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[jadesfire]

Thanks for the help with drugs yesterday, guys. I knew you'd know...

Mind you, I feel like I took one of the recommended pills this morning. A combination of late-night upset stomach and early morning allergy attack has left me feeling like someone replaced my brain with cotton wool overnight. Anything to wake me up/make me giggle would be much appreciated.

I'm also attempting to write 32k over the next week or so. As I said to Z and Becky, don't bet against me yet, and don't be fooled by the fact that I've had to restart this story about nine times. That's not too bad for me, and now I've worked out that I need to stop worrying about what *happens* next and just worry about what the characters *do* next, it's going a lot smoother. Although any inspirational thoughts you care to send in my direction would not go amiss...

How is everyone? I had a nice discussion yesterday about the Who finale with someone I didn't know and completely disagreed with, and it was fun, and good-natured and interesting. It's nice to stretch some brain cells properly. Anything nice happen to anyone else lately? Come on, don't be shy. I'm going to be slogging for at least the next seven days, so I need my vicarious happies!

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[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

This made me go aww this morning:

(http://ihasahotdog.com/2008/07/06/funny-dog-pictures-we-gots-plenty/)
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I'm not worried - the fic's going well, and I'm certain it's going to be brilliant. Just let John keep talking ;)

Good debates are good :) I love it when people can disagree like grown-ups.

Nice, um. Apart from my warm and fuzzy feelings towards the Due South fandom, and the fact it's sunny so far today... ooh, I has an interview tomorrow, which may or may not be good. The job sounds a bit (okay, a lot) dull, but it's only until October, so it might be alright...

ETA:

(http://ihasahotdog.com/2008/02/25/cute-puppy-picture-kofeemaker/)
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Aww!

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the help with drugs yesterday, guys. I knew you'd know...

Heee!! You have any idea how this sounds like to anyone who hasn't read the previous entry? *giggles*

I has new umbrellas!! Small, tiny umbrellas!! So I no longer have to carry around the big heavy thing in my bag! \o/

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Yup, I know exactly how it sounds... *beams*

Ooh, I love pretty umbrellas! I'm not allowed them because I lose them, but I love them anyway :D

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

For once I'm at a loss for anything cheerful. Sorry...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Bless! Yeah, that works. *G*

I'm about to let Ronon hit John with a big stick, which is always fun :)

Interview! Excellent! And boredom's definitely easier to bear if you know it's got a limited timespan on it...

Thanks :D

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're nothing fancy, just plain black since that tends to just go with everything, but they're SMALL and LIGHT and hopefully last longer than the ones I get here. Um... yeah, I have them shipped from UK since the ones I got in Australia lasts on average a year (disposable umbrellas, that's what I call them), and the one that lasted me 10 years was a brand I can't find here. :(

Small! Light!! No more heavy bags!! :D

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh Noes!

*rummages*

(http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/04/funny-pictures-add-tunahonest-no-you-cant-see/)
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This made me smile. It also reminded me of my own approach to cooking. Are there chillis in the recipe? No? Why not? They got it wrong! *adds chillis*" :)

(edited for spelling failure...)

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Garlic too. There's never enough garlic...

Still smarting from the car situation and having to get to Cambridge by bus this morning and finding it takes three hours because it spends the greater part of one of those hours sitting in a bay at Bedford bus station...Argh! Public transport in this country is a joke, and not a very funny one.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh yuk. I know that the Oxford-Cambridge bus journey has practically legendary status. Apparently you're allowed to travel North-South in England, but East-West is a bad plan...

Hope the day improves!

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

Ronon has to hit John at least once. You said so yourself. It's one of the immutable laws of the universe ;)

I just found this (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/290833.html) Dief pov ficlet, and it made me giggle. Thought you might like it too.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Why on earth would anyone want to go East-West??

I feel I am allowed to ask this as everywhere is north of me...

*ducks anyway*

(http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/03/funny-pictures-bad-day-here-i-fix-it/)
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[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

need moar coffee. hanging around at uni with nothing to do is HARD. Can't even read fic because there are people here with me :/

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Also, Dalek Cake (http://www.needcoffee.com/2006/08/06/dalek-cake-extermination-by-chocolate/).

Seriously awesome.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I cannot speak of the monster writing run, because, er, I've almost broken 60K, and there's a teensy chance I could see 70 in mine before the week is through (if I could just stop falling asleep at night, that'd be awesome.)

Let's see... vicarious happies? Um... I have coffee this morning! :D Well... it makes me happy>.


And this reminds me of Ianto's girlfriend:

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

70k? All by yourself? I mean, I know Naye and Friendshipper hit that, but seriously? *mind boggles* You go, girl! I'm just about to break 10k and am very excited about it :)

heh. I've just finished my fourth coffee. No discernable effects so far, but you have to repeat experiments to be sure of the results...

*snorts coffee*

Oh that is wrong...

*falls off chair laughing*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I know. I mean, you can get to Wales pretty easily, but apart from that? Maybe they're trying to tell us something...

Awww! Bless! That's brilliant, thanks :D

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*nods* Boredom makes me pretty much doze off on my keyboard. *snores*

*passes the coffee*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Cyberkitteh! Just when you thought it was safe to has cheezburger again...

70k? All by yourself? I mean, I know Naye and Friendshipper hit that, but seriously? *mind boggles* You go, girl!

Well, it's just a little bit shy of 60K at this point, but with the length of the scenes, I won't be altogether too surprised if it hits the seventy marker before all is said and done. I can't stop to think about it too long, otherwise my mind starts boggling as well, because usually I have a hard time hitting 10K or 20K, not "Can I plz stop now and sleep? Kthnx." I might even have a title, which knowing me and title angst is just... I don't know, I think I've been possessed. By those Shakespeare typewriting monkeys.

I'm just about to break 10k and am very excited about it :)

10k is nothing to scoff at! I'm very excited for you too, and am cheering on the side -- I'm just sort of franticaly scribbling at the same time ;) We can do it! *\o/*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

Thinking too hard about these things is always a bad plan. If it's going, it's going. Best not to worry too much.

Titles are weird things. Sometimes I get it right at the start, sometimes it comes to be halway through, and sometimes I tear my hair out until I find the right quotation :)

I'm quite pleased, especially since that's 10k (10,026 to be precise - woo hoo!) in 2.5 days - I didn't write on Sunday, and it's only the middle of the day here now. I need to pick up the pace to get done on time, but it's flowing now, so I'm not worried. Now I just have to convince the mods that I'm going to make it...

We can definitely do it! *waves pompoms*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Well I don't mind a bit if they want to encourage us all to go to Wales :D

They are kind of cute aren't they?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd already passed the 20k mark? Are you rewriting?

On the funny side: I finally got a letter from my son who is at sleepaway camp. 2 lines- How's the cat, and are we taping Doctor Who for him. He has his priorities.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I'm rerererewriting, I think. It got past the 20k mark and just...died. I'm so much happier with what I'm writing now. 11,500 words and hardly anything has happened and I have no plans for what's going to happen. That's my kind of story :) See heretoutopia for details, although I should be sending you something by the end of the day.

*snort* Yeah, that sounds about right. Glad you've got him well trained ;D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, hadn't finished getting through my f-list yet. I'll go see.

My son was VERY upset he'd be at camp for the Moffat episodes. If we didn't agree to tape them I could see him refusing to go to camp

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Heh. No worries - as I say, I'll be sending it along soon anyway. Nearly at the end of Part One! Woo hoo!

*giggle* Now that's what I call a fan :D

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

*hugs* You can do it, I've SEEN you write that much, that fast.