sundries

- I am in fucking awe of how expensive my flight to LA is going to be. AWE, I tell you.

Whenever I have to fly to LA, I get funny about it. Even having grown up in the myth of New York, I am seduced by the myth of LA, even though I hate it.

I worry about looking cute (cute? cute!) for the flight.

I worry about having the right luggage (in fact, one of the greatest fantasies of my life revolved around the cute (again with the cute!) luggage I insisted on buying for my Australia trip, just in case I ran into anyone who was anyone in the Sydney airport).

I worry about whether there should be a legal limit to the number of issues of Variety allowed on a single jet.

LA seduces me with the narrative of outsiders who get lucky, although I've never been _that_ type of outsider. I hate LA, but I love the idea of it, I guess. And maybe this will help me on my little chick-lit project. The LA _feeling_ is a bit central to the internal narratives of it. I know, I know, chick-lit isn't supposed to have internal narratives (or, you know, actual people with actual souls), but I really love this idea. There's a symmetry to it. A real goodness in the idea that I can make a ridiculous story out of every little half-assed bullshit 30 second heartbreak I stumble across.

See? LA fucks my shit up. Los Angeles loves love.

- I am really, really going to try to catch up with email today. We'll see.

- I am also really, really going to try to leave work early today so I can go try to find a new winter coat (first frost tonight!) and do some house cleaning while Patty drinks with the pick-axe wielding set.

- I had a stupid hypochondriac freakout the other night. Patty was sane. I remain embarrassed. Good thing she likes me.

- Am nervously awaiting verdict on a bit of workplace work.

- Craaaaaaazy weekend, full of work. But I do get to sleep in tomorrow. And that's not just something, but might be close to everything.

it's really just that simple

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Skiffy Awards

Need good TW fic to read that hasn't necessarily been rec'd by the good people at torchwood_house yet?

You may want to check out skiffy_awards or more usefully Skiffy Awards which is one of those random fanfic awards things. What's nice about this one is that it's multi-fandom (Stargate: SG-1/Atlantis, Supernatural, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer/Angel, Dr. Who/Torchwood/The Sarah Jane Adventures, Star Trek TOS/TNG, Batman) and character focused.

Dear Captain, Last Night I Slept in Mutiny... got nominated in the Torchwood: Jack Harkness: Romance category. Which is a little funny as it's sort of a brutal fic. I mean, Kali and I think it's sweet, but I'm not sure we thought anyone else did.

Voting, if you're so inclined, is also open until Sept. 30, and all the info on how to do that is on the links up top. There's some seriously lovely stuff nominated. Much of it you're probably familiar with because it's by authors who are well known in the fandom, but there are some nice surprises, and I was happy to get to vote for several of my all time favorite stories and a few members of my LJ social circle.