highrise living for a joke like me

Like you doubted this, I know. But seriously. These are the tabs I currently have open in Firefox:

Gmail - main e-mail box
LJ - friendslist
LJ - a piece of Kirk/Spock fanfic
YouTube - Doctor Who cast singing Christmas carols
LJ - Burn Notice download source
wowhead (a World of Warcraft wiki) - Recipe: Transmute Primal Might
Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki) - Risa

Yeah, y'all love me.

Also, jaiwithani bought me a tribble for Christmas. A tribble! Pictures will follow.

Had one of those dreams last night that seems totally absurd upon waking, but still leaves you with phantom fear/embarrassment/etc. Sucks.

Also, a question for any Babylon 5 fans out there. There's an episode where Delenn watches Sheridan sleep, while they're inside a Minbari (or Minbar-Earth hybrid) ship. Anyone remember what episode that is, or at least what season? I need it for a fic.

Thanks!

Finished The Privilege of the Sword while I was on airplanes this past weekend. Really great until the end, when it felt like the author got bored and skipped a lot of stuff. Also, there weren't enough lesbians. :P

Also, I have discovered that my shrink's answering machine doesn't like messages that are more than 2 minutes long.

Also, I hit level 49 on my mage. And finished questing in Stranglethorn Vale, one of the jungle areas. Now to decide between the Hinterlands (evergreen forest, Dwarf reputation) and Tanaris (desert, Goblin reputation) to quest in next. Hmm, I might do both...

See? Nothing of real consequence.

Act I is done. Completely. Oh my God.

Act II is off to beta, and shouldn't need to much rewriting. Again, oh my God.

Act III is now up to 4000 words (I'm horrendous at deadlines, I know, don't hurt me). The current draft is printed, and I'm bringing it with in the car.

I'm leaving in an hour or so to take the Geekling up to school. Since we have two cars and two drivers, we're driving up today, moving him in, and driving back home tomorrow. If I'm lucky, we'll be back by early afternoon, but I'm probably going to be helping move Mum into her office.

Monday, I start classes (!!!) and then after class I go down to the city to help with the major part of the moving effort. And then when I get home, I get to do jd_ficathon match-ups!

Work on Tuesday evening, class again on Wednesday, and then Thursday midday I fly out to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. I'm hoping I can fit all my crap into carry-on-able luggage, but you try fitting a pair of knee-high boots, two corsets, Renfest skirt(s) and shirt, laptop, camera with extra lens, and normal clothes into carry-on luggage. I would use a corset icon, but I'm too damned busy.

Oh, I will laugh my ass off if they decide to search my stuff. No, really, I will.

(Don't even get me started on the way they completely buggered my schedule for work. It's not good for my blood pressure.)

And somewhere in the middle of all this, I have to write some 1500 words, edit, and post my stargate_summer. I'm going to be posting from D*C, I have this feeling.

Managed to complete or otherwise deal with all three things I listed to get done last night, so that's fun. Next week, I get to go to banks to get actual CD rates, and Mum and I have to arrange to get to the Israeli bond office so I can actually get a check for the money from the bond that matured. Wow, moneys, I (sort of) has them.

Also, tigerlilly2063 has finished playing with the layout for jd_ficathon. It looks great!

D&D with allandaros and the crew tonight, which should be fun. I haven't played D&D since high school, and any tabletop RPG since 2007 or so. I'm looking forward to it.

I think I've banged out some of the "this makes no sense" kinks in what of Act II is already drafted. I still have no idea what I'm doing, but at least I'm not bumbling in the right direction (I hope).

Oh, and I've been assigned an artist, so that's exciting. I think s/he reads this journal, so if you do, a note: helsmeta has the draft of Act I, and should be sending it to you soon, but you're welcome (and encouraged!) to e-mail me if you have any questions/comments/thoughts/etc. I'm totally open to suggestions. Plus, if we're in contact, I can send you the draft of Act II as soon as it's done, rather than going through her. Also, there's one major structural issue in Act I that might mean a few scenes will be removed, so you might want to know that in advance.

Imma stop rambling now and: finish my salad, finish the scene I'm working on (it's a fun one!), and get as much snippeting down before I leave for the Metro station in an hour. Fun times.

Edit In case anyone's curious, the count for Act II is now up to 8050 and I'm shutting it down so I can leave for the station in a few.

My brother must have learned this from Mum, but he's started doing what can only be described as Round-Robin Arguments. He'll start yelling at Mum, then come yell and me, then go back to yelling at Mum. The only reason Dad hasn't been involved is because he's at a conference in Hawaii. And, of course, Mum's not talking to Dad because he didn't take her with, and he realized weeks ago that he'd screwed that one up so he's been getting pissy about everything imaginable. It's really, really unpleasant.

I also finally balanced my checkbook, for the first time since I opened the account in October. It took be about four hours, and now I feel terrible because I know exactly what I've wasted my money on in the last six months.

I'm going to break my down mood by walking to the library to return two books, pay a fine, and get out something to read.

To-Do To-Day
- balance checkbook
- library
- wash downstairs bathroom
- shower
- try out new hair removal thingie
- finish list of items donated on Saturday
- write

Somehow, I don't have any laundry or dishes to do today, at least until after dinner. It's amazing.

Geek Moment: Watching TNG episode "The Defector" last night, I recognised that the Romulan captain was Andreas Katsulas...also known as G'Kar from Babylon 5. I am such a dork.