The Life and Times of El

Somehow I volunteered myself into doing coffees for a Breast Cancer Awareness breakfast at uni tomorrow. Two hours of frantic coffee-making interspersed with pancakes. I'm happy to get more practice and it's for a noble cause, but I'm under no delusions that this is anything but (yet another) method of procrastination.

Things To Procrastinate About

1. Literature review for generic-science subject. I've stopped counting the days it's officially overdue and gone onto how many days I have left to hand it in before they won't accept it. New method of counting current stands at 3.

2. femgenficathon project. This is really quite unforgivable. I didn't start writing it until about a month before the due date, and I can't find the will to fix the thing. My brain sees 5000 words of fic and goes 'no, too hard, move on'. Added to that is that the first draft had a plot and was relatively easy to write, while the reworked version is going to be reflective, and probably a lot shorter. I'm really not sure at all where the reworking will go. I've had this problem with other fics - there's 3000 words about Beruthiel on my hard-drive. I like those 3000 words. I would really like to post those 3000 words, but the fic's not finished and yet where it stops is a logical place to stop, although it's incomplete. It's been that long since I wrote the first 3000 words that I'm wary of finishing it off with a completely different writing style that shows the join between writing so clearly. I wonder if adding extensions to houses is like this. Maybe I have Fic Renovation Anxiety Syndrome.

3. Top Gear/Transformers crossover. I promise I've not forgotten it.



On the other hand, my reading list is coming along nicely:

40. Silverthorn
41. Master and Commander
42. Dawnthief
43. Post Captain
44. Warrior
45. Warlord
46. Mortal Engines
47. The Princess Bride
48. Prospero's Children
49. HMS Surprise

Now I've begin The Mauritius Command, which will take my list to #50 and thus complete 50bookchallenge! Huzzah! (Although there's a Temeraire novel in there somewhere as well, so I may have already completed it. It's getting hard to remember.)

As we speak, there is a carton of strawberries sitting in the fruitbowl.

My entry for femgenficathon is due two weeks from today.

So I have forbidden myself from eating any (more) of the former until I write the latter, or bash out a rough draft at least (which has the potential to end badly, because I am of the bordering-on-OCD edit-while-you-write persuasion).

Unstoppable force meets immovable object...

2.00AM

HAHA SUCCESS OF A SORT. AM APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF THE WAY THROUGH AND ALREADY AT FIVE PAGES. STOPPING BECAUSE I'M FORGETTING HOW TO SPELL. EDIT IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT TAKES TOO MUCH EFFORT TO KEEP USING THE SHIFT KEY.

ARGH GOD THE EDITING IS GOING TO BE HELL.

BUT I GOT TO EAT MY GODDAMN STRAWBERRY. THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.