By Slanted Light

Started Saturday... It's been a busy week or so since I posted last, so that I barely know where to begin, and to cap it all off I'm having a weekend at home and although I was supposed to be doing family tree stuff yesterday, cos I might go to Ireland in a couple of weeks, and I was supposed to be writing today, I keep getting distracted. For instance, every now and then when I was in a rush at work in Cambs., I saved stuff to Google Drive - and then forgot about it. It's actually quite interesting to find it again! There's fic by other people, and fic I've started to write, and family tree stuff, and... *g* So my post today is going to be very rag-tag

For instance - fear - windy - deviate - special. I found the start of a fic on GD, which I'm quite tempted to keep writing today, using what looks like a random-words-prompt. Thing is, I checked in my lj and couldn't find an entry for the date, or one before that which looks relevant, so where did I get the prompt from? Does anyone remember it? I know there are so few of us here now that the odds of it being someone who reads this are probably pretty low, but...?

Tried again on Sunday... Oh, and from the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival - yes, Colm Toibin thank you! thank you! It's not just me finding flashbacks hugely over-used, then...

I found some Dinah/Laura Pros fic on my GD - does anyone remember whether we decided they were the same person? The same stories seem to be archived under either name in different places. Good to re-read them, too.

I've also been re-reading Who Caught and Sang the Sun, and now Two on a Treasure Island, and I've got to say, quite enjoying them. Nice to believe in the things you write yourself... *g* I'd tweak things here and there, of course, but that's eternal!

And now it's Monday I have been so all-over-the-place so far this weekend, it's mad. And not in a travelling-exploring way, but in a can't-settle-to-anything way! But I have joined a second book group and an SF writers group, not found my four ancestors who were in Ireland on an Irish genealogy site, cleared various weeds and lots of brambles in my "garden", thought about where I might want to go in Ireland (suggestions welcome!), sorted my emails and GD a bit, and finally joined the Labour Party. So I have done stuff. And read my bookgroup book (The Garden of Evening Mists (for Thursday - nearly finished!) And some Pros fic.

Ooh, just found this:

How amazing a vid is that? The photographer has some other nice night vids too, worth a look! Oh, and I do miss living somewhere where you go out and night and look up, just in case...

You know, I think I'm just going to post this, and then start again later!

From Nasa's Astronomy Picture of the Day today - Christian Mülhauser's vid of the aurora... When I was a kid in Australia I desperately wanted to see one, or at least to see a picture of one that was better than the black and white blur in the Encyclopaedia. Now we have this...

This was filmed in Norway, but it makes me miss Alaska!

First of all, a big hooray cos I finished marking in time - although they've already given me extra, and we're not even at the bonus deadline yet, never mind the regular one... *g* But yeay, officially finished!

Second of all - they missed out the whole Northwest Passage thing from Empire of the Seas, which waah, but still it was kind of a decent series, and the first one I've watched like that for ages, so... *g* It's all about the water... Thames Barges next... *vbg*

Third of all, I don't often watch Jonathan Ross, but it turned out John Barrowman was on tonight, and since I missed him doing all his talk shows when I was in Alaska, I thought I'd leave him on, and... heee! I was kind of watching through squinted eyes, but he just always seems to be having the best time - and heee for him pretending to faint when Shahrukh Khan kissed him, and hee for him singing Copacabana, and being excited about the whole Desperate Housewives thing, and talking about TW and DW, and... yeah. Some people just do make you feel happy just by being. *g*

And fourthly of all... greengerbil gave me these five icons to talk about, so...

( ...I will... *g* )

Well, that'll teach me to feel all accomplished now, won't it?  I wonder what B and D would do with Kramer's Rule and other fun stuff like that?  I can guess what they might wanna do with it... and I reckon I feel the same way.  Yup, the vortex took me, and sucked what few braincells remained right out through my ears... apparently I didn't need them to talk baby-Russian, for which I am thankful.  Only the Boys can save me now.

So I managed to find the teeny-tiny sentence I'd been missing in my drabble-type piece, and before I could chicken out I sent it off into the ether in the hope of a comment or two.  Well, no I didn't post it somewhere, I sent it to a poor hapless soul who I understand is sometimes prepared to beta stuff.  I hope she doesn't mind too much, I was probably a bit quick off the mark, maybe took a liberty...  I should probably have waited a bit - "Nerv-y?"/ "Must-be" - but I'm a bit of a band-aid ripper at heart.  Well.

At least its a pretty night outside - 7-ish, and just sun-setty, all pale wash blues and peaches and pinks.  Bodes well for the aurora tonight - now there's one slant of light I've really been missing.  For ages after I left I would look up automatically when I went out at night, not sure what I was looking for at first.  Although they did show themselves when I was in the Shetlands, gloriously, for our last night there.  But now I'm back up north properly!  I actually did peer up out of my hole-in-the-ground a couple of weeks ago to see them battling the streetlights for the right to dance.  They won - well, they dragged me into the night anyway, for all I was dodging the way-too-bright neons (or whatever they are these days) with tree branches and telephone poles to help keep my night vision.

Right, the bus is imminent, so I shall leave off blathering.  So much easier than that nasssty spectrometry stuff though...  And I have plans for the Boys tonight - off to the TTs I reckon they are.  I'm pretty sure they'll approve...  And turns out the official website has all the info I could want about the early 80s too.  Although since I was actually around in '85 myself I just might start there... Dunlop won the Seniors that year.  Yeah, I reckon they'll approve.