Spike/Angel ficlet for Kita

My darling kita0610 asked, and I am happy to answer (and pay forward all the nice ficlets people wrote for me the other day)

( Angel/Spike. Spoilery for Angel season 5 - in other words don't read if you don't want to know how Spike comes back. )

Vroom, vrooooooooommmmmm

I'm having one of those days where I want to write but I can't get my thoughts organized enough to do it. Hints of the next Epiphany are dancing around in my head but I can't make the various scenes settle down into anything resembling order. This has the effect of making me feel like my engine is revving but my wheels aren't touching the ground. Murph.

Might try reading some fic, see if I can't kick-start the bunnies.

Posted a clarification on the spoilers for the Spike/Angel ficlet I wrote last night as I realized this morning "spoilers for season 5" is kind of vague and apt to screw people up in either direction. Basically if you know how Spike comes back you're fine. If you don't wanna know how he comes back don't read. That's the only real spoiler in there.

In other productive news I've got a starter for some french bread doing its little thing in the fridge. Never made french bread before so this should be interesting. I did the starter last night, and today I've got to add some more flour and whatnot before letting it sit overnight yet again. The actual baking will happen tomorrow afternoon.

I really have become such a cooking whore. I dropped in at Bed Bath & Beyond yesterday to pick up some water filters and wandered over to the bedding section because if there's one room in my house right now that is woefully lacking in any form of cohesive decoration it's my bedroom and I thought maybe some new bedding might help.

Man - the stuff does nothing for me. I spent more time drooling over various forms of bakeware back in Kitchen than I did over pretty bedding patterns. Mind you, this could partially be due to the fact that BB&B apparently rotates the stock in the bedding section pretty much never so there wasn't anything there that I didn't see the last time I vaguely thought about new bedding, which was about 3 years ago now I guess.

Picked up Dave Matthew's CD yesterday because I was jonesing for new music (again trying to kick-start those bunnies) and Sting's CD rudely does not come out until this Tuesday. Plus I heard a few of the songs on MTV2 and thought they weren't too bad. It's a good CD. One or two songs really struck me, though unfortunately not in the way I need for fic writing right now. I thought about trying to vid them (I'm all about the vidding thoughts now that I've got the zippy new computer on the horizon) but I think it would be too hard. On the other hand if lerefuge ever needs some quotes to use for a collage for arc 3 in Epiphany, I can definitely provide the hookup. (Side note to Neige - do I owe you anything for the zine? I feel like I'm supposed to send you something. Lemme know.)

Oh - in other news I caught an episode of the UK version of Coupling on PBS last night and I was wondering if anybody more familiar with the show could let me know where the ep fell in the grand scheme of things. I don't know the character names, but it was basically one about an office party told from the differing POVs of two of the characters. I ask because while it was nice enough for what it was it didn't strike me as anything spectacular, so I was wondering if this was considered a sub-par ep for the series as a whole or if it was fairly exemplary.

Finally, the new season of Angel starts this week and I realize I am woefully lacking in Wesley icons. How I ever managed to phase my boy out of rotation I'll never know. I need to find some hot pics of him to fix this.

More updates

Flour and salt have been added, dough has risen and been folded down (thank you Silpat, though my own hands remained as sticky as ever - I have no luck with flouring them) and is now back in the fridge for another day. Final steps of actually making loaves and baking them will happen tomorrow.

The Epiphany story skirts around the idea of forming an outline. I'm continuing to feed myself fic in the hopes that I can at least get the outline done today if not the story.

Thanks to the magic of cable modems, I'm backing up a scary amount of data on my computer. Once the new computer gets here I'll be committing a lot of this stuff to CDs so I won't have this problem again. I hadn't realized how much crud I'd accumulated over the months of not having a working CD burner. Erm - oops?

Mac sits on my lap and greets you all. Especially eliade who he remembers has a catless lap and that's always a sad state of affairs.

I forgot to mention before that writing the Spike/Angel snippet for Kita helped to reawaken some of my long lost Spike love. Weiner!Spike of the latter years, esp s7, plus sadly the craptacular way he was even more weinerized in fanfic had almost stomped my Spike love to the ground and destroyed it completely. But now it's waking up again. I even had a dream last night of Yenta!Spike leaning in the doorway of Wesley's office, rolling his eyes as he pointed out that he, of all people, would know Angel's taste in boys and if Wes thought that it wasn't for pretty little British intellectuals with violent streaks then Wes had another thought coming. Wes then got all proper and flustered and Spike sighed, saying he wished the two of them would just shag already and stop annoying everyone about it.

Such is the power of my subsconcious to support my OTP, even in full face of all the ho,yay that shall, by Spike's mere presence on the show, increase exponentially between Spike and Angel.

I was fully prepared to bitch and moan about National Novel Writing Month - and I may yet still do it - except now I'm vaguely tempted to try it since I've got a few submission guidelines I've been holding on to and lord knows it would be as good an excuse as any to type something out - like that AU that's so AU it's not even fanfic anymore that I keep thinking about. We'll see. On the other hand I'm flexible, perhaps I'll both bitch and attempt it. 8)

Finally, in other news I keep forgetting to mention, my boss has now repeatedly pointed out to me that in the grand scheme of things he doesn't much care how much I'm in the office if he's away, and any days off I might take during such times won't subtract overmuch from my formerly agreed on two weeks. Basic reason being he's hoping to encourage me to take vacations whenever he does, instead of doing all my time off when he's still in the office.

I'm still going to end up taking time off regardless of his vacation times, since conventions don't exactly put themselves on hold until he goes off on cruises, but this does increase the amount of time I can take off in general which is a happy thing. There's a vague chance now that I'll be able to go to Los Angeles next month to visit the hobbit child, and then the boss is taking off a buttload of time next February and March thanks to his upcoming wedding. As those are the times of year when flights to the UK become very cheap, you can guess what I'm thinking of doing. 8)

Interesting

For those of you who watched Queer Eye this week, I just found out that Alan (the guy who freaked out about breaking the martini shaker) really is that much of a cheapskate and is actually an actor/aspiring stand-up comic (he buys real estate to support his career).

Not sure what it means about how real or fake his freakout was but I thought it was an interesting point of trivia so I thought I'd share.