I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

Guess who got her first semester results today? Or, well, most of them - in a completely unsurprising turn of events, our math lecturer has not fulfilled her basic job requirements and submitted our results, so they're not up yet. But! I did pretty well in my other subjects - surprisingly well in some of them, I must have done better on my final assessments than I expected - so I'm happy. And math can bite me.

(Also, I feel like I can relax a little now that I know I'm doing well - not slack off, but, well, I'd really like not to disappear from fandom for an entire semester again, so.)

ALSO, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MISSED? WRITING! I have made actual, significant progress on my help_haiti fic, and, apparently I am writing Tin Man fic now too? Roughly a metric ton of it so far, including a big dumb space AU (yay!); I have no idea where it came from, but I'm okay with that. Because writing is fun! Somehow I forgot this.

Writing Progress, Week One Of My Glorious Month Of Freedom:

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( Individual projects )

So, I still need to get started on my femslash10 assignment, but I'm looking forward to that, so it should be easy enough. Also, I'm trying not to guilt myself too badly about the help_haiti fic, even though I do feel terrible about it, because I know if I don't let myself write anything else until it's finished, all that's going to happen is that it's going to sit there mocking me and nothing will get written at all. Right now, instead, I'm using as self-bribery fodder, and that's working pretty well. Sometimes I have to trick myself into getting stuff done, whatever.

Wow, it feels like forever since I've properly updated. In case you're wondering why, it's for the same reason as always - I tripped over a new fandom. In this case, it's Brothers and Sisters, and, yeah. It's an angsty family melodrama, which really isn't my usual type of show, and yet ... I don't know, it's strangely addictive.

And, okay, it has Justin/Rebecca, which is the real reason I started watching. Don't act like you're surprised.

Briefly, in non-fannish news, technology apparently hates me. First, my desktop computer totally died, and it took us forever to find out what the problem was. It turned out to be the video card, which kind of sucks, because J was looking forward to me (eventually) getting a new computer so he could snag my video card and get rid of his old crappy one. Luckily, I only really use that computer for gaming, and we've put his video card in my computer so I can still do that, but it's a temporary fix.

And then, because apparently I wasn't done, I was ... erm, maybe fiddling with some files on my laptop, and I managed to erase the entire contents of my iTunes. I still have all my music, luckily, but everything else - all my playlists, including my list of potential vid songs, some awesome fanmixes (from other people), and a couple of fanmixes in progress (mine) - is totally gone. Sigh. I figure as long as nothing blows up in the next couple of days, I'm probably safe from further meltdowns.

More happily, today I submitted my postgrad uni application. I'm not sure when I'll find out whether I got in - I applied for mid-year entry, which means there might be limited places available - but I'm nervous and really hopeful right now.

Fannishly: remixthedrabble is opening sign ups for its next round soon. I'm a huge fan of the challenge (and, okay, a co-mod), and it's a lot of fun; this round is going to be a drabble purist round, which means all remixes must be 100 words exactly. Which is a really awesome challenge, plus it means that, unlike other challenges, it's a relatively small time investment. So, go check out the community, and please think about signing up when the challenge goes live!

And Brothers and Sisters, because I am still capable of making TV reaction posts, I swear: ( spoilery for the latest episode )

I really might have to write that Kevin/Julia(/Scotty) thing. Except for the fact that I have a million fic obligations right now and absolutely no time. And two big bangs due in roughly a month or so, which ... I won't lie. If we can keep this just between us, dear flist and assorted lurkers, they are not nearly as far progressed as they should be. At all. So the next month is either going to be very busy, or suddenly free right up, depending on whether or not I think I can actually finish them. Like, I don't doubt that I could finish them, I'm just not particularly invested in either of them right now as much as I need to be in order to do that. I might have to put them on hold? But then I'd feel majorly guilty about signing up and not delivering.

Since I decided to write Brothers and Sisters for femgenficathon, though, that seems to be going swimmingly. At least something is.