It Started with a Journal

The next best thing to writing fic myself is making other people write it. That being said, go read this cuuuute D/G drabble that akscully did! I think it's the first D/G she's ever written (that I am aware of, anyway), but it's like she's been doing it for years!

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Comfort food: I'm much more likely to crave comfort food in the wintertime, because it's cold and depressing and if you live in the Pacific Northwest, very wet. All of these are from my childhood, though I wonder if that's the very nature of comfort food -- that it reminds you of being little and feeling safe? I dunno, but I can't think of any foods I started liking as an adult that fits the mold of comfort food. ( Mine are: )

What are yours??

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When did they put an inn in Westfall? New chars should have to travel back and forth from SWC, just like us old schoolers did. Wimps. In that case, they should really put a flight path in Eastvale.

I have Gmail account invites (guess Google went nuts today :D), and I'd like to give a few away. Well, maybe "barter" is a more accurate term. <g>

If you don't know what the heck Gmail is, read all about it here. Essentially it's Google's new email service, which is currently in beta. You can only get an account by invitation. My favorite things about it: 1) the 1GB of storage, which means I can do far less deleting (their motto is "Never delete another email message!" but I don't think they quite understand my email volume); 2) it groups conversation threads; 3) it checks for new mail automatically.

Anyway, the first three people to respond to this post with ONE of the following things will receive an invite:

1. Fan art.


1. Pairing: Draco/Ginny. Doesn't have to be for a fic of mine or anything, but D/G t00biness in general would be fine. :D


2. Fic.
   
   1. One of the following pairings:
   
   
   1. Draco/Ginny (HP)
   
   
   2. Ginny/Zacharias (HP)
   
   
   3. Draco/Cho (HP)
   
   
   4. Sydney/Sark (Alias)
   
   
   5. Lex/Lana (Smallville)
   2. Minimum word count: 1,500
   
   

EDIT: All submissions must be new and your own creation.

I was going to make the word count requirement on the fic fewer, but then I figured it wouldn't be fair to artists. :-S

Schmooches to all of you! :D

Keeping Track of Invitees:

1) mynuet, who rocks hardcore. Read her awesome D/G ficcage here and shower her with love!!! 1,631 words. *in awe*

2) obtabius, who has now joined us in the Bad Place and wrote fanfic for the first time. Gotta love Sarkney from Weiss POV! :D Link here.

Well, not really, but the ordeal of traveling is such that it does actually make me glad to be back, once I am.

Plane fare: $250
Fuel cost to Jade's house: $2.39/gallon
Comfortable flip flops to sprint in: $16.50
Concealing black hat: $0 (borrowed from Jade)
Cell phone to communicate with mid-plan: $40/month
Robbie's face as I pulled up in her stolen car: priceless

Happy birthday to all the lovely people whose birthdays I missed, namely: lissinthecity (hope your trip is/was fabulous!!), msscribe, and mynuet. *HUGS* and belated birthday wishes!!

( All about my trip home, including movies I saw, books I read, my new Kate Spade collection, and other random things, including a rant about small children. If you're easily offended, don't read. If you don't want spoilers for things, don't read. I'm warning you this is long. Extremely long. (Said Ginny about Draco's ... pajama bottoms.) )

For akscully: Ginny/Zacharias, condoms, circle of cheer, beige face. Go nuts! :D:D:D

( HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMELIA! )

Also, many, many thanks to Callie, Shar, Carlos, Jade, Amelia, Rob, Sharon, Caitlin, MC, Fear, Gia, Pud, 714, light_music, Liss, Chrismiss, Kev, Andrea, Connie, and Alicia for your hugs and stuff! You guys totally made me feel better about yesterday's lameassness, and I didn't think that would be possible. I shant underestimate you again.

Last night I went to the ER (because of course, any regular doctor is booked up weeks in advance and by then I might have been a vegetable or something) and got myself checked out. Just some soft tissue damage (and a low-grade headache), but doesn't appear to be anything serious. Oddly, I do find myself typoing a lot more than usual, but I'm hoping I can attribute that to the headache and not to some weird brain thing. The fucktard's insurance should be taking care of everything from medical to car, but I'd like to know how they're going to compensate me for having to deal w/ all this crap now. Grrrrr.