1) Fingersmith? Is MADE OF AWESOME. It's by Sarah Waters, and if you have any interest in Victorian-esque literature, Dickens pastiches, or cons within cons within plots, read it. Such a fabulous book. And I'm only ten chapters in.

2) Mansfield Park? Made of not so much awesome. Figures my least favorite Austen book would be the longest. At least I'm sick enough to skip class today.

3) Math test was postponed to Friday. This is good; it means no homework over first weekend of Esco.

4) NaNo starts next Saturday. This is bad; it means writing all throughout second weekend of Esco.

5) LEGALLY BLONDE AND SPRING AWAKENING: I am going to go see them both. Fuck yeah. I just have to find the money to go to Legally Blonde and still, yanno, live in Copenhagen. I suppose that's what my savings account is for.

6) Got Irresistable Forces! Now all I need is Dreamweaver's Dilemma and whichever book the novella Borders of Infinity is in, and I'll have read all the Miles Vorkosigan material currently avaliable. Thank goodness Lois is writing a new one.

7) New SJA tonight! The new series is really quite fabulous. So far we've had an excellent goodbye for Maria, a Sontaran, a cool new girl and her wicked awesome family, and at least two incidents of "mess with her son and Sarah Jane Smith will fuck your shit up." I'm looking forward to the Brig and to more Mama Bear incidents.

8) I miss my daddy. I want to go home and see him. :( Just over five weeks until Thanksgiving and I will see him then. I really should buy my ticket home.

9) Finally got Confidence started again. Let's see if I can get it finished before NaNo starts again!

10) Hallowe'en ficathon story is about half-plotted. Pris, I may need to babble at you about it on Tuesday. There's some plot snarls I'm trying to work out.

11) Five days until Esco! This means guild-family, possibly including Opa (I hope so, I miss Opa and he makes me miss my daddy less), Vlad (\o/), learning to kick ass (thank you, Black Guard), ponies, and incestuous camp of love and doom. It also means Runt and the Wilds, Evil Plans (tm), candy, knitting, and chilling with Katie. We are going to go to the Bawdy Juggler show since neither of us has seen it. Fun shall be ours!

12) Liz's scarf is about half done and twelve feet long. What have I gotten myself into...

I'm back, and I'm killing time before classes start. So have some memes.

Request any fic of mine and I will provide you with a commentary/annotations, like a DVD extra.

Interview one of my characters. Canon or original characters apply, and my characters will answer your questions as honestly as is appropriate for them.

( Six fun facts about me )

( And snippets of all my works in progress, including the original ones. )

1) I have new headphones! The old ones fell apart in my ear. It was most distressing. Fortunately, they were still under warranty and the nice guy at the Apple store took my word for it, so I have new ones for free! *cuddles new headphones* I also had a fun conversation with him.

Me: Hi. My headphones fell apart. It is most distressing.
Guy: Whoa. They really did. Well, let me take a look and see why they fell apart.
Me: I did nothing unusual to them. I was only listening to music and they fell apart.
Guy: Would you raise your right hand and repeat that?
Me: Sure, but I haven't got a Bible, just Oscar Wilde.
Guy: Close enough!

2) Speaking of Oscar Wilde, I am reading some of his plays. I just got through Salome (very strange, not at all like Wilde's usual tongue-in-cheek humor. Has some lovely language, though, and it must be pretty visually stunning) and The Importance of Being Earnest (one of my favorite plays ever and always worth a reread), and am currently in the middle of Lady Windermere's Fan. I'm also reading Mary Called Magdelane, another of Margaret George's bricks; Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk, a memoir of growing up in a polygamist family; and The Serpent's Shadow. If I continue reading books at this rate, my books-read list for July will move into three pages. New record.

3) Got more work done on Glass. I think this seperating it out into different POV files and writing it that way is extremely helpful. I may have to give up my flashbacks from Gabi's POV idea, but we'll see how the rest of them turn out. I may rewrite them from Lionel's POV to leave them in. I've decided that, because Gabi is at the center of everything, I should maybe leave her a bit of a mystery. After all, her nonresponsiveness or her simple absence is a huge part of all the plots. So, I shall discuss with my co-author and we shall see.

4) Deposited my paycheck. YAY MONEY.

5) I kind of want to cosplay as Sarah Jane Smith. I may even just put a costume together and be her for Halloween. 'Cause, well, she's awesome, and I think her waistcoat-and-shirt look would be really flattering to my figure. Plus, I want those boots. Well, who doesn't?

6) I have been falling behind on my RPing lately and I do not know why. It's like I sit down to do it and my brain goes "HA no. Fuck off down the model village." Then I am confused as to why my brain is quoting Hot Fuzz out of context when all I want to do is knock off a decent post so my RPing partners don't hate me. V. sad. Please be understanding.

7) I am dying for lack of fluff. I've been writing Kyrie and Glass and Glass's prequel lately, all the angsty bits with people dancing around things they don't want to say, and I just want to read something silly and sweet and fluffy, goddamnit. It probably doesn't help that all the active relationships in my RPs are a) in the awkward morning-after stage, b) in the awkward holy-shit-did-I-really-just-say-that stage, c) both a and b, d) in the awkward goddamnit-do-I-have-to-tattoo-it-on-my-forehead stage, or e) in the awkward I-really-like-you-but-this-can't-work-for-outside-reasons-so-I'll-just-keep-my-mouth-shut stage. I want to read or write something where people are in love, full stop. Can someone prompt me, please? Any fandom I'm familiar with except Avatar, or original.

8) Speaking of prompts! Is anyone interested in an X-files/Doctor Who oneshot? I've had one percolating, and I have a beta on the line, but I don't know if anyone would be interested in reading something with Six and Samantha. Other possibilities include finally finishing my gorram Christmas fics (July is a new record), finishing up my Mulder/Scully fanmix (I think I need to see the movie again first), trying my hand at that one NaNo novel again, finishing and then rewriting Confidence (or maybe I could just skip to the rewrite?), or just watching Doctor Who until my brain liquifies. That last option is looking better all the time.

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

Here's...um...a lot of stories. A lot a lot. Guess the fandom. Also, let me know if any of these intrigue. Some of them are perilously close to being abandoned.
( I really need to get some of these finished. )

Oh my God, this is the angstiest sestina ever. NEIL GAIMAN MADE ME DO IT.

( A sestina with the words dark, ragged, never, screaming, fire, kiss... )

I'm particularly fond of the fifth stanza, but hey.

Also, submitted More Things In Heaven to the Most Awesome Market Ever... wish me luck! *crosses fingers*

Being inexplicably awake after a 2-3 hour sleep, being sick, and being rather down about my fanfiction lately, I decided to turn my attention to my original fiction and try to sell some stuff. I've queried a "West Coast authors only" zine as to whether I count as West Coast with an eye to trying to sell them "Four for a Birth," and have currently submitted "Shadows" to a zine I've sold to before and liked (though I'm not wild about their manuscript policies. Seriously, guys, everyone else takes standard manuscript format. Why you hating?), and "Blood Ties" to a new zine with a nine-month response time. I'm serious. I could get pregnant right now and have the kid before they would tell me whether they accepted it or not. *grumble*

Needless to say, I submitted that last one before I noticed the response time...

But anyway. Next up, betaing something I said I'd beta a while back, that just needs my comments written up proper and I can send it back to its mommy. After that, see if I can't do some writing of my own. After that, hopefully I'll be tired enough to sleep some more.

If not, I can think about this job offer some more and decide whether I want to take it. It would basically be one or two creative nonfiction stories a month (approximately two thousand words at the most), writing up what amounts to human interest stories. I have to admit, I'm not real wild about the job (or the pay rate; I'd be getting paid about a buck a story, maybe), but it would give me a chance to polish up my mad writing skillz, and I do need money. I just don't know if I need it that much.

I'll do my Chinese homework sometime in the morning. I hope.

ETA: Randomly? Kyrie is stuck at exactly 6666 words.
I did not do this on purpose.

Since GreatestJournal went and self-destructed on me, I'm going to copy-paste and save stuff. For Posterity.

( A meme I feel like doing again )

( Three Men and a Baby )

( Storytime with Kat and Boy regarding Greek Mythology! )