Satelite 5

I think I'm back on with writing. Hopefully. I've been putting off doing the Queensland Flood auction fic because I've been writing utter crap lately and I didn't want to write more utter crap for that one. Once I got into the rhythm with the Timelord!Ianto stuff I thought it was safe to try it, and I'm happy with how it came out. Fingers crossed this really is me back on the path I was on in the last months of last year, but less destructively this time (remember me sinking into a depressive and exhausted funk? I do not want to go there again.)

( Going to complain about my mother )

So apparently Spotify's been making massive losses, which isn't really surprising considering that they give away music for free. I was really insanely lucky last year and won a 12 month pass for it, wihch got me unlimited access to all the music I could possibly want, 24/7. Of course, at that point I could still use the advertising-based service in the UK, but I went to Australia (where the free one doesn't work) and had lots of travelling without internet access, and it was brilliant.

Of course, I got used to having access to all the music ever (and you should have seen my irritation when something really obscure I wanted wasn't on it). And then, to get more people to pay for their service, they introduced a 10-hours-a-month, 5-plays-per-track-per-month cap on the free service and my full account expired. Rather than go back to not having access to All The Music, I'm paying £5 a month. Which, seriously? I need to find five new tracks to add to my playlist per month to make it cheaper than getting the same amount of music off itunes.

So I'm listening to new stuff, rather than going through my old playlists constantly. Right now it's the Blues Brothers soundtrack (Sweet Home Chicago at the moment), and I've been listening to Artist Radio for Oysterband and Blackbeard's Tea Party.

So if you have any recommendations of stuff you think I should listen to, I've probably got access to it. And if you can, give spotify a try because it's made of awesome.

Apologies to everyone, but particularly ruthyf who I still owe auction fic to. I'm nearly at the end of term, but I'm also in one of my worst writing dry-spots for years. No energy, no words, too many plot bunnies. I need to take a couple of days to get the caffeine out of my system, because all it's doing is keeping me awake, so I can't sleep, and I need more caffeine the next day to merely function and... ever decreasing circles, people, ever decreasing circles.

Soon I will find words, but for the moment these words were given to me by angelkitty101

If you want to play, request your words and I will find some that remind me of you. Somewhere. And then you have to tell me what thy mean to you.

( Writing )

( Morris )

( Fandom )

( Travel )

So far this year, I've only been to Cardiff (apart from, you know, New Year in Sydney, then to New York, then back to the UK). I'm doing at least one trip to London to see the Dr Who exhibition and to meet Mum's new gay bff, and I need to go to Birmingham to see angelkitty101, and back to Cardiff to do more research for my dissertation and to do the Torchwood tour, and I want to go to Brighton Pride this year and maybe a couple of others. I don't know, really, but I get around a lot. I need a job to be able to fund it.

( Music )

And that's a bit more of me. I think I'm going to go to bed now.

( It occurs to me now and again that I am really, really bad at communication. )

So the tl;dr is... I'm not anti-social. I'm just enjoying the companionable silence, talking to you in my head, or waiting for you to make a move.

First of all, I'm messing around with google docs (because I have loved it in the past, but don't have many google friends to play with it with :( I've uploaded my monster fic, which is just over 100k and unfinished in three parts, just to see if I could, and if I could edit it from my Blackberry. I can't.

So if you're really, really bored, my sandcastle is there to be trashed. I started writing it nearly two years ago when I was 18, so it needs some serious editing and possibly a total rewrite before I launch it on livejournal.

It also needs finishing, which brings me to...

( A livejournal cut )

Schmoop_bingo's first round is over and the results are in. I completed a blackout on each of my three squares, giving me 75 fills for 3750 points and second place. Results announcement is here.

I am over the moon, and more than a bit worn out by it all. I got my final fill sheet in with half an hour to spare, which is not the sort of adrenaline rush I'd expected to get on New Year's Eve. 75 stories, most of them in one universe, and a lot of work still needing to be done on that series.

For a start, I have the wedding story to write, and the government conspiracy story, and the immortality story. Fortunately, two of those are sort of detached, and will have their own months. I also need to sort it into some sort of coherant order and smooth out the continuity errors. So, yes, lots of work. But I'll leave it for the moment.

It's not abandoned, just temporarily shelved whilst I relocate my brain and get my Reel_TW written, then get a lot of work done on JAM, hopefully. On the 31st of January I go back to university and get my first Jack_Ianto_LAS prompt. It's going to be another of those years, isn't it?

Squee!

What started as a slightly sore nose this morning has spread and intensified right across my sinuses. As usual.

And tomorrow there's snow forecast. Joy of joys. But I am going to go to the museum of sex.

By the way, I'm in New York. Yay!

Going to go die in a corner now.