Audiofic: A World Called Catastrophe

Since I couldn't seem to get myself into gear to really write last week, I did quite a bit of audiofic recording instead. I've got another week off in a fortnight, so you might want to brace yourselves...

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Title: A World Called Catastrophe
Author: perspi
Reader: jadesfire2808
Fandom: SGA
Length:57.19/52MB
Link: Megaupload; Permanent with thanks to general_jinjur

Summary: When the world ends in a flash of orange and yellow, the last thing John feels is the sensation of flying.

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So if the last one had outtakes for squeeing, this one had them for choking up. No matter how many times I read this story, it still gets me, every single time. Since they're less fun to listen to, I didn't include them. Huge, huge thanks to perspi for letting me play in her sandbox, and for pointing out when I repeat myself ;)

[cross-posted to sgapodfic and amplificathon with a promise that this will be the last spamming for a while...]

It's going to be a long week...

We're down 3 staff members for most of this week, and I only have 2 weeks to clear out the last of my work before leaving. Naturally this means I have no interest whatsoever in getting things done. Even SGA podfic isn't quite cutting it for motivation right now, although the live clips of the V-festival on Virgin Radio's website helped a little. Anyone wanting to give me a kick up the backside pep talk is more than welcome to. The main problem is that when I feel like this, all I want to do is eat, preferably everything in sight, and preferably all day. Argh. There aren't even lots of readers here to keep me busy - September is always dead in the library, so it's like working in a ghost town. I'm going to have to go out at lunchtime (I usually stay in to save money) if only to stop myself going stark raving mad. Madder.

ETA: Well, I solved the 'what to listen to' problem. I found live coverage of Gustav from a LA radio station. Certainly takes my mind off my own problems...

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Since this generally works, I've put a list below of all the stuff I want to get done, preferably by the end of tomorrow. It's quite a long list, but I think I can get through it...

( Work Stuff )

( Personal Stuff )

( Fandom stuff )

It's a bit lonely here at the moment, okay?

The subject line explains the spamming. Apologies to the flist, and I promise to use "ETA" from now on.

We all know that my general klutziness is one of the things that makes me a danger to myself and others - an inability to walk through doors rather than into them, a tendency to forget to swipe open locked doors and hence bash my nose on them, and a complete ignorance as to where the exact edges of the bookcases are all mean that I really, really wish all the sharp corners of the world should be padded. And while I'm usually covered in bruises, today is the first time the books have drawn blood. I scraped my hand along the corner of a book and have a nice graze, right along the knuckle, just enough to make typing really, really painful. Ow!

Also, the second part of Stephen Fry's series on the English language is about Quotation, and is just as brilliant as the first. As Dorothy L Sayers puts it "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" and therefore I absolutely love it. My brain retains quotations much more easily than anything else, which is both useful and annoying (remembering my PIN would be a whole lot more helpful). I'm perfectly capable of holding entire conversations almost entirely in quotations, mostly from Buffy and the Discworld, and it's incredibly useful when you can't think what else to say. There should be a link to the programme from the Radio 4 website.

So tell me, oh wise and wonderful flist, what's your favourite quote? Or your top three? I'm hard-pushed to choose, but if I have to?

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

ETA: I'm going to update as we go, so come and add yours!

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson via darththalia

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
"Walden" Henry David Thoreau's via pwcorgigirl

"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen via aeron_lanart

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain via aeron_lanart

Humans need fantasy to be human... to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett via smithy161

The Last randomosity from me tonight, I swear.

I'm watching a madman. He's reporting from the levee on the Mississippi at Baton Rouge. OUTSIDE. Seriously, standing on the edge of the levee, trying not to get blown off, talking about people sheltering in their homes to ride out the storm. Shouldn't he be, oh I don't know, sheltering to ride it out? *shakes head* I know that power's out, so we can't expect to hear from folks yet, but stay safe, 'kay. travels_in_time, I'm thinking firm vertical thoughts for those trees...

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I feel like I'm a long way outside the Doctor Who/Torchwood fandom at the moment (SGA folks have been good to me and made me very welcome *gets comfortable*) so I'm watching apiphile's Whoniverse love meme to pick up the good stuff. Don't let me down, people.

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I just updated my audiofic page, since I only have one actual story in my monthly round up, and I only posted that the other day. All the audioficis available from general_jinjur's incredible archive anyway, but I like having my own list too. Then I did the maths and there's 12 and a half hours of fic there. Twelve and a half! Not much SGA right now, but I'm working on it. I hope to hit 24 hours by the end of the year!

( While I'm here, I've been thinking about podficcing lately... )

Ooh, and there's now a permanent link to "A World Called Catastrophe", which you should read even if you don't listen to podfic. Just remember the tissues. Or download it from here