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[hermionesviolin]

The self-indulgent fic discussion has prompted me to go back to a fic I started at least 2 years ago.  I was going to discuss her an issue I was having with it (trying to balance/weave two different ... moods? themes? ... in the same fic and also worry that I would be repeating myself treating one of the themes in another fic I'm interested in) but I managed to resolve it, so you're spared that.  I also got actual ideas about moving the story from Point A to Point B (which is good since the distance between A and B in this case involves serious relationship development).

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Alyssa asked about the piles of books that have been sitting on my back desk since I got in Tuesday morning.  (Prof.B. asked me to type up a bibliography for someone.)
me: The joke is that I have to read them all.
Amanda: You wanted some light summer reading.
me: And I figured I'd better start in the spring so I could get through them all.

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We had lunch early, so we caught the end of The View (because what else is on at 11:45am on a weekday even with cable?).  They had this whole presentation of summer shoes [for women, natch].  We griped about impracticality, and Eric posited that feet are ugly.  I chose not to tell him about Joss' Summer Glau foot fetish as I am still working on getting him into Firefly.

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From the Registrar a few weeks ago:
"Your exam will open at 3 PM on Thursday, April 27 and close at 4 PM on Tuesday, May 2."

From: [RA]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:53 PM
Subject: Exam Posted!

Reply from me:
If I didn’t have prior commitments tonight I’d take you out for a drink :)

RA:
Thanks! Actually Brown University is taking me out for a drink… (there’s an alumni thing tonight)

me:
Fabulous timing!

(And there are cookies left over from Mike’s class if you wanna come up and grab a snack.)

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I bumped into Michelle on the way out and talked to her for a while and then just didn't have the energy/motivation to hurry to the T.  I actually only missed my commuter rail by like a minute.  Oh well.  The next one boarded only about a half an hour later, so while I didn't get to be Lutheran I did get to work on the above mentioned fic some more.  Jumps to shmoopiness kept feeling out-of-character, so I keep staying in dark places with it, which is interesting since one of my earlier thoughts today was scrapping the dark theme.  I definitely think keeping it was a good idea because it actually moves the story along whereas without it it's basically a lot of poetry reading [as in, one character reading poetry to the other, not me writing poetry for inclusion/usage in the fic], with the only plot being the Part 2 which I'm still working out.

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Today's "Who needs context?" item: my "stain-resistant soul," thanks to dinner conversation with my parents.

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"There are few poems here in which the fault or failure of the human creature is not chillingly apparent."
    -John Frederick Nims in his introduction to the Andrew Hudgins collection Saints & Strangers

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read the fic!!!!!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

You are like my personal cheering squad. I post cryptically about any number of WIPs (WsIP?) and you always "can't wait" to read the finished product.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

'Tis true. You write good. :)

In fact, I go now to read your Kennedy piece I had bookmarked from earlier this week.

I must ask, why big_dirty? That's just not a name I envision you choosing. :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I was thinking, when I read your first comment, "Has Lorraine even read any of my fic?" And then I checked Recent Comments on my fic journal and saw you'd read my PotC femgen fic.

Back when I created the fic journal, I had a friend who would jokingly say "You're a big dirty" when people were making sex jokes or whatever, so for lack of a better name (it occurred to me much much later I could do something generic like hv_fics) I picked that. It does always give me a touch of shame/awkwardness when I see that name listed as the author to one of my fics, so I try to always include "Title, by hermionesviolin" on ficposts in that journal.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

And "I Was Made to Love You," don't forget, which I loved. :)

No shamey-ness on the name; I was just wondering. It's an inside joke with yourself, which is always good.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Good point. How could I forget that?

[immortalavalamp.livejournal.com]

How dare you oppress me, HO?!