It has been a productive morning and no mistake.

[sirona_fics]

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!

Comments

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

LJ's been crap for me for the past few days. If it wasn't for all my scrapbook files I wouldn't renew my paid account, but I'll lose a load of photos if I don't :-(

[sirona-gs.livejournal.com]

It really has been. :/ I'm sort of willing to weather this -- it doesn't happen all that often, and every site has issues every now and again. But it's so frustrating it makes me want to chew on my arm. :/

[laria-gwyn.livejournal.com]

LJ's been really weird. It takes awhile to load and occasionally my FL won't come up. =/

Congrats on finishing your BB! <3

[sirona-gs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's basically been out for me most of yesterday and today it was spotty at best.

I'd had the big bang done for about a month now, but having all the edits in place is very rewarding indeed! \0/ I can't wait to post it! :D

[alba17.livejournal.com]

I love singing in a chorus too. Thanks for linking to that article about Google+. I was just thinking about joining it, albeit in a RL capacity, since it was a RL person who invited me, and was wondering if I needed to create a new gmail account to do it, since I use the one I have for fandom stuff and nothing RL. Sounds like there are problems with using multiple accounts, etc. Ugh.

[sirona-gs.livejournal.com]

I miss it, I really do. I just don't have the time for it, and there's only the kids choir and the opera choir in my city, so. Kind of not really any place I could go now. :(

I was really pissed to read that article, I won't lie. :/ I hate Facebook as it is, and I'm just grateful I could get it sorted before Google banned me or something. There's far too much in my Gmail and Gdocs to risk it. Ugh indeed.

[tailoredshirt.livejournal.com]

I deleted my Google+ profile for the same reason. I'm pretty pissed with Google right now! I don't see why Google of all companies doesn't understand that some people have online identities that they don't want to share with "real life" people. First the Buzz fiasco, now this. I'm also irritated that it signs me onto my youtube account automatically when I am logged into my gmail. I actually have 2 youtube accounts and that's my old YT account that it logs me onto. It won't let me log out though! Basically, this is my face with Google these days. :|

[sirona-gs.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pissed, too. I've had enough of Facebook, tbh, I hate it so much. I was really excited that I could have that with my flist friends, but if Google's gonna be an arsehole about it, well. I'm not gonna stand for that. And to think they were my favourite. :/