Random this and that

[solafiamma]

It's so beautiful outside: sun and snow and ice-crystal-sparkly, and people have even shoveled their sidewalks for a change so I didn't have risk death or severe head trauma when I walked to work this morning, always a plus. The day before yesterday we had 100 km/hour winds. Yesterday snow. Weather, dude. You just never know these days.

And work? Is not sucking like a sucking thing today, yay for that, and I don't even <i>have</i> to work tomorrow except to check email, so double the yay.

Also: new episode of Supernatural tonight!

All in all, I think I'd have to give the day a B+.

A couple of questions for those of you who know these things:

- Other than the TrickyFish day challenge on February 2nd, are there any other popslash challenges on the horizon? The imminent horizon, that is, rather than May or June or, say, January 2025.

- Does anyone on my flist who appreciates the wonder that is MCR know whether or not Gerard Way can cook? My MCR canon is shaky like whoa.

- Why does my lip balm taste so freaking AWFUL???

Comments

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Remix presents a very interesting challenge. I've done it twice, and the first time it was easy and I loved it, the second time almost killed me. I'll probably do it again this year, because, at the very least, it's a good writing experience.

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

Almost killed you, huh? Well, now, THERE'S a recommendation. ;) I suppose it is a good writing exercise. I just. Hmmmm. That means I have to let someone disembowel one of my stories, doesn't it? Can I handle that, I wonder? Or is it just going to make me all cranky and homicidal? I suppose it would be interesting, in a way. That IS how the Remix works, isn't it?

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's how it works. The first time, someone wrote a coda to one of my stories, and it fit and was cute and it didn't hurt at all. Last year, mercutio remixed Flopping the Little Guy and she moved it to Atlantis. I was amused, because I'm not an SGA fan IN THE LEAST, and because that's the story I wrote for her for the 2003 DWNOGA.

What killed me, and I should be more circumspect about saying this publicly, is that the person I remixed last year had not written anything that I liked, and it was hard for me to pick a story for that reason. I spent a lot of time sending excerpts to people and saying, omg, look what I have to work with!

But it's a popslash story challenge, and I don't like to miss those.