Yo! People!

[dwgm]

Greetings from your Geek Mama!

Have not posted in a while, so must play catch up. Not that my life is the Kaleidoscopic Festival of Important and/or Fascinating Activity it is for most of you. But I am still extant, and thinking of you all. I won't bother putting it behind a cut: most everybody is spamming my flist with huge posts, so why should I be any different, eh?

Worked. Shuffled Papers. Contended with Irate, Irrational Parents who do not seem to realize They Are The Problem for both themselves and their children. Strange. It's quite obvious to the rest of us.

Went to Tapioca Express WAY too often. OMG, is that good. And they have FOOD now, so I can go for lunch. Good Lord. As though I'm not fat enough. Of course eating isn't my problem, it's lack of exercise, since all I do is read or, alternately, write on the computer. This must stop. Well, not stop, but a wider variety of activity needs to be crammed into my DAY, so I can fit into my clothes again. I will address this issue. Tomorrow. (Or maybe Saturday.)

Golf last Saturday with shockwavesix, and Art&Marian. Got a four and a couple of fives, some real sixes and some six+'s (there is no score higher than that in GeekMamaGolf). Fun was had, followed by breakfast out.

Sunday was dr_mrow's birthday. (I won't tell you how OLD he is, but it begins with a three and ends with an oh!) This had escaped my notice, somehow, but ladymora told me on their arrival from the Great Western War to pick up Duchess the Beautiful (who was an excellent guest: there was a little hissing and growling, but nothing worse). Fortunately I had made an Excellent Dinner (Pork Loin with Garlic and Marjoram; Baked Yams; Spinach Souffle; Sliced Tomato; Apple Sauce) and we'd picked up a Birthday Pie at Marie Callenders, and I even had an Appropriate Gift, my barely used copy of Quicksilver, which he had been admiring. It was perfect. The Mrows stayed overnight, too, and I took them out for Day After Birthday Breakfast the next morning.

Have been ecstatically reading more chapters of the superb Trochal by tessabeth and Mortal Hazards by viva_gloria. Such excellence. New friend porridgebird got the message, and has been reading and exclaiming incoherently, too.

The lovely tessabeth is kindly lending me beta aid in doing some much-needed editing on Harry & the Pirate. I created a community, harry_and_jack for this purpose and am posting two or three chapters a day, editing as I go. I hope to have all three stories up by the end of the month (not sure this is realistic as they total about 120,000 words), at which point I hope to start the fourth one, for which I've been developing A Plot. Such mindless fun. tessabeth is the best! So ecstatic to have someone to beta my stories, and such a fantastically talented someone at that.
ETA: Stayed up until 2:30 A.M. editing chapter six. One would think editing something already written wouldn't take quite much time, but this is apparently untrue. Perhaps my goal of finishing the other 48 chapters by Nov. 1 is unrealistic.

Tomorrow morning the Apple Tree Killers will return to plant our Mid-Pride Peach Tree. TGIF!

Comments

[shockwavesix.livejournal.com]

I think I like GeekMamaGolf. Never having to write a higher number than 6 on my score card would be nice. You know that June is probably going to school all of us this Sunday, right? Oh well =P

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Well, I am so bad I don't even care. You, however, have the whole Male Ego thing going. *G*

[shockwavesix.livejournal.com]

Well at least there's enough of a skill difference, or age difference, or whatever between Art and I to keep us from butting heads.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I thought it went quite well, actually. Hopefully we will just be out there having fun.

[chainedbunny.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you're getting your new tree, congratsamalations.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! It's about f**king time, eh? (Excuse my Fr*nch.)

[layah.livejournal.com]

You have gotten me hooked on impofperversity you evil person, and I don't even like slash. I started from the beginning, and I keep intending to post a comment or something so they know I'm enjoying it, but haven't got around to it. I decided it was more fun to read than review, plus everything I'm reading is so old. I'm hoping to catch up sometime, because they can't possibly write as fast as I can read, can they?

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the most delightful, EvOl thing you ever read?? Holy cats, it just gets better and better as you go along. are you reading all three stories? You really should give them a comment so they know you are out there--there's nothing authors like more, believe me. But I'll let tessabeth know in my next email to her, too--she's helping me edit Harry & the Pirate, as I said, so we've been corresponding.

Oh, they are fast writers! Much faster than me. You will catch up, though. I think tessabeth only has one chapter to go on Trochal (sadly) and I know she has another project she's going to be working on in November for NaNoWrMo. viva_gloria is in the middle of her Mortal Hazards though, and it is just a wonderful story.

So happy to know you're enjoying it, as I have just been obsessed since I started reading it!

[tessabeth.livejournal.com]

Hiya! Geek_mama pointed me here - I just wanted to say how very glad I am to hear that you're enjoying impofperversity - it's such an obscure crossover that every happy reader is very much cherished :) And better still, you are reading despite not liking slash! (Am quite astonished that you are plowing your way through it, given a caveat of that magnitude - you must be very brave/skipping big chunks - but shall definitely interpret that as a Good Thing!!)

An no, we cannot possibly write as fast as you can read, though we are giving it a damn good try ;)

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

tessabeth pointed me here -- so glad that you're enjoying the fic (which is certainly pouring out, at least from me this weekend, at a rate that precludes reading anything ... this has to stop!) Do read the Stephenson novel(s) from which we steal borrow everything if you get a chance -- they're excellently written, and (disappointingly for me, but YMMV) there is much less slash.

And *kisses* to geek_mama_2 for pimping our little corner of depravity. Am very happy that I'm writing something you like enough to recommend so very enthusiastically!

[layah.livejournal.com]

I really did intend to post a comment in a spot more relevant than here, but I just haven't got around to it. Next second I get a chance I plan on reading Quicksilver, and no, I don't skip large chunks (often the sex also furthers plot, so I can't really skip it) mostly it just makes me go "oh, I don't want to do that" I'm fairly used to it, when I was 12 I started reading books that happened to have sex, and at that time any form of sex gave me that reaction. The way you write the characters (both Sparrow who I know, and Shaftoe who I don't) is fun and amusing and interesting, and that's what really draws me. Keep it up!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

*kisses* back, for the brilliant writing. Makes me so happy!