I got a job interview the other day! For the first time since November 2008. Only when I Googled the company nothing came up-- no website or customer reviews or Google Maps listing-- so I decided I felt safer sleeping in, and didn't actually go to the interview.

So last night the guy emailed me again to ask if I was still interested-- which in a less skeevy world I would find flattering, but instead I am pretty sure is something no legitimate company would ever do. I told him I wasn't, and why, and for the hell of it put his "office" address into regular Google instead of Maps. And it turns out that building is an apartment building! No office space in it anywhere, according to the website. Thanks for playing, dude. D:

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Last three drabbles:

Helen/James/Tristan for wishfulaces
Sharpay/Kelsi for perculious
Ten and Martha for stargatejunkie

So of course, now I've closed that tab, I would like to take a new batch of requests! Same as before: ten slots, I don't care if you repost this or not. The last batch took three weeks and ranged from about 150-500 words.
In addition to the fandoms I filled last time, I would also be up for: Life, Castle, Lord Peter Wimsey characters besides Peter, Harriet, and Bunter, The Princess and the Frog, The Brothers Bloom, the new Sherlock Holmes movie, The Middleman, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Southland. Or whatever else you happen to know I'm into! I'd be willing to take a swing at Band of Brothers or Lost as well, but I have difficulty keeping all the characters straight for those, so you might want to leave a backup prompt or something.

ANYWAY. Make me write things :D?

1. thecolourclear
2. bribitribbit
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I am probably the latest to know this, because I haven't been paying attention, but I found out today that TNT is going to start showing new Southland episodes the day after my birthday! Happy birthday, me. Plus I was going to use part of my birthday money to buy Life on DVD. I guess this is what it feels like to be newredshoes? A little? IDK.

I think I'm also going to buy myself one of those spiffy expensive laptop bags with a retro CTA logo on it. I'm not sure which, yet-- they're all so cool-looking and have five million pockets and and why are decisions :(

In slightly more exciting news-- very slightly-- I walk everywhere but haven't exercised on purpose since high school, which is really dumb of me, so I'm going to try the Two Hundred Situps plan and, once I get in that habit and the weather is warmer, the Couch to 5K plan. I may also have mentioned capoeira classes to people, and maybe that would've been cool, but sadly I am still too neurotic for my first workout in four years to be in a group environment. Maybe in the fall.

Oh, and I wrote another drabble: Gaila and McCoy, for blueleopard87. I AM TOTALLY GETTING THESE DONE, GUYS.

That's all I got; apparently school makes me boring. Sorry :(

First week of school report, in brief: my professors are all awesome, and my classes are all really exciting, and I am well pleased so far. I'm not taking any theater classes this semester, which bugged me at first, but I am taking Art History I and History of the American City and it turns out, judging by how the first meetings of those went, I really really missed being a history major. So in general this is going to be pretty great.

Columbia also offers a capoeira class, which I am going to investigate on Tuesday night! I mean, I haven't had a structured workout since high school gym class three and a half years ago, which makes it totally logical to sign up for a weekly two-hour martial arts class, but . . . I want to try, okay.

More drabbles! Though I hope I haven't played rather looser with the prompts than people wanted. Also holy wall of tags on that post, Batman.

Tristan Farnon meeting audio!Peri, for novembersmith.

Ten asking Mulder to be his companion, for bogboblin.

Sanctuary/Top Gear, for trialia.

River, Kaylee, and Ten, for thecolourclear.

Six down, four to go! These are going slower than expected, but they are going, and that pleases me. neigedens and I have been word warring daily, anywhere from one to half a dozen wars in an evening, and oh my god it does so much for your word count. I think I've written five or six thousand words in the last week. It's glorious.

School starts tomorrow and I have to finish writing drabbles and do homework and watch all the Southland in the world and paint my nails aaaaaaaaaa.

I would like to join newredshoes in wishing Dick Winters a happy birthday.

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I did a friends cut a day or two ago, like you do. If I haven't spoken to you in months, don't recognize your name and have no friends in common, or had a loud public falling-out with you and then forgot to defriend your LJ (this was actually true of one person) . . . um, sorry, there you go :( As always, if I accidentally defriended someone I know who renamed recently, I will fix that, and anyway most of my stuff is unlocked and I don't much care who comments to it.

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More drabbles forthcoming tonight! I'm really getting very fond of writing Doctor Who crossovers.

Drabbles! Two of 'em.

Morgan and Shaw from Cutthroat Island for manasseh

Donna Noble, Helen Wimsey, and a squid for neigedens

There are four six drabbles still forthcoming! And also four two slots left open here, and I honestly don't even care if you repost it or not! I might not even care if I go past ten drabbles! Just give me something to do :D?

From wishfulaces:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.)

1. perculious
2. trialia
3. bogboblin
4. manasseh
5. wishfulaces
6. neigedens
7. thecolourclear
8. stargatejunkie
9. blueleopard87
10. novembersmith


I got to design crowns for a play today *______* My prospective career is the best ever, even including elishabet's, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.

ETA: Drabbles will get written Monday, F everyone's I! Since I've been so busy at the theater this weekend.

In chronological order: there is excellent news, horrible news, and fucking amazing news.

The excellent news: the Building Stage is putting on a (inevitably) ridiculously long and complicated adaptation of the Ring Cycle, and their costume and set shops need extra volunteers! So I get to help out with that for the next week or two, because I don't start classes until the 28th and I am bored absolutely witless. COSTUME WORK THAT CAN GO ON MY RESUME OMG GUYS.

The horrible news: When I was fifteen, before I had an LJ and therefore before I knew any of you, I got all my wisdom teeth out and it went disgustingly wrong. Two of the incisions got infected, I had to have another operation, and I was half-useless and on half a dozen kinds of medications for weeks afterwards. Also, I had to go so long without wearing my retainers that my teeth started moving back and I had to wear braces for another year and a half on top of my previous six-year stint with them. You can all imagine, therefore, how I feel about having people poke around in my mouth and jerk stuff around and cut holes in it.

You can also imagine how I felt a couple of weeks ago when my dentist told me that the twelve-year-molars on one side are never going to come in properly (no, seriously, can my teeth do anything right?) and I had a choice between three more years of orthodontia to try to pull them into place or having yet more surgery.

The fucking amazing news: If I survive the oral surgery I'm having in June, my mom is taking me on vacation to London! We were going to do this a couple of years ago but it never came through; now, though, we actually have the money \o/ Except that we haven't discussed much yet, so I don't know how long we're going or exactly when.

I know I'd like to go to the Tate Modern and the Globe, because I've been there before, and hopefully to take the train out to see Bletchley Park; my mom wants to go to the Jewish Museum and the Selvedge store. But generally I am so ridiculously excited about this that I have no actual ideas about this besides LONDON *________* Flist, many of you are better-traveled than me and some of you are way more British than me. What destinations would you recommend to a couple of shamelessly touristy Jewish ladies who are into mystery novels and architectural history and costuming/textiles?

:D?

OPERATION DINNER OUT SPRING SEMESTER IS A GO.

Currently I'm registered for Art History I on Thursday afternoons, History of the American City on Thursday nights, and Fundamentals of 3D Design on Friday afternoons. I was hoping for Costume Construction II, which I need for my major, or Textiles and Dyes, which would be not only awesome but fill my lab science requirement, but I'm pretty pleased with what I've got.

Some semester I will get over how awesome it is that even the courses I need to take for distributional requirements are things I actually want to study! But not this semester. And I seriously feel so much better now I know I'm registered for classes; it's been worrying me for months.

In other happy news, attempt_unique has posted a Clyde Langer picspam, the very best kind of picspam there is. :D Clyyyyyyyyde ♥

Every so often ariastar does that WIP meme, and then I always do it too, because I already spend twice as much time talking about my WIPs as working on them and I am basically a giant showoff. Plus in the last month I have actually accumulated a decent variety of them, which is kind of cool and hasn't happened to me in years.

I will be a bit more precise than Aria, even, and divide these into categories.

( Stalled out but good in theory: 1 Disney RPF, 1 Hot Fuzz/Doctor Who )

( Temporarily on hold: 1 Hairspray/A Series of Unfortunate Events )

( Currently in progress: 1 Lord Peter, 1 Lord Peter/Band of Brothers, 1 The Brothers Bloom )

( Under consideration: 1 Sherlock Holmes 2009, 1 Doctor Who/The Middleman )

See! Variety! One dudeslash fic, one F/F/M, two femslash, three het, one gen, set in seven different decades. SOME OF THEM MAY EVEN HAVE FOUR-DIGIT WORD COUNTS. I am excited! You, flist, may be whatever you like.

Down from Heaven comes Eleven
and there's hell to pay below
shout "Geronimo," "Geronimo."


. . . look, I'm easily amused, okay.

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In less amusing news, I slipped and fell last night and strained my wrist, so typing is a bit of a literal pain right now and I apologize if I seem shorter and/or more typo-filled than usual via IM for the next couple of days. I'm really not! Just being a bit lazy about typing.

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In more amusing news, I went to dinner and The Princess and the Frog last night with newredshoes, and a good time was had by all! I lost my wallet at one point, but we rediscovered it and Esther was A+++ at calming me down because she is just that awesome, and I made it home intact save for having lost one glove and hurt my wrist when I slipped and fell hurrying to get back to the restaurant and retrieve my property.

And it was snowing really thickly last night, too, which was kind of pretty and kind of scary because I was waiting half an hour for the bus. I accumulated an inch of snowfall on my actual person. It was an odd experience.

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( And now, a quick thing about Sherlock Holmes )

I am pleased, though my paid account has lapsed for a couple of days, that I still have the perfect icon for this post at my hands.

( Just a few brief things re: The End of Time )

Happy New Year and Happy Yuletide Reveal!

Title: By Osmosis
Author: custardpringle
Fandom/Pairing: Fringe, gen
Length: 1888 words
Rating: PG
Notes: For zippitgood, Yuletide '09! Betaed by astraevirgo.

He can't wake up from this and he doesn't know what else to do, but his dad knows everything, so Petey figures if he follows him things will be okay.

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And I'm sorry I didn't get to reccing these before reveal, but anenko wrote me not one but two fantastic Push fics, because she is just that fantastic: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow about Cassie, and life, death(present, future) about Pop Girl! I am so happy with them and I wish they were canon ♥

Ahoy there, Internet! I had a lovely train ride-- watched The Brothers Bloom and wrote fic for it, watched Band of Brothers and wrote fic for it, read Dorothy Sayers and wrote fic for that, watched All Creatures Great and Small and . . . didn't write fic for it, sorry. But lots of watching and writing happened! And someday maybe I will even finish one of these fics. Anything is possible.

My current difficulty is, mainly, that casefic is hard. I mean, plots are always hard, but this kind of plot involves a ton of OCs and being deliberately confusing, but aauuugh I have 27000 words of fic and I don't even know where to begin planning out all of it. Bits of it just sort of happen to me occasionally :/

Well, in any case, I have ordered Indian and I have to unpack and clean tonight, but I'm going to marathon all the extended LOTR movies tomorrow! Happy New Year, everyone. :D

The Internet here is being miserably slow. Suffice it to say that my Yuletide fics were both fantastic, and I will get around to linking them and maybe reccing things in a few days when I'm back in Chicago. By which time the rest of the Internet will have moved on, but what can you do.

I bought the first season of The Last Detective. It is glorious. Just FYI.

I have also seen Sherlock Holmes and "The End of Time," but my opinions on those aren't particularly interesting, except that ariastar had better get on that fic she promised me.

I hate this, ugh :( I feel like I'm shouting into the ether here.

Ahoy, Internet! I've been busy lately-- busier than I was during the actual school year, WTF-- but I got my Yuletide in and am excited about the whole thing! I didn't have time to get that treat finished, but I still mean to do it for NYR and I'm excited for that too :D

The bookshop is lovely, if horribly slow; the Christmas Eve vigil was lovely too. And yesterday my mom and I took a bus aaaaaall the way up to the Port Authority, walked aaaaaall the way to the Strand, bought a book each, and came home, and it was totally worth it.

I hope everyone is doing well, wherever you are and whatever you're celebrating, and I love you all very much. ♥

Patrick Stewart is going to be knighted! And high time, too.

Is there a Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen fandom? There is, right? Has anyone written fic yet about how they're going to be Sir Patrick and Sir Ian now? Because someone should get on that.

Hello again, Internet! I had a lovely train ride, but I missed you during it.

However: I am now in Bethlehem, with a job for the next week or so, and a Yuletide draft my beta likes plus a pretty solid idea for a treat! Plus I got my mom to watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and she ships Harry/Perry/Harmony with me now, so life is generally pretty great.

Today is work and then tree-trimming; tomorrow is church and then work; day after that is dentist and Photoshop and work and Yuletide deadline. Tuesday or Wednesday my mom and I are going to New York City, but boy, it pleases me so much to be working six days out of the next nine. BOOKSHOP DELI HERE I COME

PS is it true that ( Potential Doctor Who casting spoiler ) Because if so FUCK YEAH. If not, the person who told me is going to be sorry. >:|

HAHA CHECK ME OUT I HAVE MY FINAL PROJECT DONE. Two whole hours early, even! I rock. The art doesn't, but I do. And things are all downhill from here, thank God.

If anyone cares, my work from the semester is here. It's not all that great, but I take great comfort in the thought that at least I'm not Rob Liefeld.

This seems to work for ganymi: to-do list!

By Tuesday night I need to do nine 9x12 drawings (three each pencil, ink, and charcoal) and three 18x24 drawings (ink and charcoal combined) photograph all my work from the semester, and upload it to an online portfolio. Also, I need to order a sub platter from Jimmy John's and remember to pick it up on the way to class.

By Wednesday morning I need to actually remember something about sewing even though I haven't been to costuming class since Monday-- this is a good thing! I finished my final project a week and a half early, but I still need to get through the exam.

By Thursday afternoon I need to have my room cleaned up, my clothes and linens clean, fresh sheets on the bed, and be packed and on my way to Union Station. I really ought to be finished reviewing my Yuletide canon by now, too.

By Friday evening I will be in Pennsylvania, and intend to have a Yuletide fic written and off to beta. I also have some prompts I'd like to write treats for, but I have no idea whether anything will come of those or not. Deadlines :(

So mostly I need to scrape together a hell of a work ethic until Tuesday, and then write my Yuletide, and after that I can go back to worrying about Sayers fic! And my parents, and working retail over Christmas without spending all my money at the bookshop deli, but!