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Current Music: Evie Tornquist -- "Pass It On" (mj)

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PSA

Not directed at anyone particularly, but prompted (sort of) by a couple of posts on

fanficrants: for anybody who needs help picturing travel times in the US in general and in Texas in particular, I offer this bit of anonymous rhyme that, I can attest from long experience, is still true even in the age of the automobile and the interstate highway system and 70-mph speed limits between towns:

The sun has riz,
The sun has set,
And here we iz
In Texas yet.

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Writing update

Big Bangs are DONE. \o/ May need some tweaks yet, but the hard part's over.

spn_gen_bigbang doesn't have a posting schedule yet, but I do know I'll be posting sometime on or after Sept. 5.

lotrgficbigbang posts on August 1; once the story's up on that comm, I'll post it on

sarosefics and elsewhere.
Now I guess I need to work on clearing out some of the other bunnies in that SPN/Silm hutch....

Oh, and there's a bunch more fic up on

cazadoretx, if you're interested. (*Told* you the 'verse had exploded on us.)

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Die Prinzen--"Das Nervt" (mj)

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Argh.

Don't you hate it when you're writing about characters eating and end up making yourself hungry? :P
(I'd fix supper, but I'm going to a friend's house for pancakes in an hour.)

The good point is that I'm over the 10k mark on my

lotrgficbigbang story. It's not all in one piece yet, but still.

Current Mood: cheerful

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Hey, SPN friends...

... ya wanna buy a bunny?

Just saw this in the comments on Argghhh!:
If you ever get to Ogden, Utah, visit the Union Station Museum. You can gaze upon the hand built prototypes of many of John M. Browning's inventions, including the [Colt M]1911. And most of the Winchester lever guns, and the 1885 Single Shot, Also M1895 "potato digger" machine gun serial number 1, and the prototype of the 37mm cannon later used in the P-39 and on PT boats. Lots of other cool stuff there too.

Join others in worshipping there, at the altar of the true American firearms genius.

Utah has declared January 24, 2011 as John M. Browning Day, with a big ceremony and display of guns in the state Capitol on the opening day of the 2011 session. One bill to be considered will be to designate the 1911 as the official Utah state gun.

Guess whose birthday that is? And whose gun that is?

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Da dada DA...

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Hrm.

Not that I need another idea for a long fic (I've got four in progress for SPN!), but... I just found out there's an A-Team Big Bang being organized.
Anybody care to prompt me?

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Muppet Show theme (mj)

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sigh

Y'know how they say celebrity deaths come in threes?
Robert Culp died yesterday. :(

Not much news from my RL, and most of the writing I'm doing is original stuff that I can't/don't want to post online. Sorry. Might be coming up with a March Madness-related fic soonish, though.

Current Mood: stressed

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Grah.

Why is it so hard to write what I'm supposed to be writing?
I'm five pages into an eight- to ten-page paper that's due tomorrow for my Creative Writing class. Only the grad students have this assignment. The topic: our personal theory/aesthetic of fiction, what we think fiction should do and how we try to do it.
I've got three and a half pages drawn from Lewis' "On Stories" and "Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's to Be Said" and Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories." I don't know how I'm going to fill the rest with my own blather.

Oh, wait, I've found another block quote. That'll help. :D

Current Mood: stressed

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Bah.

Why does every other project seem more interesting at the moment than the midterm that's due at 12:30 tomorrow?

Humbug.

EDIT: Twoooo o'cloooock an' awwwwwwll's wayulllllll... that is to say, FINITO!
Now I just have to slog through John Duns Scotus. XP

EDIT #2: Okay, Duns Scotus is WAY more complicated than Aquinas, even though (at least in this excerpt) he makes the same point. But this just made me laugh:

When it is argued that, "If there is no truth, it is true that there is no truth," the consequence does not hold, because truth is taken either for the basis of truth in the thing, or for truth in the intellectual act of composition and division, but if there is no truth, it is not true that there is no truth, either by the truth of the thing, because there is no thing, or by truth in the intellect, since there is no intellect.

It's "The Suicide of Thought"! :D