I'm at work today, trying to wade through a sea of paper. But.

Yes, I've seen Children of Earth: Day Five.

No, I won't be posting about it this weekend because I'm busy.

No, I won't be reading my flist. See above. ( Cut for spoilery reaction stuff )

VAGUE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS TOO! enter with care.

( Spoilers for Children of Earth: Day Four (and there's a spoiler space between that and the point outside the cut, just in case) )

In other news, the name "jadesfire" is now up for grabs since the journal has been deleted and purged. That's the name I wanted 3 years ago when I turned up on LJ, and I only added the numbers because I had to. I'm considering buying this journal a birthday present in the form of a name-change token, but it looks a little...sparse...without the numbers. Definitely one to ponder.

I've put my Day Four reaction, such as it is, up at torchwood_meta here.

One day to go, folks!

( I realised I wanted to add something to what I said over there )

I'll wait until all episodes have been broadcast to do a final, full post about the new Torchwood, but in the meantime, my ongoing rambles/thoughts can be found over at torchwood_meta, here. Discussion invited and very welcome.

So. I kind of sort of helped 51stcenturyfox to hijack a thread over at unfeathered's journal which has spawned a ficlet. Just over 700 words, Jack and John Hart, Gen. More or less.

Now polished, headered and posted to torchwood_decaf

( And it has BIG spoilers for Torchwood 3.02, so it's going under a cut )

Oxford Folks! Are we doing Blackwell's today? I couldn't work out if anyone was around but I'm actually free for once :)

Woot :) See you there!

We're back! For those who aren't on Twitter - I love being able to post to it from my phone! - on Saturday morning, I was whisked away on the Eurostar to Lille for the weekend, which was just awesome. I have photos and stuff of course, but we only got back at midnight last night and my brain still isn't working properly. Once I've had some coffee, I shall tell you all about it.

In the meantime, what did I miss? Did anyone break anything? I've got some superglue around here somewhere, and there's always string in the kitchen drawer. When I'm suitably caffeinated, I shall probably try to get back to Friday night and catch up *pauses for hysterical laughter*, but I'm bound to miss something, so please drop in and say hi. [ETA: So, it turns out that skimming to avoid spoilers means my flist feels really, really quiet] I'm not caught up on Torchwood yet, so no spoilers, thanks - I've got today off, so once the case is unpacked, I can settle in with the computer and the iPlayer :)

*waves madly* I had a fabulous time, but it's nice to be home ♥

A student, lying in the middle of an aisle, flicking through a book. So far, not so unusual. Except that he had his laptop with him and was wearing headphones. When I went behind him, he had the tennis on full-screen on the computer, while 'reading' the textbook. Honestly.

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In completely other news, the SG Awards have just opened for voting. The category system makes the librarian in me twitch, and I only clicked through the Gen section. It was actually an interesting exercise, since it reminded me just how small the Gen portion of SGA fandom is. In a fandom-wide award system, I would not expect to recognise most of the author's names, and yet. Most of the SGA-Gen writers on my flist seem to have been nominated, as well as lots of friends of friends and people whose fic I'm startled to be on the same list as.

Because finding these things is labyrinthine and I am shameless, allow me to point you to the lists where I'm nominated. At least in the Gen category, these also make pretty handy rec lists. I had trouble with direct links to lists (please tell me if any links are broken), but the menu system works, even if it did remind me of those endless automated phone systems. I kept waiting for it to tell me to press '1' for Slash, '2' for Het, '3' for Gen...

( Why yes, this is a chance to list some of my favourite SGA stories by me and my friends. Why'd you ask? )

My head is still a mess at the moment, so I have vague hopes of actual content somewhere in the not too distant future. In the meantime, I've been doing a little housekeeping.

I was going to say I wrote nothing in June, then I opened a whole bunch of tabs, so apparently I write even when I don't think I'm writing.

( The List )

That's 6 ficlets, just under 2,500 words in total. Not too shabby.

Then, of course, there's my tardis_bigbang entry, which was written over a few months so I'm not sure it counts towards my June total.

Nothing Else But Change
27,000 words, Jack, Gen.

( Thinky thoughts and why I love this story and wish I'd written it differently. Including thoughts about Jack, philosophy, getting back to basics and the lasting influence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

Wow, that went on longer than I meant it to! Thoughts, feedback and concrit is welcomed and encouraged for 'Nothing Else But Change'. I knew what I was going for, but was aware I didn't quite hit it. Anything that will help me get there next time would be much appreciated.

This...isn't really the Housekeeping post I meant it to be, but I got a bit carried away and it's now time for coffee. Maybe now I've got it out of my system I'll be able to post about what I *really* wanted to post about later on.

Hope everyone's having a good day *waves*

I haven't read all these, they're just the ones by my friends that I could find. Asterisks indicate personal favourites.

( My flist is a talented bunch, really )

I'm much, much, much happier with this one. My gerbera no longer looks like the wrong colour and the column width makes everything much easier to read. I still don't know if I'll stick with it, but I'm liking it more at the moment.

Plus brown has always been a better colour on me than grey ;)

ETA: In the past 24 hours I have also moved to Firefox 3.5 and downloaded the Chromium skin (so much quicker, so much nicer), changed my Dreamwidth layout twice (I'm sticking with pink until I find a brown one that I like) and Gmail have moved the labels menu. That's possibly enough rearranging of the mental furniture for now. I'm having trouble finding things...

Since I have a feeling the community long-since fell off everyone's watch-lists but most of you are still talking to *me* (you are, aren't you?), this is just a note to say that torchwood_meta is up and running again, for the radio plays and next week's series.

The first post is up here for today's play, Asylum.

I promise to drop by and talk *properly* tomorrow. Right now, I'm having trouble putting one finger in front of the other to type.

Night all :)

Inspired by sunshine, boredom and Nightdog, I've been playing with my journal styles, here and at Dreamwidth. I'm not sure about them yet, but it's nice to have a change :)

Whaddya think?

Best optical illusion EVER

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Also, I suck at keeping track of dates :S

Happy birthday, aoibhe!!

Hope you have a lovely day, hon. *smishes*

If a)I had a phone with a decent camera and b)it wasn't almost certainly illegal, I would be taking pictures of the small people (infants class - about 8-10, I'd guess) walking past my window dressed as Roman soldiers. They have cardboard swords and everything! So far I've seen 4 infantry, lots of togas, someone I think is meant to be a Briton, complete with tartan PJ trousers and someone in a silver cape.

Oh! And also, yesterday at the zoo we saw a tiny person (about 3) dressed in a wonderful matching hat and mac combo - it was purple with flowers on! WANT!

...I think it's official that the unseasonal weather* is going to my head...

*It's the British summer. Where's the hailstorm, cloud-cover and general misery?

On Friday, I confidently declared that I would be back today, refreshed, re-caffeinated and ready for the week. In fact I am tired, in pain and waiting for my rather shortened day to finish. Best laid plans of mice and men etc etc.

There's so much I want to write about, from the trials and tribulations of thesis submission (keep track of those references, folks!) to the zoo to a wonderful meal by the river and a magical walk along the South Bank, but it's all going to have to wait until I am no longer buried under invoices and books and spreadsheets.

Hope y'all are well and had a nice weekend. I'll try to catch up on comments from last week tomorrow, when I don't want to curl up round a hot water bottle and cry.

Sorry for the spam, folks, but.

becky_h, you HAVE to read this:

The Feral Chickens of South Philly

Article snurched from pwcorgigirl with thanks :)

I probably won't be around much over the weekend, what with one thing and another, but I'll be checking emails when I can. Thanks for sticking with me this week, folks - it's meant so much, I can't begin to tell you, and I shall return on Monday refreshed, re-caffeinated and with 5 words for lots of you.

In the meantime, this is a very swift note to say that I've put an announcement in bringthehappy opening this year's fest, sort of. It includes some appeals for help, so anyone who has graphics skills better than my own (which only extend to MS Paint) I'd be most grateful, thanks.

Enjoy the weekend if you can and catch you on the flipside.

I am totally in love with this choir, who are Slovenia's only jazz choir, Perpetuum Jazzile - their website is here. They've got a CD out and a DVD on the way, but in the meantime, they're all over YouTube and making me very happy.

Check out a)the yellow cravat and b)the air drumming. oh yes.