grammarwoman | The party's over (Reply)

Man, it was hard to come back to work this week after having ten days off. The week flew by, though, what with trying to push this damned project through QA and addressing all the data import problems I haven't had time for until now. QA is finally done today, thank Zod, but that's only because I'm sitting on a report problem and deliberately not telling the senior in charge of the project about it. It's the other guy's code, again, some more, and quite frankly I'm sure more issues will come up over the next couple of weeks, so fuck it.

It was soooo nice, though, to come back to deskwork and fulltime computer access, and not chasing the Emperor around the house or having him climb all over me while I'm trying to get things done. (Seriously, the fact that I didn't Freecycle him last Friday is a testament to my commitment to motherhood, and the sneaking suspicion that the unknowing sap who picked him up would simply deposit him again at my door a few hours later and depart in a squeal of tires. Two tantrums over nothing and a refusal to nap even though he was grossly overtired led to extreme crankiness on my part.)

I may even be all caught up on LJ for the past few days. There are some huge glaring gaps, though, from my focus on fic challenges in December.

Speaking of…I should list my shout-outs for those authors that wrote some splendiferous responses to my prompts.

For

inlovewithnight's Catchallathon (dude, there are some AWESOME stories there),

prehistoric_sea wrote the most amazingly HOT piece of RPF for me, Many Cross Along the Way. Ben Browder/Claudia Black, holy frelling CRAP. It's like she read my brain or something, it was so perfect.

And here's where I admit that I shamelessly re-used the same prompt (don't judge! I had to come up with 7 different prompts for 2 different challenges, and I really wanted this one. I guess others did, too!), "The hands-off policy isn't working", for the

prettylightsfic 2008 challenge, results available here. (Even if RPF totally squicks you out, you should read By Invitation Only, an insane Dr. Horrible/Firefly/Ocean's 11,12,13/Supernatural/Torchwood (and more) crossover. The Secret Gay Hollywood Party/Orgy. I laughed like it was going out of style.)

I was a bit alarmed when my prompts went up for pinch-hitting, but

sugargroupie came to my rescue and wrote the problem is, you've gone off-script. Same prompt, completely different approach. It's a wonderful story set in Claudia's POV, and definitely squee-worthy.

So thank you, guys, for indulging me in my Farscape RPF madness. I really appreciated it.

(Sometime soon I'll repost my own bit of Pretty Lights frivolity, a piece of Gilmore Girls RPF between Lauren Graham and Jared Padelecki.)

Next up: The Sukk.