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I'm having my first slightly-bad-hair day of the new cut. This would be because I slept on it funny and my ridiculous double crown is being awful to me. I thought that it would be fine because it was behaving so nicely yesterday, which is probably what jinxed me.

Note to self: although you usually do the hair wash thing every second day, when the double crown is rebelling it's best just to suck it up and wash it. Gah, hairs.

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I spent large portions of yesterday convinced that it was Tuesday. It's very confusing when I do this. My grasp of space-time is frequently shaky. And people wonder why I have trouble with date arithmetic in coding!

However, that does mean that today is my Friday and tomorrow I'm not working so yay. And due to all the stuff Mum has planned for the weekend, we're doing the groceries tonight and thus I get my coffee-like treat tonight. Why yes, I do bribe myself into doing groceries with pumpkin spice lattes.

Current Mood: amused

According to Amazon, my Avengers DVD will be arriving tomorrow.

Eeep!

That's a whole day earlier than I though I'd get it. Wonder whether I can persuade the parents to have a movie night tomorrow...

My mother has arranged the weekend for me already. It's my day off on Friday so we're going for a long drive down the coast. The parents are bribing me with lunch. And on Saturday we're heading over to the city. I'm hoping that I can persuade them to leave me in the comic shop while they buy very important...stuff...from the outdoor gear shop. I may have blanked a little when Mum was explaining the stuff...

Sunday is always packed with church and family stuff and Skyping with people in England. I'm feeling pretty cruddy and tired today so there's a high chance that at some stage I'll collapse into a sniffly heap of ickness due to the over-booking.

( Cut for book delay venting )

I've got to finish at least two more books this months. Tonight shall be dedicated to finishing City of Bones and possibly starting Batwoman: Elegy.

Current Mood: exhausted

I lost the whole of yesterday to the nastiest migraine I've ever had. I'm not even kidding with that. It's time to discuss some kind of suppressant with my GP, I think, because the 36 hours of torment was just not worth anything. Usually I can at least take Migraleve and sleep off the worst of it: this one, not even touched by Migraleve and there was no possibility of sleeping.

Ugh. Today I'm dealing with the hangover from it but that's much nicer than the actual migraine. I may just spend some time editing the ridiculously daft fic that I wrote last week and then retreat to my Olympics coverage and a nice book (I've finished the newest Mercedes Lackey and I'm onto John Scalzi's latest).

I may also be spending some quality time with

scifigrl42's botfic that has now been finished and is on AO3 for your downloading pleasure :-D

I expect that the ridiculously daft fic will go onto AO3 on Wednesday. I want to do an edit today then I usually leave it another day before posting so that I can do a final typo-catching read. Except tomorrow after work I'm spending quality time with my hairdresser and her Big Book of Colours, so Wednesday.

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As a treat for enduring Thursday's medical visit and yesterday's migraine, I've bought myself Harry Potter on Kindle so that I can reread when I've finished the other books that I have queued. I really know how to indulge myself :-D

Current Mood: tired

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Today it is Friday and OMG it couldn't come too soon. M and I have spent most of the week fighting Oracle's random weirdness and the frankly insane data that we're supposed to turn into a report on Project Doom. This should have been the easiest phase of Project Doom. I should have known that anything that looked simple wouldn't be.

For stress-relief, I've been committing insane silly fic. I've also worked on the stuff that I have actual deadlines for, but I'm finding that silly stuff is perfect when my brain has been fried by data that breaks all the rules of sense and nature.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Spiderman, finally. Yay.

Also, I read a couple of Hawkeye graphic novels this week and wow is he ever sassy and snarky. And apparently not above movie quotes and random Les Mis quotes (which Natasha totally calls him on, yay Natasha), which I find both adorable and wonderful. The comics canon is better than I'd hoped for! Except for that silly costume :-D

This weekend I'll be putting in my Hugo vote and then I'm free to run off and read all the Scalzi and Lackey my heart desires. Woo! I've got such a big post-Hugo reward pile to play with :-D

Current Mood: tired

Note to self: it's Wednesday, dammit, keep remembering that.

Note to self 2: sleep is a good thing, try it some day.

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Also, apparently I cannot type or proof-read my documents. Every change request that I've sent in this week has been initially rejected because I make tiny typos. Yesterday I had two periods in a file name. Today I have typed in incorrect file extensions. I'm thoroughly annoyed wih myself.

Next week there will be a five day break between sporting events. My evenings will be oddly empty. Maybe I'll actually do some reading or something. I have got quite the reading list of stuff that I need to finish by the end of the month, after all. I really need to get further with GRRM and there are a couple of novelette's to finish as well.

Shockingly, I have less that ten graphic novels out from the library and the to read stack on my coffee table looks downright reasonable. Until you realise that five of them are due at the library next week. Um, oops?

I can safely say that I'm thoroughly enjoying the first volume of the newer Avengers series by Brian Michael Bendis (as differenciated from all the other multitudes of Avengers lines including New Avengers, which I'm also enjoying from Comixology) and I'm looking forward to the Hawkeye stuff that's next on my pile.

Mum (my library mule) says that I have to restrain myself from putting Buffy Season 8 on hold until the to be read stack is down to only one or two books. She may have a point.

So next Friday, I'll put All The Buffy! on hold :-D

And on August 1st, I'm going through my back-log on Comixology and reading all of those because I will be done with Hugo reading and allowed to read Other Books and Stuff Not Due At The Library.

I'll also be hiding in some Mercedes Lackey and some Scalzi for a few days plus all the lovely treats waiting on my Kindle, such as Huntress by Malinda Lo.

So. Much. Reading. Yay :-D

Note to self 3: remember that you're on a writing deadline and need to actually write even when the Hugo and library reading catch-up are over and you're drowning yourself in fluff and fun.

ETA: I found out last night that Mum has been reading some of the stuff that I get from the library, like the occasional volume of Fables (she likes Bigby a lot) and one of the X-Men books. My poor mother, turning into a nerd by osmosis :-D

Current Mood: worried

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In other words, I am ouchy and uncomfortable. Please send tea and chocolate.

I have been doing the stats on my June reading and working out what my July priorities are. I think they can be summed up as: finishing reading the damn Hugo list.

( Cut for more book details )

August will, I think, be lots of books that I've been saving as my reward for finishing the Hugos (new Mercedes Lackey, new John Scalzi, new Mira Grant book, Wolf Hall) and probably a fair bit of fanfic. I'm going to try to be good for the next three and a bit weeks and curtail my fanfic reading so that I concentrate on Hugo reading.

Expect some flaily arrgh yay joy on July 31st :-D

Yesterday I finally got around 2,000 words of Thing 4 written that I did not actively hate and declared that Thing a wrap. Woo! Now I get to write Thing 5, which should be much easier and lots of fun :-D I'm thinking that this entire fic will weigh in somewhere close to 10,000 words when I'm done which is the longest fic I've written for two years. Go me!

No PR Manager Deserves The Avengers is being edited and polished and I'm intending to get it onto AO3 by the end of the week. I apologise in advance for the insanity levels displayed in it. This was my way relief from the process of rewriting Thing 4 at least three times (I lost count).

I've got a kind of outline worked out for my

marvel_bang fic and I want to start that next week. It's got alternate reality dimension jumping, two Coulsons, vampire!Clint, weird super soldier serums and plenty of hijinks. It's either going to be tremendously fun or the fic writing equivalent of a living nightmare.

Let's hope for option two, shall we? And remember that I can always take a short crack fic break if I need to :-D

Current Mood: creative

Pro tip: if you need to spend half a meeting discussing who should be in the meeting, you’re not just doing it wrong you’re also creating a hole in the fabric of space-time. I think that was a meta-meeting.

I'm starting to think that books need to come with warnings the way that fic does. This is the third book in a row that has featured zombies in some format and only one of them was a deliberate zombie-oriented choice. The other two contained surprise!zombies. I'm not really into the zombie thing and I like to know that I'm going to get zombies so that I can make a choice about whether to read the book.

Damn zombies, popping up in books unexpectedly and giving me nightmares.

My next book choice is going to be non-Hugo, some kind of silly fluffy YA with nary a hint of sci-fi or fantasy so that I can guarantee a zombie-free read.

My cousin has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in his spine. Our family is riddled with autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately he has no drug plan so some of the really good yet expensive drugs (like my Humira, which is also used for RA) are way outside his budget. The docs have got him on NSAIDs and are debating the next step. It sucks. Considering how bad his spine is right now, it looks likely that he'll end up on disability within the next decade.

Can we all just agree that immune systems are ridiculous?

This week's tally on hold at the library so far is four books (two Fables, an Avengers and an X-Men) and I have three to return. There are two more in transit that will hopefully arrive by tomorrow. The good thing about Mum visiting: she's become my library mule :-)

I am becoming convinced that the universe is messing with me and laughing at me on work stuff. The WTF levels this week are through the roof. I took revenge on my day (business analysts are never allowed to name files!) by eating pizza (it was for charity!) and reading fanfic on my iPad at lunch. My colleagues should all feel grateful that AO3 exists to calm me down after navigating the nightmares of today.

I sense another angry workout tonight. My poor exercise bike.

Current Mood: cynical

This morning I beat the school bus. Woo! Definitely leaving by 7.04AM in the future.

Today is a "Moar caffeine needed OMG!!" kind of day. I blame Tumblr and AO3. Horrible, evil sites. Why must there be so much good stuff to look at and read when I'm supposed to be sleeping?

A couple of months ago I was feeling slightly sad about having no fannish t-shirts that were a) less than five years old and b) small enough to fit me.

Now I've got two Doctor Who t-shirts and a Son of Coul (Avengers) shirt will shortly be winging its way to me from Ript. I'm deeply tempted by a Black Widow shirt (this one, for the interested) that I've seen on another site. Why no Hawkeye love, t-shirt guys? Apparently this is going to be the year of the fannish t-shirt. I should feel embarassed about that, right?

The zombie novel is done and I am uncertain about what to read next, although I think that I'll be going for another Hugo read rather than a book of mindless fluff, even though mindless fluff appeals greatly right now. Whatever I read needs to be zombie-free, not even a surprise zombie, so that I get a brain-breather and stop having zombie nightmares.

My count of graphic novels waiting at the library is now up to 5 and I'm hoping that at least one of the three outstanding holds will be there tomorrow. Mum has ~~been talked into~~ volunteered to pick them up for me while she's shopping tomorrow :-) In my defence, there are several Fables volumes so they are totes Hugo related.

Avengers Ultimates and Black Widow: Deadly Origins not so much. Heh.

Current Mood: tired

I figure that I should probably 'fess up about the books I bought, particularly as I just spent some time carefully listing them for my own anal cataloguing purposes.

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Listing it out somehow makes it that tiny bit worse...

I couldn't remember where everything came from, which is why some have nothing next to them. I kept feeling guilty for leaving shops without at least taking one thing :-)

The Chalet School books are things that I'm especially proud of, particularly that first one. The School at the Chalet had major cuts when it was put into paperback so I've been itching to get hold of the full text for ages. Admittedly, those two books cost about four times what the rest cost combined but I honestly don't care. After all, I saved for exactly this kind of thing :-) It was so tempting to leave with more - Rose's had loads of great hardcover Chalet Schools and I'm sure that I'll be ordering from her in the future. She also had a terrifying cabinet of "things too expensive for mortals to touch" with more Chalet Schools. That kind of thing, I suspect, will always be out of my price range and I'd be terrified to actually touch and read them even if I did have them.

It did make me wonder whether I should, at some stage, get my own books assessed if only to make sure that my house insurance covers them.

I'm planning to hit another bookshop this afternoon but it should be much less disasterous. Although I do have plans to visit Foyles tomorrow and Forbidden Planet when I'm in Manchester on Tuesday as well, so there is still disaster potential.

It's a good thing my luggage only weighed half my allowance when I left, that's all I'm saying. I'm going to dread weighing this lot when I'm going home...

Current Mood: pleased

This was written several hours ago and I forgot to post it when I finally had wifi. I blame the ridiculously hot weather and lack of AC in Dad's car that resulted in me being to sticky and overheated to think about it.

And so, this is what you nearly missed:

Driving back from Hay on Wye after a lovely two days. We hit three more bookshops this morning before declaring ourselves bookshoppped out :-) I managed only to buy four more books for less than £10, including an Anglo Saxon Chronicle that I'm particularly pleased with.

My book buying is eclectic.

My parents also bought themselves a puzzle and a puzzle roll and Mum and I have plans to reverse engineer a puzzle roll for me so that I can do puzzles in Canada without kitten-shaped interference.

I'll do the full roundup of books when I can lay them all out. Suffice to say, I found almost everything on my list plus a few things.

Our journey home just got broken for a nice reviving cup of tea. I may also have taken the opportunity to have a scone with cream and jam for the second time in two days :-)

Canada just doesn't have the right type of cream.

Tomorrow is a rest day. Er. I'll have to take a trip into town to buy dress trousers and I'm also planning a trip to the local second hand bookshop to say hi to the nice ladies and check their childrens' stock. But that's mostly restful, right?

Current Mood: hot

I think that we hit around 10 bookshops. Whee!

It's been a very successful day. My credit card may not be so happy :-)

I managed to find the childrens' dealers and scored some Chalet Schools! Most importantly, I now have The School at the Chalet in hardcover. So excited! I can finally find out what the full text is :-)

I've also got a few classic SF, some Agatha Christie...

Yup, having a great time. We're planning to go back tomorrow for a wander and some lunch (we've picked out three important shops to hit) before heading home. Now we're at the hotel having a nice sit down with some reading. So tired :-)

Current Mood: jubilant

I'm typing this on the road (yay iPad) - theoretically there will be wifi at the hotel tonight so that I can post this. We'll see. I'm on my way to Hay on Wye with my parents where I will hopefully not be buying my weight in books.

Only half my weight :-)

Yesterday was a busy day, my first big day in London. I got fitted in Bravissimo (can't afford to lose any more weight - I'll never be able to buy bras in a small enough back size if I do) and bought some new, properly fitting pretties. Then I had lunch and a stroll with

gmul, which was great fun. I even got some of my souvenir shopping done and some photos of key London landmarks for friends at home. We ended up sitting by the Serpentine in Hyde Park where nobody was selling us ice cream. Very disappointing in the ice cream.

Then it was on for coffee and supper with an old school friend. Loads of catching up and we discovered a mutual love for Strictly Come Dancing :-)

I didn't get back to my parents' place until nearly midnight which made this morning's five thirty rising mildly painful, although insomnia did me a favour there because I was already waking up when my alarm went off.

Now I'm driving through Oxford (huh? Probably a good thing that I'm not navigating because I don't understand how this gets us to Hay) in lovely sunny weather and looking forward to buying all the books. This is turning out to be a great vacation :-)

Current Mood: excited

Dear local library system,

I love you. No, really, there is no bad here. I love you.

Your on-line catalogue that allows me to renew things and, most importantly, put things on hold from my sofa is lovely. I particularly appreciate the free holds because paying for every hold (I think it was a couple of pounds, last time I used the the order system in my parents' bit of England) always put me off actually putting things on hold. So I rarely had books held in England and if there was nothing in the library that I fancied then I'd wander off and buy something.

I'm actually using you, my beloved local library, because I can get pretty much anything I might want with no problems at all.

Whoever manages your comics and graphic novels collection is amazing. So far, I've only found one thing that you didn't stock and I can ask you to order it if I really need it. I'm waiting to see what comes in my Hugo packet before doing that :-D

Lovely local library, you may have some careless patrons who ruin all the DVDs and CDs for the rest of us but for printed material, you are the bomb.

Much love,
Me

Current Mood: chipper

( Cut for discussion of back pain and medication )

In fannish news...

Three days with AO3 and the "The Avengers (2012)" tag have shown me that:

1) Coulson/Hawkeye may be my OTP. Just shoot me now.
2) I'm not completely averse to Tony/Steve, even though I adore the Tony/Pepper relationship in the films.
3) Thor/anyone at all does not work for me.
4) However, Thor as comic relief does work for me. I don't even...
5) I'm still at the fluff and silly stage of discovering a new fandom
6) There needs to be more fic (of all types) about Natasha and/or Maria Hill
7) I love my 3G enabled iPad because I can browse fic during my lunch break
8) I may need to load some fic up on my Kindle for the trip

Speaking of the trip, I'm starting to plan my reading and watching stuff. There is going to be a long of plain, train and automobile time. The Hugo voting packet should be out sometime within the next week, so I plan to take all of that with me (yay Kindle PDF conversion!) plus the pre-reading that I've planned. If Chicks Dig Comics ever arrives, that will be with me for reading when I have to have electronics off during the flights. I would argue about whether a Kindle could possibly take down a Boeing 747, but as I want to stay on the flight, I'll just have a dead tree book to dip into instead.

Now I'm planning out my other entertainment. I need some non-Hugo reading with me so that I can take breaks if I need it. That means I need to go through my Amazon wishlist and select a few things that I've bookmarked. Note to self: pick a mix of fun and serious. You know what happens when you pick all silly or all serious.

I have taken advantage of the Avengers sale on Comixology and grabbed a couple of things. There are also new issues of Batgirl, Nightwing, Stormwatch and Demon Knights waiting for me. I've also got the first couple of issues of a newish Wolverine book. I may conduct another Comixology raid when new stuff goes up tomorrow and get the last volume of Joss Whedon's run on Astomishing X-Men at the same time.

I'm planning to download some videos from the BBC iPlayer app because I know that won't work overseas. I'm also half-thinking about Game of Thrones.

You see, on the one hand I'm still attached to having physical DVDs of my videos just in case. On the other hand, the only DVD player in the house is attached to the only TV in my house and my mother is unlikely to want to watch GoT. As she's staying with me for six months after I get back, this could put a serious crimp in my attemps to watch GoT in a timely manner.

So I'm seriously considering purchasing from iTunes and popping some of the episodes onto my iPad. Am I talking the crazy talk?

My iPad: bought to be productive, primarily used for fic, comics and videos. Heh.

Current Mood: contemplative

Pro-tip: inflammatory arthritis in the spine + major rain storm = omg pain.

Combine that with lots of tummy cramping and I really wished that I'd stayed in bed today. Instead I got up and went to work, where we got treated to the staff appreciation breakfast. I just had some apple juice as I'd already eaten my delicious breakfast of home made granola, plain yoghurt and fresh blueberries. The work version didn't look appetising and the reviews convinced me that abstaining was a good idea: very sweet granola with sweet vanilla (!!!) yoghurt. Blech.

Needing to eat brekkie at home in order to down my morning pills does make for a good excuse for not eating the work version :-) They did have some nice tiny croissants and I grabbed one for a late morning snack after my tummy settled down.

In book news, I have done rather the opposite of getting Mount TBR shorter. Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder arrived yesterday, which I've been meaning to get for ages and finally gave into last week. Hey, I needed something to boost me to free shipping from Amazon for a DVD!

Somehow, I don't think that purchase saved money...

I'm thoroughly loving Among Others by Jo Walton and it's definitely going onto my best reads of 2012 list when it's finished :-D Does anyone know whether there's a list of all the books mentioned in the text? I feel like I'm missing out on a lot by having missed out on so much of my SFF history! So I want to track down a ton (and raid my Dad's collection - I know he has a lot of them particularly the Delaney) and read them and then re-read Among Others.

It's the kind of thing that really pays off if you're a huge reader. So, you know, exactly my kind of book :-D

As for Mount TBR, I'm currently torn between digging into Agatha H, Pterry, Wolf Hall or Spy Glass. So bad when I have too much choice! What am I actually in the mood for?

Does anyone else ever look at their unread stack, their wishlist of things they want to read and all the books they want to re-read and despair at ever having enough time to read it all?

Current Mood: sore

I have finally finished Twilight. I think that I can honestly say that this is going to the top of my "most hated books ever" list. So that dedicated Twilight lovers don't need to see my comments, I'm putting the review under the cut.

( Cut for scathing review of horrid book )

Now I need to find something to be my non-Kindle book that will take the vague feeling of ick out of my brain. Any suggestions from this lot? My current unread book pile.

It would be nice to get Mount TBR down to under 130 books before I go away. I know that a lot of books are going to come back from England with me.

I've been checking my local cinema and Avengers tickets are now available to order. Squee! However, I need to call the theatre. The only tickets available are 3D (no, thank you, don't need the headache that will give me) or "Empire Extra Experience". As this extra thing is a possibility for both 2D and 3D (cinema doesn't specify) I need to call the theatre and ask. If the extra thing is also 3D, there is a distinct possibility that I might not be able to go. Watch me gnash my teeth and roar with rage if this is the case.

There's a possibility that I'm going to need to make a big decision in the coming weeks. My department is introducing some more flexible work options including the option to work a condensed week - an extra fifty minutes each day and get every second Friday or Monday off. Part of me thinks this would be excellent - yay days off! - another part of me isn't sure whether I can manage the earlier start time it entails. Hopefully we'll be getting an HR presentation on all the options next week with actual details about how it will work out (we've all got questions about vacations, public holidays etc.) and that will help me to decide. One of the other options would be a dedicated work from home day each week and it's another tempting one, particularly when Mum and I share the car during her extended visits.

Current Mood: dirty

Got my renewed passport so the England trip can go ahead. So excited!

Can't decide whether I'm more excited about Hay-on-Wye, the London Eye, tea at Browns or seeing Matilda. Going to fill the Kindle with books - mostly Hugo reading/pre-reading but also a few things to give my brain a break - and load the iPad with comics and TV shows so I'll get lots of relaxing in too. Only a month to go!

Managed to get myself out to yoga for the the first time this year. Go me? I am working out hard at home a minimum of four times a week, honest!

Finally, the end of Twilight is in sight. That thing actually gets worse the further I read. People actually read the other books, too? Yikes!

Current Mood: productive

I took lemon bread into work today (one of the products of a weekend of intense baking) and apparently I'm allowed (positively encouraged) to bring any baking samples in that I might want to. It's quite flattering to have so many people saying lovely things about my baking skills :-)

Over the course of the weekend, I produced the following:

10 portions of bean and lentil soup
10 cornbread muffins
12 chocolate nut muffins
2 loaves of lemon bread

My freezer is well-stocked :-) And my colleagues didn't get all the lemon bread - I have a few sliced retained for private consumption.

In other, completely unrelated things...

I am reading Twilight. It's every bit as awful as everyone said it was. I'm halfway through and have yet to find any kind of plot. Well, plot beyond "Edward is a vampire and Bella is soooooooooooo clumsy!". Sadly, I can see exactly why it appealed so much to the teen crowd. I despair for the future of my species.

Hopefully I'll finish it in the next couple of days. Despite my growing hatred for it and the frankly ridiculous sparkling vampire chapter that I just read, I'm glad that I now know what it's like and can mock and critique without hypocracy.

It's a good thing that Among Others is excellent and I've just cracked open Fables: Volume 2 so that I have antidotes to the stupidity.

Also, last week saw new issues for most of the comics that I'm following. This week is going to be very comic-oriented.

I've constructed a list of what I want to see at the cinema over the next few months. Hopefully my cinema buddy is up for it:

Avengers
Snow White and the Huntsman
Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter (not too fussed about this one, but the trailer looked fun)
Brave
Spiderman
Dark Knight Rises
Hobbit

Wow, that's quite a lot for me. Huh.

Lastly, I am now the proud owner of a wrist splint (smallest size available, thank you twig-wrists) in an attempt to stop my right wrist subluxing in the night and being all ouchy and crunchy during the day. I'll be using it at night only and hoping that it doesn't drive me insane. Stupid EDS.

Current Mood: content

( Cut for ranty venting )

In more cheerful news, the Hugo shortlist was announced over the weekend and I now know the sheer scale of my reading/watching task for the next few months. Um, wow.

One of the fun things about reading through awards lists is the chance to pick up things that I'd never normally read. This year that means that I'll be reading zombie novels for the first time ever. I've bought Feed by Mira Grant so that I'm in a good position to read her nominated works. I sense that I'll either love it or hate it. The rest are all things that I'm looking forward to and I've got some hefty reading to get through books 3 and 4 of George R. R. Martin's series so that I can read A Dance with Dragons.

It's nice to see that I've read at least one work from each of the novella/novellette/short story categories thanks to my Asimov's subscription. And obviously I've read John Scalzi's short story because it was such a brilliant joke last year.

Also, I now have an excuse to buy the Game of Thrones DVD boxset. Research! Vital! Hoorah!

All the other films seem to be available to rent from iTunes and I just happen to have an Apple TV that I could watch them on :-D And Captain America was already on my pre-Avengers list of stuff to watch. Um, why didn't X-Men First Class make the list? It was so good!

I've read the first couple of volumes of Fables and I've got volumes 3 to 5 on hold from the library. Only another....eight to read after that to get into position to read the nominated volume :-D Thankfully my library has them all. Woo! And Unwritten 4! And Locke and Key! It's just Digger that I might struggle to track down.

My horrible dilemma is which Doctor Who episode to vote for. All three shortlisted ones were brilliant. Argh.

The next few months are going to be fun!

Current Mood: cheerful

I finished Mockingjay on Saturday and it broke my brain quite a lot. That is the entire reason that I spent a lot of yesterday hunting through AO3 for all the Rachel/Santana Glee femslash that I could find *nods*

thememoriesfire is really very good with that pairing, for anyone that is curuous.

The broken brain thing may have been helped by seeing The Hunger Games on Saturday, which was brilliant and faithful to the book and thus heartbreaking as well. They even got Cinna just right, which was a concern for me.

If anyone has quality fluffy femslash links (Glee, Merlin and Buffy all have pairings that I'd love right now), feel free to chuck them my way.

Why yes, I am on a bit of a fic kick right now :-D

Current Mood: drained

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