Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

This was going to be me posting the newly-revised-and-shiny first 3000 words of the fic I'll have to stop calling 'Epic Which Will Never Be Finished', since [gleeful]it's actually going somewhere![/gleeful], but no. Power cut at home, so can't get fic off home computer to post it, so sulking. Huh.

So, faced with reading stuff on genre theory or messing around on the Internet in my office, I've been... well, not reading stuff on genre theory. But I have discovered the Search->Random button on LJ, which is incredible amounts of fun. (And this is the point where everyone else says, 'But we know about the Random thing, we've known for ages, you fool. Aren't you the same person who didn't work out that 'Beatles' had the word 'Beat' in it deliberately until she was about 19?') I have found:

- Someone who's posting all their old diary entries from 1971
- Someone who does not like their boyfriend's mother (reading that, I suppose Ex's family weren't all that bad after all)
- Three people who are really, really scared of spiders
- Someone who has seen a cow give birth and then eat the afterbirth
- A teacher who posted about getting attacked by a five-year-old
- Funny stuff about Troy: "Homer wrote two epics. Two. That's it. Is it so hard to tell them apart?"
- A 15-year-old with a manipulative boyfriend, an abusive mother, and generally the saddest life I've heard of for a long time.

Back from holiday, very tired, still haven't unpacked. Friends list skip=40. Eep. So much to do, so much to catch up on, so difficult to get two minutes of peace at the computer with parents and pets around ("Jenny, come and look at this! Jenny, go on Amazon for me, would you? Jenny, can you feed the cat before he eats all of that egg fried rice? Jenny, the post office down the road just phoned up to say that the dog has walked in, can you go and get her?" I love being surrounded by family and pets, I really do, but aaaiiieee.)

People have been posting their babficathon stories. You organised people, you! Mine is still on my computer 250 miles away, because I am a fool and forgot to transfer it to zip drive before leaving, so it won't be posted for another week at least - assuming I still like it when I look back at it after a break, of course. And I should probably decide on a title before posting it, too. Um. Sorry, deborah_judge - it will be up there soonish, promise.

Yay, though! larakailyn wrote one for me! But I am not going to read it until I have done at least 40% of the things on my idiotically long to-do list, because it will provide an incentive. Yes, damn it. But, oh, it looks so tempting...

( Holiday stuff, now new and improved! )

Oh, who am I kidding. I'm off to read that fic.

It's supposed to be 'choose an artist or band; describe your life based on song titles by that artist', but splagxna did it with B5 episode titles instead. B5 episode titles aren't usually on the cheerful side, but I can live with angst just fine.

( Fun, fun, fun! )