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19 December 2009 @ 10:03 am
Snow, snow, snow! We already have 12 inches and it's still coming down, soft and steady.

Is the tutoring center closed today? You bet.

I'm going to do mandala practice and bake and write fic and, and--
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18 December 2009 @ 11:30 pm
From MoveOn.org --

Subject: Stop a bad bill

Hi,

The latest Senate health care bill has no public option. No expansion of Medicare. And it does too little to guarantee that uninsured Americans will actually be able afford the coverage they'll be required to purchase.

But it's not too late to fix the bill. And as Joe Lieberman has shown, just one senator willing to stand in the way can force legislation to be changed dramatically.

Senator Bernie Sanders has already made clear that he's opposed to the legislation in its current form. I just signed a petition urging him and other progressives to block it until it's fixed. Will you join me?

http://pol.moveon.org/block/?r_by=18358-3017897-RJ5UgCx&rc=paste
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18 December 2009 @ 12:01 pm
Download of daily tweets from my Twitter account @liketheriver1. Fridays are Twitter Fic Friday!

06:36 Twitfic:The boy is small but lifts Ronon's knife with a bump on the crowded streets. Ronon chases him, weaving among shacks lining the steep #

06:37 road of the slums. When he catches the boy, he has no family,just an alley,his loot...some with royal insignia. The kid could be a way home. #

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17 December 2009 @ 12:39 pm
Working on my second SGA Santa fic now. Should finish it tonight.

Anyone interested in betaing? *looks perky and hopeful*

ETA: Gen-to-light-McShep, about 5,000 words.
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Current Music: Muse running through my mind
 
 
17 December 2009 @ 05:36 pm
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16 December 2009 @ 02:38 pm
1400 words and three scenes of ten written on second [info]sga_santa piece.

I like this one. Could not resist the prompt.
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17 December 2009 @ 01:10 am
The Yamasutra by tin
A.K.A. Yamazaki teaches Sex Ed
 
 
16 December 2009 @ 06:53 am
Okey-dokey. I've written the first scene of my second SGA Santa fic.

Whee.
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Current Music: Various Out Of Bounds songs
 
 
16 December 2009 @ 05:22 am
The [info]sga_santa flood of fic goodness has begun. I haven't yet had time to read that massive 60,000 word fic, but I shall, once I finish my pinch hit.

But the shorter fics? Oh, yes. I have a rec for you already. This one looks about 1,000 words but packs a punch.

Fourteen Days by Anonymous, NC-17, McShep

Hot. Smoking hot. But with a bittersweet undercurrent due to the reason John returns to Atlantis. This adds a depth of tension and a world of unspoken plot that takes this out of the realm of a PWP. And if that weren't enough, this author turns a beautiful phrase, with such gems as "words made shock-sharp by everything he's never said."

One story where I can't wait for the reveal so I can read everything this author has ever written.

This year's [info]sga_santa is off to a great start.
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16 December 2009 @ 01:58 am
Santa came early. Specifically, my [info]sga_santa.

And it's funny! I'm only at 14 Days And Counting and had to announce it.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Anonymous, McShep, PG
John and Rodney really love Christmas time. No, really. NO, REALLY, they LOVE IT.

Now. Back to reading.

ETA: This was great fun that had me chuckling all the way through. John and Rodney are Christmas terrors all on their own. With the two of them competing, nobody's safe.
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Eee. I couldn't resist and took a pinch-hit on SGA Santa. It was exactly what I wanted to write. Have now finished the outline of the fic which is... due in three days.

And I like it.

I've been missing new episodes of SGA. Time to write our own.

And let's get [personal profile] whizzy to post more Black Helicopters fic, right now. Because Whizzy teased me with her Sheppard dogfight scene and it's brilliant. But not posted yet.
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14 December 2009 @ 01:35 pm
Oh, already?

[info]sga_santa is off and running, and posting fics.

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas....

Hung out with [personal profile] wolfshark yesterday. In RL she's a solid, reliable sort with a healthy dose of sardonic humor. Just the type of person you'd want to run comms and see projects through to the end. *tips hat to Sharkie*

And I've now been informed that Victoria Bitter of "Bit Of Earth" donation scam infamy (who absconded with tens of thousands of dollars and tricked Sean Astin into supporting the not-actually-a-charity) has joined the HP fandom. Bitter is refusing all donations -- unless you insist. In which case there's a PayPal link.

*head scratch*

Do I have a PayPal link? Should I have a PayPal link? I mean, if you absolutely insist....
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14 December 2009 @ 01:18 pm
When the muse falls silent ... edit.

For the first time in years, I'm doing as much beta reading as writing.

A friend gave me a newspaper article. The time spent actually writing equals the amount that gets written.

I can take a hint. *gets back to work on that comic McFluff*
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13 December 2009 @ 11:05 pm
Nabbed from [info]gemmi999

Rules:
a) Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/).
b) Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
c) Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker. (Change rows to 3 and columns to 3.) (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)
d) Save the image and post it!

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favourite food?
3. What is your favourite colour?
4. Favourite band?
5. Dream vacation?
6. Favourite hobby?
7. What you want to be when you grow up?
8. What do you love?
9. One word to describe you.


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13 December 2009 @ 10:15 pm

It doesn't matter how many times I watch it, it keeps being funny.
 
 


Thanks so much to [info]winter_elf and [info]d_odyssey for the wonderful holiday V gifts of snowflake cookie and cup of coco! Now, if I only had those in real life.....mmmmmm.

Also, as you've probably noticed a couple of things if you stop my LJ on occassion. A) I never do memes, and B) my posting has dropped considerably.

The fact is, RL has cut into my writing time considerably over the past 6 months or so, which, honestly might not have been bad timing seeing as my muse decided to flutter off to parts unknown and only occassional rear her useful head. As to why I don't do memes? Not really sure. Probably a combination of laziness and being pretty sure that no one will care to have a response or even notice. But this one I've seen around lately dealt with fanfics and I thought maybe doing this meme would help lure the muse back by seeing what people found interesting,confusing, funny, etc, in my fics, so here it goes....

Pick a paragraph (or any passage 500-1000 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.


My master fic list is at the top of the LJ and I just updated it the other day so it should contain everything I've written. I'll even attempt to answer questions related to the Geeks and Goons Guide series that pertain to Koschka's sections (or at least make up something that sounds good and possibly embarrassing for her. *G*) With RL, it may take a few days to get back to you with a response, but I promise I will.

 
 
11 December 2009 @ 07:56 pm
Hola, can I ask a favor?

I'm a cat person. If it doesn't purr, well, I'm friendly, but not into the furry beast.

But a friend of mine, Susie, is a dog person. So much so that her house is filled with rescued pups and she's a professional dog whisperer and vet (although in my observation, whispering to dogs doesn't do much good. A good solid command on the other hand...). Yes, trained by The dog whisperer. Yes, the same as on that TV show.

Anyhow, her site disappeared from Google. Last month it came up in google searches. This month -- poof! Gone.

I don't know what's happened, she doesn't know what's happened. Maybe the key words got screwed up on her site. Maybe Google changed its search criteria.

Opinions, information, theories are all welcome. But would you be willing to click on her site? Maybe she just needs hits.

Clicky --> Leadyourpack.com


Can't hurt. (And yes, I know three of the dogs across the top of her page personally. It's kind of like knowing celebrities.)

(This will probably be the only time I use this tag.)


ETA: Okay, Susie is very impressed with you guys. You just zeroed in on some major problems. But I already knew you were fabulous.
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11 December 2009 @ 12:01 pm
Download of daily tweets from my Twitter account @liketheriver1. Fridays are Twitter Fic Friday!

07:07 Twitfic:The shack is stuffy, a fire stoked as thanks-meds traded for tonight's shelter. John takes a mug, smiles. Rodney sniffs, wary. Ronon #

07:07 glares; McKay drinks. A baby coughs. Teyla frowns, worried not only for this child. John wishes for Carson while glad he's not in this mess. #

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11 December 2009 @ 02:39 pm
Got an email from UW.

It seems I officially graduated yesterday. I'm invited to do the whole cap and gown thing in June if I like.

Plugging away on the final edits to my SGA Santa fic. Uh. Yeah. I'm aware it was due yesterday. *adjusts collar, clearing throat*
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Current Music: Muse: Supermassive Black Hole. On repeat.