As annoying as it is to have a whippersnipper start up as soon as one has tea, the smell of cut grass is nice. At least until the whippersnipper starts up again.

- breakfast
- shower
- wash whites
- fold clothes
- hang whites
- vacuum bathroom
- vacuum bedroom
- walk
- scene more
- draw
- REST

Despite the list I suspect most of the day will be lost to reading Quid Pro Quo. >_> Oh well. Surely Sam will understand that rereading fabulous porn is more important than reading about Lady Alustriel Silverymoon. (No, I am not joking. I know this was the format when the book was written, but I keep having to pause to howl with laughter.

...okay, it's not just the names. I don't like Salvatore's style, at least not in this book. I started to be interested in Drizzt as of about p30, but that's a decent whack into the story, and the style doesn't help me along. =_= I think I can cling to my minimal interest enough to converse with my 2IC about his Favourite Book Evar, though. XD

[EDIT] The splints are back on at the first sign of owie, primarily from housework. I'm still hopeful that a few more days will do it - they felt really good this morning.

Mum called to ask me to test aircon fuses and now the thing won't turn on at all. Also, every time I deal with a fuse box I have to tell myself very sternly that no one's arm is going to flop down at me in a dismembered fashion and that there are definitely no velociraptors in my house.

So I may have ordered the Administration series off Amazon last night.

>_>

I could not technically afford to spend that money, but Toreth comes upon me like a fever and I like supporting authors and I thought, well, what can it hurt.

We'll find out in 55 days when the balance of my credit card comes into question, eh?

......it would be bad to leave the bra shopping until tomorrow, huh. :|

1. STOP.
2. Grab a camera.
3. Take a picture of your desk, don't fiddle around with it/tidy it/etc.
4. Post on your journal.
5. Make your friends do the same.

( Stolen from Maddie this morning and unposted until now because of my brother and his sodding XBox. )

[EDIT] *paws at eyes* Stupid ridiculously long Administration stories. Stupid me. I have to be up making sodding pancakes and scones and mini-mudcakes tomorrow. What the fuck am I going to do with that? Ujdfhgajha. Damn you, sleep! Damn your necessity!

A fascinating article re. swearing to virginity and living as a man. I can feel characters developing as I type. XD (That said, I can also hear Youta in the back of my head, scoffing at the idea that anyone would think she wasn't man enough to head her family.

In other news, I have been snatching bits and pieces of Admin in between doing more important things, and I think I have to tell you all now how much I love Paul, who appears in Quis Custodiet... "I shall remember you always. Or for at least a week." He is like a frilly, gentle version of Sanga. It is kind of hilarious.

...I was going to say something, and I have no idea what it was. Er.

Oh, wait.

I want to write Rook/Thom/Balfour. I recognise that this makes me a bad person, but I cannot bring myself to apologise sincerely. I would be happy writing them interacting in general for pretty much ever, I think, but what with Balfour having girl parts and new hands and needing to learn how to use them, well... I am sorry, but it is practically a recipe, and all the ingredients are there and waiting to be used.

Work todayyyyy. At least Megan is in, which means I'm not spending the whole day on my own with Allen.

(Also, I realised that part of the reason mum was so annoyed re. the laptop purchase was that she hadn't got my email re. my tax return. XD Following this information, she high fived me twice in front of her boyfriend out of sheer glee. Colour me amused.)

Finally, last night I had a dream in which I was being taught minimal-damage maximum-pain pressure points. I think this means that reading Admin is doing things to my headspace - or at least, that constantly thinking, "Bloody hell, I wish I hadn't been too tired to finish that chapter before I went to bed." XD

This makes me want to draw Sanga splash-page style with fish hook piercings. Even though Sanga doesn't have piercings and that's actually a Hiru thing.

I just played Drowsy Maggie without touching the wrong strings at all. My left hand is weak as shit, it's pathetic, but my fingers still do know what they're doing. I just need to watch out for my right arm's total lack of bowing discipline and I'm fine. I think about 50% of violin playing is confidence. XD; Once I realised I was doing it, I was fine. XD I need more Irish reels! They are easy and intuitive. XD XD XD

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Conductor draft is done! As is the synopsis. Now I just need to work on Japanese. XD; And remember to edit them severely later in the week.

As a bit of a present to myself, since the Admin archive was working again, very slowly, I finished off the last of the Administration series and had a bit of a cry over the end of Family Values, because, gah, finally. Finally. Too much tension in that series. It is delicious. It makes the calm bits so much better. I cannot imagine doing that to myself as a writer. XD I don't have the nerves for it. I hope I do, one day. I feel it is a skill I ought to cultivate. Maybe we should try writing exercises like that at some stage.

In any case, my alarm is set for half six. (My exam is not until 9.50. Yes, this is overkill, but I am very paranoid about getting lost on the day of the exam.) I'm going to... well, first I'm going to pull out my keyboard and try to convince my fingers that they are healthy enough to play either The Nightmare's Beginning or Vagrant Melody. Then I am going to sit in bed with my Japanese notebooks and make myself study sheets, which I can look at while I loiter in the morning, having arrived for the exam a full hour early. It is times like this that I require a Kir plushie. ;_; He would save me from my incoherence.

Oh. And since I've not cleaned up happenstance and I do have some fic for no_true_pair (just not anything that the wider population cares about XD), I might post the fic I've written. Since this is only my second post for the day, which tells you how hard I have been working and how much I have not been procrastinating, right? Right. :D.