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Could whoever needs to put 50p in the meter to get spring going please do so? The snow is not welcome this morning, mostly because I think I pulled something in my side trying not to slip over on the pavement. Ow.

I'll get to comments and emails later today, I promise, but it's been a real rollercoaster of a week, and I'm not feeling as coherent as I could be. The short version is that we viewed, and eventually had an offer accepted on a flat, but the situation has become incredibly complicated for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, and the whole thing is making my head hurt horribly. Hopefully it's all in a good cause, but still. I am not equipped to deal with this!

Work sent me on a course yesterday, which was interesting up to a point, that point being when the trainer showed that he'd gone to the Sybil Fawlty* school of information provision. I never would have guessed that that button labelled "X" did "X"**. Thank you for telling me that.

Otherwise, things continue onwards, as they tend to. I'm crocheting like a fiend, writing my fingers off when I can (and that feels so good I can't begin to tell you), contemplating submitting something somewhere (*gulp* No, no details, I'll let you know when I can), planning on pitching a paper for a conference (*more gulping*) and generally working through my two giant lists of doom. No, really, that's what I've headed them. One is the Big Giant List of Doom and the other is Son of Big Giant List of Doom: The Revenge.

Look, my work can be dull some days, okay?

Hope everyone in LJ-land is coping with February. Personally, I can't wait for Sunday to be over with so that I can get all the hearts off of the craft blogs I follow. Valentines seemed to start in mid-January this year...


*From Basil The Rat: Next contestant - Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Special subject - the bleedin' obvious.

**The button wasn't actually labelled "X". The course would have been much cooler if it had been.
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Relevant to your interests:

There are plenty of poetry lovers on my flist, so this one's for you: Know Your Words. I can't speak for the other writers in the collection, but Del posts poetry on her journal, and even I know it's good. Er. That's more of a ringing endorsement than it sounds - I know almost nothing about poetry, and rarely get through whole poems without wandering off in the middle, but Del writes the kind of thing that grabs you and won't let go. Highly recommended.

Relevant to my interests:

Er. We're ringing a mortgage company in the morning, then we're ringing the estate agent to put an offer in on a flat.

If anyone has a paper bag handy, I might need one to breathe into...
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These are all the drabbles I wrote in my great drabble giveaway yesterday. Because I'm pedantic about these things, each one is exactly 100 words.

The drabble-bar is now closed, as the staff should be a)writing The Wandering Years or b)doing coursework. Not necessarily in that order.

Torchwood/Doctor Who drabbles

For miss_zedem who wanted Ianto/OC )

For rivers_bend who wanted Gwen to remember Rose and Gwyneth )

For nnwest who wanted Jack/Ianto flirtage )

For terrylj who wanted the Ninth Doctor to meet Sam Vimes )

For crystalshard who gave me the Torchwood prompt 'battlefield' )

For aeshna_uk who wanted Jack/Detective Swanson )

For entangled_now who gave me the Torchwood prompt 'flood' )


House Drabbles

For deelaundry who wanted House and Wilson having fun. )

For karaokegal who wanted S1 House with one of the big FCC* issues )