'Cause I gotta have faith

[geoviki]

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?

Comments

[naadi.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks so much for the birthday wishes! ^.^

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

My pleasure, my dear. And I am so looking forward to the completion of your fic, and I am being so good about not sneaking ahead, so I can read it properly from the beginning!

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

YOU NEED TO GO AND SEEEEE THE FILM

*IMPERIO*

Also, you need to come to London, er, wherever we are. Just because.

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ♥♥♥

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be so late about it! Hope your day was great. BTW, I am having a vicariously happy time reading about you and the CYE. It's fun!

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

It's disappointing that I can't talk about him much on LJ anymore except under friendslock, since he and one of my other coworkers found my LJ. *mournful sigh*

(Sorry for the delayed response--just got your comment!)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I managed to get my merry_smutmas fic done on time; "done" being a relative term meaning "I stopped fussing with it."

Congratulations! I think we'd all tweak our stories forever if something like a deadline or another plot bunny didn't happen along. ;)

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!

LOL!! You poor thing. I've listened to one blowout between my adopted brother (27) and stepdad, but thankfully we don't really have the hormone issues, nor even the gerontology issues since my grandfather moved back to Louisiana. Just me trying to do everything I'm supposed to but also hiding away to work on fic and knit. Why, oh why did I decide it would be a good idea to offer stories as gifts?! Good thing that my job is 30 hours a week.

I'll really look forward to your story once it's published! Gifts for all of us readers! Thanks also for your recs post: gratifyingly I've read many on the list.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the LJ notification for this comment, so I'm glad I noticed! I'd feel bad if I didn't get to answer you, my sweetie.

'Tweak' is a nice word meaning I rewrote the hell out of it in a panicky state during the final week. I don't know what's happening to my sense of balance in my stories. Thank god for betas, is all I can say.

It's going to be a long 4 years until graduation, that's all I can say. He's being marginally nicer this week. Perhaps his sister took him in hand this weekend after he was so ugly on Friday. One can only hope.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the LJ notification for this comment,

Yeah, LJ seems to be a bit wonky.

'Tweak' is a nice word meaning I rewrote the hell out of it in a panicky state during the final week. I don't know what's happening to my sense of balance in my stories. Thank god for betas, is all I can say.

Hey- that you had the drive to rewrite the hell out of it is inspiring. I tend toward despair first, then methodical revamping. :P And I don't know if I've ever offered or not, and you probably have betas out of your ears, but if you need/want a new one, or an additional one to your usual folk, I'm happy to beta. I really enjoy it, and consider it good karma for fandom in general.

It's going to be a long 4 years until graduation, that's all I can say.

Well… perhaps the hormone challenges will ebb and flow. I wasn't rebellious in my teens, but I know I was a handful in my own way. Hang in there, and hang out with us whenever you need to!!

(((hugs)))