Welcome to Monday

Sheesh, what a weekend. The other half went down with the bug even harder than I did, so we spent most of it sitting around, feeling sorry for ourselves. The most exciting part of the whole 48 hours was going to an Indian corner shop on the Cowley Road and stocking up on all our spices. Definitely worth it, since they're so much cheaper that way, and we also went into Tesco and bought tinned cherry tomatoes which are possibly the best packaged food invention since sliced bread.

Oh yes. We know how to live.

Being ill so much last week has left me with a huge backlog, not to mention all the fannish stuff I need to get done. And that's without even thinking about all the RL stuff we have to get done by Christmas. I've got a few days off next week and the week after, and boy, am I going to need them.

Anyway. Enough of my rambling, there are invoices to code! How's everyone else? Good weekends? Recovered from Thanksgiving? Not snowed in?

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I also wanted to plug consci_fan_mo to everyone. It's a comm for short fic - 100-2000 words - and it's taking fanfic AND original works, all with sci-fi/fantasy themes. I really can't do better than quote this from the user-profile:

"Three weeks of short stories of the sci-fi and fantasy kind, whether they be fanfiction or original works. The sort of stories you can curl up on the sofa with, while the weather does its worst outside, and can finish reading before your tea goes cold and your biscuit goes soggy in the saucer."

There are prompt posts if you get stuck, or just post whatever's been lurking on your hard-drive, waiting to get finished and out there. Some keen souls have posted already, so get over there and have a look. I'm even thinking of attempting some original stuff, although the thought makes me break out in a cold sweat...

I told you they was organised!

This has been amusing me waaaaaay too much this evening. The genius icon is for the pandas rather than me. Obviously.