Oh, look, I posted something that's not a dear fanworker letter!

[selenay]

*cleans cobwebs off the posts*

So, my periodic promises to blog more never quite work, do they? Oops.


My trip to England went well after the whole cancelled flight mess. It was foolishly busy and I really need to get better at moderation, but it was great. Nine Worlds was an amazing con and I've already booked to go back next year. I got to see my cousin's adorable baby, and largely didn't see any other family due to time. Possibly the highlight of the trip, apart from the con, was the tour of the Bodleian Library. That place is amazing.

Getting back was fairly uneventful and live since then has been...you know how sometimes it's not that you've got too much social life or too much work, but you never seem to have enough hours in the day to accomplish everything? It's been that.

A lot of it can be put down to writing. This year, my Marvel Big Bang fic ended up at 60k and a lot of that was written in a mad dash for the rough draft deadline and then to have enough time for editing. It's with my beta now, and I went straight on to accidentally writing a long fic for femslashex. Now I'm spending a few weeks focusing on some original fiction before I ramp up for Christmas fic writing.

Outside the writing, it just feels like there's a lot on, but not much worth talking about. And I'm constantly exhausted and wishing I had some extra hours to sleep or read in.


I am vaguely managing to watch some TV. One show per day, because I need some wind-down time. Thus far, my verdicts on new shows that I've picked up are:

Blindspot
I really want to like it and the deadly diseases episode was great, but the lead FBI guy bores the pants off me and the writing is so uneven. It's on probation, because I adore Jaime Alexander and I want this show to be good.

Quantico
Not one I planned to pick up, but zomg I'm in love. Lead character is a WOC, the characters are diverse, and the plot keeps rocking along and carrying me with it. Not perfect, but it's holding my attention in a way Blindspot isn't.

Supergirl
I am in love. It's beautiful.

And for the returning shows:

Agents of SHIELD
I am so biased about this show, but I'm loving where they're going this year.

Once Upon a Time
I'm two episodes in and...er...yeah. Amnesia again. Seriously? My suspended disbelief is struggling, but I'm giving it a couple more episodes before pulling the cord.

The Flash
One episode in, but I'm pretty happy. It's never going to be a perfect show, but it was nice to see Barry considering consequences, and then being shown that he's better with his team. It's still my happy show.

Arrow
Also only one episode in, but already an improvement on much of last season. Show, you are never allowed to break up Ollie and Felicity, because they are a perfect rainbow and I need that.

On my one show a day diet...you can probably see why I'm only one or two episodes into so many things. I really need to have a day where I just give up on being productive and mainline some teevees.

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[fyrdrakken]

I've been having such issues with the might timesuck device that is my smartphone that I'm retraining myself to come home from work, plug in the phone in my bedroom, and leave it there so I can try to actually get something accomplished. The DVR stacks up and I don't have a lot of time to chip away at it. The end of the year is coming up and I'm using up my time off, but there's that thing where Dad moved out of town and it's such a long drive I can't go visit unless I have extra days off work and he makes noises about me not visiting so I feel compelled to go see him when I take the time off. (Though the last time I took days off to go visit, I couldn't get him to answer the phone and verify that it was a convenient time -- and I called repeatedly, for days -- and then for my birthday I just gave myself a four-day weekend and didn't even plan on going to see him.)

But, yeah. I need to work some more TV time into my regular schedule. I can't plan on just marathoning entire seasons whenever I get a holiday or use a vacation day.