The thing that keeps me from writing much fanfic is I'm just too lazy to write things down most of the time, so I'm not one of those people with lots of unfinished snippets of fic hanging around on their computer.

Or so I thought.

It turns out I have about 6,700 words of surprisingly good unfinished fic hanging around.

Which is about 6,000 more words than I have of unfinished thesis hanging around.

...I should probably go to the library and thesisize.

/is alive

/is still mostly in hiding

/is going to the library now >_>

Hi there, dear Yuletide Writer! Please be assured that I love and adore you already and am thrilled that you'll be writing something for me. :D

I'm going to put a proper letter here soon, but I've got to run out the door right now. So if you're the kind of Yuletide Writer who likes having a letter--watch this space!

Hi again! I'm sorry for the delay in getting the content of this letter up. If you've already started writing, that's perfectly fine with me; if you're still poking at different ideas looking for inspiration (like I am), maybe this will help you out a bit!

( general stuff )

( Mahabharatha - Vyasa )

( Millennium Actress )

( Kaze Hikaru )

( Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington )

Love,
Inner Voice

My main journal is on Livejournal, but I think I'm actually going to start crossposting on Dreamwidth as well.
(masterlist is still in progress as I try to compile everything!)

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( Avatar: The Last Airbender )

( From Eroica With Love )

( Gokusen )

( Innocent Bird )

( Kamikaze Girls )

( Kaze Hikaru )

( Macdonald Hall )

( Mary Renault )

( Rurouni Kenshin )

( Spartacus: Blood and Sand )

( Tolkien )

( Trese )

( Wild Rock )

( Misc. - Discword, Mongol, Mulan, My Fair Lady, Pride & Prejudice, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The King's Shadow )

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[stuff will go here]

So burned out right now I cannot even. ;_;

(Okay, so I'm being overdramatic and I will feel a lot better after a couple of hours of sleep. But the reason I'm up at 4am in the first place is because I feel too wound up to sleep because there's SO MUCH TO DO AUGH.)

Tutoring this week has been pretty brutally hard because it's midterm exam time and we've got a crapton of students coming in to get reviewed. A crapton of HIGH SCHOOL students. With, among other things, HIGH SCHOOL MATH PROBLEMS oh God. It's been literally six years since I've seen sines or cosines or angles (ANGLES, ARGH) or mathematical proofs and my brain kind of whimpers in terror every time a new student pulls out a new mathy thing they want me to help them do.

So far I've been mostly able to dredge up enough memory of math to get them through the assignment (except that one Physics chapter. My student had pity on me and let me tutor her in economics instead). But it is really tiring. ;_;

[stuff will go here eventually]

The next time I take it into my head to hand-code a super elaborate layout for a fanmix...I really, really, really need to remember how freaking hard it is! Tables are really, really not my strength.

In other news, I am slowly working on finishing the half-finished stuff I owe lots of people (principally beckyh2112, deborah_judge and fawatson). \o/

Am in the Narita airport.
Just saw my first real-life Zettai Ryouiki.
Am much amused. And also surprised at how good it looks on a real live human being; I always wondered whether it was one of those things that looks good in anime but just doesn't work in real life.

SFF short story not-quite-a-rec (but not an anti-rec) for Easter:
Salvation by Lawrence Person

Warning: do not read this story if you are feeling happy, and especially not if you're feeling happy about Easter and salvation and things. I don't want to harsh anyone's squee. I read this story while trying to dig up the link for The Pride of Knossos last Friday, and subsequently spent quite a portion of the Easter Vigil mass feeling vaguely nauseous and unhappy.

Theologically, the scenario doesn't work at all (and thank God, very literally, for that!), but psychologically it's pretty powerful and flat-out terrifying. What would people do in that scenario? The most terrifying probable answer is "exactly what they do in the story."
Augh.