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I am getting unfortunately good at reporting the Russina Spam bots.  Although, it seems LJ is doing less and less to control them.

First, if you're a member of Spuffyluvin and have not voted in the poll, please, PLEASE go vote for something other than Halloween fic.  Everyone is doing Halloween fic this month (a host of challenge sites, LJ communities, and personal LJ's) and we're all gonna be sick of reading the same 10 fics for the next 3 weeks.  Just sayin'.

Also, I know some sweet person on my flist made this icon for a community, and offered it to share, but I do not remember who/where/when, so if you made it or know who did please let me know.

And...As I've been so terribly bored today, I went trolling in the flists of my flist.  I do this periodically, just to see who's out there that I might like to keep up with, or who has said amusing things I might want to read more of in the future.  So I added a few more random friends.  Yay!

Remember last Friday, when I asked for drabble suggestions, and then wasn't really inspired to write anything?  I'm not gonna do anything like that this week, since I know you guys still want your drabbles from last week...But, if you should happen to want to send me inspiring bits of stuff, don't hesitate.  I'll get to them eventually.

Best of days to lilachigh.  And to clawofcat, who I am very, very late wishing well to.  You are both excellent.

I've decided to develop a plan for Blogathon; so I don't sit there wondering what the heck to write about the entire 24 hours.  That would get old.  Also, I'm going to see the White Stripes (!!!) with mymagritteon Saturday night, so I had to figure out the 'posting while away' thing.

Here's what I've got:

Some of my Buffy friends had mentioned that I never posted early chapters of my story Fade Away Again here.  Which is true.  There's a link to fanfiction.net, but I just haven't gotten around to putting all the chapters here for your convenience.  So, I'll start that today, and finish during my early-morning posts tomorrow.

While I'm posting old fic, I'll be writing new fic and watching movies.  So, you'll get at least one movie review, a little rant on my Friday night, and maybe some new un-betaed fic.  If you're not a Buffy person, don't be too scared off; keep checking in throughout the day, I'll post about other stuff.

I'll devote a little time early afternoon to talking about NF.

I'll post via text message from the concert; possibly with pics and sound clips (we'll see how well I figure my phone out tonight). When I get home, you'll get a concert wrap-up.

No clue what to post about overnight.  Maybe another movie?  I'll probably be writing fic, and/or listening to music. About this time, things will likely get silly.

Maybe some more shilling for NF, Inc.

At 9am Sunday, I sleep.

I joined the add-a-writer group here at LJ, so I could see what other people were writing, who was out there in LJ land, etc.  I had to remove myself from the list, though, as wading through all of the entries kept me from ever getting to the stuff posted by people I know and actually care about.  Do I really want to know all about the life of a bi-polar 14 year old in Spokane?  Not so much.  I thought it would be more of a writing forum than a 'tell everyone what you love and hate about writing, and your life story' forum.  Although that's useful, I can do it on my own, or by talking to writers I already know.

In other news; the Great Housing Search.  I have seen three houses I love.  Each has good points; one is close to the Metro, but has no storage space for my insane amount of holiday decorations; one is a few blocks from the Metro, but has limited storage space, and a huge room with a view of my old college campus in the distance; the other has a huge room, and decent storage space, but is almost a mile from the Metro.  So, I don't know what to do.  Of course, I'm assuming that they are all interested in having me move in.  They all seemed interested, but I have not heard back from the first two.  The third was very excited to have me, but I'm a bit leery about that walk.  It's not the best neighborhood (for those who know DC, it's in Brookland), but it's not entirely unsafe, and I went to college near there, so I can get around without really having to acclimate to a whole new area of DC.  All three are places where I can take my cat (YAY!).

I continue to search, though, as I still don't feel like I've found the 'perfect' house.  Then again, perfect is often what you make it.

I began reading 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' by Ann Radcliffe on the Metro this morning.  I had plenty of time, as the trains were running slow for no reason today.  According to the preface, she was encouraged to write by her husband, so she would have something to do with her time, and published several wildly successful novels during her lifetime, of which I am reading one of the most successful.  Also, evidently her writing  is characterized by the over-use of commas, indicating how one should read the book aloud.  I worry that the book will end up having the same effect on me as Byron's long poems; I can't read Byron silently, I inevitably end up mouthing the words or reading aloud.

So, nothing else going on.  I have a challenge fic to work on, and I believe I've picked the first narrator of Chapter 12 of FAA, so I may get to that today.  And, you know, work.  Latah!

So, I sat here for at least 20 minutes, and poured my heart out.  I touched on my work frustrations, my feelings of creative suffocation, the upcoming traditional sporting event, and my writing and the path it's taken in the last two weeks, and how I feel like I'm deserting my fans at the moment with my complete inability to be in any way creative or organized.

Livejournal deleted it all, then recovered a blank page.

I have no clue why that happened.  And it's really kind of 'grrr' making.  But, let's face it, it wasn't interesting to anyone other than me, anyway.  So, no great loss.  Not that I think anything else here is really fascinating, but, you know.

So, I'm just gonna go find something else to do, now.  More later, since this is one of the few things I can write at the moment.

I'm not sure what kind of crack was being smoked by the person who wrote the FAQ, but I followed the directions, and could not get the LJ cut to work.  So, I apologize for the enormously long post.  I'll get the hang of it, I'm sure.