Title: Last Minute Practice
Author: acquiescence_
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Pike/Sulu
Word count: 2,263
Disclaimer: Sadly not mine
Summary: Pike is inspecting his ship before her first launch, and he happens upon Lieutenant Sulu, mostly pwp
Author's notes: Written for kaellite, she has been poking me for a while to write this pairing and to get it done. And it seems I have finally done it. This is my first foray into the new Star Trek universe, so yeah. Also unbeta'd so forgive my blatant tendency to change tenses and such without warning.


( The Pike walked through his ship, where it sat in the dry docks waiting for her launch. )

No I am not silly enough to sign up for startrekbigbang no matter how tempting it is. I am having enough trouble with my rpf_big_bang to do something like that, though I am tempted to sign up as an artist - which would be a first, but I think that is something I could handle. But everyone else should sign up to write for it so I can read all the great fic that will happen. I'm still working my way through a lot of the spn_j2_bigbang fic, there are not enough hours in the day I tell you - which is probably why I am still awake at 4am.

Urgh, I really want to write my bigbang, I've got a lot of really good ideas for it, I have it pretty well mapped out the problem seems to be connecting the dots and filling in the blank spaces - plus I'm completely stuck on the beginning. I feel like I should just move past that scene and go back to it later, but apparently I am dumb and don't know how to go about moving forward in the story without that bit more solidified.

Still have a pretty decent amount of time before the drafts are due so I am still feeling like I can make this work, I just need a kick in the pants or something to get going on it. It shall happen, I have hope.

So thanks to zoanthropic I applied for a job tonight, which I think probably makes the millionth job I've applied for since moving home. One day it's gonna work, I am telling you.

This one seems like it could be kind of fun. We'll see, not getting my hopes up or anything.

In other news, I hate writing cover letters. And my salary history is pitiful.

Bed now.

ganked from adelate I couldn't resist a meme about books.

( Books! )

Been watching SPN season 3 with my sister the last few days, we finished it tonight. I can sort of see how people missed the whole saving people, hunting things plot line, the first few episodes like that made me smile - we're starting in on season 4 now, which is still saved to the dvr (or at least most of it is). I still really love the whole angels vs. demons and all that plot line but it's fun to have the mindless entertainment of the new monster of the week too.

I didn't get to see Ghostfacer's when it originally aired and apparently I didn't ever try and watch it through other means either so that was fun to watch.

it's kind of crazy to see how much Sam changes from seasons 1 & 2 to seasons 3 & 4, it's especially obvious in Lazarus Rising when Sam lies to Dean so easily, like he doesn't have any problem at all with lying right to Dean's face the way he does about Ruby and using his mind power or whatever. It's just sort of interesting to see the changes that happen to the boys throughout the course of the series. I'm looking forward to see how things turn up in season 5.

Also I miss Sam's haircut from season 1

I am so sad no one seems to want me to write drabbles for them anymore. I remember there was a day when I would get lots of requests. I wonder if that's a comment on my writing skills or on the amount of people who read my journal, lol.

But if you happen to be one of those few who still reads my journal and you'd like a drabble feel free to request. I'm really feeling Startrek/RPS (Bones/Kirk, Karl/Chris, and Chris/Zach ) and SPN/RPS (Pretty much any combination) these days, but I can also do HP, Labyrinth, and Firefly as well.

Um... what else?

After my long week things didn't work out for the ontd_startrek meetup tonight which was a little disappointing, but I am hoping maybe they'll meet up again and I can go then. It was just a super long week and it wasn't going to work out putting in one more thing.


IRAN PROTEST '09. & HOW TO HELP

So we went up to Waco this week, the last two days actually. My sister is headed up to Baylor this next year, and it was orientation time. Baylor is a super nice campus, it's really pretty and it has all those things you sort of think of when you think about a real college campus. A far cry from the tiny university I went to. I'm really excited for my sister to get to go to a place like that.

Of course they tried to kill us while we were up there. The campus was pretty big and I don't know if you've heard but we are having some major heat here in Texas already this summer. And it feels to me like things are getting more humid than usual too. In any case it was pretty awful walking around in that heat the last two days - I'm glad to be home and out of the heat.

So the plan for this weekend is to hang out and write some fic, catch up on tags at Charing Cross, hopefully go to an ontd_startrek meet up on Saturday, and take it easy.

I was getting tired of all the black, so I decided it was time to lighten things up, plus I was sad that I didn't get to see my icons when I looked at my own lj. Still need to get some new sidebar images, but seeing as it's nearly 6am I think I ought to get some sleep.

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I am very pleased with the header I made for myself tonight, I've been learning more about using textures and things with the wallpapers I've been making and I think it turned out pretty nice, a little harsh on the bottom perhaps but not too bad I don't think.

And now bed.

You guys, do you twitter? I use twitter, I'm Malawy. But this isn't about me, this is about that amazing man Misha Collins. He tweets (that's what it's called right? When you use twitter? You tweet? anyway) and I cannot tell you how much joy following his twitter updates has brought into my life. It makes you wonder if he is in fact a real human being and not just the creation of the subconscious desires of fandom at large, and yet he appears to be real.

If you're not following Misha yet, get on that. The man is hilarious and you will not regret it.

In other news, I am writing fic tonight, and I may eventually go to bed, that remains to be seen though.

Waitress is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was watching it tonight on my ipod before bed. I love how quirky it is, I love the silliness of it all, I love the characters. Most of all though I love the love story in it. I love seeing Jim fall in love with Jenna, I love seeing the way he just wants to make her happy, the way he loves her despite the way she can't love herself.

Nothing makes me miss Sean more.

It's stupid, and I know that, it's been over a year and I think maybe we've stopped emailing now. I don't know what to say to him anymore, I don't know how to talk to him anymore. I hate that feeling, I hate that the one person who loved me even when I didn't love myself I can't even talk to anymore.

I hate the way things got so messed up.

I should be asleep, but as usual I've got too much running around in my head to really sleep. I'm stupid sometimes.

Well my new computer has finally arrived, and it didn't get stolen like I dreamed it did yesterday night. :D

It's so cute and tiny, I am so glad I got it. I was a little worried about it after I bought it, that it wouldn't be worth it, but I've only had it about an hour now and already I know it's well worth it.

I've been wanting something portable for a while, and now I have a mini 10v, it's tiny and portable and perfect for what I was looking for. It's a bit bigger than some of the other computers I was looking at, like the eee pc, but it's still much smaller than your typical laptop - so they keyboard isn't too difficult to get used to and the screen is a pretty nice size.

Thus, I am pleased :D

Taken from kaellite

Shag, Marry, or Cliff: All you have to do is give me three (3) guys or girls (like celebrities/characters) and I have to choose which I'd marry, which I'd shag, and which I'd throw off a cliff. Make sure you choose characters/celebrities I know or at least heard of. If you want to play, lemme know and I'll give you three as well!

So le'ts play!

and kaellite was kind enough to get my started by picking out the first set of three:

Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jensen Ackles
Misha Collins

I know evil right?

Anyways here is the rundown:

Marry - Jeffrey Dean Morgan (um duh)
Shag - Jensen Ackles (I was torn, but in the end it was the eyes that did me in)
Cliff - Misha Collins (because he's a genius and probably has some sort of parachute stuffed in his pocket all the time anyways, or his pony would come save him - I'm not too worried about his fate)

And there we have it. Let me know if you want to play too and I'll give you three.

Also my computer has been shipped! Hooray! According to the email it should arrive on the 10th, I am so excited :D

Stolen from adelate

1. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal. (If you want of course)

2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!

3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

( And here it is )

Tis sister's graduation tonight, we're getting things together and showering and all that stuff before we go out to dinner before the ceremony. I plan on bringing my ipod and journal, so if I'm not listening to my book I can at least work on some fanfic or something, we'll see.

Also no one is online today, what is the deal?

So the school year is over - well it's been over for me for the past 3 years (dude I've been finished with college for 3 years now, god) - but for my sisters. And one of them is graduating tomorrow. Kind of crazy to think about, I mean I remember when she was born and now she's graduating from high school - crazy.

Anyways I got her one of these books that I've always wanted to get for myself, the Worst-Case Scenario Handbook, the college edition of course. Of course I'll offer her all sorts of practical advice before she heads out in August, but I feel like it's my duty as her big sister and the only other person in the family who has gone to college to tell her the things she'll need to know and I think this book will help.

In other news - My life is boring.

But we already knew that.

I very nearly bought a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for myself today while I was out, but in the end I decided that even the addition of Zombies wouldn't really make it appeal more to me - plus I might have nightmares, so yeah.

Um.... I guess that's all. I really need to start really writing my big bang fic and stop thinking about it so much. Maybe I'll do some of that tomorrow before the million hour long graduation ceremony we have to attend. Seriously 635 students from her school, my class was bigger but still it's easier to sit through when it's your own ceremony.

I has a headache and I am up way past my bedtime. And do you know why? Because I decided I needed to make a new wallpaper for myself tonight, which of course invariably leads to browsing through pictures and tutorials and such and yeah now here we are at 4am. But I have a wallpaper. I'm not sure I am completely happy with it yet, but it's pretty either way so that's the important part.

So you should look at it, and tell me how you think it could be improved. I think the text might be too big.

( It's JDM! )

I'll probably end up playing with it a bit more tomorrow, we shall see, but I wanted to share.

In other news, I want my new computer, it has still not arrived and I am full of woe, not supposed to arrive until the 18th, but I am just not that patient especially when it comes to shiny.

So um... bed!

So I've been busy writing, trying to finish up my Misha May fic (Which hahaha man I like to write and write and write and never actually let the two people who actually make up my pairing you know meet ha) and start the other fics that I'm supposed to be writing these days. I've also been reading a whole heck of a lot of Star Trek fic, man I never thought I'd be that nerd, but I can't help it Bones/Kirk is an addiction I tell you! In any cause it's an addiction I am totally happy with. And then there's been the RPG which has been much fun recently.

And I went and ordered myself a new laptop, well a netbook really because I have a nice computer and I don't need a new one, not yet at least but I would like something a bit more portable so I has ordered the Dell Inspiron 10v. Still have to wait a bit for it to be delivered but I am excited :D

And since I have a paid account now with lots of space for icons I can play the icon meme game, so that's what I did :P

( Icon Meme )

After just saying I don't need anything else to write, I've gone and gotten bitten by a Star Trek plot bunny, it's already being written in my head. Oh lordy.

You guys I have so much fic to be writing these days. I signed up for rpf_big_bang and today I was stupid and went and signed up for spn_meanttobe and let's not forget the Month of Misha fic I've been working which should be finished in a few days, and then the Month of Neville fic this summer either - and oh hey I've been wanting to write Star Trek fic, it's a good thing I haven't been able to come up with any plots or else we'd have to add that to the list as well.

But it's fun to be writing so much, I've started all of the fics that I need to be working on and I'm fairly confident that I'll get them done, and if it comes down to the wire I'll make sparkysparky poke me about it until it's done :D

Also what is with groups claiming to be choirs but then not fucking singing anything? Can you call yourself a choir if you don't sing? I mean I'm pretty sure you have to at least sing a little bit to be called a choir.

Also since when is asking "What are you doing?" code for "You're a fucking idiot." Because I sure missed that memo and it would have been handy to know before I asked my mother that tonight.

Oh and I am going to buy a dell netbook 10v very soon. I am looking forward to it muchly, so finally I will be able to do things like watch spn and squee with people at the same time. It shall be much fun. I love tax returns. I got a big one this year and even with the cost of the netbook I'll still have a pretty hefty amount left to my name. So it is good.

And ..... yeah.

God you guys, I am kind of stupid. I've signed up for rpf_big_bang, I've been tempted to join a bigbang before, but always been a little daunted, what with the whole length thing but I decided to get crazy and try this out this time. I may fail miserably but I think it's worth a shot. I've got a few ideas floating around in my head for something to write - so we shall see, it will be an adventure!

In other news, I am now rich. I got my tax return for this year and last year. Of course last year's was only $19, but still that is $19 I didn't have before. And I think I am going to spend my monies on one of those eee pcs I've had my eye on for a long time now, I don't need to replace my desk top, but I'd like a little something that's a bit more portable than what I have to work with now.

Also I've been given 2 dreamwidth invite codes if anyone who doesn't have one would like one.

hmm... what else?

Oh!

My family made me watch Live Free, or Die Hard tonight. Man, why did no one tell me it was so epic? That thing was seriously intense, and I am sad I didn't get to see it on the big screen. Woe is me. But I enjoyed it - especially since I couldn't go out tonight, little sister has her prom tonight, she looked so cute all dressed up and stuff and her date was cute as well, we spied on them and watched him opening the car door for her, heh. So the rest of us made dinner and watched a movie.

And um, yar. I guess that is all.