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Monday, December 6th, 2010
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3:06 pm
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Hey, guys! I'm putting up a stickypost for those people heading over here for fic. :)
STORIES:
My webpage (sadly out of date) is McDragon's Lair. ALL Marvel comics fic is archived here.
DC fic index
Naruto fic index
Fallen Leaves: A Naruto AU about ANBU, 7 years before Kyuubi. Published serial-style, lots of stories taking place in the same universe, often interconnecting. I am one of several authors.
ARCHIVES:
My Naruto archive, with both my own and others' fic, is Hidden Village. It has been CLOSED. You can, however, submit and read stories at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hiddenvillage. Woo hoo!
My Jamie Maddrox archive (also closed and out of date) is Seeing Double
My personal webpage is still McDragon's Lair. ;)
Have fun!
JB
*edit: It would help if I forward-set the date. >.> *grins*
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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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7:02 pm
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7pm, and I have another 20 pages to galley-check. And dinner and dishes and making something edible. Guh.
BUT! Look! I got the cover for In The Rough! Clickable if you want to see it bigger. :D
And just to remind you, this is the first book in the kinda-series (ITR is a companion piece), By Degrees:
Aren't they purty? By Degrees is already out in ebook, and In The Rough releases ONE MONTH FROM TODAY. And not just in ebook, oh no, but BOTH will be releasing in print! YAY!
J
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6:00 pm
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My cousin Elin just called, and she's going to be in the area! With a spare horse I could ride! So I started looking at my schedule to see if I could make it down, and ye gods, no wonder I feel tired. (I always feel tired before I start being busy. Go figure.) My schedule for the week:
Monday:
125 pages galley'ed (which takes me HOURS)
1:00 - dog training
- drop off cards at 2 pet stores
Tuesday:
125 pages galley'ed
Drop of cards at two pet stores
Dinner with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nezumiko and messypeaches.
Wednesday: 40 pages galley'ed (if I get these done Mon and Tues, maybe I can see Elin today... :D)
6:30 - dog training
Thurs:
Clean. Which REALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE. I say, on SUNDAY. It'll be yuck by Thurs. >.>
12-1:15: LEADs group
1:45-2:30: dog training
3-ish: Chelsea comes down!
Friday: Set aside for Chels and touristy things
Sat: Promo stuff all day online
6:00 - dog training
Sunday: life begins to slow. Ish.
1:30-4:30: lots of dog training
ashlan?
Monday:
At some point, 1:15 hours for dog training. Also, ashlan should be here. :D
After that my schedule returns to normal. Elin might still be here Tuesday, so I could go see her then, too. :D I'll call her and ask tomorrow, when I have a better idea how the editing is going. (I'd like to get that done sooner rather than later, so I can set it aside and have some leeway for things like printing flyers and handing out business cards.)
It's 6pm, and I still haven't finished my galleys for the day. Right. Back to work.
J
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5:01 pm
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Cash is making me tired. At least, I'm pretty sure it's Cash, and not the fact that I've been running around like a maniac.
Washed the dogs today, did mini-training with a client, walked four dogs downtown for dog training, edited 75 pages, am working on another 30... and today is my slow day. >.>
Also, Dark is buying me plane tickets tomorrow! :D I will see her in a little over SIX WEEKS. Yipe. I really need to get my dog business growing.
To that end, I asked Glenna to print me more business cards, made up some dog flyers, discovered my printer isn't compatible with Vista, emailed Glenna to see if she'd print dog flyers for me, found some pet stores to go to tomorrow, mapped them, found more to hit on my way to Nezu's Tuesday, mapped those, and... no, wait, that's it.
Yup. I'm pretty sure I'm tired because Cash looks so sleepy.
J
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9:27 am
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I made an icon. It makes me laugh. I was going to caption it, but y'know? I think it speaks for itself. :DD
J
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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8:27 pm
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8:10 pm
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Okay. Responded to some (but not all) the responses to my gay post, and I'm now debating soaking in the tub vs. writing Trek fic. I don't really have time for both, though I suspect waffling between the two will take up all my available time anyway. This is my plan: get fireinflight, as my resident science-y person, and mytvlcro, as my resident computer person, to build me a water-proof computer. Ohyes. Then I can do both. Go, my minions!
Had three dog training sessions today. The first was ongoing work with a German Shepherd and his really nice owners (the dog's problem is that they're too nice, and he walks all over them). I brought Cash and Lily, because he's plateaued and I was hoping that showing them attention for doing things right would create some jealousy, as well as model correct behavior and get him thinking. IT TOTALLY WORKED. We also went driving in the car, because the shepherd SPAZZES OUT and we were hoping, again, for some modelling and calming influence from Lily.
I wasn't so sure about Cash. Sometimes he'd rather spaz out, too, if another dog is spazzing.
But Cash turned out to be the hero! Lily curls up so small that the shepherd could ignore her and continue to spaz, but Cash takes up so much room there was no ignoring him. ANd he just laid down and chilled out, and the other dog CALMED DOWN. And then, there was one point where the other dog started to get excited and whine, and Cash just sat up, licked him, and laid back down. And the shepherd calmed! I was so proud of my dogs. :DDD And the people were ecstatic. We'll see how it holds.
The second appointment was also an ongoing, with a small dog -- one of TWELVE -- who's attacking people. They'd had a set back, so that started on a downer. Then I come to find out that after all these weeks, the husband isn't willing to work with the dog. In fact, when I was like, "Come do this," he had this huge flinch back ... which is why she's not getting better faster, and why the set backs. If only one adult is in control, it makes things hard. When the other adult isn't honest with me about what he will and won't do, I can't give them things to do that will work. So he keeps going on about how they've been doing this for weeks and it's not working, and at the same time how he's not doing it and not willing... AGH.
So, I left feeling like a failure, even though we finally got everything sorted and we might have a workable solution. JEEZ.
The third one was with my biggest client, and it was AWESOME. The grin on her face as she was able to walk down a BUSY street with her dogs, behaving awesomely, by her side was just soul-food for me. Especially since she'd been feeling disheartened herself, just a few days ago. YAY!
Now I'm home, and so freakin' sore. Hence the bath. But I haven't been sleeping because of the Trek fic ideas, hence the writing. And I haven't eaten anything but 2 eggo waffles, a bottle of Ensure, and some ice cream all day. And getting up or making a decision seems beyond me. :P And tomorrow I'm washing my dogs, walking Glenna's, and then trying to read 100 pages for galleys... and I really really need to find a way to bump up my dog clients.
You know what I'll do? I'll post the first scene of my Trek fic. It's evil. Mwahahaha.
J
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6:42 pm
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Dear f'list:
Re: last post
You guys ROCK, and I really appreciate that -- as of this writing, let's not make me liar now -- even when some heavily charged things and concepts were brought in, it remained a conversation rather than an argument. I'm so proud of you. I could cry. ;-D
I'll be responding to some, but probably not all comments. Especially as some of the conversations didn't have to do with me anymore, and you're all adults. ;-D
J
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8:19 am - Question for my f'list
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Okay, so I was talking to a friend last night, and we were talking about slash. Specifically, we were talking about taking a character that had shown no gay proclivities at all, and slashing them. And I was saying that I had a hard time doing that; that I needed some reason, even if it's just "they're repressing like mad -- I mean, I could totally see them being gay," or "Well, they're not gay, they're bi," or "Okay, so really they're mostly straight and had just never thought about it much before." (Some characters are just not slashable, imo. Booth, from Bones? Not slashable. Robin-Tim? He might experiment, but ultimately he's straight.)
Anyway, I'm tangenting. So my friend asked, "If you can turn straight characters gay, is it also okay to make gay characters straight?" And my instant reaction was, "No, even though it's hypocritical." And then she asked why.
Now, here's the thing. I can look at my own emotional reaction, and I can figure out that it has to do with the fact that there's a threat there: society really would like to turn gay people straight. I know further that because society is biased against homosexuality is also why it's not okay. I can even come up with parallels in race or gender, instead of sexual orientation. And I know it gives me the same feeling that the following statement gives me:
If a group of women are talking about the horrors of rape, and someone steps in and says, 'but men get raped, too,' that's wrong, even though men do get raped and that should also be addressed.
In both statements -- the gay one and the rape one -- I get turned around, because both are true. If you're going to write or talk about one thing, you should write or talk about the opposite. And yet both leave me going, "...no. I'm not sure why, but no."
I know that in both cases, the intruding factor (men/rape and gay to straight) are the powerful, socially accepted bits of society, and I know that has something to do with it. And because someone once explained the women/rape thing to me (though I've forgotten most of it. :() I know that it has to do with a power imbalance and being told, "You are not allowed to empower yourselves here." But then I think, "That can't possibly apply to fiction, because there's LOTS of fiction in the world and we can read something else. Telling someone they can't write something is just ridiculous." (And yet, we tell people they can't write in racism, so... And personally, I do think authors ought to take responsibility for what they write, and not write things like being a stalker is okay if it's true love. *coughs*)
And if I don't understand it, I'm likely to make the same mistake elsewhere. Also, then I can't explain it to someone else. Luckily for me, while I was mulling this over last night, I remembered that I have a f'list that's really smart and more knowledgeable about me when it comes to stuff like -isms. :D
So-- help?
J
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| Friday, July 10th, 2009
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4:27 pm - Reposted!
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From nute, who rocks my socks.
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2009/07/a-bowl-full-of-penguin.html#comments
Regarding a baby penguin born at the San Diego Zoo:
“They had laid fertile eggs in the past, but had never been successful in rearing their
young,” says Sheri Horiszny, Director of Animal Programs. “As a result, we researched the
histories of all of our penguins to find one with parenting success. We have a male that had
successfully fostered eggs before, and we placed the egg with him and his partner, also a male.
The foster pair were dedicated incubators, and now are feeding the chick well.”
Support Gay Penguin Adoption.
*FALLS OVER WITH GLEE*
J
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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5:52 pm
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Craaazy week.
Last night I emailed Torquere Press to ask if they were going to have a table at Yaoi*Con this year, and could I drop off bookmarks or something? They emailed back to suggest I do a book signing. I laughingly pointed out that my books are all in ebook. They laughingly said my books would be in print.
I said, "Wait, what?"
Ohyeah. They're planning on them coming out in print the same day In The Rough releases -- Aug 12. HOLY SHIT.
So now I have two more books to give a once-over before mid next week. THIS IS SO COOL. Also, insane. I basically have 600 pages to read over 5 days, and I'm not a speed reader. >.< I can't even fade in and out -- which is how I normally read -- but have to pay attention to the words I'm seeing, or I can't catch typos. ACK. But! Two of my books will be in print soon. :DD
I haven't decided yet if I"m going to the gym or not tonight. Points against:
1. OMG tired.
2. PMSy, and so have cramps.
3. Life is about to be insane, and I'd rather stay home and be mellow.
4. I could do half of it here.
5. Don't wanna.
Points for:
1. If I just do the weight stuff, it'll only take me 20 minutes even with driving.
2. It'll make me feel good about myself, because I went even when life is not conducive to going.
3. I can skip the ones that might make me more crampy.
4. Despite #3, I usually feel less crampy afterward.
5. If I don't go for a class, just go for weights, I can still come home and be mellow.
6. It'll remind me that it really is possible to keep up the gym even when I'm busy.
7. If I am reminded, and then continue to go over the weekend and next week when life's extra insane (as opposed to today when it's only mildly insane), I'll feel better overall and have more stamina to get through the craziness.
...Points for are slightly in favor. >.> Okay, here's my plan.
1. eat.
2. Go to the gym briefly.
3. Come home, have a glass of wine, be proud of myself, and work on Trek fic.
4. Go to bed early.
Woot! Wish me luck. :D
J
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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11:53 pm
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Alas, alas, the Star Trek fic of DOOM has gotten OUT OF CONTROL. I'm at 7,300 words and if I'm VERY optimistic it might be half done.
Who am I kidding? It's so not half done. Maybe a quarter.
DAMN YOU, PLOTBUNNIES.
Also, there has been Kirk/Spock separation. But never fear! I'm sure it's temporary. Kind of unexpected, too, because I'd firmly told myself I wasn't doing that, wrote the bits that would head it down the other path, and next thing I know separation had completed, Houston, and we had a problem. Namely, my fic just got longer and a lot more complex.
Um.
Also, though it started out with Kirk torture (which will continue), there is also about to be Spock torture (which will be briefer, I think).
OTOH, I got 97 pages of my galley edits done today and the edits on Hero In Me finished, so I'm allowed to be writing fic. OTotherOH, I've forgotten how much FUN fic writing is. Writing one-shots in FL isn't as fun. It's enjoyable, or I wouldn't do it, but mostly it's to tie up plotlines, and I basically don't expect feedback. But writing Star Trek fic? SO MUCH FUN. Even though I'm still doing it alone. Huh. But it's definitely a different feeling, and I can write fic alone when I'm not up to chatting and being social, so that's nice.
Alsoalsoalso (or, if you prefer, OTOOOH), this is supposed to be Kirk/Spock eventually, and ohlord I'm nowhere near that yet. Um. Methinks it might be one of those stories where the slash is totally the subplot to the mind-funkiness and escape. But I could be wrong. >.>
J
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3:33 pm - RIP, eyebrows
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I got a phone call today that my phone insisted was from Bermuda. Luckily, I recognized the country code and picked it up, and my girlfriend's lovely voice (a little slow with that sexy, happy tone to it, with that gorgeous accent, and lower than mine... Mmm...) said, "Hello, gorgeous."
:DDDD
So I talked to Dark, and she seems so happy lately. And she'll have internet back tomorrow, and WOOT I got to talk to her TWICE in ONE WEEK. :D
In other news, with all the stress lately and the fact that checking galleys for typos leaves my hands mostly free as I read, I've just about decimated my eyebrows. Poor eyebrows. *pets them* It's really weird to think, "I'm plucking my eyebrows. STOP." and be unable to take my hands away. Compulsion, I know, but... No wonder my dad had a hard time not drinking, if this is the way it was. :P
Maybe I'll go put tape on them. >.>
Now... I think I'll take a break, then go back to galleys. Editing is going MUCH faster than I thought, so I have breathing room again. WOOT!
J
PS my happy Dark icon! For she makes me smile. :D */mush*
PPS Hey, ashlan, didn't you give me Supernatural season 1? Or was it 2?
PPPS Did I loan season 1 to anyone out there? I can't find it ANYWHERE. :(((
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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6:56 pm
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Good news!
Both the short story, Hero In Me, and In The Rough had easy edits, so those are done with. Phew.
Now I'm going to go watch Bagger Vance and mellow out.
J
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Hell of a day yesterday. And I don't mean that in the good way. The short of it is that I downloaded dropbox, it and my computer got drunk and had a party, made all sorts of little baby files, and deleted my documents folder. mtyvlcro possessed my computer from afar, spent 3 hours trying to fix everything, gave me a shopping list, I went and got what we needed, we spent another 2 hours trying to fix things, then another 1+ some while one program did its thing, spent another thirty minutes trying one last thing, and at the end of it all, my documents were still gone.
Luckily I'd already had my anxiety attack earlier in the day, so I was good.
Also, I missed the full moon yoga. :(
Today I was woken by my biggest client on the phone, who has said things like, "I want you to keep walking my dogs after they're trained" and "you're not going to leave me when you get busy, right?" Only today she was saying that she wanted to take her (dog aggressive) dog to the dog park and this shouldn't take so long and she'd spent all this money and yadda yadda yadda. That was not such a great way to wake up.
So I went to yoga class this morning, came home and got dressed so that when I saw Glenna today I looked respectable and trustworthy, talked her down from her frustration (turns out her dogs were being monsters this morning, is most of the problem) and got the short story edited which is due at the end of this week. YAY.
I'm a week behind in work, but luckily most of the stuff in my docs folder was backed up. I lost last week's worth of Second Hope editing, but it's not due until the 20th, THANK GOD. I lost a bunch of paperwork for the dog business, but Glenna has copies so I'll get those back. The thing I was most worried about losing I have backed up. Again with the THANK GOD.
To get my Vaio wiped and reformatted will cost me $200. To buy a netbook will cost $250. Guess what I'm most likely to do. >.> I did delete a ton of stuff today, and it is running fast, though. Yay.
Okay. To borrow a page from Indigo...
5 good things!
1. I went to yoga today! I did well, too, and for a little while afterward my back didn't even hurt. I remembered not to push myself, and not to compare myself to everyone else in the class, and yay me.
2. Nezu came over last night, and we watched What Women Want and talked about my last post and her response, and where we did and didn't agree. Actually, we agree with each other and totally re-worded her response so we agreed with it, too. *amused* Only, um, just in our heads. Not on LJ. >.>
3. My short story Hero In Me, will be available on the 18th! Yay!
4. There aren't any major edits on the short story or In The Rough, just minor ones. I might be able to get everything done despite the computer snafus.
5. Umm... possible new netbook in the offing?
In the next few months, I have these extra bills:
$1000+ car bills
$250 or so - computer stuff
$800 last years taxes. (Note to self: you need to get going on setting aside money for this year's taxes.)
$450 saved so I can go to England and still pay my bills.
I have about two months. Last month I thought I was going to be able to pull no money from savings to pay my bills, but at the last minute three clients canceled and pushed training back, so I ended up pulling $400 from savings. OUCH. So as of now I have yet to make it through a month without pulling money, much less setting any aside.
*cries*
I'm going to go back to editing, now. If you guys don't see me around, it's because I'm trying to make deadlines. :P
J
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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8:20 pm
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OH YEAH ALSO, I need Star Trek fic recs, guys. Any rating, any characters that include Kirk, Spock, or Bones, any genre. I've already gone through all the ones alestar and grey_sterling have posted. It's TRAGIC. Help a fellow geek.
J
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Went to a new church today! They believe pretty much everything I do. I'm still comparing it to Agape, which isn't at all fair. You put several thousand people in a room all feeling celebratory and it's infectious, like 100 people can never be. I'll probably go back to this one. I think I heard what I needed to, even if it isn't massively huge. (I really liked massively huge, even if I never realized it until now. It made everything more emotional than intellectual for me, which is kind of what I need.) But this new church has a 'young adult' group, which they laughingly told me used to be for people 20-30, and is now 20-50, because people keep outgrowing it. ;-D They meet up twice a month for... I forget, after church, and once an additional month for movie night. There were a lot of people really involved in activities around and whatnot, so that was very cool. It's an active church, even if it's small.
Then I talked to darksideofstorm on the phone, which was BRILLIANT and I felt all warm'n'fuzzy. She seems like she's doing well, and really enjoys her new job. I got her address to send her her present, and it felt all normal to talk to her on the phone, even though we so rarely do. *laughs* In Sept I get to go see her for 2 weeks, so that'll be BRILLIANT. This is the longest we've gone without seeing each other since we met. :P
Then I took the dogs to downtown San Jose, but it was dead. :P We sat around for a while, then I hit the grocery store and got a gazillion pounds of meat. My bleh mood is back from yesterday. I think it may be PMS. I'm definitely weepy. :P Also, brain dead. Which is frustrating, because I had really good days Thurs and Fri...
ah, well. Maybe I'll go watch movies.
J
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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11:55 pm - Happy 4th of July!
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5:04 pm
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I have comments to respond to! But probably not today. *is dying*
But, enjoy:
Manhattan Synagogue makes $10k off Westboro Baptist Church protest
The short of it: When they got word that the Westboro Baptists were going to picket their gay-friendly Synagogue, the Synagogue's leaders asked supporters to pledge $1 or more for every minute the protest lasted. When it was over, they'd made $10,000. Dude.
I think I love this synagogue. :D
J
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