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troutkitty is reading SG:A kidfic. (A Beautiful Lifetime Event by astolat, specifically. Which, to borrow a word from queenzulu, is blerking brilliant.)

I went out tonight to take back some library books and say hi to a friend who works at the closest branch.

Me: Back soon, just going to the library.

My girl, looking up all wide-eyed: I wanna baby.

Me: I'd bring you one, but all the babies at the library will belong to someone else who's not us.

My girl: Wanna baby.

(Needless to say, I did not come home with a baby. Or with any more books, but that was only in part due to the thirty or so I've got out that need to be read before they're due back, and mostly because I forgot my wallet.)

Now she's demanding more fic. Oh, dear.

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Conversation from last Wednesday, or, a recounting of ming_lei's talk about reincarnation with her mother:

"Why are people always Chinese in their past lives? Couldn't you come back as a Swedish person?"

"Hell, no! Chinese person or bust! ... Or an animal."

"A Chinese animal? Like a horse? Couldn't you be a Swedish horse?" (insert bad Swedish accent here) "I am a horse from Sweden!"

... yeah. Maybe you had to be there. We also got to watch the police come and all. The one guy couldn't pay his two hundred dollar tab, and at one point, made a break for it up the stairs before the manager dragged him back. And then they took him out in cuffs because they found drug paraphenalia on him.

Usually, Wednesday nights aren't quite THAT eventful.

On aminor sidenote, I have all three parts of Fingersmith now! Yay! (queenzulu, want me to wait to watch it until you can come see it, too?)

First off, pretty wallpapers!

Obssession of the Moment has some pretty wallpapers--got the link from someone on my list, can't recall who. Mostly Buffy and Angel, some assorted others.

Educated Virgin also has lost o' Buffy stuff--queenzulu, take note! Pretty Faith here! Also at Bittersweet Flowers (ditto on the lots of Faith).

Heroine Chic is also heavy on the Whedon wallpaper, including lots of Firefly! Hee! Can't Take the Sky has lots of pretty Firefly screencaps and promo shots. (craves Serenity movie...)

I spent first thing this morning steadfastly ignoring the snow drifting down outside the window (which didn't stick much, and melted away by late afternoon, or I would be complaining about it much more bitterly), and re-reading Transfigurations by resonant8. Happysigh. Long and plotty, and full of all sorts of lovely details. Also, Harry/Draco, but, y'know, GOOD Harry/Draco.

Random link from the Librarian's Guide to the Internet: If You Are Concerned About Your Child's Gender Behaviors: A Parent Guide.

Another random link, gacked from simplelyric: Brazilian Town Declares Orgasm Day.

What I've been watching: A couple random eps of Futurama. A few more eps of Witch Hunter Robin. (Waiting for some sort of larger plot to manifest... I'm eight or nine eps in so far.) Twitch City. (With the pon farr, and the gay white supremacists, and Hugh Dillon as Howard the Cannibal! Hee!) House 1x20, "Love Hurts."

Oh, ( House )

And alas, no more TiW for now... not even the DVDs. Not until July. Hopefully. Hmph.

Many links open...

First off, I agree with Penny Arcade's take on the Serenity movie. And if you haven't seen the trailer, go! Watch! And agree with me that River's kick-ass.

On the literacy and reading front, there's Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys looks pretty cool. Neil Gaiman, Gordon Korman, Brian Jacques, Jerry Spinelli, Chris Crutcher, Chris Van Allsburg, Matt Groening, and edited by Jon Scieszka, who's got the original Guys Read website.

And Captain Tractor finally has a new CD out! Highlights include "Hallelujah Song" (on socipolitical commentary: the story of the Pope and the sniper Jesus), "#3 Roxbury Street" (on nostalgia and change: "the drunks all went to college and the poets never try/the banshees have been silenced and the swallows left the nest/the jester's selling real estate and the punks all drive a desk"), and my current favourite, "Maria's Last Words," (a cheery little drinking song, the chorus being a floor-stomping "I can't take this bullshit any more/every Friday night, you end up on my floor/she said, Jesus Christ, I deserve more from this life/you've got one more chance and I'm walking out this door...," and the cool part being how it starts out fed-up and angry, and by the last repetition, everything else stops and sounds absolutely heartbroken.)

Point of reference: Captain Tractor is on the second DS soundtrack, "What Do You Do with a Drunken Soldier," which played during the "previously on..." Mountie on the Bounty part two. They do an awesome cover of the Arrogant Worms' "Last Saskatchewan Pirate." Like Great Big Sea, but less commercial and definitely rooted in the prairies (hard to miss with album titles like East of Edson and Bought the Farm, and more angst.

*ahem* Anyhow. New CD good.

Speaking of DS, People Like You is college-era Ray/Stella, fantastic characterisation, and gay sex.

I want the TV-B-Gone universal remote keychain thingie from ThinkGeek. Not so much with the internet urinal. But the concept amuses.

Paddle to the CSC is obviously Sports Night fic from the title, and is about how Dan's infamous white shirt ("You're wearing my shirt") is a slut.

Even though I haven't seen Stargate: Atlantis yet, A Beautiful Lifetime Event by astolat is smart and funny and emotionally affecting. And the same goes for About a Lamp by flambeau.

Tomorrow is my last day at the school I'm subbing at. (Probably. There's enough work to keep an extra person on for a few more days, but the budget is the issue.) On one hand, employment=good, and I'm enjoying being back in a school library, even if it's mostly copy-cataloging and weeding. On the other... (looking around) I definitely put a day or two off to use cleaning up, doing laundry, and planning what I'm going to plant this year.

However, I'm back on the sub list as available, and the schools have just gotten extra funding to handle the transition to the new library software, which means more hours, and for some schools, additional staff. Like me! (Problems? Glitches? Plan for them? Budget extra staff hours for training? Why would we want to do any of that? *headdesk*)

Besides, I have book reviews and drabbles to write!

Your random link-y things of the evening:

Woo-hoo! Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is going to be a BBC miniseries!

Also on the BBC's site, Lend Me Your Ears, on the sounds of Victorian England.

There's a new anime version of the classic shoujo manga The Glass Mask. Trailer here.

And an excerpt of Neil Gamain's new book Anansi Boys is up on his website.

Anyone who's interested has probably already seen the Hugo nominees, but I thought I'd link 'em anyhow.

queenzulu, look! Suitably fun and campy Nancy Drew slash, The Secret of the Squeaky Springs! (Also, the two HCL fic troutkitty mentioned tonight were Graven Image, and the Billy's mom/Billy's Sunday school teacher one is What The Meek Inherit.)

This one's for chaleur23: veggie-zombie!

Speaking of zombies, this is the fic I was telling queenzulu about in the car last night, Things To Do in Orlando When You're Dead. RPS, explicit slash, and, um, sort of cannibalism? If none of the aforementioned bothers you, it's howlingly funny.

For something almost as amusing but much, um, cleaner, try this summary of Dracula:

MEANWHILE, BACK IN WHITBY, ENGLAND
Luca Westenra: I am teh hott. All teh dudez dig me.
Dr Seward: Liekwhoa Lucy!
Quincey Morris: Liekwhoa Lucy!
Arthur Holmwood: Liekwhoa Lucy!
Mina Murray: Liekwhoa Lu--
Lucy: SSHHH, they're not supposed to know about that! This is a Victorian novel, we have a DEEP, MEANINGFUL, WOMANLY FRIENDSHIP!
Mina: Sorry. Dude, where's my fiance?

Heh.

Finally, this is where I get the yummy chesnut cream coffee. (Which I forgot to pick up when I was there today. Dammit.)

.... for links? A whole chain of links? (Except they're not really linked to each OTHER, and are all unrelated.) A clamour? A slew?

Anyhow. I've got a bunch of tabs open, and I'll lose it all! forever! if my computer is unco-operative and crashes. So with no more further ado...

Buffy fic, The One in the Cave by eliade, Spike/Xander, kinda PWP-ish, but the set-up is incredibly amusing.

I still need to read Hawks and Hands by dsudis. A long and plotty Due South hockey AU!

Flying Blind is a lovely little bit of Due South fic from the incomparable speranza, written for the ds_flashfiction necking challenge. And the same challenge also produced Getting There by resonant8 which just made me smile.

Getting There is Firefly, a bit of Zoe/Wash sweetness. The last line is what did it for me. *g*

And some snarky House fic over here. Sort of House/Wilson.

On a non-fic related note, Neil Gaiman's got a new audio CD out! (covets)

I need to get dressed and get moving. Fooood...

First off, Conflicts of Interest is the Smallville fic I've been talking about for a couple days, aka, Lex has a nine year old son. Highly amusing. Especially the bit with the powerpoint slides.

And On The Road is a fantastic Bruno and Boots fic by the same author, set a good ten years or more post-series. Bruno! Political campaign manager! Boots! High school English teacher! Angst! Sex!

Both are by rageprufrock, and she has easter eggs for the Smallville fic posted in her blog. Like the adorementioned powerpoint slides. Hee.

Some more fic: You Don't Have To Go Home, This rec's for joan_not_jaon. *g* Highlander/Harry Potter. Remus Lupin meets Amanda.

Wai! More House fic! On the Eight Day

And The Gargantuan Garden is a Lemony Snicket and Edward Scissorhands crossover.

Look, gay penguins!

Girl Power Fuels Manga Boom in U.S. from the New York Times (if you don't want to register, you can go to bugmenot.com to get a log-in and password). Also: Animania!, an article on the rising popularity of anime.

And I leave you with this, a bizarre, sexually suggestive Pocky commerical. I'm going to go crawl into my cozy bed with the nice, clean sheets. (As naked_bandit can attest, as she was on the phone listening to me get horribly tangled up wrestling the comforter into the quilt cover. "Help, I've lost one of the corners! Now I'm all tangled up in the quilt..." Heh. Anyhow. 'night!)

Cathing up on lj. Reading fic.

Escape, BTVS, Warren/Ethan

HCL/DCU? Good lord. Crime-Fighting Vigilante Punks, with some more here.

Sunday's Child by dsudis is NOT Daria fic, as I originally said, but is Due South fic. (Thanks, queenzulu! Oops...)

Full of Woe is Daria fic. Hence the earlier confusion. But, Daria fic! Yay! (Though there were several good ones posted on last year's Yuletide challenge, they seem to have taken down last year's stuff. Sigh.)

Like Describing the Alphabet, Firefly fic. Mal/Jayne. Whee, lots of fun!

So, if you're local (and even if you're not, though for most of you, commuting would be problematic), you should know by now that we're having a Halloween party! It's Sunday night. Come! Wear a costume! Bring some food! And, er, let me know you're coming, so we know how many people we've got to fit in our living room. Lemme know via comment, email, or plain old phone, especially if you need directions.

Meanwhile, this is very scary, this is kinda pathetic, and this is not sushi.

And though I don't really read Smallville, this is just too cute. Gakked from placidia.

'"I've destroyed your latest threat to mankind, Luthor," Superman intoned.

Lex couldn't help it. His mouth dropped open for a moment, before he managed to gather his wits. "That wasn't a weapon. That was my new espresso machine. It just arrived today from Italy."

"Yes! And now it will be unable to wreak destruction."'

Hee.

All I can say about this is, dammit.

Waiting to hear back on a seven-week temp contract where they actually want a library tech. Oooh... something more involved than photocopying! But they want someone with oil and gas industry experience. Errrrgh.

I think I want to go to Netspeed this year. Do not know if I can afford it. Hmmm. Depends if and where I'm working--it's less for TAL member libraries.

But chaleur23, you must see this! Bertie Wooster Takes a Stand.

Pirates of the Caribbean/Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover. No, really. Cool.

This weekend was the IFWA write-off. Translation: my girl and varied other members of her writer's group spent Fri night, Sat, and Sun all sitting in one large room, armed with comfy desk chairs, laptops or desktops or a notebook and pen, and various snack foods and beverages, and writing. Any socializing took place outside. (Though there was the notable "Dr. Ivan's House of Auuuuugh" aka a certain ifwit's massage table set up in the other room--that reminds me, mockingspike, we have your salsa!)

troutkitty finished editing her latest novel. It took her two weeks to do the first hundred pages, and she made it through the last three hundred-some this weekend. Yay! And queenzulu wrote HCL fic! Yay again! Now I just need to make her write more. But she did a very cool editing job of the IFWA Once More With Feeling video footage (IFWA does OMWF) complete with sparkly effects and mockingspike's repeated ballet number.

I, being an IFWA spouse rather than an actual member, only spent part of my weekend there, and am not nearly as sleep-deprived as my girl, who went off with jestyna and co. at the ungodly hour (at very least for a weekend) of 7:30 a.m. both Sat and Sun. In fact, I slept in until noon today. Funny, after those ten-eleven hours of sleep, I am wide awake right now. Ergh.

I so do not need one of these ducks. But they're still pretty cool.