erin2326

WHY THE HELL IS THIS PLACE SO UGLY?

Quick note, I'm erin2326 on Dreamwidth. I'm not going anywhere, but I figured what the hell. Now I just have to figure everything out.

And yes, I miss my old name, obviously. I have buyer's remorse.

I'm bored.

Today has been declared lurker amnesty day! Have you read me but never commented? Do you surf by occasionally? Here for the fic? Say hello! You are under no obligation to ever comment or delurk again, but here's a chance to do so in a post just for that.

I don't think anyone actually lurks my journal, but who knows?

Oh, flist. I am very tired. I managed to get my big bang ready to submit, and now I'm stuck on the damn summary, which is never going to get written, because everything I write sounds like something out of the badfic hall of fame.

For instance:

Spencer Smith’s routine never varied, day to day. Get up, go to work, go home and go to bed. He had an orderly and tidy life, and things were good.

Things were okay.

All right, things were kind of terrible, and Spencer suffered in a mental institution for it. But he made it through and now he’s back out, trying to find his place in the world again.

Life was okay. Or at least it was going to be.

Can Spencer find love after life in a mental institution? Will he succumb to the pressures of routine? Will he ever manage to shake the feeling that his life is being narrated by an old for trees woman with the sinus headache from hell?

All these questions and more will be answered if you read this story!

All right, I added the part in italics when I was starting to get punch drunk, but you get the idea. This shouldn't be more difficult than actually writing the story, and yet.

This isn't the sort of thing you see on my journal much anymore, but my girls requested it, and I love them a lot, and they kept me around even when I went over to the dark side, so. ♥



Okay, gotta get back to my Big Bang, OH GOD I'M NEVER GONNA FINISH.

I have one goal tonight. Get my big bang in decent order. It's currently sitting at 18,871 words, but it's missing a sex scene (because I hate writing them) that should tip it over the limit, and then I have to edit the shit out of it.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but it needs to be not so terrible that my mixer wants to kill themselves when they get it.

I suspect it'll be covered with notes like, "CHANGE THIS, YOU FUCKING IDIOT, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" but you know, they'll get the idea.

Wish me luck, flist! I'm at the finish line, finally!

So, I've been watching The Tudors. I've made it through 2.09 so far.

( Spoilers for, um, history. )

I know I owe comments, I promise I'll get to them. ♥

Ugh, I'm so tired. I've not been sleeping very well, and I was woken up early this morning by my aunt calling me to ask me to come over and help move furniture tomorrow. Fun times.

So, is anyone else really loving The Unusuals? I'm seriously enjoying it. Once I got past the whole Amber Tamblyn playing an actual adult with a real job is weird thing I got into it. I'm pretty terrified it'll get cancelled, because it just seems like the kind of show that has a hard time making it. (Damn it, Firefox, I am not spelling cancelled wrong. Just because YOU think there's an extra L in it doesn't mean that the world has to agree with you. I LIKE THE NON-AMERICAN SPELLING AND NOW IT'S A HABIT, LEAVE ME ALONE.) Of course, I've been wrong about shows being cancelled many, many times in the past. Seriously, I thought Friends was never going to last. Trufax.

Watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. Creepy movie, or creepiest movie? Discuss.

Let's have a conversation, LiveJournal.

Tell me one quality you really like about yourself.

Personally, I like the fact that I'm a fairly forgiving person. I don't tend to hold grudges, and I can forgive people pretty easily. Sometimes it backfires on me, but I don't regret being that way, because I think I'm the better person for it. We're all going to get hurt in life, and I'd rather be the kind of person who can let that go rather than hold it in.

It's your turn! What do you like about yourself?