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How to Teach Men to Write Women

The Problem with NCIS is the Writing

You know you've pretty much accepted that your kid's on the grown up side of childhood when you find yourself helping tart her up as a gothy-hooker type for a Halloween dance without batting an eye.

The Upside: This is so far out from how she likes to dress it's not even funny. She's still insisting on limiting the amount of skin actually showing (and what kind - yay for modest kids!). She was able to borrow everything from friends (I think she loaned out some stuff to someone, but I don't remember what that costume was all about).

The Downside: My kid should not look that good in patterned fishnets and "tulle" skirts. It's just wrong. I should be hating this whole thing and refusing to let her out of the house looking like that, but can't help but wonder if Target has a spiked dog collar in black that she could pick up before tomorrow. For all that she's kept her neckline, hemline and blouse length to wonderfully modest levels, she still looks like a hooker in that outfit.

*headdesk*

Oh, and did I mention they're wearing this stuff to school all day tomorrow? Her yoga class should be interesting, even with the black bike shorts on under the skirts (there's a black one on top of a red one).

HA! Not *that* kind of drinking.

Okay, not *necessarily* that kind of drinking. :-)

Poll #1476429
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When you're finished drinking, but still have some left in your glass, do you...

If anyone but Joy is still awaiting a beta from me, let me know because it means it's fallen into the black hole that is my mind. :-) So far as I know, Joy's Trilogy beta is the only one still on my plate (and yes, dear, it's in progress ;-).

I would *love* to be able to pull up entries from my flist/circle based on a particular tag. Yeah, it would require my flist to use the same tag, but given that I've just seen three different folks use exactly the same tag for something, it would be well worth it.

Now, I just have to go look up the "how to submit a suggestion" thingy on both LJ and DW.

Okay, you Criminal Minds folks, how long was Gideon on medical leave before the first episode of the series?

Why you ask?

I can't believe I'm doing this.

My NCIS serial killer fic stalled. The whole time I was working on it before it stalled out, I kept hearing Hotch in my head. (That's in the normal writerly way of hearing voices, not the creepy, call the guys in the white coats, way. Just back away from the telephone, folks. ;-) As has worked in the past when something's stalled, I went back and tried to figure out where I'd taken a wrong turn. What I finally *did* figure out was that this needs to be a crossover. It's pretty much demanding it. I've just got to work out the time line. I'm already going AU in that Kate's alive, but I was hoping to place it not long after SWAK, which happened in May of the year that CM started in September. Also, does anyone remember when Reid started at the FBI? I know he was 23 when the series started (since we saw his 24th birthday in an early episode), but I don't recall if they ever said how old he was when he joined up. Oh, and wasn't he Gideon's prize student at Quanitco?

The November 2009 issue of The Advocate has a great article called Straight Guys Tell (it was recced by someone on my flist, but I can't remember who it was). Go. Read.

...you want to stay up all night just to watch the temperature drop into the low fifties for the first time since about February.

And it's all *your* fault, folks! Yes, you know who you are out there. I'd be innocently waiting for Torchwood or Dr. Who or something on BBC America and catch the last fifteen minutes or so of Top Gear. Blinkin' weird show, but what can you do? Slowly, I started noticing that I'd flip over to BBCA just a bit earlier each time.

Now I'm watching freakin' *marathons*.

AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THEM!

You *will* pay.

One day.

When you least expect it.

*You* *will* *pay*.

... that I have a roast in the oven, but have just ordered pizza due to a sudden craving.

Oh, well, I'll just crank the temp down on the roast and cook it even slower (as it's not the best cut, slower is better anyway). It's too big for my crock pot, or I'd've put it in there to start with.

kazbaby's brother's family needs a hand. They just had a beautiful baby girl, but she came a month early and is going to be in ICU for a while. On top of that, they'd recently moved and found a job that wasn't, a home that wasn't and now are faced with dealing with that on top of their newborn's health issues (fortunately, it looks like she's going to be fine, but it's going to be a while). Lack of health insurance is the least of their worries at the moment.

Here's the link to the relevant post on her journal.

I know this economy has us all struggling to some extent, but if you've got a bit you can spare, think about sending it to kazbaby to pass on to her brother (check the post above for details).

This is one of those "pay it forward" moments. I know I've been in dire straits in the past and had friends (many of them fandom friends, too) who were able to help me keep my head above water. I will never be able to repay them except by helping others when I can. Don't *ever* think that $5 laying in the bottom of your purse or in the change can on your dresser is too little; that it won't matter. I can remember crying with joy over a $5 bill someone sent me once during some of my darkest days. To this day, I don't know who sent it to me, but that $5 let me put gas in my car so I could go to work for the rest of the week and I thank that anonymous donor every time it comes to mind.

Fandom is more than a shared love of a show or a universe. We're a community, we're family and I will never, *ever* forget that.

Back away from whatever you're drinking and go read that.

Seriously. Go. You'll thank me later. :-)

My left eye was very puffy when I woke up yesterday morning. I didn't think anything of it, until I realized it had never really gone down during the day. So, I decided to take out my contacts and let them soak for a day or so while I switched back to glasses to give my eyes a break.

Oops.

I forgot something.

Aside from the whole "WOW! I feel tall!" thing that comes with switching, my glasses are the previous prescription rather than the current one... which is actually ready to probably be upgraded again. In short, I can't see worth a damn. I walked to the grocery store today and damn near missed the bus to come home because I couldn't make out which bus it was. :-)

Ah, well. There's no pinkness (been there, done that) and so far no discharge, just a lot of puffiness around my eye. I *suspect* it's an allergic response to something. Oh, pardon me, an expression of my particulate sensitivity. *rolls eyes* But I figure giving my eyes a break from the contacts can't hurt.

Unless I trip and fall and break my neck because I'm blind as a friggin' bat but without benefit of echo location!

I'm one of those weird people who sometimes forget to eat. I'll get so into something that when my stomach starts nagging at me to please fill it, I'll go, "yeah, yeah, just a minute, lemme finish this...". Hours later, I'll realize I never did stop for lunch or dinner or whatever. Now, here's the bad part. At that point, I want food and I want it NOW. I did this to myself today. Ended up popping over to Popeye's Chicken (not far from here) and getting one of their big dinner specials (love cold fried chicken). So, some chicken, far too many mashed potatoes and biscuits and damn, I'm not only no longer hungry, I figure I may never be hungry again.

At least not until the next time (butnow I've got *chicken* :-).

Oh, and did you know they make Snicker's *Dark* now? I did not need to know this.

Oh, look! The Boyz from Bridge saw The Last Starfighter, too!

ETA: Oh, look! It's 10-Forward! :-)

The lovely and talented dhae_knight made this icon after perving on the phrase I used in a comment about the ludicrous Tony/Ziva faux romance crap that's ruining NCIS. :-)

I have the best flist/circle. :-)

This is a *very* cool video. Just sit back and watch it go.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1921961

I've been through all the winners (did that as part of the team thing), but I don't think I can possibly list all the winners among my DW circle or LJ flist. So, you guys pop over and check out the winners. Just click the "winners" button on the navigation bar.

Note that the Honorable Mentions only show up when you sort by category. (A note to that effect should be showing up on that window soon... unless our magical webmistress comes up with a better idea, first. There's always something that doesn't get noticed before you go live. :-)

I want to thank those of you who nominated my works and especially those of you who voted for The Yardman, which won for "Best Gen Daniel Drama Story".

Thank you everyone!


EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! :-)

So, my kid got assigned a project in Spanish today. One of the options concerns a poem called Romance de la Luna Luna. She had me look it up (so I could read it, she's got it) and that's the link I came up with... then promptly started laughing my ass off. That page has the original Spanish as well as several translations. Kid tells me they're all pretty bad (direct translations rather than idiomatic - my word, not hers ;-), but they're all very, very funny. :-)

I just want to know something... what's a nard and since when does the moon have breasts made of tin? :-)