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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Snow snow snow snow snow. Snow.
I still have a child-like love of snow, I have to admit. Alas, this means that I may have to walk to work tomorrow. One of the disadvantages of living close to work is that I can never claim that it's impossible to get in ;)
Current mood:  chipper
Click clack of fingers tapping,
The crawling clock ticks by,
while somewhere inside my head
Ghosts dream and people fly
A printer drones and buzzes,
Grey dullness trapped inside,
While time and space are playthings
and elsewhere worlds collide
Constricting suits and faces,
Too neat for hopes and tears,
I watch the goddess dance to
A song that noone hears.
5:13PM
Gabriel, get out of my head! You don't EXIST in my Dean/Cas fic so you have no right to be so disruptive.
Current mood:  tired
Title: Do You Know Who's Playin'?
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) littlehollyleaf
Pairing(s): Sam/Gabriel, Castiel/Dean (implied)
Spoilers: up to and including 5.10
Category: angst, humour, bordering on PWP
(how do these 3 work together? don't ask me, I only wrote the damn thing!)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 13,939
Summary: Gabriel calls Cas for help after a run in with Lucifer and Sam is left to help the archangel through the aftermath. If you don't understand the title you might want to check this out for more perspective.
Blame hils for everything.
( part two )
Current mood:  sick
Title: Do You Know Who's Playin'?
Author: littlehollyleaf
Pairing(s): Sam/Gabriel, Castiel/Dean (implied)
Spoilers: up to and including 5.10
Category: angst, humour, bordering on PWP
(how do these 3 work together? don't ask me, I only wrote the damn thing!)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 13,939
Summary: Gabriel calls Cas for help after a run in with Lucifer and Sam is left to help the archangel through the aftermath. If you don't understand the title you might want to check this out for more perspective.
Blame hils for everything.
( part one )
Current mood: sick
Monday, January 4, 2010
She's started writing out people's names. And she's been spelling most of them correctly too. Her handwritting, apparently, is still shot, but that's to be expected given that after her second stroke she appeared to have lost use of her right arm (she's right handed).
Mum had to let me know that Hannah and Owen was written perfectly however, with lots of kisses around it, because we're that special :)
Anyway, I need to do some work from home tonight; I failed to work last night, motivation failed, and instead I played DragonAge. I should have slept instead.... actually, I think I might just sleep now instead of working, being awake to work tomorrow is more important than doing work while tired tonight, right?
Current mood:  exhausted
Sunday, January 3, 2010
So here's a question for my SPN viewing flist members - do you want Cas to fall, or do you think that would be a terrible idea and destroy his character?
( the rest will no doubt contain s05 spoilers... )
Current mood:  contemplative
12:41AM
Twenty-ten. It's the future.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Right then, let's have at it -
In no particular order:
( spoilers! )
Conclusion? A respectable 4 out of 5. A suitable swansong Rusty. Now fuck off.
Current mood:  satisfied
My Grandma had a stroke today. My Mum sent me a text, that I only just got, and I had to ring everyone to let them know. They think that she may have had a second stroke while in hospital.
Apparently she's not able to form sentences properly; she knows where she lives, but isn't able to tell people. My Mum said that she's getting very frustrated because she understands what people are saying, but is unable to reply properly.
Anyway, I've spent a lot of time talking to family today and Owen and I will be catching an early train to Evesham tomorrow, where we'll meet up with Aunty Maureen, my brother and the rest of the family and then we'll drive to Ashton to see how she's doing.
The New Years Eve party at Ben and Nicky's was great, it's just a shame that such a positive start to the year has been followed by such bad news.
Current mood:  worried
I don't like my Library and Information Studies course.
I've been thinking it for a while but have been plodding on in the hope it will get better and I'll get into things like I did with my other uni courses. But Library Studies isn't English Literature. There's no fiction to analysis and discuss, just methods of cataloguing and classification of which we're required to research the history and write essays on. If it were just learning HOW TO DO STUFF I could probably cope. It'd be boring, but I'd cope. But having to write essays on library history? 3000 words on whether paper is dying out and e-books are taking over or on the significance of Venice in relation to the printing press, just... I bearly even know HOW to research that, and I CERTAINLY don't have the motivation. I have my own opinion on these things, yes, and I'm actually interested in the e-book thing... but not enough to plough through other people's opinions on it extensively and take time to go to London to use the uni library and make notes and stuff. All I'm thinking about as I try to do this is - I could have written/read so much fic in this time, what a waste!
Maybe I'm being lazy about it, but for my last MA, even for the books I didn't enjoy, I was INTERESTED in reading theory about them. Now, with the Xmas hols drawing to a close, the thought of going back to UCL is filling me with GENUINE DRED. Seriously guys, I've been CRYING. And while deadlines have freaked me out in the past, uni work has never made me CRY before. And the thought of spending a whole summer working on a dissertation? Oh god...
I have e-mail the head of department asking what the procedure is for dropping out.
Perhaps the Waterstones' I'm working weekends for will take me on full time. I'd like that.
Current mood:  scared
Thursday, December 31, 2009
I Want To Become Stronger.
This is my New Year Idiom for 2010, which is officially the future. Until 2011, at least, at which point it will be the past.
See you all over there.
2:57PM
I'm not really in a position to do a 2009 retrospective, or one for the past decade. I'm doing alright, though, all things considered.
Hope everyone has a lovely new year.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
- I'm old enough to be taken seriously, but young enough to wind people up.
- I'm in immaculate health.
- I have a nice place to live with a wonderful housemate (three-month pilot scheme pending).
- I have a job I enjoy and some great work colleagues. When I leave it, I'm highly employable with earning potential far beyond my needs.
- I have enough money in the bank that I don't need to worry about it.
- I am engaged in a stimulating field of academic study.
- Over my life I have accrued an awful lot of friends who will offer me support in times of hardship. I am exceedingly thankful for them.
- I can swing dance. Oh yeah, motherfucker.
- When I dare to delve into it, I have a pretty snazzy wardrobe.
- Birmingham, for all its detractors, is a lively, modern, clean, cosmopolitan, architecturally pleasant and economically vibrant city, and I like living in it.
- I can prepare tasty and imaginative food.
- Although they need a trim right now, I have amazing sideburns, even if they are ginger.
- I like who I am. I make good decisions without too much fuss, and for the most part I've done really well for myself.
Have I missed anything?
Sunday, December 27, 2009
On December 26th 2009, Heather and I broke up.
This may come as a bit of a big surprise to some of you, because to the outside world we loved each other enormously and worked brilliantly together. This was entirely accurate. We still do love each other enormously and work brilliantly together, and we had two years, ten months and ten days which, on the whole, we wouldn't trade for anything. But we also want nothing more than to see each other happy, and if we're honest, we can't do that as a couple.
We still plan to live together, pending a successful three-month pilot scheme. We think we can make it work. We can't force our relationship to be something that it isn't, so we're instead letting it flourish as what it is.
Boy, does it hurt right now.
I can't speak for Heather, but I am definitely going to need some help. I am extremely amenable towards being invited to social events, cinema trips, drinks down the pub, or any other happenings which could benefit from the presence of a free agent fitting my description.
Well, I'm back up in Bridlington for the festive season, which is where both my parents and my sister and her family live.
I've gotten some nice presents (Left 4 Dead 2, woot!) and more importantly got to meet my little nephew, who's now 9 weeks old. He seems to be the best behaved baby imaginable, and hasn't been annoyingly loud at all. Meeting him made even me feel a little broody, which is a hard feat to manage ;)
My little niece is now 8 years old, and it's good to see her again, too, even if she can be quite a bit of work at times. Since I only really see her at Christmas at the moment, I can't really say "Gaahhh! Leave me alone for 10 minutes and let me relax!" so I just play whatever random game she wants and wait for 9:30pm, when she has to go to bed ;)
I bought my parents a digital TV recorder for Christmas, which is basically Sky+ but only works for Freeview channels. This will hopefully save them from constantly trying to figure out which of a billion VHS tapes the last episode of Coronation Street is on, and *where* on the aforesaid tape it is. Having gotten used to using the digital TV browser/guide, the interface doesn't seem to scare them too much either, which is good.
Roll on New Year!
Current mood: cheerful
Friday, December 25, 2009
8:10PM
Did anyone else like Doctor Who? Anyone at all???
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