yuletide reveal
Jan. 1st, 2010 09:01 pmI wrote Breaking Down is Hard to Do, a little Sports Night fic for Ekaterinn.
good morning
Dec. 28th, 2009 06:40 am1. This hotel has the Sleep Number bed, which as it turns out is essentially the Air Jordan of mattresses. You can pump it up or let it down; and if you choose a softer option, then when you move the whole thing wiggles under you like an air mattress, only without going flatter and flatter all night. Not sure this is a feature.
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yuletide fic, I will write you a drabble or something like it. Not today, but I will.
2. If you would like to guess my
yuletide fic, I will write you a drabble or something like it. Not today, but I will.
hence the dye job, i suppose.
Dec. 25th, 2009 11:23 pm1. ( Doctor Who: The End of Time, part 1: )
2. ( Sherlock Holmes: )
3. My recipient seems to have very much liked myyuletide story!, or else given a very good impression of it, so I'm very glad!
Night, y'all!
2. ( Sherlock Holmes: )
3. My recipient seems to have very much liked my
yuletide story!, or else given a very good impression of it, so I'm very glad!Night, y'all!
yuuuuuuuletiiiiiiide!
Dec. 25th, 2009 08:18 amYOU GUYS. A storm woke me up over here, and you know the first thing I did was reach for the laptop and have a look at my yuletide present, and omg! It is Plato and Aristotle, and is exactly the Higgins-and-Pickering (My Fair Lady) that I forgot to ask for a couple of years ago, and it is awesome! Look how the Higgins-POV narrator changes his tune about Eliza from the beginning to the end ("urchin", "little beggar"; "devilish intelligence". ha!). And as Pickering points out, there are ways in which a woman simply cannot be more like a man.
Thank you, lovely yuletide writer! [clasps, twirls]
yuletide present, and omg! It is Plato and Aristotle, and is exactly the Higgins-and-Pickering (My Fair Lady) that I forgot to ask for a couple of years ago, and it is awesome! Look how the Higgins-POV narrator changes his tune about Eliza from the beginning to the end ("urchin", "little beggar"; "devilish intelligence". ha!). And as Pickering points out, there are ways in which a woman simply cannot be more like a man.Thank you, lovely yuletide writer! [clasps, twirls]
OMG HOME STRETCH.
... and I really have to pack my suitcase on the assumption that I will in fact be able to leave tomorrow.
[ETA: The snow has stopped, repeat, stopped, it is no longer snowing. \o/ Digging out again tomorrow will suck, but at least one won't be shoveling against the tide.]
... and I really have to pack my suitcase on the assumption that I will in fact be able to leave tomorrow.
[ETA: The snow has stopped, repeat, stopped, it is no longer snowing. \o/ Digging out again tomorrow will suck, but at least one won't be shoveling against the tide.]
and now, cookies!
Dec. 17th, 2009 10:50 pmMy final is submitted! (Twice - once wrong, and once right. /o\) I'd treat myself to a milkshake, but I'm out of ice cream.
Back to theyuletide mines, then.
Back to the
yuletide mines, then.
almost there ...
Dec. 17th, 2009 05:55 pmMy take-home final is 3/4 done. (Due tonight at midnight.) My yuletide is at a midpoint. (Due Monday 9pm.) I will finish both of them fine. Woohoo!
Tonight I am off to visit a new choir. Friend of mine said "Fox, would you be interested in joining a choir that's short on sopranos?" - and I had to admit I'd never heard of such a thing. But he put me in touch with the director, and she invited me to come check them out, and assuming we all get along then depending on my class schedule next semester I may have a new gig.
But first:
Tonight I am off to visit a new choir. Friend of mine said "Fox, would you be interested in joining a choir that's short on sopranos?" - and I had to admit I'd never heard of such a thing. But he put me in touch with the director, and she invited me to come check them out, and assuming we all get along then depending on my class schedule next semester I may have a new gig.
But first:
yuletide triumph!
Dec. 16th, 2009 12:02 am1068 words, baby! (Some of those are dashes, I admit - I put spaces around my dashes, see? - but not sixty-eight of them. WOOT, is what I am saying here.)
yuletide - one more time for the night
Dec. 13th, 2009 12:36 amRaise your hand if you want to be on the yuletide beta filter. (This year it's only for a week! You're getting off easy. [g])
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yuletide research
Dec. 12th, 2009 08:44 pmWithout spoiling anything at all, let me ask you this: can Episcopalians get married on a Sunday? How about Lutherans?
Paper is done, presentation is given, through with the class except for the take-home final due next week.
So now: yuletide!
I also want emulators of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda for my Wii. I know I can get these with some sort of Wii Points. [ponder]
But: yuletide!
So now: yuletide!
I also want emulators of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda for my Wii. I know I can get these with some sort of Wii Points. [ponder]
But: yuletide!
this tunnel has a light at the end of it
Dec. 10th, 2009 08:33 amRehearsal last night was worse than Monday. Director was in a better (good cop) mood, but we spent two hours on about a fourth of the program, and then had an unnecessarily long blah blah announcements and let's give boxes of candy to the section leaders period, after which we had a "ten-minute" break before doing everything else, which - naturally - took more than the time we had left. Got out of there at 10:30, despite the schedule saying 10:00, and I know I shouldn't have expected not to be kept late, but I always do. Normally I'd just have sort of rolled my eyes, but last night I (a) wasn't feeling well (I begin to conclude that the raw feeling in my throat is Something Incipient and not just the result of blowing my voice out at Monday's rehearsal; now it comes with some head congestion as well, and oh, yes, here's a couple of swollen glands in my neck, so I fervently hope my voice is still with me for the weekend) and (b) had a group paper to finish when I got home.
Fortunately, my group had also been working on it, and there wasn't a whole ton left to do when I returned. So I did it, and uploaded the sucker, and that's off my plate, thank god. Presentation this evening in class, which a teammate is preparing the slides and I'll go over a few minutes early so we can run through it. There's a final in the class as well, but it's the group thing I'm the gladdest to be done with. So that's one.
Concert this weekend, which is two.
Work work work stuff, which is three.
Oh yeah, did I mention I haven't written a word of Yuletide yet? That's four.
I am going home a week from Sunday! This is going to be a longer-than-usual traveling-around-in-December period for me. Must figure out the best way to pack to economize for space, as I have a very small car and when traveling-around-in-December turns into traveling-around-in-January, I will have at least one passenger as well. Aie.
Fortunately, my group had also been working on it, and there wasn't a whole ton left to do when I returned. So I did it, and uploaded the sucker, and that's off my plate, thank god. Presentation this evening in class, which a teammate is preparing the slides and I'll go over a few minutes early so we can run through it. There's a final in the class as well, but it's the group thing I'm the gladdest to be done with. So that's one.
Concert this weekend, which is two.
Work work work stuff, which is three.
Oh yeah, did I mention I haven't written a word of Yuletide yet? That's four.
I am going home a week from Sunday! This is going to be a longer-than-usual traveling-around-in-December period for me. Must figure out the best way to pack to economize for space, as I have a very small car and when traveling-around-in-December turns into traveling-around-in-January, I will have at least one passenger as well. Aie.
dear lovely yuletide writer
Nov. 14th, 2009 08:20 pm(I don't have anything against "Dear Yule Goat", you understand, but I don't know, somehow in my head, despite all the evidence from everyone about the honest-to-god Yule Goat and everything, small ruminants don't say "festive". Go figure.)
BUT. This is a letter elaborating on my details for my lovely new Yuletide friend.
DEAR LOVELY NEW YULETIDE FRIEND,
Hi! As I've said in other years, the very fact that you are writing me a story is just the most marvelous thing and yay. If you write a story you like in one of the fandoms we share, I will be pleased. But in case you really can't go on without Additional Guidance, I'll repeat what I said last year about ( Things You Might Want To Avoid If Your Purpose Is Specifically To Please Fox: )
Oh, dear, specifics about specific fandoms, beyond what's in the optional-details-are-optional. Hmm.
( Let's see. )
Very broadly speaking, I like the slash. Boys or girls, whichever seems called for. I also like the het and the gen if that's what the story needs. Please don't worry about that either. Other things I like, in a list from last year that happens for some reason to include only things beginning with "s":
BUT. This is a letter elaborating on my details for my lovely new Yuletide friend.
DEAR LOVELY NEW YULETIDE FRIEND,
Hi! As I've said in other years, the very fact that you are writing me a story is just the most marvelous thing and yay. If you write a story you like in one of the fandoms we share, I will be pleased. But in case you really can't go on without Additional Guidance, I'll repeat what I said last year about ( Things You Might Want To Avoid If Your Purpose Is Specifically To Please Fox: )
Oh, dear, specifics about specific fandoms, beyond what's in the optional-details-are-optional. Hmm.
( Let's see. )
Very broadly speaking, I like the slash. Boys or girls, whichever seems called for. I also like the het and the gen if that's what the story needs. Please don't worry about that either. Other things I like, in a list from last year that happens for some reason to include only things beginning with "s":
- scruffy. longitudinal studies have shown that in TV and movies, I like when the boys don't shave for a couple of days. Make of that what you will.
- stoicism. (I didn't request Wimseyverse, but one time I was talking to someone about Dorothy L Sayers, and saying how I love Peter Wimsey best because he was so brave all that time he was in love with Harriet and she wasn't in love with him. Extrapolate as needed.)
- snark, but I do like it better witty than snippy.
- um. This is where I turn it over to my flist, who are welcome to comment on this post or whom you are welcome to contact in whatever mod-compliant ways exist. The best able to analyze my sensibilities is almost certainly
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ellen_fremedon (and sanj, but she is swamped with schoolwork, aie!). If she can't help you, she can at least probably -- possibly after tricking me with well-disguised hypothetical questions -- point you at someone who can.
[FLAAAAAIL!}
Nov. 14th, 2009 07:00 pmI CAN HAS YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT!
[runs around the room like a wind-up toy]
[runs around the room like a wind-up toy]
Did my yuletide signup. Hurrah! Perhaps this will put a stop to the moments of frozen panic I get when I think OMG I HAVE MISSED YULETIDE. I haven't quite woken up from a nightmare in which signups closed without me, but it's been close.
Speaking of dreams, last night I had a dream where because the incumbent was running unopposed, nobody much bothered to vote on Election Day, so the fact that I did and instead of voting for the incumbent I wrote in "me" meant that I was elected in his place. (That's right: in dream world, number of votes cast = 1. How they were able to tell who "me" referred to on a secret ballot was not, in the dream, an issue.) So the rest of the dream was spent dealing with the fact that I had this unexpected new job and even if I didn't hang onto it for long, the fact that I'd had it at all meant that for the rest of my life I could be addressed as Congresswoman Fox.
Speaking of dreams, last night I had a dream where because the incumbent was running unopposed, nobody much bothered to vote on Election Day, so the fact that I did and instead of voting for the incumbent I wrote in "me" meant that I was elected in his place. (That's right: in dream world, number of votes cast = 1. How they were able to tell who "me" referred to on a secret ballot was not, in the dream, an issue.) So the rest of the dream was spent dealing with the fact that I had this unexpected new job and even if I didn't hang onto it for long, the fact that I'd had it at all meant that for the rest of my life I could be addressed as Congresswoman Fox.
[flail]eeeee!
Nov. 4th, 2009 01:17 pmYULETIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!
[pulls self together]
That is all. :-)
[pulls self together]
That is all. :-)
Nominating:
- My Fair Lady
- Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas
- Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
- Sports Night
- Sliding Doors