By Slanted Light

I was having rather a cool dream when I woke up this morning - I was visiting some distant northern island, and was about to leave, but the last thing was that I was going to have a picnic lunch with MS! His partner was around, it was just a friendly thing, and we didn't actually get there, it was just gathering stuff together, but - how fun! A bit odd, I grant you, but I think the island was from talking with someone about borderlands and frontiers, and MS was cos I've been eyeing Hobson's Choice at the theatre in Bath and thinking that I'd better get on and get my ticket. *g* I'm hesitating a bit cos I've not been to the evening theatre on my own, and although it's fine, it's not an entirely comfortable thing, cos it's not like the movies when there are potentially other people on their own. Well, even that's more likely in the States, but still... But anyway - result! Cos I dreamed about it. *g* Although I do think it's unfair that I never dream about B/D - I've had a handful of dreams where older MS has turned up for some reason, but only one with B/D briefly appearing... *sighs*

Anyway - I really just popped back cos I wanted to post a Pros-y picture, just cos... and cos I've been thinking about Runner - this one! *g*There's just something about Doyle's body there, the slant of him under that t-shirt, especially next to Bodie's very solid stance...

Also, my bedtime zine-reading has most recently been my very favourite Voice-Over by elizabethoshea. I try not to read it too often, cos you don't want to wear out a favourite fic, but... it's still excellent. Hurt/comfort, partner worry, beautifully drawn sexual tension, a real background, and when you're not smiling at something, you're giggling out loud at something else... *g*

Okay, I am sort of mostly through my taxes, held up annoyingly not by the bit that I have to do, but trying to work out what in the world the Job 3 chaps thought they were doing... *sighs* I did laundry. I... um. Oh, I posted about palelyloitering of course, and thank you everyone's who's replied so far! I am mulling... *g*

I read a bit. I'm reading Gil Hale fic right now, because even though it's gen fic, it's episode fic, with all the slash that implies... I'm even reading the Pros/Sentinel crossovers, which are interesting, since I don't know the Sentinel except in theory. They're good though, Hale is very good. *g*

You know, I think what I need is...











Our lads, together. What d'you reckon? *g*

A wee Prosfic for heliophile_oxon, because she made just the comment, that along with these pics, inspired it... *g*

( Pros fic - Made Up )

Hey, I did it! This one's for milomaus... *vbg*

( The Loosed White Horses )

Okay, I am really in need of things to cheer up today - I ended up missing archery last night, which I'd been really looking forward to, because the sodding garage kept my sodding car without telling me they were going to. They did squeeze it in when they were busy, and I do appreciate that, but I also said I needed to use it that night, and said that I could probably wait until next week if they were busy... And just... gargh! I was really looking forward to archery... *sniffs sadly* It's technically club night tonight, so I could go then - but when I went last Friday it was all locked up anyway, and I don't particularly have faith that I'll get my car back tonight either, to be honest...

On the bright side, milomaus wrote me a wee inspirational lads-and-archery moment last night, and I decided to have a go at being inspired by it to cheer myself up a bit before I start work... *g*

ETA - I do have a picture, one that goes perfectly with my wee fic below! Thanks gvenanne! *g*

( Prosfic - Bows and Arrows by Slantedlight and Milomaus )

Hmmn. Okay, I do feel a bit better about the day now... *g* What a shame I don't know of any pics of the lads and archery - now that would be something to see... *g*

( And today's work )

It's Friday, right? That's got to be good in itself. And it's still sunny out, and I've got a bloody bicycle - I just need to sort out the tyres - and the local Co-op sells red wine... *g* So we will have a good Friday. And you too!

Well rats - the sun shone today, and it was twenty degrees - twenty degrees Celsius! - and even I couldn't stay inside on a day like that, so I wrote a bit this morning, but then I hoyed myself down to the garden centre to finally see if I could make something of my wee gravel yard, and then there was potting and transplanting and then there was aching aching back and collapsing, and so it was quite late when I carried on writing a bit more, but I did. I started yesterday with just over 600 words, and now there's just over 2500 words, but do you have any idea how hard it is to get the lads from a suburban allotment to... well, to this, which was my first picture prompt?! Blimey-O'Reilly, dollidaydream..! I spent a reasonable amount of the day with my hands in compost trying to work out how it might best be done... *g* But I did it. The story below's at a natural chapter-end, but it's not, after all, a complete story yet - rats, and apologies. So I'm adding the next installment to tomorrow's work day instead...

( Crossed )

My last job for today (well, sort of) - some writing. I beat 165 words to just over 500, and it turned out they were Pros after all... just a snippet of a moment of them, but it's still words. *g*

( A Shiver of Grey )

The trouble with Wednesday is that it's Wednesday - you can see freedom from there, but there's all the drudgery to get through first. Tuesday's even worse, though if you're lucky you can snag onto some of Monday's freshness. Thursday... well, now you can just about see the weekend, like catching the scent of the seaside on the air before all that blue sparkle comes into view... *g*

So I will try the Virtual Office again today, despite two days of disaster-feeling (I am actually up to date for my deadline, it just didn't feel as if I was yesterday). But I shall format my day a little differently, I think.

I also woke up realising that it was all wrong that I'm not currently planning a trip somewhere. I haven't for ages, and I should. Actually I do have some trips coming up, all to London, which I can start planning (one of them around a Job 2 course, but the other for a weekend of chat and chilling out in London!). I have a wine course voucher from my brother to use up - trouble is, it's an evening's tasting etc., based in Cambridge, where I'm not any more. But I should just book it and go, cos that'll be different too. And I've taken a week off in May of course. The trouble with that is that I need to renew my passport and my right to abode before I can go jaunting off anywhere too exotic, and before Job 2 craziness kicks off. Job 2 craziness will of course use up all of June and July really, but then... I did say I wanted to get to Alaska this year, if my long-suffering mate is a) still there, and b) still speaking to me. Maybe I can incorporate a bit of wandering into that... *g*

And then I realised that I didn't have anything planned for this weekend except The Voice at 7pm on Saturday and Poldark at 9pm on Sunday, and maybe I should see if I can find something more exotic to do then

Right.

1. Reading The Book Thief - I'm supposed to be finished for book group tonight, but it didn't grab me I started reading, and so I didn't pick it up often enough. I'm nearly 70% through though...
2. Fiddle practice
3. Riverford delivery put away
4. Worked out the right-aligned picture thing, with the writing formatting around it rather than above and below it - thanks owned_by_a_cat!
5. Replied to attend Lunch Club talk thingie on 16th
6. Visited milomaus's desk...
7. Work! 10.30-11.20 (5 pages, pretty solid work. Suppose that's just how long this one takes...)
8. A wee wander of other desks... And it's World Book Day! Other people's desks are so much more interesting than mine... *g*
9. Write Pros - yeay, Part 4 written! I do like managing at least a bit of writing every day...
10. Snack and The Book Thief 414/560...
11. Work! 12.30-1.50. 11 pages, 32/43 - much better pace! Lunch now...
12. And stopping by a few desks, and to chat at my own... *g*)
13. Lunch and The Book Thief. 497/560 - maybe I will do this!
14. Fiddle practice.
15. Work. 3.15-4.15. 42/42.
16. Download future assignment.
17. Hacktrack mile walk. Fresh air! Sunshine!
18.Break - The Book Thief - Finished! All the way to 5.40pm, but finished!
19. Work! 0/28-8/28
20. Bookgroup.

Finally - that fic I started the other day - written for the 13th picfor1000 challenge, the general theme of which was "unlucky", and my prompt picture is after the story. According to my count it's exactly 1000 words, but that did take some battling with Word, which insisted on counting ellipses as words, this time around... what?!

And with many thanks to milomaus, kiwisue, jessebee and shooting2kill for last-minute beta-reading and some excellent saves. *g*

( An Angel in the Architecture )

So unfair - two and a half hours just went by whoosh when I'd finished work and could write as much as I wanted... How did it get to be 1.30am already? (Hmmn -okay, 2am!) But it worked! I got my work done today, and I wrote some Pros as well, and it might not be great Pros, but it's the lads. Yeay. *g* So very nice to be working in this virtual office today, people popping in and out - I might have to open my door tomorrow too... *vbg*

( Not in the Bush Now by Slantedlight )