Miscellaneous stuff

[estepheia]

• Countdown for the final Friendship Ficathon Masterlist: four stories! Whohooo.


• My garden looks fabulous! *gives evil neighboring landlady the two-fingered salute*


• Finished another book: Lois McMaster's Paladin of Souls. Have to say that I like her Barrayar books waaaay better.


• Can't decide what to read next.


• I think reading is good for me. Since I was ten I read every day. In my heydays (sp?) I read up to one paperback per day. And then, a few years ago, it just stopped, petered out (after the pregnancies, I think). Fanfic filled that void for a while, but even that petered out. Feeling lackluster about reading actually had me worried. It was as though part of me was missing. I hope that my current interest in reading is a sign that I'm slowly leaving my depression behind.


• Could have strangled my children yesterday. Went into a toy store with them. Recon mission. It's Toyah's b-day at the end of next month. She has no sense of time. She's been asking since Christmas: "how many days till my birthday?" Grrrr. Toyah is also dreadfully materialistic. She wants EVERYTHING. Have I mentioned that her 5 my little pony thingies got stolen at kindergarten? Grrrrr. And she'd bought them with her own pocket money. That sucks so much!!!


• I think I mentioned that we are semi-friends with a local shamanistic pop band called Osiris Taurus (they have little demo-clips on their site, btw). I translated some lyrics for them and translated texts for their website. Well, they sent me the peek versions of their new songs. And now they want to discuss them. Shriek! I totally lack the knowledge (and vocabulary) needed to intelligently discuss music. I'm pretty sure "I like it" isn't enough.


• I need a massage. My neck hurts.


• Usually, I have about one headache per month. Why do I have two headaches a week now?


• The weather sucks.


• Will write tomorrow.


• I love my new Spock icon...

Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about Ishmael... I might try and get hold of it.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh, she wrote that waaaaay back...
Ishmael is a crossover between classic star trek and some (to me unknown) rural Western series set near San Francisco.

Spock wakes up with amnesia in the 1890 near San Francisco. Kind people take him in, they even hide his 'otherness'. He falls for a young woman there who aspires to be a doctor...

It's blatantly Mary Sueish, but I swear to god, I love that book. It's utterly charming. Spock is still Spock, but he's much softer without his Vulcan memories. Reserved, serene even, but not entirely unemotional.

I *really* adored this book. I have no idea if it was ever reprinted...