'Cause I gotta have faith

Happy birthday, painless_j! You are a real gift to fandom, and more than that, to me. Hope your day is/was terrific.

And belated happy birthdays to a bunch of you - cursive, icarusancalion, naadi, and novembersnow.

I managed to get my merry_smutmas fic done on time; "done" being a relative term meaning "I stopped fussing with it." I can only do a bit of generic whining here or else I'll reveal myself unwittingly. Let me just say that I have awesome betas/editors (who have nothing to do with my predilection to internalize my own failings). I was madly rewriting during the final week and squeaked in under the wire, although I could have done a good bit more revising. And the topic of #$^*&%*@ was one I swore I'd never write, but painless_j convinced me to try it (and for that act, I made her beta it too). And it was so *&$%#@!*& and complicated and of course I ended up ^%$*&@#$ it. But that explains why I've been so quiet.

Thursday night was my new book club meeting, and they flattered me by choosing Good Omens on my rec. They all loved it too.

Last night I went to a solo piano concert by a good friend of mine, which was wonderful but launched a huge raft of Life Issues about growing old and moving on. I was teary-eyed nearly the whole time and went to bed emotionally drained.

On a similar note, how did it happen that my son is going through teendom while his mother is going through menopause? I definitely didn't think that one through. Battle of the hormones, now playing nightly!

So I haven't seen It yet. I'm waiting for a good spot in my space/time continuum. But I'm reading all the spoilers and enjoying your thoughts.

Actual fandom content! Here's a new author alert: lydiabennet has posted a lovely H/D one-shot on her LJ, World Enough and Time. Go be all welcoming, 'k?