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All personal/RL posts are locked. Memes, some fannish stuff, and things like my "books read this year" posts are public. If you're here for the fic, all my fic will be posted publicly at our_fic. There will still be no public fic posts in this journal.

I'm sorry, but I don't friend back automatically, and I'm fairly cautious about my friends list. If I know you from around LJ, please leave a comment (they're screened) so I know you've friended me!

A meme I stole from calapine 'cause it looked like a good way to spend some time. :)

( A not wholly surprising list under the cut )

I try (don't always succeed, but I try) to do a post on LJ every year on National Coming Out Day, but sometimes it gets tough. I mean, it's not like I'm not out--offline as well as on--and it's not like I don't talk about Mrs. Mir (aka soft_princess) enough that anyone who reads this journal even occasionally would have missed the fact that I'm a lesbian.

But getting married last month, while a joyous experience overall, brought up some less than fantastic memories, and so I thought, this year, I'd talk about the one area where being out has consistently caused a problem for me.

Warning: the material under the cut includes discussion of domestic abuse, including (but not limited to) sexual abuse. If reading it would cause you distress, please don't.

( and the cut starts here )

Happy NCOD, y'all. If you're LGBT, and you're not out, or you don't feel safe coming out, I earnestly hope you have at least one friend you can share your real self with. If you're reading this, I'm volunteering, if you need it.

The LJ Catch-Up Post of DOOM, or "How Mir Spent Her Summer Vacation"

This is actually going to be one of a *series* of posts, because if we wait until I'm done, I'll never post.

( Writercon. Yes, this is two months late. Surprise. :D )

More later--soon, if I can!

I know I've been absent more often than not the past few months, and haven't posted at all since before Writercon (or added the awesome people I met there, for that matter).

So, I'm, er, posting to say that I won't be posting much for a while, still? I'm leaving in a few hours for the 3-4 day drive to my wedding, and pretty much as soon as I get back (and I had to cut the honeymoon short) I'm going in for surgery -- the real thing this time, not outpatient.

As soon as I'm back on my feet, though, I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things, because I miss LJ, I miss all of you, I miss fandom, and I'm ready to get myself back to what passes for normal around here.

<3 <3 <3 comments off so I don't return to LJ feeling guilty about backlogged comments <3 <3 <3

I need to get my fannish mojo back.I'm just feeling totally uninspired: I want to start writing again, but all my current back-burner projects are big and daunting. Especially when you haven't written anything to speak of in the past few months. So I'm trying to get my brain back in the habit of writing fic. :)

Anybody want to request a drabble/ficlet (I'll be aiming for a drabble, but if I'm super-inspired, I might go as far as 500 words)? I guarantee the first request will get written (I'd kind of like to borrow the format of margarks' Daily Drabbles, where the first person to comment gets to request the next drabble), but I also might get to a few more.

I'll write BtVS/AtS (no comics), SGA, SG1, Doctor Who (old series only, please), Due South (I'm pretty shaky on canon post-S2), ST:TOS, M*A*S*H,  Harry Potter, Merlin, Blake's 7, Sports Night, and (hides face in shame) Speed Racer:the Next Generation. M/M, F/F, and gen preferred, but I'll write some het.

Please? I miss feeling involved in fandom....

(FYI: From this point on, the drabbles (and therefore the place to comment to request the next one) will be posted over at our_fic, under the tag mireille:daily(ish) drabbles (so you can track the tag rather than watching the journal, if you want. :) ).)

To keep myself from tracking down my presentation partner and strangling her, I offer a meme: Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom. (If I don't know the fandom, I reserve the right to make things up. :) )

No time for a lengthy post of explanation right now, but...

soft_princess and I have the best friends ever. katekat1010, lostgirlslair, we love you both like whoa.

*hugs the entire world*

So, one of the prompts I'm writing for lgbtfest (now open for business! It is made of awesome! I need to get this thesis chapter done so I can read EVERYTHING!) is, "The Five Worst Times/Places to Come Out."

I seem to have an abundance of bunnies, so I come to my flist. :) I make no promises, but I'm curious to know what you all think. I want the fic to be relatively light (maybe one or two of the five things will be angsty, but overall, I'd prefer a lighter tone), if that affects your choice. Pairings will be predominantly slash (though if I get hit by a brilliant idea, I may have him/her come out as bisexual to someone who previously thought s/he was gay).

And the choices are....

Poll #1384420
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 28

I think your fic should be....

If it matters, the DW fic will only feature Doctors chosen from the first eight, and in Due South, I don't write F/K 'cause I fail hard at writing Kowalski. :)

soft_princess tagged me. If you've been tagged, you are supposed to write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question. I am not tagging anyone; if you haven't done this yet and want to, consider yourself tagged by me.

This was answered yesterday afternoon, so it may not fit my current situation.

( 20 Questions )

The official signup period at lgbtfest is closed. (If you've signed up, more info will be coming soon.)

We do, however, still have four three one spots (April 21) still up for grabs, and if you want one of those, you can still sign up. (We won't be adding any more spaces when those are gone.) This means, by the way, that at this point, people have signed up to write 306 307 309 stories in a multitude of fandoms.

For more information and to sign up, see here.

Today is the last day to sign up for lgbtfest! There are tons of prompts available, in dozens (or possibly hundreds) of fandoms, plus many prompts that can be written in any fandom you choose.

Everyone who signs up today is guaranteed a chance to participate; if all the dates we have available fill up, we'll make more room. Starting tomorrow, you'll only be able to sign up if we have some open spaces left, and we won't be adding any more when those fill up.

Go here for more information, links to the lists of prompts, and your chance to sign up! And to those of you who've already signed up, thank you! I'm looking forward to reading the fic!

While I've been reading RaceFail '09, I haven't been speaking up, because I've assumed that I have nothing to contribute to the discussion, because although I've been an SF/F fan since I learned to read, I'm whiter than white and not especially eloquent.

kita0610 reminded me last night that I do have something to contribute. I'm borrowing her words because they say exactly what needs to be said:

I am not okay with this.
It is not about 'both sides behaving badly'.
It is about racism. Full stop.
Everything else is window dressing.
Racism will not be tolerated in any community I am a part of.

I've lost a lot of respect for people I've known, or known of, for years during the past few months. I'd like to keep my self-respect intact.

Comments off because this is in no way about me. If you really want to talk about it, e-mail me.

+Kisses [Buffyverse, OFC/OFC, FRT, part of the "Conspiracy Theory" universe I share with Sofy]
+The Beginning of Knowledge [Buffyverse, Giles/Xander, FRT]
+Something in the Middle [Buffyverse, Giles/Xander, FRT]
+No Regrets [Buffyverse, Giles/Xander, FRAO]
+Like Pop Rocks on Your Tongue [SGA AU, McKay/Sheppard, FRC]

Prompt Claiming is open at lgbtfest! There are hundreds and hundreds of prompts to choose from! Sign up! *flails*

entrenous88 had a question for me in the "ask me anything" meme:

    Are there any canon instances of Giles in BtVS that just seem *off* to you? Like, were there any onscreen or reported behaviors in the series that made you say, "Wait, no. That's not Giles/Giles wouldn't do/say that!"

I try hard not to do that--I figure the writers, directors, and ASH defined the character, and so my interpretation is just that. But Giles' absence in the last two seasons felt wrong. I know from a Doylist perspective what happened--that ASH wanted to spend less time in California--but from a Watsonian perspective, I just find it hard to believe that Giles would have abandoned Buffy like that, when she'd just returned from the dead--and then again, when at the end of S6, he left her (and would have stayed gone, but for the First) when he'd found out just how rough things had been for her.

That felt wrong, and continues to feel wrong. I know they had a situation they had to write around, but I wish they'd at least given him stronger reasons for leaving.

Interview questions from mosca:

( 5 and a half questions )

I should be writing, but among the things I lost recently when the computer I had been using died (thus forcing me to finally set up my real computer again) were the two fics I was working on. Argh. (And this computer has some kind of hard-to-isolate software incompatibility issue that makes my cursor jump around from time to time, and I have to get used to it again.) Also, it's a cold and rainy day, my feet are frozen, and I don't want to be productive. :)

So now, I do a meme, ganked from pretty much all of LJ.

Ask me anything: all types of fannish opinions, good, bad, and ugly. I'm screening all comments so ask me anything fannish-related and I'll answer (in a separate post) with complete honesty. Any TV show/book/movie that you're pretty sure I've mentioned in the past is fair game, as are thoughts on general themes and trends in fandom/fiction, lists of loved/hated characters, thoughts on ships, whatever. Comments are screened so you can ask whatever you want without being "revealed." If you don't care about being revealed you can let me know.

The current round at maleslashminis is focusing on Wesley. Fic can feature Wesley paired with any guy from the Buffyverse or Firefly!

Signups close tomorrow (Tuesday, February 3) at 10 PM Eastern time; you'll get your assignments sometime on Wednesday, and fic of 500+ words is due on Sunday, February 15.

For more information, or to sign up, click here! We hope to see you there!

I know it seems like the only thing I post these days is beta requests. This would be because my life is currently very boring. :)

And a beta has been found! Thanks, everybody!

Beta no longer needed, thanks to the wonderful wesleysgirl.

I've got two short (one just under 2K words, the other just over) stories that need a beta-reader. They're both Buffyverse, both Giles/Xander, both Teen rated; one is post-Chosen and the other is set in S4. Neither has a deadline as such at the moment, but both are extraordinarily late (as in months) for ficathons, so I'd like to be able to post within the next week.

Drop me a comment if you're interested in shredding beta-reading one for me (they're screened, so you can leave your e-mail), and let me know if you can't handle .doc files - I can convert to .rtf or .txt if you need it.

And I have betas! Thank you, katekat1010 and wesleysgirl! *hugs*

( Fic I intend to write this year )

Also, new default icon, courtesy of the lovely lostgirlslair. I love my old default (and still have it as an icon), but 3-1/2 years is long enough. :)

My fic output in 2008 was the smallest that it's been since before I started posting fic on LJ--it was a godawful year for me in RL, and that made it hard for me to write/post fic. I'm definitely hoping that 2009 will be an improvement on that front!

( 2008 Fic in Review )

Last one of these from 2008! This plus my 50-book-challenge means I read about 128 books this year. I wish I'd read more, but I did read an awful lot of fic, as well as textbooks.

72. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham, 3/5
73. Conagher, Louis L'Amour, 4/5
74. Audrey Rose, Frank De Felitta, 3/5
75. For Love of Audrey Rose, Frank De Felitta, 2.5/5.
76. Field of Death, Stephen Overholser, 2/5
77. Hero, Perry Moore, 3/5
78. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J. K. Rowling, 4/5

From everywhere:

If you could force me to write anything, what would it be?

I got way behind my self-imposed reading schedule, and kept waiting to post until I caught up. The thing is, I was never coming *close* to catching up--first I'd read fic, which doesn't count, and then I'd just...not read (I think I read five pages of a book while Sofy was here, not counting textbooks), and, well, instead of feeling guilty about it, I'm going to make the post and stop worrying about how "far behind" I am. It's leisure reading, Mir, it's not an obligation.

60. The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer, 3/5.
61. Black Sheep, Georgette Heyer, 5/5.
62. Murderers Prefer Blondes, Amanda Matetsky, 4/5.
63. Murder is a Girl's Best Friend, Amanda Matetsky, 4/5.
64. How to Marry a Murderer, Amanda Matetsky, 3.5/5.
65. Murder on a Hot Tin Roof, Amanda Matetsky, 3.5/5.
66. Naughty Neighbor, Janet Evanovich, 0.5/5.
67. Foul Play, Janet Evanovich, 1.5/5.
68. Dial Me for Murder, Amanda Matetsky, 3/5.
69. Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss, 3.5/5.
70. Charity Girl, Georgette Heyer, 4/5.
71. Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss, 4/5.


Re-reads:

• Cotillion, Georgette Heyer.
  
• Venetia, Georgette Heyer.
  
• The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer.
  
• Frederica, Georgette Heyer.
  

Nearly all EDAs this week. It's been that sort of a week. :)

51. Longest Day, Michael Collier, 1/5.
52. For a Few Demons More, Kim Harrison, 3/5.
53. Santa Cruise, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, 2/5.
54. Legacy of the Daleks, John Peel, 4/5.
55. Dreamstone Moon, Paul Leonard, 3.5/5.
56. Seeing I, Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman, 1/5. [Would have been higher, but then there was the line "He was making her thighs sizzle," and that was the end of me being able to take the book remotely seriously.]
57. Placebo Effect, Gary Russell, 3/5.
58. Vanderdeken's Children, Christopher Bulis, 4/5.
59. The Scarlet Empress, Paul Magrs, 4.5/5.

47. Silent Night, Mary Higgins Clark, 2/5.
48. Moonshine, Rob Thurman, 4/5.
49. Teaching Children Who Struggle with Mathematics: A Systematic Approach to Analysis and Correction, Helene J. Sherman, Lloyd L. Richardson, and George J. Yard, 4/5.
50. Cry Wolf, Patricia Briggs, 4/5.

As far out of love as I have fallen with the "grown-up" parts of the Doctor Who franchise in recent years (that would be the current "grown-up" parts, as opposed to the old series, the EDAs, etc.), I am so utterly grateful for The Sarah Jane Adventures, because those, I love with all my heart.

( Spoilers for *both* parts of 'The Last Sontaran' under the cut )

Not as many books this week as in the past weeks, partly because I've been exhausted and ill, and partly because I read a large stack of professional journals instead of books. Still, I managed my three-a-week goal, even if two of them *were* EDAs and thus very short.

44. Kursaal, Peter Anghelides, 1/5.
45. Option Lock, Justin Richards, 2.5/5.
46. The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer, 3/5.

Re-reads:

• April Lady, Georgette Heyer.
  
• Powder and Patch, Georgette Heyer.
  
• The Black Moth, Georgette Heyer.
  

Note: My ratings are a measure of my personal enjoyment of the book. They are (usually) related to the book's quality, but there are a lot of other factors involved. Since I rate them mostly for my own purposes, it's the best scheme for me.

33. Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4.5/5.
34. Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold, 3/5.
35. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4.5/5.
36. Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.
37. Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold, 3/5.
38. How to Survive in Your Native Land, James Herndon, 3.5/5.
39. The Way It Spozed to Be, James Herndon, 4/5.
40. Setting Limits in the Classrom, Robert J. Mackenzie, 4/5.
41. One-Minute Discipline, Arnie Bianco, 1/5.
42. What Every Teacher Should Know About Classroom Management, James Levin and James F. Nolan, 4/5.
43. Notes from a Schoolteacher, James Herndon, 3/5.

From celli:

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in (or think I should), and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, etc). I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.

Since I don't actually have to *write* the fic, it really can be any fandom you think I ought to write in, as well as the few I do write.

(Responses in comments. No more, please.)

National League Central division champions, second year running.

That. Is. All.

Note: I'm reading the Vorkosigan books. Some of these, I read before--but only a few, and mostly 15 years ago, and I'm counting them as new books for my purpose because they're *not* like my Heyer and Pratchett (etc.) re-reads: I don't remember anything but the vaguest of details, those that could come from a book-jacket.

22. Reluctant Disciplinarian, Gary Rubinstein, 1/5. (Note: It might actually be a decent book for a first year teacher. I'm just pissed off that I had to *buy* this book and it contains nothing I didn't already know.)
23. Teacher-Tested Classroom Management Strategies, Blossom S. Nissman, 1/5.
24. Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold, 3.5/5
25. Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.
26. The Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4.5/5.
27. The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4.5/5.
28. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.
29. Ethan of Athos, Lois McMaster Bujold, 3/5.
30. Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.
31. Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.
32. Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold, 4/5.

12. Just Patty, Jean Webster, 3/5.
13. When Patty went to College, Jean Webster, 3/5.
14. The Eight Doctors, Terrance Dicks, 2/5.
15. Vampire Science, Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, 2.5/5. (better written than TED, but more smug.)
16. The Body Snatchers, Mark Morris, 3.5/5.
17. Genocide, Paul Leonard, 3/5.
18. The Toll-Gate, Georgette Heyer, 4/5.
19. War of the Daleks, John Peel, 3/5.
20. Alien Bodies, Mad Larry Lawrence Miles, 4/5.
21. The Gift of Fear, Gavid de Becker. 4/5 (Would have been 5/5, because it's an excellent book, but there's a whiff of blame-the-victim that made me rate it lower.)


Re-reads:

• These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer
  
• Devil's Cub, Georgette Heyer
  
• Bath Tangle, Georgette Heyer
  

ETA: I owe tons of comments to people, and I will get there, I'm just... not really useful right now.

8. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, Alexander McCall Smith, 2.5/5.
9. The Quiet Gentleman, Georgette Heyer, 3/5.
10.Daddy Long-Legs, Jean Webster, 3.5/5.
11.Dear Enemy, Jean Webster, 3/5.

[Note: The Webster books are sort of rated on the average: If I look at how much I like the characters and am interested in what happens to them, and enjoy the writing style, they'd be rated quite highly (4.5 for each); but when I think about the ("acceptable" by the standards of the early 1900s, when they were written, but often disturbing now; their only saving grace is that there is obviously not an ounce of intended malice in them, and that it's obvious that for her time, Webster was fairly forward-thinking, and some of the squickiest stuff was considered at the forefront of science) sociological aspects of the books, Daddy Long-Legs would get a 2/5 and Dear Enemy a 1.5/5. So I averaged.]

Rereads, as many as I can recall, because I'm starting to feel like I'm reading all the time and not finishing many books at all, and I realized that it's because I'm not listing half my books:

• The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
  
• Cousin Kate, Georgette Heyer
  
• Sylvester, Georgette Heyer
  
• Arabella, Georgette Heyer
  

Is the soft drink Mountain Dew sold there? (I'm beta-reading and wanted to fact-check, and Wikipedia and the official site are not helping me.)

ETA: I have an answer good enough for the purposes of the fic I'm beta-reading. Thanks!

So, as I see from my flist (specifically from calapine, but there are others), the DVD commentary meme is going around again. :) I like this meme.

So. For any fic of mine that you request, I will provide commentary, like a DVD extra.

Notes:

1. If I've already done commentary on a story, then I'm not likely to do it again. (If I did commentary for particular chapters, any other chapters are still fair game.)
2. I'm already doing commentary for "The Full Xander Harris Experience" and "Holidays on the Hellmouth."
3. I will get to these. It may take a short time, but I will get to them. :)
4. If it's co-written fic, I'll have to ask permission first.

Find my fic here, here, here, here, and here. (Sorry about that, but my fic site is down....)

5. Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer, 4/5
6. Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Alexander McCall Smith, 2.5/5
7. The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs, Rich Burlew, 3/5

Signups are open for the second annual Giles/Xander Octoberfest.

Hope to see a lot of you there!

I have been watching a lot of First Doctor lately, and am pleasantly surprised. Most of my knowledge of that era has always been (a) An Unearthly Child (the one First Doctor I had on VHS) and (b) Target Novelizations, many of which just aren't very good. (They do, at least, give you a general sense of what happened.) I'd seen a few others here and there once things started to come out on DVD, but I hadn't made any effort to track down the ones that were not.

Except now I am. (I am still not tracking down the ones with episodes reconstructed. I have limited patience with those, and I think it will go better if, when I watch them, it is because no other Old Skool Who exists that I have not seen. This is sad, as it means I will be able to zip through the Second Doctor era in about a week, but I will survive.)

ANYWAY. I am very, very fond of the First Doctor, and the very first Team TARDIS. And I am reminded every single time I watch The Aztecs that the Asexualists really have never had a leg to stand on, have they? While the Doctor was very surprised to be engaged to Cameca, he didn't seem to object, either, and he was very sweet with her, and seemed genuinely sad that he had to leave her behind. I do lament the fact that in three of the four series of New Who, the Doctor/companion relationship was All About Shipping (and while the Doctor's relationship with Donna wasn't, the end of the series did, in fact, remind us of shippiness yet again), but one certainly can't say the Doctor *never* seemed to have any romantic interest in anyone. (I will look forward to seeing "Kinda" again for the first time in many years, because I used to be convinced the Doctor and Dr. Scott (that was her name, right?) were interested in one another, and that the Doctor's "paradise is a little too green for me, as well" comment was about not being able to stay with her (or indeed anyone). We'll see if I still think that.

In a non-fannish note, my plans for today got scrapped when my alarm failed to go off. Luckily, they were not time-sensitive plans. I will try to salvage some of this week's to-do list and go out for the haircut tomorrow.

So, I've read about ten books that never made it to this list because I didn't want to write a paragraph about them. Clearly, something needs to change. :)

I think that unless there's something I'm dying to say, I'm not going to write anything about the books, or hunt up an Amazon link. (If you're curious about something, do ask me.) Just title, author, 5-star rating (which is mostly for my own benefit). And I'm probably not going to list re-reads, because my reading goal is now to read things I *haven't* read twenty times before. And I'll try to make this a weekly post, rather than every few days when I read something.

Also... my numbering is about to restart, because I met my 50-book goal and I want to try to do something a little different. I'll still tag with "2008:books," but I'm starting over with #1, and I won't restart my numbering in 2009, just change tags.


1. First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde. 4.5/5
2. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett. 4/5
3. Hasty Death, Marion Chesney. 3/5
4. Faro's Daughter, Georgette Heyer. 4/5

I have reached a sad stage in my life, where there is a small and dwindling number of Georgette Heyer Regencies (and/or Georgian romances) left for me to read. Ten, to be exact. (Well, eleven, but Regency Buck is on the table next to me.) Two of them are currently out of print; they are my next two purchases, because I want to snap them up while they're easily available. The others are here, for you to make suggestions to me! They're not cheap, so I can't buy them all at once. :)

If it's any help to you, my five favorite Heyer romances (of the 23 I've read) are, in no particular order: Venetia, Frederica, The Grand Sophy, The Corinthian, and The Nonesuch; the only one I have read and not liked is Powder and Patch. (I also have read and not much enjoyed Beauvallet, though it's not a Regency.)

Poll #1243180
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

Which Heyer book(s) should I get first? (3 or fewer, please!)

Feel free to explain in comments!

afternoonsandcoffeespoons.org got hacked today, and was shut down by my host.

Until they reinstate my account, obviously, I have no fic site, no headers for my journal, no mood theme, nothing.

I *should* be able to reinstate most things (maybe not my mood theme, I'll have to check) once I get access to my site again, but ARGH ARGH ARGH.

lostgirlslair, do you still happen to have the graphic for the Friends Only banner you made me? I think it was lost in a hard drive crash, and I'd like to be able to re-upload it.... ETA: Found it! I must have remembered to download it back to my HD.

I've signed up as an author at the 2008 DVD Commentary Challenge. Anything I've written (except The One With the Evil Puppies, which I am frantically hoping to finish soon) is fair game--co-written stuff is out as my co-writers haven't signed on. :D (And because everything I have co-written with anyone who isn't Sofy has been hopefully BURIED SOMEWHERE. *g*)

So if you want to do commentary on anything I've written, head over to dvd_commentary. :)

I am hoping to participate as a commentator, also, but I need to get some other things done first. :)

( 54. Sprig Muslin, Georgette Heyer (reread) )

Overall rating: 4.5/5.

( 55. Friday's Child, Georgette Heyer )

Overall rating: 4/5.

( 56. Lady of Quality, Georgette Heyer )

Overall rating: 4.5/5.

( 57. False Colours, Georgette Heyer )

Overall rating: 4/5.

No links today, as Amazon isn't loading for me.

I've recently introduced my girl to the joys of Heyer, and so I'm having fun rereading some myself...

( 52. Frederica, Georgette Heyer (reread) )

Overall rating: 5/5.

( 53. A Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (reread) )

Overall rating: 5/5.

It's my summer_of_giles day on Saturday, and that means I have to write something today or tomorrow (because Saturday I don't plan to be around much).

I had it all worked out (the rest of "The One With the Evil Puppies") and yet I do not have a computer with Word on it yet (other than this one, which EATS FILES--I will definitely be using GoogleDocs), and so it is very hard to access what I'd written of that (also, is on computer that is still currently made of fail, and I don't want to work from the backup as that's lacking several thousand words.). (Yes, I fail. Or rather, my computer fails.) And I don't have time now anyway. ARGH. Stupid broken computer.

And so right this second... I have nothing

Anyone want to throw Giles-based prompts at me? I'm not promising to write all of them, but maybe one or two will spark something in my brain....

From ionlylurkhere: This is IMDb’s top 25 all-time box office hits. Bold the ones you saw in the cinema, italicize the ones you saw some other way instead, and leave the unseen ones alone.

( list under cut )