Thelma and Louise Ficathon Update

To everyone participating in the Thelma and Louise Do Outer Space Ficathon, I am running a little behind due to real life work that needed doing. The participants are matched (barring a run through to make sure I haven't accidentally put a couple of totally off the wall requests together) and will be going out today!! I apologize for the delay!

How's It Tuesday Already

I'm sort of in love with my Ficathon grid. It's blue and pretty and I'm fairly certain that most of the assignees/assigned will be ultra pleased.

That, however, is the best thing about my day, which started with my father calling to tell me his wife was going to put him in a nursing home for complaining about his teeth (not true, at all, although I wouldn't blame her if she did). The phone call ended with me telling him that if he didn't stop feeling sorry for himself, and start appreciating things, I wouldn't take phone calls from him any more. Then I went into the bathroom at work and cried, because I work in a cube and shared this lovely adventure it parent/child relations with my entire office.

I feel like the only option I've got left is to move back home, to find a job in Colorado so I can take some of the burden of my step-mother. And that makes me want to cry even harder. Everytime I get some creative momentum going, I feel like real life just steps in and stomps on it. And maybe being an artist means that you work through it, turn these moments into art, but mostly I want to turn them into rage and tears.

Anyone of a mind to cheer me up through drabbles, or anything that makes them happy, the efforts would not go unappreciated.

On a far more amusing note, one of the SMRT-TV writers linked the "Cops in Space" article to Whedonesque, and man are the responses making me giggle, mostly in a good way. I'm tempted to join so I can respond, but it's sort of more fun to just read. My particular favorites are the one about "Firefly" fullfilling the requirements I'd laid out for "Cops in Space", the other wanting Brian Henson to make a TV show. Do you think someone should tell him?

Spamming in a Valiant Effort to Refocus

My boss just called me to find out how to spell "convenience." $100,000 to a top Liberal Arts school. Yup. Money well spent. (Snort. I'm totally being facetious. I loved my school and my education). Their is a tinge of orange bitter irony in this, though.

So, to pull my self out of my doldrums (which are receeding upon leadensky taking a gander at the grid and crankygrrl writing me porn), I'd like to do the Favorite Moments meme.

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will tell you my top 3 moments or scenes (or at least 3 of my favorites) of them.

I'll do: Angel, BtVS, Farscape, Firefly, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Bujold, Sayers, The X-Files, 9th Doctor Who, SG-1 S9, Star Wars,and any of the Megan Whalen Turner books.