten? – Supernatural, you guys! Oh, Gabriel. Just when I start to love you, thirty seconds later gdi THIS HAPPENS. Sigh. Thanks, Richard, for being so heartbreaking, and thanks too, fandomsecrets, for breaking me by pointing out this. (I love that he’s answering his formspring from beyond the grave, though. Fabulous.) Richard, the reason we love you so much is because you are Made of Awesome and deserve it. Just sayin’. (Also, 5x19 inspired me to finally join spn_gabriel for the fix-it fic, and boy was there ever fix-it fic! If anyone wants, I’ll link you my favorites; just let me know whether you’re on board with Sam/Gabriel or not.) Anyway, SO looking forward to next week! Those “O Death” promos keep getting better and better.
But speaking of sad things and TV, Seeker getting cancelled! DDD: But, um, at least there’s a silver lining? Gotta say, that’s one pretty persuasive post. Esp. #6. XD
OK, I’m at almost two pages in Word – I hope my cyberethics essay can get this long! – so I should call it a day and go have lunch. Later!
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[also, I love sam/gabriel, so. Fix it fic? YES PLEASE!]
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Fix-it fic:
The SN/GO xover Celestial Red Cross, and the sequel. A/C, D/C (hahaha, I'm leaving that for the lulz).
Not Running (at FFN, but don't let that deter you! I love this one!). Gen.
Broken Wings and All, and the sequel. Sam/Gabriel.
Once More. Gen.
Rewrite. Gen or Gabriel/Raphael, depending on your goggles.
Not fix-it fic, but very very good nevertheless:
Wings (What Are They Good For). Sam/Gabriel. More angst than you can shake a stick at.
Colour the dead patches (make it white). Gen.
And then there's this RPS fic I loved (fix-it fic for a broad definition of same, perhaps?), There's an "I" in "In Character".
And so so many other things at
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