Just stuff

Wrote a little more today. Got carried away by the Titanic fic. Damn. I can't tell whether it's too factual or too moving, because I keep having to stop to cry either way. These men... fucking incredible. Harold Bride is my new personal hero. :-)

It snowed today. Not a lot, but a light covering. Made it fun to go get Chinese for boyfriend. (He's sick, the poor baby. I bought him 2 gallons of apple juice. He's almost finished with them and it's not been 24 hours yet, LOL) He's not had a very good time since I drove an hour (only got lost twice) to the airport to pick him up last night. Microsoft rejected his application and the Red Cross says he can't donate blood any more. And the sick thing. Oh, and they re-cauked(sp?) his shower/bathtub so he can't use it for a day. Which is fine by me since mine's ten times better. His only has hot water for 8 minutes. But, yeah. Poor guy. Not having a good couple of days.

Anyway, it snowed. I went outside to clean car off and stopped dead in my tracks. On the side of my building is a big light so we can see the parking spaces, and the snow was falling down over it with the trees right behind. It was so beautiful. I stood there for at least ten minutes just staring at it and getting covered in snow. *sigh* SO beautiful. I love big snow storms, but there's such a magic to light ones as well.

I watched 'Significant Others' tonight. LOL Very funny indeed. Very interesting format. I'd love to see all the other takes, you know?
And Carson sneezed again on Queer Eye tonight. heehee!

Weekly mini-thingies for Sneezefic list

Okay. So, people on sneezefic expressed an interest to have weekly mini-challenges, and I said I'd see if I couldn't put something together about that.

First, off, I don't want to use the word "challenge" because we already use that for something else and it's a pretty strong word to me. These are more like... plot bunnies or points of inspiration or something. I don't know. All the other fic lists I'm on call them challenges so I'm at a loss. And you all know me and titles!

So the draft site where people can go and submit "challenge" ideas is at:
Sneezefic mini-challenge... suggestion... thing
Sorry about the long URL there. I didn't want to go through the whole registering for a redirect thing unless y'all decided to go with this.

Go take a look if you're interested. Again, the idea is to have a weekly suggestion/concept/theme/inspiring idea presented and people can write fics starting from there. No pressure. A week recommended but no firm time limit. Participation totally optional. Just something to inspire people to break out and write something different (or write something at all). But none of the pressure or grandeur associated with the big challenge thingy

Buuuuuuut as I've said before, I'm a subscriber to letting lists live naturally. So if y'all decide that these suggestions (or whatever clever name we want to call them) defeat the purpose of a laid-back yet exciting group, feel free to tell me to shove it and I'll never, ever mention it again :-) We've never needed any reason to push people into writing fics before. But the concept of this was desired to help writers get inspired to write different, new things. Or to focus more on one fandom for a week, etc. So take a look and discuss. If you all don't think it's needed (I'm personally not sure that it is since I like the way the list is already, but it might be fun *shrug*) feel free to say so. If you think we should go for it... then we'll need a better name that avoids using the big, scary, over-used word "Challenge" :-)