Life: generalities

[neveralarch]

Made it back from London a good six days ago, for those of you keeping track at home. It was definitely awesome. I went to 12 museums in 6 days, walked around so much I broke one of my boots, tried really hard to buy new boots and got the Thick of It book instead, and met a ton of people. Including aralias (on purpose) and x_los  (in a random coincidence), who were both really nice and somehow willing to put up with my weird and slightly exhausted self.

I was so weird on that London trip, I don't even know. I'm pretty sure I was high on museums or something. (I am still ALL ABOUT the museums in London - I will spare you my 530 photos of the British Museum, but I haven't decided whether I'll spare you the essay on the erasure of procurement that every museum ever has done. It's sad when there's more visible documentation from your average sideshow than from your average museum.)

In actual fandom news, I did finally manage to listen to Gallifrey Series 4. It was... good? I listened it on my overnight bus to London, and loved the first two episodes, especially the first five minutes of the first episode. The second two, well. First off, I hadn't slept much, and kept having to go back due to having dropped off for 10-20 minutes. I think that probably had an impact on why I didn't like them as much - it wasn't helped by the fact that the plot device was starting to wear thin for me and that Braxiatel was gone AGAIN. My brother and I got so upset the first time he left, they didn't need to pull that for a second time. I have listened to the extras, and I do understand why they did it, but. Oh well. Overall, I did like it a lot! Here's hoping Series Five doesn't take as long.

Non-Gallifrey related, I finished the first draft of my remix, so now I have to actually go back and make it good. Right now it's kind of a mash of two different themes and as many random references as I could cram in, so not much on the sense-making front. But I have a first draft, which is a huge relief. I think I might miss DS9 rewatch tomorrow, which is SAD but not sad enough to make me stay up until four in the morning or whatever to watch with the other group. And I started engulfing White Collar a few days ago and have now seen all but the last episode of the first season - it's a really good thing that most of my classes haven't started yet, there's no way I could do that otherwise.

Okay, I'm going to go buy groceries or do reading for class or something useful. How are other people's lives doing?

Comments

[aralias.livejournal.com]

how exciting! a post about your RL :) hope it continues.

530 seems like quite a small number when you think about how long you spent in museums. i guess that's the battery-death/selfish galleries for you.

on a different note, that reccing slot you signed up to of your own free will begins tomorrow.

[neveralarch]

Oh no, the 530 are just of the British Museum. I have 1,533 photos overall. It's kind of telling that a third of my photos from London are from the British Museum, though - none of the other museums have more than a couple hundred to their name.

Right, reccing! I will get on that. Incidentally, I don't know if you still have time to look over my remix fic? Only it really needs it and you did mention that you might be able to before I possibly scared you off by complaining about how much I hate being betaed.

[aralias.livejournal.com]

i have plenty of time, since i am a procrastinator extraordinaire! and i can definitely beta if you want to be betaed (and by someone who ignored the british museum part of your photograph count). i can pretend i don't know that you are sticking pins into figures of me/all betas everywhere.

email me anyway (if i haven't scared you off) - and with a link to the original. although i presume i could work it out.

[aralias.livejournal.com]

whoops. and failed to attach this to your comment. never mind - you get the gist...

p.s. if i didn't say 'actually don't watch miranda' while you were in london, i should say it now. because i rewatched the first episode of series 2 the other day, and i recalled how embarrassing it was, and i dont think there would be much you'd be able to not fast forward through.

p.p.s. tell you what you should watch though...

[neveralarch]

Okay, awesome. I'll clean it up and try to get it to you today or tomorrow. It's not very long, I should have mentioned - like 3.5k. Luckily enough I don't actually have any pins at the moment, so you are safe from harm.

Ha, I'll take that under advisement for when I run out of White Collar. For the movie, though, I'm still waiting for a watchalong! I'm not going through that alone.

[aralias.livejournal.com]

3,500 is fine - and will be a useful way of not writing either of mine (yes, i haven't finished the first one, but the pinchhit was so up my street). i'm planning on doing what i have done previously and hit the word count, post for the deadline, and then tweak/write over the period that the archives are resting pre-opening, but should i manage to finish either pre-that, it'd be nice to have you look it over, if you're willing :)

also, since it's eric roberts's birthday perhaps a watch along could be arranged very very soon... erin asks when you are free, since it is clearly v important that you attend :p

[neveralarch]

Oh, sure, no problem. (This is why I generally hide from pinch-hit lists, I would do too much. Good luck with your fics!)

Hmm. I have a bunch of weird times - like Wednesday night and Thursday and Friday afternoons. Also Saturday afternoon, which seems more like a reasonable time. I could probably shake other weekend times free, I'm generally not doing anything important. I mean, not as important as watching the TV movie.

[aralias.livejournal.com]

I'm generally not doing anything important. I mean, not as important as watching the TV movie.

i lolled.

also, it is trufax.

erin and i think friday afternoon going into evening (if people are thus inclined) since it is a bank holiday!

there were loads of who pinch hits this year, and i was managing to resist them very easily due to... not having finished my fic at all, but then... but then. it will be pathetically obvious which fic is mine when they come out. i don't think anyone's guessed before, but this will be like 'i wonder which one was katy's- oh, it's that one, never mind' - for the pinch hit anyway. the regular fic that i didn't choose myself is maybe slightly more obscure (though i think mentions of braxiatel may be a bit telling...)

[neveralarch]

Okay, cool. I'll look forward to it!

Man, I'm really curious about the pinch hit now. I'm trying to imagine something that would be so obvious, and all I can come up with is actually stuff you've already written, so I think my imagination must be tired or something. (Also, I sent you mine because I couldn't look at it anymore. Thanks again!)

[aralias.livejournal.com]

well, maybe it will be a surprise thennnnnnnn...

except for how i will probably send it to you first.

and yes, got your fic. will look at it tomorrow on the tube, as i'm trying to put some words down at the moment (unsuccessfully) :)