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t: Not Tonight, Josephine: a duet
f: Elementary
p: Sherlock/Irene
ch: love_bingo – why? and fc_smorgasbord – 015. beneath the smiles; across the worlds.
r/wc: PG-15/3050
w: SPOILERS for 1x23 and 1x24. Like, a lot.
s:
sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger
the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger-

There’s only one letter’s difference between ‘deduced’ and ‘seduced’.
n: [Summary lyrics taken from miss missing you by FOB] I’ll stan Irene Adler in any guise, and she was so gloriously kickass in this adaptation, omg. This is, you know, pretentious and handwavy about timelines and set before and during after the finale, though not necessarily all in that order, and, IDK, STUFF, okay. And it would've been nice if I could've turned off Casino from the Nashville soundtrack during the several hours I was writing this, but, well, I basically didn't.

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           Dartford paced up and down in front of them.
           They sat like naughty schoolchildren.


Well, are you sitting like naughty schoochildren or have you done your homework?

My total is 2,786 today, although I have revealed elsewhere that some of my words get counted twice, so I may have to do a little more later.  And it's sort of coming together too after a very sticky patch this morning.

And yourselves?

Poll #1914741 just a man and his will to survive
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 127

What kind of tiger?

Ticky?

I saw Star Trek Into Darkness Sunday afternoon but haven't said anything about it because... I just really had no urge to talk about it at all. This perplexes me. I've seen a few episodes of the original series and Next Generation, so I have a decent background on it without being married to canon. I loved the first new movie. I like J.J. Abrams movies generally, lens flares and all. I felt a reasonable amount of enjoyment while I was watching this one. All I could say when I walked out was, "That was... a whole lotta movie." I really cannot understand why.

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           “I heard that!” Jugens screamed in their direction.
           “Admissible in court,” said Maxine, scraping her chair back and making for the door.
           Mellors put his head in his hands.
           “I said nothing!” Jugens shouted.

Ah, but did you write anything?  Anything admissible to a novel?

As for me, 1,882 words and my detective has sort of found a line of enquiry.

Oh, gosh. Here's your weepy moment for the day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147264n

Terriers, man. You can't keep a schnauzer down.

It always amazes me how getting a couple of big, mentally taxing projects (like, say, a major novelette commission and the Very Important Third Book Of A Trilogy) squared away opens out the horizons. There are suddenly more hours in the day, and more energy to get stuff done in those hours.

Creative work is really emotionally taxing. The more ambitious it is, the more taxing. I've been struggling, the past couple of months, to get the basics done--dishes washed, bills paid, exercise exercised. Now that the book and one of May's two novelettes are done, suddenly my head is full of room.

Case in point: after yesterday's marathon work session, I'm achy and exhausted and this morning's run was kinda brutal (and truncated by two families of geese, who I was unwilling to disturb in order to run along the trail they were hanging out on) but I still got All The Procrastinated Errands Done this morning, and more will happen this afternoon.

And I've reread what I have on the month's other novelette, which is actually probably going to be a short novella, and I like it! It's good!

I just have to figure out the twist and the rest of the caper, and I'm good to go.

Brave companions of the road: one of two families of feathered dinosaurs encountered on this morning's jog. The other was a two-parent household with younger goslings, still in the mottled yellow and brown stage. I decided to let them have the path, preferring my arms unbroken.

Excelsior!

I have been moody and weepy and nearly anhedonic the past couple of days--stress and double-hormone PMS* are a winning combination--but tonight I went to the gym and sent a 5.10B and not one but two 5.10Ds. One of these was awfully easy, and I question the rating, but the other was harder, so hopefully at least one is legit. So I may have no joy in my life, but I am still a badass. Someday that might make me dangerous.

* My doctor wanted me to finish the round of pills I was in the middle of when I got my interuterine demon**. Saturday was my last dose of estrogen-based birth control. Now we'll see what the progesterone does.

** I really want to write a story about interuterine demons. I would also be happy to read other people's.