I could have a rant, but I won't because it wouldn't be productive. Instead, I will look at what I've achieved this weekend (striking through the ones I did):

• Write e-mails - still seem to have rather a lot in my inbox though
• Write fic (esp Farscape drabble) - not Farscape though, only the quick Henneth Annun list challenge and two pairs of triolets
• Post fic (inc Farscape drabble) - someone posted the above for me - still need to put stuff up on my site and ff.net though
• Make CDs - yes x 4! And formatted my CD-Rs. Just need to get my mp3s off dad's CD-R now so I can give it back to him
• Spring clean room - and have the achey bits to prove it
• Spring clean computer - still on my list of things to do
• Do some HASA-related work - not really, will do some in the week though

Still need to consider moving posters and re-doing my website a bit (not so much a redesign as moving things about a bit).

Finally got round to looking at the list of books at the Big Read top 100 the other day. Out of the 100 I've read:

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - one of my favourite books ever
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (I think I have anyway)
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Emma, Jane Austen
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - and the three sequels - although none of them are as good as the original
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton - I've read so much Enid Blyton, the chances are I've read this one
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - admittedly for GCSE English Lit
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - this one I really enjoyed
The Twits, Roald Dahl

Which comes to 31. Plus a few I've seen but not read, and a few more I want to read. I'd probably had read more of them if I hadn't been forced to read 'improving books' when I was younger and rebelled and read trash instead.

I read through those poetry forms and discovered I really like the ballad. An example I found on a page about them is 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', which I absolutely love. Maybe I should write some (or at least one) of those.

And just to prove it, here's one I wrote earlier:

An elf Estel was,
Not a man.
'Twas untrue, alas
An elf Estel was.
Whatever the cause
Of his elven elan
An elf Estel was,
Not a man.

Plan for the weekend:

• Write e-mails
• Write fic (esp Farscape drabble)
• Post fic (inc Farscape drabble)
• Make CDs
• Spring clean room
• Spring clean computer
• Do some HASA-related work

And the weekend starts here. And it will start with Enterprise, I feel. (Still think UL should be underline, not unordered list)

Haven't written in this for ages! A few links:

The Things I Will Do If I Am Ever the Hero - the Starship Captain bit halfway down is very funny

The Things I Will Do If I Am Ever the Sidekick - also good

Forgotten Memories - My birthday present from Avon - Estel fic!

And since what is this blog for if it isn't to publicise my own stuff - Instruction - Farscape drabble on the subject of discipline.

I will update my website at some point. I've thought about, which is a start at least. Off to SFX (and Expo) this weekend so its fairly safe to say I won't be updating this till after then either.

Its been a weird day - watched a really good episode of Enterprise and MIT, which was really quite amazingly crap. I don't think they thought it through - I don't believe she did it. It doesn't fit in with her character. Interesting to see Steven Pacey looking older - almost grown into the voice he did in Blakes 7. There's an article in the Guardian having a go at it, all of which is true.

Speaking of articles there was an interesting one in the online section last Thursday about downloading TV programmes.

Managed to actually get my Farscape drabble written - Each Night I Dream of Home.

I got all excited - I've got a banner up in the Canley Arms, another message on The Bill Forum and Avon wrote me a story! How cool is that? Not least cos it was based on a discussion I was having with someone else about how Aragorn came to Rivendell after his father's death and it was pretty much how I imagined. The world needs more Estel fic. And she rec'd one of my fics on the HA list, which pretty much made my day.

Some links:

Buffy upsets TV watchdog - only in America

Legolas ice-skating - very funny

The worst website - takes ages to load and can you tell what its for? highlight (or press ctrl+a) to read (answer: a market research company)

and a quiz:

Hobbit

To which race of
Middle Earth do you belong?
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