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05.14.03 - 2:03 p.m.

Drabble day

God, lj is all fucked up today.

Slow and only loading partial pages and grr... Makes answering comments and posting stuff difficult.

I'm glad I have this diary to fall back on, even though I am seriously being sucked into LJ-only posting, if only because it's just easier.

At least, when LJ is working it's easier. Everything's all there in one place.

And speaking of all in one place, you can now see all the latest Unfit recs on the actual Unfit Recs Pages.

Imagine that!

So you can read my two contributions to the 100s communities that are running rampant these days over in my LJ -hey, LJ community means LJ post, I think. I dunno.

Anyhow, there's:
*Mistletoe Kiss, Harry Potter, 100 words on the nose. Summary: Five senses, one kiss

and

*Three for Three, for random_hundreds, featuring Logan (XMM) and Tara (BtVS). Summary: Another girl, another bar.

I feel productive, and I haven't even *looked* at the two WIPs I've got open.

Maybe I'll tackle the SV and XM ones next. *g*

I'll say this - my dive into extensive reading in HP has really, really tested my "No WIPs" vow.

I've broken three times now. Well, twice unknowningly, but the third one I knew was a WIP and I was just so desperate for good Sirius/Remus that I didn't care.

So today I was rereading the last section of Rising from the Ashes, and ... guh.

There's just something about that rough, possessive, *Mine* kind of scene that hits *all* my little submissive buttons.

Which could be one reason I'm so fond of Logan - as I always tell Jean, there's hardly anything more attractive than a man who could run over you like a mack truck and make you enjoy it.

Mmmm...

And that last scene - I will admit that I don't like Draco. I've been vocal enough about it here. I will admit taht Draco/Ginny as a canon pairing baffles me except under certain, specific circumstances (hmmm... I may just have to write that... ::scribbles idea down on ideas list::) but this fic... How they've managed to keep that tense, suffocating atmosphere of "we can't but we must" (usually so annoying - see Buffy/Angel) and keep the characters in character, and yet still have me rooting for them... amazing. Plus! Plus! Snape is obviously sympathetic because he knows Draco's not the first unlucky Slytherin to love a redheaded Gryffindor girl who ends up with a Potter.

Mmm... Snape->Lily makes me happy happy.

In other Draco news, Nothing Like the Sun is up on the site. It's gotten an amazing response so far.

I know I love it, but I'm sometimes too close - I *love* The Very Sickness of My Heart, but hardly anyone else did, and I thought this might be the same sort of sitch, where the story was good technically, and powerful, but just hurtful enough that other people couldn't love it like I love it.

But so far, yes. Squee!

And now, I think I will go have lunch.

~victoria



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[current mood: productive]
[current music: Little Sister - SRV]
[random quote: “Don’t think ‘cause I understand, I care. Don’t think ‘cause we’re talking, we’re friends.” - 6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps]

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05.13.03 - 1:03 p.m.

I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Mr. UPS Man

Stayed home from work today.

Am now waiting for the UPS man to bring my pills.

Am also fighting crampage without advil, as I'm supposed to donate platelets on Thursday, and I'm never sure if "no aspirin for 72 hours" includes advil.

Also thinking that the 'running a fever' excuse to not go into work is incompatible with giving platelets two days later, so I may just cancel this week and reschedule for next.

I know people need them but I need my blood, too.

Now watch, the UPS guy isn't going to come, though on the little yellow slip it said he would.

***

Great article on Buffy in Salon. Actually, great article on how Spike has ruined Buffy.

Spoilery, so watch out.

Of course, I happen to be one of those people who wishes Spike will be dust come next Tuesday night, though I know that's exactly that - wishful thinking.

As long as they don't kill off Xander, I suppose I ... what am I saying? Of *course* I'm going to complain, and *loudly*. This has been my favorite show for years (well, supplanted the past couple by West Wing and Alias, but that's all Buffy's fault. If they hadn't treated Xander and Giles so badly since season 4, I wouldn't care so much about how it's now the Spike Show.

Meh.

And whee! My pills just came! No more splitting them in two because the stupid insurance makes us order by mail for ongoing prescriptions and I forgot about that and didn't order until I had only 4 tabs left.

I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Mr. UPS Man. You're one of the few reliable things in my life.

Ahem.

***

Nothing Like the Sun is up in the LJ - Hermione does what she must during the war.

You know, I wonder what it says about me that in the second HP fic I started (obviously, Thirst was first, and the others were written more quickly, in between the time I was taken by the D/Hr madness and now), I killed off one of my favorites and made my other favorite an alcoholic.

Now let's see what else needs working on. Maybe I'll be back in the writing swing of things soon.

Also, went to see Down With Love last night, and my review is here - spoilery though. I think it can be summed up - sans spoilers - as "Guh. Ewan."

*G*

Food, soon, I think.

~victoria



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[current mood: accomplished]
[current music: Jeremy - Pearl Jam]
[random quote: Arms raised in a V, the dead lay in pools of maroon below, Jeremy spoke in class today]

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05.12.03 - 11:23 a.m.

BOFQ at your service

So some of the women I work with - the other Admins - have started forwarding stupid emails around.

Is it incredibly bitchy of me to ask to not be included? It is, right? I shouldn't do that, because that makes me look standoffish and uppity.

But I HATE these email forwards. They were fun in 1996 when most of them were still only a couple years old. Now they're just *tired*. Boring. A waste of space and time.

I mean, it's bad enough I still occasionally get the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe from people I sent it to in 1996.

It's not that I haven't been guilty of the same behavior. I just did it 7 years ago, and am now officially a veteran.

I can talk about my days on Usenet ferchrissakes, and though I came to it late in the game, relatively, it still makes me feel ancient in fandom, compared with some people.

Newbies are everywhere, and I am definitely in my BOFQ stage.

Where's my tiara?

~victoria



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[current mood: irritable]
[current music: something by Pink Floyd on the radio]
[random quote: Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.]

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05.11.03 - 10:39 p.m.

BtVS Season 4 moments

The few, the proud, Buffy Season 4 Favorite Moments in no particular order (Season 1 is here, Season 2 is here, and Season 3 is here, fwiw):

  • Xander's "You're my hero" speech to Buffy
  • Sunday. I really liked Sunday.
  • Let me answer that question with a head butt.
  • "I think you'll find your mistake was touching my stuff."
  • "Nothing says 'Thank you' like dollars in the waistband."
  • Buffy and Oz patrolling together.
  • "Nobody deserves mime, Buffy."
  • Devon: "Man, we need a roadie. Other bands have roadies."
    Oz: "Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven completely different chords."
    Devon: "That's just, like, fruity jazz bands."
  • Harmony's return as a vampire.
  • "Beer foamy!"
  • “The thing that the modern-day pundits fail to realize is that all the socioeconomic and psychological problems inherent in modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too much beer.” And “Beer! Had the earliest morality developed under the influence of beer, there would be no good or evil, there would be ‘kinda nice’ and ‘pretty cool.’”
  • The use of THC's music for Veruca's band
  • That first, knowing look Oz and Veruca exchange. ::shivers:: I wish that arc had been done better.
  • Xander-as-bartender in Beer Bad. Oh, hell, I *like* Beer Bad
  • Fear, Itself. All of it. Oz's "God" nametag, Xander in a tux, the way their fears were sketched out as the character arcs for the season (sadly, not-followed-through on in any consistent or really good fashion).
  • Giles: “Don't taunt the fear demon.”
    Xander: “Why, can he hurt me?”
    Giles: “No. It's just... tacky.”
  • Giles (in his sombrero and poncho): “Creatures of the night shy away from Halloween. They find it all much too crass.”
    Buffy: “Hard to believe.”
  • Anya in the bunny suit
  • Chainsaw!Giles *swoon*
  • Hush, especially Giles's slide show and Anya eating popcorn
  • “This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet, we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene, never to use our unfair advantage. Thank god we're pretty.”
  • "A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"
  • Willow: “Why should I trust you?”
    Riley: “Just sort of hoping you'd think I have an honest face.”
    Willow: “I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.”
  • Amy's 2 seconds of non-rat-hood in SB
  • All of Something Blue, actually, but especially Giles and Xander's reaction to the Spuffy
  • Pangs, except for Willow's ridiculous speechifying
  • Ethan!
  • Ethan/Giles subtexty goodness at the bar in A New Man
  • Xander as a nummy treat.
  • Spike trying to commit suicide.
  • Spike in Xander's clothes.
  • "Look it up under 'Slayer, comma The"
  • You have no idea what a Slayer is
  • Giles singing "Behind Blue Eyes" in WTWTA
  • Spike and Anya in WTWTA
  • Xander being the hero in WTWTA
  • Who Are You? And This Year's Girl
  • The SuperSlayer Spell in Primeval
  • Restless

Yeah, S4 was a low point, but it had its moments. I don't think I can do one for five or six, with the exception of The Body, Bargaining, OWMF and Two to Go/Grave, there wasn't a lot I recall and most of what I can recall I didn't like. Hmmm...

Technology is being a bitch tonight. Sigh.

Happy Mother's Day!

~victoria



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[current mood: determined]
[current music: Bring Me to Life - Evanescence (can't stop listening to it!)]
[random quote: call my name and save me from the dark bid my blood to run before I come undone save me from the nothing I’ve become]

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