Tuesday Has No Phones

As a heads-up, devinharris has put the Epiphany zine up on the Green Dragon Press website. It includes all the info about the zine, a picture of the cover, a snippet of my intro, and everything you need to know about ordering and shipping to the US, Canada, and elsewhere.

As before, if you have any questions you can go ask Devin via devinharris at air-internet dot com. Devin's in charge of all the printing and ordering and whatnot. I just pimp =)

Had the oddest dream last night that somebody posted a link to Protocol on one of those badfic LJ communities. Which didn't really bother me in the slightest, but made me scratch my head as the community in question was dedicated to Alias fanfic. So I found my dream-self sitting there and wanting to comment that while I wouldn't dispute that Protocol might fail on several general goodfic standards, was this a badfic standard that it should have been judged by? But then again I couldn't really fault them on the flawless accuracy in pointing out that as Alias-fics go, Protocol is undoubtedly right up there with being one of the worst.

Perhaps tomorrow I'll dream of Pet being nominated for this year's worst Star Wars fic. You know, just to round it out. 8)

Tonight is holy day of obligation, and I remain in staunch denial about there being only 3 episodes left. Just shut up. SHUT UP I tell you! I deal with the pain through the healthy methods of eating chocolate and pizza while I watch. It's self-medicating, true, but with only 3 eps to go (SHUT UP!) I figure my body can handle it.

And now I cry like Butters.

It'll be interesting to see how the end of the show (SHUT UP) will affect various fics in progress. Not that I'll stop writing, 'cause I don't see why the boys have to stop having all the gay sex they weren't having onscreen anyway, but just in terms of how the lack of new canon might affect decisions I make about various plotlines.

Like I had vaguely been thinking of wrapping Epiphany up with Arc Five (which is partially why it's been on hold for so long) due to the fact that the show's progressed so much from the canon I started with, but now that new canon will effectively be dead I wonder if I won't mind keeping that concept open for any new potential stories that might apply to it. And will Pet still be the same for me and others as we see the ultimate twists and turns of the boys working for Wolfram & Hart? Just have to wait and see, I suppose. I feel confident that Protocol won't get Jossed though. Call it a hunch ;)

And now to pretend to work.

*Ahem*

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

lerefugemakesthebestcollagesintheworldevereverEVER!!!

The Epiphany zine is going to rock so hard people, I'm telling you.

*Ahem*

Now back to your regularly scheduled Sunday.

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)

So I find out now that LJ's comment notifications aren't coming through email in a timely fashion, thus leaving me with the assumption that the people I'm doing RPG tags with are busy and therefore I've got nothing but free time on my hands.

Le sigh.

Well, caught up on my tags, I think. Also finished writing the next Epiphany (it's off at the beta reader's) and did a spot of house cleaning. Now I am selfishly sitting in air conditioning because much though it's not hot outside it's freaking humid and my apt felt like a swamp.

I also finished The Devil Wore Prada and ( all I can say is )

Now to ponder making dinner.

Okay gang, fresh Epiphany! Get it while it's hot!

The High and Low Road by yours truly and buffybot

Enjoy!

Okay, gnocchi? MUCH more filling than you'd give it credit for.

I knew that. I mean I've eaten it before and all. But still.

So - lots of leftovers if anyone wants 'em! =)

In other news I wrote out the first scene of the next Epiphany. I'd like to write more but I think I've hit the point where I need buffybot to lend a hand with Faithy goodness, and she's rudely decided to be Amish for Memorial day. She's got nerve, I tell you.

Having used up much of my patience and diplomatic skills last night, I find myself cheered today by an email from lerefuge which contains sample pics of what the Epiphany zine might look like and - eeee! It's going to rock so hard. In stereo even.

So thanks to her for brightening my day. =)

Otherwise though I am so done with diplomacy for the day. Other people may be diplomatic. I shall sit on the sidelines and think of ways to have fun. Such as buying a ricer on my way home tonight.

What? I make my own fun. Don't question me.

Attention all fans of Epiphany:

The most wonderful, marvelous and outright spiffy lerefuge has smoked some crack generously offered to put together a CD, a zine, or possibly both of Epiphany stuff.

(You can see the two of us talking about it here if you'd like to get a general idea.)

Which therefore raises the question: Would there be interest?

If you would be interested in a CD (which, to my understanding and Neige is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, would be the stories burned onto a CD complete with a kick ass graphic interface to help you navigate from one story to another) or a zine (I assume you know what those are) please respond here so Neige can get an idea of whether or not there's enough interest to be worth persuing it.

Thanks!

ETA: Or you can email me if LJ is being a Devon and won't let you post.

One of the nice things about days off is the ability to wake up and just wallow in the comfort of your own bed. This works especially well on a spring day with the windows open and a light rain pattering outside.

Yesterday was most fun and productive. buffybot came up, and together we worked on the next story in the Epiphany series. With luck that should get posted tonight or tomorrow, so yay. BB also got to meet Luna and agreed with me that when she and Mac turn their big kitty eyes on you there's just no way you can resist it.

Today was a day that vaguely had lots of productive plans to it, but I've been crossing them off my list one by one as I decide to be lazy. OTOH I mended a pair of pants while watching TV just now, and I think we can all agree that the action of mending something is equivalant to at least five other chores in terms of what you can pat yourself on the back for in terms of getting things done.

Tomorrow is work with the boss back in town. I shall miss the past week of having so little to do, but I can't be paid to surf the net forever I suppose. Besides, I'm only working tomorrow and Tuesday and then Wednesday is the start of my vacation as I go to get wolfling at the airport. Yay!!

And now I sit here trapped at my computer as Luna curls up in my lap and falls asleep. Ah, kitty bondage.