I know that I'm suppose to be remembering something...

I'm feeling much better about everything today. My back is feeling much better (the extra anti-inflammatories and the hour with a cold pack last night might have something to do with it), my stomach is behaving again and thus I can cope with the insanity at work. Hey, I'm even feeling quite sanguine about the possibility of missing my release.

It should be noted that this was written at 9am, even if I'm not actually posting it until later.

So, yes. Life is much looking much better today.

I'm even feeling quite calm about the prospect of snow at the moment. My winter tyres are on, my freezer is stocked and it's not a disaster if I can't do my groceries on Friday because I'll be able to do them on Saturday and I'm not scarily low on anything important. Must remember to call my plough guy tonight and check that he's still up for clearing my drive this winter. Not that I expect to get *that* much snow, but I need to be prepared for when I do get that much snow.

I keep having the thought that there is something important happening on November 15th. Sometimes I remember immediately, other times it takes me quite a while and there's this nagging "WTF?" feeling at the back of my mind. I've blocked the time into my calendar now in hopes that I'll keep remembering that it's new Doctor Who night rather than feeling slightly confused all the time. And, y'know, so that I don't book myself to be somewhere else that night.

Moffat, please never let there be a year under your reign where we don't get DW series.

Yuletide!

Yuletide sign ups are open: http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/signup_page1.cgi

Eep! It's going to be a really tough choice this year. Made even worse by the fact that B5 is eligible this year. At first I was "WTF?" about that, until I remembered how frustrated I've been about the fact that I found the Internet too late to join in the B5 ficcing. Most of the websites that hosted B5 fic have gone, there is only a smattering on the big archives, and very little new stuff is coming out. So, er, B5 actually does qualify as a rare fandom now.

*sigh*

I've only got four request slots available and, including B5, seven that I'd love to request. So I need to sit down and think carefully, not just about which fandoms I want fic from but also what fandoms I can think of good prompts for. Last year I got really luck with two lovely Bend It Like Beckham Jess/Jules stories (after three years of not getting BILB at all even in femslash challenges) but I'm greedy and want more. Then again, there's Press Gang. And my beloved Holby City. And Chalet School. And Casualty 1909 is already up as requested/offered, so there's a possibility. And Young Wizards seems to get some lovely stuff written.

The thing that's not going to be as difficult this year, I think, is working out what I can offer. I made notes of which fandoms I was considering at nomination stage and even in the ones that I didn't nom, there are several that I feel I can offer. I'm trying to make sure that this year I only offer for things that I have easy access to source material for :-) So that I don't get asked to write fic for one of the Chalet Schools that I don't have...

I think that I need to have a good, long think about this and do my sign up at the weekend.

Now, is there any kind of Doctor Who Santa type thing out there? After all, two deadlines is better than one. Um.