miscellaneous stuffs.

[minxy]

Apparently, my disc cache was far, far too full, meaning I missed all sorts of posts from the weekend because I hadn't emptied it. Don't want you to worry, though, I *think* I've caught up.

What I Found On Catching Up:

Jack smut from splash_the_cat for surrealphantast. Hee! NC-17, privacy backfiring.

Some nice UST by miera_c: Wet. Carson, SGA, G rated.

Eos = ducks_in_a_row posted J & D friendship circa S3, with marvelous team dynamics: Free Fall (part 1, with part 2 here)

JANET! Janet in the This is Not Wartime series! From cofax7! I'm so excited. Stands alone, apocafic: Live So Long, gen, link to part 1, three of four parts posted.

Funny: On Writing Sex, from the Boston Phoenix.

Sad: It's my birthday soon (three weeks from Saturday.) I really wanted to be defended by then, but we are still at a communications impasse with my advisor and now I must escalate and appeal to the committee (tactfully, so as not to offend chairwoman) for help motivating said advisor. Even if all goes as planned? There is no way I can defend before my birthday.

I have no idea why that is such a big deal to me. Maybe because it would have been nice to genuinely celebrate it? Relax completely and feel the love? I love celebrating my birthday. I love it when it's a big, fat, hairy deal. It's not every year one turns 29 for the first time. The whole thing makes me less inclined to be really proactive about the dissertation, because it's being proactive again, over and over, to very little effect.

I wanna party, and I have to do this incredibly depressing banging of the head against a wall instead.

Pride: Sam WIP went to beta. With the posting of the funny Jack self-love from splash_the_cat, I am even more excited to post Sam self-love.

Happy: surrealphantast recc'd The Sky is Falling. Thank you sweetie.

ETA: synecdochic and frostfire_17, John/Rodney, fellatio, v. guh. Nothing Hurts Like Your Mouth. NC-17. GUH.

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}} and shame on your advisor. i hope there is still a good birthday for you.

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are so welcome! I really loved your story. Everyone should read it. :)

Sam self-love is very rare! I'm so very curious now!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

He is a poo-poo head.

I have requested Neil Gaimon's Sandman graphic novel for my birthday, and birthdays where I get books are always good. Al. Ways.

Plus, I have a new default icon from sugargroupie that is the bestest icon evar. *loves Gina Torres*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oooooh! I hope you liiiiiiike it!

I've been getting Sam prompts from every direction in the ficathons I've signed up for, so this is an orphan sexy (I kept trying to land my characters in bed, but it just wasn't the story they wanted to tell, you know?) that I tweaked a bit to stand alone. It's probably the closest I've ever come to a PWP, actually. I still think there's a harmonic story in it, counterpoint to the sexy, but we'll find out if I expressed that well enough when I hear back from my lovely beta. :)

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Sad: It's my birthday soon (three weeks from Saturday.) I really wanted to be defended by then, but we are still at a communications impasse with my advisor and now I must escalate and appeal to the committee (tactfully, so as not to offend chairwoman) for help motivating said advisor. Even if all goes as planned? There is no way I can defend before my birthday.

Laaaaaaame. You know, I have never heard one thing from a graduate student that made me regret not going for a Ph.D. (I've heard the occasional happy professor, but grad students? No.) Stupid bureaucracy. And believe me, I know from bureaucracy.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

and he's made it very clear to everyone what a complete frelling jerk he is. grrrr.

holidays and books go together. and birthdays are a holiday, so....books for birthdays are required.

and that is a great icon. :)

[raqs.livejournal.com]

oh you poor thing. i understand your pain, I really do. I wanted SO BAD to defend before I turned thirty and i missed it. REALLY upset me - still irritates me, actually.

you will still be a Ph.D. when you are done. I promise. Don't let them get you down. And when you are done there will be plenty reason to celebrate.

thanks for recs! recs are happy!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Grad school is a long, slow disillusionment that science is not, in fact, the meritocracy it claims to be.

Yeah, I'm not at a point right now where I'd really be inclined to encourage anyone to pursue a Ph. D.

But you're completely on the point because it's not the science that's killing me, it's the power tripping with the socially inept people and the stupid, stupid beaurocracy. I have two really exciting papers here! TWO! That should be published! Plus the one that already has been published! Why are we not talking about them?

I ask you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Yeah, my time is being wasted but I'm trying to remember that it's not a bad trade if I come out of this with my degree and a good letter of recommendation.

Better be a durn good letter, though. Because this has taken a Long Time.

Recs are happy. Recs are very happy. Good stories solve a lot of problems.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

But *head/desk* I *head/desk* need *head/desk* a *head/desk* recommendation. *head/desk*

It sucks being the lowest guy on the totem pole.

Send porn. Or stories. Or books.

Escapism? Me? Nawwwwww......

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

*more hugs* and i wish i had a magic wand to make that man catch a clue.

sadly i have no stories...my mind is a rattling empty thing. but i'm sending you good thoughts and thinking of you.

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

is it horribly ego-full to point out that Nothing Hurts Like Your Mouth is by me also?

but thank you for reccing! because yes, that was--uh, fun to write. hee.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oh, Lord no! It was even in your LJ and I didn't credit... Sorry!

You're welcome for the partial credit, though. Will upgrade shortly.

(on a side note, I was just gushing about the Cam-biggest fanboy in the universe fic, in case you're ears were burning.)

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

That's okay! (and actually, though it was posted *by* me, it was posted *on* fic_gremlins, which is the community synecdochic and I have made up solely for our fanfiction collaborations. heh.)

And...*blush* I love that Cameron fic. I--just love it. *hugs it tight* and it makes me happy when other people love it too.