Rose's Rambles

Fic roundup!

Sufficiently Advanced Technology, a Tok'ra Apocalypse timestamp
Two comment-fics for comment_fic and three from the hoodie_time winter-themed comment-fic meme
From the same meme, The Fifth-Grade Grinch, for a time-travel prompt by bellatemple
The Closer We Are to Danger, an SPN/SGA one-shot AU for spn_in_space
And a bit of hurt!Dean silliness, Ol' Diz

And have a meme, while I'm at it:
Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
( Well, this isn't all of them, but they're ones I haven't completely abandoned... )

It's been a few months since I last posted one of these... and really, there are too many new stories at cazadoretx to list here (14, if I've counted right), so I direct you to the master post if you need to catch up.
On sarosefics:
Ring the Freedom Bell, which I think is going to turn into a 'verse of SPN/Mission: Impossible crossovers
Laochanan, which is not exactly a crossover with The Golden Key
Crusaders, in which I wax medievalist (for spn_gen_bigbang)
Three comment-fics for the hoodie_time fever-fic meme
Mirror, co-written with jennytork

And just because I'm curious, here's a meme that I've seen... around:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. —Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do readers immediately look for?

If you see this, post a poem in your own LJ.

I've had Gerard Manley Hopkins on the brain for the last week or two, so I'll post the poems I've been thinking about (more than one, but they're sonnets).

( God's Grandeur )
( As kingfishers catch fire )
( Pied Beauty )

Haven't done one of these in a long time, but the last line is what prompted me to go ahead and post it:



Twenty pages to go. I'll come up for air 'fore long. *waves*

Having used LAUNCHcast for this, I fudged a bit (left out instrumentals and a handful of new songs I don't know and don't care for) and went with Fondy's 25-song version, and it *almost* works as a real poem. :D See if you can place the lines!
EDIT: Just discovered that I missed one.

Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

So Hard to Love You

Lay down your sweet and weary head.
Many a tear has to fall.
Love, love me, darling,
Lollipop, lollipop, oh, lolli, lolli, lolli.
You think you’re alone there in your silent storm.

I worship You, Almighty God.

Well, I saw my baby walking.
(How old d’ya say your sister was?)
These arms of mine,
A winter’s day...
You think you’re so way out.

People, get ready, there’s a train a-comin’.

Stop in the name of love!
Uptown’s got its hustlers,
Oh, see, See See Rider.
It makes no difference where you come from.
I got a girl named Bony Maronie.

When this old world starts getting me down,
There’s a place up ahead and I’m goin’;
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea.
Heart and soul I fell in love with you,
You got a smile so bright.

All of You is more than enough for all of me.
You are Lord of creation and Lord of my life.

Baby, everything is all right.

Gacked from beloved_tree
SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Copy the text below, erase my answers, then use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things.. nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rose
4 LETTER WORD: rune
BOY NAME: Robert
GIRL NAME: Rachel
OCCUPATION: runner (of various kinds)
A COLOUR: red
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: raincoat
BEVERAGE: rooibos tea
FOOD: ragout (which I've never tried)
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: rugs
PLACE: Russia
REASON FOR BEING LATE: ran into a prof I needed to speak with
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: RODNEY! (if you're on SGA)

Read:
- Five Cat Who... books
- Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
- On Stories by CSL
- Selections from The JRRT Handbook, The CSL Handbook, and The Inklings Handbook by Colin Duriez
- A little bit of Gothic by Fred Botting
- About fifty pages (counting notes) of Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain
- Chapter 2 ("The Maniac") of Orthodoxy by GKC

Accomplished:
- Almost all of my laundry, except the stained tablecloth that I forgot to take home
- Five bits of practice quilt piecing
- Study questions for next Thursday
- Research for two of my book projects
- Several entries on my Religion and Lit annotated bibliography
- Preliminary notes for my Colonial American Lit paper

Acquired:
- One new haircut
- One new VCR
- Lots of background material for my novel
- Several URLs that I had bookmarked and lost during the last round of computer repairs

I think I managed to do at least one thing that I needed to do and one thing I wanted to do every day this week. :) And while I may not have gotten a *lot* of sleep, it was a chance to catch my breath and get my feet back under me, which I needed very badly.
And I got to be home and be with my parents and cuddle my puppy, which makes a huge difference at any time.


And so I don't double-post, here's a meme I gacked from fondued_jicama (and I'm doing only non-reality shows... otherwise I'd have things on there like Mythbusters and Forensic Files):

List Your Top Six Favorite TV Shows

1. Monkees
2. A-Team
3. Hogan's Heroes
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Poirot
6. Walker, Texas Ranger

( See the rest here )

Now I'd better head bedward before the next big storm cell gets here....

This should surprise nobody...

Farm or Ranch You scored 10 out of 40 on urban-rural and 17 out of 40 land intensity.

People know you as: The Milkmaid Quote: "You get to not mind the cow smell." Your score indicates that you prefer a rural atmosphere to an urban one and low land intensity. You’re no hermit though; you like other people and, once you start talking to them, other people like you. As far as you’re concerned there is no difference between living in a city and living in a suburb, not that you would want to do either because you’re probably a bit scared of cities in the first place. Examples of places you should live: Amish country, PA; Kansas All Categories Secluded Hideaway / Farm or Ranch / Small Town / Little City / Suburb / Streetcar Suburb / Rowhouse 'Hood / Downtown Loft

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 2% on urban-rural You scored higher than 15% on land intensity

Link: The Where Should You Live Test written by TwelveFloorsUp on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

List your six current favorite songs, then tag 6 friends to do the same. I was tagged by: eclectichick
(You're cruel, girl, you know that?!)

Um... these will be somewhat arbitrary, as the question is rather like asking about favorite books....
1. Daydream Believer by The Monkees
2. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by B. J. Thomas
3. Shine by Newsboys
4. Jesus Will Still Be There by Point of Grace
5. Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
6. One by Three Dog Night

And I tag... whoever wants to respond. (Standard Shirebound response, there....)


In other news, Brothers K is getting to me. I know I have to make it through Book XII, but my inner forensic scientist keeps screaming that this case would never fly in modern America. :P I suppose the thing to do is just be grateful that I'm not Russian (and that there's enough Schiller in the book to keep me distracted).

DOG - Your daemon may be a dog if you are loyal and caring, and like to know what is expected of you. You probably are very family oriented, and have a small group of friends that you are very close to, rather than a large group of acquaintances. You dislike confrontation, but you will stand up and fight for the people and issues that you really care about. You may prefer someone else to take the lead in a situation, although you would rather take the lead yourself than have the situation fall apart. You probably enjoy routine and order, but that doesn't mean you don't like to have fun. If anything, your friends probably know you for getting intense, child-like pleasure in the small things in life.
Take this quiz!


I looked at the other possible results, and the Hawk and the Songbird are okay fits, but I am such a dog(gy) person....


OT: mumstheword54 has had to go to the ER. I'll post more news when I get it, but please keep her in your prayers in the meantime.
EDIT: She's home, but she has to go back when they call her to so that she can get an ultrasound. The long and short of it is, they don't know what the problem is yet. It could be a kidney stone; it could be a gall stone; it could be an abscess somewhere. They gave her one med that's similar to an anti-inflammatory and some fluids, and she's feeling better. So we'll see what the ultrasound shows.