Girls Own, weight and femslash08

There was an interesting discussion on weight on the Girls Own list a couple
of weeks ago (yes, I'm behind and just working on catching up!) and it
triggered some thoughts. According to all the BMI charts, I am firmly in the
middle of the healthy range. According to the list of recommended weights
for heights in the 1930s posted by one member, my weight is just right for
my height.

Yet according to friends and magazines I am firmly in the plump, verging on
overweight category. If I lose the half stone that I always vaguely think
that I should then I will end up at the bottom end of the healthy BMI but I
still wouldn't be in the slim and gorgeous category according to friends and
magazines.

Is it any wonder that so many women end up with eating disorders and the
like when some of the biggest influences in their lives say that what
doctors consider healthy is actually overweight?

Hmm.

In other thoughts: I am about half way there with my femslash08
fic and I only started it a week ago. If I continue at this rate then I
should have it done by the weekend giving me two weeks to re-write, beta
and edit. Despite everything else going on at the moment, I seem to be much
more organised about it this year than I was last year. Phew!

I have banned myself from writing Donna the Time Lord fic until it's done
*sniffle*

It is probably rather late to write any kind of message to the unlucky soul
who got me in the ficathon but...


Dear lovely femslash08 writer,

You can rest assured that I really do want any of the fandoms and pairings
that I listed and I will not try to steer you one way or another. The only
things that I'm not wild about in a fic are tragic endings and extreme kink.
I quite like lots of plot but can quite happily enjoy pure fluff if it's
done well. Any rating is fine by me, any setting.

Hopefully I haven't just killed your fic totally :-)

Love,
Your grateful recipient

More airline musical chairs

Dear Airline,

I know this is too much to ask, but could you resist tampering with my seat allocation for a few days? I'm very grateful that you've managed to twig that my father and I want to remain on seats next to each other no matter where you put us, but as I booked my flight in January I don't think that it's too much to ask for our seats to remain as we booked them.

However, as we are still next to each other I am giving in and accepting that we aren't in the row we originally booked. It is too much hard work to fight for seats that you have probably now sold to someone else.

Just...could you leave them as they are now? Pretty please?

No love,
Me