2003-07-12
Miscellaneous
So, it occurred to me today (on reading old feedbacks and seeing references to FF.Net), that updating my browser might solve my perrenial uploading problem with Fanfiction.Net, and what do you know, I was right. So I've uploaded what can technically be called a shitload of fics, not just comic but Buffyverse and my one LotR fic. More for safekeeping than anything - until I get off my butt and learn how to make a webpage of my own, the only place all my stories are collected is here on my hard-drive, which isn't perhaps the safest thing. I need to burn them onto disk as well, just to make sure. Of course, the fact I might possibly get reviews has nothing to do with it.
Well, maybe. *grins*
I've been seeing references to Dexcon formal dresses, which reminded me I've signed up for the Clerk of Courts dinner this year (I've missed the last few with being overseas), and I need to either get a new dress (which may require my losing some of the 5 kilos I've put on since starting on the B12), or a pair of shoes to go with the silvery-green one I already have. I'd wear the LBD (little black dress), only I wore it to the last Dinner, and even though that was a few years ago, people will probably remember it. I'll probably go with shoes - a nice shiny silver pair like the ones I borrowed from Amanda for the last Dexcon dinner.
On my way back after shopping I stopped in at the Brotherhood second-hand shop near my house, and picked up an ironing board for $5, plus two books for another $5. I'm finding I'm reading more, and need more books as a result. It's something to do with the eating alone in restaurants I do sometimes (last night I stopped at the Indian place nearby and had a wonderful meal) - I feel less obvious if I have a book with me. Especially when the waiter asks if you're waiting for someone, because people don't eat alone on Friday nights. Well, since it's just me, yes, I do eat alone, those meals I don't feel like making for myself. Maybe I should find myself a blow-up date. ;)
Hmm, I've been online a fair while, updating stuff. I think I oughth to get off and go make dinner, and after that, I have a date with a grumpy, annoying Englishman in a trench coat. No, not Phil - I have plans to finish Death and the Art of Pyramid Selling tonight, provided I don't turn the TV on. Tis sad, spending my Saturday with a fictional character, but hey, I am a geek. It's expected of me. ;)
Well, maybe. *grins*
I've been seeing references to Dexcon formal dresses, which reminded me I've signed up for the Clerk of Courts dinner this year (I've missed the last few with being overseas), and I need to either get a new dress (which may require my losing some of the 5 kilos I've put on since starting on the B12), or a pair of shoes to go with the silvery-green one I already have. I'd wear the LBD (little black dress), only I wore it to the last Dinner, and even though that was a few years ago, people will probably remember it. I'll probably go with shoes - a nice shiny silver pair like the ones I borrowed from Amanda for the last Dexcon dinner.
On my way back after shopping I stopped in at the Brotherhood second-hand shop near my house, and picked up an ironing board for $5, plus two books for another $5. I'm finding I'm reading more, and need more books as a result. It's something to do with the eating alone in restaurants I do sometimes (last night I stopped at the Indian place nearby and had a wonderful meal) - I feel less obvious if I have a book with me. Especially when the waiter asks if you're waiting for someone, because people don't eat alone on Friday nights. Well, since it's just me, yes, I do eat alone, those meals I don't feel like making for myself. Maybe I should find myself a blow-up date. ;)
Hmm, I've been online a fair while, updating stuff. I think I oughth to get off and go make dinner, and after that, I have a date with a grumpy, annoying Englishman in a trench coat. No, not Phil - I have plans to finish Death and the Art of Pyramid Selling tonight, provided I don't turn the TV on. Tis sad, spending my Saturday with a fictional character, but hey, I am a geek. It's expected of me. ;)
DONE!
Let the record show, that as of 10pm on Saturday the 12th of July 2003, I finished the last chapter of "Death and the Art of Pyramid Selling". I've sent it off for betaing, so it will be a few days before it's posted, but to all intents and purposes, it's done. Final word count comes to 24,188 words. Ye gods.
*finally kicks the John Constantine fictive out of her head and goes to make a celebratory hot chocolate. With Baileys*
*finally kicks the John Constantine fictive out of her head and goes to make a celebratory hot chocolate. With Baileys*