Dearest quoth_the_ravyn and davyn,

On this most special of days, I just want to tell you something from the heart...



Love,

Me

P.S.

 

What I am about to describe is probably someone’s nightmare.

 

It probably says something about me that it only registered as a minor annoyance.

 

So, I was asleep. It was 4 am or something equally awful like that. Then I woke up to something crawling on me. Now, it was a weight and a type of crawling that I registered immediately, even in sleepy woken-up-suddenly-ogre-Rachael mode.

 

(Anyone who has seen me get up without the appropriate 20 minute mental surfacing routine knows what I’m talking about.)

 

There was a rat on me.

 

Well, one of my rats to be specific.

 

I remember when Pie was the quiet rat who didn’t LIKE people and never wanted to play. I remember when she DIDN’T bust out of her cage in the middle of the night to go play on the bed.

 

Logically, I know this means she must be a happier rat, but still!!!!

Title: Jerkbenders

Summary: There are somethings you just don't tell Sokka.

Rating: GEN (no pairings unless you count Aang/Zuko friendship... sort of.)

I can impagine a lot of you Doomians will be pleased to see that.

Hey there!

Pardon the long silence, I've been a little busy with this.



Please drop on by, leave a comment, or just boost the pageviews!!

Gacked from evilpuppy

"Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours.Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon."

I doubt I'm the first.

Anyway, due to FF.net's recent hiccups with the Author Alert System, I've decided to start a Yahoo Group and keep my fiction there. It will also let me send out alerts whenever (or however sparingly), I update.

The link can be found here.

It just seems to me like FF.net has gone from passingly fair, to bad, to worse in the last couple of years. The God Mods' habit of yanking fics with no warning has really got me worried. Those of you in the know are all too aware of my recent computer problems and the fact that I keep losing my collection of fiction (only one of the reasons it takes me forever and a year to update >_<). A few of those fics only live on at FF.net and I'm always worried that one day some kid will report me for some perceived slight and they'll get deleted, never to be seen again. So I've undertaken the task of backing them ALL up on the Yahoo Gorup.

Also, just for giggles, I've put up a bunch of my numerous WIPs from various fandoms to preserve them from my black thumb when it comes to computers. If you're interested, then by all means drop by and have a read. Right now the contents of the group is pretty much all the stuff I have on my work computer. I'm collecting all my fiction from where it's been backed up with Ravyn and JaneDrew, as well as various other places. This is a bit of an undertaking because at last tally I had at least 44 Rurouni Kenshin fics alone. Most of them have been relegated to the Plot Hutch since I don't have more than a nebulous idea of what's going on with them. The ones that I have Actual Plans for will go in the WIP folder. The stuff that is actualyl being actively updated will be in the Honest To God Genre Files (Rurouni Kenshin, Harry Potter, xxxHOLiC, etc. etc. ad nauseum)

So please, drop by, join and I'll send around e-mails when there's been a new update!

So...

I was tossing around Character POV the other day, trying to get a handle on personalities so these are brief and more like sketches than anything else. However, there are three of them so if you're interested in xxxHOLiC then take a gander (and let me know how it come across).

*closet feedback eyes*

God, I'm such a feedback whore. It's truly sad...

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Appearances
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Himawari POV on Watanuki and her place in the scheme of things.
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( Appearances )
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Sound and Fury
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Doumeki on the subject of Watanuki, white noise, and what matters in the end.
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( Sound and Fury )
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Red Chains
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Watanuki POV on what he did and did not sign up for.
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( Red Chains )
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~Owari

Rowe's Rule

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. AU

Warnings: Timeline Rewrite, Neville Longbottom as 'Boy who Lived', Harry's Compulsive Tea Drinking

Eventual Pairings: To Be Announced... (it's not vital to the plot or likely to happen anytime soon.)

( Chapter One:Society and Solitude )

There's chapter one! I'm having insane amounts of fun writing this story.

This is a Harry Potter Fic I've been working on lately. If you want to read it in the FF.net format then I have it posted under my HP identity: Mother of Memory.

Rowe's Rule

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. AU

Warnings: Time line Rewrite, Neville Longbottom as 'Boy who Lived', Harry's Compulsive Tea Drinking

Eventual Pairings: To Be Announced... (it's not vital to the plot or likely to happen anytime soon.)

( Prologue: A Minor Divergence )

More chapters to come!

Looks like my godmother managed to get that book of hers published!

See it here!

Well, it was better and worse than some years.

The Good:

1. Moved over 3000 miles away from my Mother: never going back again and seem to have found my feet this time. Yay!
2. Have put together School Fund.
3. Will be using that fund in... 33 hours. Holy Crap.
4. The cats have settled and can acknowledge each other's presence without fuss.
5. Have two wonderful room mates.
6. Am living in the town I wanted to when I was younger (so sue me, I like Raleigh-Durham!)
7. I landed a fantastic job.

The Bad:

1. Moved over 3000 miles away from home: Mom will not leave me alone.
2. Never did hear back from the financial aide people so I have no idea whether the school fun is getting saved for next semester or not.
3. Quitting smoking is still an ongoing project.

The Ugly:

1. Moved over 3000 miles away from home: Mom will not leave me alone.

So it has been a somewhat uneventful year, but I think I've managed. 2007 has found me in a new place and I'm interested to see where I'll go from here.

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OK

Officially annoyed.

Yesterday was fairly good. Got through work vaguely unscathed with what I assume is fairly decent call time and a minimum of idiocy (barring the Russian Bastard, but I digress). Got my PTO approved like five minutes after it was time for me to go. Thankfully, I'd been kept behind on a call and was packing up as I got the e-mail letting me know that I had the 17th off.

Went home, made dinner. jane_drew_ came home with this new kind of pasta that was really really good and we ate it with some ciabatta bread and four-cheese sauce. Yum. After that we watched Princess Tutu until I started dozing off in between episodes and hauled myself off. Should have been a nice quiet close to the day.Yes?

No.

Anyone who knows me knows I sleep like the dead. I sleep like the dead on valium.

So mom calls about an hour after I crawled into my den. It's eleven o'clock at night. I had work the next morning. Of COURSE I'm dead asleep. Where did she THINK I'd be?

jane_drew_ brought the phone up and well, I didn't wake up when she knocked. I woke up a little but dropped right back off. By the time Lynn got through to me, Mom had hung up. I'm not really sure she remembered that it was an hour earlier for her and an hour later for us. Poor jane_drew_, I wouldn't wish my mother on anyone and she had to put up with her when she had gotten herself worked up into a lather.

Long story short: Mom wants me to come to Christmas. I'd planned to drive so that I'd have my own mode of transport, but the roads got rained out between here and Lexington. I've never done a 8-9 hour drive by myself... much less over mountains in the dark and the rain.

I decided to ignore it this year, figuring that it was too late to buy tickets.

>_< Mom decided somewhere along the line that I wanted her to BUY me a ticket.

*pauses for headdesk*

SO, long story short: ended up going round and round with my mother last night and ended up letting her buy a ticket to make her happy. How this worked out, I'm still not sure. Be that as it may, I'm flying out at something ungodly on the 15th and then flaying back about 10 ish in the morning on the 17th.

At least this means I don't have to post the Kentucky package. I can carry it in my luggage.

*grins*

Okay, I was bitten by the NationStates bug.

Thus was born The Rogue Nation of Superior Causistry

Holy Crap.

( Cut for wet shivering fussings )

Gacked from the lovely evilpuppy

1. Comment to this entry with a post you think would be totally out of character for me — something I'd never talk about, never discuss, never say, anything. It has to be completely out of character.

2. Post this in your own journal if you want to

Geh, sorry for the lost wait in between posts. Been hella busy lately.

I'll go in later a fill in relevant posts, just haven't been feeling up to it lately.

SO!

I've decided to volunteer for work on Christmas an New Years. I get paid double time for Holidays. I already make 14 an hour. 28 bucks an hour... just one day nets me 224 bucks. Yowza!

( Cut for Holiday Schedule Ramblings and Smatterings )

In other news, I've been occupied at work lately so haven't had as much time to write as I like. I'm working on Fancy's Child and have the bulk of the next chapter in bits and pieces. It's putting those pieces together that proves difficult, but the next chapter is on its way! Promise!