What do you mean, it's Wednesday?

Ok, it's not. But it doesn't quite feel like a Friday. Not yet.
I went to bed at 8:30(!) last night (probably because I didn't get to sleep 'til 1 the previous night), and I still managed to be late. It wasn't that I slept in or anything - I just didn't get up until almost 7.
And then I was late, and missed the bus and realized I didn't have exact change bus fare anyway, and turned up at work at 25 after 8.
It still scares me that I was the first one in the office. Which is as it's supposed to be. Damn. It's easier to come in late than leave early.
Not that I will. Not today - the UW slam is tonight, and Chris will show up with dad in tow, which means the things that need to be said will be postponed a little longer.
And I'll get home late, and then there's Bindlechat!

Works in Limbo

Nephilim is in final beta (I hope), and it got me to poking around at others of my works in progress, seeing what I could work on or polish or outline, and I got to the old Lois and Clark files I have. I haven't watched the show in a couple of years - I'd fallen out of it in the middle of burning out on the IRC season, and in the middle of finding slash. I only ever finished a couple of fics for it - most of my work was in the IRC round robins, but I started and outlined at least a dozen fics.

And they're good ideas. More than a few of them deal with Lois&Clark's family - the same one I outlined in It's Genetic. I just... a lot of things fall by the wayside. I may get back to some of them - one or two only need a little work and I can post them.

Of course, some things I'm glad fell off the bandwagon - all those Mary Sues as I was working my way through Sentinel fandom. I never did go through that in my honeymoon with Due South before I found slash - there were enough interesting female characters to explore there - and Victoria! Whuff!

Sentinel fandom, though - I'm still stunned by the preponderance of slash. It always seemed very exclusionary to me. SXF accepts het fic, but no one ever writes the stuff. The Gen community there is very gen, and very defensive about it, with good reason. The slashers just took over and by sheer volume, bulldozed anything else under. It's probably why I wrote gen for the Sentinel Virtual Season - there was too much slash out there, and I'd just vanish into the morass. (To some degree that suspicion was borne out at Senticon - the people who recognized my name knew me from Due South fandom)

It's a little odd looking at some of my older unfinished projects. Like: 'What the hell was I thinking? Where was I going with this? I had notes, right?' And at the same time: 'Oh yeah. That's not nearly as lame an idea as I thought it was.'

Maybe I'll finish some of them someday.