Satelite 5

This time last year I was travelling from Cairns to Melbourne. It seems like only yesterday whilst also seeming like a very long time ago. We're hurtling towards Christmas and 2012, which will be an awesomely fun year, and hopefully life will stop beating me with metapohorical hockeysticks and cricket bats for long enough for me to sit down and think about what I'm going to do with it.

Anyway.

laligin and I are going over to Halifax tomorrow to sing in/watch Messiah with my family, but not before we see the Coca Cola lorry! Nothing makes me happier than the Cola Christmas advert, you have no idea. But we get to see the lorry tomorrow and I will glee over it and buy gloves. Definitely buying gloves, if my glove stall is there.

I went madly shopping yesterday and bought 3kg of chocolate for turning into Christmas presents. Have to do those, or at least some of them, before my cousin comes up on Friday and I have to give her their presents. Told you life was beating me up. I should tidy the house too, but meh.

The writing is interesting, as in 'oh god, oh god, we're going to die'. I finished reel_TW, polished my Ianto Big Bang, finished off my first card for longliveIanto bingo, finished my journeystory, and have plotted out my next bingo card. Space opera on an interstellar cruiseliner. Space opera. Interstellar cruise liner. Squee.

Lots of things to post, anyway, and hopefully a bit less stress.

Apart from my dissertation. Yeah... that thing. I have a presentation on that on Friday. Joy

Life's normal, essentially. I probably owe people things, but I have no clue what they are. If I owe you something please tell me so, and I will get on it.

Okay, so it's posting day for my Torchwood Big Bang today. Unfortunately, I have a slight problem - it's not been beta'd. I was forgotten about *sniff* (to be honest, I've done it to her too. This is why I never volunteer as a beta any more). I'm prepared to make use of the amnesty period, but if anyone has nothing better to do today and could beta a 24,000 word fic in the next 14 hours, I would explode with squee and gratitude. Obviously, as it's so last minute it's just spelling and grammar (unless there's something which really doesn't make sense, in which case... bollocks). If you could beta it by the amnesty day but not by the end of today, that is also supercool and awesome.

Meanwhile, I'm going to flail a bit (a lot) and finish my next Big Bang. And then actually do some uni work. Shocking, I know. Expect fic from me sometime this week, whatever happens.

ETA: Thanks to Saria, Caladria and Lucy for coming to my rescue. You're all stars.

I am a lover of Groupon, and of afternoon tea. Some offers I found this morning that might be of interest to people are:

Afternoon tea for 2 or 4 in York. £5 for two, £9 for four. I can't report on the venue, but I can report on the price, because that's seriously good.

For those going to Cardiff at any point, there's an offer for cream tea with champagne for two in the Bay area for £10.40

Or if you're flush and wanting to get away from it all, a seven night stay in a five star hotel in Tunisia, flights included, will set you back £350 per person. £12 per day to updrade to fully catered. Warning, revolution occurring.

In the West Midlands, you can go zorbing with a friend for £19.

Here's the last one

30 – Do you have a favorite fic you've written? What makes it your favorite? And don't forget to give us a link!

( I have two favourites, actually )

That's all, folks :)

Listed here are all my non-fiction entries. Some will be listed in more than one section (mostly memes).

This list contains a lot of personal entries that are going to be flocked in the coming weeks as I get my journal organised, and a lot of out of date stuff. To-do lists are have-done lists, entries about my mental wellbeing are no longer relevant, etc.

Contact details post

( About me )

( State of me posts )

( Posts about my travels )

( Stuff about writing )

( Responses to Writer's Block Prompts )

( Public service announcements )

( Suggestions for meeting people )

( Memes )

( Chat posts )

( Posts requesting help )

28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?

I collaborated on my Sherlock/Torchwood crossover with the big bang artists, and I also share one of my universes with Lizzy.

In more important news, my capital city is burning for the third night running, it's getting ever closer to my friends and there is fuck all I can do about it. This has been brewing a long time, but not because of race or taxes or anything like that, but because we have let society rot.

29 – What is your current project or projects?

26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?

( Sex, injuries and luxury hotels )

24 - Betaing – How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your fic? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?

( I only use a beta if the challenge requires it )

23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

( I am archived in three places that I can remember )