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Yay, fun weekend! I'm behind on nearly everything now, but I enjoyed it. Oh, and I finally saw The Hunger Games, which was very well done.

It's a bad idea to take a look at Tumblr when you're behind on TV shows. Alas, I'm not going to catch up today, since, uh... I haven't done my taxes yet. So: five more minutes and then time to figure out how small my refund will be this year. (Unless I finish those tax forms a lot faster than I think I will, the last Ultraviolet recap won't be posted until tomorrow.)

Hey, Battlestar Galactica fans, we've started posting remix stories at BSG remix, so go read and comment.

Eh, as long as I'm here I'll repost something I put on Tumblr the other day. ( Person of Interest, spoiler for 1.08 'Foe' and one small casting spoiler for 1.20 )

The lettuce has sprouted and is growing well! I need to thin it some. The cucumber and squash seeds have sprouted! The tomato plants... aren't doing so well. I don't know if I'm under-watering or over-watering, but the leaves are turning yellow and black. No sign of activity where I planted the strawberries, alas. (As long as the cucumbers do okay, I'll be happy. I love eating garden-grown cucumbers, especially cut into thin slices and soaked in vinegar and herbs. YUM.)

(Any food production from the garden will be an improvement over last year, my first real attempt at gardening on my own. Not so successful, the summer of 2010.)

Moving on to other topics. The SCC episode 1.09 recap is up. I don't know how Emmiere makes her screencaps look soooo pretty, but I definitely enjoy it. Also, EEEEEE! The season one finale is such a favorite of mine. Ellison! John and Derek at the park watching baseball! That amazing, horrifying scene at Cromartie's apartment complex! And did I mention Ellison?!

I am the specialest snowflake ever, which is why I get two fics remixed. Okay, actually it's because my original remixer was late turning in a remix, so lls_mutant assigned a pinch-hitter, and then I ended up with both stories, whee! This happened last year as well, only not to me. And the year before that someone voluntarily remixed two stories for her recipient.

Anyway, This Temporary Life is a remix of one of my earliest fics. (Baby fanficcer me!) It's all about PILOTS! Okay, not pilots as in Kara/Lee; pilots like Helo, Racetrack and Kat. Kat's POV during "The Passage," to be more specific. Better have a tissue on hand when you read.

My LJ account has expired. I need to renew it; in the meantime I only have 15 userpics! *sobs* YES, MY LIFE IS FULL OF TRAGEDY AND WOE.

The third BSG remix is open for sign-ups! So exciting!

If you've been thinking about trying it, please do! It's a safe zone, just BSG writers here and you can decide on your own comfort zone: write what you know or try something completely different. lls_mutant and I make assignments based on your preferences.

Plus someone will remix your fic. It's fascinating to see what happens when your ideas are viewed through someone else's eyes. (I've gotten fic about a minor character I liked and shippy Kara/Sam fic from other people's remixes of my stories. Basically I view it as a TOTAL WIN!)

I'm already peeking at various master fic posts to see what might be fun to remix this time. Good thing there are two of us and I can't really abuse my great powers as co-moderator all that much.

I'm thinking about starting a livejournal community that takes some of the ideas from both Wardrobe Refashion and The Great American Apparel Diet. Both are sites that encourage people to purchase less new clothing. Participants pledge to go without new clothing purchases for a specified amount of time. Both allow people to post about how they're accomplishing this.

I'll post here when I've had time to plan it a bit more. Current goal(ish): have a community ready within a week, so if anyone else wants to join up then, we can aim for a start date of September 1st. (People would be able to sign up at any time, and for any chosen amount of time. I don't have any desire to be strict about this, but starting at the beginning of a month seems easier. Also, theoretically we in the US should have most of the back-to-school shopping done.)

( a few more thoughts )

Name thoughts: clothes_horse. Okay, that name probably works only for me, because of a funny family story about the term. clothes_fast, because we're fasting (abstaining) from buying new clothes. clothes_diet or wardrobe_diet. Hm...

Any thoughts, anyone else? Comments are hidden, so if you're feeling shy, no one else will know that you commented.

I went for a walk around the neighborhood this evening at almost normal speed! Wooohoo! (I haven't mentioned it outside of friendslock before, but in mid-March I somehow did some damage to my piriformis muscle, which in turned made the sciatic nerve all... wonky. Fun times! For example, it hurt to sit, stand, lie down, walk, sing and cough.) Anyway, I took a walk! Around the neighborhood! Like a nearly normal person! As normal as I get, anyway. I'm still recovering--many chairs are just BAD right now, and there are other lingering effects--but it's soooo much better.

Thankfully lls_mutant is organized and talented, and kept the bsg_remix running smoothly even when I was mostly out of commission.

Speaking of that, 1) nobody has correctly guessed yet which story I wrote?! That's surprising. And 2) I should stop posting and go back to coding the list of who wrote what this time around.

No new Lost this week, alas. There goes one excuse not to do coding. Ooh, maybe 30 Rock has a new episode on Hulu!

Stories are being posted at bsg_remix! A remix of one of my stories is already up and I love it! Go read and give feedback!

(Possibly I should follow my own advice and leave some feedback now. Heh.)

It's time! The Battlestar Galactica fanfiction remix challenge is live! Information and sign-ups here. Come join the fun!

Last year's remixed fics are all listed here, for those who would like to see examples of the fabulous stories that came out of last year's challenge.

We may be asking some of you to link the challenge to fanfic comms, since lls_mutant and I don't have every single BSG fanfic comm friended. (Shocking, I know.)

We've posted all of the stories to bsg_remix. I finally got to read the remix of one of my stories. Yay, Racetrack! I love her! (Yes, I know I always say that about almost every character, but it's true!)

If you don't know which story I wrote already (a few of you had reasons to know), feel free to post a guess in the comments. I'll write you a ficlet if you're the first person to get it right. Hint: I have written the POV character before. (Comments are screened for guessing purposes.)

Oh, and if you participated in some way in the remix challenge, feel free to snag a remix icon, made by the artistic emmiere.

I'm going to ignore the headache and other aches for a moment.

1) We could use some beta-readers to help with the bsg_remix. The volunteer post is here. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that my co-mod, lls_mutant, wouldn't mind if you signed up to beta-read even if you're not participating in the remix. *g*

2) Links! ( vid recs and more )

Don't forget to sign up for the Battlestar Galactica remix challenge hosted at bsg_remix. You can sign up through April 20. (Uh, that would be tomorrow. Hurry up!)


Okay, now that the main reason for a post is done, have some thoughts about writing 'Settlement.' (I'm sure it will be riveting! for at least two of you! Heh.)
( same warnings for this as for the fic--in other words, this is about me killing (fictional) babies )