Sure. Not just once. What can I say, I'm a bit of a nutter ;-) The most important in my family of inanimate objects though is Leland IV, my laptop. I wouldn't know what to do without it (him).

I really should not read fanfic this early in the morning. Especially not HP fanfic like this one:


There was a pause before Hermione spoke again. "So what do you want to do? We've got all night."

Ron snickered. Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly, Ron--"

What the hell; it was a dream. He could have whatever he wanted. It was his birthday, after all, or close enough.

Harry hesitated, then plunged forward. "I want to go to bed with both of you."

Silence.

Anyone have any recs for FTP software that is either free or low cost? Because I must have tried a good four or five lately, but none worked right.

( What I tried so far )

I have completely, and I mean completely, forgotten about US television this week. I have not dl-ed one episode. Must, must remedy that immediately. Unfortunately since I share my internet connection with a bunch of other people, I'm allowed to use the 'net only for browsing during the day and have to do all my downloading over night. Sucks, but at least that way I don't have to pay for the whole of our internet connection myself. Guess, I have to wait until tomorrow then to catch up on my various show. And there I thought I would have a productive weekend for a change. Somehow I managed to watch almost no TV this week, aside from The Bill reruns in the morning while doing housework and still get hardly anything done for uni.

Today was an utterly 'blah' day. I was busy all day and yet I have the feeling that I didn't get anything done. Nothing important anyway. I doubt that writing a TV review will add to that tally, but I need some fun from time to time ;-)

( Maisie Raine - S01E01 - Episode Review )

On the schedule for tomorrow since I'm already making lists:

• Story editing


• Finishing the 1st draft of my next assignment


• Baking a nice vegan cake using the baking mix I bought today


• avoid getting sucked into any more TV shows and instead start watching more of my backlog


• start a belated spring cleaning

Woke up with a monster headache that only got worse when one of the my house mates started to play the piano. So, I decided to go out and head to the gym, but that only made my headache worse. And I still have a lit or school work to do. But enough whining on my part.

Now onto the good and/or productive stuff:

• I booked my plane and coach tickets for residential school in July yesterday.


• The review of Murder City Series 1 is nearly done.


• I have 'acquired' a bunch of older episodes of The Bill to watch (all of 1989, large bits of 1990 and 2002) Plus daily UKTV Gold reruns of episodes that I haven't seen yet. Yay!


• Fanfic writing is going pretty well. I have three new chapters all written, just in need of some editing. I hope to have that done by tonight so that I can send them of the be beta-ed.


• I need to clean up my hard drives. It's getting cluttered. I hate deleting stuff, but I just know some of that I'll probably never watch, even though it sounded interesting at first.


• I was supposed to start block five this week, i.e. Saturday, but I still haven't. Must remedy that. If only L would finally finish playing the piano...I could maybe get some work done.


• I'm pretty low on food after the long weekend, so cooking today will be mainly using up stuff that got left over from last week. I still have a bag of avocados, a bag of grenadillos, some bread, a pineapple and a coconut. Maybe a nice coconut smoothie?

My layout seems to have vanished :-( It better not be gone for good!

ETA: No wonder it's gone. Mediamax (the former Streamload) had once again re-invented itself and is in the process of moving the files over to their new service. Now I just need to find my password somewhere. I wonder if I really should continue to bother with them, given their habit for losing files. I wonder if the @lantis archive is still there.

ETA 2: Seems like my account ceased to exit. No wonder I haven't gotten a bill from them for like ages :-(

How come the internet always seems deserted on the weekend? I never understood that. What do other people do on the weekend?

Happy Birthday to peaches! Wishing you all the best in TV and rl! *hugs*

First of all, I must say that I really enjoyed the movie, despite its (many) logical and scientific failings. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but I loved the plot.

( A few random thoughts )

You know, I'm not the biggest fan of weddings in fanfic, but I've never seen one as mercifully brief as this one:

The vows were read, the rings exchanged and they were married

Title: Ghost in the Machine
Author: hexicode aka illman
Fandom/pairing (if appropriate): Doctor Who, no pairing
Summary: Separated from each other and stranded on a frozen world, Martha and the Doctor are forced to forge dangerous alliances in the fight against an old enemy.
Rating: technically all ages, but maybe a bit too violent for the kiddies ;-)
Warnings: AU, some violence (but nothing too graphic)
Disclaimers: The characters and settings aren't mine. No profit is being made, this is for entertainment only
A/N: Many thanks to the lovely DianeM for beta-reading.

( Read more... )

Much to my surprise, I've written a ton of fanfic this month so far. My muse always shows up when I really should be concentrating on something else - like uni work ;-) The only problem (aside from there being too many plot bunnies and too little time), is that I can't seem to be botehrd to sit down and edit what I've written. It's like it feels good to write the stories, but I don't actually feel like posting them. Not that they are worse than what I usually write, but they just don't seem worth the effort. I had fun writing them, but that's as far as I want to take it at the moment. But what is the point of writing fanfiction when you don't share it with others? Is having fun what it is all about?

A very happy birthday to reveur!

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BTW, where is everyone this weekend?

I've been meaning to write up the rest of my prime suspect reviews and start posting my latest DW fanfic, but I've had this dark cloud hanging over my head for about two weeks now and I can't seem to shake it. Dr. G. seemed to think it was serious when I saw him last week (as in a sign that my depression might be coming back) and he asked me to consider going back on anti-depressants. I said I'd think about it, but so far I haven't the energy to make up my mind :-/ I have been putting most of my energy towards things like school, work, grocery shopping and laundry (you know, those things that tend to have nasty consequences when you don't do them). I have been keeping up with LJ pretty well, but not haven't commented very much, apologies again. I plan on catching up on the weekend, assuming that I have my s104 assignment more or less done by then. (which it actually is already, but I'm not happy with it and after my bad score on the last one I'm not feeling very confident)

Haven't seen the new Doctor Who yet nor have I caught up with anything else that I missed lately. I did see CSI:NY and Criminal Minds today. Both of them were pretty good and I'm looking forward to watching WaT tomorrow.

Meme Info for YOU, for later

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick three of your icons.
2. Make a post (including this meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

My Meme Reply

1.


From Skins. I haven't seen an episode of the show in ages, but I'm still in love with this icon. Maybe because it is all purple and shiny. Anyways, this is my friendship icon :-)

2.


From CSI (I think, but could technically be from anywhere). My current default icon, that I'm also very much in love with. It always makes me think of Doctor Who, one of my all time favourite TV shows, even though technically it's got nothing to do with it. Also, and that's more imporant to me, it reminds me of the teacher who first got me interested in the subject I'm now studying (Chemistry, for those who don't know). Because he had a watch like that.

3.


From Without a Trace. Sam will always be one of my favourite TV characters. Despite what the show has turned her into, I still love her - slut or not ;-) The caption, for some reason, just happens to resonate with me. I have no idea who I am anymore most of the time, but I feel like I did at some point and simply lost that (in more ways than one!). But as they say, you can never go home again...

( TV Show Meme That Everyone Has Done )


I'm not sure what is more alarming, the fact that I've seen so many of these or that I have never heard of some of them ;-) Speaking of TV, I'd almost forgotten how much I liked certain US TV shows, but I really enjoyed Criminal Minds and CSI:NY this week. I'm going to watch WaT and CSI later on, after I get back from the practical that I should have done yesterday.

Break week was over way to fast and a lot of the time that I didn't spend sleeping or writing fic, I spent watching Prime Suspect, an occasional British detective series.

( Prime Suspect I & II, spoilers )