NaNo and meme

[lesyeuxverts]

1. I hate NaNo with the fire of a thousand suns - and yes, it is really that bad ... my prose, I mean. *sigh*

2. Snarry Hols starts posting on Tuesday this week omg alskdjfla;dsjf;la YAY!

3. Meme, because I am procrastinating ... gacked from schemingreader and celandineb and sansa1970 and people. And stuff, and things. Shiny things.

What are your three current favorites of the fics you've written? Post your answers as a comment here, explaining why you like your three stories, and then repost with the answers in your own journal. Include links so people can read what you're proud of!



1. Blessing and Burden ... short and sweet, one of the first post-DH Snarries I wrote (possibly the first) and, I don't know. It was just a pleasure to write. Why do we ever like anything that we write?

2. The Soul Electric ... I really liked the poem that celandineb suggested for this, and the atmosphere that came with it, and the way that it turned out in general.

3. the first traceries of light ... seriously, probably the first and only thing that I've given an artsy, all-lower-case title. In fact, I loved almost all of the ficlets that I wrote for nest_of_spiders and probably too much so. They're exercises in language, not in plot or story-telling, but let's face it, that's the way that I often write. This one in particular stood out, though, because it was surreal and dreamy and fun to write. I loved the prompt - of course, all of the prompts were pretty fabulous, but this one especially so.


These are mostly recent, but probably they're the freshest things in my mind ... anyhow, it's nice to remember that I don't actually hate writing! I'd love to hear your favorites, too. :D


Anyhow, I'm going to be really busy this week, so I'll cheat and just tack an extra four things on ... that'll be my ten things for the week, all right?


7. I am completely in love with Flannery O'Connor. If she was still alive, I would offer to bear her children, and that is no less than she'd deserve. One of the most brilliant writers ever, omfg, and I'll never be even a tenth as talented and brilliant and lovely as she was. It's enough to make a girl cry, it really is.

8. Rounding out my "I'm not just a geeky scientist, I have a life too" ... other things that I have been doing lately/will be doing this week: reading and discussion of Kirkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" (which is really freaking hard to understand, I'd just like to pop that in), Star Wars movie marathon with friends (Episode V, omg yay), potluck (last Friday, made minestrone soup and played Apples to Apples with my friends), my roommate's birthday dinner party, trying to make pumpkin-infused vodka, baking cookies for the Flannery O'Connor discussion group, playing Scrabble online, meeting a prospective student for coffee, and goodness knows what else will come up.

9. Chased the toddlers around this morning during the 9 am service, and omg, it was exhausting. Anyone who has kids is completely mad, I'm telling you ... completely mad. To do that for longer than an hour and a half? Granted, it's probably not ten kids at a time, but still ... completely mad. But it was fun, and the service today was fabulous, and I am so completely in love with this church and everyone in it ... I swear, I haven't met anyone there who isn't just fabulous.

10. H told me about nine or ten months ago that the people in her lab were going to try to set me up with J who liked me, but I told her that I thought of him as only a friend and no one tried to set us up. Lately I've been wondering if I do think of him as only a friend, and I think I might not - he's considerate, smart, funny, kind, an all-around nice person, interesting to talk to and it really shouldn't matter that he isn't very much taller than I am - and somehow R in my lab (who is married to A in H's lab, and probably knows the whole story, since A couldn't keep a secret worth anything) managed to arrange it so that J and I took the bus together over to a talk on the main campus last Thursday evening. It was nice, having someone to go over with, and he didn't say a single disparaging thing when I managed to get us lost, and I think I might like him, a little. We'll see. :)

Comments

[leianora.insanejournal.com]

This four things instead of ten, is that like the new math thing they were doing back in the seventies? :D Anyway, good luck with J. I hope yours works out better than mine did. It probably will though, since you actually go places, and stuff. I just go to class and sit in my apartment all the time waiting for it to happen.

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

Hehe, I'm not sure what new math thing they were doing exactly, but it might be a bit like that. :)

Thanks! I'm ... hopeful, at least, that it might work out. *g*

[angela_snape.insanejournal.com]

Hey... I've been playing Scrabble online too - Darn Facebook!

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

lol, I know ... so easy to spend far-too-many hours on it, too!

[fleurdeliser.insanejournal.com]

*HUGSHUGSHUGS*

Flannery O'Connor is indeed amazing, but you don't have to be her or write like her to be amazing in your own way.

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

*HUGS*

*clings*

Yes, and perhaps you don't have to be Nessi to be an absolute sweetheart, but it certainly helps, doesn't it? :*