Notes and queries
Sep. 8th, 2012 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenI am running a severe sleep deficit. Some brief notes before I flump into bed:
1. My parents had been making pointed remarks about the last time I was home; I indignantly said it wasn't THAT long ago and then realised it was forhathycol's hen party. She has now been married for six months. Er. Yeah. Work was a little difficult today - we're doing a large freehold transfer somewhere in Northumberland.
("Where in Northumberland?" I asked.
"Er... we're not sure? Perhaps you could SIM..."
"SIM" stands for search of index map. It's a very clever trick wherein you mark up your plan in red ink, scan it in, email it attached to a form and you get a reply two days later telling you what registered land is within the marked-up area. (It helps to have a steady hand. I once accidentally marked up a sewage works.) Any day where someone tries to make you SIM the entirety of a ceremonial county is a bad day. I also was asked to look into an issue of mineral rights vesting extra-freehold - found nothing, but got roadblocked in in precise echo of the person who looked into it before me, which was bleakly reassuring.)
And after the bad day was over I had to drive 210 miles mostly in the dark, and I ended up listening to a lot of podfic, but I did make it. I have too short an attention span to listen to podfic usually, but while driving it's perfect, and I don't suppose I've had anyone read me a story for many, many years. It was a bright spot in my otherwise quite-difficult day.
2. I left a very silly prompt (one of many) on the Bujold ficathon on the AO3;hedda62 has been writing a response which, she says, was growing in length and theme out of all proportion from the original prompt. And that is absolutely true, but nonetheless:
L'oiseau qui vole, by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
hedda62.
Aral, in a fit of wickedness, assigns someone to follow Simon everywhere and keep notes, to see how he likes it.
The summary was my prompt - but this is actually not silly at all. It's a love story, kinky and dark and multiply complex, that leaves me done in with the rightness of it. 'ware warnings. But lovely, lovely.
3. Speaking of silly,forthwritten, happydork and I are writing epic repressed homophobic romance in middle America. I just wanted to tell you all that. It's the best. Like happydork, if I were still living in America I couldn't have written it. (While we both still were, we used to ring each other up to hear each other's accents. And complain about - well, everything. It was also the best.)
4. I am running a sleep deficit because, well, this was my first week at a new job; I also have been running out in the evenings to do various things, such as going to the farewells of the cohort in the year above mine (today, September 7th, means I am now less than a year from qualification, ARGH); and also because I have spent the last week and a half using time I don't really have to write Vorkosigan fic with MELODRAMATIC ESPIONAGE. It is long and very MELODRAMATIC. It's my version of the Simon-and-Aral story, really, and I'm rather discouraged about it at the moment. That might be the sleep-deprivation, but, blaaaah. Cannot write. Cannot think about writing. Head stuffed full of plans and leases.
Okay. Tomorrow. SPY STORY YAY. Those fic commentaries I have owed for, like, ever. And maybe whole hours at a time not thinking about land transactions.
edited to add: yuletide brainstorming! Already! My only thought for this year so far is Code Name Verity. What do y'all want? I have no idea right now.
1. My parents had been making pointed remarks about the last time I was home; I indignantly said it wasn't THAT long ago and then realised it was for
hathycol's hen party. She has now been married for six months. Er. Yeah. Work was a little difficult today - we're doing a large freehold transfer somewhere in Northumberland.("Where in Northumberland?" I asked.
"Er... we're not sure? Perhaps you could SIM..."
"SIM" stands for search of index map. It's a very clever trick wherein you mark up your plan in red ink, scan it in, email it attached to a form and you get a reply two days later telling you what registered land is within the marked-up area. (It helps to have a steady hand. I once accidentally marked up a sewage works.) Any day where someone tries to make you SIM the entirety of a ceremonial county is a bad day. I also was asked to look into an issue of mineral rights vesting extra-freehold - found nothing, but got roadblocked in in precise echo of the person who looked into it before me, which was bleakly reassuring.)
And after the bad day was over I had to drive 210 miles mostly in the dark, and I ended up listening to a lot of podfic, but I did make it. I have too short an attention span to listen to podfic usually, but while driving it's perfect, and I don't suppose I've had anyone read me a story for many, many years. It was a bright spot in my otherwise quite-difficult day.
2. I left a very silly prompt (one of many) on the Bujold ficathon on the AO3;
hedda62 has been writing a response which, she says, was growing in length and theme out of all proportion from the original prompt. And that is absolutely true, but nonetheless:L'oiseau qui vole, by
Aral, in a fit of wickedness, assigns someone to follow Simon everywhere and keep notes, to see how he likes it.
The summary was my prompt - but this is actually not silly at all. It's a love story, kinky and dark and multiply complex, that leaves me done in with the rightness of it. 'ware warnings. But lovely, lovely.
3. Speaking of silly,
forthwritten, happydork and I are writing epic repressed homophobic romance in middle America. I just wanted to tell you all that. It's the best. Like happydork, if I were still living in America I couldn't have written it. (While we both still were, we used to ring each other up to hear each other's accents. And complain about - well, everything. It was also the best.) 4. I am running a sleep deficit because, well, this was my first week at a new job; I also have been running out in the evenings to do various things, such as going to the farewells of the cohort in the year above mine (today, September 7th, means I am now less than a year from qualification, ARGH); and also because I have spent the last week and a half using time I don't really have to write Vorkosigan fic with MELODRAMATIC ESPIONAGE. It is long and very MELODRAMATIC. It's my version of the Simon-and-Aral story, really, and I'm rather discouraged about it at the moment. That might be the sleep-deprivation, but, blaaaah. Cannot write. Cannot think about writing. Head stuffed full of plans and leases.
Okay. Tomorrow. SPY STORY YAY. Those fic commentaries I have owed for, like, ever. And maybe whole hours at a time not thinking about land transactions.
edited to add: yuletide brainstorming! Already! My only thought for this year so far is Code Name Verity. What do y'all want? I have no idea right now.
YULETIDE TIME :D :D :D
on 2012-09-08 02:41 am (UTC)I think I had a third one, but I've forgotten it again. *gloomy*
Re: YULETIDE TIME :D :D :D
on 2012-09-09 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: YULETIDE TIME :D :D :D
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on 2012-09-08 03:33 am (UTC)fix-itsfic.no subject
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on 2012-09-08 07:00 am (UTC)Which is good, since I think I'm going to be sitting Yuletide out this year, what with everything. All of my Christmas plans are very provisional this year, on account of the if-Baby-is-a-week-early problem. But I'm about to read Code Name Verity, so I already approve of the idea of fic for it!
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on 2012-09-09 09:45 am (UTC)I hope you like Code Name Verity - I loved it and want everyone else to as well.
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on 2012-09-09 05:01 pm (UTC)Also, I have read ESPIONAGE MELODRAMA twice now and am delighted with it and will send you proper comments when I've had more than two and a quarter hours of sleep, ie tomorrow, because my brain is not good for much today.
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on 2012-09-08 01:09 pm (UTC)And OMG, I love the repressed homophobic romance. I hadn't seen the ad (I am avoiding TV, since we have a swing state in the broadcast range) but it sounds entirely typical, alas.
MELODRAMATIC ESPIONAGE!
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on 2012-09-09 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-09-08 09:14 pm (UTC)I am all on the Code Name Verity! And I am so glad that my minor quibble re. north west geography is totally handwaveable given [SPOILER]. Otherwise I am not at ALL sure what I want or will offer. It seems so early! I think the Charles Stross Merchant Princes books as well (the main character, Miriam, is amaziiing) but then it might be one where the fic I want wouldn't happen for Yuletide? So I am torn.
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on 2012-09-09 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-09-11 08:55 pm (UTC)THIS STORY BROKE ME AND I BLAME YOU. <3
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on 2012-09-11 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-09-11 09:24 pm (UTC)