lifeonqueen: (Misc - Too Many Books - theefed from Ele)
Monday, September 20th, 2010 01:06 am
Oops.

Hi. Been awhile.

Sorry about that. The end of August through September so far has been a little nuts. I packed a whole summer's worth of cottaging into the end of August and then it was time for International Hussy Weekend in Rochester over Labour Day Weekend. [livejournal.com profile] cretkid hosted the annual gathering of [livejournal.com profile] thassalia, [livejournal.com profile] rubberneck, [livejournal.com profile] fbf and I at Casa a Rock Doc (now with fire). A fine time was had by all I think and this time I was the only one who came down with Captain Trips (original flavour). Two weeks later, I've finally managed to shake my cold in time for the first meeting of the Polaris concom - announced guests: Ben Browder, Adam Baldwin and Armin Shimmerman.

Yes, Ben Browder... 8D

In other news, if you haven't seen Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I recommend it. To paraphrase the great Kim Pine, if Michael Cera's career had a face, I'd punch it. So I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed SP. As an insufferable Torontonian, I loved seeing Toronto playing Toronto on the big screen in a movie that proudly declares its location and influences - no passing Osgood Hall off as an Opera House or made-up hospital and university names (WTF, Rookie Blue). Michael Cera is an effective slacker hero but the movie really belongs to the supporting cast of Alison Pill, Keiran Culkin and Ellen Wong as Scott's bandmate, roommate and fake high school girlfriend respectively. Unfortunately, Scott Pilgrim the movie suffers from the same problem as Scott Pilgrim the comic book - you're never quite sure what Ramona sees in Scott and she suffers from a not-dire but disappointing lack of agency in the third act. Never totally objectified but never truly in charge of her own destiny, Ramona coasts on Mary Elizabeth Winstead's ability to project a depth and certain badassery to what could easily have become a rote 'dream girl' cipher. Director and adapter Edgar Wright never really pushes the rebarbative qualities of Scott and Ramona, which undercuts the climax somewhat but if you liked the book, you will love Scott Pilgrim vs the World. For the rest of us, Scott Pilgrim is well-made summer flick with more than enough fun to overcome an underwritten female lead.


30 (non-consecutive) Days of Writing


8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?

Lately, fanfic (if you can call it a genre; I think you can) is winning by volume. However, while my fanfic is all SF (Farscape, Roswell, The Sarah Connor Chronicles), my original writing is a mixed bag: contemporary horror, historical fiction, short fiction, poetry, fantasy. I think my favourite to write it fantasy. I like the grandeur of high fantasy, the ability to blow life up to maximum magnification it provides without the limitations and responsibilities of historical fiction. Historical fiction is life recreated in miniature, a revelation of exquisite detail. Fantasy is high drama, operatic and soaring; self-gratifying to write.

That said, I firmly believe there's a special hell for writers who create quasi-medieval settings without the least understanding of medieval society, economy and culture. Perhaps it's not surprising that my favourite genre to read is actually non-fiction, particularly histories of the late middle ages and the Italian Renaissance. I find books like The Devil's Broker and A Distant Mirror are not only more compelling and more dramatic than contemporary fantasy fiction, they're better written, while Caterian Sforza would find Cersei Lannister a silly and insipid creature.

I'm currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, which is a Swedish Twilight for adults with a Joss Whedon size zero faux-riotgrrl playing second fiddle to the Gary Stu protagonist and depictions of grotesque sexualized violence replacing Twilight's angsty teen vampires in love.

Solar by Ian McEwan, which is a hard book to like even thought McEwan's prose is itself a rich reward for reading. The protagonist, Michael Beard, is a loathsome solipsist of such extent that I rather hope the book reflects some sort of psychic purge for the author rather than think McEwan finds such a figure worthy of his time.

The Dancers Dancing by Eilis ni Dhuibne, an exquisitely observed bildungsroman set against the particularly Irish backdrop of an summer college in the Gaeltacht. It's taken me a tremendously long time to read as ni Dhuibhne's sharply observed depictions of the lives of 13-year-old girls has the habit of triggering unpleasant flashbacks to high school.

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

I just do? My ideas for stories tend to start as a sentence, a line of dialogue in my head. It repeats until I know who's speaking it or who's point of view I'm seeing and I build out from there. Normally by the time I can put a few paragraphs down, I've a sketch in my mind of who the character is. Over time, the sketch is finished, inked in and coloured... and then I normally throw it out and start over with a line here and a shadow there. Secondary characters, like baby horses, tend to emerge more or less fully-formed and capable of running on their own within moments. They are also more likely to be based on people I've met or inspired by other characters (fictional and otherwise). Protagonists are definitely anthropoid creatures and need time and effort and resources to thrive. The diptych of Katharyne and Rosyaln are probably the two protagonists who've emerged most fully-formed and changed least over time: Katharyne because she's drawn rather strongly from Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I (and less so her historical counterpart) and Rosalyn because she was intended to be Not-the-heroine-of-every-sword-and-sorcery-novel-I'd-read-since-high-school, which is rather a more concrete character description than I normally have to begin. Since then, though, Rosalyn's character has been refined some with experiences thieved from Héloïse d’Argenteuil and Eileen Power's seminala-chem Medieval Women.


The Questions (and answers) )
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Pepe by Cretkid)
Monday, August 16th, 2010 11:27 pm
I spent the weekend in a terrible, black funk.

Balls to that, says I. So today, I made sure to leave work on time, bought stuff to make real food for dinner (chicken, pasta and salad), had a latte, a pack of trail mix and then went for a run.

Having cared for my body for the evening, time to give my mind a little workout:

30 days of Writing:


4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

I think the first stories I wrote for fun was Dragonriders of Pern fanfic, long before I knew the term and back when the Internet was the merest glimmer in Al Gore's eye. After that there was a fantasy thing involving archers and possibly elves. It has thankfully been largely forgot.

My BFF wrote most of a fantasy novel for her Ontario Academic Credit Independent Study Unit and let me play in her pond for a little bit (the earliest versions of Katharyne and Rosalyn - originally one woman - were born there), followed by an attempt at a Harlequin Romance that is also best left to the vagaries of time.

5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?

I suppose, technically, one of my characters is a fetus. That's pretty young. She's fairly inert at the moment though - more a plot point than a character at the moment. Katharyne, Queen of Whatever the Hell I End Up Naming Not-England (Besides Not-England), has three or four children (the number fluctuates), as does Rosalyn but none of them have much of the presence in the story. I suppose my youngest character (apart from Marty Bedell from a TSCC fanfic) is Emma No Last Name, a 17-year-old barista at the espresso bar/bookstore that is one of the main settings of the Werewolf Thing.

My oldest character is Prudence Mary (nee Weeks) Jones, Janey's grandmother. Pru is in her early 90s and is making a short, sharp descent into Alzheimer's when we meet her.

Katharyne, Rosalyn and their peers are my oldest characters in terms of seniority, directly descended from some extremely awful Mary Sue-types I created out of high school. The newest group of characters belong to a short story I began in April.

6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?

Right now I'm sitting on the chesterfield in the TV room, watching Arsenal at Liverpool out of the corner of my eye and chatting with my mum. Laptops are marvelous things. I don't have a desk at the moment so my writing habits have deteriorated to catch-as-catch can. Seriously work still requires a table and chairs and coffee - I have been known to haunt coffee shops when on a serious creative jag.

Computer for draft work, pen and paper for roughing out ideas. Once I have the idea in my head, I need to put the words directly into the computer. It's almost like until it's on the computer, it doesn't count.

On the other hand, when things are dragging, working with pen and paper (or pencil and pencil as the case may be) often helps spark my creativity. There are also certain kinds of writing - poetry, for example - that needs to be roughed out on paper first so that I can see the various iterations as I work through them.

7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?

Hell yes. It's a very serious case of writer's block or deadline that can force me to put away my tunes.

Depending on the world I'm doing, I listen to vocal or instrumental music. I build soundtracks on my iTunes for various projects composed of songs and instrumental tracks that put me in mind of a character or a mood I'm seeking. My musical tastes tend towards alternative (alt-rock, alt-industrial), rock (with a minors in punk and pop), electronica, bluegrass, trad and contemporary/classical so it's not unusual to find NIN, The Clash, Metric, Mogwai, Lucinda Williams, Altan and Philip Glass mixing it up as I try to structure a chapter.

Janey Jones, the heroine of The Werewolf Thing, was named for The Clash song, Janie Jones.

The Questions )
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Too Many Books - theefed from Ele)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 11:21 pm

Day Two: How Many Characters Do You Have? Do You Prefer Males or Females?


Interesting segue from "your favourite writing project" to how many characters do you have, from a discussion of a finished product to a discussion of process - at least in part.

One protagonist, two protagonist, three protagonist, four... )

Day Three: How do you come up with names for characters (and places if you're writing about fictional places)


Naming is not re-naming )


The Questions )
lifeonqueen: (Default)
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 05:59 pm
This is the fourth time I've tried to post on the Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom.

You know the part about "not making the discussion about you when it's not about you"? Yeah, I find that really hard. Especially when posting to LJ. So, the short version?

It's important, especially if you are or want to be a writer, to read this discussion (and it's all on [livejournal.com profile] rydra_wong's LJ). Read what people are saying about cultural appropriation, about the depiction of persons/people of colour in media, about how it makes someone feel to see their race stereotyped or Othered or misrepresented in and by white culture. Read it, think about it and shut the fuck up - at least that's my advice to myself.

My opinion of someone else's experience doesn't change their experience. Arguing about it is an attempt to subvert the conversation and take control, retroactively shape how they think about something. In this context, I think that amounts to an attempt to silence criticism and personal witness that strikes too close to home for a lot of clueless white folk, like me. It took me too long over the last week or so to learn that - and you see? I'm talking about myself again but there's a part of me that feels like maintaining an anonymous silence is too close to tacit acceptance of the behaviour of people trying to shut down discussion and dismiss the issue and that is just so not fucking right.

I'm disappointed in me for not reconizing any of this, all of this, earlier.

Not that there's much funny about any of this but the inside of my head as I debated leaving comments open (to allow people to express their thoughts) or closed (because this is not about me) would have made Kafka shit himself laughing
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Elsa Bloodstone)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 05:12 pm
Still not feeling myself, still not loving the world, my place in it and everything. Meanwhile, my friends have strange ideas of how to help me fight depression - ficlets zombies, hook-ups and bad, bad things:

"The Zombie Wars of Pride & Prejudice" - self explanatory, I think.

"Mother of the Future I'd Like to..." - SPN/SCC. An edited version will appear at some point: my cat was sitting on my chest and arm as I tried to type the last paragraph.

"That's Gonna Leave a Mark" - SCC. The prompt for this was "John accidentally shoots Sarah" so it's not my fault.

The others are en train and anybody else wants to leave a prompt, do your worst. It's going to be hard to top Pride & Prejudice with zombies.


Nota bene - it's not that these don't work, mind you. It's that you would find them listed under the standard of care in the DSRM IV, is what I'm saying. So, really, I celebrate the bizzare and the slighty unhinged in my friends. For, lo, they are awesome.
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Caravaggio)
Friday, November 7th, 2008 04:37 pm
Woe is me.

It's November, I hate my day job, have no energy for my night job, my cat is sick and my favourite show is getting moved to Friday nights. Woe, woe is me.

The best cure for depression is sex vigorous exercise, so in addition to a long bike ride tomorrow, I need to exercise my brain.

So, leave me a prompt and I will write you a ficlet of up to 150 words.



Options include but are not limited to:

The Sarah Connor Chronicles/Terminator
Aliens
Batman & Family
Superman & Family
Captain America
Farscape
Sanctuary
Pride & Prejudice
Pirates of the Carribean
Imagine Me & You
Zombies (dealer's choice)
Crossovers
lifeonqueen: (Doctor Who - Nine and Rose Joy by SDWolf)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 09:33 pm
More Joy Day is a fucking awesome idea. We could all use more joy, more often.

Today is also "no really, you will finish or at least get a respectable leg up on chapter three" day. And, well, I'm 2,000 words into what is going to be the chapter from hell and while I spin off into the ether, wondering what the hell I was thinking and how anyone could be interested and all those other thoughts writers have on days when the writing Is Not Going Well, I thought there might be a TSCC fan out there who might get a kick out of reading a snippet from the enormous Sarah Connor Chronicles fic that is currently marinating on my hard drive. That said, this snippet itself is... not exactly joyous, eh?

Untitled TSCC fic, rated teen for language, spoilers for movies/series to date )
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Too Many Books - theefed from Ele)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 04:42 pm
Hello flist,

Until I actually finish my thesis project and then my novel after that, I'm going to be scarce(er) on ellejay. However, if you could use your communal powers for good and not evil and help me find a novel that begins in media res to use as an example in the intro to my thesis project, that would be awesome. I know they exist but, typically, I can't think of one right at the moment.

See, my novel begins with a discussion of an incident that we never actually see or return to in the novel. It happened and the repercussions leave my character in the position we find her in at the start of the book. I think of it a bit like an episode of Farscape - I'm simpling skipping over what would normally be the first act and jumping right into the second.

Needless to say, I can't write in my introduction that "I based the structure of the opening of my novel on an episode of Farscape where we jump over the trip to Katrazi and open with our crew about to infiltrate the Scarran space station." I'm in treacherous water as it is, submitting a "gothic" (I say horror) thriller for my thesis to be graded by some stuffy litfic writer from Trinity College (wankers!).

So, if any of y'all could help a sister out, that would be marvellous, mates. Utterly bloody marvellous.

Also - being compared to John Updike... good?
lifeonqueen: (TSCC - Connor by grumpybear1031)
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 01:33 am
My life writing assignment drained my batteries pretty dry this week. This is what's left:

Saw:

Iron Man - Robert Downey Jr. was great as Tony Stark, the effects were cool, the script funny and Jon Favreau dialed Gwyneth Paltrow back from gratingly annoying to tolerably charming. On the other hand, the big bad was ludicrous and in our post-The Incredibles media reality, there's no excuse for a bad guy to be caught monologuing ever. Stay until after the credits.

Persepolis - awesome and intense and searing - at some point I will have more to say about this but it's too rich in my mind right now. I need to digest a little more.

Bones - Booth, Brennan and a baby made for fun TV. Bones is definitely my favourite forensic procedural - not only do the girls get to be smart but it manages to avoid much of the female death porn that is CSI's stock-in-trade.

Speaking of CSI - the most recent episode was boring even as background viewing while I caught up on a week's worth of newspapers in my room. And last week's Supernatural was even worse. Couldn't make it through either episode. Ick.

Read:

Half of Anna Karenina - stupid Russians! Write shorter books. Also the title is a lie: the book is really about this dude Levin who's Tolstoy's Gary Stu and thinks well-intentioned and terribly patronizing ideas for how to improve the lives of the Russian peasantry. I should look up how the Leninists felt about Tolstoy - I can see it going either way.

On Writing by Stephen King - the dude knows his stuff. A bit of a refresher, particularly after this past year, but all stuff that needs to be said.

Realized:

Lena Headey as Sarah Connor (TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES) pretty much saved my sanity in February: grad school in a foreign country - lonely and depressed and February. It was ugly up inside my head and watching Sarah Connor kick ass helped, put me back in touch with the 18 year old inside of me, her enthusiasm and her passion. I should probably send a thank you card.

I write really well about my own life. I need to find that same voice and momentum in my writing about my fake lives and that probably comes from rewriting, rewriting and rewriting until I find the truth in it. Writing about myself is more about how much truth I leave out (I'm no James Frey - it's all true but it's not all of the truth - there are things, even when you're writing confessional memoirs, that no one else wants, needs or has a right to know about my life). It's finding that line that's the hard part.

If you're feeling oppressed by your grad school advisors, all of who think you're wasting your time writing a horror novel, there's no one better to read on writing than Stephen King.
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Caravaggio)
Friday, April 25th, 2008 04:38 am
Fuck Hemingway with a big shiny plastic stuffed Marlin.

That is all.
lifeonqueen: (POTC - *^&% by ugasaiki)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 08:40 pm
"If you were on a desert island with only 10 blank pieces of paper and a pencil, what would you want most to write?"

I'd want to write a plan for getting off the fucking island, is what I'd want to write. God, what sort of a silly question is that? Who thinks "ooh, trapped on a desert island. I have 10 pieces of paper, this pencil and a bloody fucking lot of coconuts. I know - time for a sonnet!"? No, if I were trapped on a desert island with 10 pieces of paper and a pencil, I'd save the paper to use for kindling, the pencil to use for starting fires and write in the sand: it's a desert island. Lots of sand. All you need is wet sand and a stick - presto! notebook. I mean, it worked for the Egyptians. Or you know, I'd use it to write my suicide note. Because I fucking hate the tropics. Hate them. I'm an Anglo-Irish Northern European white person - I am not designed for desert islands. I do not tan. I am designed to herd sheep across craggy, rain-swept moors. Not a lot of UV radiation on your average rain-swept moor. You never see Heathcliff wandering about saying "Oooh, better put a hold on that brooding while I reapply my SPF 30." So fuck your desert island and your 10 pieces of paper and your pencil, I'm off to the pub! So there!

If only that last bit were true.
lifeonqueen: (BSG - Batshit Crazy (ehab_it))
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 12:41 am
Oh, bloody fucking

PANTS!



Writer's block (or more accurately WTF was going to happen next again? Bastard, fucking hell, fuck-fuck, cock, bastard PANTS!!!!!! what was I writing about just then?) sucks. So I shall drink more red wine and sacrifice a pair of socks to Artemis and pray that my muse (Clio, which really, is bloody fucking useless - what's the use of having a muse of history when you're writing contemporary science fiction?) shows up. Actually, I'd like all of them to show up - Calliope, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene and Polyhymnia, please report to my brain toot de damn sweet, si vous plais. Terpsichoreand Urania pouvoir cassez-vous und Thalia has never done me a damn bit of good anyway. Bunch of bloody faithless harpies, really. Except for the scary wings and claws and attacking the Argonauts.

Also, I hate April Fool's Day. The lot of you prank-pulling bastards can fuck off in reverse order of height. And my interior monologue sounds like Eddie Izzard. Which is fine until my interior monologue starts asking for a pair of stiletto heels.

PANTS.
lifeonqueen: (Misc - Headdesk)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 11:27 pm
Well, today I finally typed up the 1,600 words of chapter two I wrote in February. The interpersonal stuff cooks, I think but fucking hell, it was hard work getting that from notebook to computer screen.

Watched the final episode of Ashes to Ashes, which wasn't as good as the first season of Life on Mars but picked up satisfactorily in the last ep and, the Beeb tells us, will be back next year.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who series 4 begins next Saturday.

Right now, I am trying to edit poetry, which is a bitch because I'm afraid of editing what worked right out of the poems. It's given me a massive whacking headache, which means I don't feel like doing what I really want to do which is finish the Sarah Connor Chronicles fanfic I posted the other day.

All of which is by way of saying *whine* *grumble* *bitch* *bitch* *moan* *curse*.

This icon seems an appropriate metaphor for my day.

eta: fuck HTML with a giant Belgian bunny.
lifeonqueen: (TSCC - Connor by grumpybear1031)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 05:30 am
When your first reaction to an otherwise perfectly sweet story is "dude, you just got a puppy - you are so not spending the rest of the day in bed snogging your gf" are you a) officially old or b) someone who knows too much about dogs or c) no fun at all?

I met the Fellowship of the Bean at Sbux (it was a meeting of the complete set, too - whoo) and I wrote poetry. I wrote a lot of poetry - three new poems today alone. Finished them today, anyway. They and two of their friends are off to the class anthology, one other is being held back to send to the Poetry Review of Ireland: more because I believe my collection of rejection slips needs to start somewhere than I think it's something someone would publish. Then again, I'm still shocked that serious people take my poetry seriously, so maybe they'll love it.

Meanwhile, today's Bunny Comic is awesome.

And because I actually worked today, I get to play! God, it's been so long since I've done this, I've forgotten how you format these things... (and I have "Space Oddity" on my iPod? Huh).

Title: Watershed (1/2)
Rating: PG (harsh language, implied violence)
Spoilers: The Terminator
Characters: Sarah Connor
Summary: There's a moment when the future becomes real and it's not pleasant.
Author's notes: When bored, I play with narrative voice. If you don't like stories in the 2nd person, this is not the fic for you.


You’re nervous when you arrive for your ultrasound )
lifeonqueen: (Wolves - in snow)
Friday, March 21st, 2008 05:38 am
QED I am over the 'flu and recovered from my holiday (Vienna and Venice, baby! Whoo!) and still and giant nerd. Or geek. I'm not sure which. Anyone have a definition handy? How do you know if you're a nerd or a geek? And what is the difference? Or should I just accept that I'm generally socially retarded and a bit odd and leave it at that?

In other news:

  • There is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles comment fic in the comments to the above entry courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] taraljc who took me at my "you are a bad woman-oppressing fanfic writer" word and wrote Derek/Sarah angst to atone. No one is sure quite how we've managed to oppress women by writing stories about cool women like Sarah Connor and Aeryn Sun, but I aim to write (and encourage others to write) angsty pre-smut until we figure it out or the patriarchy surrenders. Whichever happens first. Or I get bored. Or strike porn. One of them.


  • Could Summer Glau be a nicer person? Now I want to go rewatch all the River Tam bits of Firefly again (I have promised myself that I will stop rewatching TSCC before I memorize all the dialogue).


  • This is what Benicio Del Toro will look like in Wolfman. This is not what the werewolves in my story will look like.

    Ever.


  • How many versions of the "The Green Fields of France" do I fucking need? Three strikes me as one, if not two, too many. Surprisingly, of the three I have - The Fureys, Shilelagh Law and the Dropkick Murphys - the Murphys' version was the best.

    What the song really needs is a June Tabor or a Shane McGowan cover. If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.


  • Oh, what the hell people - Sarah Connor does not bake, okay? It's not a tough thing or a feminist thing, it's a baking-is-a-giant-fucking-effort-that-requires-time-and-actual-culinary-skill thing, which would be two things we've established that Sarah Connor has never had much. Why do you think the Connor family lives on pancakes? It's something a ten year old with a spatula and a hotplate can cook. *faceplam* Jesus.


  • On a related note - I need a better Latin translation for "Bad fic fucks you up worse than crack" than Fabula Mala Fissilis Deterium Cupidare. Anyone who's Latin is fresher than mine care to help?


  • PS - I want a t-shirt that says "Coming This Summer: River Tam Beats Up Everyone." - I wonder if it's XKCD or Joss Whedon I need to convince?
    lifeonqueen: (Misc - Stitch Die)
    Monday, February 11th, 2008 10:06 pm
    Awesome line from a review of Catherine Coulter's Devil's Embrace (yes, the title probably should be construed sufficient warning of bullshit ahead): he who get-eth the virginity get-eth the hero status" and "he who makes her come, gets the prize".

    Yeah, okay, there are a couple of tropes we're going to have to hunt down, kill, stake through the heart and decapitate.

    Hee.

    It promises to be fun.
    Tags:
    lifeonqueen: (TSCC - Mother)
    Monday, February 4th, 2008 03:08 pm
    Things that delight me today about living in Ireland:

    Having to dig 15 pages into the sports section to find the Superbowl result,

    Walking under the sunshine for a change (I should really go for a bike ride but I'm feeling lazy), and

    Surviving having my first piece of poetry critiqued in class (the tremor in my voice when I read the first bit out loud was not so cool, however - sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to be a tough-ass bitch).

    The thing that makes these even sweeter, of course, is the Superbowl result itself. New York, baby, New York!

    For some reason, I feel really positive about Clinton this afternoon.

    Also, please remember it's SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES day today.
    lifeonqueen: (Star Wars - Best Recognize by Snarkel)
    Monday, December 10th, 2007 05:04 am
    I need 1,500 words on Gaelic football by 11 a.m.

    Any takers?

    Also - GIP. Got me some damn fine snarky SW icons courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] snarkel
    lifeonqueen: (Misc - Too Many Books - theefed from Ele)
    Friday, December 7th, 2007 06:04 am
    She's finished!

    With time to take a nap before going up to college to hand the fuckers in!