It has been a productive morning and no mistake.

Meeting went excellent, with a follow-up on Thursday. Then had to go into City Hall, and I had a pleasant few minutes reminiscing. See, I used to be in the city choir when I was a kid. God, I love singing, I love the technical aspects, and I loved being a part of a group of people who Got It, too. Anyway, where am I going with this? About 18-odd years ago we had this concert in City Hall, it was just before Christmas, and we got invited to stay to the party afterwards. So envision me, 12 years old, eyes as wide as saucers looking around all the spendour (or what passed for splendour back then), all the lights, the dresses, the men in suits (I think that's when my love of suit!porn goes back to), my god, it was amazing. I stayed far too late, and of course was in trouble with my parents, who were starting to freak out a bit by the time I got home, but it was brilliant. It's a throw-back to my love of 80s and 90s romances, the Judith Krantz and Judith McNaught books that I adored, oh my god, I'll Take Manhattan was my favourite book for years. So today I passed that same hall and it all came back. It was kind of nice, remembering that feeling.

In other news, I deleted my Google+ profile. Basically I got linked to this article by a couple people on my flist, and I pretty much freaked out a bit, because if Google decides to delete all my stuff, I lose EVERYTHING, and I have so much crap in my Gmail and Gdocs that I broke out in a cold sweat just at the thought of losing it. So no more Google+ for me. I hate Facebook as it is, and I don't need another one. It would have been nice to have a fannish account like that, but obviously Google isn't having it. Bad move there, Google. You were actually my favourite for a while there.

I'm gonna be away at the end of the week, Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday morning. I had meant to take the whole week off, but then one of my colleagues got really sick and I had to take her shifts as well, so. No break for me. :/ Ah well. I might go off for a few days at the end of August, around my birthday. We're planning to go to Greece, to this small family hotel -- if they ever answer my damned emails, that is. :/ I might just call them, except I don't speak Greek and not all that many Greeks actually speak English. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

My big bang is DONE. This includes edits and beta and corrections and soundtrack and EVERYTHING. Just waiting on my artist now -- and I already have this idea for a coda of sorts. Should I write it and post it with the BB, or wait till later? I'm undecided. And I have this AU idea about Charles/Erik -- actually make that two AU ideas. One is based on The Wedding Planner, and the other on this interview of Zack Stentz, who took part in writing the XMFC scrips, which basically makes Charles/Erik canon. IDEK. Too many ideas, too little time. Still writing the Steve/Danny daycare thing with Ellie, WHICH I LOVE MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY and I will actually make an effort to participate in today.

While we're on the subject of writing, I've been thinking about writing some codas to my Inception fics. So, Inception flist, here's a poll for you!

[Poll #1764807]

Also saw this AMAZING new layout in mintyapple that I totally ADORE. I'm very tempted to switch to it, I've had mine for almost six months now and while I TOTALLY LOVE IT, this is so preeeeetty... Although I've been having problems with LJ all day yesterday, and some today, too. Is anyone else having issues?

Okay, I think I'm done for now. There will be a fic-related post later today, if LJ lets me post it!

This is the bit where I <3 my friends

A conversation delicatale and I have just had in Gdocs where we're co-writing that daycare au thingie. I really think it should be shared, for real. A bit not WS.

ellievolia: AND OH
WHAT IF STEVE IS JUST BACK FROM A SWIM WHEN DANNY COMES OVER?
me: akfhga;hg;fklhg; DANNY WOULD EXPLODE
ellievolia: YOU KNOW, HE THINKS IT'S CATH
SO HE DOESN'T BOTHER PUTTING ON TOO MANY CLOTHES
me: RIGHT, SHE'S FORGOTTEN SOMETHING MAYBE
ellievolia: AND HIS SWIMMING TRUNKS ARE STICKING TO HIM LIKE WOAAAHHH
me: BUT IT'S NOT CATH, IS IT, STEVEN
ellievolia: EXACTLY
NO NO
IT'S DANNY, GAPING AT HIM
me: AND STEVEN IS MAYBE A LIIIIIITTLE TOO IN LOVE WITH DANNY'S TIGHT SHIRT, NO TIE, UNBUTTONED AT THE COLLAR
ellievolia: AND CATH TOLD STEVE THAT DANNY LIKES HIM AND HE'S JUST DENSE SO STEVE'S LIKE, A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, A LITTLE BLUSHING
me: RIGHT
ellievolia: UNF
me: AND DANNY GOES GUH
BRAIN? WHAT BRAIN?
ellievolia: BEER?
me: RIGHT. STEVE IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING'S OUT OF THE ORDINARY
AND TRIES NOT TO STUTTER WHEN HE OFFERS THE BEER
AND Y'KNOW, TEARS OF MANPAIN BECAUSE HIS JULES IS NOT THERE WITH HIM
AND DANNY COMMISERATES
ellievolia: SO MUCH MANPAIN
me: AND THEN IDEK, SOMETHING
ellievolia: AND DANNY'S LIKE 'SO YOU SWIM TO ALLEVIATE YOUR MANPAIN?'
me: RIGHT, WEARS HIMSELF OUT
Y'KNOW, EXCEPT NOT
ellievolia: AND STEVE'S LIKE 'WELL, IT'S NOT LIKE I'VE GOT ANYONE TO ALLEVIATE MY MANPAIN, BESIDES THE OCEAN. THE OCEAN IS MY MISTRESS'
me: RIGHT, RIGHT
ellievolia: I DON'T THINK I HAVE EVER WRITTEN SOMETHING MORE STUPID
me: AHAHAHA I LOVE IT SO MUCH
AND THEN HE GETS UP, AND LIKE HE SNOCKERED THAT BEER PRETTY DAMN QUICK ON AN EMPTY STOMACH (BECAUSE HE WASN'T GONNA STOP TO EAT BEFORE JUMPING IN THE OCEAN, RIGHT? MANPAIN AND ALL) AND HE STUMBLES...
ellievolia: ON DANNY?
ON DANNY'S COCK?
me: WELL DANNY TRIES TO CATCH HIM, AND HIS LAP IS ~RIGHT THERE, OKAY, IT'S AN EASY MISTAKE TO MAKE
AND IT'S NOT LIKE DANNY DOESN'T HELP HIM GET THERE
I FEEL THAT THIS CONVERSATION SHOULD BE SHARED WITH THE WORLD, TRULY.
OH GOD I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING OH DEAR


I <3 HER SO MUCH, TRULY.